Tech Tip: Enabling Hot Shoe / Sync Port for Flash Photography on your GFX-series Camera

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Fujifilm Tech Tip: Enabling Hot Shoe / Sync Port for Flash Photography on your GFX-series Camera GFX50s body

When mounting up a Fujifilm TTL compatible flash or radio transmitter, the GFX automatically recognizes the unit and will send a signal to them, but if you’re using any non-TTL or generic radio transmitter, the camera will not see it without first enabling the hot shoe & sync port in the menu system.

Fujifilm GFX menu flash sync - flash function setting
Fujifilm GFX Sync Terminal - menu setup

As the bottom of this display very subtly indicates, you need to roll the thumb wheel on the camera to toggle this dialog (easy to miss)

Fujifilm GFX Sync Terminal - menu setup

You can then additionally toggle your preference of front or rear curtain sync by navigating to that box with the directional joystick and then rolling that same thumbwheel.


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