The all-purpose X100VI settings guide — 18 recipes shot everywhere from Paris to NYC to the coast of Spain. Want my NYC city-street settings and Sunwashed recipe specifically? That's the NYC Fujifilm X100VI Settings Guide. Brand new to the camera? Start with the Fujifilm X100VI Quick Start Guide.
 
A beginner's guide to getting the shot — 18 real lighting scenarios, exact settings, no Lightroom required.
 
Stop second-guessing your X100VI. This is the deeper companion to the Quick Start Guide — 18 shot cards pulled straight from my EXIF data, covering every lighting condition I actually shoot in. Real settings, real photos, posted straight out of camera.
 
You bought the X100VI because of how the photos look. Then you got it home and realised the camera has a hundred menus and no idea which ones matter.
 
This guide fixes that.
It's not theory. Every one of the 18 shot cards is a real photo I took — in Paris, NYC, London, the coast of Spain, dim cathedrals, stadium nights — with the exact settings pulled from the file's EXIF data. You see the photo, you see what produced it, you replicate it.
 
What's inside:
The Secret Sauce — the five things that bridge a correctly-exposed photo and a signature photo. Exposing for highlights, DR Auto, shutter minimums, the lot.
 
Exposure Triangle Basics + Cheat Sheet — if your photos come out dark, blurry, or just off, this is the section that ends the guesswork. A go-to fixes table you can pull up in the field.
 
18 Shot Cards across 3 lighting groups — Daylight, Tricky & Transitional, and Creative & Advanced. Bright midday sun, open shade, backlit golden hour, blue hour, moody interiors, motion blur, mixed indoor light, and more. Each card is a real photo with the full settings breakdown.
 
X RAW Studio: Unlimited Recipes — the Fujifilm workaround almost nobody talks about. How to get past the 7-bank limit, re-process any RAW with any recipe, and develop new looks without burning shutter actuations.
 
My Custom Button Mapping + Q Menu Layout — the exact function button setup I use so the camera works the way you shoot, not the way Fujifilm shipped it.
 
Auto ISO Presets — how to actually use all three Auto ISO banks (Everyday, Movement, Low Light Static) instead of setting one and forgetting the other two.
 
The Final Roll — what to change once you've shot with the guide for a week. This is a structure, not a religion.
 
Who this is for:
X100VI owners who want their photos to look intentional straight out of camera. Beginners welcome — nothing here assumes you already know manual mode. If you've got the Quick Start Guide, this is the deeper companion. If you don't, this still stands on its own.
 
The honest part:
This guide won't make your photos look like mine — and it's not supposed to. It gives you a structure for reading light and dialling in settings without second-guessing, so you can build a signature that's actually yours.
 
It's just photography, not rocket science.