Does Fuji XT3 come with USB cable ?

[Garnik]

Hi everyone, 

Just got a Fuji XT3. Love it. But I didn't see any cable in it to connect to my PC.

Am I short on a cable or that's just how it comes ? 

 

Thanks, 

Garnik

[jerryy]

No, no cables (usb nor hdmi) are included. This is what you should have gotten in the box:

Li-ion battery NP-W126S
Battery charger BC-W126S
Shoe-mount flash unit EF-X8
Shoulder strap, Body cap
Strap clip
Protective cover
Clip attaching tool
Hot shoe cover
Vertical Grip connector cover
Connector cover (detachable)
Sync terminal cover
Cable protector Owner's manual

Note: the usb connector is USB-C Gen 1. Gen 2 cables will work with your camera, as do Thunderbolt v3 cables, but you will not see any speed increases by using those newer cables.

[mawz]

Do be careful when buying the cable. There are 5 different kinds of USB-C cables (not including cables which are USB-something else on the other end)

USB 2.0
USB 3.1 Gen1 (which is what the X-T3 connector supports)

USB 3.1 Gen2

Thunderbolt v3

Power/Charge only

Cheap cables are usually either USB 2.0 or Charge-only and will cause performance issues (USB 2.0) or a failure to detect (Charge only).

I generally recommend always buying USB 3.1 Gen2 cables unless you know you need Thunderbolt v3.

Edited August 14, 2020 by mawz

[jerryy]

That is not completely true...,

The part about ‘be careful’ is, but:

The USB cable naming has becone a bit of a mess that the engineers at the USB overseer consortium created and are trying to fix. Essentially there are speeds and connector types.

speeds:

USB 1.0, USB 2.0, USB 3.0, USB 3.1 gen 1, USB 3.1 gen 2 and the upcoming USB 4.0.

USB 3.1 gen 1 is actually just a renamed USB 3.O Unfortunately for us, because that renaming has caused oodles and oodles of confusion.

The upcoming USB 4.0 is pretty much Thunderbolt v3 being released to everyone, not just Apple devices.

connector types:

Type A, Type B, Type C

Type A is the most common, the ubiquitous flat connector that is usually plugged into phone chargers, and computers. Type B is most often used by printers.

Type C is the latest revision and is becoming widely supported, especially since Apple decided to adopt this connector type for Thunderbolt v3.

You can easily find many USB 3.1 gen 1 cables that use Type A connectors. They look just like the cable you use to charge phones. Do NOT buy these for your X-T3 or newer camera, the connector is the wrong one, so it will not work. Get the one with the Type C connector. The advertisement should tell you the connector type, whether it supports data and power or is power only — these are sold to protect you device from being hacked when you need to plug in to recharge, but do not really trust the power supplier, and the ad should tell you the speed.

Type C connector with at least gen 1 speed.

Edited August 14, 2020 by jerryy

[mawz]

I was only covering the actually available USB-C cables. Nobody is making USB 1.0 USB-C cables, thus I didn't cover them. Unfortunately some companies are making USB 2.0-only USB-C cables (really they're USB 3.1 gen1 cables restricted to USB 2.0 speeds, as each USB spec up through 3.2 includes all the older specs as sub-specs). UBS-C cables are well labelled as such.

Note there are 4 types of USB-B connectors (regular, limited to USB 2.0 speeds, seen only rarely on anything other than printers, Mini, now mostly dead and 2 different kinds of Micro connector the regular which is limited to USB2.0 transfer rates and is very common, including on the 16 & 24MP Fuji bodies, and the USB3.0 spec Micro, which allows higher speeds but is rarely seen anywhere except hard drives and the occasional high-end camera, my D800 for example had the USB 3.0 Micro connector). USB-A also has 3 variations, but the only visible difference is the mandated blue colour for the spacer on USB 3.0-spec version, because you will never ever see a USB Mini-A connector, nobody used them unlike the Mini-B.

USB 3.1 gen 1 is just a repeat of USB 2.0 Full Speed (which was USB 1.1), which caused enough confusion that you'd think they'd have learned better. They did the same thing with USB3.0, but kept the speed names the same, adding SuperSpeed (so Hi Speed remained the full USB2.0 spec, Full Speed was USB 1.1). USB 3.1 Gen1 is just all the legacy USB3.0 and earlier modes lumped together. USB 3.1 gen2 adds a new SuperSpeed+ mode that's twice as fast. USB 3.2 makes things even worse, as it keeps all the previous modes, but adds 2 new SuperSpeed+ modes, one of which being twice as fast. The branding is so bad that the industry is calling it USB 3.2 Gen2x2 instead.

Thunderbolt 3 is not an Apple-only thing, it's actually an Intel spec released as a standard and is being supported by a number of non-Apple manufacturers including HP (who has been pushing their TB3 devices of late) and Dell, who actually was first to market with TB3 ports on their laptops. Pretty much everybody has gone to it as it solved the dock issue (which TB2 hadn't because it didn't include a Power Delivery solution).

USB4 is pretty much just Thunderbolt 3.1, Intel handed over the Thunderbolt 3 standard to the USB-IF in 2018, although they retain control of the branding. USB4 is Thunderbolt 3 updated to allow USB3.2 tunnelling and a couple new connection modes. It also makes the Thunderbolt native transfer mode and PCIe optional (not that anyone uses the former anymore for much of anything, and the latter are only on fairly expensive devices like external GPU adapters). Thunderbolt 4 is basically USB4 with Intel Certification and a speed bump for the TB-native mode and PCIe tunnelling.

Edited August 16, 2020 by mawz

[Vitt]

Hi everyone,

is it possible to use USB Type-C (USB3.1 Gen1) of my X-T3 (I use VG-XT3 as well) to power my external Hdmi converter?

 

Thanks a lot