X-T100 operating issues ?

[soupnazi81]

On my wife`s new Fuji X-T100 with 15-45 mm kit lenses I`ve noticed the following odd issues in 1 week of ownership. I`m personally coming from a Sony A6000 which is already 4 years old. The Fuji X-T100 is aimed more towards beginners while, the Sony A6000 was more towards enthusiasts. I do think the X-T100 is a tad overpriced for what you get since the A6000 is comparable (except selfie touchscreen) and was released at a cheaper price years ago. (even cheaper now) I find Fuji's lens selection to be high quality but expensive and limited.

The A6000 definitely has better autofocus in daylight/lowlight/video, better video quality, better handgrip, more custom buttons/menu, and faster framerates. I do like the XT100 selfie screen, the look/build quality, 14-45mm lense quality, menu structure and q menu, touch screen, rendition/film modes, quieter/silent shutter, and shooting experience.

1. AF+MF function randomly disables itself in the manual modes (Av,Tv,M) and doesn`t stay enabled by default. Using center zone focusing.

2. Only one phone can paired wirelessly. To pair another phone, you have to delete your pairing for one phne and then re-register your pairing on the other phone. This process has to be repeated with you want to connect to another phone. This is needlessly complicated and annoying when either my wife or myself want to manually transfer photos from the camera wirelessly to either one of our phones. My Sony A6000 allows numerous phones to be paired at a time and has one touch NFC.

3. When the screen opened 180 degrees for a selfie, it should automatically switch to one of the selfie timer modes. My old Sony 5R did this automatically.

4. "SR+" automatic mode should have a minimum shutter of 1/60. Too many shots are taken slower shutter speeds such as 1/25 which lead to motion blur. Beginners don't have steady hands and if you give your camera to someone else, they often just press the shutter all in one motion which leads to blurry photos. I use Av mode with 200-6400 iso with a forced shutter of either 1/60 or 1/120

5. When reviewing photos, if you switch to the menu or shoot mode and go back, it always defaults back to last photo taken. It would be nice to have an option to stay at the last photo that was viewed. This gets annoying when deleting photos and then you lose your spot since it goes to the last photo. My Sony A6000 has an option to toggle between last photo taken and last photo viewed.

6. When in "deleting photos" mode, if you click in the center wheel, which is ALSO used to zoom, it will delete the photo. It is the same as clicking on "ok". This has lead me to lose a few photos already. I don't like the fact that you have to be in a separate "delete photo mode". You should just be able to click delete when in zoomed in view, and delete the photo immediately. When zoomed into a photo to check focus, i will click delete, then it exits out of zoomed in view, goes to 'delete mode', and then I can delete photo. Then I have to go back to zoomed in view on the next photo and repeat process. This is not the case on the Sony A6000 since I can delete immediately in zoomed in view.

7. "Sports" auto mode, should automatically set focusing to AF-C. Instead it stays at whatever focusing mode you are using which is most likely AF-S. You have to manually change it. This can cause missed shots if you just turn it to sport mode and expect it to work.

8. The flash disables itself when drive mode is set to 3FPS or 6FPS. Even if you pop the flash up, it will not fire and these modes and is disabled without warning. You have to by in single shot mode for the flash to fire. My Sony A6000 will let the flash fire at faster drive modes, it will just slow the recycle time down while the flash recharges. You shouldn't have to switch out of modes to turn on the flash. This can cause some missed shots and confusion.

9. The 15-45mm lens reverts back to last used focus length. It would be nice to have an option to reset back to 15mm or revert back to last focus length.

10. Quickly switching between photos in view mode has a split second of pixelization as the photo loads. Using a Sandisk Extreme Pro SD card.

11. Battery level icon only shows up in a particular shooting view, not all the time.

 

[Tom Schum]

Thanks for your detailed descriptions of many shortcomings. It is an entry-level camera after all, but I am not here to defend it.

1. I guess this is tied into the lens used, and if the lens has a movable collar for manual focusing it must be changing the setup. Setup should not change, but lens should still be usable too. I agree, this is a problem.

2. Haven't paired with smartphone so I can't comment here. App should probably be fixed though.

3. Maybe a selfie set up mode would fix this.

4. This is a problem. Min shutter speed should be compatible with the 15-45 lens. Since the lens has OIS, maybe it is compatible now. Camera should recognize non-OIS lens and step up the minimum shutter speed.

5. Should be added to the menus as a choice. Nice feature.

6. Yes I agree this is a problem. It should not be possible to delete a photo by accident.

7. I agree, Sports auto mode should set AF-C without changing other menus, and setting should revert when camera is switched out of Sports auto mode.

8. Flash recycling must be designed on the slow side, to save costs and maybe space. It is a design issue but I don't think the frame rate should be slowed down to keep it flashing. I think a warning should appear though. Just my own opinion...

9. Fuji is just now getting into power zoom and I agree it would be nice to have a little more control of the power zoom lenses. Menu enhancement could take care of it.

10. Momentary pixelation in LCD or EVF just indicates the low end processing in the X-T100 is low end. It is an entry-level camera after all. Maybe we get longer battery life with that low end processing system, and I do like that. After a day of shooting the battery seems to charge quickly.

11. I guess if we set it up in the setup menu it ought to be on the screen all the time. There is a setup for touchscreen on/off in the setup menu and also one in the shooting menu. This is confusing because there are two places to go to control the touch screen. Menu redundancy should be avoided. Maybe there are two places to control the visibility of the battery indicator!

 

[Tom Schum]

I bought the x-t100 about a week after it launched, and I found the jpegs really nice. A good portion of my photography is timelapses. I don't know if it was just the camera I got, but it did not take the pictures in rhythm. It didn't matter if it was shooting raw or jpegs in the lowest quality, it always skipped some photos. I tried an external intervalometer without luck. I also tried buying a faster SD card, but it didn't help either.

Unfortunately the x-t100 didn't fulfill my niche need, so I sent it back. I'll probably try buying an x-t2 now that the sale is going on.

I tried some timelapse today.

I used a SanDisk Extreme 16Gb SD card, and formatted first. The data rating on this SD card is 40mb/sec write speed and 90mb/sec read speed. Of course the write speed is the vital specification for timelapse.

Lens was a completely manual Mitakon 35mm F0.95 II. No electronics in the lens. Maybe this matters...

First I set "Image Size" to S 3:2 and "Image Quality" to "N" (Normal).

Then I set up "Shutter Type" for "ES" (electronic shutter).

Going with the directions on pages 112 and 113 of the manual I set the interval to the smallest (1 second) and number of shots to 120.

I ran "Still+Timelapse Movie" set to 720p 24FPS.

I ran timelapse OK. Shutter timing seemed exactly correct and very regular. Movie ran 5 seconds.

Next I set "Image Size" to L 3:2 and "Image Quality" to F+RAW (Fine plus Raw).

I set the interval to the smallest (1 second) and number of shots to 60.

It ran OK except now and then the shutter timing seemed a little bit off.

Looking at the SD card contents, I found all the raws there, all the JPGs, and the movie. None of the raws or JPGs were compromised. Movie ran 2.5 seconds.

I think this SD card might be too slow for the second set of image size and quality settings. 40mb/sec is too slow because the JPGs are 7mb each, and the raws are 42mb each, and we need to write one of each to the card per second.

My conclusion is that timelapse is working OK in the camera, however.

Note a lot of SD cards have a 40-50mb/sec write speed and only a 10mb/sec write speed. If you were using such a card, this could account for the problems you were having. A lot of SD cards hide the write speed rating but advertize the read speed rating.

On the other hand, I am not an experienced timelapse photographer, so there is much I do not know about it. There could be other reasons for the problems you were having. I did not see any problems when I tried it however.

 

[gsander]

I bought the x-t100 about a week after it launched, and I found the jpegs really nice. A good portion of my photography is timelapses. I don't know if it was just the camera I got, but it did not take the pictures in rhythm. It didn't matter if it was shooting raw or jpegs in the lowest quality, it always skipped some photos. I tried an external intervalometer without luck. I also tried buying a faster SD card, but it didn't help either.

Unfortunately the x-t100 didn't fulfill my niche need, so I sent it back. I'll probably try buying an x-t2 now that the sale is going on.

I tried some timelapse today.

I used a SanDisk Extreme 16Gb SD card, and formatted first. The data rating on this SD card is 40mb/sec write speed and 90mb/sec read speed. Of course the write speed is the vital specification for timelapse.

Lens was a completely manual Mitakon 35mm F0.95 II. No electronics in the lens. Maybe this matters...

First I set "Image Size" to S 3:2 and "Image Quality" to "N" (Normal).

Then I set up "Shutter Type" for "ES" (electronic shutter).

Going with the directions on pages 112 and 113 of the manual I set the interval to the smallest (1 second) and number of shots to 120.

I ran "Still+Timelapse Movie" set to 720p 24FPS.

I ran timelapse OK. Shutter timing seemed exactly correct and very regular. Movie ran 5 seconds.

Next I set "Image Size" to L 3:2 and "Image Quality" to F+RAW (Fine plus Raw).

I set the interval to the smallest (1 second) and number of shots to 60.

It ran OK except now and then the shutter timing seemed a little bit off.

Looking at the SD card contents, I found all the raws there, all the JPGs, and the movie. None of the raws or JPGs were compromised. Movie ran 2.5 seconds.

I think this SD card might be too slow for the second set of image size and quality settings. 40mb/sec is too slow because the JPGs are 7mb each, and the raws are 42mb each, and we need to write one of each to the card per second.

My conclusion is that timelapse is working OK in the camera, however.

Note a lot of SD cards have a 40-50mb/sec write speed and only a 10mb/sec write speed. If you were using such a card, this could account for the problems you were having. A lot of SD cards hide the write speed rating but advertize the read speed rating.

On the other hand, I am not an experienced timelapse photographer, so there is much I do not know about it. There could be other reasons for the problems you were having. I did not see any problems when I tried it however.

 

[Nic_Watcher]

Hi,

I just did my first experience with the nice champagne gold version of the brand new Fuji x-t100. Overall I'm happy with my girlfriend's new camera especially the sharpness of the images is awesome

The weaknesses I notices with this first firmware version are the following. I compared the same setting with my Fuji xt2 (FW version 4.00) which is working fine.

--> I'm working in aperture priority mode (A) with the xf35f2, xf27f2.8, xf16f1.4 and the Samyang 12 mm f2.0 lens. During sunset I noticed an overexposure in auto iso mode and also with a fixed ISO setting. The EVF preview has the same overexposure for a moment while focussing. It seems that the camera has twice the exposure time the xt2 has at the same picture composition. It is possible to correct this setting over the exposure compensation deal, but due to this extra step the handling is not comfortable.

--> Special behavior with the Fuji Xf16f1.4 The switch to manual focus mode by pulling back the focus ring is not working at all. You have to change to manual focus mode over the menu. Really unsatisfactory...

Have you experienced the same? I would be happy if you can share your experience. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong. But currently for me low light photography with the Fuji XT-100 at a set ISO setting is not funny.

Thanks and best regards

Nic

 

[Tom Schum]

Hi,

I just did my first experience with the nice champagne gold version of the brand new Fuji x-t100. Overall I'm happy with my girlfriend's new camera especially the sharpness of the images is awesome

The weaknesses I notices with this first firmware version are the following. I compared the same setting with my Fuji xt2 (FW version 4.00) which is working fine.

--> I'm working in aperture priority mode (A) with the xf35f2, xf27f2.8, xf16f1.4 and the Samyang 12 mm f2.0 lens. During sunset I noticed an overexposure in auto iso mode and also with a fixed ISO setting. The EVF preview has the same overexposure for a moment while focussing. It seems that the camera has twice the exposure time the xt2 has at the same picture composition. It is possible to correct this setting over the exposure compensation deal, but due to this extra step the handling is not comfortable.

--> Special behavior with the Fuji Xf16f1.4 The switch to manual focus mode by pulling back the focus ring is not working at all. You have to change to manual focus mode over the menu. Really unsatisfactory...

Have you experienced the same? I would be happy if you can share your experience. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong. But currently for me low light photography with the Fuji XT-100 at a set ISO setting is not funny.

Thanks and best regards

Nic

I noticed I have to fiddle with the X-T100 EV comp dial usually, and I use a Mitakon 35 almost always in aperture priority. I haven't found it to be a problem but I come to the X-T100 from an X-E1. The X-E1 certainly does not have the sophistication of the X-T2.

EDIT: I tried my 23mm F1.4 which has a quite similar manual focus clutch arrangement. It did not autofocus. I set the focus mode to autofocus-single. It successfully autofocused. I then pulled back the focus ring to go to manual focus. It worked just fine, and it automatically called up the focus magnifier as well (another setup option). My lens has the latest firmware. I didn't try the continuous autofocus setting of the X-T100.

On the 16mm F1.4, is the lens firmware up to date? Latest firmware is V1.01, found here:

http://www.fujifilm.com/support/digital_cameras/software/fw_table.html

X-T2 firmware might easily cope with earlier lens firmware, just a guess.

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Tom Schum
Copper: Mankind's favorite electrical conductor

 

[Nic_Watcher]

Hi Tom,

the exposure in A-mode is still like already described. But anyway the overall performance of the camera fits to our needs. And most probably we will see a firmware update soon.

I found out that my xf16f1.4 (FW version 1.01) is working properly. If anybody is facing the described issue. Just turn off the "AF+MF" focusing option.

Thanks and best regards

The Watcher ;-)

 

[Tom Schum]

Hi Tom,

the exposure in A-mode is still like already described. But anyway the overall performance of the camera fits to our needs. And most probably we will see a firmware update soon.

I found out that my xf16f1.4 (FW version 1.01) is working properly. If anybody is facing the described issue. Just turn off the "AF+MF" focusing option.

Thanks and best regards

The Watcher ;-)

Good tip! Thanks for posting it!

 

[1pixel]

Camera flash compensation (+/-) value was displayed only when using the camera pop-up flash. When using my Godox TT350F flash with the latest firmware, camera flash compensation (+/-) value was not displayed, but flash compensation still worked as expected. I am not sure if the display issue is specific to the Godox TT350F flash. I don't have any other Fuji compatible external flash to try.

 

[Tom Schum]

Camera flash compensation (+/-) value was displayed only when using the camera pop-up flash. When using my Godox TT350F flash with the latest firmware, camera flash compensation (+/-) value was not displayed, but flash compensation still worked as expected. I am not sure if the display issue is specific to the Godox TT350F flash. I don't have any other Fuji compatible external flash to try.

I have a Fuji EF-42 flash. It appears that EV must be set on this flash itself. This makes sense to me because it is a lot easier to set it on this flash than it is to drill down through camera menus to set it. However, the camera menu item is not grayed out with this flash installed and working, so one might think that it will actually affect the flash. It seems that the menu item affects only the built-in flash in this case and not the EF-42.

This is a problem. Not the same as your problem though.

Your Godox flash caused a different situation so that the flash compensation value was not displayed. I don't get it. I guess you were referring to "displayed on the monitor and viewfinder"? If so, I have my monitor and viewfinder display of flash compensation value turned off (I don't like a lot of clutter in my view). If you have your flash connected and turned on, does the menu item for flash EV compensation in the "Flash set-up" menu show a value? This is on page 120 of my X-T100 manual. You are saying this works and you can change it, I believe, but that the viewfinder and EVF item is not displayed. Is this correct? Your Godox flash might have a higher level of functionality than my Fuji EF-42 flash, so that it is able to pay attention to the camera menu item. A Fuji EFX-500 flash might have this level of functionality but I don't have one.

More issues with the EF-42 flash:

Using a manual lens (non-Fuji) I set the focal length to 35mm and the flash set itself up for 50mm (35mm full frame equivalent of APS-C 35mm).

I then set the focal length to 24mm but the flash setup did not change from 50mm.

So there is a problem with auto zoom for manual lenses. I can set the flash for 35mm manually of course.

I don't recall any problem with flash auto zoom using automatic lenses. I tried a 18-55 zoom, and the flash diffuser automatically adjusted as I zoomed.

 

[1pixel]

Camera flash compensation (+/-) value was displayed only when using the camera pop-up flash. When using my Godox TT350F flash with the latest firmware, camera flash compensation (+/-) value was not displayed, but flash compensation still worked as expected. I am not sure if the display issue is specific to the Godox TT350F flash. I don't have any other Fuji compatible external flash to try.

I have a Fuji EF-42 flash. It appears that EV must be set on this flash itself. This makes sense to me because it is a lot easier to set it on this flash than it is to drill down through camera menus to set it. However, the camera menu item is not grayed out with this flash installed and working, so one might think that it will actually affect the flash. It seems that the menu item affects only the built-in flash in this case and not the EF-42.

This is a problem. Not the same as your problem though.

Your Godox flash caused a different situation so that the flash compensation value was not displayed. I don't get it. I guess you were referring to "displayed on the monitor and viewfinder"? If so, I have my monitor and viewfinder display of flash compensation value turned off (I don't like a lot of clutter in my view). If you have your flash connected and turned on, does the menu item for flash EV compensation in the "Flash set-up" menu show a value? This is on page 120 of my X-T100 manual. You are saying this works and you can change it, I believe, but that the viewfinder and EVF item is not displayed. Is this correct? Your Godox flash might have a higher level of functionality than my Fuji EF-42 flash, so that it is able to pay attention to the camera menu item. A Fuji EFX-500 flash might have this level of functionality but I don't have one.

With the camera flash activated (it was popped up), there was a flash icon with compensation value + or - (e.g. +1/3) next to the flash icon on both the LCD monitor and EVF.

With a Godox TT350F attached and turned on, the flash icon was still shown on both the LCD monitor and EVF, but there was no compensation value (i.e. just the icon only). However the compensation still worked OK.

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Tom Schum
Copper: Mankind's favorite electrical conductor

 

[Andrew06]

1. When I use digital zoom focus assist feature, the screen and EVF refresh rate is very slow. Panning from left to right makes me nauseous.

2. While on digital zoom focus assist, my nose while touching the screen (when using the EVF) will move the focus point.

 

[Tom Schum]

1. When I use digital zoom focus assist feature, the screen and EVF refresh rate is very slow. Panning from left to right makes me nauseous.

2. While on digital zoom focus assist, my nose while touching the screen (when using the EVF) will move the focus point.

1. It is an entry level camera with a slow, low cost processor. Numerous compromises have been made but it is still a bit faster than my X-E1. I don't usually pan while focusing manually so I'm not bothered by this problem. Have you owned a camera that works a whole lot better than this one under these conditions?

2. This is always going to be a problem if the touchscreen is enabled and you are using the viewfinder and you have a nose. Maybe other touchscreen users can comment here, and maybe they will have some good suggestions. I can't really comment since I've disabled touchscreen functionality completely.

PS there is something in the manual about turning off particular sections of the touchscreen and maybe that can help.

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Tom Schum
Copper: Mankind's favorite electrical conductor

 

[Tom Schum]

1. When I use digital zoom focus assist feature, the screen and EVF refresh rate is very slow. Panning from left to right makes me nauseous.

2. While on digital zoom focus assist, my nose while touching the screen (when using the EVF) will move the focus point.

More about "2" above:

I found it on X-T100 manual page 154. You can assign various areas of the screen that can be used for the touchscreen function. The other areas (hopefully where we have nose collision) are supposed to not be sensitive to touch anymore. There are seven different possibilities with #8 being "off".

I hope this is helpful. If the touchscreen sensitive areas are not as shown in the manual we definitely have a problem.

 

[Gavin Stapleton]

Even though I'm left eye dominant, I easily made the transition to using my right eye when I got my GX7. With the X-T100, using my right eye is even more useful due to the central EVF. But yes, assigning flick gestures or whatever it's called to the right half of the screen would work for lefties.

 

[Tom Schum]

Even though I'm left eye dominant, I easily made the transition to using my right eye when I got my GX7. With the X-T100, using my right eye is even more useful due to the central EVF. But yes, assigning flick gestures or whatever it's called to the right half of the screen would work for lefties.

As a left eye shooter, I think my nose would hit the right half of the touchscreen so I would want only the left half of the touchscreen to be usable for focus point selection.

It's tricky. I just disabled the whole thing but I'm not a touchscreen user (not even a smartphone user).

 

[Gavin Stapleton]

Even though I'm left eye dominant, I easily made the transition to using my right eye when I got my GX7. With the X-T100, using my right eye is even more useful due to the central EVF. But yes, assigning flick gestures or whatever it's called to the right half of the screen would work for lefties.

As a left eye shooter, I think my nose would hit the right half of the touchscreen so I would want only the left half of the touchscreen to be usable for focus point selection.

It's tricky. I just disabled the whole thing but I'm not a touchscreen user (not even a smartphone user).

 

[mma2]

I have a Fuji EF-42 flash. It appears that EV must be set on this flash itself. This makes sense to me because it is a lot easier to set it on this flash than it is to drill down through camera menus to set it.

Perhaps I don't fully understand the above.

When I mount my EF-42 on my X-T100, I can set flash EV compensation via Shooting Menu #4\Flash Set-up. When I know that I will be doing a series of captures requiring flash, I assign the flash EV comp to the Fn Dial (i.e. top left dial). This is very convenient and works well. Both methods of flash EV control work for both direct flash and bounce. My Metz 26 AF-1 (Fuji) works exactly the same way.

Again, I may not fully understand the above discussion. If so, please accept my apology. But you can definitely adjust flash compensation from the X-T100 without touching the EF-42's controls.

 

[Antonino]

Mostly the camera works ok but the touchscreen is very temperamental only working when it feels like if at all, its a shame because i would find that useful, may be sending it back unless a firmware update can sort it.

 

[Gavin Stapleton]

Mostly the camera works ok but the touchscreen is very temperamental only working when it feels like if at all, its a shame because i would find that useful, may be sending it back unless a firmware update can sort it.

Have you enabled high performance mode?