X-T100 focus and locks oddities and flaws... and reccomendations

Clau_S wrote:

First of all this is my first post so Hi everybody!

A few months ago I've bought an X-T100 (with XC 15-45 kit lens) but our relationship is starting only now and I'm still trying to set it the best way for me. Most of all I have to decide what to dedicate the Fn button to. That's because of how some things have been implemented.

Initially I had set it to AE-L but my greatest reservation was the lack of focus lock between subsequent shots. I mean that the camera refocuses before every shot even keeping the shutter button half pressed. This is disappointing and very annoying when you just want to try different compositions with the same subject.

So, being used to the back button focus technique on my Nikon, I tried to replicate this partially by setting the Fn button to AF-L. For some reason, focusing this way seemed not to be as reliable as focusing with the shutter button. Just an accident? I don't know, but what is very strange to me is that AF-L also locks both the main and sub-command dials preventing you to change exposure and/or exposure compensation right after (only) the focus lock has been engaged. The only way to do it, except metering on a different light condition in the scene, is to operate on dials while keeping the shutter button pressed halfway (it works with AE/AF-L too). The problem is that it's too easy to accidentally release the shutter while trying to scroll them, especially the main one which is very clunky. What is even stranger of AF-L is that it unlocks MF, when AF+MF is set, without the need for the shutter release to be half pressed. It's not that uncommon for me to touch the lens focus ring by chance so, oddly enough, AF-L makes very difficult to change exposure settings but let us mess very easily what it should have locked instead! This is nonsense. Isn't it?

Any experiences, opinions, suggestions or pats on the back?

Will come back to you on this, I'm travelling at the moment, note is this experience with the af or lcd, they do function slightly differently!. Note, if you keep your finger pressed on the function button it does allow you to change functions on the fly too, so if you just now and again want to use af-l, you can do it that way. Through the evf you should be able to set exposure very accurately without neededing to modify much and then just use the green box to re-focus?