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X-E4 vs X-Pro3? If money is not the main factor. Street photography.

Started Feb 7, 2022 | Discussions thread
Tom Schum
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Re: X-E4 vs X-Pro3? If money is not the main factor. Street photography.

canonbcguy wrote:

X-E4 attempts to do the waist-level LCD like the X-Pro3, but there is a glitch. If you flip out the X-E4 LCD to do waist-level shooting, and you get the camera within 8 inches of your waist, the LCD image will invert. If you move the camera more than 10 inches from your waist, it will be OK. These distances vary from camera to camera and some are much more sensitive than others. As yet, there is no fix for this.

What a weird bug! Does anyone know what causes this?

There is an optical sensor near the eyepiece of the EVF and it works with magnetic sensor switches on the flippy LCD. The glitch happens because your waist emulates the bottom end of the flipped up LCD when you use the LCD in selfie mode.

The camera thinks the LCD is flipped up when it is actually flipped out and at your waist, so it flips the image.

It's a mess. They could fix it with a firmware update, to turn on waist-level mode and turn off selfie mode. So far, no fix.

About an 18mm manual lens:

See this link about the TTartisan 17mm X-mount manual lens ($118):

TTArtisan 17mm f/1.4 Lens for FUJIFILM X (Black) A23B B&H Photo (bhphotovideo.com)

No I haven't tried it but other TTartisan lenses I have are nice, and excellent values.

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