A warning about the peculiar ergonomics of the X-H2S

RobertMachin wrote:

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Just because I want to shoot black and white, that doesn't mean I want to change other operational parameters (AF mode, Drive mode, P,A,S,M)

But it is unfortunately the case with the X-H2S. The C presets encompass just about anything. So changing image style also means changing camera operation mode. To make things worse, there is no button assignable to "Shooting Mode", so it's a menu dive.

Example:

I composed a shot in my Kodachrome preset, in M. I shoot in A most of the time, so my banks will default to this most likely. Now if I want to call my grainy black and white just to see how it would look, it would change me to A.

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Eh, this is the very thing we discussed on this forum (see thread here[1]) when X-S10 appeared (almost two years ago), being Fuji`s first PSAM implementation in X-Trans lineup.

Here`s excerpt from one of my replies there:

boogisha wrote[2]:

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And thinking about it more, might be previously known "film simulation recipe" JPEG custom settings (C1 to C7) should really be decoupled from "shooting modes" custom settings we have here (C1 to C4), so photographers are both not forced to choose one or the other for storing in now even more limited number of custom settings banks/slots, but being able to mix them as they find appropriate as well... but I guess that is a thought for the future

Well, I guess the "future" hoped for is just not there yet...