A warning about the peculiar ergonomics of the X-H2S

Greybeard2017 wrote:

Truman Prevatt wrote:

I looked at the H2S manual and there seem to be a lot of buttons that I would have deactivated as there are too many too close together than could be accidentally activated.

I'm not sure accidental activation would be a problem - the function buttons are well spaced - the problem is more remembering what you have set up - especially if you have changed the default settings.

I'm talking about the three or four up near the shutter.  When I got the Pro2 I kept accidentally hitting the video button.  I ended up deactivating the video button.  Fine since I don't do video.  But I think Fuji's in general have way too many buttons and when on is busy with the eye to the view finder - the rest of the operation is in brail.  

As someone else said earlier it would have been useful to see a description on screen for those 7 custom setting banks.

Leica has handled it well with their review display that comes up when you press menu.  They show the active display.  If it is one of your custom displays the icon shows which one.  If it is the default (there is a default setting which can be written over) and one can always chose. If it is neither the default nor one of the saved setting - the setting shows that and the top level settings are shown above.  It works quite well and quick to see what the settings are.

The traditional Fuji dials and knobs really don't allow full customization. They will lie to you when you look at them if the manual setting can be overridden by S/W presets.    The Q menu - is primarily only for Jpeg.  The problem with a hard coded PSAM dial is it also limits how one uses quickly modifies the settings.  The dial is great if someone has a fixed number of presets of the camera that they use all the time.  That it is fixed on a dial - opens the UI up to the same constraints of the traditional UI.  In reality why is there a need for a Q menu if you have presets?

From what I have seen from the H2S manual is the UI will work wonderful for people that have a fixed number of presets for most of their work and they can switch between them quickly.  But I have to tell you I like the Leica UI is much better to use than what I am seeing from the Fuji PSAM. But that is just for me.   Bottom line - no UI is perfect and it will not be totally comparable to the way everyone wants to work.  Fuji UI - a work in progress.