A warning about the peculiar ergonomics of the X-H2S

boogisha wrote:

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...

I don’t shoot shoot jpegs or mess with recipe presets at all so this limitation isn’t especially problematic for me, but I find it incredible how little thinking Fuji put into making these alternate-style cameras more longtime Fuji user friendly. It’s almost like they went out of their way to intentionally putting roadblocks in the way of configuring and using these cameras in any way that would be familiar and intuitive to “classic” Fuji shooters. You can’t even have exposure compensation on the front dial (like all the X-T cameras). This looks like a very nice camera in lots of ways and I could probably make it “work” for me, but it would require a significant (and undesirable) change in shooting configuration and a need to contend with undoing years of muscle memory - especially problematic when you want to use the new cameras with the old ones. I really hope they don’t screw up the X-T5 (and restore the X-T2/3 tilt screen).