A warning about the peculiar ergonomics of the X-H2S

EuronGreyjoy wrote:

RobertMachin wrote:

I had mine for a few hours and went over the manual several times.

The PASM dial is already a big departure from Fuji's original way of operating, but I figured I could live with it.

However when I saw they put the C1-7 banks on the dial, I worried.

Rightly so. It's normally fairly standard to be able the change current visual style independently of the camera operation mode. And vice versa.

On my X-T4, I very often switch rapidly between 2-3 strong visual styles, tosee what fits the shot.

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.

I can't think of a quick elegant way to solve this. A more elaborate solution could be to keep the C1-C7 on the dial strictly about operation mode. Because it is useful to have the ability, for example, to store a S, AF-C, 40fps, or then maybe a long exposure "mode" etc... but I don't want those associated with a visual style. The visual styles would be stored on different preset bank, callable by a button toggle.

That would be great! but the current system is poorly thought out....(at least for photographers)

Absolute non issue as everyone should shoot RAW anyway.

Also, even with the PASM layout, you can still independently change film sims the traditional way before each photo (Dpad left is the default shortcut) and assign anything else you might miss as shortcuts.

And on Fuji cameras there's never a "menu dive" necessary either - that's what "MY MENU" is for.

I have a GFX100S and I had zero issues after many years with X-series cameras, if anything, PASM is much better functionally although I still prefer the dials of my X-T4.

My understanding is that the "MY MENU" button was placed on the body to make a screen full of icons suddenly appear instead of your subject as your creak trips it.  That and the touch screen were disabled on my first outing with my X-T3.  There are plenty of buttons so no need to menu dive.

Morris