A warning about the peculiar ergonomics of the X-H2S

9VIII 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)

You're complaining that the Custom Function dial allows you to change too many settings at once.

I get that it's "Different" but ultimately the bank of custom function slots is one of the most powerful tools you will find on any camera and I wish every Fuji camera would have a custom function dial AND all the other dials.

Then something would be lying to you. That is what you see on the dials will be wrong or the custom function would be wrong. If one changed from custom setting one to two, then the corresponding dials would need to move to synchronize to the actual settings.

And I still want to be able to manually set JPEG white balance with a dial. Auto White Balance gets it right 99% of the time, but that 1% of the time I wish I could just flick a wheel and get it right manually on the spot. I know "Shoot RAW" but the point of having a Fuji camera covered in dials is to get everything right in-camera in one shot.