A warning about the peculiar ergonomics of the X-H2S

Greybeard2017 wrote:

Truman Prevatt wrote:

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.

Only if the dial was marked

Traditionally cameras had dials because the mechanism used mechanical linkage.  You needed dials.  The dais were marked because that is how one knew the setting - by looking at the dial. However, this is not 1965 when the GTO's and Mustangs ran wild.

There is very little that is mechanically linked these days.  The accelerator in your car - it sends an electrical signal to the processor which controls the acceleration.  Brake peddle - same thing.  I would venture to say most of the dials on the camera are "fly by wire" just as the focus ring and aperture ring on Fuji lenses.

Leica in the Q2 does a really nice job making you think that when you are in manual focus you are actually mechanically controlling the lens - not so it's fly by wire.  It feels real but it is not.  Nikon gelded its lenses a long time ago - not just by removing mechanical linkage to the aperture ring but by completely removing the aperture ring.  Others are following.

One of the big advantages I see to dials is at a glance with the camera on or off one can quickly determine the settings.  One can change the sitting with the camera on or off so by the time one flicks it on and it is to the eye - it's ready to rock and roll.

So unmarked dials - meh.  No thank you.  Dials with itty bitty lights that light up and show the setting as someone proposed - you need power for that.  No thank you.

Joseph Heller said it best when he coined the term Catch-22.  That pretty much describes what people in this thread are trying to solve.   Two totally different UI's.  One is optimized to one operational concept - the other is optimized for another.

The good news Fuji makes cameras with both so there is choice.