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Custom settings and how I’ve lost my love for the X-E series

Started 7 months ago | Discussions thread
OP Jeff Biscuits Senior Member • Posts: 1,166
Re: Custom settings and how I’ve lost my love for the X-E series

FTOG wrote:

If you're using lenses with aperture rings and the physical Exp Comp dial, have you tried enabling your X-E3 to control ISO on the front command dial?

I hate those dials 😀

Reason: they always get moved accidentally, especially the front one. Taking a camera in and out of a bag, carrying it… it ends up a lottery. I always deactivate them both.

The thing that gets me is that they’re both clickable, so it would work really well if you could click to activate it, change a setting, and click again to make the dial unresponsive. I’d actually like that for a bunch of things, such as rolling through C1-C7, or for the digital teleconverter on the X100V. It baffles me that Fuji only let you use them for aperture, shutter speed or ISO, especially given that they generally go out of their way to provide those as dedicated controls (yeah, I know not all lenses/bodies have all those controls, and yeah, I know some people do want to fine tune shutter speed—though personally I can’t get my head round having to use two controls to adjust it). There are so many other things they could usefully do other than replicate the function of dedicated controls.

Besides, it doesn’t solve the issue of having to faff about with it every time new a custom settings mode is selected 😉

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