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

FTOG wrote:

When the camera is off in the bag, the dial has no effect.

Yeah, a rubbish example and I wasn’t thinking properly 😀 But in any case, I do find they get accidentally moved quite frequently. When I got the X-Pro2 it took me a good while of wondering why my shutter speed was always going up the wazoo until I finally realised I hadn’t disabled the dial.

You can sort of do this. If memory serves me right, the click will cycle through aperture and ISO control, even when the aperture is set on the lens (and won't be adjusted).

Click to "adjust" aperture -> pseudo locked
Click to adjust ISO -> unlock for ISO adjustment
Click to "adjust" aperture -> re-engage "lock"

Yeah—but again, adjusting something that already has a dedicated control so (for me at least) a bit pointless.

When the exposure compensation dial is on C, you can also adjust exposure compensation with them. (Yes, I know this is not what you ask.)

Aye. Not that exposure compensation is a thing in full manual, though. (I know you know that too 🙂)

A bit of a contradiction to your issue of these dials accidentally being adjusted: Any settings that aren't these linear adjustments will change a whole lot more by cycling through a few steps. Imagine the confusion if these cycled through custom settings, changing dozens of settings rather than just one.

Oh, agreed, it I meant in the context of the “click to enable/disable the dial” thing. I find they’re accidentally turned all the time, but I’m not aware of them getting accidentally clicked.

These things do at least fall into the category of parameters that you won’t adjust while shooting; I’ve always thought that the front dial is an odd place for shooting parameters as it means either taking your finger off the shutter button (heresy) or using a different finger (awkward—at least, I I’ve so far failed to train myself to do that).

Ultimately, I believe Fuji wants to service people with ask overlapping with yours. But the camera they want to sell you for it are X-T and X-Pro lines.

Oh, of course, no doubt about that. I know I’m an outlier 🙂 and all cameras involve some compromise.

I just think there’s a fundamental and indisputable divide between pre-exposure and post-exposure settings, though, and a fully-manual workflow shines a bit more light on that divide.

I love the small X-E bodies. There are some things I wish these bodies didn't do, and some things I wish they did. I'd love it if there was an X-E Pro/EVF-only X-Pro, with the X-T viewfinder (I don't care for the hybrid VF), WR sealing and that wasn't a third heavier like the X-Pro bodies. But ultimately we will never get our dream camera, so all we can do is the one closest to it.

That’s the camera I want, too 🙂 Basically, give me the X-Pro3, ditch the rear screen comp,etely, stick an X-T EVF up in the top left corner, and take my money.

The X-Pro2 is damn close enough though.