Anyone moved from the X100V to the X-E4?

Jeff Biscuits wrote:

This thing is driving me a bit nuts.

On the one hand, I love the size and the handling. I’m fine with the lack of grip. The performance is great, and Eterna Bleach Bypass is a delight. The curious absence of ISO from the custom settings means it’s usable as a manual exposure camera, which is great—though the 1/180 position is an annoyance.

BUT the custom settings… good grief. I had no idea Fuji had put this much stuff into custom settings. It’s absolute madness. I tend to change frequently between single-area and 9-area AF, and now it’s a mess: every time I select different custom settings I get whatever I last used in that setting—unless I turn the camera off, in which case I get whatever I used when I saved the settings. Neither of which make any sense because what I want is what I’m currently using.

It seems there are other things that will behave the same way. Lens profile? So now every time I change custom settings it’l reset my lens profile?

So if I’m using an AF lens I’ll constantly have to reapply my focus settings, and if I’m using a manual lens I’ll constantly have to tell it which one I’m using? (Clearly I won’t, I’ll never remember to do that let alone want to faff about with the menus between shots. I’ll just do what I always did and set one of the options at 999mm—so I can at least filter shots in Lightroom to “some sort of manual lens”—and use that for everything, so the six profiles are now actually less useful than the two customisable ones on older cameras.)

What we’re they thinking? They made the best JPEG processor ever and then decided that every time you wanted a new style you’d have to reapply a bunch of functional settings, which discourages you from using custom settings at all and means you’re probably better off shooting one style and processing g raw files later, this not using the best JPEG processor ever. Why? Because if I want to shoot in high contrast B&W then clearly I’ll be using a 12mm lens. And when I use Velvia I must be wanting 9-point AF, the sports finder and spot metering? Jeez, my XF10 makes far more sense by simply not supporting custom settings at all.

I get why some people like this. It’s how lots of PASM cameras work. People who only ever use raw files probably love it. But when Fuji have spent 10 years making cameras that support 7 custom film recipes, it’s an odd decision to then basically set fire to that way of using the camera.

Argh!

Is Auto Update Custom Settings set to Enable or Disable?