Anyone moved from the X100V to the X-E4?

Jeff, I feel your pain about the custom settings!

I recently received an X-T5 and it’s custom setting system seems to be similar to what you have with the X-E4. As I found out and you’ve discovered, the custom settings no longer are tied only to what can be accommodated on the Q menu, but contain many more screen pages of variables which can be configured differently for each Custom bank. Fuji ought to do a better job of explaining how the Custom setting banks work.

On my X-T5, I have 7 custom setting banks, each with it’s own multipage list of variables which were configured by default at the factory, and are governed by an Auto Update Custom Setting value, which on my X-T5 was set to Disable. This meant that any time I made changes to any values in a Custom Setting bank through the Q menu or the regular menu system, those changes were not saved to the bank after I turned off the camera.

It drove me nuts until I was able to dis what Fuji was trying to do with this new paradigm. What I’d suggest with a new X-E4 is to start this way:

Set Auto Update Custom Setting to Enable until you’re sure you’re satisfied with the custom settings, then change the value back to Disable. This is in the Image Quality Setting menu tab (see pg 122 in your user manual PDF version).

In addition to the seven custom settings banks, you have a setting in the Q menu for “Nothing Selected” (pg 118 in the User Manual). This seems to work like the older Fuji Q menu system, and I used it to work with the X-T5 for a few days to determine what values I wanted to use across all the custom banks. With Nothing Selected as a memory bank, what I change in the Q menu and the regular menu is persistent when restarting the camera.

When you’ve had a chance to work with the camera using the Nothing Selected bank in the Q menu and the main menus, set values you want to keep across all your custom banks and put those values (pg 119) into Custom 1 bank and save the bank. As an example, I have three Auto ISO settings that I use for all my photos; they are saved across all my Custom banks in the X-T5. I then copy the Custom 1 bank to Custom 2 (pg 120), make changes you want to carry in only Custom 2 bank and save Custom 2 bank. Do the same for each of the banks you want to save. I also rename the bank to something that hints of the values in that bank (pg 122).

I do this for all my Custom banks, and know that if I want to do something really unusual, I can always go back the Nothing Selected bank, shoot my photos, and decide if the changes are worth saving to it’s own custom bank. I currently have three saved banks on my X-T5.

I hope this helps, and that you find your hardware combination that works for you. Have a great week.