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unceunce said:
I owned the XE4 and I paired it with 18-50 sigma no problem. I plan on pairing the XE5 with 16-55mm mkii. It is heavier, but it should be fine because I tested it out using 16-80mm as a walk around lens and it was also fine. I used a thumb grip though because it felt really comfortable to hold with a heavier lens. just sharing my experience.
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I love how small/light the 16-55/2.8 Mk II is. I love using it over my Sigma 18-50/2.8 as it doesn't feel that much heavier/larger and the optical quality on the frame edges can be noticeable. The 16-55/2.8 Mk II is on my X-T5/X-H2.

Trying to decide which should be paired with a X-E5 in my lighter kit: XF 16-50/2.8-4.8 for slightly better frame edges or Sigma 10-18/2.8 for f/2.8 constant.
 
If I'm shooting in Auto ISO, Aperture Priority (Av), or Program (P) mode, does the camera automatically adjust the selected shutter speed when a digital teleconverter is activated? I'm wondering if it takes the effective increase in focal length into account to maintain a similar level of exposure and reduce potential motion blur.
 
MarcosV said:
unceunce said:
I owned the XE4 and I paired it with 18-50 sigma no problem. I plan on pairing the XE5 with 16-55mm mkii. It is heavier, but it should be fine because I tested it out using 16-80mm as a walk around lens and it was also fine. I used a thumb grip though because it felt really comfortable to hold with a heavier lens. just sharing my experience.
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I love how small/light the 16-55/2.8 Mk II is. I love using it over my Sigma 18-50/2.8 as it doesn't feel that much heavier/larger and the optical quality on the frame edges can be noticeable. The 16-55/2.8 Mk II is on my X-T5/X-H2.

Trying to decide which should be paired with a X-E5 in my lighter kit: XF 16-50/2.8-4.8 for slightly better frame edges or Sigma 10-18/2.8 for f/2.8 constant.
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I would have no issue using the 16-55 MK2 on the X-E5.
 
KLO82 said:
If I'm shooting in Auto ISO, Aperture Priority (Av), or Program (P) mode, does the camera automatically adjust the selected shutter speed when a digital teleconverter is activated? I'm wondering if it takes the effective increase in focal length into account to maintain a similar level of exposure and reduce potential motion blur.
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Yes.
 
Can you confirm that the Autofocus zone can now be customised to almost any rectangular shape and whether the whole zone can be off-set e.g a tall narrow column positioned only on the left portion of the screen.

Thanks.
 
hotpot65 said:
Can you confirm that the Autofocus zone can now be customised to almost any rectangular shape and whether the whole zone can be off-set e.g a tall narrow column positioned only on the left portion of the screen.

Thanks.
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Yes, it does exactly that. Super cool.
 
The_Crow said:
hotpot65 said:
Can you confirm that the Autofocus zone can now be customised to almost any rectangular shape and whether the whole zone can be off-set e.g a tall narrow column positioned only on the left portion of the screen.

Thanks.
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Yes, it does exactly that. Super cool.
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Great. Thanks for taking the time to respond.
 
If it’s not too late, I have another question. (Thanks again for doing this, by the way.)

Do the FS recipes store ISO, or is the currently selected ISO maintained when switching between them? Same for the fixed film sim positions. And, depending on the answer to those, is ISO stored in the custom settings banks?

(One of my frustrations with Fuji cameras that don’t have ISO dials is that changing recipe overwrites the selected ISO. I don’t mind it being stored in shooting settings, but it’s a pain having it in image settings.)

One less important question (because Fuji haven’t addressed this ever, and I doubt they’d start now): If you switch off “SS operation” in the dials menu (which I’d like to do because it means that when the dial inevitably gets knocked, the shutter speed changes to something other than what I set the dial to, without me realising) does it then become impossible to set the shutter speed in “T” mode on the dial? It’s one of the more stupid things I’ve come across in Fuji’s firmware, but unfortunately it seems to be in every single camera so far.
 
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Jeff Biscuits said:
If it’s not too late, I have another question. (Thanks again for doing this, by the way.)

Do the FS recipes store ISO, or is the currently selected ISO maintained when switching between them? Same for the fixed film sim positions. And, depending on the answer to those, is ISO stored in the custom settings banks?

(One of my frustrations with Fuji cameras that don’t have ISO dials is that changing recipe overwrites the selected ISO. I don’t mind it being stored in shooting settings, but it’s a pain having it in image settings.)

One less important question (because Fuji haven’t addressed this ever, and I doubt they’d start now): If you switch off “SS operation” in the dials menu (which I’d like to do because it means that when the dial inevitably gets knocked, the shutter speed changes to something other than what I set the dial to, without me realising) does it then become impossible to set the shutter speed in “T” mode on the dial? It’s one of the more stupid things I’ve come across in Fuji’s firmware, but unfortunately it seems to be in every single camera so far.
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It is unfortunately too late for me to provide feedback on this. The cameras have gone back already.
 
The_Crow said:
It is unfortunately too late for me to provide feedback on this. The cameras have gone back already.
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No worries—I’ll be able to answer it myself once stock arrives 🙂

Thanks again
 
Jeff Biscuits said:
The_Crow said:
It is unfortunately too late for me to provide feedback on this. The cameras have gone back already.
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No worries—I’ll be able to answer it myself once stock arrives 🙂

Thanks again
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I should be able to check in a short while, so I'll try to answer both questions in the next couple of hours.

The_Crow - thanks for doing this, I was planning to do something similar but you beat me to it (not helped by the camera being announced at 3AM, Seattle time!)

Richard - DPReview.com
 
Richard Butler said:
Jeff Biscuits said:
The_Crow said:
It is unfortunately too late for me to provide feedback on this. The cameras have gone back already.
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No worries—I’ll be able to answer it myself once stock arrives 🙂

Thanks again
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I should be able to check in a short while, so I'll try to answer both questions in the next couple of hours.

The_Crow - thanks for doing this, I was planning to do something similar but you beat me to it (not helped by the camera being announced at 3AM, Seattle time!)

Richard - DPReview.com
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Only a pleasure. The community on DPR has taught me a lot and has helped shape many buying decisions, so I'm happy to add some value and hopefully help some people along the way.

Take it from here. 👊
 
Jeff Biscuits said:
If it’s not too late, I have another question. (Thanks again for doing this, by the way.)

Do the FS recipes store ISO, or is the currently selected ISO maintained when switching between them? Same for the fixed film sim positions. And, depending on the answer to those, is ISO stored in the custom settings banks?

(One of my frustrations with Fuji cameras that don’t have ISO dials is that changing recipe overwrites the selected ISO. I don’t mind it being stored in shooting settings, but it’s a pain having it in image settings.)
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In answer to your first question:

No, ISO is not stored as part of recipes. This has the downside that if you set up a recipe that uses DR400, for instance, and are using ISO 125 in another film sim and turn the dial to select your recipe, it won't change ISO so you won't be in DR400 mode (until you raise the ISO).

But it does mean that if you've chosen a specific ISO, it doesn't get changed just because you turn the film sim dial.

ISO is saved as part of customs settings though. So if you set C1 up at ISO500, then switching to C1 takes you back to ISO 500.

Is that what you wanted to know?

Richard - DPReview.com
 
Jeff Biscuits said:
One less important question (because Fuji haven’t addressed this ever, and I doubt they’d start now): If you switch off “SS operation” in the dials menu (which I’d like to do because it means that when the dial inevitably gets knocked, the shutter speed changes to something other than what I set the dial to, without me realising) does it then become impossible to set the shutter speed in “T” mode on the dial? It’s one of the more stupid things I’ve come across in Fuji’s firmware, but unfortunately it seems to be in every single camera so far.
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If you disengage 'SS operation' you can't change the shutter speed with the command dials in any mode, I'm afraid.

So you can't fine-tune your shutter speed / risk accidentally change the settings, and you can't change the shutter speed value in T mode.

I agree, that doesn't seem to have been fully thought through.

The best you can do is assign shutter speed to whichever command dial you think you're less likely to nudge by mistake, and maybe put it as one of the functions, so you'd need to click and turn the dial to access it.

Does that make sense?

Richard - DPReview.com
 
Richard Butler said:
Jeff Biscuits said:
If it’s not too late, I have another question. (Thanks again for doing this, by the way.)

Do the FS recipes store ISO, or is the currently selected ISO maintained when switching between them? Same for the fixed film sim positions. And, depending on the answer to those, is ISO stored in the custom settings banks?

(One of my frustrations with Fuji cameras that don’t have ISO dials is that changing recipe overwrites the selected ISO. I don’t mind it being stored in shooting settings, but it’s a pain having it in image settings.)
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In answer to your first question:

No, ISO is not stored as part of recipes. This has the downside that if you set up a recipe that uses DR400, for instance, and are using ISO 125 in another film sim and turn the dial to select your recipe, it won't change ISO so you won't be in DR400 mode (until you raise the ISO).

But it does mean that if you've chosen a specific ISO, it doesn't get changed just because you turn the film sim dial.

ISO is saved as part of customs settings though. So if you set C1 up at ISO500, then switching to C1 takes you back to ISO 500.

Is that what you wanted to know?
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Yes. Thank you. And that works better for me than the older “no ISO dial” implementation so it’s good to hear. To my mind, ISO is an exposure setting (well, it’s not exposure, but it governs the camera’s AE decision) and not an image processing setting.

I’ve only ever set up one recipe to use anything other than DR100, and I rarely use it, but I have it in bodies with an ISO dial, which inevitably behave the same: the DR effect only kicks in if the ISO dial has been set to something compatible.
 
Richard Butler said:
Jeff Biscuits said:
One less important question (because Fuji haven’t addressed this ever, and I doubt they’d start now): If you switch off “SS operation” in the dials menu (which I’d like to do because it means that when the dial inevitably gets knocked, the shutter speed changes to something other than what I set the dial to, without me realising) does it then become impossible to set the shutter speed in “T” mode on the dial? It’s one of the more stupid things I’ve come across in Fuji’s firmware, but unfortunately it seems to be in every single camera so far.
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If you disengage 'SS operation' you can't change the shutter speed with the command dials in any mode, I'm afraid.

So you can't fine-tune your shutter speed / risk accidentally change the settings, and you can't change the shutter speed value in T mode.

I agree, that doesn't seem to have been fully thought through.

The best you can do is assign shutter speed to whichever command dial you think you're less likely to nudge by mistake, and maybe put it as one of the functions, so you'd need to click and turn the dial to access it.

Does that make sense?
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Your explanation makes complete sense. The all-too familiar behaviour that you’re describing, less so 😉

Thanks
 
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The_Crow said:
I have an X-E5 (and X-Half) for the next 24 hours, let me know what you'd like to know.
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Sorry if this was asked, no time to read all the responses. Is the X-E5 compatible with the EF- X8 mini flash?
 
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