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

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robert1955 Veteran Member • Posts: 7,299
Re: Custom settings and how I’ve lost my love for the X-E series

Jeff Biscuits wrote:

Remcodb wrote:

Get the iso out of you custom settings and assign it to the back dial. Problem solved.

You can’t get ISO out of custom settings—that’s basically the entire point of the original post 🙂

However, you did prompt me to pick up the camera and try something.

I can’t see a way of assigning it to the rear dial, but it can be assigned to the front. This results in it sharing the front dial with shutter speed, with a click toggling between those two modes. As previously mentioned, I have shutter speed turned off on the dial, so the net result is that I can press the dial to make ISO selectable, then select the ISO, then press the dial to make it select shutter speed (which, being disabled, effectively deactivates the dial). It’s rather a fudge of a workaround with a slightly misleading UI in the display, and it only works for ISO, but it’s an improvement.

Fundamentally, though, the core issue remains: selecting a new set of custom settings means having to change the ISO. It’s now just a bit easier to change ISO (so thanks).

That is sort of my set up, though I use the front dial for EC, with the top dial supposedly [but that is the one that gets bag bumped with me] at C

biza43 Forum Pro • Posts: 15,074
Re: Custom settings and how I’ve lost my love for the X-E series

Your solution is simple:

1. Either adjust with the camera you have, by using Auto-ISO, or;

2. Buy an X-Pro.

I too come from many years of shooting slide film, so I relate to where you are coming from. But really, setting aperture and shutter speed manually, in tandem with auto-ISO, is so easy.

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

biza43 wrote:

Your solution is simple:

2. Buy an X-Pro.

Yes, that’s what I’ve already done.

I too come from many years of shooting slide film, so I relate to where you are coming from. But really, setting aperture and shutter speed manually, in tandem with auto-ISO, is so easy.

Absolutely. But that’s still auto exposure.

Anyway, it wasn’t intended as “how do I get precisely what I want with the X-E3”, because I know full well I can’t. It was intended as “if you use manual exposure with different image styles, the fact that exposure settings are tacked on to those image styles is a pain in the hoop”.

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