What I wish for

I really wish there was a way to change/make settings for my X-T5 on my PC and then just upload them all to a C1-C7 preset. Doing it all on the back of the camera is really fiddly.

Alan

A phone app would be ideal. With the ability to set up all sorts of profiles and then just push them to the slots in the camera via Bluetooth as and when needed. Can’t be hard to do.

Jeff Biscuits wrote:

A phone app would be ideal. With the ability to set up all sorts of profiles and then just push them to the slots in the camera via Bluetooth as and when needed. Can’t be hard to do.

It sounds appealing. I have no idea how easy it would be. Do you have knowledge of this kind of technology or are you just guessing?

Alan Sh wrote:

I really wish there was a way to change/make settings for my X-T5 on my PC and then just upload them all to a C1-C7 preset. Doing it all on the back of the camera is really fiddly.

Alan

Hi Alan,

Your wish is actually a complaint abut the rather confusing and poorly worded Fuji menu system.  They need to start from the beginning and have a native speaking photographer for each language retranslate the menus.  At the same time mark all defaults as such and do the same for the manuals.

Morris

Coldpaw wrote:

I haven't tried that particular feature myself but it *should* work with the free Fujifilm X RAW Studio software. It only works if your camera is connected via USB, besides of processing RAW files in-camera, you also save an unlimited number of custom presets (or recipes for that matter) on your computer and actually assign those to the C1-C7 profiles.

Yes, use X-RAW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gayg0-SrLcQ

Scroll to roughly the 6-min mark.

RobRoy22 wrote:

Jeff Biscuits wrote:

A phone app would be ideal. With the ability to set up all sorts of profiles and then just push them to the slots in the camera via Bluetooth as and when needed. Can’t be hard to do.

It sounds appealing. I have no idea how easy it would be. Do you have knowledge of this kind of technology or are you just guessing?

Not camera firmware specifically, but I’ve been designing and building user interfaces for many years.

Technically it’s straightforward. The bigger issue as I see it is more of a product management one: if you’re going to introduce camera configuration via an app then instantly you’ll get demand for it to go further and questions about whether it should go so far as a camera which has no configuration UI but instead has just the basic physical controls and all configuration is done via the app. Taking the philosophy of the X-Pro3 to a whole new level: “das Wesentliche”, yet with access to all the technological chops that modern digital cameras can provide.

In a way it’s an extension of what Ricoh do, although they don’t do it via an app either: the GR has always been a paradox of being tremendously configurable, yet designed to perform in a point-and-shoot manner when in use. It’s that recognition of the separation of things that are configuration—which can be done in slow time—from things that are relevant to capturing a moment and need to be used in that moment. Moving the former to an app further allows the camera to be physically, and philosophically, optimised for the latter.

sprouty115 wrote:

Coldpaw wrote:

I haven't tried that particular feature myself but it *should* work with the free Fujifilm X RAW Studio software. It only works if your camera is connected via USB, besides of processing RAW files in-camera, you also save an unlimited number of custom presets (or recipes for that matter) on your computer and actually assign those to the C1-C7 profiles.

Yes, use X-RAW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gayg0-SrLcQ

Scroll to roughly the 6-min mark.

Is that just for film sims, or can you change/save pretty much any camera setting?

Samuraidog wrote:

sprouty115 wrote:

Coldpaw wrote:

I haven't tried that particular feature myself but it *should* work with the free Fujifilm X RAW Studio software. It only works if your camera is connected via USB, besides of processing RAW files in-camera, you also save an unlimited number of custom presets (or recipes for that matter) on your computer and actually assign those to the C1-C7 profiles.

Yes, use X-RAW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gayg0-SrLcQ

Scroll to roughly the 6-min mark.

Is that just for film sims, or can you change/save pretty much any camera setting?

Not sure, still on the steep part of the Fujifilm learning curve.  But X-RAW is free and it should be easy enough to figure out.

Coldpaw wrote:

I haven't tried that particular feature myself but it *should* work with the free Fujifilm X RAW Studio software. It only works if your camera is connected via USB, besides of processing RAW files in-camera, you also save an unlimited number of custom presets (or recipes for that matter) on your computer and actually assign those to the C1-C7 profiles.

I'll give that a try

Alan

Yes, that works fine for all the settings that X-RAW knows about.

Not everything, but a good way there.

It's not terribly fast - but that's because it's not actually a settings program, that's just a sideline from it's main task.

Thanks

Alan

sprouty115 wrote:

Coldpaw wrote:

I haven't tried that particular feature myself but it *should* work with the free Fujifilm X RAW Studio software. It only works if your camera is connected via USB, besides of processing RAW files in-camera, you also save an unlimited number of custom presets (or recipes for that matter) on your computer and actually assign those to the C1-C7 profiles.

Yes, use X-RAW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gayg0-SrLcQ

Scroll to roughly the 6-min mark.

That might have worked with the X-T4 and possibly other 4th gen X processor cameras, but I doubt that it will for 5th generation processors (X-H2/S & X-T5, since Fuji has completely changed C1-C7  to include a lot more than Image Quality settings.

Agree 150% !!!

xtabber wrote:

sprouty115 wrote:

Coldpaw wrote:

I haven't tried that particular feature myself but it *should* work with the free Fujifilm X RAW Studio software. It only works if your camera is connected via USB, besides of processing RAW files in-camera, you also save an unlimited number of custom presets (or recipes for that matter) on your computer and actually assign those to the C1-C7 profiles.

Yes, use X-RAW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gayg0-SrLcQ

Scroll to roughly the 6-min mark.

That might have worked with the X-T4 and possibly other 4th gen X processor cameras, but I doubt that it will for 5th generation processors (X-H2/S & X-T5, since Fuji has completely changed C1-C7 to include a lot more than Image Quality settings.

Had you watched the 1st-minute of the video you would have seen a list of cameras that it works with, which shows the X-T4.

And that according to the latest camera compatability list from Fujifilm, it now includes the X-T5.

I have a XH2s anfd a XH2 I wanted the 2nd to have the same config for obvious ergonomic reasons

Any Acquire cannot work on different bodies

So finally I had to configure manually the XH2 took about one 1 hr before everything was ok because as mentionned in you post doing that on camera is the assurance to make many mistakes.

Are you listening Fuji ??

xtabber wrote:

sprouty115 wrote:

Coldpaw wrote:

I haven't tried that particular feature myself but it *should* work with the free Fujifilm X RAW Studio software. It only works if your camera is connected via USB, besides of processing RAW files in-camera, you also save an unlimited number of custom presets (or recipes for that matter) on your computer and actually assign those to the C1-C7 profiles.

Yes, use X-RAW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gayg0-SrLcQ

Scroll to roughly the 6-min mark.

That might have worked with the X-T4 and possibly other 4th gen X processor cameras, but I doubt that it will for 5th generation processors (X-H2/S & X-T5, since Fuji has completely changed C1-C7 to include a lot more than Image Quality settings.

It does work for the X-T5, but only saves the settings that X-RAW knows about. I assume the camera takes the rest from what is currently set.

Alan

I shoot with 4 bodies, most of the times at once. I love a solution to just synchronise them all from an app or PC.

sprouty115 wrote:

Samuraidog wrote:

sprouty115 wrote:

Coldpaw wrote:

I haven't tried that particular feature myself but it *should* work with the free Fujifilm X RAW Studio software. It only works if your camera is connected via USB, besides of processing RAW files in-camera, you also save an unlimited number of custom presets (or recipes for that matter) on your computer and actually assign those to the C1-C7 profiles.

Yes, use X-RAW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gayg0-SrLcQ

Scroll to roughly the 6-min mark.

Is that just for film sims, or can you change/save pretty much any camera setting?

Not sure, still on the steep part of the Fujifilm learning curve. But X-RAW is free and it should be easy enough to figure out.

I would think that you can change anything which you would be able to do in the camera which means that an X-Pro2, for example, would have fewer C# options than then X-T5.

Jeff Biscuits wrote:

RobRoy22 wrote:

Jeff Biscuits wrote:

A phone app would be ideal. With the ability to set up all sorts of profiles and then just push them to the slots in the camera via Bluetooth as and when needed. Can’t be hard to do.

It sounds appealing. I have no idea how easy it would be. Do you have knowledge of this kind of technology or are you just guessing?

Not camera firmware specifically, but I’ve been designing and building user interfaces for many years.

Technically it’s straightforward. The bigger issue as I see it is more of a product management one: if you’re going to introduce camera configuration via an app then instantly you’ll get demand for it to go further and questions about whether it should go so far as a camera which has no configuration UI but instead has just the basic physical controls and all configuration is done via the app. Taking the philosophy of the X-Pro3 to a whole new level: “das Wesentliche”, yet with access to all the technological chops that modern digital cameras can provide.

In a way it’s an extension of what Ricoh do, although they don’t do it via an app either: the GR has always been a paradox of being tremendously configurable, yet designed to perform in a point-and-shoot manner when in use. It’s that recognition of the separation of things that are configuration—which can be done in slow time—from things that are relevant to capturing a moment and need to be used in that moment. Moving the former to an app further allows the camera to be physically, and philosophically, optimised for the latter.

This is interesting stuff to me. Thanks for sharing.