New Fujifilm X-T30 firmware aims to reduce Q.Menu button sensitivity

While I don't understand why the QM button was put there either, I give Fuji credit for listening and responding to alleviate the issue. No camera is perfect but at least they show they listen and try to do something about it..

What a brainless place to put the stupid button.

Sorry, Fuji...the long press does not fix the issue on my copy of the X-T30, I still get many accidental presses. I agree with others who suggest a double press instead.

Odd that this happened in the first case, the placement of the "Q" button and the joystick controller on my X-E3 is perfect(though it would be nice if the joystick was bigger/different design) so, since the cameras are so similar in design and size, why didn't they place them in the same location on the X-T30?

This is one of the biggest quirks about Fujifilm cameras.
The buttons are too small to handle well and Back Button Focus is nearly impossible to do properly.

Also that Q-Menu should be able to display all camera options. It is now mostly aimed at JPEG shooters and really doesn't make sense for those that prefer to shoot RAW. This Q-Menu is useless for more advanced photographers.

It is one of the reasons why I left Fujifilm.
They are not professional enough to be used in a commercial environment.

Did they also announce the demotion of the individual who signed off on the blindingly idiotic placement?

What's with Fuji and buttons. I hated my old X-T1 because of the mushy buttons.

sounds like a lame fix that comes very late.

should have been totally obvious to any professional UI designer, that a button in this prominent location is very prone to accidental activation. abd on cameras with retro user interface like fuji's with all sorts of mono-functional dials, having to dive into a "Q.menu" should be an infrequent necessity anyways that certainly should not be assigned to one if the most prominently placed buttons. design team totally off-track, obviously.

and why not make every button and physical control element (dials, wheels, ) on a digital camera freely user-assignable from the very start?

greatly prefer Canon UI, not on all cameras, but on most they get things quite right.

I wish one update for my X-T20 where the shutter can be prolonged to 15 minutes. Please fuji please.

double tap within 1 sec problem solved

How about the same update for X100F? It’s such a common problem that you pretty much are required to get a thumb grip attached to the hot shoe in order to avoid it.

Fuji gets a lot of things right with their cameras, but handling and ergonomics aren't among them. When they do place buttons at the right locations, the buttons themselves are poorly designed. Take the XT1/2/3 bodies. The AF and AE lock buttons can be repurposed to become a back button for AF-On, but the buttons themselves are tiny and mushy, so it's not even fun to use the camera that way. Would it honestly kill Fuji to give a nice, big dedicated AF-On button?

And don't get me started on the X-Pro 2's ergonomics. It's a big, heavy camera with an awful grip (even with an external grip) and even worse ISO dial. I liked the image quality and hybrid viewfinder, but after a year I sold it off and went back to the X-T1 which was a much better camera to hold for extended shoots.

Any one that has ever held a camera can tell in one glance that was going to be a problematic button placement.

I wonder if a double press would not have been better than a slow reaction time for the Q-button?

"makes the button slower to reaction to being pressed"

Does not sound right.

Obviously Fujifilm must set up a prototype evaluation unit consisting of 5 ladies and 5 gentlemen with very different hand-palm-finger proportions giving their lengthy evaluation of prototypes before going into production - I have a hunch the current testers are of the smallish thumb size hence this Q mishap.

Blind Freddie could see this button was in the wrong place. At least Fuji have sort of acknowledged this by providing a quick solution. But, they are going to allow the user, in the next update to re-purpose that button. What? How can you make a button in the way, useful? If you accidently hit it, bugger comes up in the viewfinder?

Fujifilm I like your gear but my advice to you is:
Learn from pentax how to place the camera buttons well.

Well done for acting so quickly - most manufacturers would not! Their solution sounds good to me

While yes it's nice that Fuji's fixing it as best they can, I'm amused that someone at Fuji looked at the stupid placement of the movie record button on many Sony NEX/aXXXX cameras and went "I love it! What a great place to put a button! IN the gap next to the thumb! BRILLIANT!" Not only did someone think it's a good idea, no one thought it was a bad idea or managed to get it shut down before the camera went to market.

Better than fixing stupid is not doing stupid in the first place.

On one hand it's nice to act on a problem like this, on the other hand they got lucky that it's something that can be helped by firmware at all.

Honestly it still amazes me how companies can still let such fundamental issues pass through the design stage. I mean, FFS, HOW?

It reminds me of the utterly retarded AF-S/AF-C/MF switch on some older Nikon cameras (from the film era up to D80 I think).

It's bad if the camera is just meh, but it's quite maddening if a camera is amazing but has one tiny flaw that can cause massive problems.

Do engineers in those companies take photographs with their cameras?

Fujifilm are to be hugely congratulated on acting so quickly to correct this problem.

Q Button seems to be one of the biggest complaints about this camera. Pretty unreal that Fuji a) not only acknowledges this right away, but b) is doing something about it right away!

Take the hint, Nikon! :P