Of course not. I would have discussed it as a major bug if Fuji had implemented it in your way, though.
So would my colleagues. Not correctly exposing in an AE mode is certainly a flaw, but the X-E1 isn't suffering from it, neither is the X100, X100S, X20, X-A1, X-M1, X-E1 and XQ1. And soon the X-E1 and X-Pro1 after the 19DEC firmware update.
Rico, I am greatly enjoying our useless discussions on this topic
So here are two major bugs I found for you to report to Fuji:
Bug Number 1
While indoors in a darkish room, set your camera to a shutter speed of 1/1000 and the lens aperture to
A. Now set Auto ISO with a Max Sensitivity of 400. Take a shot of something in a dark area of the room, something where the exposure needs to be long. The camera will open the lens aperture to its widest value, say
f/1.4, but shoot at 1/1000s and ISO 800. If your room is dark enough, the shot will be underexposed. According to your logic, because the camera is in an AE mode it should have ignored my selected upper limit on the ISO and blown past it to ISO 1600, 3200 or whatever it needed for correct exposure, but it didn't.
Bug Number 2
While outdoors in daylight, set your lens to its widest aperture (I suggest using one of the f/1.4 lenses) and the shutter speed dial to
A. Now set Auto ISO with a Default Sensitivity of 3200. Take a shot of something bright, like a white car or clouds; something where the exposure needs to be short. The camera choose its shortest shutter speed possible and shoots at
1/4000s, at the widest aperture, and ISO 3200. If your subject is bright enough, the shot will be overexposed. According to your logic, because the camera is in an AE mode it should have ignored my selected lower limit on the ISO and blown past it to ISO 200, 400 or whatever it needed for correct exposure, but it didn't.
To me, these are not bugs, this is the camera obeying the limits I give it and working correctly within those limits. Yes, it's in AE mode, but if I limit the range of available values for any of the 3 exposure variables, the camera must obey my imposed limits and perform automatic exposure
within those limits. I know you want it to blow those limits when it suits your needs, but then what you want isn't a
limit, it's a suggested value, a preferred value, a please-don't-go-beyond-here-if-you-can-avoid-it-but-feel-free-to-if-you-have-to value, but it's not a
limit.
Given how the camera handles limits differently when it's a shutter speed limit to when it's an ISO limit, I suggest that Fuji, if they're not going to change the behaviour of the Min. Shutter Speed, rename it to "Preferred Slowest Shutter Speed" or something along those lines that better describes its actual behaviour. It's not a
Minimum shutter speed if you can shoot below it; that's basic semantics. At the very least you'll avoid having people like me annoying everyone on the internet because they feel lied to.