Miserere
Regular
- Location
- Boston, MA
Hi Everyone,
My first post here at FujiXspot. I'm a long-time Pentax DSLR user, most recently shooting with a Samsung NX10 + 30mm f/2 for my street photography. For a few years I wrote and edited Enticing the Light, where I championed the Fuji X100 from day 1. Never actually got one because I'm a 50mm-e FoV guy, so was very happy when Fuji released the X-Pro1, though I didn't make the jump to the X system until last week when I purchased an X-E2 and some lenses (and have since started selling off my Pentax gear).
I've not had much time to shoot with the X-E2 yet, but it looks like I might end up liking it My biggest gripes so far are:
When I've used it a bit more I will post the stuff I do like about it, which is a lot! Don't think I'm hating on the camera, it's that I've used a lot of them in my quest for the perfect mirrorless and so I have very clear ideas of what I want and what I expect a great mirrorless to be and work like. It's not coincidence that it's taken me 2 years to commit to a mirrorless system (for a while it looked like it would be Samsung, but they've flaked out on their promises of better bodies and more primes).
Luckily, most of my gripes can be addressed in firmware, and the fact that Fuji have been constantly updating and improving their cameras through firmware weighed heavily on my decision to jump into the system. It makes sense to all of us that this is how things should be done, but most (all?) other camera companies don't make many firmware improvements to older cameras or listen that much to what their users have to say. That's one of the reasons I'm leaving Pentax; after 7 years of asking them (through official channels, not just on my website) to implement a lower shutter speed limit in AUTO ISO, it still isn't there. Yes, I know the X-E2 has a user-defined limit, and that is also one of the reasons I chose it!
If I've overlooked some setting or feature that fixes any of my gripes, please let me know! I'm still reading through the manual, though I have looked for specific answers to my gripes and found none. Here's to a FW update making me a happy man
My first post here at FujiXspot. I'm a long-time Pentax DSLR user, most recently shooting with a Samsung NX10 + 30mm f/2 for my street photography. For a few years I wrote and edited Enticing the Light, where I championed the Fuji X100 from day 1. Never actually got one because I'm a 50mm-e FoV guy, so was very happy when Fuji released the X-Pro1, though I didn't make the jump to the X system until last week when I purchased an X-E2 and some lenses (and have since started selling off my Pentax gear).
I've not had much time to shoot with the X-E2 yet, but it looks like I might end up liking it My biggest gripes so far are:
- Very rigid shutter and EV comp dials, which I can't easily turn with one finger while holding the camera in shooting mode. I suspect I have to (sarcastically) thank for this all those people who complained that they were too loose on the X-E1. So yeah, THANKS! I really hope they loosen up a bit with time because right now I can't use EV comp or change shutter speed on the fly with the camera to my eye. Do I suffer from WFS (Weak Finger Syndrome)?
- Focus peaking is not clear enough, even set to HIGH. Fuji need to either add colour options to the edge shimmering or make it bolder. Ideally, both! Because right now I see no difference between the low and high settings.
- Why can I not set the focus area to its smallest size when in Manual Focus? I always use the smallest size, and being able to AF via the AF-L button when in Manual Focus mode is fantastic, but I want to be able to choose the focus area size. And why doesn't Face-Detect work in MF either?
- Why isn't Face-Detect an AF MODE option together with MULTI and AREA? It's buried in a menu when, if made an AF MODE option, it could be set quickly with one of the custom Fn buttons if, like me, you have one assigned to AF MODE. I understand that it defaults to either MULTI or AREA when it doesn't find a face, but that could be solved by allowing Face-Detect to be selected together with either MULTI or AREA.
- When ISO is set to a custom Fn button, you need to click it, use the rear wheel to change it, then click the button again. Why not bring the ISO menu up while the Fn button is kept pressed, change it with the wheel, then it's set when you depress the Fn button? This is how many other cameras handle ISO (and EV Comp) changing.
- There's no quick way to change AF points in AREA AF mode. I'd like the option to set the control pad to control AF area placement without the need to press the AF button to access this option. I move the AF area a lot on the cameras that allow continuous control over it and am having a hard time using the camera in the way it's set up. It wouldn't be an issue for landscape or more contemplative styles of photography, but for my street photography I do find it an issue. Currently I'm using the center point and AF+recomposing, which is not my favourite way of doing things.
- When selecting Spot metering (or PHOTOMETRY, as Fuji calls it) I would like to option to choose the spot following the AF area. If I have the AF area off-center, chances are good that's where my subject is, and that's what I'll want to base my exposure on, not whatever happens to be in the center of the frame. I seem to remember Olympus has this, and I believe other brands do too.
- ISO only goes to 6400 in RAW. Really??? Have been scratching my head about this ever since the X-Pro1. Fuji, please let me shoot at least ISO 25,600 in RAW. Please, I beg you. Pleeeeeease.
- Buttons feel like cheap empty plastic. I've used quite a few mirrorless cameras (by Olympus, Panasonic, Samsung and Ricoh) and the X-E2 has the cheapest feeling buttons of them all, by far. Are the X-Pro1 and X-E2 buttons holding up OK?
When I've used it a bit more I will post the stuff I do like about it, which is a lot! Don't think I'm hating on the camera, it's that I've used a lot of them in my quest for the perfect mirrorless and so I have very clear ideas of what I want and what I expect a great mirrorless to be and work like. It's not coincidence that it's taken me 2 years to commit to a mirrorless system (for a while it looked like it would be Samsung, but they've flaked out on their promises of better bodies and more primes).
Luckily, most of my gripes can be addressed in firmware, and the fact that Fuji have been constantly updating and improving their cameras through firmware weighed heavily on my decision to jump into the system. It makes sense to all of us that this is how things should be done, but most (all?) other camera companies don't make many firmware improvements to older cameras or listen that much to what their users have to say. That's one of the reasons I'm leaving Pentax; after 7 years of asking them (through official channels, not just on my website) to implement a lower shutter speed limit in AUTO ISO, it still isn't there. Yes, I know the X-E2 has a user-defined limit, and that is also one of the reasons I chose it!
If I've overlooked some setting or feature that fixes any of my gripes, please let me know! I'm still reading through the manual, though I have looked for specific answers to my gripes and found none. Here's to a FW update making me a happy man