nineblade wrote:
1. …So half my gripes with the X-E5 is not having an ISO dial.
I wish they had used a combined shutter speed and ISO knob like on my old XPro2. It seemed awkward at first, but eventually became second nature to use.
(Or they could have used the top panel area that they devoted to sim selection to a separate ISO knob, leaving sim selection to a programmable control wheel.
I'd like to say it's me, but having shot Nikon, Sony, Canon, Olympus, and Panasonic, and now Fuji, I can say that wrestling with the Fuji X-E5 interface has been challenging
Honestly, we get so used to particular interfaces that it can initially be very difficult to give up that learned familiarity and move to a different interface.
When I got my first Fujifilm camera a dozen years ago (the XE1) when I first took it out to photograph I started to think that I had made a grievous mistake. The controls had different names, were in different places, and did not fall naturally under my hand… by comparison to the Canon cameras I used and had learned thoroughly.
A few weeks later — at most one month — after shooting the little camera a lot the awkwardness disappeared. In fact, after one long trip where I left the Canon gear at home and just used Fujifilm, when I got home and picked up the Canon… now IT felt awkward!
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By the way, this is rue of interfaces of all sorts, not just cameras. We just got a new stove and it took me weeks to remember which way the dials turned. The last new car I purchased had a very different interface, and it was weeks before I was comfortable with som of the features. So I’m leery of people who are used o one interface, try another one, and pronounce he new one no good… mainly because it isn’t like the one they are familiar with.
Apr 27, 2026 at 09:57 AM
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