Dante_Stella
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Since it's close to Photokina time, I'd like to point out a couple of non-radical, non-hardware changes to the X-Pro1's control structure that, implemented by Fuji, could make life a little bit easier. Even if these made it to the new X-Pro1 replacement, it would be fantastic.
1. Locking out the Q button. The Q button is great in theory but is just in the wrong place on this camera. It would not take much to transpose the functions of the FN button and the Q button, so that merely gripping the camera does not threaten a lot of unintended settings changes.
2. Making it necessary to press something else while turning the thumb wheel to change apertures on lenses with no aperture rings (e.g., 27mm). It is much too easy to knock the aperture setting off its intended value. The worst of this is where you actually want the camera set to P mode - and a tiny bump on that wheel resets the lens to f/16. There has to be some solution more elegant than a small square of gaffer's tape.
3. Allowing a "backlight" button. I know this violates people's sense of sophistication, but the Nikon FG's backlight button (+1.5) was an easy way to temporarily increase the exposure without disturbing other settings or even taking your eye out of the viewfinder. You could simply preset your compensation and assign a button.
4. Making the C focus mode actually act like continuous focus. It has never been clear what function C mode serves (other than being a mode that the camera gets knocked into by accident). How's this novel idea? In C, when you press the shutter button, it actually takes a picture (focused or not)? In its current configuration, I don't see where C is any faster to take the shot than S. In fact, it looks like it focuses to the right place, and hitting the shutter button causes the hunt sequence to restart.
Dante
1. Locking out the Q button. The Q button is great in theory but is just in the wrong place on this camera. It would not take much to transpose the functions of the FN button and the Q button, so that merely gripping the camera does not threaten a lot of unintended settings changes.
2. Making it necessary to press something else while turning the thumb wheel to change apertures on lenses with no aperture rings (e.g., 27mm). It is much too easy to knock the aperture setting off its intended value. The worst of this is where you actually want the camera set to P mode - and a tiny bump on that wheel resets the lens to f/16. There has to be some solution more elegant than a small square of gaffer's tape.
3. Allowing a "backlight" button. I know this violates people's sense of sophistication, but the Nikon FG's backlight button (+1.5) was an easy way to temporarily increase the exposure without disturbing other settings or even taking your eye out of the viewfinder. You could simply preset your compensation and assign a button.
4. Making the C focus mode actually act like continuous focus. It has never been clear what function C mode serves (other than being a mode that the camera gets knocked into by accident). How's this novel idea? In C, when you press the shutter button, it actually takes a picture (focused or not)? In its current configuration, I don't see where C is any faster to take the shot than S. In fact, it looks like it focuses to the right place, and hitting the shutter button causes the hunt sequence to restart.
Dante
