I Have This Problem:

GaryLH: Bingo for your suggestion: hold the OK button down for 5 seconds or so. WORKED! It not only eliminated the macro mode but switched the VF back from EVF to OVF. So it might have been stuck in EVF since I first fiddled with the camera .

Today, photographing a large gathering in a large house I had no trouble at all and with the new look in the VF I was able to focus and shoot much faster. Further, when we went outside into the glaring sunlight no darkening of the VF occurred regardless of whether I wore my glasses or not.

dct: I have a new X100s so you might well be right on menu changes.

willie 901. "It is quite easy to accidentally enable macro mode." I think you're on to something there.
 
It sounds as if you have photochromic lenses in your eyeglasses. These will definitely cause the EVF to look darker when you're in bright light. The darker the lenses get the more pronounced the effect.

Some people have a hard time holding those cameras without activating the macro mode (which can easily be done by pushing the flower button twice). It's easy to hold the menu button down for five seconds and lock out the control wheel functions. The menu button will still work but you don't have the four functions that surround it.
 
Thanks, rybolt. Did not know that. Can I assume then that by holding down the menu button again for 5 seconds will reactivate the four functions?
 
Yes. I'm sorry. I should have posted the antidote, too. I can't seem to keep my thumb off of the macro button so i just lock them out and unlock as needed.
 
The problem with this being so little known is that the original firmware update spoke of 'rocking' the command dial not 'locking' it. Seriously.
 
Me too. I was becoming disillusioned with my purchase. I was prepared for a complex learning curve, but when I ran into several dead ends (or so it seemed at the time) I began to feel like an idiot.

Things work much better with the OVF and now, upgraded from idiocy, I'm looking forward to the next X100s challenge.
 
Well done for sticking at it Ted. Can I suggest you write notes on your current discoveries. When you spend a few months with film or your next digital and then return to the Fuji you might run through all the same problems and forget that they were the same and certainly forget the solution. I am not being ageist here either.
 
Good advice, Richard. And thank you. I've been doing exactly that.

Somewhat OT: I bought a Gordy's wrist strap for the X100s, removed the supplied Fuji neck strap (much easier to remove than to install) and attached the Gordy. Then went to shoot a Sunday brunch at a private residence. Lots of people, lots of food.

I found that when I decided to partake of the food, the camera attached to my wrist became a real impediment to using my right hand, and it's too big to fit into a Levi pocket, so I removed it and placed it on a nearby table. Which presented another danger to the camera: theft? (not likely with this crowd). Getting knocked off the table? A definite possibility (kids present). So when I returned home I removed it and attached the neck strap which if I'd had at the time would have allowed the use of both hands.

Gordy's strap works great on my Canon S95 as you can slide it into a trouser pocket with ease, thus enabling the use of both hands. I hadn't considered the pros and cons of the two straps before.
 
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I always use the nylon neck strap that comes w/ the camera because it is easy to wrap it around my wrist when I want to carry it one handed. I usually only use wrist straps for cameras that I can fit in a pants pocket just because of the very issue u discovered.

Gary
 
I'm with GaryLH on the neck strap, and wear it bandolier style when not making pictures.

OT: after 18 months I used the X100 built in flash for fill light and noticed that the typical vented hood blocks the flash light. Gotta remove the hood (or switch to dome style hood) for onboard flash fill.
 
Ted, try attaching the wrist strap to the left lug. I know this isn't intuitive if you're right handed but it works great for me. It frees up my right hand for coffee cup holding.
 
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