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Wherefore, Fuji? Ch-ch-ch-changes with the X-E2 | Mark Schueler

My dad’s expres­sion here pretty much sums up my feel­ings about the new Fuji X-E2, which I just got in my hands today. I am being hyper­bolic, but I’ll explain myself. And no, I am not unhappy with the camera–in fact, I love it, and it fixes so many of the lit­tle nig­gles that I had with the X-E1. The dials and switches are a lit­tle stiffer, the aut­o­fo­cus is a LOT bet­ter, and mostly all of the good things from the X-E1 were either improved or left alone. Note that I say mostly all. So if every­thing is bet­ter and improved in the X-E2, why all the glum faces and stern looks? I mean, I now have usable Auto-ISO, Wi-Fi, and a move­able focus point in con­tin­u­ous aut­o­fo­cus mode. I have a nice big LCD on the back, and phase-detect on the sen­sor. What’s the deal, Mark? Here’s the deal. The ‘View Mode’ but­ton is gone, and I can’t get it back. I can’t assign it to my won­der­ful new Fn2 but­ton because Fuji won’t let me. I have to dive into the menus. That in itself is an annoy­ance, but some­thing I can live with. More troubling–and vastly more annoying–is that now Fuji won’t allow me to divorce my shoot­ing from my playback…….

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