rbf_ wrote:
Yes the EC dials are much tighter on the newer bodies I use! The old EC dials on the XP2 and XE1 were always getting moved around by mistake, very very annoying.
Good to hear. Have they moved the EC dial to a better position where it won't be rubbed by one's shutter finger?
The problem has been a combination of an easily moved dial and putting it in a position where it is inevitable that photographers will touch it accidentally.
In the current position, they are between the proverbial rock and a hard place — make it stiff enough to never move when that shutter finger inevitably hits it and it is harder to adjust than it should be. Give it the ideal amount of stiffness, and in the current position it won't resist the inevitable finger pressure from the side of the shutter finger.
If I were Fujifilm, knowing that this has been an ongoing issue with multiple bodies since they've been putting EC knobs in this position... I'd be looking for a better location for the EC knob, perhaps switching it with another control knob that could better tolerate a harder-to-move level of friction.
Dan
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mmm55 wrote:
This from the guy who prattled incessantly about the horrid X-Pro3 tilting screen without ever laying his hands on one.
I owned my first still camera with an articulating flip-out screen (in 2003), I used video cameras with same before that, and I have used a lot of them from different manufacturers with a range of different configurations since then.
I don't have to touch every one of them to understand the implications of their designs or compare them to other designs.
rbf_ wrote:
Yes the EC dials are much tighter on the newer bodies I use! The old EC dials on the XP2 and XE1 were always getting moved around by mistake, very very annoying.
Good to hear. Have they moved the EC dial to a better position where it won't be rubbed by one's shutter finger?
The problem has been a combination of an easily moved dial and putting it in a position where it is inevitable that photographers will touch it accidentally.
In the current position, they are between the proverbial rock and a hard place — make it stiff enough to never move when that shutter finger inevitably hits it and it is harder to adjust than it should be. Give it the ideal amount of stiffness, and in the current position it won't resist the inevitable finger pressure from the side of the shutter finger.
If I were Fujifilm, knowing that this has been an ongoing issue with multiple bodies since they've been putting EC knobs in this position... I'd be looking for a better location for the EC knob, perhaps switching it with another control knob that could better tolerate a harder-to-move level of friction.
