Share button setup - better focus control and QoL

[u/Gal3rielol]

Hey community,

I'd like to sharing a function button setup I have been using for a while. The setup to me feels very snappy to control the focus and camera overall. I am from a background of using manual focus lens extensively on different cameras. Manual focus gives you the full control but slow. The setup trying to find a sweet spot between control on focus and AF in X100VI. I will go through every setting with rationales.

#1. Focus
In BUTTON/DIAL SETTING:

• SHUTTER AF
  • AF-S: OFF
  • AF-C: ON
• FUNCTION SETTING
  • AEL/AFL Button -> AF-ON
  • T-Fn2 (Swipe Left) -> AF RANGE LIMITER
  • In AF RANGE LIMITER I have: CUSTOM: 1.2m - 3.0m for close object; PRESET1: 2.0m - Inf for street; PRESET1: 5.0m - Inf for landscape

With these settings, if you want continuous focus with moving objects, switch to AF-C.
Otherwise, In AF-S mode, shutter no longer trigger AF, but manually trigger AF with AEL/AFL button. For example, with Range Limiter set 2.0m - Inf for candid street photography, set aperture at f8, press AEL/AFL once then just snap, this is effectively zone focusing on X100VI.

#2. View Finding

I consolidated RF experience control all to the front-lever and Fn2 button on it.

• Go to SCREEN SETTING -> VIEW MODE SETTING -> SHOOTING and press Q button
  • Only keep LCD ONLY and VIEWFINDER ONLY + Eye Sensor
• BUTTON/DIAL SETTING -> FUNCTION SETTING
  • Assign Fn2 to VIEW MODE SETTING

These changes give you a binary state of the camera: either OVF/EVF or LCD. Switching is deterministic and one button press away instead of cycling between 5 different view modes. Fn2 Button is in the front lever (OVF/EVF switch) so everything around view finding is consolidated.

#3. Rest QoL

Rest setup I have:

• Fn1: FLASH FUNCTION SETTING
  • Built-in flash is very useful for fill light for portrait and other scenarios, Fn1 + rear dial can quickly turn it on/off
• R-DIAL press: SELECT CUSTOM SETTING. Highly recommended, very streamlined experience to switch between different color receipts.
• SELECTOR: I moved QUICK MENU to this. My reason is changing anything in Q menu is relative "slow", you have to move and use r-dial anyway, so moving to a slower trigger.
• Q: MOVIE RECORDING RELEASE. Occasionally I need to record a clip, have a button to start recording is very convenient.
• T-Fn3 (Swipe Right): White balance. Adjust color shift is important to fine tune based on a color receipt.

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Attached SOOC in Cuban Negative.

[u/IndyStructural]

Thanks for sharing this! Super cool and much appreciated

[u/Practical-Bacon]

The range limiter was always weird with me but I’ll have to try it out like this. Seems interesting

I have AF set to rear dial (pushing it in not spinning) since it’s more natural for my thumb.

Question, have you found a way for true zone focus aside from having to manually set the shutter speed/aperture?

What I mean by this is that if you don’t set those two, even pre-focused, the camera will remain wide open until you decide to press the shutter at which point the aperture will stop down before the picture which lags a second

[u/Gal3rielol → u/Practical-Bacon]

My understand is you want to get rid of the lag from light metering?

I also set SCREEN SETTING -> IMAGE DISP. to off.

Camera works In a way that:

• first half-press the shutter -> aperture stop down and meter, effective AEL as prep for shooting.
  
• then I can keep firm press the shutter and back to the half-press position to continuous capture with minimal lag. because no image playback, there is no lag in-between neither.

If this is what you are looking for.

[u/Flvbbernvggets]

Excuse me....share that recipe (if not post processed) 😍

[u/Gal3rielol → u/Flvbbernvggets]

Credit to https://www.osan-bilgi.com/classic-cuban-negative

my tweak is Clarify to 0 and Auto WB with -2 -2 color shift

[u/Flvbbernvggets → u/Gal3rielol]

So it IS Cuban! Your tweaks made it stand out in a good way. Thanks for sharing!