Fujifilm X-E5 Manual Reveals a Feature I’m Excited About (and it Solves What Annoyed Me on my X-E3)

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So, the Fujifilm X-E5 is now shipping and my own X-E5 – which I ordered in this color – will hopefully arrive soon.

NOTE: The Fujifilm X-E5 is now in stock at BHphoto and at Amazon you can find the X-E5 silver with XF23mmF2.8, the X-E5 black body and X-E5 silver body.

There is a lot I am looking forward to on my X-E5:

It really is the best X-E camera ever made… by far!

And for an X-E line lover like me that’s a GAS trigger I can’t resist to. So here you have my money again, Fujifilm!

But will all the goodness the X-E5 offers, there is actually one thing I am looking forward to a lot, and that we could read about also in the just released X-E5 owners manual.

You see, my Fujifilm X-E3 served me well, took some of my favorite shots (like the first image of the X/GFX series Dolomites image slideshow in this video) and was overall a great companion.

However, there was one thing that annoyed me: having to swipe through the custom function on the LCD display due to the lack of physical function buttons.

You see, on all my other Fujifilm cameras, I have completely disabled the touch function on the LCD. If it was for me, Fujifilm could remove the touch function altogether.

But the lack of FN buttons on the X-E3 kind of forced me to keep the touch screen enabled on my LCD to access certain custom functions.

Now on my (future) Fujifilm X-E5, I will have 5 custom functions just on the front lever alone

  • press button on lever
  • pull lever quickly left
  • pull lever quickly right
  • pull and hold lever left
  • pull and hold lever right

That’s 5 custom functions on a single lever!

It’s a small change on paper, but for my shooting flow it’s huge — and just one more reason why the X-E5 feels like the perfect evolution of the X-E line.

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