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I have an FM2 which I never really use any more. Because it isn’t covered with buttons I can accidentally press and I’m not using it with long lenses, it’s basically fine but equally if I’m shooting manual wind film I’m not shooting enough for the boxy shape to give me claw hands.
Nikon actually made a thing about ZF having loads of buttons and dials in comparison to their other Z cameras.
This experience has made me realise how much of modern photography has become fly-by-wire - point a computer with a lens on it at something and the computer makes most of the the focus and exposure decisions for you, and then load it up in Lightroom and adjust the colours to fit whatever weird tonal fad is dominating instagram at the moment.
At the same time, that level of automation can be tempting when I am carrying a camera out with non-photographers who don’t want to be sucked into an impromptu photo walk. There’s not the time to consider every shot.
I think my solution is going to be to use the focus limiter function to effectively do zone autofocus - overcome Fuji’s relatively weak AF algorithm by massively limiting its choices, but get things a bit sharper than by zone focusing in manual (which works fine on my wider lenses but not so much with the normals where the plane of focus is a bit too shallow for me to judge it right consistently).
Equally, I’ve also realised I never use AF-C and maybe the Fuji AF would actually be fine for my needs if I started using that properly.
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Its weird the obsession to make smaller cameras has totally disregarded ergonomics; Fuji eventually admitted that with the X-S10 what they call an "SLR Style" camera 😂
I'd argue that the FM2 style bodies were always bad for ergonomics. F100/F90x style of cameras all the way to DSLR have the best ergonomics.
Nikon actually made a thing about ZF having loads of buttons and dials in comparison to their other Z cameras.