Fuji X - whats your method

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How do you shoot with the Fuji x series. Manual focus? auto focus? metering method? Metering mode?
Ovf or evf if you have an ovf? Do you expose manually or use the compensation dial. Auto iso or not?

It strikes me that there are many way to shoot with the x series. How do you shoot yours?
 
I only have the X10 and X20.
However I work much the same way with any camera.
I rarely manual focus but when I do I use the AEL/AFL button with manual mode set, to find focus, especially when doing multi-shot stitched panoramas.
For exposure I mostly use Aperture priority or Manual Exposure depending on the subject matter.
I will sometimes use an Incident light meter to establish the exposure and fix tones.
I use the compensation dial with Ap or Sp modes
I never use Auto Iso.
More often than not I use the OVF when hand holding ..I do not use arms length.

All the X series have a full set of working options so suit every occasion and style of working.
You can even pretend that they are fully manual as found on early film cameras.

I wish there was a way of using the compensation dial with flash, perhaps by clicking it in some way. As having to go into the menu system is a pain.
 
Depends what I'm shooting. With my x100s, my starting position is one of the three custom modes I have programmed in. The most used one is aperture priority, with auto ISO up to 1600 and single AF with my thumb moving the focus point round. If I hand my camera to someone else (it happens...) then it's auto-everything.

If I've got an off-camera flash going on, then it's all manual exposure and single AF.
 
Usually set the ISO, and the Aperture and run in Ap mode. If the shutter speed is going to be too slow then adjust one of the former depending on the environment.

Occassionally use AutoISO but not generally for critical photography

Manually focus with Samyang 8mm or old legacy lenses, but not with XF ones.

Use OVF a lot on X100, but EVF when using filters, EVF only on the X-E1, XE2 (obviously!!)
 
Sorry to be vague but however I feel the shot will be best served! Not had my XPro long but am already finding it very easy to use in all ways. I stick to AF all the time but have found that MF isn't that much harder when you zoom in by pressing the control wheel after hitting the AF button (I know that sounds contradictory but I have been playing!) Metering is generally centre weighted but I usually use the EVF set to give an exposure preview so can easily jiggle the EC wheel to correct any exposure difference. I find it's easier to use Aperture priority when straying from auto exposure - easy enough to set a shutter speed you want using the aperture ring! ISO is generally at 400 but a press of the f button lets me move away from there.

The baby Xs I have tend to stay in P mode and centre weighted metering and always AF. Easy enough to switch to A or S mode if/when required.
 
99% of my portrait shots would be autofocus, aperture priority, auto ISO (though I keep my eye on this), evaluative metering with a lot of exposure compensation adjustments. This is how I learned to shoot film plus taking advantage of AF and auto ISO technology.

For other shots I might use manual (hyper focal) focus and might set ISO as low as possible.
 
As for me, I tend to shoot full manual,other than Af, i love that as i move my iso up and down i can see the exposure change in the evf in the background. thats really cool. I use the EVF mostly as i find the framelines changing position a little annoying though sometimes i just stick the whole thing in full auto and use the ovf and just review when i get home.
 
I shoot my Fuji same as any other camera i have used,AP so i know what dof i will get,then hopefully get the shutter speed i need,then adjust the ISO if the shutter speed not want i need,plus use AF :)
 
Same way as any other camera. Though I tend to use manual focus more, along with the EVF (as much as I hate it, the focus peaking isn't too bad). Purely because I don't trust the AF to be accurate or fast enough. That said, I do like the extended OVF that allows you to see outside the frame-lines, and use it for street photography when focus is pretty easy. This is all with an x100s.
 
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