Fujifilm X Series - Joystick?

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Why did Fuji decide that a joystick was preferable to a D Pad? Personally I can't see the point (no pun intended!) I'm old school, so half press and recompose so the ability to move a focus point is not something I need. I suspect that most older users would feel the same?

Does anyone prefer it to the D Pad?
 
Me too, it's one of the best things they ever did IMO.
 
Do you guys like it because you can move the focus point quickly? Do you miss the ability to assign different functions to the D Pad?
 
I wouldn`t have moved over to Fuji, if the didn`t have them. So easy to use, and as David said, the double click is very handy.
 
I think all cameras should have a joystick, by far the easiest way to shift the focus point around.
Does is stop the D Pad being used, pretty sure when I had my X-Pro2 the D pad still worked as normal?

Saying that the touchscreen on my Panasonic is also excellent.
Can be set to AF point only and "offset" to move the focus point with your thumb rather than accidentally by nose
 
Not so much to move the AF point around (although I do use it for that as well) as to change the size of the box.
 
Well I am talking about cameras with a joystick so don't understand your reply.
 
Take a look at the subject heading - it might help.

To make it easier to understand - do you miss having a camera with a D Pad where you could assign different functions to the directional buttons?
 
Al1944 said:
Why did Fuji decide that a joystick was preferable to a D Pad? Personally I can't see the point (no pun intended!) I'm old school, so half press and recompose so the ability to move a focus point is not something I need. I suspect that most older users would feel the same?

Does anyone prefer it to the D Pad?
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Focusing and recomposing can work well enough for some but others may look closely and when you do that the chances are that if you want to see the difference between focusing and recomposing and moving the focus point you probably will much of the time. Especially at wider apertures when it'll probably be fairly obvious. Plus there's the issue of metering and some depending, upon their gear and if it can or not, may want to link metering to the focus point.

With tracking what some people do now is focus on their subject and then recompose and the camera will keep the focus point on the subject. That may be a better way forward than using the centre point / half press and recompose technique for people who may be tempted to look closely and who may well then see any shifting of the focus point when the photographer recomposes.

I don't have a joystick on any of my cameras. I have my D pads programmable buttons disabled and only use them for moving the focus point, so a joystick may be better for me.
 
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Got both on the H1, I use the joystick for moving AF point, double click to re-centre is very handy, but I use the D-pad mostly in the menus, just old habit. Would I miss it? probably not much, I adjust to different controls on cameras quick enough, the joystick can do anything the D-pad can, I rarely ever use the quick functions on the pad - mostly because I always forget what each one is set to :D
 
love joysticks, canon ones from the 5d mk 3 era were the best i ever tried.

nikon and fuji ones not so good.

sony one is alright
 
I am just getting used to the joystick on my XF10, make things pretty easy.
 
It apears that joysticks are very popular and I'm guessing that is across all age groups.
Half press and recompose is quite an inaccurate focus method. Pretty sure at least one camera manufacturer advised against it.
 
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The only thing I don't like about the joystick, is it is hard plastic. Or at least it is on my XF10, not sure about other models. It would have been nice, if it was rubber tipped.
 
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