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Used my new xpro2 for one week. In general I am pretty happy. However, there are two things I would like to have changed. 1st: Please add ISO adjustment to e.g. the front wheel or allow ISO selection set to any Fn button. 2nd: I am missing that I can turn on the LCD whenever I want! Let me explain. When I am shooting a session I don't need the LCD to be turned on all the time. Therefore, I am happy that I can set the camera to switch on the EVF/OVF with the sensor. Perfect. If I want to check a picture I can press the display button. Also perfect. But from time to time, especially before I take the first picture, or when the situation has changed, I would like to check my camera settings. This I want to do on the LCD, not within the OVF/EVF. But to do so, I have to press the view mode button several times especially when I want to go back to "sensor OVF/EVF + no LCD". It would be absolutely perfect if one would be able to access the quick menu after pressing the display button.This means I set the camera view mode to "sensor EVF + NO LCD". I make pictures and no LCD turns on. If I want to check a picture I press the display button. And if I want to check my settings or change my settings, I press the display button and then the Q button. Then I could get around pressing several times the view button, which drives my crazy. By doing so, one could also expand the battery life! which is horrible short I believe that the back LCD display uses a lot of battery energy. dirk

Thanks a lot for your comment. The reason why I posted my observation was that it appeared to that extend only in the manual focus mode making it impossible to set the focus manually. And I got puzzled because I have never experienced banding on the displays in the two years I was using my XE2s before updating the firmware yesterday to 4.0. Anyway, thanks for your help.

Dear all, I posted the question also in another forum and it turned out that I am not the only one that discover the issue. Interstingly it appears that it is not only restricted to fluorescent tube light. It is also happening with normal room light when the light is visible on the screen. By chance I was focussing onto my window during the day. If I focus on the glas everything was fine. If I focus on the window frame it was flickering. When I switched off my room light - everything was normal. Some people said the effect is much stronger when you turn on manual focus support (highlights). It is also independent of the objective and other display settings such as manual exposure preview settings. And of course I was using the non-electronic shutter! Weird.

Dear all, this morning I realized something weird after I installed the firmware update. If the X-e2 is in manual focus mode (no electronic shutter activated, independent of manual exposure preview and with manual focus assistant set to standard) both displays are flickering and black bars are running from top to down over the screens when I am in a room with light coming from fluorescent tubes. In autofocus mode everything is fine (tested with the 35 and 23 mm). With normal daylight everything is fine in manual focus mode. And on a first view it was also fine in a room with normal light bulbs. However, if I go closer to a light bulb and focus directly on the bulb are next to it I get the same flickering / "running" screens. Again it appears only in manual focus mode! It looks like when old computer screens are recorded and shown on TV. Any idea ? dirk