Greybeard

Hmm - I don't seem to be able to replicate it with my camera

Half press the shutter button (with shutter AE set to ON)

That doesn't sound correct - how are you looking at the EXIF? Maybe you can share an image file with EXIF so that we can diagnose the problem.

A film simulation is just one part of the recipe. If you have a recipe selected and change the film simulation none of the other settings within that recipe will change. It would be the same as Grain Effect for example - you could select a recipe and change Grain Effect - nothing else within the recipe with change. You can change the recipe back to "nothing selected" before you change film simulation and the last used recipe settings won't be carried over.

SCREEN SET-UP > AUTOROTATE PB Set to ON

Thanks for the info - I might upgrade when x-trans is fully supported

Which platform? On a Mac you could use Preview to export jpeg files although I don't know how good the conversion would be.

I really like the 90/f2 - especially now that I have camera with IBIS - its a very personal thing but I'd go for the extra reach

I have no answer but HEIC files do open in Photos much slower than RAF files even with a fast M4 pro chip. The M4 iPad pro doesn't appear to have the same problem.

There is a difference between focusing and tracking

You won’t get subject tracking with pre-af until you half press the shutter button

I don't know why the image is stored as jpg - but it takes a while to store the image because it has quite a lot of work to do in taking three images and combining them. If you shoot raw + jpeg it gives you the three raw images together in one large RAF file.

Its difficult to see how any of the settings could cause ISO to switch from 200 to 4000 - I'd suggest you look at the different individual settings in the two recipes and find the one thats causing the difference - some settings like Dynamic Range and D Range Priority could make an ISO difference but not from 200 to 4000. Maybe you can post links to two (straight out of camera) image files - one which resulted in ISO 200 and the other with 4000 and we could see the differences in the settings. (Make sure everything else is identical such as the lighting and the scene).

There is no such thing as EXT3 - do you have X-E3, X-T3 or something else? Which version of Photoshop do you have? If you have an Adobe subscription make sure you have the latest updates. Some cameras do not support raw with certain settings - if you attach an original jpeg (straight out of the camera) we may be able to tell you why the RAF wasn't created.

The number will drop if you delete the images with the highest numbers. Try deleting an image from the middle of the batch on the card. The number won't go down because you still have the image with the highest number on the card.

That number on the rear screen (293) isn't the number of images on the card - its the highest sequence number - are you sure you have taken 293 images and you haven't deleted any or reformatted the card?

Do you have two cards in the camera? Are you sure you are looking on the right card? How are you looking at the card in the computer?

So this isn’t a new camera from a FujiFilm dealer? I’m guessing that from the comment about the third party battery. I would go back to the seller.

Do you mean that the camera completely powers off when you start to record a video? Not sure why it would do that unless there is a fault but if the setting to change Movie Mode is greyed out you might have the High Speed Recording Mode turned on - at least try turning that off but it shouldn't power off the camera. There is always a chance its a card problem - do you have a different card you could try? Is the battery fully charged?

Where did you look? The firmware download sites seem to be geo specific. I downloaded mine from the UK site.

Screen Setting menu => Disp Custom Setting => EVF/LCD => AF (or MF) Distance Indicator (and make sure you don’t have Large Indicators turned on)

Are you writing in backup or sequential mode? If you are writing in sequential mode then its going to write first to the primary card and then switch to the secondary card. The speed of writing from the buffer to the card would be slower when the primary card is full. If you are writing in backup mode then things will slow down if you are shooting bursts AND the bursts fill the buffer - at that point write will be at the speed of the slower card.

Comparing the X-M5 and the X-T30II the biggest difference is that the X-M5 doesn't have an electronic viewfinder. This would be a deal breaker for me but if you have grown up using a mobile phone as a camera it might not be something you would miss.

My guess is that its your computer - but you could contact the Iridient developer using his email address - I have always found him responsive and helpful

Yes - the card reader will solve your problems- there is an (undocumented) 4GB limit on transfer using a cable