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Does the X100F still disable the hot shoe in continuous drive mode like its predecessors, or can one finally use flash in continuous shooting mode?

Update: I have no freezes in the past week, since I speed matched the cards in both slots: going to the 2000x cards in both slots seems to have eliminated the issue for me. Which is good, if annoying, because it seems a waste to have such a high speed card in the JPEG slot. Oh well. For anyone collecting data, my freezes happened in the following AF Modes: Single Point, Single Shot and in 3x3 zone mode in Continuous Focus mode. In both cases, the drive setting was CL, which I have set to 5 FPS. Camera is permanently in boost mode.

I have had freezes using the X-T2 battery in the body, alone, and with the battery grip attached. I have also had freezes with using an X-T1 fuji branded battery in the camera. Freezes have been happening with really high write speed cards in slot 1: Lexar 2000x and Transcend UHS-II (180MB/sec write), and Lexar 1000x cards in slot 2, recording RAW (slot 1) + Fine JPEG (slot 2). I have not tried with using the ultra high speed cards in both slots - will have to test. In limited use with the 1000x cards in both slots, I haven't had a freeze, but the sample size is too low to make a conclusion. Freezes have also just started happening mid shoot sequence. Annoying.

Anyone else having issues with their X-T2 randomly freezing? I have had this happen three times in the past few days. Shooting in continuous low, and either turn the camera off, or stop shooting to check an image, and it locks up solid and I have to remove the battery to get it up and running again.

As far as I am aware, at this time your only radio trigger option is the Cactus V6 / V6 II, which allow you to manually set a flash delay, allowing you to fake rear curtain sync. For example, by setting a flash delay of 1.8 seconds and setting your shutter speed to 2 seconds, the flash should trigger just before the rear curtain starts to close.

aceflibble - thanks! I had not thought to swap the triggers around, and have the Cactus V5 as the on camera transmitter, and the V6 on camera. If you do that, the V6 will delay triggering the Godox V850 for the set amount of time. It appears that V6 does not delay sending the trigger signal, but rather sends it at shutter press with delay information attached, and the dumb old V5 only hears "Fire!" While this is frustrating - I was hoping to use the single V6 on camera to send a delay signal to a group of flashes controlled by V5s to simulate rear curtain sync (shakes fist at Fuji for screwing this up), I can at least make it work now with a combination of radio and optical slaves. Which will tide me over until the cactus v6 IIs arrive.

I bought a Cactus V6 in the hopes of being able to use the delay mode to get a working rear curtain sync with my Fuji X-T1s and X-Pro 2. I'm trying to avoid having to do an optical slave sync. Anyway, with the following set up: X-Pro2, Cactus V6, delay mode set to 990 ms, shutter set to 1 sec, Godox V850 on a Cactus v5 in receiver mode, the flash consistently fires at the beginning of the exposure. The programmed delay seems to be being ignored completely. Has anyone gotten the delay mode to work with a Cactus v6 on a Fuji camera with any set up?

In order of what I perceive to be ease of implementation: 1) Allow the use of flash in continuous drive mode (probably Fuji's biggest WTF) 2) Rear-curtain sync with any flash unit/remote (Nikon's been doing it for decades) 3) +- 5 stop bracketing, or +- 7 stop bracketing, with 3 or 5 shot option (Again, a place where Fuji is way behind) 4) And addition "short" sweep panorama mode - about a third shorter than the current M sweep panorama 5) Real rear button AF capability (again, way behind the times here) 6) A EVF/LCD mode where you use the EVF (with eye detect) for shooting, but when you hit the menu button, that appears on the rear LCD. 7) Improved Face detection/eye detection algorithms 8) HSS (and a partnership with Godox or Yongnuo for trigger and flash support)

My wish list for the next Fuji X-system camera: Doesn't disable hot shoe when drive mode set to continuous settings Rear-curtain sync with any flash/remote HSS (High speed sync) 1/320 second flash sync with mechanical shutter Improved high ISO noise performance, and ISO 100 in RAW 1/8000 sec shutter Improved User Interface (for example, drive selector on my X-T1 moves to easily, is always getting bumped to a different setting; EVF+Eye Sensor should put the menu up the external LCD, not just in the viewfinder; buttons people can actually find by feel) Real back button focus. More PASF points spread across the viewfinder for tracking off-center subject