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I've just bought a X-Pro 1 and am enjoying the experience. It means I have another body to use my smaller primes with while my X-T5 has zooms attached – at the moment, at least. But when I attach my XF 16 ƒ2.8 the viewfinder switches over to the other magnification with quite a noise. It sounds fine, but is it supposed to be quite so loud with the camera to my eye? Since it is such an old body I'm concerned at the wear that might have taken place and at how long the system might last. Anyone else with this camera who can put a wideangle on to listen to the noise? In the meantime here is a shot from London last week – the distortion of the Speaker's House (Palace of Westminster) comes from the use of the Sigma 10-18 ƒ2.8, distortion that I didn't want to correct in Capture One Pro as I would have lost too much of the photo.

I use the FUJI charger that I've had for a while when charging the battery outside the camera. But a lot of the time I charge my Fujis through the USB-C or micro USB port (depending on the camera) from whatever adapter I have plugged in. I don't think that you can damage it with the standard 2.4A devices. Chris

Surely if the screen showed completely black you'd not be able to compose a photo in adverse conditions. The red aperture reading is showing you that the aperture set is unsuitable, as I understand it. Chris

I can't fathom how you think that a max shutter speed might be related to a fast lens. You say something like "it has a max shutter speed of 1/4000th of a second, which is totally fine if you're using it with ƒ2 primes . . ." but the relationship doesn't matter, surely. Chris

Yes, it’s far better to use a card reader. I have. USB3 reader with SD & Micro SD slots which is double-ended – USB A at one end, USB-C at the other. I use the latter for my MacBook. But I also use both Photos (family stuff) and Capture One for importing the photos. Chris

I have similar objections to using Adobe, but in reality I have never like LR, having tried it several times from v1. I use Capture One Pro instead, but actually Apple's Photos is starting to come alive now, with the update in High Sierra. Chris