Thanks Greybeard. I considered the X-S10. It’s a great little camera, but I deemed it almost the same as my X-E4, but with IBIS. The four command settings on the top dial are very nice. I still consider the X-E4 as having the best custom configuration of all the Fuji cameras. I haven’t gotten to shoot with an X100V so I can’t comment as to that one. With the X-E4, there are 7 configurable profiles. I believe I counted about 45 parameters that you could set as opposed to 12 on the X-T4. This is probably similar to the X-S10. They couldn’t put 7 profiles on the command dial, but I can either assign them to a button or bring them up with one punch of the Q menu. I don’t know that it will happen at this point but I am hopeful that Fuji might do another “firmware upgrade“ to the X-T4 to make their custom profiles as useful as the X-E4 and apparently the X-S10. They could easily make this change, but I don’t know how current XT users would respond. To me it’s just a more intuitive and greatly expanded system. When I bought the X-T4, it just didn’t dawn on me that the custom settings would be a more limited system than the X-E4.
Still, being able to set custom IQ profiles is quite useful, but it would be nice to be able to set something like Sports Mode, which I’ve created on X-E4. Besides film simulation, white balance, ISO, color, sharpness etc, I can choose auto focus area, AF-C, Sports Finder Mode and Photometry (Metering), among others. I realize that X-T4 has a Focus Mode switch and an ISO dial, but those are just buttons essentially. Fuji could also make those settings available for custom profiles through firmware.
The X-T4 is a terrific camera and it checked off all the boxes that I needed if I was going to trade in my Olympus E-M1, and that’s how I ultimately chose the X-T4 over the X-S4. Things that I had with Olympus that I didn’t want to lose and I get with X-T4:
• 5 axis IBIS (S10 also has)
• 3” articulated TFT LCD touch screen (S10 also has)
• High resolution LCD screen
• Big, high res OLED EVF
• Rugged build
• Weather sealing
• 15 FPS mechanical shutter
• Dual card slots with UHS-II support
• Higher CIPA rated 500 shot battery
Anyway, Fuji, if you’re listening, I love the X-T4 but it would also be great to have the customization features of its little brothers.