macleodal

Is there a quick and easy way to ensure my smartphone is actively connected to my X-T5? I have paired it no problem, and I have had it working / tethered / downloaded images etc so that's all good and the connection is correctly established. What I have not yet figured out is how one is supposed to quickly re-establish the connection. I want to use it for geo-tagging so when I get to a place where I'm going to take some pictures I want to be sure the link is established. But if I don't open the app, if definitely doesn't appear to connect in the background. And even when I opened the app, it was not showing connected. I poked a few things but it didn't seem to connect. And then - a minute or two later - it decided it was in fact now connected. Obviously I can speed it up by going into my iPhone's Bluetooth settings, manually tapping on the X-T5 to force the Bluetooth to connect, and then opening the app... but that's a lot of tapping when all I want to do it take pics. Is there maybe a sneak circuit here somewhere? A menu option on the camera to tell it to connect? Or can the app be told to keep looking for the camera (even when the app is running in the background) and to connect whenever it sees it? Thanks

@Greybeard yep you're right. Duh! I've posted back on this. Apologies.

Thanks all. Jeepers - talk about a rookie error! Yep... I had Googled the X-T5 manual, Google returned me the X-T3 manual and they're so similar I didn't notice until I had driven myself crazy wondering why the difference between my camera and the book. I am so new to it I genuinely thought I must be missing something! Sorry folks... bad start! I'll improve. Alastair

Hello, Just recently got my X-T5 (which is lovely albeit blimmin' complicated!). I have got some basic settings on it and I'm now reading through the manual to make sure I at least know about everything. One thing which is totally throwing me. In the manual it references the selector dial underneath the shutter speed control as being the "Metering Dial". This suggests that this dial would allow selection between things like spot metering, centre-weighted meeting, matrix, etc... right? This is confirmed in multiple places in the manual, see the attached screenshots. However on mine, this control -- unless I truly am going mad -- is only to switch between stills mode and video mode. What is going on here?! Thanks Alastair