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I've updated the original post with the following improvement. The battery is a press fit into the TicTac 100 (48g) box anyway so there's no way it'll slide out on its own, and having tried this approach for the past couple of months IMHO it's better than my previous suggestion. In practice I could have shaved off another couple of mm from the box. It's almost like Fuji *designed* the battery to fit the TicTac box. Those guys are genius.
 

Each candy box, cufflink box, businesscard box etc I see, I'm looking at to see if it would work as a compact storage case for my spare X-series batteries. Really I'd like one-per-battery and be a neat fit so there's not a lot of wasted volume in my compact camera bag.
 
Anyone found a good solution? I'm thinking along the lines of a tictac box (too small in UK...)  - the USA has a 'big pack' 1oz tic tac box (surprise) which looks like it might be just the right size - anyone tried that? I'd consider cutting down both the height of the box and the depth of the cap, assuming the battery fits in it.
 
I don't have the battery to hand but the interweb gives the dimensions as 47mm - 36mm - 15mm.
 
Edit: I found a Tic Tac box the right size:

 
See my post #10 in this thread for further details.
 
Edit #99: same type of box, but since the original post I've tried this new layout and IMHO it's more convenient than retaining the separate lid:

I found Superdrug in the UK selling "Tic Tac 100" (49g) and the box *exactly* fits the Fujifilm NP-W126.
 

 
The battery fits with room to spare vertically, as below, but I chose to store the battery horizontally which makes it a sliding fit (see later). I case you're wondering (I was), the box does *not* taper from top to bottom.
 

 
First step is to trim the lid down (it saves space, but mainly it makes it easier to pop the lid on and off):
 

 
Then you can trim the box down. In the image below you can see the battery slid into the box horizontally, and I found it was easier to cut the box down with the battery already inside it, because it stiffens the box while it's being cut.
 
Also from this image you can see I added a 'push' hole in the base of the box. As the battery is a sliding fit I thought I'd prefer to push the battery out rather than mess around knocking the box into the palm of my hand each time I wanted to remove the battery...
 

 
Job done:

 
Because the battery is a sliding fit, I'm not convinced I actually need the lid at all. I'll keep it for a while and see how it goes. Maybe in future I'll just trim the box so it just covers the battery (and protects the terminals) and discard the lid.

I found Superdrug in the UK selling "Tic Tac 100" (49g) and the box *exactly* fits the Fujifilm NP-W126.
 

 
The battery fits with room to spare vertically, as below, but I chose to store the battery horizontally which makes it a sliding fit (see later). I case you're wondering (I was), the box does *not* taper from top to bottom.
 

 
First step is to trim the lid down (it saves space, but mainly it makes it easier to pop the lid on and off):
 

 
Then you can trim the box down. In the image below you can see the battery slid into the box horizontally, and I found it was easier to cut the box down with the battery already inside it, because it stiffens the box while it's being cut.
 
Also from this image you can see I added a 'push' hole in the base of the box. As the battery is a sliding fit I thought I'd prefer to push the battery out rather than mess around knocking the box into the palm of my hand each time I wanted to remove the battery...
 

 
Job done:

 
Because the battery is a sliding fit, I'm not convinced I actually need the lid at all. I'll keep it for a while and see how it goes. Maybe in future I'll just trim the box so it just covers the battery (and protects the terminals) and discard the lid.

I was going to post a new thread, but thought it better to necro this one...
 
My X-E1 is a *great* family camera, and we have really valuable photographs going back many years and hopefully many years into the future with whatever X-series I upgrade to in due course (X-E3? X-T2?).  But when we're looking through the albums with the kids it's always the video clips they're most interested in, so it's good that capability is there. I'm just thinking of the use case where family members are looking back at this stuff after we're gone...
 
The hot tip for generic video on the X-E1 (so probably the others) is *always* put the camera into manual focus mode when you video, and use the AF-L (X-T1 AF-On?) button to autofocus before the recording. If you avoid the rookie error of moving the camera around too much the HD quality can be very good indeed (the 18-55 works well for video). Most of the Fuji videos I see are hopelessly wobbly and have the autofocus going in and out anyway. But videos have there place, IMHO.
 
To try and illustrate the point (not great, I admit), here's a pic and a video from the same place, this month:
 

 
 
And here's video (after Youtube transcoding) from about the same time:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyat1M5RIIU
 
Neither are going to win prizes, but for a family/holiday camera there's value (to me) in both images and video.
 
If your thing is 100% portrait, street, landscape or wildlife with creamy bokeh and characterful shadows (I like that too) then ignore my video comments, as that will never be for you.

The main thing I did that worked fine was to review the thousands of pictures I'd taken with the 18-55 to see what my most common focal length actually was, and it was close to 18mm so I bought the 18mmF2.
 
Obviously there are many other considerations but the exercise was worthwhile for me. I wanted a compact travel lens and the 18mm was cheap on ebay, compact, and has a manual aperture ring which I like.

It's a guy? WTF I'm going to have to cancel my flight to the Sudan!

I'm aware those of us that actually admit to using the video feature of the X-series are the untouchables of the photography kingdom, but there are some good tips in here... I do think the fact that DSLR's couldn't do video for a long time, but compact digital cameras could, introduced a bit of a 'quality' bias. I accept aceflibble's comments about being *serious* about video and by that definition that isn't me, but I like my amateur videos to be as good as I can make them using the X-E1, on the occasions I do take clips.
 
I've just worked out from Adam Woodhouse's comments I could have a microphone plugged into the mic socket, and mount the mike on the flash mount, and started browsing the interweb to find there's a Fuji accessory that's been around for ages... didn't know that though!

Unlucky...
 
 
Well the most obvious printed choice would be from Rico Pfirstinger via fujirumors particularly his e-book The Fujifilm X-E2 - Beyond the Manual (there are links on fujirumors with a discount code.). beyond that there are a gazillion posts if you google "X-E2 tips" or "X-E2 hints" - that might not seem a helpful suggestion but I found it useful when I first had my camera (X-E1) to read all sorts of stuff, good and bad.
 
 
 
Assuming you mean the *exposure* of the intended image, there's a menu setting [ Menu > Set -up 1 > Screen set-up > Preview Exp. in manual mode > toggle on or off] which does that.
(page 89 of the X-E2 manual here)
 
I assume you're ok with the basic setting telling the camera to show the image actually taken for a time in the viewfinder (also controlled via the same 'Screen set-up' settings menu option).
 
But in a nutshell I found there was a ton of stuff in the camera that just took a while to get used to, like the film simulations, highlight/shadow tone, or even basic things like setting up your preferred viewfinder layout (I like the 'thirds' grid and the horizon level...) . After using my X-E1 for over 2 years I still appreciate the basic usability of the options available, and am still making small tweaks to the way I'm using the camera.

I'm sorry.

I found Superdrug in the UK selling "Tic Tac 100" (49g) and the box *exactly* fits the Fujifilm NP-W126.
 

 
The battery fits with room to spare vertically, as below, but I chose to store the battery horizontally which makes it a sliding fit (see later). I case you're wondering (I was), the box does *not* taper from top to bottom.
 

 
First step is to trim the lid down (it saves space, but mainly it makes it easier to pop the lid on and off):
 

 
Then you can trim the box down. In the image below you can see the battery slid into the box horizontally, and I found it was easier to cut the box down with the battery already inside it, because it stiffens the box while it's being cut.
 
Also from this image you can see I added a 'push' hole in the base of the box. As the battery is a sliding fit I thought I'd prefer to push the battery out rather than mess around knocking the box into the palm of my hand each time I wanted to remove the battery...
 

 
Job done:

 
Because the battery is a sliding fit, I'm not convinced I actually need the lid at all. I'll keep it for a while and see how it goes. Maybe in future I'll just trim the box so it just covers the battery (and protects the terminals) and discard the lid.

I was going to post a new thread, but thought it better to necro this one...
 
My X-E1 is a *great* family camera, and we have really valuable photographs going back many years and hopefully many years into the future with whatever X-series I upgrade to in due course (X-E3? X-T2?).  But when we're looking through the albums with the kids it's always the video clips they're most interested in, so it's good that capability is there. I'm just thinking of the use case where family members are looking back at this stuff after we're gone...
 
The hot tip for generic video on the X-E1 (so probably the others) is *always* put the camera into manual focus mode when you video, and use the AF-L (X-T1 AF-On?) button to autofocus before the recording. If you avoid the rookie error of moving the camera around too much the HD quality can be very good indeed (the 18-55 works well for video). Most of the Fuji videos I see are hopelessly wobbly and have the autofocus going in and out anyway. But videos have there place, IMHO.
 
To try and illustrate the point (not great, I admit), here's a pic and a video from the same place, this month:
 

 
 
And here's video (after Youtube transcoding) from about the same time:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyat1M5RIIU
 
Neither are going to win prizes, but for a family/holiday camera there's value (to me) in both images and video.
 
If your thing is 100% portrait, street, landscape or wildlife with creamy bokeh and characterful shadows (I like that too) then ignore my video comments, as that will never be for you.