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I'd like to have camera set to video mode, with HDMI output from X-T2 connected to a video capture card, and at the same time have USB connected as a power source for the camera. However, if the USB cable is connected, the camera stops streaming video, and switches to mirroring the back LCD display to the HDMI port instead (with display overlays, etc). If I disconnect USB cable, I get 1080p video out HDMI port. Is there any setting to tell X-T2 to keep streaming video output to HDMI port instead of mirroring LCD display when USB is connected to the camera?

Is 2.5mm port on the X-T2 strictly for remote release, or can it be used to connect (and trigger) off camera flash? Same question for 2.5mm port on X-T1.

Well, looks like both lenses will travel cross country to repairs center tomorrow. The two sensor design for aperture ring is classic and proven design (e.g. old mechanical mouses detected direction of movement in the same way). If it only wasn't susceptible to dust... However, I'm surely not going to venture into opening the lens myself and trying to clean stuff inside. I'd estimate it at one in a million chance lens would survive me opening it ;-) Thanks all!

Yup. I checked all that. Contacts look clean on both camera and lens. I did try resetting camera settings. The problem appears only with this one lens. All my other lenses, both variable max aperture (no ring positions, such as 18-55mm f/2.8-4 or new 100-400mm) and fixed max aperture (with aperture ring positions, such as 23mm f/1.4) work just fine. It's just this single lens giving me trouble. Oddly enough, my brand new 100-400mm just started giving me different kind of trouble after using it for only few days, camera would display "lens control error" if I have OIS enabled. I wonder if it is just odd coincidence (what are the chances of *two* lenses going bad in span of a week), or something with camera (X-T1 in my case). I'm leaning towards former (troublesome lenses, not troublesome body) since it seems to be two distinct problems and all my other other lenses work perfectly fine. Aperture ring with 55-200mm (with OIS working OK), and OIS with 100-400mm (with aperture ring working OK). Not to mention that this same 55-200mm was in repairs for image sharpness problems last November... I'm kinda becoming bit worried about my (non-trivial) investment in Fuji glass...

It seems my XF55-200mm got broken by sitting in a drawer for too long. After few months of not using it, I put it on the camera, just to discover I can't set aperture by rotating aperture ring anymore. Camera remembers aperture of the lens I had on it previously (say I had some other lens set to f/8 before putting on 55-200mm), and turning aperture ring on 55-200mm aperture switches between that one and 1/3 stop higher (e.g. only toggles between f/8 and f/9). I can still use full range of apertures by moving switch on the lens to "auto" (controlled by camera) and using dial on camera body to adjust it. But not by rotating aperture ring on the lens. Did anybody else experienced anything similar? I assume the only way to fix is to send it to repairs (it's out of warranty, so I'm still on the fence if it is worth it considering there's workaround). Hoping somebody had similar problem and found a way to fix it at home.

For 100-400mm lens, f/4.5-5.6 is just fine. Canon 100-400mm and Nikon 80-400 are also f/4.5-5.6 and cost $2000+. At that price tag, make no mistake, those are pro-level lenses. If Fuji can deliver under $2000 price tag, the better. If you want f/4 or faster lens at 400mm, things get ridiculously large and expensive and generally not affordable for non-pros; i.e. market for those lenses tend to be either pros in which case lens pays for itself after some time, or relatively wealthy non-pros (and there's not that many of them). One of Canon's very popular 400mm primes is also f/5.6 (and incredibly sharp at that). Let re-iterate, f/4.5-5.6 is realistic expectation since this is first lens in that range Fuji is releasing and it will cover very wide range of non-pro and pro photographers. They can always take a shot at much smaller market for 400mm (and longer) and/or f/4 (or faster) lenses; which is tiny in comparison -- those lenses are simply incredibly expensive to manufacture.