How to Check Firmware on Fuji X-e2s
10-E2 vs. X-E2S: Ending the Confusion
By upgrading your Fujifilm X-E2 with firmware 4, yous are giving up the photographic camera that you lot knew: Your Ten-E2 will plough into an X-T10—simply with a rangefinder design. Still, on the within, both the X-E2v4 and the new X-E2S offer (almost) the aforementioned features, the same menu options and the same graphical user interface every bit the 10-T10.
This is important. To begin with, it means that your old X-E2 user manual has get pretty much obsolete. That’s why Fujifilm has created an entirely new manual forth with firmware 4. You can download it
here as a PDF file. It also means that
my eBook on the X-E2
doesn’t apply to cameras running firmware 4 or the new 10-E2S. It’south still cracking if you lot don’t upgrade your X-E2, simply users who have made the jump are at present much meliorate off with
my volume on the 10-T10.
I am not kidding! As long as you can run into across the different form factors (rangefinder mode vs. SLR fashion), my Ten-T10 book is now almost perfectly applicable. It really is, because Fuji did a terrific job transforming the 10-E2 into an X-T10 with camouflage. This means that my X-E2 eBook won’t be updated. It doesn’t have to, because the update is already
here. To ease the transition, my publisher will give you a discount of xl% on all editions of my 10-T10 book (printed, eBook and combined). Merely enter
XPERT40 in the coupon field when you cheque out.
Aforementioned Same, But Dissimilar
Okay, and then your X-E2 is now a rangefinder-style version of the X-T10. Great! But what exactly are the differences betwixt an X-E2 running firmware 4 and the new 10-E2S? There seems to be some confusion, and then allow’s straighten it out.
X-E2 vs. 10-E2S
On the outside, the differences are minimal. The X-E2S offers an „improved“ hand grip, merely to be honest, I can’t feel much of a difference. All the same, pressing the 4 selector buttons on the back of the 10-E2S does experience better, and so this may be some other small improvement over the classic X-E2. With firmware 4, you can forget the MACRO and AF descriptions on two of the 10-E2’s selector buttons, as all 4 selector keys at present serve every bit Fn buttons, just similar in the X-E2S. This gives both cameras a total of seven Fn buttons!
The most obvious divergence is the Fn2 button of the X-E2, which is named Motorcar on the Ten-E2S. Don’t worry, though. The „new“ AUTO button is still a regular Fn button that can perform whatsoever function you assign it to. It’s merely that its mill default assignment is to switch the Ten-E2S between its regular and the new AUTO mode. On the 10-T10, this function is performed past a defended Auto lever on the camera’s top plate.
The classic X-E2 with firmware iv doesn’t offering AUTO fashion, every bit it requires additional hardware that (patently) can’t be added via firmware. So what’due south this new AUTO mode about? Quite simple: It turns the X-E2S into a fully automatic photographic camera with scene recognition (SR+) and various scene modes for applications such as portrait, mural, fireworks, sports or night photography. It’south meant for users who don’t know the camera (like a stranger that’s supposed to take a picture of yous using your camera), or users who don’t
want
to know their camera, because they can’t be bothered with learning about aperture, shutter speed and ISO settings. If you want to know more well-nigh SR+ and the new scene position modes, delight read tips 26 and 27 in my
X-T10 volume.
Since AUTO mode adds bits of new hardware, the Ten-E2S also gains another characteristic: move detection. This function adds two options to the OIS menu (SHOOTING MENU > IS Fashion). What is it almost? As you know, the OIS (Optical Image Stabilizer) is part of several Fujinon XF and Xc lenses. It reduces camera milkshake and allows you to shoot handheld with slower shutter speeds than usual. Yet, slow shutter speeds are only useful when your subject isn’t moving, because moving subjects in concert with slow shutter speeds can pb to unwanted motion blur. This is where motility detection comes into play: With the X-E2S, you can nonetheless gear up Auto-ISO to slow shutter speeds to make full use of your camera’south OIS system. Nonetheless, when the camera detects subject movement equally you press the shutter push, information technology will temporarily increase the minimum shutter speed by one or 2 stops (and increase the ISO setting along the way). Of course, if yous don’t desire motion detection, you can simply turn it off in the X-E2S and employ 1 of the two regular OIS modes. Y’all can read more near the OIS, its quirks and the new movement detection characteristic in tips xv and xvi of my
Ten-T10 book.
Anything else? Yep! The 10-E2S offers a maximum extended ISO setting of 51200, while the 10-E2v4 nevertheless maxes out at ISO 25600. That’south because over again, ISO 51200 is based on different hardware, so changing the firmware couldn’t practise the job. However, since extended ISO settings don’t write RAW files, I don’t recommend using them, anyhow. Ameliorate shoot (and underexpose the scene) at ISO 6400 and push the RAW file subsequently with either the camera’s built-in or an external RAW converter. You can read tips fifty, 51 and 52 of my
X-T10 book
for information on ISO amplification and extended ISO settings.
Conclusion
There really aren’t many differences between the X-E2v4 and the new X-E2S. If yous already own an 10-E2, don’t sell it to become a X-E2S! Merely utilise the upgrade and exist happy with your new camera. Don’t wait any further.
Yous can usethis link
to find and download the latest firmware versions for your X-series cameras and lenses. There, yous will too observe current versions of Fuji’southward application software, such as RAW File Converter EX. A footstep-past-step video guide illustrating the firmware upgrade process is available
here. Mac OS users tin can find detailed firmware download instructions
here, and Windows users can click
hither.
Rico Pfirstinger
