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Camera usage is obviously highly subjective and there will never be one user interface (UI) that pleases everyone.

It appears Fuji is doing a pretty good job at satisfying a lot of people in the ergnomics and UI departments.

 

I personally find the Fuji X-T1 to be the best camera I've own in terms of user interface and controls. For my style of shooting they are great, but they would be definitely too slow for someone needing to quickly switch between modes (e.g. landscape -> wildlife). I really like the simple layout and the configurable Q menu that gives a very quick access to key settings (for me). The only thing I want from Fuji is the ability to assign a dial to minimum shutter speed and an option to have the shutter speed depending on the focal length (with a sensitivity adjustment).

 

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All in all, I find Fuji the most fun cameras to shoot with. I'm not sure why this is... maybe simplicity? Regardless, the fact is that I enjoy photography with a Fuji much more than with any other camera system before.

 

The Q-menu of Fuji has 16 positions. Per default, 6 of them are IQ for JPGs. The other 10 partly show redundant settings like ISO (on a dial). There's linited possibilities of what I can assign to it, not much help (I'd like to set the whole stuff up on a bigger screen with all menus visible to get better overview).

 

Fuji already shows with their dials and wheels and lots of hardware buttons, how they think the camera should be used. But they are very inconsequent as many functions can be assigned three times - I could assign each Fn button to the same function - what is the sense of that?

 

Oh, and on the X-T2 the Auto ISO considers the FL  I thought they put the same on the firmware of the X-T1? But I don't know...

 

I agree, UIs are individually questionable, everybody likes soemthing different. However, badly translated or inconsistent texts are a no-go everywhere.

 

The most simplest I saw so far (taking into account the camera itself is no as complex as all the others you mentioned) is the menu and the Quickmenu of the Sigma (Merill and dp quattro) series. Simple and elegant.