Fujifilm X Series: Understanding Shooting Setting Menu (Post 1/2)

Mastering Fujifilm’s drive modes, exposure, metering, and essential shooting tools

📖 The Shooting Setting menu is extensive and packed with essential tools — so much so that it will be explored across two dedicated posts.

👉 This is Part 1 of 2, and it covers the following settings:

• Drive Setting

• Sports Finder Mode

• Pre-Shot ES

• Self-Timer

• Save Self-Timer Setting

• Self-Timer Lamp

• Photometry

• Shutter Type

• Interval Timer Shooting

The Shooting Setting menu is where you define how your Fujifilm camera captures images at the moment of exposure. It controls the core shooting behavior of the X-T5 — from drive modes to metering and exposure tools, shutter settings, IS Mode (Image Stabilization), and key image-capture functions that shape how every photo is taken.

This menu includes a wide range of essential tools that manage drive modes, sports finder mode, pre-shot ES, self-timer behavior, photometry, shutter type, interval timer shooting, and much more.

Whether you’re fine-tuning exposure consistency, maximizing performance for action photography, or optimizing how the camera behaves in challenging lighting situations, the Shooting Setting menu is where your capture workflow truly begins.

Menu Overview

First screen of the Shooting Setting Menu.

Second screen of the Shooting Setting Menu.

Drive Setting

📸 What it does

Drive Setting defines how the X-T5 captures images when the shutter is pressed.

This menu gives access to all primary drive modes of the camera — bracketing, high- or low-speed bursts, HDR, and advanced filters.

⚙️ Available options

🎯 When and why to use it

• BKT Setting → for exposure safety, creative variations, or focus stacking

• CH High Speed Burst → for fast action, wildlife, kids, birds

• CL Low Speed Burst → for controlled motion with more stable AF performance

• HDR Mode → for scenes with extreme contrast (sunset, interiors with windows)

• ADV. Filters → for fun, stylized JPEGs straight out of camera

🛠 Recommended setting

• Exposure BKT or Focus BKT for tricky lighting or macro/landscape work

• CH for maximum fps when subject movement is unpredictable

• CL for everyday action with reliable AF

• HDR when shooting JPEG-only scenes with strong contrast

💡 Tips

• CH burst rates may require the electronic shutter, which can introduce rolling shutter with fast motion.

• HDR outputs JPEG only, never RAW.

• In any BKT mode, the flash is disabled.

• ADV Filters override most image-quality settings and are meant for creative JPEG shooting.

Sports Finder Mode

📸 What it does