Ray Sachs
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This sounds splendid Ray . . . but it's not my cup of tea, because although it's great for some situations it's not so good for others.
Me - I like the AFL/AEL button to lock exposure only - with the switch option. That way I can take and lock an exposure from a part of the scene I think will do well, then half press the shutter to lock the focus (with the nice green square) then recompose and shoot.
As for close up . . just flip to manual focus, and the AFL/AEL button changes it's function to focusing (whether it should or not is a moot point, but it does) - so, of course, you can focus close with it by pressing that button.
For me this presents a better set of compromises.
all the best
In a sense its kind of six of one, half a dozen of the other. You can set both focus and exposure independently and re-compose doing it either your way or my way. I just prefer to keep the focus away from the shutter button so that I have the option to re-focus or not. Its often not necessary and it generally takes less time to re-calc exposure than to re-focus. I say 'generally' because in really good light with a small aperture, the X100 does some trick of opening and then re-closing the aperture which can introduce lag that's as bad as, or sometimes worse than, refocussing. I've seen this explained and I can't remember why it does this. It hasn't really tripped me up yet, but I'm aware of it so I'll know what's going on if it ever does.
-Ray