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BarwickGreen

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    Photography (obviously), audio, radio, broadcast, walking, snorkelling and technology.

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  1. Very pleased with my 100 - 400 and teleconverter. I managed to find half an hour to test it this afternoon and have put three photos on Flickr. In my opinion it is nothing short of superb https://flic.kr/p/FyvfWY
  2. I wear glasses and find the extended eyecup a help.
  3. I also have one. Free with the XM1. So I bought the XM1 and sold it after claiming the free lens, which cost me less over-all than it would have done to buy the lens. Despite the low price and compact size I'm very happy with it, at least until the long zoom comes out.
  4. I managed to grab a few shots on my way to a meeting in London yesterday. I'm really pleased with the way the camera performed and it was great fun to use. https://flic.kr/p/yacmJJ
  5. I was looking for something to replace my LX7 when I moved from Micro Four-Thirds. I had an XM1 but found it a little too big for a "take everywhere" camera, because the X mount lenses are quite large.Today a mint used X30 arrived, and I have to say I love it already. Yes, of course the sensor could do with being bigger, and I would like it to have a 10x zoom lens and fit in my trouser pocket, but it is always about compromise and for me this is the perfect "little camera" to use when I don't want to carry the X-T1.
  6. Sadly I can't take photos of the dust on the sensor, as the only camera I have which is capable of this is my X-T1. The photos it takes just have typical dust spots. I also suspected the dust might be coming from inside a lens so I cleaned the backs of all the lenses very thoroughly a couple of months ago but it has made no difference so either it's not that, or there's dust on the rear of the lenses that I can't see with the microscope.
  7. Just had to remove a lot of particles, including more that look like tiny pieces of metal swarf, after an outing yesterday in which I swapped between two lenses half a dozen times.
  8. Control Lock Problem in 4.0 One of the great features in 4.0 is the ability to lock specific controls. I find I often occidentally move the drive mode switch when changing ISO, or the exposure mode switch when changing shutter speed. The new firmware lets me lock just these two controls, which is fine as most of the time I want single shot and centre weighted exposure. The problem is unlocking - pressing and holding the menu button pops up the lock or unlock icon, but doesn't unlock the controls, i have to go into the menu and do it. I suspect the quick "press and hold the menu button" thing only works if you lock or unlock all controls? Or am I doing something wrong?
  9. Image quality obviously matters but I'm an amateur so for me the most important thing it to enjoy taking pictures. Using modern digital cameras such as the Lumix GH3, the fun had gone, and been replaced by frustration. The viewfinder was tiny and blurred making it hard to see how the camera was setup. Whilst there were lots of buttons and three dials, I could never remmeber which dial was set to alter aperture and which one was shutter speed in manual mode or which one was exposure compensation in any of the auto modes. When I picked up a Fuji X-T1 with proper engraved dedicated controls for each function and a decent viewfinder, I immediately traded in an entire micro four thirds outfit (ten lenses and two bodies) for a Fuji system. No regrets - the X-T1 has made taking photos fun again.
  10. I want zebra stripes on burnt-out areas before I take the picture, or if that's not possible, on the image review after I've taken it whatever viewing mode I choose. At present it's only displayed in the "maximum info" view which has a very small thumbnail image.
  11. I've had time for a little more testing and the improved handling of branches against the sky is consistent, but I've noticed it isn't always entirely good news. These two crops are from a picture processed with the same settings in LR5.7 and LR6.1. Look at the biggest area of blue, and focus on the area just above the fine twigs. There are more artefacts in the LR6.1 version. Having said that, the print would need to be several metres wide for this to be visible in real life, I suspect.
  12. Like others, I could see no difference in Fuji RAW handling between LR5.7 and LR6.0. I've just installed 6.1 and there is a significant improvement in the handling of objects against the sky, as these 100% crops show. All process settings are the same and are fairly "normal"; modest sharpening with detail at 100%, modest colour noise reduction, medium contrast tone curve, Provia.
  13. Adobe claim some Fuji X-Trans RAW processing improvements in LR6.1, announced today. http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2015/06/june-updates-to-cc-photography.html?scid=social47596956&adbid=z12qe3kbtkfmd1dsi23khzcp2s2tepsdk&adbpl=gp&adbpr=114210357725226688774 Anybody tried it?
  14. I took some IR photos using a standard X-T1 and an R72 filter, , you can see them here. https://flic.kr/s/aHsk5JBVrx Where lenses have a soft hot-spot I find it's easy to remove in Lightroom. The lens test linked to above say the 10 - 24 is unusable, but I found it is great, with a little care and post processing, as in this example. https://flic.kr/p/rjoPL7
  15. I wear glasses and use the Fuji eyecup - excellent.
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