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rainy day 2 by Rolf Marx, auf Flickr Duesseldorf street

Berlin street

lewis hamilton Kopie by Rolf Marx, auf Flickr

XT1 & 35/1.4 Adventurous window

Share few picture of my Vietnam Trip. Buy experience not new gear ✌️ (if is not broken) Hey Girls Want A Ride? Sweep With Me Hanoi Old Folk "A" People Fearlessly Sapa Cyclops Kid Portrait of my Vietnam Trip 2019

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XT-1 + XF80mm Spring fever is rising here up north

Still getting used to my first ultra wide angle lens but really love using the 10-24 - such a nice handling lens - if you know what i mean ! One from the Peaks - from Fernilee Reservoir up to Shining Tor and Cats Tor - was a lovely hot April day !

X-T2 & 80mm macro lens

with the Mamiya 120/4.0 Macro on X-H1 ... Rosenkäfer (Cetoniinae) by Enzio Harpaintner, auf Flickr

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X-H1 + Helios 44M-7 ... ... by Enzio Harpaintner, auf Flickr

X-H1 + Canon 135/3.5 LTM (M39) ... Clematis by Enzio Harpaintner, auf Flickr

With grain

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one more ... Schmetterling - Butterfly by Enzio Harpaintner, auf Flickr

There was a boat race today ... This one was declared the winner.

... Schreihals ... by Enzio Harpaintner, auf Flickr

Thank you so much for the info.

Temps Avenir - Pauline Gervais by David Wong, on Flickr

... DSCF5606 by Enzio Harpaintner, auf Flickr X-H1 + Minolta 35-70/3.5 MD

Not shot with Fuji Pool with kid

XT1 & XF23/2

I had an honour to be official photographer for FIBA at Eurobasket 2017 group A in Helsinki. Shot whole tournament with my Fujifilm X-T2 bodies with different lenses and has one backup Canon 5D MK III with 200mm F1,8 also with me (which didn't get too much work...). Unfortunately I didn't have my 90/2 with me as it fell from my bag couple of weeks before the tournament and I had to send it to get it repaired. There were many surprised photographers asking from me am I really shooting with Fujifilm. I was the only one who used anything besides Nikon and Canon, but as always Fujifilm didn't let me down! Eurobasket 2017 @Harwall Arena, Helsinki, Finland by Hendrik Osula, on Flickr X-T2 + 50-140 Eurobasket 2017 @Harwall Arena, Helsinki, Finland by Hendrik Osula, on Flickr X-T2 + 23/1,4 Eurobasket 2017 @Harwall Arena, Helsinki, Finland by Hendrik Osula, on Flickr X-T2 + 10-24/4 Eurobasket 2017 @Harwall Arena, Helsinki, Finland by Hendrik Osula, on Flickr X-T2 + 35/2 Eurobasket 2017 @Harwall Arena, Helsinki, Finland by Hendrik Osula, on Flickr X-T2 + 50-140 Eurobasket 2017 @Harwall Arena, Helsinki, Finland by Hendrik Osula, on Flickr X-T2 + 24/1,4

BC Kalev Cramo vs Tsmoki Minsk @Saku Suurhall, Tallinn, Estonia by Hendrik Osula, on Flickr X-T2 + 10-24/4 . Slightly edited JPEG.

one of my faves with my 35 f1.4...the best pic of my dad before he died! I have some good ones with the f2...but ...

This is a topic I'm pretty wrapped up in, as I prefer to only own lenses with some of those "special" qualities. Every system has different candidates, but I learned a long time ago that if you own the non-special lenses you either regret using them when something big happens, or you just leave them on the shelf and pack the others that you love a bit more. This is a huge part of what drew me to Fuji. Here's my read of the Fuji line, from that perspective and from my own pretty rigorous research. These are the lenses that I feel possess "special" qualities of one sort or another. 1. The 35 1.4 is a superb lens. My big drawback with it was that the bokeh could take on a nervous quality in some occasions where high contrast light and high contrast backgrounds merged in the background. But the images from it can be amazing. But it had a pattern that I see in many Fuji lenses where they have good contrast, and defined boundaries between tones, and yet certain tones soften and create very smooth transitions. And yet, the edges stay distinct. Generally, it seems that skin tones (and similar values) are much smoother, whereas the darker tones have firmer boundaries. This makes soft light creamier. I love the effect, and it's similar to what drew me to Leica lenses back when I was learning and learned with a Leica film bag. Fuji and Leica handle these "creamy/contrasty" tradeoffs differently. They're not the same. But it's the same qualities beneath the surface between them, and I personally believe that Fuji shooters are getting some exceptionally brilliant lenses for their system. It's kind of a golden era, but as with most eras, people won't know it until it has passed and they miss what they had. I will say that a hidden value in that 35 1.4 is it's ability to shoot landscapes. I like taking moody black and white Landscapes (primarily centered in the American West). These aren't four exposure landscapes, digitally knitted together over 3 days of post processing. Amazing work that some do with those. But I'm more interested in the gritty, moody images like Robert Frank would have looked for. And that 35mm lens had a unique ability to have the sky and the highlights softly texured, but keep some firmer boundaries to the darker details (leaves, horizon outlines, and etc). 2. That said, I find that the 35 f2 actually possesses it's own unique qualities--along the same lines as described above, but expressed in very different ways--and I like these qualities even better than I liked the 1.4. The bokeh on the f2 is smoother, and it's a good mix to go with the creamy skin tones and highlights. It's not that the f2 is "better" than the 1.4. It's just different, but different in some very interesting ways. There's just a dreamy kind of quality to them that I can't get, in the same way, from other lenses. 3. The other lens I've found that has this same dynamic--but again, expressed in different ways--is the xf56mm. This might be the greatest workhorse lens in the whole lineup. And in fact, I find it adds smoothness to a huge range of skin tones, from dark to pale. But where it also surprises is in how it can shoot moody landscapes in the same vein as the 50mm. How it chooses to separate smooth tones from darker edges is just... special. 4. Another "special" lens is the 23 1.4. This lens has less of the creamy/contrasty qualities of the 35s and the 56, but it it does some other things better. The out of focus areas in the background are soft, the main subjects are pleasantly sharp even at wide apertures, and you can fit more context into the frame in a pleasant way. Something about how the lens allows light and sharpness to focus on the main subject, but then begins receding the background both in sharpness and in tone is pretty unique. I shoot most weddings with this lens on one body, and the 56 on the other. When soft light floods a frame, with this lens, you can get some of those very soft tonal transitions as you see with the 35s. The difference is that it takes a LOT of light do get the effect with the 23, whereas teh 35s seem to do it in even low light. ...cont'd

I'm enjoying the thread. It's an affirmation of my own experience that lens quality can only be partially measured by sharpness, coma and bokeh. I had read a lot about how excellent the 35 f/2 was so I bought it for a trip. It is nicely sharp across the frame, and it leaves me pretty cold. I found the same with the 56 and the 14. By measurable standards they are excellent. And, they look very digital. If you like that look, great. If you prefer the 23 f/1.4 then you'll probably like the newer lenses a lot. Since the newer Fujis handle manual focusing so well, I'm using old film lenses as I prefer their rendering.

Hi folks, found my solution for the detached rubber and "banana" door on the xt1. I've got this well used Xt1 with all the scratches on it, making it Oh so sexy and no Milandro, it's is Not put there by me . Al comes natural. Anyway, paid €250 for it. 100% in working order except the rubber and door. The door is in what I called "banana shape", the rear rubber "thump rest" is off, front grip almost, left side corner starts to. It looks nasty so I stripped it all off and cleaned the glue residue. Wanted to send to Fuji Germany for a new door and rubber as they agree to do it for free (xt1 is only 2.5 years old), but that means my Xt1 will be gone for at least a month. No way . So, I ordered Asahi's synthetic leather sheet and went my way. Making templates and start cutting. This is how it first came in. Left over, can't re-use it. Here I go,first the rear as it is easier. This result gave me confidence to move to the front section Left side.

Standby by sgt.floydpepper.hh, auf Flickr