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Curiosity. Curiosity -1. This is an old low quality scan from film (but it WAS Fujifilm film so I hope Patrick won't ban me for life ). I regret that I moved the frame but I was already getting up to check if he is OK. It was a safe place and they were both good swimmers but you know. Funny thing was the younger son didn't show any reaction whatsoever as his brother fell in. Totally indifferent.

Remembering summer - Pag, Croatia. 90mm. I love this bench. When we're on our hols, I get up most days at half past five and cycle from Mandre to this bench in Tovrnele and back, that is 40km there and 40km back with about 800m altitude gain. Beautiful road. Some days I do different trips and once every holiday I ride over the Baske Ostarije pass on the Velebit mountains.

View from Isle of Pag-Lun, 90mm

+1: EVF+Eye

I clicked the link... and saw some very nice pictures !

Wow, that was fast ! ​Congratulations on your new camera and welcome. Share some pics !

Filip, there is a light bulb shining in the upper left corner. Only a tiny bit of it is in the first picture, almost a half of it is in the second, somewhat less than a half in the third. Maybe it could have played a role in this ? Also, as you moved the frame slightly, there is a change in the areas with different colours, e.g. the dark green part on the right gets much thinner in the second and third picture.

Congratulations ! I am looking forward to see pictures you will take with it, I hope you will share some. Cheers

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Well, you are right. I just tried to buy something and the same happened to me - shopping cart empty. For how many days have you been trying ? I filled in their support form (which responded that it was received alright) to describe the problem. I will let you know if they respond.

I have it from silkypix.eu, it was an upgrade from V6. What problems ? The silkypix.eu website seems to be working just fine right now, both with Chrome and with Edge. You are welcome.

+1 Beautiful pics, thanks for sharing.

I thought it would be 8 or 12, I have the 8mm too, never used it for people shots like you did in this one. Great shots, thanks for sharing.

Great ! I like this one most. 25mm ? What lens was that ?

Welcome Pierre, Young junior of 55 taking a turn at the welcoming duties here. China ? I hope you had the X-T20 with you already. Let us see some pictures ! Enjoy your retirement. Cheers George

Today I briefly had another go at "fall pictures" Take a Fuji, press a button and be amazed at what the little thing can do (at least I am).

Peter, I have been using ACDSee for DAM for ages because it is very fast. SP interface takes the same time to get used to as any other raw converter and the results are good. The film simulations are, as far as I can tell, equivalent to sooc. I have SP V8 Pro and it is fast on my machine (i5 7500, NVMe SSD), but so was the V6. I suppose the "bad rap" comes from the fact that most people have been using LR for a long time and most photographers are more artistic than technical kind of people and they find it difficult to try new things. Cheers George

Thank you. When I find some time I will make a post with some pics from our mountains. They are very different from your area. Kind Regards G.

Thanks to you sir, you share your images very generously and for a good cause, too. Makes me wonder if you are outdoors 24/7. Do you just resize when you make the smaller version or do you use different sharpening or make other changes ? My lichens are from the High Tatra mountains, this one is from 2634m altitude.

Thanks for sharing your beautiful pictures from places most of us will most likely never visit. I once looked at them from close up: I just found out I haven't got a clue what I am doing when preparing smaller versions of images for the forum: an image that looks nicely saturated and pleasantly crisp/sharp on my 4K monitor looks quite bleak and rather soft when I just checked it on my wife's laptop which has a 1920x1080 monitor.

jpg+raw while shooting with effects: good idea too. Also, I would like the camera to shoot in jpg+raw while in auto mode - you put the camera into auto mode and hand it to someone to take a picture and you forget to move the exp. comp. dial back from your previous shot or the conditions are not ideal - the raw would come in handy.

+1 Good idea. I suppose most people seldom use them, neither do I.

Curiosity Must have been some really weird creature swimming in there, the three of them rarely have a common interest

No no no, Claude, you misunderstood me completely. Quite on the contrary - look at my post again please, I said it has nothing to do with your photography. Maybe it is a language issue, I am not a native English speaker. Let me explain. I like your photos and this one sure has an interesting subject, what I don't like is the lady in charge is made to eat her meal right next to the entrance to the toilettes and it may be unpleasant for her and also for the guests of the restaurant. She should be allowed to take a break and eat her meal in privacy somewhere in the background rooms that are out of sight. Surely the restaurant or herself could sustain the loss of the small petty change caused by a short break. Just the same I wouldn't like to see a waiter or a cook eating his meal while sitting at one of the tables in the restaurant, it is not proper I think. I respect all professions performed well and I am at very good and friendly terms with waiters, cooks etc. at the restaurants I visit regularly. I like to give generous tips and I have the waiter put a drink for the cooks on my bill as often as not. But Hungary is an European country and I think the way that cleaning lady is organised is not perfect. As far as photography is concerned, I am the last one to criticise anything or anybody because I am nothing more than a humble blundering amateur without a clue who is just enjoying his own attempts at learning something about photography from the photographers who are so kind to share their photos and advice on sites like this one. No offence intended, I apologise if I posted my comment in an unclear manner. Cheers.

The welcoming duties are loosely shared so let me do it this time. Your story is not uncommon, the Fujifilm cameras have rekindled an interest in photography in many of us. Welcome and enjoy, congratulations to your new X-T20 and share your pictures ! George