milandro

They are pictures of people looking in the camera. Thanks to model, the time place and the eye of Erez.

No, thanks to Erez. A spot of envy?

Well, you are obviously right Johan, but a lot of people go by the wrong idea that “ bigger is better”. I remember many years ago, most clients, at that time they were often completely digital-analfabet ( as in unaware of the digital world), often asked work to be delivered in the maximum possible resolution even if they only were going to print it much smaller that it could or even simply use files for the, back then, internet which was in its infancy. I am talking of around 1999, the period where digital cameras were unable to provide pictures with a very high pixel count the Nikon D1 had only 2.7 MP A customer of mine, an advertising agency, asked me to shoot a picture of their building in 4" x 5”, scan it high resolution with a pro scanner ( Imacon) and then they only published a minute picture on their site. What a waste of energy, time (mine) and money! (theirs) When I see the kind of things that some folks are shooting ( some even here on FR !) and the probable fact that they are never going to print anything... and if and when they do, the prints will be very small compared to the already huge file size, I wonder whether people reflect upon what the pint of a bigger file would be. I just wonder whether they realize that it is not the size of the file that counts, but what you put on it! Shoot perhaps smaller but better pictures... if one can!

this is not a camera accessory but a fashion accessory which is bound to cost way more than the camera ones ( wow, beating cameras at their own game! ) Dolce & Gabbana have thought of bags, in the shape of cameras! Fuji D&G in the future?

indeed, there is no literature or test to substantiate an inherent sharpness difference from one 56mm over the other. Again, in my mind, the only way to level the playing field is to shoot only with in-camera raw conversion and compare. If the image ending with 5 is converted by the camera I would seriously consider returning this copy.

Well, yes, undeniably your shot with the Canon 85mm is very much sharper than the other two. Why that is remains to be ascertained. It could be a matter of Lightroom conversion, which would immediately demand to see whether the same can be observed with an in-camera conversion. If the incamera conversion shows the same results, then this is not a software problem but an hardware one.

Thanks for sharing experiences. The adapted lens touching the lens turbo element should be only an issue with some wideangles and not all manners of lenses. Also, wideangles with a not very light efficient design shouldn’t protrude inside the lens turbo. Anyway, I have a problem with this thread. I am still waiting to see real world pictures contributed by FR forum members to benefit and inform other forum members. I would much prefer that kind of contribution to some shameless “ plugs” promoting sites or blogs outside FR to increase traffic there instead of sharing things here! If one comes here, one should contribute pictures and content here, it is not ok to use FR rumors as a trampoline to launch topics and divert traffic onto other sites unless indispensable ( when quoting content that one doesn’t own). So, please, share pictures (preferably with and without) to show us what these things do.

as I said a sum of local factors, exchange rate and in some countries also changes due to taxation. Norway for example has put up VAT. This member reports a price increase at his end at the exact date of 1st January, which won’t be working well with increasing sales to meet targets, wherever that is. http://www.fuji-x-forum.com/topic/1984-price-increases-jan-1st-2016/ But in other countries shops haven’t changed prices. So, Amazon.de has now higher prices than any shop in the NL for the X-E2 (€599) or the X-T10 ( €675) ... all the shops in the NL have the exact same price , by chance at the same time not a concerted effect, just pure chance.

Funny you should say so, someone else argued that they, at Fuji, have to sell at discounted prices now and in the months to come to meet future end of financial year term targets and that would explain special offers while you are now saying the opposite. Higher prices! Variety and perception! Prices are depending on many things and especially on the location of the buyer, fluctuation in the currency exchange rate might account for things like that but also taxation (VAT, for example, in some European countries this might have changed on 1st of January) Norway, should increase its lowest tariff of VAT in Europe from 8% to 10%. In the NL we’ve seen the Fuji prices decreasing on at least two cameras: the X-T10 and the X-E2, of course we will see more of that following the introduction of new models later on in the January month.

this countdown clock for all those who count every second to the presumed release date of X-pro-2 and X-E2S... http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20160114T08&p0=248&font=cursive

On a side note, this is one of the many lenses which we have been told were bought new ( I did buy one too, a 10-24mm) and we know that the lens had solid particles within, between the lenses. I really don’t understand how this happens in a new lens just out of an unopened package!

yes yours was the other example that I was referring to before

Despite the 56 being indeed a big lens ( which was, together with the price tag one of the reasons why I went for the 60mm) I don’t think that the lens is heavier than the camera can physically support ( If that were the case, can you imagine what would happen with the 100-400?). I think that it is a malfunction which could depend upon the aperture ring outside being out of alinement with the contacts inside, and this suspicion would be corroborated by other thing wiggling or not being alined. Unless the camera and or the lens have received some trauma, this could be even something cause by the lab not closing the lens properly after servicing.

you are very full of yourself sir

I have been involved in international trade for over two decades, and I understand the relationship in an holding. Fuji UK has a lot more autonomy than other companies within the holding.

Fuji has local divisions, all separate companies in a holding structure, the Japanese parent company has different pricing and different policies around the world. See, in particular Fuji UK which has constantly a different policy on pricing and cash-backs. https://www.fujifilm.eu/nl/over-ons/fujifilm-nederland

the fiscal year in the NL ends 31 December. Different countries, different rules. This is not the reason of the discounts in the NL. Fuji has a weird policy of price uniformity though. As by magic in the whole of the country the prices change within a week to the same level everywhere. They say this happens by chance but it really looks like there are agreements on price (If that would be the case it would not be kosher ).

The stock of older X-E2 is being replenished in the shops as we speak ( while they were out of stock for some time) at the lowered price ( for now) of €599 ( which it had been €699 throughout the first run of the X-T10) the funny thing is that they started discounting also the X-T10 ( now €675) which makes me think that Fuji is at least for a short while, offering all manners of discounted cameras. In a few days they will have: X-E1 ( now offered at various slashed down prices) X-E2 (for now at €599) X-Pro-1 ( for now body at €599 and in a kit with 18mm and 27mm at €899). Meanwhile, following the release of the rumors about the X-E2S going to take the place of the now “ older" model, the first wave of secondhand X-E2’s offered for sale has started hitting the market ( until a week ago there was only one or two on the main classified ad of the country). Prices vary but a secondhand X-E2 might establish itself around €275-300 I expect prices to tumble down even more if the long awaited firmware update will be less than fulfilling the expectations of the X-E2 owners.

That is quite some time after the early ’70 when I started first shooting pictures for myself and then went to work as a studio assistant while studying. My first black camera was a Petax ES which I used at the studio where I worked. I also bought the first camera ever with LED inside Yashica Electro X ITS, which existed both in silver and black. Mine was black. Very fetching. Back then the majority of the professional cameras where still produced in silver and black and much later you had cameras which were only made in black. Indeed there was this idea that “ black” was a pro color. I remember well that that affected anything among other things the “walkman” cassette recorder. There were “ pro” black models of that too, but it wasn’t really clear to me which pro-fession was there which needed a device mostly targeted at listening to music while skating. Same thing for the Pro-Ghetto blaster!

cheers, I prefer to do that with software

Yes, I am very aware of that! I have been just adding my Hama Omega Pro L26 ( made by Berlebach) to the classified ads of the forum

sad, language matters.

NO, Fuji makes, real cameras for real people

That man must have started later than me, When I started taking pictures there were only a couple of cameras in black, one was my Pentax ES. Jeans came only in blue en weren’t sold in normal shops were other clothes were sold. Panta Rehi os potamos. Everything flows and changes, nothing stays still.

the guy in the pic above is probably wet too....