milandro

A lens lacking of dynamic range? I think that something is askew in the use of terminology here... if you talk contrast ( and the picture above shows plenty of that and range to match) this could be but it doesn’t seem to be the case so it is either your lens, or, I suspect, the way you have set up the camera. Maybe reading the manual, albeit once again or for the first time, in order to set the camera properly up, once and for all, would help.

proficiat!

Alright, you are the photographer who has everything and you like to shoot wildlife, your wife wants to buy you some new gadget what could she buy you? ......... This! Is the camera water-resistant?

There will always be a newer camera somewhere at the horizon. I would simply wait and see what happens just after the introduction of the X Pro 2 and this supposedly new camera the X-E2S. Maybe this will bring down the prices somewhat but, why not buying the X-T10 now and then if and when you will feel the need to buy a “ better “ camera ( Do you really need the weather resistance which would fail anyway if one of the doors is warped?) later on. You will use the same lenses and make experience, while enjoying the system. Good luck.

you are not the first to bump into this, there was someone else who reported something similar on a different lens. Can’t find it anymore but his example was a lot more “ clear” than yours. The thing is that most filters only have anti reflections treatment on the outside, facing light, not on the inside. Short of blackening the lettering somehow with a felt pen or a pencil ( a very crude solution) or indeed covering it with some adhesive velvet cut to size ( I would do this) I really don’t know how you would avoid this. Which filter was this? The picture doesn’t seem to need having a filter at all. If it is a clear filter just sto using it, most of the times they will only create problems rather than offering the dubious protection which most believe the are giving.

So the suspicions that I had are going to be true. The improvements will be simply a firmware for the X-E2S to match (or actually, more likely, have slightly less) than the X-T10 ALREADY has? This is a paid upgrade! How about the, at long last and only reluctantly released and after such a long time, promised upgrade of the older X-E2 (non S). Would Fuji give the forgotten and vituperated X-E2 owners as much as the X-E2S has or not? Will they leave them marooned? Probably. Amazing! If this is the case are foresee riots among the X-E2 owners. Will the X-E2S cost more than the X-T10 ( which has in its software, for example, 52 preset modes which not even the X-T1 has) ? If that’s the case, does Fuji expect people to pay more in order to have the X-E2S look? Amazing! Patrick, you know what people in Italy will say? : “ ...E che Kaizen!!” To all X-E2 owners after waiting such a long time, here you are, Happy new 2016! It means that net year we will be older, wiser & sadder! Once again disappointed by people whom we trusted too much.

well, it’s never nice to see something like that happen but I couldn’t help thinking : “ I told you so!"

Well, Metz makes flashes and the new company which arose from the ashes of the old one needs new markets and customers, but like everything else rumors are often wrong. I personally take these things wit a rock of salt. I just gave the sequence of events since OP didn’t seem to know that it wasn’t so that things had gone “ silent” but the Metz company had been through a serious series of events.

well, I wouldn’t go that far. But since I am convinced that variety is the spice of life I welcome customization. We are all different, we are differently built, have different level and types of education, live in different countries, have a different appearance, have different creeds and political affiliations and wear different clothes. Some people enjoy looking like everyone else, some even like wearing uniforms. Some don’t. I don’t wear an uniform in my everyday life and try my best to look good and different from other people (I might miserably fail but I do my best) taking pride and pleasure in my appearance. Similarly, I have chosen a car ( cheap, so, not a status symbol) in a colour ( Lime Green) which stood out, and when I bought it and still ( although there are many more now) turned heads ( although some might have turned the other way in disgust). I don’t mind that! I am not looking for approval. Having cars in different colours has been for many years the most basic way to customize an object which in its primeval life came out mostly in black only. It was Henry Ford , whose political creed and dangerous and questionable friendship was very much hush hush after WWII ( see the decoration that he received the day of his 75th birthday in 1938 and who gave it to him! ) , who said that a customer could have a car painted any colour he liked, as long as it was black. Now that is precisely the reason why I would take some distance from that level of uniformity, clearly a way of thinking about life that is most definitely not mine, as believed from people like him whom I intensely despise.

I think that you might have missed a few chapters of the saga, let me summarize it to you. Metz filed for insolvency and went into receivership in November 2015. That’s why it all went quiet! Not Fuji’s fault. http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2014/11/19/metz-files-for-insolvency-administrator-says-that-production-and-support-wi They were trying to get the TV company away from the Flash company and it looks like they did solve this problem in April 2015 by selling the two companies to two different buyers. http://www.acxit.com/en/metz-future-is-secured/ Now the flash division belongs to DAUM a German electronics company. November 2015 FR published this on the future Metz flashes with Fuji http://www.fujirumors.com/coming-soon-fuji-x-series-compatible-version-of-its-metz-44-af-1-flash-with-on-camera-ttl-capability-new-source/ Which appears to say that the release is imminent.

yesterday I was shopping in a shopping mall, and it was, as it is to be expected with the shopping these days, rather crowded, a young hipster with one of these slings and his camera casually hanging on the side, walked into a pair of “ legs” on a pillar, displaying tights. He bumped into them with his shoulder, the tights' display moved and he turned rapidly to catch it, smashing, with force, the rather long lens on the base of the pillar. I had to think of this thread. In case you ask yourself which camera was it, it was a Nikon.

this is the work of Aki Asahi http://www.aki-asahi.com/store/ They might do the work for you, but it is very expensive and risky to ship and insure, cameras ( besides the problem is always to convince the tax office of your country that the camera that you are receiving was yours in the first place and was only temporarily exported for repairs!) and they normally only provide the cut skins and instructions for you to replace it yourself. As you can see from the video it is not too difficult but it does require a minimum of precision working. WARNING! Be advised that removing the camera skin voids your guarantee but for most cameras that is already done and dusted. Fuji UK does something similar at great expense if you compare the price but their work doesn’t void the guarantee ( X Pro 1 = £149 + shipping X-E2 = £129 + shipping ) http://microsite.fuji-server.com/signature/

Nice! This level of custom finishing is unfortunately unpractical and due to their inherent conservatism most customers have disappointed Fuji when they came with red or blue cameras. I would love to have the leatherette of my camera updated but Asahi has never made a X-T1 version of his skins, go figure why!? @https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsonkm0kEQ4

Dust, if you are not going to change lens will be a minor problem but a problem nonetheless. A sandstorm is not something that anyone would want to expose his camera to. There is a possibility to use a Ewa marine protection or even a proper scuba case like the inexpensive Meikon 40 M but it is VERY bulky and not too many lens fit the case. But it is really a good protection and for not too much money. http://nl.aliexpress.com/store/product/Meikon-40M-130ft-Waterproof-Underwater-Housing-Case-For-Fujifilm-Fuji-X-T1-XT1-Camera-DSLR-Diving/731216_32356774842.html?storeId=731216

That, given its shape, which is especially made and thought to make the camera be used without glasses, so that it would prevent parassite light from outside, the long eyecup is best used without glasses using the outstanding dioptric correction built in the camera but, if you must, you could use it with spectacles too. If, for some reason that I might not understand, the built in dioptric correction is NOT enough you can use it with glasses but its precise purpose, would be lost. In that case you can save the money, methinks!

exactly! But it wasn’t there before., so, it’s new for....Fuji(film) 2016...

you realize that ‘ endless cycle that will not end “ is a tautology?

hardly, but some innovation is not necessarily well thought, the history of the automotive industry is full of innovations which weren’t, with hindsight, a good idea, after all, but we shall see.

No, few days ago has been discounted €100

Wichever system it uses there has to be one (more or less cumbersome) way to engage one of the 2 functions while disengaging the other. Whatever it is, logic has it that, it won’t be as easy as having two different dials doing two different things.

Not is serious troubles, but Fuji, like any other brand, are just being exposed to the serious pressure placed by the “ public opinion” on the internet. Vociferous customers ( or are they?) on line demanding new software, new features, more and more, quicker and quicker. People stating publicly that if button or function so and so, or the looks of the camera, is not pleasing them, that they will divorce their affiliation to the ................ system ( fill the dotted line with any name you please). Also expectations are running very high among fuji customers. Kaizen must have seemed a great idea to the Fuji marketing department when they introduced it, little did they know that this, from then on, would create precedents, expectations and disappointment when the expectations wouldn’t be met.

whichever way it goes is inconvenient and I don’t see how there would be a software duplicate of an hardware function, this dial will be something to improve on the X pro 2 -S version

several hardware changes, different software based features and the electronic shutter http://www.fujivsfuji.com/x100t-vs-x100s-vs-x100/

There has to be some difference between the X-E2 and the X-E2S, it cannot be only the software pre installed on the S and the same software to be installed after downloading it, nobody in his right mid would accept to pay a premium ( because I think that the X-E2S will be more expensive than the still available X-E2, now, finally reduced at a price lower than the X-T10 ) for the letter S! I am not privy to Mr. Fuji thoughts on this or anything else, but there would have to be differences big enough to make people buy the S version. Of course if all the S will bring is the same features of the X-T10 they will find themselves in the same pickle which they put themselves in if they would attempt to price it higher than the X-T10. Despite the fact that some people (and that includes me) would prefer a camera without the hump and with the retro look of the X-E series, they would find very difficult indeed to convince large numbers of buyers to buy that “ look” if the performance is the same as the X-T10 but the price is higher. Throughout the run of the two cameras together they have sold (in the NL) next to nothing in terms of older X-E2 as soon as the X-T10 made its appearance at the same price, €699, now they have discounted the older bodies of the X-E2 to €599 and are still not selling them ( people are, like me, playing the waiting game). Something tells me that that S has a meaning that is not special and that indeed the S might be the difference. Could that be a SHUTTER difference? Welcome to the world of speculations . Feel free to stop reading right now because all it follows is a reflection born in the deep meanders of my mind. If the older X-E2 gets no electronic shutter and the new one does... then the pricing policy and the name would be understandable. XE-2, facelift without silent shutter , priced less than the X-T10, X-E2S featuring the same (or more?) as (than) the X-T10 and be priced accordingly ( the same as or more than the X-T10). This, I think, won’t be taken kindly from the X-E2 owners who had been waiting a long time for the mountain to give birth to this mouse. If this is the case we are bound to see many disappointed X-E2 owners. Again, all of this is nothing but speculations, I have nothing to base this upon. Just trying to deduce things from the very little amount of scattered clues. I am waiting to see what will happen. I would like a X-E2 but I want one at a considerably lower price than I can find a X-T10, otherwise I’d buy one of those, new or secondhand. Another thought. If the difference is only the shutter, this is a difference they had to remove from the firmware. In that case this opens the possibility to hackers to doctor the X-E2S firmware and make it suitable to give the S to the defrauded X-E2 update. Just a thought.

they were, these dials , as others have said, a common feature in camera of the or ’70 of last century, but changing ISO ( back then it was still ASA and sometimes ASA/ DIN) sensitivity had a completely different function. You set it at the beginning of a film and for 36 shots you left it there and often one would use another film with the same sensitivity after finishing one and going to the next. In digital world I often adapt the sensitivity while shooting, so one is way more likely to fiddle with these dial that one ever did in those cameras. Because of the nature of this electro-mechanical devise, operating this often might reveal itself to be prone to malfunctioning, but we know nothing about this problems and we’ll cross that bridge if and when we get there.