milandro

Actually you can on see that if it would be in place , I am afraid that pictures of the grip alone don’t provide enough references. I haven’t found pictures of this specific grip on the camera. I will reserve my judgment on this product until I see it on a camera anything done before would be premature. CNC machines however, once they have received the proper co-ordinates, copy things pretty much exactly.

Yes, luckily my X-T1 is fine too and I hope it stays that way, yet this phenomenon concerning so many cameras has to have some form of explanation which escapes my mind. I hope that Fuji will always and everywhere honor the Guarantee even past the one or two compulsory years.

yes, https://www.acronymfinder.com ...and the same is true of how to download raw files on the desktop of your computer, yet the first post of that member was this question that he could have looked up somewhere while he asked fellow members here to help him. http://improvephotography.com/10371/how-do-i-view-a-raw-file/ I could have referring to that page, but I chose to help him, It took seconds really to tell him what to do and a little goodwill. I do the same in a supermarket when people toot short to reach something ask me to pick it up for them instead of telling them to go to look for a staff member. I am sure you would do the same. Simple courtesy. http://www.fuji-x-forum.com/topic/1619-how-do-i-get-raw-images-onto-my-computer/ On another forum where I participate there are thousands ( literally) of threads open on the same subject in some cases. Every so often a new member comes to the forum and opens, yet again, another thread on the same subject. I used to invite them to use the search function. But that comes across as condescending (I agree) and patronizing. So, I normally take time to show them a few other threads on the same subject and explain that the forum is keeping records (at great cost) exactly in order to provide a reference for future use and that opening new threads on the same subject only dilutes information even further. It might be condescending but many have thanked me for that. I could simply tell them UTSF ( Use the Search Function) ... by the way this acronym didn’t exist before I made it up. My experience is that people are nicer to each other face to face than they are sitting in their cars or at the computer.

I never advocated a Acronym police, in fact I’ve made fun of it. I don’t have the power to compel you are anyone else NOT to use acronyms. If you want to use them, then do. It is anyone’s prerogative and a matter of style like calling people who you don’t know “ dude”. Some people do that , I don’t, nor am I pleased if someone addresses me like that. I simply invited my fellow forum members to limit (not stop using them) using acronyms to a minimum, and as a matter of simple human courtesy and solidarity towards those who might felt left out because they don’t understand them. As for leaving or staying I suppose we all do as we please. I’d rather have you staying but we all make choices. If you would ever elect to find another place who am I to tell you what to do? I, on the other hand, can live with people using acronyms here or anywhere else, but if you are not able to live with people who might chose to limit the use of acronyms in order to be kind to one another, then I can’t help you. So, if you wish to use acronyms in this forum do so, if on the other hand you may be willing to consider to place courtesy above your personal comfort, please do so too. And as fur curing myself, sure I will I will make a point not to use acronyms in future, if not in a conversation where their meaning has been made clear. The reason why I chose to start this thread was simply the fact that In other conversations people were asking to clarify what wasn’t clear to them which made me think it would have been better not to put people in an uncomfortable position. I never feel comfortable reading those threads where someone asks to clarify a seemingly obvious point and they are told off for not knowing something. Yesterday I took time to answer the first post of a new member who didn’t know how to download raw files on his computer. Rather obvious really but why should I tell him off or make him feel uneasy? It takes a few minutes of my life and it might help him. In my household we speak 3 languages, when we have guests we normally adapt to the situation and speak, as a matter of courtesy, the language of the guest in order to be kind to him or her. That’s what I do. Others ignore this principle. We are all different but yes, nobody is better than any other.

it might be but as you can read a few users said that they were very happy about the nature of this thread. Ad hominem qualifications are really not a good form too. Make a point on the discussion not on the person making the point.

...or a place where people tolerate one another and use simple human courtesy as they would in a 1 to 1 conversation ( snob alarm) “ de visu”

are there any other owners yet? If there are I need asking your experience with this?

First of all why do you connect your camera to the computer with a cable? You can simply extract the SD card from the camere and put it in your card reader. The whole content of the card should show on your desktop. Try that. How old is your Mac? The standard software of your mac, PREVIEW, click here shows you the raw ( RAF) files anyway ( mine does but you might have an older version) . In order to open the files and work on them you need some software modern enough to do that. Pixelmator is a very cheap software but also the older Aperture despite having had its life halted a few months ago, works fine. Good luck!

have you though of putting a very thin O ring between camera and eyecup to make the fitting of the latter on the first a little tighter?

the forum will grow, we have lots of shy members already who only read and do not write anything.

actually this one that I’ve spoken about in this thread looks a bit nicer http://www.fuji-x-forum.com/topic/1176-fittest-mz-005-alternative-thumb’s-grip-for-x-t1/ There is nothing highly technological in a Thumb’s rest or grip however you turn it so you are not sacrificing anything if you find a cheaper one but of course you can convince yourself that a simple piece of metal can contain some high technology to warrant a 600% price difference. I don’t buy it (literally!) A salesperson in a Dutch shop told me that he could give me a serious discount on the lensmate ( still way more expensive than this one ) because their margin was very high. This probably explains the incredibly high price. Shops earn more on accessories than they do on cameras.

Maybe, DarkNJ, you mean the " lining “ of the bag? Maybe that’s the word you were looking for. I suppose, Zenmartini, that this phenomenon has something to do with the camera itself because my original eyecup ( yes it is different from the replacement on the extended eyecup and doesn’t have the “ clicking” prongs of the newer one) never came off easily and I had to pry it off when I replaced it. In fact I didn’t replace it, as others did, because I’ve lost it but because I thought it would be better. Not long ago, following one of the threads on this matters, I had to take the new “ extended” eyecup off in order to compare it with the old one to assess whether the new and the old one were, indeed, different and I had some serious problems to pull it ( or rather push it) out of the place where it resides. Perhaps, fuji improved the rails on the camera along the way somewhat? Perhaps the first batch of X-T1’s had a looser fitting which was then improved following reports that the camera were losing the eyecup? My camera is just over one year old.

if it were “ far to slow to focus” those who use then would have noticed. I didn’t.

the whole idea is not overwhelming people with things that can easily be spelled out, at least once, in a post.

yes, sorry, in the NL they send your camera to Germany for repair and it will take several weeks

the pictures can be what they are, that’s alright, we are not discussing their intrinsic qualities but their purpose in an article which aims at describing the quality of this new lens. I couldn’t assess it from those pictures, comparisons are impossible. As for not understanding the laws of physics there is no problem if one doesn’t but then one shouldn’t make comments of technical nature either. But it’s OK. Yesterday I had someone explaining me economy while it was obvious that he had never studied any. Opinions are like obscure body parts. We all have them. But they aren’t facts.

it was an invitation to be fair to those who might not understand abbreviations, I never proposed the institution of the acronym’s police just tolerance

I can see the site and the pics too ( I guess) if you mean those of the concert. Nice but hardly pictures where you can form an idea of the quality if this lens. and yes, the writer doesn’t seem to understand that the aperture value is the ratio between focal length and diameter ( to put it simply) of the aperture pupil. If you increase the focal length and leave the size of the pupil the same, the amount of light passed will be exactly reduced as the focal lens is increased.

I think that we would all be surprised if there would be anyway to compare this lens to any super wide Fuji lens if they were both shot an another camera which would not have the aid of using all the hidden correction which the processor does alter knowing which lens it is. In other words my hypothesis ( yet to be verified) is that we would see many things that we are not seeing because the software of original Fuji lenses corrects it.

I am not sure that it is so clear cut a problem ( not a pun!). And more importantly if the problem was simply in the material we would see all the cameras affected by it, but for the most part, they are not. There has to be some other factor. It can be anything really so speculating on this would only be unwarranted guessing. I would rule out an environmental factor since these freak things are happening in countries very far apart and away and with different climates. We are seeing only a minute number of cases and who knows how many non fora dwellers out there have the rubber coming off and the doors bulging but aren’t saying anything or have already paid for a repair. Fujis should, by the way, refund people who did. One thing is absolutely for sure and that is that it isn’t the user’s fault and that it should be always repaired no questions asked and fuss made even outside the one year guarantee ( this is a factory defect infringing the expectation of the useful life of the product and the reasonable expectancies about it productive life). Of course some countries take a very much more serious attitude against thing like this and there is the scope for litigation if someone would take thins seriously enough to go to court in some cases.

words of wisdom, I shall.

I would certainly find perfectly acceptable to use acronyms in a post if, the first time it is spelled out in its entirety and then, the rest of the times, it is abbreviated. None of it is compulsory but common courtesy towards those who do not have the same command of the digital photography acronyms language... or as we snobs call it: DPAL That is and always was, all I asked,

The title of the discussion that I have elected to open is “limiting the use of acronyms to a minimum” not “ getting rid of any acronym here or anywhere else “. It was a kind invitation to limit these expression because they are not of common usage and understanding. Those who use them might not be aware of the frustrating role they play for those who aren’t privy to their meaning. I would have never expected to be on the receiving hands of this many slings and arrows for inviting to “limit” oneself to a sober use of acronyms. The word acronym is not a simple one, I know.

The point is, and keeps on being, that using acronyms is bad form, using language, uncommon as it is might be, isn’t. WTF might simply mean World Taekwondo Federation

funny guy! There is a difference between a valid point and a snarky remark. Vademecum is a normal word , like pedant. Some people understand it some don’t. Depending on education.