milandro

I stand by the thought that even if you install all the new bits and bobs you can still use the camera in the simplest of the ways. After fiddling around with most new things and having found that none of the new features really interests me all that much, I went back into using the camera as I have done since I've bought it. The only addition has been the possibility to shoot with the electronic shutter when I shot something where being absolutely silent was important. There is a certain amount of Luddites among the Fuji followers. Probably I am one. I just want an old fashioned working, but modern for everything else, camera and I got it. Keep cybernetics, as much as possible in 2015, as distant as possible from my camera experience. I find any autofocus already very modern! It is working well so far and if one wants there are plenty of cheap X-Pro-1 around.

as much as I liked that kind of thing, I was thinking that even their brighter coloured skins were quite tame versions of what could be achievable, at very least as a one off, which is really what I am asking to see.

60mm macro

Let’s face it most of us like to put our own “ stamp” onto the things which we use. Give it a personal touch with something which will make our cameras feel as more a reflection our own personality and different from everyone else’s. So the “ traditional” approach has fueled a strain of small companies making straps, half or whole cases, all manners of bags, shutter release buttons, thumb grips, you name it it is there. But none of this is really radically changing the way our cameras look. Some time ago a small Japanese company, Aka-Asahi http://aki-asahi.com/store/ started offering some limited form of customization giving the possibilities to the Fuji user to change the “ skins” of their camera, Fujifilm itself responded, in the UK with a custom shop selling way overpriced and more limited options to do more or less ( quite a bit less!) the same (and keep the guarantee since the Aka-Asahi customization meant that you automatically lost all rights to any guarantee. But is this it? Did anybody do any better? Are there Steampunk Fujifilm Cameras out there? Of course I am not talking of artificially worn-out cameras ( like the ridiculous Leica-Krawitz) , or cameras with various array of gaffer tape to hide the logos ( please, I really don’t want to talk of this, again!) or even cameras sporting the logo of another brand. Is there the equivalent of the Hot-Rod camera out there emulating things like those cars pr motorbikes which come out from a good old fashioned chop-shop?

the humble 50-230mm

there are really many, mostly inexpensive, of those holsters on the market, in all sorts of materials and colors, from conspicuous to relatively inconspicuous. Personally, even if you are going around with the sole body and zoom, there are very good things to be said about small bags ( I prefer real leather for example ). You may have an holster ( many types really) with a belt on the hip and inside a camera with only a wrist strap. I don’t generally like wrist straps to carry cameras all the time but in this configuration I can understand its use and comfort. I also don’t like to carry an unprotected camera around as some folks do with their across the chest slings or spider holsters. If I were to carry a camera like that I would prefer something closed and then a wrist strap inside or one of those straps which go as a sort of glove around your hand.

The new version of the “ Ever ready case “ which in the past was called the “ Never ready case” ( when it was provided as standard with all cameras and almost no one ever used them) This is one of the so many Chinese PU covers ( made of very thin leather on a synthetic material), there are identical but cheaper ones too around. (If you look on Aliexpress you will find hundreds and if you buy one for less than €20, including shipment, you won’t pay any customs when it gets to you in Italy) Yes, the top certainly can be removed and then you will be standing there with this thing in your hands not knowing where to put it while you are supposed to be shooting. Also the lower part of the case arrangement offers NO access to batteries or card, while offering only a minimum of impact protection. If you must have some for of protection for your camera with one lens alone, you are probably better off with some for of “ holster” hanging off a strap or if you prefer (I don’t) on the side somehow (there are many solutions). Take a look at this LINK ( click on the L) amazon of course at the bottom of this specific product there are many more alternatives. The holster ( you can have it hanging off the neck or the side) makes you keep the camera body in it and you extract it to shoot ( you can practice being your “ drawing”, the fastest in Tuscany! ), then you put it back in there after using..

The lensmate ( not Fuji) Thumb grip is very expensive, I don’t think that that is disputable. Wether TOO expensive is a matter of personal choice. As for the camera grip. There are many aftermarket alternatives. To each his own.

also because It doesn’t have a vertical slide making it a lot less versatile

Anyway, amateur or not, we are all members of this community. You made your point clear and who knows, maybe Fuji is listening, or maybe not! This, to member Kwyiibo vd Kamp, so important “ improvement”, the possibility to be able to add ( shot for shot because adapted lens and camera don’t and can’t and will never be able to communicate these things to the camera) the aperture value is and will probably stay in the world of fantasy ever after. Since, conceivably, one would have to do this manually ( because there is no way to make all adapter's makers to reach a license agreement involving electric contacts with Fuji who, and rightly so, probably isn’t very charmed by the use of adapted lenses in the first place) why don’t you simply write it down ( probably faster than doing this one by one for each shot) and then add it to the “ info” if you really think it is needed? Now, getting back from the world of fantasy to the world of reality. Why would the the XE-2 need an update ( the title of the thread)?

the cleaning liquid that I have recommended is specially made for optics and doesn’t damage the coatings. It s not just any liquid. But in this like in anything else there are many churches and staunch convictions. One thing is for sure clean only if absolutely needed ANY rubbing is potentially damaging. Most importantly, even if what you are using might be soft... it might have caught something small but very hard on its surface, before you know, you are scratching your lens instead of cleaning it.

well, if you are happy

I am not sure that the wipes used for glasses are always ok ( especially because there is hardly any way to know what’s in that!). I have used this for years http://www.spraywayinc.com/content/graphic-arts-glass-cleaner The lens pen ( the original, copies don’t have the carbon product ) a very good way to deal with this and it is reasonably safe although the least you clean a lens the better it is.

Having some idea of how the mind of marketeers work, I would concur that the 35mm f2, based on its retro look, will be probably introduced with the first camera to arrive on the market with a similar retro look. If that would be ( as it might realistically be) the X Pro 2 ( although logic would have suggested a shorter focal length, to match the wishes , if not the needs, of most so called modern “ street photographers” ) Fuji only can tell. I don’t think that the unveiling of the X Pro 2 will happen any earlier than the Photokina 2016.

There is no doubt (in my mind) that using any adapted lens ( also considering the inherent constructive problems mentioned in the other thread about the quality of adapted analog lenses in digital photography) implies at least a certain degree of contradiction and the only thing that really justifies it is the fun factor ( I know, I know....: “ Got a problem with adaptive photography? I like it....!” ) http://www.fuji-x-forum.com/topic/743-just-how-well-do-adapted-lenses-originally-meant-for-film-work-on-digital-cameras/ It is a bit like using a modern supercar but putting old ‘50 tires to feel what it was like driving with a yesteryear supercar. You will get a different , though perhaps uncomfortable and dangerous, while certainly “ interesting “ ride but it won’t be a yesteryear car experience anyway. But I digress. So the ultimate in this quest for contradiction ( in the name of an interesting effect) has to be using the most retro of the modern lenses available ( available at a pretty penny!) to us, the Petzval! Lomographers resurrected the lens from oblivion and it has been with us for quite some time. What are your experiences, if any, with this lens combined to a modern Fuji camera?

I am sure someone published something of your interest among all these articles http://www.scoop.it/t/fujifilm-x-pro1-x-e1-x100s?q=90mm

I often read and see examples of this adaptations done by the many followers of this trend and I have done some adaptive photography myself. I wasn’t particularly struck by the quality and practical use of it so I sort of gave it up although I might do some more in future. Obviously one cane take pictures with adapted lenses as many do but I was wondering if there was some inherent problem in doing so. It turns out there is. According to Mr. Takashi Ueno in his interview given to the Fujifilm Blog he says the following: http://fujifilm-blog.com/2015/06/30/interview-with-mr-takashi-ueno-from-fujifilm-tokyo-why-dont-fujifilm-make-full-frame-dslr/ “...Firstly, the angle of light that film and imaging sensors can receive differ from each other. Film can receive light at the slanted angle of up to 45 degrees without any problem, but in case of the digital camera, the light needs to be as perpendicular to the sensor as possible. Slanted angle light causes mixed colors and therefore the real colors sometimes cannot be reproduced. In order to receive the light perpendicular to the sensor, it is important to make the rear glass element on each lens as big as possible to put the light beams parallel from the outlet of the light to the sensor. Finally, the back-focus distance should be shortened as much as possible to eliminate the degradation in image quality..."

get yourself a L bracket with grip

David, I too discussed the SX2 above and even said that I would like it...

why are you arguing? I just made a reflection. Apply what you are saying to me to yourself and ignore my reflection. I never told you what to do and i would appreciate if you would do the same.

for all the rest

short of having a crystal ball, as for the majority of the all too popular guesses and “ rumors” which started this forum after all, we will only know it when we get there. I’ve never been a part of a community more prone to discuss things that aren’t there and that, in some case, will never be there.

there is indeed a place in the market for WR camera with a fixed zoom for all those who have limited specific requirements covered by an all purpose zoom lens. People that are going to go through dusty places on earth while on holiday, but this will be falling into the most dangerous category of a camera made for a niche market which can so easily fall flat on its face loosing lots of money while Fuji is doing so well doing what they are doing.

The fact that you cannot use your spectacles doesn’t surprise me in the least (although I occasionally do) since using glasses with a eyecup designed to follow the contour of the naked eye would be strange at the very least ! The camera has a dioptric correction after all but perhaps your kind of problem for which you need glasses exceeds the power of the correction. Never mind, sell your long eyecup (there will be plenty of people who would want to buy it) and either use the original one or go for one of the so many universal eyecups. Good luck! Mazel Tov!

If fuji were to provide us with a camera with a much more extended zoom than the X-30 this would be a very serious temptation!