milandro

Tripods are essentials unless you never shoot anything in the dark. Besides they also allow you to shoot from positions that would be rather awkward. A fat, oldish and bald man doesn’t look nice while laying flat on the floor trying to get a frog-eye shot.

I would use three of the lenses that I have the 10-24mm, the 35mm AND take the 50-230mm ( just in case), I also own the 60mm ( which wouldn’t be, strictly speaking, necessary but nice) and the 8mm 2.8 samyang (which I would take unless traveling light would be of the essence). You need a tripod, even just a gorilla pod.

Few people ever gather the necessary know how to produce the optimum results when printing anything above and beyond the capabilities of their home printers. Only few people, after all, own the expensive systems allowing for very large prints. So, if one is using a printing service, it is worth asking them what kind of adjustments would be best being applied and the level of adjustment which they might be routinely be making (and in that case avoid performing potentially damaging operations twice). They generally have these descriptions on line ( this is the first one I’ve found and simply explanatory of what I mean by instructions). http://www.fineprintimaging.com/print_services/photo_prints/preparing_your_files.htm

I think this is a questions with many answers and the possibility of interpreting things is a different way. Much also depends of the printer that you will be using too. Perhaps this link will help you make up you mind about the output quality and the size that you want to print, the calculator is rather easy to use but the way you interpreter its criteria might not be univocal. https://photographyicon.com/enlarge/ As you can easily understand, much depends on the definition of “ maximum achievable print quality” that you will be choosing to work with. Although some folks would immediately go for the maximum possible printing resolution (therefore achieving a comparatively small print size), you will quickly find that the difference with lesser printing resolutions (producing larger prints) will be, to some extent, compensated by the fact that large prints are viewed from afar rather than from close-by and that this will still render an acceptable quality picture to the viewer at that distance rather than one viewed at the same distance where a smaller print would be viewed.

Cheers @Newsphoto! Yes I am waiting for the building to be finished ( won’t take long) and have another go at the area, including the back of the central station in Amsterdam ( which has been worked on forever in the last 25 years!). The 10-24mm is an essential tool for an architectural reportage.

they have a smaller one but not with a laptop compartment (I think?)

Cheers Pez, you shed some light on an aspect that we should have considered and that is that, for all we knew, you might have intentionally “ posterized” the pic. Enough of that! Going back to your original comment, you say you use a ring-light on your 60mm? I suppose it is one of these LED affairs? I see some really cheap ones on line and in particular found the review of one which was $35 ( secondhand?) @https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj3e8qiIJso I have a question on the 60mm use of something like that. Could you share some more information of your experience with these ringlights? How does this work on the 60mm? Are you attaching it to the outside on on the filter mount? Could you share some more pics with the 60mm/ringlight ?

A weather resistant body is paramount when shooting in places where conditions might not allow a non WR to work ( rain forest or desert). In conditions like this would never risk sensor dirt by changing lenses and the WR lens would never leave the WR body. Having one body alone would be suicidal in places where there are no shops to repair your cameras.

A new X-E2 cost exactly the same (In my neck of the woods) as the X-T10. The XE-2 might get an update in several months ( but they haven’t told us which update it would be!) I certainly stick to the X-T10 ( the camera of of the future) rather than hang on the the camera of the past.

Con gratulations! You are my first entry on this forum’s ignore list. Please return the favor. May our paths never cross again. Farewell.

now can we move on?

you do indeed

jocularity and well meant positive sarcasm are good things, but I didn’t see any in your comment

I also own the paper version of the manual of the X-E1 and the X-10. I like to see the manual of the NEW X-T1 when they will be delivered After the new firmware. I am sure that they will provide a new manual. I will be looking for a way to acquire one sometime down the line

Well, then perhaps it is useful to clarify that in the Oxford dictionary the word hyperbole means: hyperbole |hīˈpərbəlē| noun exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

either way your comment offered no positive suggestion whatsoever and I read it as a negative and sarcastic remark. The Weight of a file is a synonym of its size.

Unless our friend Pez is severely optically challenged, which would be a problem being a photographer, I suppose he did notice that what he published was not at the best possible resolution but maybe and simply didn’t know how to make it look better or made a mistake that he would correct himself ? After all he is watching the picture that he published, wouldn’t you think so? Perhaps some directions on how to reduce the “ weight” of the image by resizing it while keeping it within the constrictions of the forum interface would be of more use to our friend Pez rather than simply pointing out the lack of resolution resulting in the image that he published by mistake or sheer lack of forum experience? I am sure Maurice, that you will oblige and share your superior knowledge to the benefit and betterment of our friend Pez, who, I am sure, will be very much more grateful to you for THAT rather than for simply pointing out what he already could see himself. Pez, thank you for sharing your picture!

I wrote something jocular and ironic. Despite the abundant use of emoji or emoticons I suppose that must have been lost in translation. I don’t want an on line manual. I don’t use internet on the go and my impression is that, on the spot, when you need it, most people of my age ( which make up for the majority of the Fuji customers, methinks) won’t do that either. Despite what many younger people might think, most folks in and around the world use their telephones mostly to phone. I certainly don’t want to look up how to do (e.g.) bracketing on my not-so-smart-phone when I need to do it. I’d rather have a paper booklet. I don’t download music, I buy CD’s. I love to own a physical object and never enjoy things in their sole digital form (come to think of it, digital imagery is the only thing that I mostly handle in numeric form)

Indeed Sir , but as I wrote, even in case Fuji might be listening to my suggestion and provide those who, like me, want an up to date manual featuring all the new features that are not present in the older one, albeit merely for those who lack the qualities which allow you to do without such a poor mnemonical prosthesis, like a manual printed on good old fashioned paper, those like you who prefer ignoring reading such a poor instrument might equally be able to do so while those who would like one would be able to quench their thirst and be provided for their “ special needs" with one. I understand that you want camera and any other technical equipment makers to be able to upload the instructions directly to your brain ? ( ".... . Instead of complaining manufacturers should think hard how they can help users better than with manuals as they are right now....” ) and in that case I wonder where the socket to plug-in the communication might be located, although I do fear a certain natural location for it ( ). (Un)fortunately we are not yet there! I suppose that one day, far, far away we will! When robots will do anything FOR us and/ or when humans will be Cyborg-ized by means of installing a micro-computer interfaced directly with our brains ( in that case will no longer need cameras because we will simply think of the images that we want to make and our brains will directly send the mental picture to anyone interested or not... but I digress! ). I am afraid though that I may never live to see these wondrous things! Meanwhile, for those of us who DO NEED a manual, which you obviously don’t need , well, it will be nice to have one!

I am sure you know the acronym RTFM? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM This was created by years and years of questions originated by “problems” which find their origin in the fact that one either has never read the manual or has forgotten what the manual said about one particular thing. Being the cameras what they are nowadays I doubt that anyone could have an intuitive knowledge of all their features let alone being able to to remember what was updated by subsequent versions of the firmware often producing improvements to features which one might have never used in the first place! Anyway. A new and improved version of the manual would give the people whom prefer disregarding the manual the possibility to disregard reading ( or buying) the new version too while giving the people whom seem to find the need of knowing what they are doing before they do it, the possibility to do so. A win win situation!

Beautiful shots. Couldn’t tell whether these were shots made on location or not. A lot of macro photography is done in the field but much of it, is a studio reconstruction ( especially in filming) to minimize the unpredictability of the situation.

I don’t know about you, but I carry the camera manual with me in the camera bag. I consider it an essential “ accessory” that I would never go anywhere without. There are many functions of the camera that I only ever use occasionally and which require being occasionally looked up in the manual. True there are digital versions of the manual but, for me, nothing can replace a good old booklet which will be at hand every time I don’t know something. Now that my X-T1 is about to get yet another major update of its functions I wonder whether a new version of the manual would be needed. Even providing a downloadable pdf version wouldn’t replace the ease and comfort of the booklet. I don’t even want it for free and I would pay a reasonable amount of money for it.

If I were to undertake such a trip I would first of all have at least two bodies with me, so, maybe there will be the need for both the X-T1 AND the X-T10! On the X-T1 I would put ( and leave there without ever changing the lens to render the possibility of dust on the sensor as remote as possible) a weather sealed 18-135 and use it for 90% of the shots while on the road. Dust, wind and rain won’t be of any concern with this camera and lens. The X-10 will come out its Pelikan case ( a must if you really are going through humid or dusty environment and don’t forget the silica gel ) when I want to do something that is not putting my camera at the real risk to be damaged for the rest of the trip and for which I need a lens offering some special features that the zoom isn’t providing. 12, 35 and 56 are a good idea but there might be many more possibilities all depending on what you intend to shoot. I don’t normally use long lenses and at the moment the choice is rather poor in this department but if you need a long lens I’d rather take the cheap, light and longer 50-230 despite being not as light efficient you will find that the lens performs very well indeed. You need a tripod for all manners of shots.

so illuminating on character en demeanor traits of each to see so many more intelligent folks pointing out how much more intelligent they are than I am.

I have shot film, developed and printed black and white and occasionally color and cibachrome since I was a teen ager. I was pretty good at it even though I never had a fetish for the process in itself. It was a necessity and I did it the best possible way but I never really enjoyed the long hours in the darkroom. I often chose to work with baryta paper, although the process was way lengthier and open to problems, and I did this simply because the quality was way better that any RC paper. I was once hired by another photographer to simply dry all his art prints because I did this better than others who simply didn’t know anymore how to do this properly. I have been trained and then I have trained many people in the use of large format cameras and I’ve worked with formats up to 8” x 10” negatives and even took a workshop on the 50 x 60 cm Polaroid camera. So, it is not like I don’t know the medium. Yet, at my no longer so green age, I don’t need to do that anymore. I’ve been there and done that many, many times. If one desires doing it, be my guest, do it. I understand that the process, in itself, has it charms, but I was always more interested in producing images than I was in the way I did that and photography was only the medium that I used and my profession for many years, but in the end I am an images maker. I could have chosen a different form of art too ( I am an amateur musician too and an amateur cook). I do not identify with the photographic process, I identify with the results. The images that I make, being art of simply the application of my skills for the purpose of my profession. There are many ways to get to Rome. None is better than any other. You can walk, run or hop from here to there but all it matters is to get there. The way you do it might be important for its Zen qualities, but in the end the images that you make is all that counts. I often see folks proudly displaying images which were made by complex and lengthy processes but which, on their own merits, have nothing more or nothing less than a picture digitally made and or digitally processed. That is complication for the sake of complication. Those images done that way don’t seem to have a specific purpose other than showing a certain kind of skill ( which has not too much to do with art if all it produces is not “ sui generis” but something that can be done in any other way). Skill is a craft, creating beauty is art. If you show the world that you can play guitar with one hand tied behind your back this will be impressive to look at but in the end if your audience contains a blind person he will only ever hear what you sound like. Showing off your skill with one hand will be completely lost on him.