milandro

I couldn’t help finding the idea that you were going to try this “ tonight”... very funny I wonder why!

exactly! I was going to say the same and really, if a new section would be needed this would have to be a pretty radical departure from what we have at the moment

I suppose it depends on the way you have posted this picture. Apparently you have put it in the gallery here. You can also link it to an outside hosting site, as many do, or reduce it in size ( 500Kb max) and attach it to your post. I can repost it I think, with a link to your post using the advanced editor functions where I simply get the address of the picture that you have put in your gallery, copy the link and paste it into the Icon which shows as a polaroid picture. Voilà. ( click on it and the pic gets even bigger)

the only stars I might be shooting aren’t in the night sky. as for this lens being “ large and heavy” has anyone seen the 10-24 by Nikon? I am a big boy anyway! I don’t mind its size.

I still use it, but I am a dinosaur, I know.

except that the link is “ dead”

sometimes I wonder why do they even bother to put an aperture in lenses these days since there is helluva lot of folks out there who never stop the lens down

actually , this rumor could be used as a think tank . Among all our wild guesses there must be some good and pursuable idea (not mine!)

Sorry you wrote monochrom(e) don’t you pheraps mean monoton(e)?

Rangefinder with a lens 20-250mm f 1.4 at less than $1000?

if that’s what you do and it earns you money or makes you happy ... , enjoy! It would do none of these things for me!

it is really funny that so much attention has been dedicated to the fuji newborn, the 90mm, which, as it has been said by many, equals the 135mm on a FF or 35mm format camera. I am old enough to remember everyone buying reflex camera with a 50mm and then progressing to the 135mm and 28mm the holy trinity of photography when I was a kid. I too did that. After buying it I found out that the 135mm was the most boring focal length that I could own. Neither fish, flesh, no good red herring! Too long to be offering a good portrait lens and too short to be of any use for anything really far away. Most bought it because it was affordable, small and relatively light efficient. Not many really ever used it a lot. Who knows! Maybe after so many years photography has changed and now there are more and better reasons to use this kind of lens. I really cannot see which though. The 56 is a true portrait lens which brings you at a distance short enough to produce little “ visual compression” ( not in electronic terms but perspective ones) of the image. But, as always, to each his own!

if you click on it it expands. Nice! Very well done!

everything has been addressed and solved. Thanks!

I am sure that fuji people are aware of the fuji customer being very fond of the aesthetics of the rangefinders ( T100) and the not srl looking other cameras of the X system ( XE) I am convinced that the X system will keep on having those two souls and in fact the dualism is only just begun since there was only the X-T1 and now there is a X-T10, which will be the entry level of that side of the system. Soon the X-Pro will be replaced ( probably with something which will not be defined as pro otherwise this would undermine the T-1 as pro camera) , then they will need to replace the X-E2. All the rest , I hypothesize ( X-E1 -XE2 and X-Pro1) will be quickly sold at very low prices with the least desirable of their lenses ( the 18 and the 27 are the obvious candidates). Who knows!

So, is this only a problem of mine?

I actually don’t particularly care if someone buys another camera or likes mine less than his. I fully accept and have embraced long ago the notion that the world is a place where people have all different needs, wants, make different choices and G-D forbid if we were all alike! I don’t have any problem with people overtly saying I don’t like the fuji cameras. This was not the reason I opened this thread. I don’t mind at all that others think that I have grabbed unwittingly the wrong end of the stick when I bought into this camera system. It does bother me though when somebody hides his acrimony under a blanket of only apparent civilized manners and choses to spew negativity out while making it under the disguise of a test. In other words masking subjectivity under the false pretenses of objectivity. That’s all. To all those advising me of not let me bother by that, thank you, I will try to follow your wise advise.

Many years ago I went to see a major exhibition of Nan Goldin's work. I went into the museum as a person and came out, after the experience, as another person altogether. As a photographer I had been an assistant for many a year, was educated at the IED of Milan with a diploma in advertising photography, had my own studio for years and had been a teacher too. So I wasn’t exactly a greenhorn. Yet, I found that even a person with limited amounts of technique could produce a flow of emotions and produce great images despite her evident lack of formal training. Many have the feeling that art is a display of skills, but that is really more the ancient definition of a trade than it is the modern one of art. All forms of modern arts have shown that the artist is not do much the person who possesses a skill but rather someone whom, through the application of a technique, can touch the hearts of the people who partake the experience. This happens in many different and often unpredictable ways. Of course one may disagree and find that a good picture has to be well composed, focussed, exposed, processed ( either chemically or digitally) but it is evident that even things that are none of this can do what they really have to and touch our souls. There are many different ways to skin many different cats. No one way is better than any other and the only thing that each an everyone can do is to find a form which has honesty and integrity and use it. Pixel peeping has nothing to do with this and I have yet to come across a pixel peeping ( Tom, Dick or Harry) who can impress me as much as Nan Goldin did.

...or, in some cases, be especially biased.

on the other hand, for a laughable amount of money you can acquire second hand, in a thrift shop, tele wide angle sets which, although not made for the 23mm Fuji on your camera, which were equally well made but for different but high quality branded cameras. I often see the Olympus tele wide Kit for example and prices on the secondhand market are really affordable. Certainly worth a try. You can always buy the real thing but if you luck out you would have saved a LOT of money!

well, , my bag^ is a little less that 2Kg. so I guess that camera bags ( and weight) is one are where one size would never fit all!

what do you know... this thread made the first page of Fuji rumors on a post promoting this forum, immediately ( before) a few hate posts appeared onto some blogs.

Ever since I have started following scoop.it I have discovered the world of fuji bloggers. Many of these digital photography evangelists are little more than amateurs with a camera and computer, yet they have some truth which needs spreading. In the beginning I used to be annoyed, now, frankly speaking, as soon as I realize that their message in uninteresting I simply leave (not even bothering to leave a comment). So I guess it is LEAVE and let live for me , which I suppose is the best way to deal with anything that we don’t agree with but which is still in the realm of things that is not forbidden by law. Remember, the words of wisdom were “ Let it be!”.

Since the first few days of membership I’ve noticed that I do not get any email notifications for the treads that I have opened or I have subscribed. All the proper settings are enabled and the address ( Gmail) that I’ve linked doesn’t receive this post in any of its even remote recesses ( so they are not in unwanted pos or spam section) This is not unusual, many forums seem to be affected by this in some form or other but generally, after a while it clears up I have tried, believe me, all the usual things. I ‘ve set and reset a couple of times all my personal account settings and preferences, I’ve even changed them on purpose and then resetting them again with no success. I have sent a PM to an administrator several days ago ( and the system tells me that he hasn’t read it so, probably he doesn’t get notifications too!), my” status” shows for days now the phrase “ I am not receiving notifications or alerts from the forum” Hoping this will catch some attention. Could anyone please look into this? For the time being I have found a solution and that is to watch my “ content” which lists all the threads that I’ve written something in , at the moment this is still a limited amount 17, so it is not too difficult to see if someone added a comment to any of those but it is not the notification system which will be way more efficient once there will be several more threads added to this. Thanks!

It is considered to be poor form to use a lot of proverbs in a conversation but there is an undeniable attraction to use them because, trite though they are, they contain, if not the “ "truth “, at the very least some nice and witty observation in a concentrated form, so at this point I can’t help thinking at: " there are many ways to skin a cat and , the proof of the pudding is in the eating" There are no fixed formulas. If there were, lenses would come with a warning label. Don’t use this in any way that isn’t the one for which it was meant to be used or otherwise terrible things will happen ! Photography, more so than many other things in life, has always shown to have found its vocabulary and syntax in its limitations. If, by any twist of fate, a lens would do something out of the “ desirable” range of things, we call it a special effect and use it for something that, maybe, wasn’t meant to be used for. There is no universal truth in photography and there are many ways to do the same things, “ laws” are there to be broken , the root of the adjective “ normal” is in the noun “ norm”. Do everything by the norms and you get normal pictures. That doesn’t mean to say that if you don’t stick to the norm you will necessarily get extraordinary pictures. Do everything by using that pinch of salt we all know about! Be well and enjoy, none of this is serious, have fun!