milandro

NCS CS part of the whole name and it will be acronymsX Mount is obviously the FX bayonet probably Nano Crystal Surface ( refers to a n antireflexion coating) and Crop Sensor

So the X-70 ( X-T10 and X-T1 or XE2S) are finished. Will the X-70 be replaced? Was it a success or a whim which involved too few customers for a a too expensive camera easily replaceable with the X-A30 and an 18mm? Time will tell.

Hendrik, I commend you for being a person who takes real ( and good) portraits.

there are countless examples of the contrary. As for experience...I have had a long career in photography as a pro photographer started in 1977, I have taught studio portrait and large format photography for many years and I’ve been using any format form 24 x 36 to 8’' x 10”, I have made lots of interiors shots using a Cambo wide with a 58mm Schneider XL on a 4” x 5”, I talk from experience, and a lot of it, too. I don’t want to transform this in a contest of who can pee the longest distance, you started implying that I had no experience and that you had more than me, but of course ... have you your way if you so wish. The 12 or 10 mm are perfectly capable of being used in real estate photography, methinks.

interestingly this means that after 30 sessions like that ( if you use the mechanical shutter) it would need to be serviced to REPLACE the shutter since most cameras are rated to be after 100,000 shots. You might be able to stretch it to 100 sessions but that will be it. The shutter will die. I have owned a Pentax ES with which I shot way more than 1 million shots and was still working fine when my business partner and I ceased working together.

even at 10mm you don’t get any problems and the 12mm won’t give any, lots of examples on line of architecture and interior real estate shot with a 10mm Fuji... and the 12mm is in these things, even better. this site calls the 10-24 the essential lens for real estate...how can you say that a 12mm would be too much beats me https://eyebeamimages.wordpress.com/2016/02/02/fuji-xf-10-24mm-the-essential-lens-for-real-estate-architecture-photography/ this is the 12mm https://fujilove.com/the-samyang-12mm-f2-0-ncs-cs-lens-review/

contrary to what the description of some of these adapters say, they do offer infinity focussing and coupled to a normal lens will offer 1:1 ( depending on the lens) macro focussing.

well, the response to these threads of mine on adapting lenses and weird lenses is, has been, as always, overwhelming ... so, in the end I did get de helicoid macro tube and I did manage to adapt a slide projector lens on it , for the time being it is not, yet, the 50mm Elmaron but I have tried a 100mm Isco anastigmant. The results of this last lens are not really exciting. Predictably the lens quality (no aperture) is not huge and especially contrast is very low. This required corrections both is shooting and some in post production but this is the result. As you can see the lens is soft and has a decent “ bokeh” ( whatever that is)

In oder to adapt a projection lens to my camera (and maybe other lenses too) I decided to buy it although I never received any advise from my fellow forum members here. The adapter is very well made and works well, considering the price. It was shipped (very slowly) from China and fortunately arrived without any extra cost. The steel mount is certainly very good and I feel confident to use this lens for macro purposes or using a lens without any helicoid.

I obviously have and I believe that I've already contributes a few shots to this thread

it is a really cheap lens and easily found secondhand at even less than its already low price.

of course I cannot judge, from here where I am sitting, how difficult to change focus would be with your copy of this lens. I can change mine at will and easily. I have been brought up on native manual focus lenses which were always inherently harder to focus than the option for manual focussing offered from native autofocus lenses. Mileage, might, for this reason, vary among different users. I had long a go a 17mm Tokina in Nikon mount, which offered also a rather firm focussing and which I also liked for its firmness and the result. I have used also a 15mm Takumar but I can no longer remember how it felt focussing.

....which is an wideangle like the 12mm, believe me, is a G-D given gift because it would easily go meters away if it would be loose. I often shoot with the 12mm at hyperfocal distance with f8 and I am confident that I don’t have to refocus because the lens holds the focus even if I touch it by mistake. If this wouldn’t be the case it would result in many out of focus shots which you would only notice when you see them on your computer.

no, you don’t, you have already too many focal duplicates as it is.

the intriguing mysteries of photography

there are plenty of options in the adapted lenses world and the best ones lay within the range of 50mm of longer ( wideangles not specifically made for digital cameras are bound to disappoint because film gets away with projected rays coming at an angle which digital cannot negotiate too well images formed by light rays not very perpendicular to the grind of the sensor). Anyway. there are options for that too, not as cheap, but Samyang makes great lenses and Meike does that too. ( Do think that both Samyang and Meike don’t need adapters while “ legacy” lenses do)

I also have used Fuji lenses after using adapters, just had this only twice.

I have many adapters and lenses with not original FX mount, this only ever happen with an official Fuji lens (again the 60mm I have exactly diagnosed why that was)

It doesn’t happen much with my X-T1, in fact it happened only once when I mounted a filter adapter without a spacer on the 60mm macro and focussed at infinity, the lens couldn’t retract enough and therefore an error. Another time I got that message with the X-E2 , no idea why, never happened again.

not good enough? It looks plenty strong from where I am standing and does all the things that all the other previous versions had

(4) Inheriting FUJIFILM X-A2’s popular performance features... So, it is almost the same camera

no thanks, but tying high and Video performance to batteries that are only made by Fuji and to the grip is a very nice move. Customers loyalty assured for a number of products all in one “ choice".

are there any “ universal” of these special batteries? Because it there aren’t than the only source for batteries and chargers is Fuji. Of course it is a nice earner on the side if they keep the whole thing for themselves.

everywhere on ebay http://www.ebay.com/itm/Quick-Release-Metall-L-Plate-Bracket-Handgriff-fur-Fujifilm-Fuji-X-T2-XT2-Kamera-/122241124540?hash=item1c762388bc:g:eQcAAOSw4GVYN9YE

everybody knows the fight is fixed