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  1. milandro
    with silicone glue https://www.smooth-on.com/product-line/sil-poxy/
  2. milandro
    ...which might invalidate the guarantee since it is an essential part of the WR...but I suppose that is not a major concern for many
  3. milandro
    after three years my X-T1 still shows no sign of bulging doors or skin detaching.
  4. milandro
    life is tough
  5. milandro
    unlike analog cameras nobody will use these digital cameras of ours in 25 years, so being overly cautious is not very productive, yet not slamming them around or dragging them through muck is my strategy. Well...almost Years ago, while working for a local paper, I went to shoot the yearly livestock fair. I had a large canvas bag with my Canon gear in it. At some point I shot something from a low angle and didn’t realize that the bag had landed in a large cow’s pat... well, of course it was a canvas bag and could be washed, now suppose I would have had camera hanging on the same side with a long tele ... that would have been not so easy to hose clean. That’s where the WR comes handy!
  6. milandro
    silkypix no good? https://silkypix.isl.co.jp/en/news/20151022-film-simulation/
  7. milandro
    first of all you are not the first to have problems with the wi-fi (being on iphone or otherwise) and using the search function always returns more results than opening new threads. Some people have problems some don’t. Try re-installing the app. There have been changes lately which you might not have updated. http://www.fuji-x-forum.com/topic/1777-cant-connect-to-ios-91/ http://www.fuji-x-forum.com/topic/827-x-t1-wifi-and-iphone4-finally-got-it-working-perfectly/ http://www.fuji-x-forum.com/topic/419-xt1-wifi-not-working/ http://www.fuji-x-forum.com/topic/2426-remote-connection/ http://www.fuji-x-forum.com/topic/410-camera-remote-connection-difficulties/
  8. milandro
    you could have the case AND use the camera, I don’t see the reason why you couldn’t do this
  9. milandro
    Some beat them up on purpose to pretend they have been used to death and some do use them to death Anyway. I have never worn out a camera in many years of professional practice, not even one which we used to shoot catalogue pictures for which we shot many tens of thousands of shots with one body. But those were the analog times. Digital cameras are, because of their own transient nature, cameras which you may want to keep for a relatively limited amount of time. After few years you probably will upgrade so, being overly protective may not be all that necessary. However I bought a few months ago a barely used X-E2 which I’ve used well, brought it on holiday with me and before lost any of its value sold it on. If I had it scratched it would have bee worth nothing.
  10. milandro
    Oh well, but they will be the sharpest and quickest possible selfies ( grandkids, girlfriends, snapshots) which money can buy!
  11. milandro
    There are many reasons to buy a new camera. Among those there might be few who have some real technical issues but my experience here tells me that some are simply keeping up with the Joneses or go with the motto “ I exist, therefore I buy”. Enrich Fromm put this is a single antinomy. To have ( a new camera) or to be (a good photographer). In some cases a new camera might unleash even better pictures but I have seen examples by people whom even with an X T-2million ( as opposed to X-T1) will never ever transcend the very modest quality of the pictures they take. There are no chops in any box.
  12. milandro
    well, there is always the option of filming... and as for documenting some people like to actually document grass growing
  13. milandro
    and even at 200cm printing on the long side won’t see much difference (if any) at all...
  14. milandro
    some examples have been shown before, the new results (with and extra close up lens added to the 60mm) are comparable with those and not better.
  15. milandro
    Thanks. Again, I appreciate the hint, but have no interest in scanning. Others have done similar comparisons with many cameras... all to be easily found on line. http://www.scantips.com/es-1.html http://www.andromeda.com/people/ddyer/photo/slide-transfer.html http://forum.mflenses.com/slide-copying-scanner-vs-duplicator-t22881.html http://www.stevehuffphoto.com/2012/10/29/the-other-way-to-scan-positive-slides-or-why-i-kept-my-big-dslr-by-stefan-schmidt/ So, If I were simply interested in this thing of copying slides by means of any other camera and comparing it to a scanner I would have found enough food for thought there. I was really only interested in sharing experiences of slide copying by using a Fuji camera. I’ve done some more tests today and it took me seconds to shoot several one after another. Results are comparable to other methods which I described before.
  16. milandro
    and how long does it take to go through all the pics and make a choice among many hundreds of almost exactly the same pics?
  17. milandro
    Despite the looks it was really the navel they were staring at, although, if you notice, the fauns have had their phalluses damaged so they may have been seeming to think: “ I wonder what the heck happened to it?” The navel has always had in all cultures, from time immemorial, a great symbolic meaning, perhaps even more than the phallus. But contemplating the navel was not "watching the nave"l, it was a way to transcend reality and enter meditative state. I have the feeling that some people like to contemplate the monitor but in the end are not thinking of photography as a state of mind or the product of their thinking but at the pixel staring “ per se”.
  18. milandro
    We are talking of differences appreciable on prints. I doubt that any appreciable difference can be seen even in high quality printing, though, perhaps, not in monitor staring at a test. On the other hand one can stare to meditate. Omphaloskepsis is a meditation technique where one reaches a deep meditative state through looking, at extreme length, to one’s navel. The modern version has to be the monitor ( and it puts a lot less strain on the neck). From wikipedia...
  19. milandro
    OP has removed the pictures of the wristwatch and the sunglasses the other ones are still there
  20. milandro
    3,000 shots each session with a 70,000 theoretical releases ( don’t test the camera too much!) it comes down to about 23 sessions . Of course why would anyone shoot 3000 pics per session is a good question to be asked.
  21. milandro
    16 bits per channel would be nice. But the question is whether we are talking of something that we see on monitors when we stare at them or something that we would see on prints.
  22. milandro
    your test is very illuminating too. The pixel count is now the main red herrings used to sell camera. A key word in advertising. Bigger! New! Improved!...goes all the way up to 11! Since you are Italian (I hold dual nationality Italian-Dutch) you may remember a washing powder which advertised for years and years ( since I was a kind and it is a long time ago) that it was washing “ whiter” ( whiter than what wasn’t clear). They had it in different countries too, we had Dixan in Italy and they had Persil some other places. If only you buy this camera...new, improved, bigger, better, everything will change for you. It has a larger sensor ergo it does more ( more than what? And even more importantly what can you do with it that you couldn’t do without it?). Whiter than white.
  23. milandro
    your days are numbered
  24. milandro
    I suppose that, given what you are telling us, you will find out before anyone else does. You are going to be the first one to know when the camera ceases working because you’ve reached the max shutter count (if anything like that should exist). Make sure you report back here when you do. Good Luck!
  25. milandro
    With respect. I have used professionally Imacon, Kodak , Minolta and Epson scanners and I was experienced enough to use Silverfast at the time, but that’s beside the point and the point of this thread is contained in the first post when I wrote. “ Iam not interested in scanners" Other threads, which you might very well want to start, might contain other points and you are very welcome to make them but it was not my intention to discuss scanners.
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