milandro

more room to crop to do what? Screen viewing? Printing? Even for this you can have 25% of the area left and still print way larger than anyone normally would. But like for politics these days talking sense doesn’t seem to be changing the mind of those who have already made up their mind and follow they gut feeling rather than their best judgement. Good luck with your new camera. Cropping galore!

well, some time in the future, when X-T3 will become available, even the X-T2 will lose a lot of value compared to new, in fact, if you buy as soon at it becomes available you will for sure lose the most possible that you can lose. Instead, the best possible strategy is to wait. If you buy a X-T1 now in the Netherlands from one of the so many who are rushing into buying a camera that is not there yet, you can buy one for as little as €650, buying one with a lens or two will be even cheaper. By the time you have been shooting hundreds of pictures, the X-T2 would have become cheaper ( probably not in the NL but some place else) and you can still resell you X-T1 body for a decent price and if you buy carefully it won’t cost you anything.

The price of the X-T2 in the Netherland is still not determined, you are ordering it and then you will see exactly what you pay when it will become available in two months. This is as true of the camera body alone as it is in any combinations. It might very well become more if the Euro gets anymore hits against the US $. LET OP! De officiële lancering van de X-T2 body staat op halverwege september 2016 met een verwachtte verkoopprijs van €1699,-. Zodra de camera bij ons binnenkomt lopen wij als eerste de pre-order lijst af. U betaalt nu 500 euro. Het resterende bedrag rekent u af zodra de camera bij ons voorraadig is. The price difference between a barely used X-T1 and a X-T2 buys you a lot of Fuji glass and even a lot more Samyang glass. Furthermore, what is there in 24Mp that isn’t in 16Mp? My lab assures me they can print 2m x 1m professional quality from 16Mp, how big are your prints, if you print anything at all? There is nothing in 24Mp that makes is more “ future proof” it is only a larger number that appeals the feeling to ( It goes to 11) but means very little in itself.

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don’t worry Johan you are not the only one who won’t improve by upgrading camera,

That is the real question. The majority of new model buyers would shoot things with the X pro 2 and the X-T2 in the same way and having the same results that they could have obtained from a X-E1 or a X-Pro 1 for that matter and even then, they would have had more camera than they have photographic skills. Nevertheless most new buyers will go for the newest camera, whether they are able to unleash its maximum potential or not. It’s the way it is and it is always been. Personally, I am not upgrading. I am happy with the X-T1. I am waiting for generation 3. Then and only then I will consider an upgrade.

There seems to be a will from Fuji to update to a X-A3, but whatever it will be, it would have to be a camera that has to be cheap and its “ integration” in the X system is more theoretical than it is practical. These cameras ( X-A1 and X-A2) only , really, sold only in Asia in any great numbers (apparently they are big in Thailand). The minimum sales that I saw around here (of the X-A1) happened mostly because they were offered at such a low price with the kit lenses that some folks bought the kit and sold the camera at some ridiculous prices. In Asia the kit might have included the sought after 27mm which was otherwise sold at a premium on its own. I bought my first 50-230 from someone whom had bought this camera and sold the lens that he didn’t want. The red and blue leatherette models were sold at incredibly low prices,sometimes at a lot less than the tan or the “ pro” coloured black model which seemed to appeal more to a wester audience. There was also one very nice “ white” limited edition which apparently was sold only in Japan. Maybe something for the collector if there are collectors of these cameras anywhere. The X-A2 really just about made it onto the Dutch market. After the disappointing sales of the previous model didn’t justify the shops to believe that the “ upgraded” tilt screen and the kit lenses (version II) would sell any better and indeed it didn’t. Despite the forward tilting screen and the kit lenses (the 27mm seemed to have no longer be offered as part of the kit since they could sell it for more on its own). Then the whole thing was quickly discontinued. It has to be one of the shortest runs ever for a camera. They are still for sale but I can’t really see who their “ customer” would be since, if you are into the X-System you can buy better cameras for less second hand. Both X-A1 and 2 are barely offered on the secondhand market. The problem, I think, is precisely that these cameras in the low segment offer a solution to a problem that is not there. The average Fuji user in Europe, UK or USA, is not into cheap cameras and indeed the more expensive cameras do sell way better than the entry models. There will be some interested but I predict that the X-A3 will be just in the same league of its predecessors.

I had the same when I had the X-10. If I remember well, I put some teflon spray on the threaded bit where the hood connects to the adapter then I put a wooden skewer in the vented holes and screwed off the bit with filter and hood together and then I used a tool, pliers with a 45º angle protecting the jagged surface of the tip of the beak of the pliers with tape and screwed off the filter. Before putting things together maybe better to put some graphite on the threads or teflon?

yes but of course you are limited by what they shot, however it is amazing to see how some less than celebrated lenses perform, I am a great fan of the 50-230 and in my opinion this lens performs way above its pay grade

this is the 35 at 1.4 this is the 56 at 1.2 But as you can see the distance with the closest subject is such that even here you don’t get all that much separation. this is a 50-230 at 6,7 this is a 55-200 at 4,8

this lens that you are using is not only incapable of providing what you are looking for but you are using it improperly to that end. You do not only need to focus close by ( the closer you are to your subject the more you will have shallow depth of field) and have the aperture open to the maximum value, but you also have the focal length of a zoom set to a value as long as possible and still keep the subject foreground and background that you need. These three elements combined give you the maximum degree of separation between subject and background. I am using the lens simulator of the Fuji site to make my point. This is a picture taken with your lens at 3,5 at 16mm ( almost everything is sharp) and the second picture is shot at 3,5 but at 50mm. If you would have shot a subject even close than the life savior the degree of separation with the background would be much higher. But fuji provides this image and we have to work with this. By clicking on each picture you will look at them at 100% enlargement which shows even better my point.

Predictably this ( and the 50 will probably follow suit) fits in the range of lenses especially created to fit the X-Pro-2 and not mess around with the optical viewfinder, blocking its image. If anyone believed that it was possible to have an aperture dial, being f2, have a fast autofocus and being weather resistant AND being smaller than what it is then one entertains thoughts against the requirements of physics, or perhaps it could be achieved only if a part of the lens would disappear in dimension X ( to stay faithful to the X cameras).

actually in countries other than the UK there is a minimum of 2 years guarantee on cameras and sometimes shops guarantee for 3 years, in may countries the guarantees are transferable too.

it would be different the world around but in my neck of the woos as much a 25% more

refurbished camera and lenses by fuji are hardly representative of a market price.

as far as I know only Fuji UK offers kosher refurbished lenses and cameras. https://shop.fujifilm.co.uk/what-is-refurbished

the last of Summer whine

no compression is for each camera different and fixed.

all interesting but does it make any difference to OP’s question whether it is a wide-angle or an ultra-wide-angle? Anyway, I don’t find it particularly challenging to compose whether 10-12-14mm. Just “ sui generis” (his own and particular kind) and as such, to each his own.

Of course it is and ultra-wideangle, unless you consider a 18mm a standard lens . Which might probably be the attitude among certain people, like those who bought and use the X-70. One’s person daily bread and butter might be someone else’s festive meal. I can walk about all day with a 12mm and never feel the urge to shoot with anything else and someone else one can find it a special lens for special moments. This is more my attitude with the 8mm fish-eye. But I’ve seen people making a frequent and good use of that lens. http://www.fuji-x-forum.com/topic/696-fuji-fisheye/?hl=samyang Isn’t it all in the game that we call “ style”? Each lens we use gives one, quite literally, a different perspective, and that is as true of geometric things as it is of the way we express our feelings through images. But OP, as so often happens, asked not what we like, but if the 14mm was sold so often because composing an image with it would be inherently difficult. I don’t think it is. But yes, what I like might not be what someone else’s likes (or is capable to manage) and maybe many 14mm buyers don’t like it. There are few absolutes in photography.

good to hear, it has disappeared from a friend o mine’s computer and it has prevented me, among other reasons, to upgrade, I will still wait but it is nice to know I can.

especially those who don’t really know about these things and repeat what they have read on line without understanding it.

read this http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-18973102

I’ve bought Roxen products before and they are well made. I have bought also an adapter from K&F, which is very well made (apparently they don’t make one for this bayonet but check it out, they might ). I don’t think that there is any reason to spend more.

Yes, Fuji had a Bayonet also called (as it says on the package) X bayonet ( confusing for some buyers who think they might buy a lens fitting modern X cameras). Both those adapters are good and well known brands.