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  1. milandro
    does this answer your question?
  2. milandro
    don’t know which lens because you didn’t write but I have just found at least two which focus by wire......they won’t work. from wikipedia The discontinued EF 50mm f/1.0L USM is a professional L series autofocus lens. ......In common with the EF 85mm f/1.2L USM it uses an electronic "focus by wire" system and requires power from the camera in order to manual focus. .....
  3. milandro
    no there is no special setting other than shoot without lens (but that has nothing to do with focussing). I have used all manners of manual lenses with all manners of adapters (including canon EF lenses) and I was able to focus them all. Of course IF your lens doesn’t use a manual focus system but, like most Fuji lenses, has focus-by-wire then you won’t be able to focus because it would need a connection with the camera ( a canon camera ).
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  5. milandro
    Nice to hear that we have another super ultra wideangle lens. @Patrick, you may want to correct the typo ( disclosed instead of discoles )
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    April
  7. milandro
    you don’t need to open the dat file, they are not made to be opened. read the installation procedure again. http://www.fujifilm.com/support/digital_cameras/software/firmware/procedure_interchangeable.html You just copy the file on a previously formatted SD card. Insert the card and update (READ the procedure please) firmware choosing between body or lens
  8. milandro
    the last update for this camera body was released years ago, so it is improbable that it was never performed. Anyway that ia academic because if the camera has locked up update is now impossible
  9. milandro
    silkypix has a free version which might not have all the fuction available on the Fuji site
  10. milandro
    There shouldn’t be any firmware incompatibility with a camera body which firmware hasn’t been updated in a very long time and any lens
  11. milandro
    I suppose that the only thing left is to send the camera to be serviced, but ask for a quote of the repairs beforehand since the cost of repairing it could easily exceed the value of the camera. The problem with technologically advanced instruments is precisely this. You have advanced features but that comes to the cost of having to accept that there will be equipment failure. Cars, motorbikes, cameras, radios, you name it, once upon a time could work for several decades and millions of activations. You could easily have a local laboratory to repair them. Now? Lots of stuff is unrepairable and if it is it might not be sensible to repair. So you can pick up a camera that is 100 years old, put some film in it and use it. Digital cameras? They will all end up in landfills. Good Luck!
  12. milandro
    Cheers if and when the 8mm by Fuji will appear will be a very expensive lens and include autofocus (that at this focal length is absolutely pointless). As you have seen the best results are for apertures around f8 , at this level an 8 mm lens is always completely sharp at almost any focussed distance (I suppose you are familiar with the concept of hyperfocal distance focussing I use the same technique with the 12mm by the way.
  13. milandro
    I think that the 18-55 is difficult to beat, despite being certainly an humble lens it performs way above its pay grade and it delivers punchy images. have fun!
  14. milandro
    the 12mm wins over the 10 in resolution and luminosity, the very small difference in angle is negligible reed the repost by lenstip https://www.lenstip.com/407.4-Lens_review-Samyang_10_mm_f_2.8_ED_AS_NCS_CS_Image_resolution.html https://www.lenstip.com/404.4-Lens_review-Samyang_12_mm_f_2.0_NCS_CS_Image_resolution.html
  15. milandro
    the 18-55 will give the widest rage of focal lenses available to you. with that you may also capture some things at moderate distance too and should you have a close up filter you may also venture into macro territory. The 12mm would be my certain companion if I were only after landscapes. I sold the 10-24 because I used it too little on any other focal length that was covered by the 18-55 and it was unwise, for me, to have all that money immobilized in a lens that I used mostly as a super wideangle. The 12 mm is not at all any worse than the 10-24 and sometimes better.
  16. milandro
    cheers, you won’t regret it. I bought the silver version I love the two tone effects on my black camera.
  17. milandro
    advanced filters shouldn’t work with raw, it is one or the other. As for focus the advanced filters work with the normal focus assist button which enhances the portion the you chose within the focus rectangle. All the advance filters can be also applied in PP with silkypix
  18. milandro
    the Zeiss is expensive and less sharp than the Samyang even benefiting from software correction. The 12 mm is incredibly sharp and very convenient in price, at this focal length autofocus is really unimportant. I set it at 8 + 1/2 stop and focus just past the meter and everything is sharp. I also own the 8mm fish eye, different beast but also incredibly good for the money. I owned the 10-24 and sold it. Never looked back.
  19. milandro
    and chances are that if the aperture can only me set electrically that it could be used only fully open
  20. milandro
    you know the motto of the Vatican newspaper is Unicuique suum , to each his (or her) own! Cheers!
  21. milandro
    as others say there is no point in having an exposure compensation in manual mode. As you expose in manual mode the meter lets you know exactly of how many stops or fraction thereof you are deviating from the manual exposure. So you can intentionally under or overexpose your shot.
  22. milandro
    nice. though that is it adds another piece of glass (cost and weight too) of op of your lens. I personally don’t find protective filters necessary but I have never scratched the front lens of any of my lenses in over 40 years and never smashed a lens frontal element. So I may not have felt that anguish but chances are that I’ll never do that.
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  24. milandro
    what exactly is your concern? wi-fi is not in itself secure on the contrary it is very easily cracked but what is that you are afraid to be hacked into? Recently a Dutch experiment revealed that a wi-fi controlled camera was hacked in minutes after installing. There will be ways to defend yourself against this but: 1) you will be doing this only sporadically 2) your wi-fi range requires someone to be rather close and to want to hack your camera, what is the likelihood of this to happen if you move around?
  25. milandro
    ^ this is a thing of beauty, very well done
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