milandro

I am not sure that both the Raynox AND the tubes are needed to achieve this level magnification and that probably you could get a lot closer than this but I guess that you can make things as complex as you wish.

If you are sure that the battery is charged, maybe the switch is faulty, maybe some other more serious problems prevent the camera to be switched on. Only a trip to the lab can tell you. Sorry.

I chose the term “ adjunctive” carefully in order not to give the wrong impression that this was a one element close up lens. It is a lens system which you add, hence the adjunctive predicate, to a lens to make it apt to closer focus.

Marketing is not exactly a “ science" (otherwise we would never have any flops among products) but it has its rules and the practice is based on few trials and many errors. It is obvious that, as soon as Fuji introduced the X system, which appealed to a particular market niche, sales shot up where they are now coming from very dissatisfactory figures in the digital photography segment marginal at best for a company which is mostly engaged in other things, like copiers and instant photography ( delivering the vaste majority of their revenue). So it is hardly strange that they “ follow the money”, so to speak. So, I don’t see things changing in the immediate future. However, I am sure that, some time down the line, when the generation of buyers will naturally change, they will change with them or disappear. So when a new generation, who might be made of people speaking using a different terminology will come Fuji will change with them. For the time being this isn’t likely to happen.

a macro adjunctive to the lens

Although you are certainly and strictly speaking correct, I suppose that we should give Fuji at the very least some credit to abide the first marketing commandment : “ Know thy customer! “ They probably know that they are principally talking to a public which talks the language of the past. There is little doubt, in my mind, that one of the reasons of success for Fuji was exactly to have catered for a particular niche among consumers which felt alienated by the other brands. Fuji is a comfort camera. It appeals to a part of us which formed itself when cameras were, at least in appearance, like that and didn’t look like futuristic objects which feel alien in one’s hand. This exploitation of a particular market niche is, in my reading... which might not be yours, the dichotomy affecting Fuji at the moment. Should they keep going the traditional look direction and stay a minority brand or should they attempt to gain favor among the younger generations? After all, in 10, 20, 30 years the market base, for generational reasons, will no longer be the same. I am afraid that the traditionalist terminology affecting the marketing of their lenses ( and cameras, as you very acutely point aut about the ISO in digital photography) is one which they perceive as needed to communicate with the majority of their customers.

yes that’s true, strictly speaking, but this is all semantics because the angle of view of a 60mm on a aps-c sensor is similar to the one of a 85mm (give or take unless you want to place the dots on every single i ) on a 24mm x 36mm. When we will start speaking of that ( as people do with binoculars) equivalences and crop factors no longer will matter.

of course the focal length doesn’t change but, since the sensor is smaller than the full frame which we all knew when we used fil ( even if that isn’t always equivalent to the ancient 24mm X 36mm or 135 or Leica film size...to which all of this still refers too) the images gathered by the smaller area of the sensor appears to be cropped as compared to the image which would have been gathered by a similar focal length on a analog camera with a 24mm x 36mm film. Some things are different though, like the inherent depth of field but they are also different because we have had to deeply revise anything we knew about the “ circle of confusion” on cameras when we switched from film to sensors and then between sensors in size. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_of_confusion

earlier versions of this lens have a different optical design which promote the famous swirl, later ones are in fact corrected for the swirl, they are still nice lenses but not as “ sui generis” as the early ones are. There are ways to modify some of the later versions by means of inverting the front elements of the lens. Several of these modification methods are shown on you tube.

this is a Nikon owner survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/H7WRYJF

I am sure that Fuji does carry out their own surveys to assess market trends, market base composition and client satisfaction. But since a Fuji targeted forum naturally offers them a targeted audience (as their own free on line Fuji X magazine is doing too), offering Fuji's management to be reaching towards the Fuji crowd in an attempt of assessing who the typical Fuji user , what are his or her likes or dislikes, and his or her expectations for the future developments of the brand, would be an important step forward for us as it probably would be for them. Judging from the so called “ polls” and “ votes” on many issues, the participants to this forum seem to have a need to assess things and to play (by means of voting which is a first to me, since we don’t normally vote to have our daily bread in this shape, color or other but we seem to want to do that for cameras and lenses) a more propositive role than the one that we already do by voting with our wallets. All this “ wanting to stand and be counted” maybe could be appreciated by Fujifilm? I wonder. Maybe it does. Some members here are very forthcoming with information already. From the pictures which may publish of themselves and their geographical distribution some definite patterns seem to appear. But more in depth information would be needed to really get to know the Fuji customer, things that we might not want to share in public and associated to our names or monickers, like income, education levels, and other such more personal things. So the polls have to be held in a way that makes it possible to keep privacy. Also a survey like this would be better left to professionals because it is not only about knowing how many middle aged man and women or how many hipsters buy Fuji but it is a bit more complex than that. That’s why we need to involve Fuji with this. They have the market expertise to devise a survey which would also be useful along with being well formulated. We probably don’t. I am sure that the forum ownership itself would benefit from knowing the forum dwellers more than they might do now.

banding happens also when using the electronic shutter for photography

i see, smart move.

well, Insurance can give you money for compensation, but only Fuji can replace the eyecup so how would that be faster?

sure, if you have a perpetual license you jump to later versions but if you don’t you need to buy the license

I suppose it could be possible to contact Fuji directly since some folks do register their purchase with Fuji if they bought it from on on line source and enjoy guarantee rights http://www.fujifilmusa.com/support/ServiceSupportRegister.do Another possibility is getting in touch with the local Greek police. Obviously that would have been the first place where the owner of the camera would have gone. If he or she were tourists there is a high likelihood that they were insured with a travel insurance which normally also covers theft or losing things like these. The insurance claim procedure would have compelled the owner to go to the local police since you cannot claim the insurance coverage without a police report done where the item went missing. I don’t know what made OP take the camera with him or her (to Japan?), maybe he was in a rush with his tourist tour and didn’t have the chance to go to the proper police station, but in Greece, the police, like anywhere else in the world, would have had a regular form to fill and the camera would have been placed in official custody and wouldn’t have been disappearing in the pockets of some clerk. If not claimed or the owner could not be found, then the finder would have got the item after some time and become the legal owner. At present, being probably this reported as stolen for an insurance claim, OP might be in possession of stolen property without realizing that! I don’t know why OP thought of not doing that and to go to a internet forum to find the owner ( despite what we might think of fora and ourselves, there is still a minority of the Fujifilm users who also frequent fora) but the likelihood of finding the rightful owner this way is certainly minimal. Good Luck! This is a link to useful numbers in Meteora, it includes the number of the closest jurisdictional tourist Police office in Kalabaka, which, of course, would have dealt with a report of someone losing the camera in Meteora. http://www.greeka.com/thessaly/meteora/meteora-tourist-information.htm here all the tourist police, the Kalabaka is at the end of the page. http://www.gtp.gr/TDirectoryDetails.asp?ID=48536

big brother seriously, maybe this helps you http://www.fuji-x-forum.com/topic/2321-users-without-a-profile/

Just to be clear ,since people on an international forum might think this is open to anyone from abroad too and before they make costly mistakes. "...The promotion is open to residents of the UK only. Any claims for products from outside the UK will be deemed invalid..."

steel-wool galore The the bare metal surface of that camera is rather scratched

that’s the other thread on the cameras whose owners have scratched to look like they were used to the point they lost their virginal look, which was not the case, although they were surely abused.

nice

No Sir, Indeed, I don’t believe cameras produce flares other than a minimum amount due to the anti-glare of the sensor. If you find that Fuji is not for you because of it, so be it.

Sir, I didn’t “ dude” you, hence, please stay decent, polite and correct. Your argument is specious and poorly presented with not science behind it other than anecdotes. In any case Fuj is what Fuji is, if you don’t like it, for whatever reason you don’t. Have it your way.

...as to be expected since time immemorial with lens flare. Nothing new under the sun (what a pun!), being Fuji or any other camera system

precisely, unlike a specious argument . For our multilingual audience... "specious adjective a specious argument: plausible but wrong, seemingly correct, misleading, deceptive, false, fallacious, unsound, casuistic, sophistic."