milandro

I did. Anecdotical at best, poorly made pseudo research, and in any case, ultimately Fuji’s sensor is fuji’s sensor. If you like it you do, if you don’t you don’t. Shooting orthogonally in the sun is not common practice, if you are not alone that only means that you are not the only person who likes that. But it isn’t, by all means, common, its a freak way to photograph which we all know can result in the given examples.

You are just showing pictures of lenses with lots of elements, placed in an extreme situation where any lens and sensor will produce flares of some sort. I am not sure what you are trying to show. That Fuji sensors and lenses are prone to flaring? They are what they are and I doubt many shoot in the sun as you seem to do. If you like that you’ve got the wrong camera. Best of luck with you other cameras.

A sensor is a optical device in itself and has to be treated for reflexes in order to cope with it, so there might be a slight influence of the sensor but the most important one comes from the lens. Change the lens and the flare changes. Once you've chosen a system, hopefully for all kinds of other more meaningful reasons, you will have to work with what the system is. The treatment of any Fuji sensor is “ sui generis”, if you prefer Nikon or Canon or Sony, more power to you.

It can never be a camera thing, at the very most it is a lens thing. Some lenses might be more prone than others to produce flares. Shooting directly in the sun is asking for troubles at so many levels. But if you like it... .

no it hasn't

Most brands of consumer electronics offer an international guarantee of some sort. This is in support of international traders around the world who were heavily affected in the past by the absence of this. Local importers offer, generally, some additional guaranties but are bound from the international guarantee to repair defects for at least one year. The importer doesn’t do this for free. The original company compensates the lab for whatever repairs were made. Guarantees apply also to secondhand items as guarantee is in most cases in the world transferable. Grey imports are not illegal. The moment you buy a product and it arrives to you in a legal way and you register with Fuji it is officially being imported by you. If the making company offers an international guarantee and for repairs to be carried out at the importer’s or distributor’s lab this is part of the statutory rights of the buyer. Years ago, within one year from purchase, I brought my old Emac, purchased from Apple Italy, at an Apple shop in the Netherlands where I was a customer, they tried to tell me that my computer was not covered by the international guarantee and they were saying something stupid like international guarantees apply only to laptops (!?!). I contacted Apple in the US, they confirmed I was right, instructed their office of the NL to instruct the shop not to talk nonsense and to repair my guaranteed item.

10cm max to be precise

Not quite. the “ normal or standard”( the lens which gives a field of view closes to the “ normal” image as see from the human beings, is lens is the lens closest to the measure of the diagonal of the format in question. So its focal length varies depending from the format. For the 24 mm x 36mm this is actually 43.3 mm but 50 is easier to calculate, hence, 50mm is the “ standard” focal length for full frame (which refers to the film frame and the sensor which is closest to that size). For aps-C this is 30.1mm. From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_lens Film format Image dimensions Image diagonal Normal lens focal length 9.5 mm Minox 8 × 11 mm 13.6 mm 15 mm Half-frame 24 × 18 mm 30 mm 30 mm APS C 16.7 × 25.1 mm 30.1 mm 28 mm, 30 mm 135, 35mm 24 × 36 mm 43.3 mm 40 mm, 50 mm, 55 mm 120/220, 6 × 4.5 (645) 56 × 42 mm 71.8 mm 75 mm 120/220, 6 × 6 56 × 56 mm 79.2 mm 80 mm 120/220, 6 × 7 56 × 68 mm 88.1 mm 90 mm 120/220, 6 × 9 56 × 84 mm 101.0 mm 105 mm 120/220, 6 × 12 56 × 112 mm 125.0 mm 120 mm large format 4 × 5 sheet film 93 × 118 mm (image area) 150.2 mm 150 mm large format 5 × 7 sheet film 120 × 170 mm (image area) 208.0 mm 210 mm large format 8 × 10 sheet film 194 × 245 mm (image area) 312.5 mm 300 mm

have you tried the good old threaded, cable shutter release that the camera allows for?

the fact that there were no gaps is the consequence of Fuji having placed this camera in a different segment than the X-T1 not the cause

this is the section where you talk about the adapted lenses http://www.fuji-x-forum.com/forum/6-adapting-lenses-to-fuji-x/ But opening a thread in another section asking which is the proper section to open a thread is ... strange

see this http://improvephotography.com/8411/field-of-view-full-frame-crop-sensor-dslr/

You are welcome, apology accepted Sir. Your mistake was not the grammar but lack of courtesy towards those whom might not be able to decipher your text language. Conventions and common courtesy have a purpose in communication.

yes, I am Sir, standard English is the forum’s language. Displaying your knowledge of text language is not a good an polite way to address a forum where people might not understand them. Incidentally, nobody is fighting and we all express polite opinions in a polite way.

what’s with the U’s and the cozes and the R’s?

This might of course depend on particular factors, but I've have actually YET to see anyone in my circles with a battery grip. I have seen many and not one with a battery grip. There are few people whom want to make it the largest small camera in the world unless the absolutely need the extra battery power ( I’ve never run out of juice with 3 extra batteries in the pocket ) or they have giant hands which cannot hold the X-T1 without dropping it or can’t otherwise operate the camera vertically! Unless you mean a L plate with front grip. That’s a different thing altogether. L plates, with grip (I have one of those) don’t qualify under the things that we are discussing since the title of this thread is about the battery grips. The X-T10 can’t and will never have any because there are no contacts for it. But can have a L plate with grip

Despite what one might want to think, the X-T10 is obviously an entry level camera and when it was introduced caused a stir since it outperformed the X-E2 which was at the beginning marketed as an upmarket camera in the system, this caused, later, the need for fuji to upgrade the X-E2 and the introduce the X-E2S to match the X-T10 at a price which was lower than at X-E2 introduction. Anyway, it is what it is. No contacts and no grip. The need for a battery grip is certainly felt by a small minority of the buyers even on the X-T1 since it introduces a counterintuitive element which goes against the reason many choose a mirrorless camera over a DSLR system and that is its compactness. Unless one specifically needs the grip, what’s the use of buying a camera which characteristic is being small and then make it bigger by adding a grip? Not everyone’s choice, in fact very few people’s choice. I certainly don’t need one.

You mean he didn’t disclose the fact that it would be shipping from another country and that your camera would only have the Fuji international guarantee?In this case see the policy of the company you paid with. Paypal or your credit card might be able to get you the whole money back. Paypal also says that the shipper pays for return shipping. However grey market is not as bad as one would make it out to be! Wherever its shipped from, you are legally entitled to one year Fuji international guarantee ( and don’t just take no fro a answer because you are under the terms of the fujifilm international guarantee ), and all it might take to do is registering your product with Fuji. For some reason some importers think they they don’t have to, but it is absolutely false, it is part of their agreement with Fuji, I had the same problem with Apple NL accepting to repair, under guarantee, an Apple product which I purchased in Italy. After much rubbish talking they had to admit I was entitled to the guaranteed and fixed my computer at no cost. Moreover, there is a protection against importers not honoring the international guarantees in the legislation of most countries of the world and you can always ship your camera to another country’s fuji lab if unfortunately you live in one of the few countries where this doesn’t happen. Fujifilm Tokyo head office will probably confirm that and help you through the procedure http://warranty.fujifilm-digital.com This is a copy of the international guarantee as published from Fuji Australia. http://www.fujifilm.com.au/hs-fs/hub/134521/file-2661233280-pdf/products/Products_Brochures/Warranties/FileAsset_1028.pdf

take your time, nobody is in any particular hurry

the problem is not the camera but the light source. fluorescent light is no good for these things, it’s the nature of the beast. It was always like that even with normal filming. If you had a television in the shot you had to chose an obligatory shutter speed otherwise the picture of the screen shows bands. The only thing is to use a shutter speed longer than the flickering or one light source that isn’t a form of intermittent light and you should have no problem. The Youtube video and the link are “ illuminating “.

The light source and its frequency ( different in different countries) along with the reproduction frequency has a profound influence on banding http://urbanvideo.ca/avoid-video-flicker Make sure you’ve chosen the proper option (50Hz or 60Hz).

are you sure this is not just ordinary banding?

they are eagerly following this thread, taking notes as we speak... Meanwhile, how would you like to have the X-E4...?

which falls into the category “ we shall see...”.. I am sure that at the marketing department someone if trying to think what they want to do with this and how they want to do it

...and that’s the way I have always bought everything photographic myself with one exception, a secondhand 8mm from the Canary Islands (within the Eu). Because I think that the guarantee plays a very important role in photographic items. However if we are talking of a bag or a grip or things like that I am buying these abroad because the paypal guarantee (which now extends to return shipping costs too) suffices. My “ local” business is a huge chain employing over 150 people. I have been a customer ever since they opened their first shop in Amsterdam over 20 years ago.