milandro

I have used the 10-24 with no ultra thin polarizer and graduated filter with no adverse vignetting. Most will never ever have any advantage from using a filter and an insurance ( some of us already have it in some form or other, so you don’t even need to buy one) is much more useful than a filter.

still both the top and the bottom of the lamppost are stretched unnaturally, not only when you correct falling line perfectly in a building ( but also in the lampost compared to all the vertical structures) although they are perfectly parallel they appear to be diverging to the eye. Again, there are many ways to skin a cat.

you can easily correct perspective the way you’ve showed with many programs however in that case you will have straight lines, represented by the lamppost but you will introduce different distortion on the shape of the lamp on top because you cannot change the point where you’ve shot the picture. If you had shot the same picture with a camera leveled front-back and side to side but higher up than it was, the lamp on the post wouldn’t have been stretched the way it does and its rendition would be more natural. This is more evident with buildings ( where, yes, you can straighten the building lines but you cannot change the fact that the camera is at ground level) than it normally is in a “ room" In ordinary real estate photography and in interiors, a large tripod allows you to find an height which allows a wideagle lens to take perhaps more than you need and then crop the perfect shape. Tilt and shift movements were very useful when you had to make the best use of the ASA/ISO shutter speed aperture combination and the possibility to achieve good optical results while conserving maximum depth of field, but all of this has changed radically now that we can shoot at ISO 1600 with results almost as god as 50 ISO. Besides, on a aps-c camera lenses with a a shorter focal length depth of field is never as concern even at f8 Anyway, as I said, there are many ways to skin a cat.

I am sure both of you are good chaps! Cheers!

X pro 1 hadn’t received any update in a very long time and this problem only arose when the 90 hit the market. We shall see.

the OVF becomes brighter by changing the EVF, really? I have used only few times the X pro 1 and 2 but how can this be? The OVF is an Optical device not an electronic one how can EVF impact OVF (aren’t you mixing up LCD with OVF?). The next update is said to impact the “ speed” of the manual focus but probably will also enable the X pro1 oVF to reproduce a lens which didn’t exist when the camera was made.

...and yet, they maybe doing it even without our permission. Maybe they know something that we don’t? I find the concept of “ asking for” any product interesting. Marketing divisions of all manner of companies have done market research for a very long time, long before customers were ever active on internet. THis lens didn’t come out from nowhere, it would have had a developing of at least a couple of years. I don’t think that they would do it it there wouldn’t be a good reason that it would have buyers. Commerce is not a democracy where one votes beforehand with a referendum but we vote with our wallets. If we like it we buy it, if we don’t we don’t. I am sure that they (although nobody is always getting it right) might be more qualified to know what their customer want than most of us. Also, despite its popularity, FR or any other forum only ever represent a minute part of the market.

...and in any case, despite rumors in that sense, since Fuji is not (yet?) compatible with Sigma, lenses, so, methinks that what Sigma or any other make of universal autofocus lenses does, affects Fuji only in a marginal and mostly theoretical way ( would a client go for Fuji BECASE they can use a SIGMA lens with it... I doubt it!)! As for a stabilized autofocus 8-16mm we shall see what it really does. In my experience (I love wideangles) zooming between these two focal lenses will not be extremely useful. Interesting that your Camera Raw version features a correction for the 8mm samyang. I have one but my LR 5.7 doesn’t have that with a X camera. Can I bypass that? Can I upgrade Camera Raw only and add functionalities to my older LR?

much ado

I suppose the owners of the X-A1, XA-2 and XM-1 will disagree since they didn’t get any attention for them whatsoever, also the X100-s and t have been subected to very little or no love at all.

foresight?

you can enhance the luminosity of the EVF, have you done that? The next firmware update might correct this problem of the OVF.

I see, it is like king George the second But you preferred George_P Not kingly for sure, kings and royals have the prerogative to sign with their name ( which sometimes is a chosen monicker too, like for Popes) and they don’t use ordinals but might use the R to signify their kingly status if indeed are a reigning sovereign.

besides this “ question” having been put to the forum in many other threads too and so one could continue one of those without replicating things already written. http://www.fuji-x-forum.com/topic/2331-x-pro-2-vs-x-t2-what-suits-me-more/ http://www.fuji-x-forum.com/topic/2075-pre-order-x-pro2-or-wait-for-x-t2/ http://www.fuji-x-forum.com/topic/190-if-the-x-pro-2-and-x-t2-were-both-released-tomorrow/ http://www.fuji-x-forum.com/topic/2473-x-pro2-or-x-t2-why-pick-one-or-the-other/ How can one answer this question if: 1) you don’t say anything about your current camera and camera use? 2) Nobody knows, precisely, yet, what the X-T2 will be. One thing is for sure. If you aren’t just enamored with the idea of buying the latest camera, unless you can convince yourself that you absolutely NEED the joystick and the 24Mp ( what is the maximum size that you are ever likely to print with 24Mp. that you couldn’t print with 16 Mp ) you probably can wait for the X-T3. I am.

Kaizen is not an act of generosity as some folks keep on, erroneously thinking, ( and Thanking Fuji for it, it is not a “ present” there are commercial reasons behind all of it ) since there is no love for a number of other less commercially interesting X cameras with interchangeable lenses ( X-A1? X-A2? X-M1?) , who knows, maybe they will get some Fuji Love later on? They seem to have elected to improve ( whatever that will mean) manual focus also on the X-E1 and X-Pro-1 ( because there are still users out there who might want to buy new lenses on their older cameras). The X100-S-T don’t get anything because manual focus is probably e very marginal need among owners ( and they aren’t buying any new lenses anyway).

will this be mostly some uptdating of software for the new lenses? In that case I might pass on this since I am not buying any on the new lenses.

In that case you could have left the monicker to George, but , of course it is your very good right Sir to do whatever you want just as it is the one of MikeG to call himself that way. ( Please, indulge me, “ what’s it will not be kingly?” I am not familiar with this expression and its meaning or sense completely escapes me, sorry about that.)

This is still a very small forum. I am a long standing member in fora operating for over 25 years, where there are many more members than here. Name duplication, when you use a name, for your monicker, as common as Mike or George, are common. It is virtually impossible to claim “ ownership” of names or avatars (unless it is your own picture like in your case an Mike G’s case) . Using a monicker that isn’t your first name is a good way to avoid overlaps. This forum has plenty of possible things like that many seem to favor their first name. So we have a Marcel and a Marcelo, Marcelo_Valente, Marcello, marc, Marc B, Marc G. But we have Michael G ( also a potential Mike G?), Mike ( should he trump them all?), Mike B, Mike K, Mike KC ( Oh boy confusion!), MikeG, MikeM... . There is a georg and a georged, and a number of similar variation. So Mike G is as different from MikeG as any other name. Yes, a member could voluntarily relinquish his name (this forum allows you to change your monicker and the system will display your monicker history showing the changes) but with a name like that sooner or later there will be someone else accessing the system which cannot account for any minimal variation on the name Mike an G. (mike g, mike_g, mike-g, MiKEG...) These things happen and the longer this forum will exist the more these things will happen. Personally I found more annoying people whom use same avatars because THAT is really much more confusing. Relax in the word is the word. I see you’ve changed, after this conversation, your monicker from George to George_P, which I suppose means that you saw how, having a monicker with your own name only would be asking for problems some time down the line because some other George would register.

like when someone who is called George will register himself as george? How about George II? Very kingly.

I think that they already found their respective peace in accepting that there would always be more than one Mike G, MIke G, Mike g, mike G, mike g, and so forth.

This is a self fulfilling prophecy, one which we already talked about in this thread http://www.fuji-x-forum.com/topic/2726-will-fujifilm-make-the-same-mistake/ It’s a good job that at Fuji they still seem to remember that they set out to do mirrorless , small high performance camera with incredible performance at high ISO.

you can, as we said in the other thread that you’ve opened on this matter, manipulate the EXIF data of the X-T10 giving it another nome and use your computer look it up with google there are lots of X-T10 users with the same problem http://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3881058

well, altering ( changing to X-T1) or removing the EXIF will probably do the trick.

The wider portrait lens with the 35mm I get completely but I don’t understand it in the other functions and the 1.4 is not an aperture that it has many uses “ at night”. This is where mirrorless photography deeply differs from reflex one. With a reflex camera you view the picture, as projected from the lens onto the prism for composition purposes at the highest aperture ( so the 1.4 is very useful) but then shoot at the value that you need for depth of field, but with a mirroless camera the image is an amplified one (in terms of luminosity), it is the same as shooting with a videocamera, if you shoot at a completely dark scene, at some point, you will get an amplified, noisy image even at the maximum aperture ( which will have limited depth of field). I rely on the superb ability of Fuji mirrorless to shoot with ISO values which were simply to be dreaming about in the film era. Have a nice trip.

Today I went to see the new Kia dealer where I live. The previous dealership has ceased to do business and we were informed that the service could be conducted at another dealer. The place looked grotty ,small, was difficult to park (at a car dealership?) there were only a few cars and the only seller was not so kind to me. I was also enquiring about updating my car and he showed me two not so interesting and too expensive “ occasion” and wasn’t pro active thinking at all in trying to think with and for me. I left with little satisfaction and the determination to never set foor again in such place ( not even for service, I would have looked for another dealer) Across the road, there was a large dealership of Hyundai ( same company as Kia) there wer at least 30 new cars from outside and inside, plenty of parking space too and a large area for auto service. A nice guy came to meet me as I drove in, smiling and immediately trying to make me feel comfortable. He showed me a number of option and gave me the key of a car to try. This was practically the newer and more luxurious version of my own car. I went for a test drive, was very happy. Within the same day he had offered me a very good deal on the very test car with incredibly small mileage. I bought the car today. I had to think of this famous scene .