milandro

If one doesn’t use a computer on a daily base one should never pretend to have any form of e-commerce. If you have a site which you use for selling your products with an email address, you need to respond at least within 24 hours and if you are on holiday you need to have an automatic response system which alerts the sender that you are on holiday. There is no excuse for behaving otherwise.

How very nice for you. Meanwhile, for the rest of the common mortals, prevent aggravations by limiting lens change and ideally use two bodies with the lenses that you would want to foreseably change.

Hopefully it will all pass and you will get better. Unfortunately we all have to deal with the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune at some point in our lives although sometimes one fames more than his fair share. Using the NIK suite in combination with Aperture gives me a lot of flexibility and actually I am very pleased of the results. LR has incredible archival capabilities and, I think, that that would have been a great tool to have when I was working for the Royal Dutch library where we where handling tons of images which needed being archived. The only thing that I miss is the lens correction. On the other hand we've used all manner of lenses for what they were, without any corrections, throughout the history of photography and learned to work WITH them.

The one focal length lens approach can be refreshing but a tad constrictive. If one has never been to a place and wants to shoot as many as possible images without feeling that the lens choice constricts one performance one needs to broaden that and the best way to do it is to have a zoom. The 18-135, although being a very large and heavy lens, would certainly be my choice. Personally, unless I have a more than good reason to take a lens such as the 35mm 1.4 ( what is that you are going for sure do that would require you to use this lens? Theater? Concert?) I wouldn’t bother and keep it limited to the 18-135.

Dust is certainly a problem, but it doesn’t have to be dust on sensor to mess with you! When you use an extreme wideangle (10-24 at 10 or 12mm) on a Fuji aps-c X camera with interchangeable lenses, even dust on the real lens element becomes visible if you close the aperture ar 8 or thereabouts. Also thinking that a mirror and a shutter would necessarily protect your camera from dust on the sensor is just wishful thinking. If that were the case no reflex camera would ever have dust on sensor and I have had plenty on those cameras too. If you change lens in the desert on a windy day is never a good idea, mirrorless or otherwise!

I didn’t dare going there for fear to be flamed, once again, over the use of the 60mm for portraits and macro shots. One of the best lenses in Fuji’s panoply. But when people around these parts and elsewhere dismiss it as an halfbaked thing (and probably never used it) then I think that washing the ears of a donkey is often a waste of water soap and time.

Any print has to be viewed at the proper distance this is always been a norm with any printing method, but a little knowledge is dangerous, Alexander Pope wrote in a poem of his, and you see that people substitute sense with the unwitting tendency to overkill. More & bigger is better. A little knowledge might go a very long way if it is knowledge and not just pretend.

or all the possible variations of focal lenses between 5 and 5000mm

I have a X-t1 and a X-E2 with the software updated to the latest version. Both cameras work perfectly with Aperture and with LR. The X-E2 is virtually the same as the X-T10, so much so that, lacking a book including the newest software on this camera, people selling the X-T10 alternative manual recommend X-E2 owners who have updated their camera to the latest system to use the X-T10. Aperture does the “ unsupported format” thing If you try to open several images, whilst ,open one by one, will do it. Mine does. Good Luck! Mike G. You are indeed going through a very rough patch. All the best!

certainly not. But, looking things in a positive light, now it is time to update your avatar!

Hardly. No system can possibly equate Mike G to MikeG and refuse someone to register the second moniker if the first already exists. I have news. If anyone comes around with the wish to register under Mike G ( two spaces in between) the system will create another identity, also mike g (lower case) will be, then another identity. But the avatar of Mike G, I think, is pretty distinctive and I bet that the two of you look pretty different. Happy Days!

12mm 16-55 56mm

That print converts into a 50 x 70 cm and the fact that that it is a great print uit of 16Mp. doesn’t surprise me at all (nice shot, by the way). My lab tells me they can easily do an exhibition quality print at 100 x 150 cm and other labs assure me that they can reach 300 cm on the long side with great quality too. I would be still interested to see if there is any print size that 16Mp cannot print satisfactorily but that you can print well with 24Mp. because I am not convinced that there is any edge whatsoever but just a theoretical one. I’d like to know how many among us (and how often) do ever print anything anywhere near these sizes of if it is just “ bigger = better” kind of thing which has to be the equivalent of my camera goes to 11! In Dubai there are so many speed cameras that buying a supercar to drive around ( if not in the desert) is an exercise in frustration but generally means: " I have 1000 HP not because I can drive fast but because I can afford it" Remember Walter Matthau? He could never drive as fast as he should to keep his Ferrari from forming carbon deposits.

Nonsense, mirrorless cameras have a shutter. They can also be used with the Electronic Shutter but there are MANY quirks (which lots of people aren’t generally aware of until they bump into it). The Shutter cannot be used as a protection because shutters which perform at this speed are delicate things. It would be even more of a problem if anything were to touch it, it would certainly break and replacing it would mean if not total loss a very hefty bill because the camera needs to be dismounted completely ( probably they will completely replace the whole of the inside of the camera) The sensor, as you’ve seen can easily be cleaned. The shutter can’t. I would have been destroyed. Nothing is foolproof.

Like... a new camera?

so, if we “ vote” yes, they will develop it and if we vote not they won’t? Seriously, to me no lens can be wide-angle enough so, great idea if they want to renovate their range subtracting a few millimeters and adding WR to a lens, why not. Having an autofocus lens in this range will be absolutely pointless but it wil probably turn out to be the quickest (and most useless) AF in the range. I am not in the market for this lens.

I don’t understand it. Make something look like it was warn by use while you haven’t is a fake whichever way you turn it. The scratches that came with use and time on a camera have memories behind them, the ones you put with steel wool or sandpaper don’t. It’s just a look, a pose. Nothing else. It’s like wearing a medal that you buy at a street market ( in many places it is illegal by the way) and that haven’t earned, but that you just wear because it looks nice on your chest. I have scars on my body, one very long on my right arm was the result of me, at the age of two, standing on a glass table and “ conducting” music. I fell, the glass table shattered and put a cut almost as long as my forearm in my flesh. Should I perhaps pretend that it came with a more interesting story? ...That it was a knife cut gained while fighting in the streets of NYC? But it wasn’t... and so, I tell it as it is. A child’s accident, but with a proper REAL memory attached to that. Stictches and all! On the same arm, lower than that there is another scar. I got that one by climbing a stone wall. I slipped and nearly fell off the wall and a long nail protruding from the wall went into my forearm and I was hanging from it until a friend came and pulled me by my arm, rescuing me. On my right arm I was bitten by a dog who also bit me and my shoulder and neck. There was a court case as a result,. I have the memory of me, as a kid, who had to explain to the judge how it went. We won the case. My father asked for the dog not to be put down, (which nowadays would be in some parts of the world mandatory) as an act of generosity and humanity. He refused any money which he could have got from the dog’s owner. All these scars and the stories which go with it are part of my “ look” and of my “ persona”. But they are all only interesting because they are true parts of my life. They are my history, right or wrong, good or bad. They are there for a reason. I lived through them. I am my scars. I didn’t, one day, just decided to look like I had an interesting past as a boy ( I have many more scars) and took a knife and worked on myself to pretend I had a past. I really went through all of those experiences. But this is a different era. One where looks are better than real things. I understand that.

Even though one is of course free to do whatever one wants with their own things...There is a world of difference in between these two stances. Placing a scratch or a dent on anything to avoid obsessing on its perfection and scratching the entire body of a new camera to simulate long term use are in different leagues. There is the myth of the “ humility block” attributed to several groups or professions who are all said to include purposely made asymmetries and imperfections in clothes or works of art or craft to enhance and signify that perfection pertains only to G-D. Quite a different league than in carefully scratching your camera (watch, guitar, or anything you wish to scratch) to pretend it has been through the wars and has seen miles and miles before looking as it does. As said before, like for relic guitars and pre ripped jeans, there isn’t anything like nonchalant or dégagé about then, quite the contrary. It is a deliberate act to pretend that something has had an history that it hasn’t.

not only, when you do that you pay for a guarantee that is now made void.

very cool, black rubber is the new metal. The real skater’s look, tarmac abrasion.

I am sure that a couple of deep scratches would greatly improve the looks. Try brushing a couple times some tarmac with it.

why?

With which lens (focal length?) it “ fun" to use and more importantly, why would you use it (aside from “fun”) if not making your life difficult without a reason. If you have a sufficiently wide lens you don’t need to tilt the lens up (or dow) and just lift or lower vertically your tripod with the camera straight ( so no need for shift) and the 12 mm at f8 has plenty of depth of field and image quality to not ever want to use any tilt unless you are strapped for ISO ( and since the incredible results of the Fuji sensor at ISO1200 and higher you would have to shoot at night real estae photography to need to use the tilt movements) I have used extensively camera of all formats with movements of the front and of the back ( when available) but the smaller the camera the more fiddly it gets. Besides, what it the minimum focal length that you can use with any of these adapters on a Fuji camera? Can you use wideagles on one of these adapters? I mean lenses which on an aps-c will still be a wideagle? I don’t think so.

LR 5.7 handles Fuji raw files without any conversion. Mine does anyway. Are you sure you are up to date with Camera raw? As for Raw processing there are tons of alternatives and if one is only going to be flamed by the people who like other raw processors. If you have an older mac you should have Aperture. Aperture works just fine and now that the NIK suite is free you can add that to the plug ins.