milandro

in the NL ( and in general EU) your contract is not with the distributor or main company but with the shop, replacements and guarantees are directly dealt by shops. Also, if you study the norms, in most EU countries, you have to right to rescind the sales contract within 15 days and money has to be returned on request, no questions asked.

conventionally one or two pixels aren’t reason to replace but this might vary from brand to brand. I always check and few years ago I had a Canon G10 which, when I checked revealed several hot or dead pixels. I sent it back to the shop which replaced it for a new copy.

funny but with me the 12 is very tight and since I hardly ever focus the lens but put it on f8 and hyperfocal and shoot without any concern with it.

There aren’t any statistics exactly because this is such a minority market ( who would pay for something that hardly generates any new money?) but you can simply look around here or ask your local shop for that matter, to find that the majority doesn’t have any adapted lenses although some might try one along the way. Even if you ask with a poll here the results will be tainted bcause 1) the typical forum dweller is hardly the typical camera customer, most of whom haven’t even ever heard of a fuji forum 2) most people who would actually care to respond are actually those who own and use adapted lenes. The great majority of Fuji camera users use Fuji autofocus lenses, though yes there is a small base among ( the yes dedicated) camera aficionados who would have a large number of adapted lenses. Johant above uses classic shave with soap brush and safety razor , this is exactly the type of person whom would also use a classic adapted lens. However one may argue that number of these aficionados is much less among the Fuji crowd that it might be among the full frame crowd because FF cameras make a better use of the lenses . A 24mm is a wideangle on a FF and only a normal focal for us. Which makes the majority of the cheap lenses which were ever produced not all that useful for us because of the smaller sensor. On the other hand, the least popolar lens of the past, the one everybody got with his camera and used little, the 45 to 58mm, has assumed a completely different role since it became a focal length for portraits. I’ve never ever seen so many 50mm for sale! In my part of the world there are a few who buy and sell “ heritage” lenses secondhand but prices are generally and for the most ordinary lenses, very low. Yes Leica are still relatively expensive and ultra-luminous lenses, ultra-wide ( which were always expensive) are sought after by a very few specific crowd of dedicated users. Minolta autofocus lenses are popular because they can be used without too many problems directly on Sony camera. On the whole, despite all manners of adapters being there, there are only so few people (not too many) who make any regular use outside of a geek community. I have 3 different adapter , one dumb, one tilt and one focal reducer. Use them only in portrait photography and that’s that. Life is already complicated as it is. In my part of the world one can still buy an Helios 58mm f2 ( sought after for its quirks) at €5 in a thrift shop and €25 from a “ dealer”. I did more than once by the way. Yes there is a category of expensive lenses, but these are very few and mostly concern a very limited range of “ cult” lenses . There are tons of undedevalued-non ( Cosinon, Chinon, Tomioka, ....) which change hands for pennies. The secondhand ads are, yes, there but sales are slow to say the least ( I look and find the same things over and over again). We have a huge street market once a year in the NL when the King has its birthday. In years past ( until 15 years ago) there were always camera specialists at this markets ( year on year). This year ( and the two before) I was looking for analog lenses, true the weather was bad so fewer people were actually on the street but of the 3 towns that I visited there were NO camera and lenses specialist ( and there weren’t any the yoear before and the one before of that either). In 3 locations where I went, especially in Alkmaar which was open two days, also the evening before, there were one of two people offering cameras at all And let’s not mention the fact that generally, any attention is limited only to “ primes, zooms are normally not bought because focussing a “ pump” zoom is a serious pain in the back side. The omnipresent 35-70 or 70-210 sold in their millions in the ’80 where are they now? The majority camera bodies have seriously ended up in landfills. Yes a few mostly young people have returned to analog photography but the great majority don’t. I have in on good authority anyway, from a shop in my country , who was for at least 20 years one of the most important shops not only in the NL but also abroad dealing in analog photographic, told me that they had to reconvert to microscopy and that they only occasionally do any sales of prime photographic lenses. You can say that these are unsubstantiated opinions, that might be, but so are yours. Have fun with you adapted lens, thrift is goo, but most people are not thrifty.

The large majority of people here and elsewhere don’t use adapted lenses, recycling , if that how we want to call it, is really very very minimal. I own 3 adapted lenses an 5 non adapted ones but I consider myself a geek, I know many who won’t even contemplate using non autofocus lenses.

in fact it is made for direct use, without spectacles, the reason being the excellent dioptric correction built in the camera.

At this point we can safely assume there will be one. Whether it will be a success remains to be seen. Frankly speaking, unless they would offer this at a price that no one could refuse , I don’t think I will be in the market for one of those.

Frankly speaking for studio portraits you would always be better off with any dedicated portrait lens rather than a zoom. If the 90 is what you want go for it, for me it is way to heavy.

have we not been there already? http://www.fuji-x-forum.com/topic/2122-medium-format-rumors/ http://www.fuji-x-forum.com/topic/1157-medium-format-fuji-tell-me-the-first-question-fujirumors-should-be-able-to-answer-for-you/ http://www.fuji-x-forum.com/topic/259-let’s-drop-the-rumor-bomb-fujifilm-is-forging-a-medium-format-camera-source-right-in-past/page-4 I too think that it might not be a wise move and that would end up confusing the market with yet another top model ( X-pro 2, X-T2 and Y-MF-1...or whatever they are going to call this) Beside that MEDIUM format might be a two APS-C 24 MP... stitched together for all we know ( of you think it is impossible, well, I am not the first person to think this possible ) and a fixed lens camera ( like their old 6x 9 or 6 x4.5) wouldn’t necessarily open the market to a new completely different line of lenses.... But all of this has been discussed at length before. Patrick seems to be “ in the know” and he says it will come, he owns a forum called “ Fuji Rumors” which qualifies him better than anyone else to make informed guesses. We will know when we get there, or rather when Fuji releases the first camera that has “ escaped “ their control ...not a moment before

Perhaps, at least in Fuji’s case quite a bit might depend on a very liberal interpretation of the word MEDIUM format

Absolutely! The weight or size argument doesn’t hold water. Still I’ve sold it because I was practically only using it at 10mm. Got myself a Samyang 12mm and a 18-135 for a lot less than I’ve sold the lens. No regrets.

I don’t have that experience, as stated above,I know for a fact that Yamaha saxophones such as the 275 model which were made in China and Indonesia and Japan are made to the exact same specifications and tolerances. Yet, they are affected by the same kind of blanket of unproven statements and customers believe what internet so called experts tell them and repeat hearsay with no personal knowledge of facts. It is easily verifiable with the three saxophones made in the three different countries put side by side. Some time ago they were all present on the market. Now You will only find the Chinese made ones, if you get the new product. I am an Apple-Mcintosh user since 1986, I have therefore used Apple computers made in Cuppertino-US, Ireland and China. Never felt that any product was made at any different quality standard. Unless we have pictures of a shabby assembling line of the Fuji facilities i China we should give them credit, unless we have prove of the contrary, of running as tight an operation in China as they are in Japan. Which brings me to another point. We’ve had several reports of new Japanese high-price lenses made by Fuji Japan ( I had a 10-24mm with some black stuff in it) and even of WR lenses with specs of dust ( which could have only come from the factory), I would be way more worried about THAT than of inconsistencies in the cheaper range of lenses anyway!

no, I don’t have that. Having said this, both my cameras ( X-T1 and X-E2) have a slight “ wiggle” which you can feel when focussing a manual lens, not only the Samyang but ANY lens. The Fuji “ wiggle” is a rather common occurrence and I believe it exists on any fuji camera, but it is not the lens.

it looks almost like the sensor is hanging lose and is twisted

Don’t buy stuff that you don’t need is a very good one. I keep telling myself that, although I am guilty to chose convenience over reason many times but that’s an entirely different forum... . Talking about cameras and digital photography. I have decided that I have pretty much reached a satisfactory level of quality for my needs and that from now on, at least until something radical happens, I no longer need to upgrade any computer ( hardware and software) or camera ( hardware). The system is pretty much self contained as it is and everything works. If Fuji will give away some more firmware updating I will also carefully consider what that means for me before taking it on board because maybe, if I upgrade to get something that I don’t want or need that might make necessary for me to use a different program ( Aperture, before, opened without any hitch loads of RAF files at the same time but since a few upgrades it will open them only one by one) while I don’t want to since I am happy with the Aperture-NIK combination that I have. Remember that before of upgrading for something that would be of no importance for your pictures , the greed of having something that you haven’t got might cost you or dimply create a fuss. When I upgraded the system of my computer not only I lost the free acrobat reader but even acrobat pro ( which gave me some interesting features) simply because the new version was incompatible with the system ( and that kind of thing happens all the time so a friend of mine upgraded to El Capitan and lost all he had stored within Aperture).

Although there is quite a bit of tongue in cheek in reporting my findings, and just in case you might be serious, I’ve shown how someone built a Nikon F wooden simulacrum around a digital camera So, I suppose it is possible to do probably alongside these lines where someone took a Canon and made it into a waist level camera look alike http://petapixel.com/2015/01/12/canon-powershot-n-transformed-waist-level-rolleiflex-style-camera/ So I am sure that you could come up with a box looking like an Hasselblad while containing your camera choice with the LCD screen flipped up ( if it flips up) and make it into a Hasselblad look alike.

Of course there is a Dutch street photography but you need to be aware of the unwritten rules. An acquaintance of mine was taking pictures of his kids at school as they came out from class and were playing in the playground. The other parents took objection to this ( kids were fully clothed and were engaging in normal activities) and called the Police on him. He was briefly interrogated and they told him that the school wouldn’t allow him to take pictures of his (and other) kids on the school private grounds. The experience scarred him, he felt insulted but also violated. Unfortunately he took this feeling to the grave with him because he died for unrelated natural causes a few years after that. Several years ago I was in London and was visiting the Tate Modern Museum. There they had an art installation where people could glide down from a considerable height. I wanted to take pictures of some kids shooting out at the end of the installation. After I took a couple of motion blurred shots a teacher/minder came to me and asked me to stop because the parents of the children would have objected and she would have to call the police if I were to go on. Yes, a sad state of affair. But it isn’t that I want to take pictures necessarily without asking. A couple of years ago I was strolling alongside the river IJ in Amsterdam around the new area where the film museum is. I didn’t want to intrude and I asked a couple of times if I may take a pictures. My initially courteous request was invariably met with a “ no” so I went on took pictures and asked no more questions.

there were, in times, several brands and as you rightly said it was an undeveloped prototype in 16 years they could have made some progress. Beside it would be working completely differently if they simply put on touchscreen menus on a replaceable back ( most good cameras had one or could be modified to have one), like the inventor of the Frankencamera did ( another prototype) https://frankencamera.wordpress.com https://vimeo.com/104858527

Ok, you are really desperate, you’ve shot a picture on your phone and you want to print it and you can’t find any supermarket with a printing machine although they are everywhere. You take this out of you pocket and you print a bad picture directly from the screen of your phone. Happy?

an award for most idiot-nik accessory to a camera has to be given to the Hassel-nut which transforms your Iphone into an I-phone with an Hasselblad attached

one of the latest even won an award 15 years ago, never went anywhere. I wonder who bought this product to KILL IT

Radical and revolutionary thinking Johan, let’s keep things upgradeable instead of throwing them out all the time? Ecology and marketing don’t go together. The majority of telephones and tablets even when they are perfectly suitable to be used for years and years are physically prevented to be upgraded even though they are still capable of performance way past their sell by date. I have bought for a pittance an older tablet (3 years old) and have been trying to root and upgrade it. A nightmare! I gave up. The latest Mac Pro generation is not consumer upgradeable, aside from adding RAM, everything else come via Thunderbolt and cost you a lot more that it could if you were working like you were with all the versions until the last. They keep changing things so that at some point, machines that are still perfectly working cannot be used anymore. Fuji puts out o new model on the market. Often the improvements will be minor but the press and the bloggers will tell you that the newest sibling is the best thing after sliced bread and hot cakes and will sell, mostly among people who will keep doing the same kind of snapshots for which nothing like these newest camera would be strictly necessary. Most people have more money than sense. Fact is that digital technology is great but puts all the levers in the hand of the makers. If all of a sudden your perfectly working but no longer upgraded program no longer can open the files of your newest camera then you need a new camera... and so on. Until a few years ago, you could have bought one camera and kept on using it until you died, those cameras are still here. You know why no-one ever carried out the original idea op a digital insert which you could put in any camera? Because you would have been able to use the old cameras which are now piles and piles of still working but useless objects!

Fuji UK seems to have a different way to deal with things like these, but remember that cashbacks are only for UK residents ( just ask a friend). https://www.fujifilm.eu/uk/products/digital-cameras/promotions

well you can’t miss the camera that you don’t have. As you know I have the X-T1 and the X-E2. I am happy with both and would miss having the EVF of the X-T1. However I am quite happy to use the X-E2 very often because is smaller and lighter. I am taking that camera on holiday, for example. On a completely different note. I bought to do a test a Minolta X-300 (film analog) and by peeking through the lens my first thought was “ Wow” this is sharp!

The various European Fuji are usually stingy but there have been cashbacks on and off lately but they appear to have been stopped at this moment in time at least for lenses alone while tyou can find them on cameras and cameras with lenses. http://www.kamera-express.nl/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/org-ke_nl-Site/nl_NL/-/EUR/ViewParametricSearch-SimpleOfferSearch?webform-id=WFSimpleSearch&DefaultButton=findSimple&SearchCategoryUUID=&WFSimpleSearch_NameOrID=Fujifilm+90mm+&findSimple=Zoek