milandro

you are right, mileage differs between different models

From what I gather from the shop where I buy my stuff the X-T1 is an excellent seller, they tell me that it has exceeded all predictions

Sturdy is also a relative concept. Relative to what you carry. What is sturdy enough to carry a 200gr. compact camera might not be sturdy for a 5 Kg. equipment All bags that I’ve ever owned were sturdy enough to carry several cameras and much more around but what is the point of a bag like that when I am carrying my 350gr. body with a zoom on it? But I love large bags, bags with easy access to camera and lenses which are stored not on top of each other. I can’t stand small bags with camera and lenses placed so that you have to hold one thing while digging the other out. I don’t understand the use of a backpack of the type that you have to put it on the floor (some you can carry in front of you and take things out, still not for me but I get those) in order to take camera or lenses or both out. But that’s me. If that is what makes you feel comfortable, please, by all means buy it.

they could do only the front since at the back of the X-T1 there is little “ skin” to speak of

I have both the X-T1 and the X-E2 and they are not very different to operate to me anyway and I actually know more people with an X-T1 than one of the “ simpler" cameras.

By the numbers of people who own a X-T1 ( and many of us have already declared themselves to be in the market for an upgrade, must have an itchy wallet, because they can’t wait for the X-T2 to come out) it should be an interesting market too, yet, nothing there!

humor is the salt of the earth too

That is indeed one of my question to them and, in fact, the whole point of this thread. Why haven’t they updated any of the Fuji models past the Fuji X-E2? There must be a reason. I don’t know whether they will share this reason.

Nobody seems to know anything. I’ve emailed the company. If they answer me I might share their plans.

Well, this sums it all up, really. We are different in all manner of ways: gender, age, upbringing, education, religion or the lack of it, country we live in, the food we eat, the way we shoot, the things we shoot and so on... so it is hardly strange that there are so many brands out there and that we like something very much and hate other things with the same passion. I have a “ witz” A ship is wrecked and Jacob, a Jewish castaway arrives on an desert island on his own without any mates. He makes the most of it and builds a house but after some times he feels the need to build a “ shul”, a synagogue, a place where he can worship. Few years after he was shipwrecked, a ship comes to the desert island and the people of the ship find him there. He had built a number of facilities to keep busy and stay comfortable and they found that he had built TWO shuls! They ask him why he bult two buildings and he said: “ You see, that is the place where I go to pray and the other is the place where I would never set foot in! " We like the things we like and we even like to dislike certain other things. It’s the human nature.

not bad, but the lack of a front grip would bother me

Cheers, I feel your pain... unfortunately I too understand that shooting in certain positions is painful. Maybe some third party maker could have made it but if they thought there was any money to be made with this they would have done so already. I also think that it is unlikely that Fuji will ever come up with a right angle viewfinder attachment themselves for the same reason so, unless you are going to do some DIY, I don’t see predicament having any solution. In a way I see the X-T1 as a camera somehow inspired to the Pentax LX, that camera had many a beautiful solutions for this problem.

Well, unfortunately, no shops carries these bracket around here. So, try before you buy is not possible. If they did the price would be quite a bit higher than my grip was. I bought it a less than €20 including shipping from China.

I don’t think that any fuji original plate is a L shaped one. But sooner or later someone will make one.

well, of course you have the LCD to help you with that. I am not sure whether that is accurate but some products claim they have adapter plates for Fuji although they mean the older S series. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seagull-aumento-cámaras-Minolta-Olympus/dp/B004CGE90U It might be possible to buy use the original eyecup of the camera as an “ adapter” to use one of those 90 degrees viewfinder ( and buy yourself an extended one) or to have the adapter bit 3D printed for you.

well, of course we all do what we do and need what we need. You certainly know best what is good for you. So if you need to be further away from the subject and get a 1:1 picture, with or without the help of close up lenses or macro tubes, that the 60mm might not be for you. I am very happy with the 60mm both as a portrait lens ( one of many, together with my other, al more or less, tweaked or adapted manual lenses ) and and a close up macro lens ( as macro as I need to go) with or without the aid of close up lenses. I have discarded the enormous lens hood ( and found my own alternative to that) and it is one of the lightest ( and sharpest) and most compact lenses of the X system. One word of advise over the close up filters. You might have noticed that I didn’t include a picture of the +10 Polaroid close up. I didn’t drop it and cracked it. The + 10 is there but it might very well no be, if at all possible, don’t use it.

+5

a few examples shot, autofocus, f 4 with the 60 no close up and the the following pics with a +1 +2 and +5 cheap Polaroid filters

One thing that is really puzzling is that the ones for X-T1 and X-T10 are by far cheaper than the ones for X-E1 X-E2 which are often 100% (or more) more expensive There are still plenty on offer for X Pro 1 but I think that they aren’t ( are they?) compatible for X Pro 2, in any case no seller of these L plates advertises them for X pro 2

No, mine for the X-T1 came from Aliexpress ( If memory serves me right ) but they are all over the place. The X Pro 2 aren’t yet available but I am sure that they will be

nothing poorly made about mine

I am , but I hold dual nationality and I am also Dutch

Pressure is a bad thing. Market or otherwise. A proverb that I was told when I was young says that the hasty cat mother produces a litter of blind kittens

Don’t worry Methodphoto, soon there will be someone making a version for this camera too. I can just picture them recalibrating their CNC aluminum cutter. I agree, I have had two L brackets for my X-T1 the first a Sunaway, a bit more expensive bought at a local shop and the second one on Aliexpress , the latter was as cheap as inexpensive fried potatoes ( if there is still any such thing since chips are expensive nowadays!) and it is very good indeed. Can't complain. There seems to be folks out there who do 3d printing of L brackets. I’ve seen one for a X-T1, felt nice and lightweight, don’t know the price. Maybe, they are available somewhere too.

I just look at what I consider to be the facts. You may, of course read them differently. Diversity of opinions is the salt of the earth, I don’t need or want to convince anyone that I am right, I just speak my mind. All their previous cameras were introduced and upgraded in due time and course without having to resort to repair software to remove bugs. The success of the X cameras is a fact. Fuji stand tall and are counted in a world where, prior to this series they had very little significance. Now they are a brand to be reckoned with. BUT. The one before last X-T1 firmware upgrade contained a bug which needed being corrected and soon after the introduction of the X-Pro 2 new firmware is needed. That hadn’t happened before. Things don’t happen, twice, by chance.