milandro

I am sure they were more careful with their first cameras, then success struck.

damned if you do, damned if you don’t. If they don’t release things they are taking too long ( remember they halted the release of the camera allegedly because the software wasn’t yet ready... and then they released the camera... bugs and all?) In the olden days a watch repairer would keep the watch on his person for a few days after repairing it to make sure that both the body heat and movement wouldn’t disturb his repair and that the watch would be accurate also under those conditions. He wouldn’t trust that he had “ repaired” the watch without some extensive test. Times have changed. Some saxophone repairers overhaul a saxophone quickly and give it back to the anxious customer. After all the customer wants it quick and they are anxious too... to get the reward for their skilled job which is, as far as compensation for a day or two of work a substantial amount of money fro an artisan ( from a minimum of €300 to a an average of €500, of course the less time you spend on it the more money you make some artisans make one a day which isn’t a bad living...). One of those technicians has overhauled several saxophones for me. The routine is that he gives me the sax, I go home, play-test it comfortably for a lot longer than I could do there at his workshop, find that something isn’t right then I put a light into it ( that’s the way you see if a saxophone key and its padding leaks) mark all the leaks or other mechanical problems and bring it back for him to revise his previous revision. I know about revising a saxophone. I have taken lessons to do it not so much because I want to do it or like doing (so I don’t) but because I wanted to know what I was talking about when commenting on someone’s work. He knows I know. So, he sees what I mean, agrees, and then works a bit longer on the horn. Sometimes I have to go back again, the most I ever had to do this was 3 times. This happened also with a clarinet technician and is not something that is unique to this particular technician. I have always wondered why he doesn’t spend longer with all the saxophones and getting right the first time? I, personally, would much rather appreciate a company to test and test and test things and release cameras without bugs which showed up already after one week from the release. But that’s me.

Interesting approach. Not for the first time either, they first put out things out there ( things which had taken a really long time to develop) and then come up with a fix. This seems to be the modern philosophy which has surpassed the older “ Do things well the first time around” with a “ Kaizen-ish “ Do the job now, if necessary, apologize later! “ words which the modern CEO’s seem to love. Times are A-changin'

Mine, version M42/FX measures 27,8mm ( from back to front plate, of course there is the depth of the screw mount to subtract which is about 6mm) and all my M42 lenses focus at infinity on a Fuji

emotional & test are two words which are mutually exclusive or rather another oxymoron

exactly my sentiments, the lens “ intention” diagram is a subjective instruments and only works as an explanation tool and has such preaches only to the converts. The non converts would be absolutely unmoved by it.

I have been using this camera with an old and certainly very slow card and now with a mini-SD with adapter class 10 and well as a modern sd pro 95Mb/s and all is always been well.

exactly, could be this could be that or the other

This is Interesting, but only for people buying in the USA. This might be a local problem because guarantees are subject to local legislation. Even in the EU, where a number of general rules apply, there are localized exceptions. The general rule is that guarantees are honored by the shop where the product was bought ( should the shop fail to do that because for example they ceased operating, then it goes to the distributor and if that too is not there then there is the company which made the products) and are, generally speaking, transferable. In the NL the minimum legally valid guarantee of two years is certainly transferable ( there is also a principle guarantee in Dutch law that a product is covered by defects throughout the whole of its foreseeable useful life but it is complicated to enforce). What is not transferable is what shops sell as additional guarantee , which is, in fact, an insurance contract between the original buyer and an insurance company.

May I enquire on how did you measure the speed of the lenses that you mention and were all the lenses measured with the same method? ( camera settings, luminosity, color, texture, contrast ) Did you measure with some machine or is your evaluation based on some sort of spitzen Fingergefühl ? If you don’t set a common methodology with other testers and you don’t use a machine to do repeated measurements ( which by definition imply numerical results to compare with others) this is nothing else than anecdotes.

I am sorry for you, something must have gone wrong with your upload too, again obviously this is not something that is happening across the board because there would be many more reports here and thy don’t seem to be there and this update was certainly not an hasty one, since it took ages to bring about. The display thing might be as intended since, if I remember well, mine had also set itself to that too ( which might have been the original setting for this camera when new, I don’t know because I bought it secondhand). Sorry, I have no Idea what UI is. I always prefer to write the things out and then only when repeating a term using an acronym. There is nothing else that you can do other then doing what you’ve already done. If you cannot even rest to factory settings at this point the only thing you’ve left is having the camera serviced. Good luck.

I am sure that that will be the best next to getting some info on trip advisor and maybe buying a good guide. The place is beautiful and relax is great too.

I am afraid that if you are looking for street photography, you are looking for something that isn’t there, at least not where you are, unless you go to Santo Domingo but even there, the Dominican Republic is not as enticing as other places in that part of the world, in other words it is not Cuba. You have two national parks nearby and for sure your resort will offer you some excursion where you can see the nature there. There are palms, mangroves, and wetlands with lakes,nice waterfalls, beautiful rivers, and other things like that but you really need to be into wildlife photography and shoot mostly birds or iguanas if you want to make this a photographic adventure. For the rest, relatively nearby, there are few and far apart towns with much modern buildings but I I am not sure they are worth the trouble to visit. Other than that the beach and the sea are very nice but as it often happens, a resort holiday ( I do those too) isn’t the same as traveling around. But Again, the Dominica Republic is no Cuba. Take a look with google maps, maybe you get a better idea of the place. Have a nice holiday! https://www.google.nl/maps/place/Salvaleón+de+Higüey+23000,+Repubblica+Dominicana/@18.4971698,-68.902037,9z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x8ea8b9e714719af5:0x1aba6440788dcaac

Well, this, applied to any camera ( just add the name on the dots) that happens to be no more the latest one on the market, is one of the most sensible phrases that I have read about taking pictures. Sometimes it looks like the people who were using a camera until it was surpassed by another model forgot that this, once, was the non plus ultra of its times... and that those times were only 5 years or so ago! The X Pro1 will be able to give pleasure and make pictures for a very long time after some snobs have declared it a leper.

it is always difficult make this kind of comparisons especially because we aren’t there and you don;’t have a way to share this with someone else (unless you make a video and post it). What I might consider normal might not at all be normal to you! Plus there is always the chance that, indeed, you might have some setting which might work agains focussing speed. Does this only happen with the 35mm?

Exactly... I have done this mainly as a “special effect” also in the past and limiting it only to portraits. I have to say that I have taken to doing this much more now because, I too, have succumbed to the hype but I know all too well that total sharpness and detail were much appreciated in my photographic past. The group f64 and its manifesto would be unthinkable nowadays! “...The name of this Group is derived from a diaphragm number of the photographic lens. It signifies to a large extent the qualities of clearness and definition of the photographic image which is an important element in the work of members of this Group..." I suppose that soon someone would found the group f - (minus) 1

I have tried the 35 of a friend of mine on his X-Pro 2 and my X-T1 and I couldn’t tell much difference at all.

I don’t think that you are doing anything wrong. I never use the AF illuminator which I disable, perhaps your camera is trying to decide whether to use it or not and that slows the process down. Try without. I think that there are a lot of over-enthusiasts folks out there, once the honeymoon period will be over maybe objectivity will start settling in and people will be reacquiring a sense of reality.

yes, very nice. Although I agree with the spirit of most of the article, I find that he is preaching to the converts, since the “ lens intention diagram” used to to explain and visualize the concepts, is yes, a very nice tool but one that wouldn’t convince the trend follower. Mr. Khong says what many of us of the old generation think but don’t say because of the unpopularity of these common sense concepts. One is bound to be flamed for spousing these concept which go against the grain of the popular “ wisdom" of these times. And we know that popular wisdom goes well together with tar and feathers. Nowhere more than on fora people keep a boiling caldron of tar and a sack of feathers always at hand. The lynching mob is only one click away. The popular wisdom of the righteous is soaked with the milk and honey of hype. Hypes have been around forever, in photography as much as in everything else. Common sense is a lot less common than popular wisdom which is certainly popular but is hardly wise.

Cheers! I find it very funny that we call “ Italian” coffee, the product of a plant that is not grown in Italy and often is roasted by German ( and Italian) machines. Nevertheless it is undoubtedly and throughout to world identified with being Italian.

I suppose chroma is neologism created by coma + chromatic aberration or it may have been a typo ? In the NL is a margarine. But I digress. This lens looks interesting but I am afraid that, to me, it would be a ( cheap or relatively expensive ) a one trick pony like the 50mm f0.95 made by the same company too. The point of having a lens with such a large aperture value is to be used for the image separation given by this incredible feature. So their main justification is being used at that aperture which comes to some price ( optical and financial). Yukosteel shows us also some far away shot with some separation with the foreground and the more obvious separation of the foreground at close range. So, if bokeh is your God and you want to worship it, I suppose this is one of the best bokeh specific lenses in the world, certainly for the price, until Fuji comes with something in this range that apparently they are keeping up their sleeve. That one would be autofocus which is, I suppose, a major help for someone wanting to do this with the degree of precision required by a depth of field which at close range has to be incredibly small as we see in the examples above. depth of field, close by, at 0.95 is a couple of mm deep, not easy to do by hand, let alone if the subject is moving... and if, to shoot securely, you have to shoot stopped down, than what’s the point? It’s very funny, to me, to talk “ bokeh" with the majority of my senior citizens photographers friends, one of whom was also my boss at one time before becoming my first business partner, we had a studio together in Milan. The simply don’t understand what’s so stunning about the bokeh thing. My friend Nicola is rather more impressed by how sharp a lens is from front to back of a picture than how separated the image appears to be. He is pretty vocal about it. I won’t report here what he has to say about bokeh and bokeh users... this forum has rules against turpiloquium anyway, this video review shows hot difficult it is to focus anything moving even ever so slightly. @https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc9yYMRzelU

thanks. Was it German coffee?

thanks, it is not annoying, as such, but it has some potential implications for future searches leading to insignificant threads. There must be something which makes people (or systems, someone yesterday mentioned having this problem on a mobile device) think that the first post hasn’t gone through.

There is decidedly an increase of double threads and double posts. It involves mostly new people but obviously it is a problem, not necessarily a space one but if you have the same post twice and people start answering on both posts than threads have to be merged or otherwise you get information split in rivulets .

Cheers, all is well what ends well. In all fairness it can all get very complex once you start doing all sorts of modifications to all the buttons of any of the X camera. The super macro function of these cameras is truly spectacular and you can take some close ups which would be way more complex to take with any of the bigger brothers ( or is it sisters?). I sold the X10 to buy a X-E2 but it is s great small camera.