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@KateR the 90 will give a serious shock in terms of price and weight compared to the other two lenses. I am aware that this thread is about primes but really, unless you are shooting wildlife in the darkest hours, try the humble but great 50-230mm, it is so inexpensive that even if you don’t use it much it would hardly damage the plans for a 90mm.

very conveniently priced!

Yes, quite, and assuming that the lens is complete and working properly, I don’t understand what will make it impossible for you to focus at infinity, provided the adapter has the right flange distance that is... but I don’t see how an adapter which is made for Fuji FX camera and connects Minolta lenses could be messing that up. look at this @https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D6oh6ZaEWg

That would probably be a good idea Kate. I am sure they will be able to explain what’s askew. If you mount that lens on an adapter of the proper size and the lens is turning properly ( the excursion of the helicoid might be blocked by something) you should be able to have your lens focussing to infinity. I suppose yours isn’t very different from this one http://www.verybiglobo.com/minolta-rokkor-md-50mm-f1-4-legacy-50mm-which-one-is-the-best-part-5/

A danger sign serves its purpose the best if is widely understood. Pictograms are good but words are even better. I have been in areas in NY state ( let alone NYC where there are at least 5 Spanish speaking TV stations) where I have met people whose first language was certainly not English. Better be safe than sorry.

I will have to face this one day, my cataract is at a very early stage. If and when I would be facing this choice, I personally would go for option 1. I do many more things which require spectacles from far than things from close by. For reading I have plenty of corrective glasses including a very dashing pince-nez which serve me very well but currently I also need prescription glasses for far away. I also have progressive prescription spectacles but if I could chose which one to keepI would get rid of the far away vision impairment. About correcting one eye for near and the other for far away, that would drive me crazy. Good luck with the operation and all of that! I am told that nowadays this is a very simple procedure.

are you sure the lens is complete?

Something isn’t working the way it should, because lots of people seem to be using this lens with a number of adapters. If it doesn’t focus at infinity then it should be too long an adapter but from the pictures it looks like an ordinary adapter of an ordinary length. So something is the matter what that is isn’t something that I can imagine from here.

this black lists are a sorry state of affairs which affects a lot of people, nice to hear it wasn’t anything active

I hope they are giving you a refund if you paid for the 18-135 now that they will send you the 18-55 ( extraordinary good lens, yesterday I was shooting it at 23 against the 23mm f1.4 and at equal aperture you will have an hard time telling the lenses apart if not comparatively and only in the most minute of details in the corners!). The electronic shutter has its merits but it isn’t, most certainly, a shutter to use by default but only by choice, when appropriate.

Again, probably you are writing on the go and are synthesizing ...I don’t get your question. I will attempt to answer all the same. EVF OVF or LCD don’t have anything to do with the electronic shutter. This shutter is absolutely silent, the lens emits minimum sound, using the electronic shutter is not compatible with all the fuctions of the camera. You therefore use one or the other or both ( there is a mode which actually uses both) when appropriate. In order to decide when this is appropriate you need to learn to use the camera. Good luck!

Food for thought. Thanks!

Nice things! Thanks!

yes, that could be a solution, albeit an expensive one since I am not planning to use this for any other strobe function. Which trigger would work on an X camera since there aren’t, yet, dedicated ones? I’ve heard many don’t work.

another question lost either in translation or to some extreme form of synthesis. I don’t understand what you mean. Could you please articulate your question?

Very likely! Some people load their systems with prophylactic measures so intese that things go way beyond the intended use.

because it it way more silent ( not just slighltly, I said that although silent there would be some residual noise from the lens...but none of the shutter noise! ) than the mechanical shutter and can be set for faster speeds that no mechanical shutter could ever make

I don’t do any flash photography ( aside the very occasional use of the built in strobe in the cameras as a rather close up fill in device) since I am using this camera. In past years I used a number of brands of Studio Strobes on digital Canon cameras without any problem at all. Now I would like to use a slide copying device with a strobe which might have high voltage triggering. Any ideas?

Because, Fuji chose to do that this way, the electronic shutter in incompatible with certain functions of the Fuji cameras. So you may have it all all the time but then certain things wouldn’t work like with the flash or use it in focus tracking mode or you may have “ banding” in your image if you use fluorescent light or TV or computer Monitor lit scenes Here is the list http://www.fujirumors.com/disappointed-with-fuji-x-t1-firmware-4-0-here-is-why/

According to the staff and owners of the forum here, at Fuji they already read this forum so they are probably on to it as we speak.

beautiful, years ago to get that kind of stuff one needed some seriously expensive equipment ( especially for studio strobes and large format photography).

If they have worked out a better glue they will use it but I don’t see any reason to tell a consumer what they use and admit they weren’t using a good glue before. They might say we are using a better glue, or we have reformed our production line, but even that I doubt. Any decent lawyer would advise them not to admit anything for fear of liability. Why should they reveal anything? Since there has not been a safety issue here, I seriously doubt that at peripheral or central level any such information on the quality of their adhesive or the type of material used will be ever divulged in public. Only if there would be a court case involving damages litigation with someone claiming that one was poisoned by the adhesive or the skin of the camera they might be forced to reveal the material of the skin and composition of the glue ( which also wouldn’t be theirs and would come with a safety sheet of its own). I might be proven wrong but I rather doubt it. Good Luck!

never had a problem but sometimes providers and users run firewalls which misinterpreter cookies

you may have asked the head office yourself and it won’t take long for them to respond. They might offer to repair your camera at no cost, I am not sure they will reveal anything about the sensitive nature of the problem. https://contact.fuji...1477.1432290617

@Mevl, perhaps you don’t need to answer all in a different post (unless you are trying to push your post count to reach mine ) you can do this in one post and refer to the person that you are addressing by placing an @ (at) before the moniker as I did with you, this makes easier reading. I should imagine that you are somewhere in Central or Eastern Europe and that the way shops treat customers ( by not allowing them to handle the goods) is he heritage of the past which sooner or later will be abandoned. You government like mine in the Netherlands gets 21% VAT ( and a lot more in all sorts of other taxes) but this has nothing to do with the presence of a rental system for Fuji or not. It has simply to do with the customer’s base and commercial turnaround. If there would be a general call for this people would have already started doing it. You can expect that a company would get the buying price in renting camera or lenses in 6 months to a year. The risk involved, even if covered by insurance, is very high but you have an even higher commercial risk. People tend to rent only the newest cameras and the newest model of lens. Say you’ve stocked a X-E2 when it came out. Few months later the X-T1 comes on the market and all of a sudden nobody wants to rent the X-E2 anymore, so you have to sell it. Did they make the entire cost of the camera plus a return in the few months when the camera was the best of the line? Maybe, but only if there are many customers. Same goes for the lenses. You are a shop and you are offering for rent the very expensive 56mm but now Fuji feels that they need to put out the APD version, so nobody wants to hire the “ normal” version unless you discount the rental a lot. And so on. Countries where renting is very much more diffused can have this for all brands. In my experience, our shops in the Netherlands ( a densely populate country for its size but with many , many shops) with 17 million living here and only very few using camera and even less Fuji users, prefer sticking to Canon and NIkon, or otherwise the price of the rental would have to be really high. @quincy Our shops in the Netherlands are really carrying the whole range or most of the range of Fuji products which doesn’t mean that It might not be true that somewhere in Europe the situation that you are describing might be true, nevertheless availability of camera and lenses is NOT our problem when it comes to rentals. It is purely the market base which is too small! Kop_lichter.gif