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well, “ silent" is a relative concept. Even with the electronic shutter you will always hear some minimal noise coming from the camera produced by the lens. These noises depend on the model of the lens and the particular copy that you own and the aperture that you are at and if you are focussing always at the same distance or the lens has to focus close and far away. I have been shooting with he X-T1 ( which for the purpose of noise will be the same or very close to the X-Pro 2 since the X-T1 has an electronic shutter too) during the recording of a live CD and there was very little noise even with the 35mm f1.4 which they all say is very noisy, mine wasn’t.

I don’t suppose that writing on a forum is an activity done in a hurry anyway, many on all manners of sites do that of starting threads without checking whether there is one not another thread on any particular matter, the reasons are various and I am not going to say that one does anything wrong because this forum doesn’t have anything in the rules saying that you shouldn’t. It’s only a matter of common sense to not spread information thin among every time a new thread. Even if you are not the initiator of any thread, your post will be seen, not only: the people whom had been answering before will probably be alerted ( I have an automatic alert to any thread I have partaken). and you have more chance to get a response that way than otherwise. Good luck!

Unfortunately camera rental hasn’t the same diffusion in Europe as it has in the U.S. and if there are services like these at all... they might only offer the most popular strains of cameras and I am afraid that that hardly ever includes Fuji. Even shops which carry Fuji don’t necessarily rent it as, for example, my favorite shop http://www.kamera-express.nl/over-ons/verhuurservice1/ In OP’s situation, who’s from a country where apparently the shop won’t even touch the camera which they sell, renting seems to me an extremely unlikely scenario, but who knows!...

Yep, @darknj, you aren’t seeing double. This has already being discussed at least once. http://www.fuji-x-forum.com/topic/730-xf-90mm-lens-elements-rattling/ Although there is no compulsion on this board to do so and the management doesn’t even frown upon opening a thread for one picture only, checking the search function before opening threads might be a good idea, simply to keep information relevant and at hand. If this is diluted among many threads it becomes more difficult for all to access all of the collective wisdom.

They don’t allow people to hold the cameras in your country? I am very sorry for you. Peculiar to say the least! How about shoes or clothes or a couch ? I suppose you are allowed to try those on or seat in it before buying? So why not allowing holding a camera? Once the camera is used as a display item they cannot sell it as a new camera anyway even if untouched... or do they? The 16 must be a good choice and the 35 will be too, personally I would think the gap needs also a 23 right in the middle. As for not wanting any zooms, well, I’ve just tried the 23 against the 18-55 at 23 and you will be really hard pressed to tell the difference! But to each his own! I am not sure of what you mean by “ Xpro cameras looking great as they do not have any advertisements on them” I think that you might mean that the brandname on the cameras is not very big? I am not bothered by that! Nor am I bothered by how big it says Kia or Mercedes on a car and whether it does have a badge or not at all. I also don’t rip labels off my clothes. I don’t do it because they are cheap and I might be ashamed of them nor would I, at my age, show off, parading with brands of any type, clothes, cars or cameras. It is a non issue. I don’t understand what’s badly designed in the Fuji site? Ok, it is not particularly entertaining or interactive ( although the part where you can play with all their lenses and compare them with each other is fun!) but it is very informative nonetheless. http://fujifilmxmount.com/comparison/en/test-our-lenses/ Here all the cameras http://www.fujifilm.com/products/digital_cameras/ and here a particular popular model of the moment. http://www.fujifilm.com/products/digital_cameras/x/fujifilm_x_pro2/ Plenty of pictures, data and information. What is it that you are missing? Stories about cameras? Here, plenty of entertainment http://fujifilm-x.com/en/x-stories/ And yes, not many tourists might be nice, but hurricanes are not, especially for a population living in constant fear for their lives. But yes, you may get some dramatic pictures.

I have no idea of how it is possible to sell camera and lens for half the price that they sell it here. €2689 = $2965 you are saying you can pay $1653! But if that is the case you should buy plenty and sell them in the UK and in the EU

well, considering this lens normally retails, on it own, in Europe even if bought in a set, for a LOT more than that ( in the NL, €899 lens alone in a kit with a X-Pro 2 €2,689) Buying a set at a;most HALF of the cost here seems to offer a huge possibility to make some serious money. IF that price is correct, can only be a bargain.

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rumors, makes good titles, nothing has yet been decided and in any case not for next summer, and most probably won’t ever happen. Same would apply to Venice and Florence ( in Venice would be a lot easier and yet...). There have been rumors for ages there to do the same thing in the same way. The problem is enforcement. They never did it there. Anyway, should you be interested this article of a local paper says that it was something that someone, the president of the National Park ( hardly a major political authority) simply hypothesized reducing the number of the visitors by centralizing the booking of the visitors from abroad and of course the National and international press blew this up to the point that all manner of tourist organizations started to revoke their bookings while NOTHING has been done yet! The local population is angry and against this rumor, which is not even a plan. It was just an interview when someone said that the present situation might lead to that! This is the usual way rumors in the press work. Also it would only impact people who book holidays directlly there but there will never be the possibility to check day trippers ( whose impact is the largest) just coming down with a car from any major city east or west of the 5 terrre. http://www.ilsecoloxix.it/p/la_spezia/2016/02/19/ASGROxdB-iniziano_disdette_operatori.shtml

Unless the newest improvements are of real consequence to you and your photography, save yourself money on the body and buy lenses which you will be able to use on generation 3 even better than generation 2. Personally I have the X-T1 and X-E2 and I am going to skip X Pro 2 and X-T2, then, who knows, we shall see if I’m still alive by then! You could buy now a X Pro 1 or X-E2 body for peanuts and take great pictures. IF and when you’ll ever need more than that you will see later on what to do. 16, 23, 35, 56 or 120mm ( when it comes out and if you have the money) Or.... keep it ultra simple and go 16-55mm + any long zoom you may need or can afford. Cuba in October? Hurricane season... maybe windy?

Not true... but maybe they should! The country where I was born is literally been worn out by the so many ( and growing) visitors not all of whom are respectful of the place.

Goodbye Efisio.

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Could you share the content of these questions and be so kind as to inform us on whether they would answer them and how? It seems to me that Fuji has had, at first, and incredulous and dismissive attitude towards the problem. This apparently was the attitude in the beginning and may still persist at a peripheral lever because many had been charged and may still be charged for the repair. However, whenever someone has complained to the main office in Tokyo satisfaction in the form of a free replacement was offered, even overruling previous fees charged prior to the complaint, but as far as I know there was never a form of explanation which disclosed the nature of the problem or its diffusion. In other words, we don’t know why this happened and whether this affected a particular batch or , in time, it would affect all cameras. I can only suppose that they have investigated the problem but my hunch is that if they have ( as I think they must have done) they aren’t likely to share the reason why this happened. They might tell us whether the problem affects cameras of a particular batch though but I am sure that their legal department would advise them against a generalized disclosure or admitting any manufacturing defect simply because that would open the door to all sorts of claims while solving the problem on a one to one base would be the thing which any lawyer would advise his customer to do unless something really serious has happened ( like a camera that stops working in the middle of a wedding shoot because of a defect but this is not the case here!).

Well, as you’ve seen some people have this problem of the camera shedding its skin but not everybody has it. Why that is, it is not publicly known. At least I am not aware of any reasons why this happens to some cameras and not to others. Fuji is not admitting there is or there was anything wrong with some or all the cameras and tend to simply replace the skin if and when it comes off. It could be a nice idea to have a poll and see how many of us have a camera with and a camera without this problem.

cameras don’t take pictures, photographers do. It’s not the camera, but what you do with it.

There would be more noise if you stop down the lenses. With adapted lenses you may want to adopt a style where you focus at full aperture and stop down just before shooting. But that is pretty much all you can do. Also autofocus lenses are stopped down while you use them, if there is a way to avoid this I don’t know, because it has never bothered me I’ve never looked into solving a problem that isn’t there, for me. Having a noisy image in the electronic viewfinder or the liquid crystal display screen is, I am afraid,when shooting below a certain light level unavoidable. The X-E1 has also a much slower refreshing rate but other than that and the increased resolution, upgrading won’t do much or anything at all to improve the noise at low light level.

unfortunately no Fuji firmware can be brought back to a previous version, you can only go forward, not back.

Hello Chris, it has been some time since you’ve bought this adapter. Are you still happy with it? I have some concerns about using the regular aluminum bayonet adapters because I had some problems with an über-cheap one bought for a pittance on line. It did work, as far as performing what it was supposed to do, but I have the suspicion that some dirt on the sensor might have come from the adapter itself. Now I wouldn’t want to repeat that particular experience. I have a couple of more complex adapters ( tilt and lens turbo) but I’d also like to have an adapter with no lens element in it.

this shows, once again, that photographs, just like any other form of real art, shouldn’t aim at reaching an illusory form of technical perfection but they are worth as much as the emotions which they are able to awaken in our souls. If one isn’t moved by this other WPP picture... then I don’t know what would! You could have taken this picture with any decent camera. John Coltrane the great saxophonist said, you can play a shoestring, if you are sincere! http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/18/world/gallery/world-press-photo-contest-2016/

Very annoying! Short of sending your camera to Fuji so that they can change the firmware ( they can) I don’t think that you can do anything else other than trying to re-upload the firmware ( and you’ve done that already) or wait until next update which will take care of this and any other firmware hiccups. Good Luck

I have owned the 10-24 but at some point I decided to part with it and sold it to a friend who wanted to buy that lens. I’ve never used the 16 but I know that, although this lens is certainly a great lens, I wouldn’t use much this particular focal length. The lightest and best performance for the price wideangle has to be the 12mm Samyang f2. The lens is hard to beat under all circumstances which won’t require you to change focal length or have autofocus. The image quality of this lens is absolutely in the same ballpark as the 10-24.

Depending on the building that you are tackling the 16mm might be apt to the job, or not. My guess is that you will find several situations in which you would have wished to have a wider lens. When I did these things in the past with a 35mm camera ( I also did that with a 6 x 7cm and a 4” x 5”) the 24mm often fell short and the 17mm took care of a lot of things that the 24mm couldn’t do, the same happened with 4" x 5” where I did have a 75mm but the real break was when I bought a Cambo wide with a 58mm ( mandatory use of the graduated center filter). I also used this lens with the 6 x12cm rollfilm back. As for Fuji. The 10-24 is the absolute king in these situations but, since you already have a 16 , probably it won’t be very wise to get a 10-24mm unless you accept that it would replicate some of the features of the 16m. By the way I owned the 10-24 loved and used it a lot (although a I am no longer involved in this type of photography as a pro) but in the end I sold it because I almost always ever used it at 10mm or 12mm. The fish-eye ( I own a 8mm f2.8 Samyang) is a very good lens but even used in a wise way, at the right height, with no tilt up or down, will still produce curved images of any straight line off the center of the lens. You can use this lens in a way that has imperceptible distortion if there are no straight lines to speak of ( In a meadow for example) but not in a house interior. You could advantageously use fisheye-hemi software ( I have thought for a while to do so but then I have taken a different approach) but it will cost you some post production time and money. See if this is what you want. In that case the 8mm Samyang f2.8 is a great lens and very cheap too! http://www.imagetrendsinc.com/gallery/gallery_hemi.asp Should that NOT be what you are looking for then do consider the 12mm f2 Samyang. You might think that there isn’t too much difference between 16mm and 12mm and you would be wrong. There is! This lens, like the 8mm fish eye is very cheap for its performance and the lack of autofocus is really unimportant in a lens that once it is stopped down virtually transforms your camera in a point and shoot hobo. Good luck!

it’s certainly a very nice video and it does provide a lot of informations and comparisons which I’ve been asking for a long time to see. Improvements are most certainly there but one has to make up one’s mind whether the amount of improvements justifies the expenditure. I really like the joystick and the increased number of focussing points. All the rest, although certainly interesting, leaves me, for the time being, rather cold. I like the video quality but the image, although showing great resolution, has patches of uniform colors on the face of the interviewed person and , although it might be argued that my Imac monitor isn’t up the the performance of the best monitors around it is certainly better than others. However video is not a thing of my concern and for any intent and purpose that I might ever wish, what I’ve got is plenty and this would be even more.

measurebators, interesting term!