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cheers! Perhaps you simply had never tried that particular combination but it is a phenomenon that is always been there and affected videocameras ever since they existed.

The preview exposure in manual mode ( which I don’t use all that much as I shoot mostly in aperture priority) left me at first with a little perplexity but it then grew on me, because, and this is the great performance of the mirrorless cameras, you see directly what the results of the exposure will be. The manual helped me to find almost everything I was looking for. One thing I am still wondering about is the fact that I can chose the color of the background of the menu on my X-T1 ( I have used a few X cameras but I can’t remember how it was on the X-E1 and X-M1 but I am pretty sure that I could change it in the X10 ). I understand this is hardly an essential feature but I like green more than I like white .

Perhaps I didn’t make myself clear. I didn’t say that you were imagining things. What you are experiencing is real and it is called banding and very well known among film makers. I have made some experiments with different light sources and I did have some very light banding with one other, older, fluorescent bulb as I said I don’t have a tube to try this on. The phenomenon of “ banding” occurs with certain type fluorescent light or light that is not continuous like television or computer monitor might be. This video explains better ( he talks of computer light source but it is the same principle).

...but mirrorless cameras don’t work this way for a good reason. Provided you are careful you may never have any problem.

I tried to replicate your experience with my X-E2 ( with the new firmware). I don’t have a fluorescent tube but I do have some compact fluorescent lamps. My screen didn’t flicker in manual or automatic, but your tube might be flickering at a slightly slower rate interfering with your screen. A fluorescent tube is not a continuous light source, you might be experiencing an interference between the video rate and the flickering of the tube. Also pointing your camera at a television might give you some interference effect.

I doubt it. First of all the sensor needs to be exposed to the light before shooting because, unlike a DSLR, that’s how you produce the image that you see in your electronic viewfinder. If the shutter will be closed you wouldn’t see anything. True, dirt enters the camera and finds its way to the sensor, mostly when you change lenses but at that time you are using the camera and so the shutter would need to be open immediately after. Zoom lenses might work as a piston sucking up dirt from the outside and directing it to the sensor by the shifting action of the lenses. Dirt which reaches the sensor is normally shaken off by the sensor vibrating. I have this on all the time. But if dirt doesn’t reach the sensor it might simply stay in the dark box until you (hopefully) flush it out with some bellows. We have to do this periodically. Because there isn’t a mirror which flaps about, you don’t have particles which will fly round (and then land on the sensor ) and about once the’ve settled in the camera. If dirt is dry and doesn’t adhere to the sensor, as it would do if wet or extremely smooth, you can easily remove it and even if it is on the sensor you can almost certainly get most of it off it, one way or another.

tough acros-less times ahead

I’ve just updated the firmware of my new secondhand ( as new) bought X-E2. It is really a nice neat camera and will very well perform for its intended use as a second body next my X-T1. There has to be a reason why Fuji introduced the S(uper) X-E2S model other than the minor differences with the upgraded “ normal” X-E2. For the time being these differences aren’t such that we can understand they vision behind this. One thing is for sure. Nothing happens without a reason. I gave ^ my interpretation of the introduction of the S model above. We shall see whether it is right or wrong, but something is most certainly the matter. We don’t know how big is the stock of old X-E2 but the shops around me are selling them at €599 while the X-E2S is €699. The X-T10 is now at €675, so a tad more convenient than the S model. The price has been recently lowered €25, they were priced the same before as the X-E2. So there has to be something to make the S model worth €100 more than the X-E2 and €25 more than the X-T10. We don’t know, yet, what that “ something” is. Until that becomes clear and until there will be X-E2 in stock probably the buyers will think that they would save themselves €100 and buy the older model. It will take some time before all the old stock and the secondhand X-E2 will sell out or thin out. But I am confident that we will soon find out why €100 extra is required other than the firmware that one can update oneself.

Cheers, I am happy not to imagine things ! I have no idea of why this is and I have taken any precaution possible ( as in deleting any previously downloaded dat files with the secure mode which writes something on top of the erased file so that you are sure it is no longer there) and yet it is as it is. Anyway, so far so good.

Welcome. If I may suggest you something. This forum, although certainly in touch at some level with Fuji, is not owned by Fuji but it is privately owned. If you intend to communicate with Fuji, you better get in touch with them directly http://fujifilm-x.com/photographers/en/#main https://www.facebook.com/Fujifilm-X-Photographers-232704076864768/

Done. Also this time two identical files came to my computer instead of one. I have erased them by overwriting ( to make sure that nothing was there) downloaded again and the second time also two files were downloaded. Same thing happened before only with the latest update (never before on many different updates on several X cameras) on the X-T1 and the same thing has happened today with the X-E2 firmware 4.0 update. No reason to go and find out why this happens, but last time too some people got this some didn’t ( Imac, Safari, Yosemite) If you do have this install the file without the 2 in the name.

Upon downloading ( Mac Imac Safari Yosemite ) I got the same double whamming ( two identical DAT files) which I had had when I downloaded the X-T1 firmware update. It was downlodaded onto my computer which no longer contains any trace of the previous DAT files. Back then some people seemed to have this minor problem some didn’t. There is no use in repeating everything we have said last time about it. I am simply reporting it. Some people will have this, some won’t. The reason why this happens is of little importance. If one does have that happening it is best to install the first of the two files. I have installed the one without the 2 in the name ( number which is attributed by the computer when you download two identical files). Installation was succesfull and I started play around with the camera as I always do. Upon trying the Electronic shutter for the first time, the camera froze. After taking out the battery, made sure that it worked, then formatted the card downloaded the dat files again, after erasing the previous download, I have installed again the firmware. I have then reset everything and now everything, including the ES, appears to work. Of course this camera is slightly different from my X-T1 and sometimes the difference can be a little confusing.

I’d like to bump this, I have modified the post and maybe it gets more attention this way.

I am sure that their marketing department might be discussing this already, since any project leading to the future release of the X-E3 would have to start way ahead of the release date . I guess, in the end, that they will do what they think it will be right to do. Voting or appealing to their mercy will have very little effect. When that time comes, the time to pursue or ditch the idea of a X-E3, we will know what they’ve come up with... or perhaps better to say that we will “ know " when they decide to leak a rumor so that we can talk about it and they can see what happens among a group of more or less representative of Fuji camera buyers. Which leads me to the thing that I’ve been wondering how much statistical significance, at the end of the day, fora have and how representative are we of the real world and market out there. In other words, we might not at all be representative of the majority of the buyers! Believe it I know for a fact that there are many Fuji users who are not on line much and I would be very curious to know the actual percentage of people who actually download any firmware compared to the total of cameras sold. I have just bought a X-E2. The camera still had firmware 1.0 and the owner had never updated it.

well, this could certainly resurrect many optical designs in their possession which weren’t deemed suitable in the new situation.

Fuji has gone past and abandoned any previous experience when they started the whole of the X line. New look, functions, bayonet and ultimately a completely different philosophy form their previous S cameras. This was the reason of their current relative success while before the current success, their involvement in photography was at a dead end and wasn’t showing promises for the future. If the market would take a different direction they might go back into rethinking their current philosophy but in my opinion there is absolutely nothing to make me think there is any such trend and I think that this is not likely to happen in the near future. The territory of specialized accessory for particular needs within the X cameras is certainly one which independent makers could explore and possibly exploit. Companies such as Fuji are not in the business to cater for the particular needs of a minority of their customers. The investment would be simply too big for a return that is simply too small. Let’s not forget that as a corporation they make more than 50% with copiers, from the remaining part, the largest profit comes from instant photography, only a very small part of the remaining profit comes from mirrorless cameras and within this niche in their activities a need for a camera with more battery capability and a larger grip would represent such a small demand that they, as a company, could never be fulfilling. http://www.fujifilmholdings.com/en/index.html A small independent maker though, without all the baggage of a large corporation might be able to do this. Of course there would be the need for a certain amount of co operation between companies which might interest Fuji or not but it is certainly a possibility. In this respect 3D printing can be a very good way forward since numbers would be so small that injection molding costs would be prohibitive.

which, as I understand, will greatly improve performance with the so called heritage lenses.

note for myself, start saving money...

You are making an interesting point. “....Fujifilm might take a close look how the Fujifilm X-E2S sells compared to the X-T10 in the next months. If the X-E2S sells well and won’t be cannibalized by the X-T10, showing Fuji that there is a good market also for rangefinder styled cameras, then I have high hopes that Fujifilm will launch the Fujifilm X-E3 in 2017… but if the X-E2S doesn’t sell, then I’m afraid we can say good-bye to the X-E line...." But to make the future of the X-E series depend upon how successful the sales of the X-E2S will be compared to the X-T10 is a bit ill advised, methinks, since there will be quite a few hurdles to be overcome by the X-E2S. First of all yes, this camera will be a little better than the older X-E2 even after the update but not by much. To date there are still a certain amount of X-E2 new in the shops and hopefully they will start selling them now after they haven’t sold for a very long time, because of the update and the price reduction. Now an older X-E2 costs, in the NL, €76 less than a X-T10. So, yes, some folks would prefer the X-E2 now that it is cheaper and gets at least a similar firmware. The sales of the old model ( and the secondhand X-E2 which will be getting to the market) will be in the way of the X-E2S coming into its own at least for several months until the stock is sold out. Only afterwards one will see the X-E2S sell in more or less larger numbers. That will depend on many things. Currently the X-E2S is €25 more expensive than the X-T10. That doesn’t seem wise to me. The real game changer will actually be the NEXT firmware update that I can only suppose will only ever concern the X-E2S ( A model, in my opinion) introduced exactly to halt the kaizen expectations of the X-E2 owners. We will have kaizen for the X-E2S and not for the X-E2. That, to me, was the only reason why we have an X-E2S now! They cocked up the too abrupt interruption of kaizen for the X-E2. This generated a lot of bad publicity. They put this halfway model on the market with some purpose in mind. I am quite sure that we will understand in future what purpose that is. My opinion is that it was a simply strategic motive and that It will simply serve the purpose to halt the Kaizen here on the X-E2. Anyway, the way Fuji dealt with the self created internal competition with the X-T10, created a natural obstacle for the development of the X-E3 if its development would depend on how the market would respond to the confusion created by themselves. The introduction of so many models is going to be detrimental because they are not gaining more market share by that but competing with their own models. The X-E2(s) and the X-T10 were always and still are fishing in the same pond.

Amazing, I have yet to receive ( for years now) any package from outside the EU containing anything more valuable than €25 and not being charged VAT and “ handling through customs’. The only way for them to have done such thing is declaring that the parcel contained a sample of little or no value which of course it also meant that the parcel was sent uninsured ( because otherwise you have to declare a value that would be consistent with your claim should the parcel be stolen or lost). But even then you wouldn’t be sure to be exempt from paying anything. Once I received a gift from a saxophone company from Taiwan, marked as “ gift”. It arrived at my doorstep with a guy from TNTpost who wanted €40. Customs had opened the packaged and looked up the value of a similar item and charged me accordingly. Anyway. Fuji NL recognizes international guarantees for 12 months ( they would look at the serial number and know exactly when and where the camera was sold that’s why they don’t need paper). The Dutch guarantee is a mandatory minimum of 24 months for a new item. But we have had people from other countries reporting their local Fuji being reluctant to recognize the international guarantee. The current secondhand price of a 27mm in the NL hovers around the €250 mark.

I don’t have a strategy. I have opinions but I have already made them politely known. You have yours, I have mine. A square camera might be the future, just not my future.

Well 9.V.III, again there is nothing wrong to wish for change. It is not that camera companies know better and they can be convinced to do almost anything if enough customers appear to want it. Camera companies are obviously in the business of building cameras to make money. If enough people want something, whether logical or not, they will pick up the idea and build it. If...there is a consensus or at least a large market base asking for this. That’s the fly in the ointment, you see... . OP asked for opinions on the X-T1 XL and the majority of this, admittedly, very small sample of Fuji owners, appears to be not very excited about it. In my opinion it not possible to squeeze more battery and more grip into the current dimension, so whatever you add the dimensions of the camera will have to grow. That doesn’t appear what people want. I certainly don’t. Don’t forget the oh! , so important..., 2 slots for an additional card! which apparently the X-pro 2 has and which very likely will be in the X-T2 already. I referred to the automotive industry before. Have ever found yourself in a parking where the parking slots were dimensioned for the cars made 20 years ago? Well, the thing is that small cars made 20 years ago were very much smaller than they are now ( I am not talking of the SMART ) because adding all sorts of things ( some very necessary things, I admit) has made the cars way bigger than the same class of car was. The result is that cars no longer fit in those parking places. It is possible that, although Fuji has made its breakthrough with the X system obtained great success with its small cameras with dials and buttons, will from now on proceed to make them as big as other cameras were , and still are, and with on screen menus and no dials. It’s all possible but, in my opinion, very unlikely. Make the body square? Why not!? Maybe the Fuji medium format breakthrough is in making a modern version of the Rolleiflex. I had one of these. Rollei_SLX_open.jpg

I think that how each one of us would react to something like this happening ( to lens AND camera) is a very personal thing. Some people would react in a nonchalant way. If it is not , obviously, broken, and it works, go on living with it. Others, and that includes me, would not feel good about it and from now on start obsessing that every little thing which will happen in future will be the product of what has happened. From what I see and if you are person type A, don’t do anything, everything works as it should. However if you are person B, as I am, send it in to have it checked .

well, couldn’t be happier then few more days!