milandro

one thing that all rumors have in common is that they are about things that are yet to come. If the rumor was a far one in 2014 they could be a closer sounding one now.

Nice. I would buy this lens if it would be offered, for example, in combination with a X-E2 body kit, but that hasn’t happened yet in the NL where I live. The only way to buy it at a reasonable price is in a kit with a X-Pro 1 together with an 18mm ( that I have no use for) and some odds and ends which aren’t likely to be ever used by me (and judging by the fact that there are a few for sale, also by many others!). As for the “ limitation” of not having the aperture dial visible onto an external dial, I understand that it might be annoying but that is certainly the price you pay for a compact or a cheaper lens. But this lens is not normally sold at the price that you’ve paid. What you paid is certainly what I would consider appropriate but the official price in the NL is €429 and because of this, even the people who sell these lenses secondhand around these parts are asking more than what you paid for a new lens with guarantee. I am sure that they follow the instructions by Fuji-NL but I am also sure that they would shift a lot more if the price would be the one you paid or they would sell it in a kit with different other discontinued cameras.

I gave the link to the rumors in my post above http://www.fujirumors.com/?s=X200 Op makes a valid point and it is not unlike the point made by those who ask themselves whether to wait for the X-T2 or not. The dilemma is live now and buy a cheaper camera or wait and buy a newer camera some time in the future. Of course one can wait forever or live now, on the other hand gathering information before buying is a good idea to make the best use of one’s resources.

I think that this is a cultural thing. Most photographers in continental Europe prefer owning the equipment which they use. Strangely enough shared ownership of cars for example is way more popular in Europe than it is in the US ( of course the population density does play a role in this). There are however, and there always were, places where you could rent cameras and lenses but they are generally targeted to the most popular models and brands for professional use, some only in the film industry where renting was always the norm rather more than the exception. Here a few addresses in the Netherlands and Belgium http://www.grobet.be/nl/services/verhuur/ https://budgetcam.nl http://www.camerahurennederland.nl http://cameraverhuurxl.nl http://www.pixto-f.eu/camera-huren-verhuur/canon http://www.fotokonijnenberg.nl/occasions-verhuur/verhuur http://www.ostron.be http://www.kamera-express.nl/over-ons/verhuurservice1/

After having blowing their own horn for years on how Fuji based their commercial philosophy on Kaizen , dropping to the same level of others got them more negative publicity that they bargained for. As I said before, they didn’t realize that their bombastic approach is a Katana, Japanese Sword, which cuts both ways. You cannot tell people that they should buy into your system because you are going to look after them better than anyone else and then drop the promise which ushered a lot of buyers in. It is certainly true that the expectation to receive continuous improvement forever are exaggerated but it is obvious that they weren’t planning to have to respond (otherwise the 4.0 firmware would have been updated then and there, a month or two after the introduction of the X-T10 as they did for the X-T1) to the wave of negative publicity which this ill advised sequence of events caused. No one can convince me that it wasn’t a gigantic cockup, one which they have, only at long last and obcollo torto, made better, but I am sure that this has taught them some very important thing about how marketing works differently in the rest of the world that it does in Japan where population tends to be less critic that it obviously was elsewhere. Just for fun, run a search with therms like No Kaizen or Failing Kaizen and see how many pages, blogs, threads on forums there are of people more or less disappointed .

The lack of Kaizen for the X-E2 when the X-T10 came onto the market sent shock waves around which, in my opinion, are still reverberating to this day. I thought back then and still think now, that they at Fuji had misjudged how, customers who had bought for a lot more money a camera that was in essence very similar to the X-T10 ( at least in potential capabilities to upgrade) and occupying the same market segment, would be confronted with the X-T1 being upgraded while the X-E2 wasn’t. However it is true that Kaizen cannot be infinite. Of course it has to stop sometime and not so much because of developing costs, since firmware is, yes camera specific, but can be adapted within cameras of the same generation, unless there is something which physically prevents it. Often, there is NOTHING to prevent that. As we saw, for example with people hacking the software update of some cameras to provide older models with upgrades which were deliberately NOT provided. To some extent the lack of upgrade is a marketing tool to nudge the customer into buying the newer model. This is most evident in the telephone industry where some companies limit firmware updates to two years after the introduction of the model but sometimes they sell the telephones even after that date, so you buy a model that will never be updated.

This shows, once again, that, beside different legislations, each and every country distributor appears to work differently. Camera rentals, by the way, are common in the North America but not as common in Europe.

Sorry, I can’t advise you on helicoid grease. I am not knowledgeable enough in these things.

had fun today

marpar, welcome to the forum, the “ like” button is best used when one agrees!

Well, perhaps they did act of munificence “ obtorto collo “ since the lack of kaizen for the X-E2, had been welcomed by much frowning from all the X-E2 owners who saw a cheaper than what they had paid camera being introduced on the market with way more capabilities than theirs which, at that time was only a little more than 1,5 years older. I think this produced the strange X-E2S , which was hurried onto the market, as a result of a previous ill advised Kaizen interruption, just to make things look like they were planned that way.

In the EU the laws on warrantees vary a bit from member state to member state, but the general principle is that the first line of response to a guarantee claim lays with the shops, then, suppose the shop would have gone bust, they would be then enforced by the distributor and if this one too would for some reason no longer exist, they would be administered by the parent company. This has the goal to insure that the warrantor is the closest possible to the end consumer. In other words your first and foremost contact with any aspect of the guarantee is the shop where you bought your items. With the exception of the UK, the general norm is that you have a minimum of 2 years guarantee. The NL have also another additional norm that is that a guarantee extends to the whole of the foreseeable useful and expectable life of any purchase you make. Having said this, if you buy something with for example Kamera-Express, Foto Klein, Nivo-Schweitzer, Camera Nu, it is them, the shops, who extend the courtesy of a replacement camera not FUJI as a company. So, it is possible that a certain shop does this ( Kamera-Express did this with me when my X-E2 was sent for 8 weeks to Germany) but that another doesn’t because Fuji doesn’t have this program of a temporary replacement in its guarantee. There are shops in the NL, one in particular which I shan’t mention, which have no physical shop where you go and visit, I am not familiar with them but they might not be in the same position of a shop which might take a camera used as a display camera in the shop and lend it to you while your camera in away. But the fact that the Netherlands a country of 17 million, doesn’t have its own repair lab and that cameras need to be sent to Germany is a serious problem. I no longer earn my money with photography but when I used Nikon I knew that I could drive to their lab in Haarlem, back then, and in Beverwijk now, and have my camera quickly fixed, I could also borrow a camera in case it needed a longer time.

I really like the “ studs” on the X-T1. I should think that it is a nut and bolt construction. If that is the case the only thing would be to make sure that the bolt cannot screw-off by mistake ( which can certainly be helped with the weakest of the Loctite Thread locker line, the 222 ). You could certainly refine it a little bit and market this ( with a small tube of loctite to match).

Indeed, but the price makes me shiver!

It goes without saying that these focal reducers cannot perform any magic tricks and make of any lens made for an analog camera of the past a lens that would be even remotely comparable, in terms of the usual measurable criteria, to a modern lens such as the ones developed for the Fujifilm cameras. However the reason to use any such lens as the Helios, is not to profit of their inherent optical “ quality”. In fact, quite the contrary, it lays precisely in using their limits and optical quirks. If one sees the enormous success of the whole of the “ lensbaby” line, some of which are lenses of incredible questionable quality, one has to understand where this adapters fit in the great scheme of things. They are fun lenses, special effect one, but they are not competitors of the Fuji lenses.

Hi, minimum processing only for the last 3, the rest are as they came out. Those were shown mostly to show the sort of bokeh rendering of the Helios. I thought especially that the one of the gate was useful because it shows the “ swirl” in all its peculiarity. One word of warning about wideangles, some might protrude too much inside and touch the lens elements when focused at infinity. I have a Takumar 28mm 3.5 and that one is not a problem but other lenses would most certainly be! If you buy this lens on line in China from the factory you will save a lot of money compared to buy in the EU but you will pay VAT and “ handling through customs”. Be careful, the back part of the lens element is very exposed to touching or scratching when inserting in the camera.

these that you’ve read are rumors, sometimes rumors are right, sometimes they are not. Rumors are often used by brands to create expectations and interest about them. Often they are real things which will come in time. It is possible that the photokina 2016 will yield a new fuji camera... or not. Nobody has a crystal ball not even a site called Fuji Rumors Forum! Good luck! http://www.fujirumors.com/?s=X200

well, I’ve lived without that all my life without ever missing it (or failing to remember where I shot each of the many pictures that i’ve shot) but maybe that is simply due to having excellent memory. If you need to exactly register where you where, knock yourself out and GPS as much as you wish, please, carry on!

This doesn’t imply an value judgement form my part but I like to entertain the thought of being a moderately “ aesthetic" person. Perhaps not as strict and orthodox as he was, but somehow what William Morris wrote appeals to me. “ Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful " If possible , even with my modest means, I try to surround myself with things which please my eye, as much as I can possibly afford. I have two hammers, one I found ( and I use it) and the other one I bought. The one I bought wasn’t very expensive but I chose one which I liked when I bought it. I prefer using that one.

I don’t mind the look of a silver lens on black camera. In fact, I quite like it. For this reason, I especially wanted the silver versions of the 8mm and 12mm Samyang. As far as “ looks” go, the only thing that I have a slight issue with is the look of the 35mm f2 in combination with the X-T1 and the smallest of the lens hoods. I think that the look is greatly enhanced with a vented lens hood. In that case I would get a black one ( Same effect of the 12mm in silver which also has a black lens hood).

No, sorry, I don’t understand this “ feature", If I wish to say where it is that I shot a picture, I can say,in the title, Washington state, Walla Walla, ...or not. But give away the precise coordinate seems ,TO ME, incomprehensible and slightly worrying. Again this is an excellent subject to write science fiction and spy stories upon. I am sure Gerge Orwell is laughing from his tomb and saying: “ I told you so!"

Apparently it is indeed the GPS function. On a side note. Why would anyone use a geolocation device to register the coordinates of his pictures beats me. Of course it is possible to think of all sorts of scenarios for a film . A spy might find a way to, via your phone connection, to infect your camera via the wi-fi connection to your phone and by means of this collect images and sound from the camera . Ok, ok, it is far fetched. Still, baffling feature! I have revealed in many other occasions to be old enough to remember camera which only took photographs and nothing else.

You are right. It’s not a bug. But I to say that I only ever use the standard assist. I don’t use the other two forms because I don’t like to work with something impairing the image.

yes, the only updates were merely technical ones concerning the usability of lenses and the capability to work with windows 10, no goodies were dealt for a long time. But this is not unlike what happened to other cameras of the first X generation.

that’s pretty much what I do too, in manual focus we also have the benefit of the “ zoom” by means of the back wheel on top of the focus assist, giving even more magnification