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    milandro got a reaction from dhananel in XF56 vs XF90 - Your thoughts apprecaited   
    it is really funny that so much attention has been dedicated to the fuji newborn, the 90mm, which, as it has been said by many, equals the 135mm on a FF or 35mm format camera.
     
    I am old enough to remember everyone buying reflex camera with a 50mm  and then progressing to the 135mm and 28mm the holy trinity of photography when I was a kid. I too did that.
     
    After buying it I found out that the 135mm was the most boring focal length that I could own. Neither fish, flesh, no good red herring!
     
    Too long to be offering a good portrait lens and too short to be of any use for anything really far away.
     
    Most bought it because it was affordable, small and relatively light efficient. Not many really ever used it a lot.
     
    Who knows! Maybe after so many years photography has changed and now there are more and better reasons to use this kind of lens.
     
    I really cannot see which though.
     
    The 56 is a true portrait lens which brings you at a distance short enough to produce little “ visual compression” ( not in electronic terms but perspective ones) of the image. 
     
    But, as always, to each his own!
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    milandro got a reaction from x-tc in Fuji hatred? Why?   
    I actually don’t particularly care if someone buys another camera or likes mine less than his. I fully accept and have embraced long ago the notion that the world is a place where people have all different needs, wants, make different choices and G-D forbid if we were all alike!
     
    I don’t have any problem with people overtly saying I don’t like the fuji cameras.
     
    This was not the reason I opened this thread. I don’t mind at all that others think that I have grabbed unwittingly the wrong end of the stick when I bought into this camera system.
     
    It does bother me though when somebody hides his acrimony under a blanket of only apparent civilized manners and choses to spew negativity out while making it under the disguise of a test. In other words masking subjectivity under the false pretenses of objectivity.
     
    That’s all.
     
    To all those advising me of not let me bother by that, thank you, I will try to follow your wise advise. 
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    milandro got a reaction from Curiojo in If the x-pro 2 and x-t2 were both released tomorrow...   
    I am sure that fuji people are aware of the fuji customer being very fond of the aesthetics of the rangefinders ( T100) and the not srl looking other cameras of the X system ( XE)
     
    I am convinced that the X system will keep on having those two souls and in fact the dualism is only just begun since there was only the X-T1 and now there is a X-T10, which will be the entry level of that side of the system.
     
    Soon the X-Pro will be replaced ( probably with something which will not be defined as pro otherwise this would undermine the T-1 as pro camera) , then they will need to replace the X-E2.
     
    All the rest , I hypothesize ( X-E1 -XE2 and X-Pro1) will be quickly sold at very low prices with the least desirable of their lenses ( the 18 and the 27 are the obvious candidates). 
     
     
    Who knows!
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    milandro got a reaction from Curiojo in If the x-pro 2 and x-t2 were both released tomorrow...   
    Yes, but the poll is about a different predicament.
     
    For a number of reasons I am a X-T1 user but as I said If I had had the choice of a camera with equal performance and a more retro look I would have gone for that one instead.
     
    When I bought the X-T1 the X-Pro 1 and all the other X cameras clearly weren’t in the same league as the X-T 1 and further developments of the system confirmed that Fuji were to support the X-T 1 more than any other camera for some time to come .
     
    But the poll is essentially about a different situation one that has not happened yet ( and maybe will never happen) and that is the co-existence of two cameras one looking like the X-pro and the other looking like the X-T with both the exact same characteristics and price.
     
    In that case, I am convinced that the X-Pro would if not equal at least close the gap with the X-T, because, I am convinced, that the typical Fuji client is a person not insensitive to the retro looks.
     
    ( well as I posted my answer Iko contradicted it right away, so I might be wrong but I am not so quite sure that that would be the majority of the market, the retro camera have a inconspicuous quality that the reflex-look of the X-T lacks)
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    milandro got a reaction from Patrick FR in I am not receiving any email notifications or alerts from the forum   
    everything has been addressed and solved. Thanks! 
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    milandro got a reaction from Curiojo in Have Fuji ditched old x series Xe 1 and x pro 1 no sign of any updates???   
    At some stage, whether for technical or strategical reasons, support will slow down and then die. It’s the second law of thermodynamics applied to the marketing of cameras and it is unavoidable and irreversible.
     
    Silkypix pro  ( raw converted given for free by Fuji) provided classic chrome also to X-Pro 1 users! Happy?
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    milandro got a reaction from x-tc in I want the XF 10-24... is it worth selling the 18mm and 14mm for it?   
    Many years ago I went to see a major exhibition of Nan Goldin's work.
     
    I went into the museum as a person and came out, after the experience, as another person altogether.
     
    As a photographer I had been an assistant for many a year, was educated at the IED of Milan with a diploma in advertising photography, had my own studio for years and had been a teacher too.
     
    So I wasn’t exactly a greenhorn.
     
    Yet, I found that even a person with limited amounts of technique could produce a flow of emotions and produce great images despite her evident lack of formal training.
     
    Many have the feeling that art is a display of skills, but that is really more the ancient definition of a trade than it is the modern one of art. All forms of modern arts have shown that the artist is not do much the person who possesses a skill but rather someone whom, through the application of a technique, can touch the hearts of the people who partake the experience.
     
    This happens in many different and often unpredictable ways.
     
    Of course one may disagree and find that a good picture has to be well composed, focussed, exposed, processed ( either chemically or digitally) but it is evident that even things that are none of this can do what they really have to and touch our souls.
     
    There are many different ways to skin many different cats. 
     
    No one way is better than any other and the only thing that each an everyone can do is to find a form which has honesty and integrity and use it.
     
    Pixel peeping has nothing to do with this and I have yet to come across a pixel peeping ( Tom, Dick or Harry) who can impress me as much as Nan Goldin did.
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    milandro reacted to x-tc in I want the XF 10-24... is it worth selling the 18mm and 14mm for it?   
    Milandro,
    I appreciate your efforts to give people what they seek and advice to give them peace when they don't find it.
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    milandro got a reaction from Blacksheep in If the x-pro 2 and x-t2 were both released tomorrow...   
    Yes, but the poll is about a different predicament.
     
    For a number of reasons I am a X-T1 user but as I said If I had had the choice of a camera with equal performance and a more retro look I would have gone for that one instead.
     
    When I bought the X-T1 the X-Pro 1 and all the other X cameras clearly weren’t in the same league as the X-T 1 and further developments of the system confirmed that Fuji were to support the X-T 1 more than any other camera for some time to come .
     
    But the poll is essentially about a different situation one that has not happened yet ( and maybe will never happen) and that is the co-existence of two cameras one looking like the X-pro and the other looking like the X-T with both the exact same characteristics and price.
     
    In that case, I am convinced that the X-Pro would if not equal at least close the gap with the X-T, because, I am convinced, that the typical Fuji client is a person not insensitive to the retro looks.
     
    ( well as I posted my answer Iko contradicted it right away, so I might be wrong but I am not so quite sure that that would be the majority of the market, the retro camera have a inconspicuous quality that the reflex-look of the X-T lacks)
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    milandro got a reaction from jlmphotos in If the x-pro 2 and x-t2 were both released tomorrow...   
    after this huge software upgrade for the X-T1 and having introduced the X-T10? Unlikely.
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    milandro reacted to x-tc in 8mm fisheye or 12mm?   
    This last one is a good example of both properties at the same time.
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    milandro got a reaction from x-tc in 8mm fisheye or 12mm?   
    of course you can used the fisheye this way too! 
     
     
     
     

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    milandro reacted to Patrick FR in I want the XF 10-24... is it worth selling the 18mm and 14mm for it?   
    Just odered the Samyang 12mm
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    milandro got a reaction from marcelo_valente in 8mm fisheye or 12mm?   
    Hello, Marcello,
     
    the fish-eye effect of the 8mm is rather different from the one of other fisheye lenses and if you don’t include too many straight lines at the edges of the frame you can actually have a very wide shot which won’t look necessarily a fisheye one.
     
    I will show what I mean with a couple of shots
     
     

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    milandro got a reaction from marcelo_valente in 8mm fisheye or 12mm?   
    If I only had to have one wide-angle It would probably be the Zeiss 12mm if I felt the need to use the autofocus or alternatively the Samyang 12 mm if I was on a budget and didn’t care for the autofocus. When I shot 35mm on film I loved the 15mm.
     
    The 8mm is NOT a jack of all trades and only really masters a limited amount of shots but if you let yourself use it too much it will rapidly take over the look of your pictures and bore you and everyone else to death.
     
    Besides, you will learn to appreciate its value better once you have explored the limits of the 12 and know what the 12 cannot give you and why you need an 8 for those shots that the 12 cannot make. But even then it will be a challenge to use the lens appropriately and to not let it dominate you.
     
    Many years ago (1987) I had an assignment with my business partner to shoot pics for a brochure of the Achille Lauro ( the famous ship that had been hijacked few years before) and to do so I went from Italy to South Africa on a beautiful 15 days trip ( it was a transfer trip for the ship to spend the winter season in an other hemisphere rather than a cruise). The cameras with which we were shooting were Pentax 6 x 7 cm.
     
    Normally one of my favorite wide-angle lenses on that camera would have been the 45mm but we had managed to acquire a 35mm fisheye ( with a similar angle as the 8mm !). So we were happily shooting away but my business partner had to disembark in Tenerife ( and I went all the way to Capetown) because there was some other work to be be done back home. He took the film that we had shot until them with him and went back to Milan which was my base at the time.
     
    Few days after I get a telex (  some might not even know what that was, since It no longer exist in most countries) saying : “ Good shots, use less fisheye! “. I never for got that!
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    milandro got a reaction from marcelo_valente in 8mm fisheye or 12mm?   
    they are different enough, but how necessary to own both would depends on what kind of use you would make of them.
    I bought the 10-24mm exactly to cover all bases but I find myself more often than not shooting at 10 or at 24, sometimes to correct some perspective , a would shoot between 12 and 14mm.
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    milandro got a reaction from russw in If the x-pro 2 and x-t2 were both released tomorrow...   
    I personally don’t really care much for any OVF and prefer the EVF and if both cameras were to offer exact te same features aside from that one I would definitely go for the X-T2. 
     
    I have to admit that from a purely aesthetic perspective I like the look of the X-Pro better but when I bought my X-T1 ( after owning a X-E1 and having used the XM-1 for a a few weeks in which the XE-1 was gone for repairs) the quality of its EVF was, for me, one of the decise factore in upgrading, although I did prefer the looks of the other cameras.
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    milandro got a reaction from greatbigd in FX 60mm 2.4 Macro   
    a different approach to nature

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    milandro got a reaction from citral in 8mm fisheye or 12mm?   
    If I only had to have one wide-angle It would probably be the Zeiss 12mm if I felt the need to use the autofocus or alternatively the Samyang 12 mm if I was on a budget and didn’t care for the autofocus. When I shot 35mm on film I loved the 15mm.
     
    The 8mm is NOT a jack of all trades and only really masters a limited amount of shots but if you let yourself use it too much it will rapidly take over the look of your pictures and bore you and everyone else to death.
     
    Besides, you will learn to appreciate its value better once you have explored the limits of the 12 and know what the 12 cannot give you and why you need an 8 for those shots that the 12 cannot make. But even then it will be a challenge to use the lens appropriately and to not let it dominate you.
     
    Many years ago (1987) I had an assignment with my business partner to shoot pics for a brochure of the Achille Lauro ( the famous ship that had been hijacked few years before) and to do so I went from Italy to South Africa on a beautiful 15 days trip ( it was a transfer trip for the ship to spend the winter season in an other hemisphere rather than a cruise). The cameras with which we were shooting were Pentax 6 x 7 cm.
     
    Normally one of my favorite wide-angle lenses on that camera would have been the 45mm but we had managed to acquire a 35mm fisheye ( with a similar angle as the 8mm !). So we were happily shooting away but my business partner had to disembark in Tenerife ( and I went all the way to Capetown) because there was some other work to be be done back home. He took the film that we had shot until them with him and went back to Milan which was my base at the time.
     
    Few days after I get a telex (  some might not even know what that was, since It no longer exist in most countries) saying : “ Good shots, use less fisheye! “. I never for got that!
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    milandro got a reaction from x-tc in I want the XF 10-24... is it worth selling the 18mm and 14mm for it?   
    If OP can afford keeping the 18mm and 14mm lenses, he might decide to buy the 10-24mm and then see if he will ever need to keep the duplicate focals contained in the focal range of the zoom.
     
    I doubt that that would make any sense to keep all three but it will be a matter of a couple of months to reveal whether you are using them or not.
     
    Many of us have a tendency to hoarding and problems in separating ourselves from things that we “ have” but simply don’t use.
     
    I am about to have to move and I will have to move again after one year. So I am facing two ordeals. I have had to look long and hard about many things that I have kept with out using them for years.
     
    In fact my entering the Fuji X system was caused by the fact that I finally sold all sorts of analog photographic equipment which I had kept for years and years mostly without using any of it.
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    milandro got a reaction from x-tc in 8mm fisheye or 12mm?   
    Get both, they are very different animals and actually the 8mm will astound you with its sharpness.
     
    I have an 8mm 2.8 I ( the first generation of the 2.8 variety, you don’t need the II which is made to cover larger sensors)  and it makes a great pair with the 10-24 which is a very different lens.
     
    I use the zoom a lot and they are not alternative lenses but complementary ones.
     
    You can de-fish the 8mm, some software does that better than other software , if you de-fish and the software crops the shot, what’s the point? Fisheye Hemi, as I understand, doesn’t crop the shot with the 8mm.
     
    Here you can see what I am talking about
     
    http://www.fotozones.com/live/index.php/topic/56032-to-fish-or-not-to-fish/page-2
     
    There member Alan 7140 has done these two shots where you can compare the same shot with the 10-24 ( at 10mm) and a de-fished ( with Hemi) 
     
    This article convinced me to buy the 8mm and use it NEXT to the 10-24mm ( which I already had).
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    milandro got a reaction from DerBielefelder in FX 60mm 2.4 Macro   
    a different approach to nature

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    milandro got a reaction from Syruloben in X 10 appreciation thread.   
    Of course the 20 and the 30 must be better but I discovered this camera, quite by chance, and after I had been coming to the X system and already owning a X-T1 with 5 lenses.
     
    Yet, I’ve always had, next to my computer a small camera to take quick and easy shots, mostly of the saxophones ( my other hobby)  that I sell when I have something else to sell on line.
     
    For many years I had a Canon G10 which did a very good job but after having entered the X system I had put an arca swiss adapter to all my tripods and this worked very annoyingly with the Canon.
     
    I saw that the shoe to attach it to such a head would have not impaired the possibility to change battery or card while the camera was on the tripod . I had also seen that, incredibly, quite a few people were buying Canon G10 on line for a decent amout of money and that I could buy, with the same amount of money a pristine X 10.
     
    So I sold my camera to a lady who used it for her scuba diving and had damaged another one she had and bought one from a young guy who preferred to use his Iphone ( he had bought quite a few accessories but hardly ever used the camera).
     
    I have to say that I was absolutely chuffed with the camera. It dos great things in general but where the camera really comes into its own is the super macro and the portrait mode simulating shallow depth of field.
     
    Not that I would ditch the X-T1 but this camera is really very good, so I can only imagine what the other two would be like!
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    milandro got a reaction from Norseman in 8mm fisheye or 12mm?   
    Get both, they are very different animals and actually the 8mm will astound you with its sharpness.
     
    I have an 8mm 2.8 I ( the first generation of the 2.8 variety, you don’t need the II which is made to cover larger sensors)  and it makes a great pair with the 10-24 which is a very different lens.
     
    I use the zoom a lot and they are not alternative lenses but complementary ones.
     
    You can de-fish the 8mm, some software does that better than other software , if you de-fish and the software crops the shot, what’s the point? Fisheye Hemi, as I understand, doesn’t crop the shot with the 8mm.
     
    Here you can see what I am talking about
     
    http://www.fotozones.com/live/index.php/topic/56032-to-fish-or-not-to-fish/page-2
     
    There member Alan 7140 has done these two shots where you can compare the same shot with the 10-24 ( at 10mm) and a de-fished ( with Hemi) 
     
    This article convinced me to buy the 8mm and use it NEXT to the 10-24mm ( which I already had).
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    milandro got a reaction from x-tc in Fuji hatred? Why?   
    I am nothing but a casual reader or viewer of the work by the “ famous" main “ reviewers” on line and on youtube. I am barely aware of their “ articles” because I tend to discard their eagerness to tell things to the world as suspicious.
     
    You will forgive my cynicism, but I have learned at great personal cost that when people are pushing an idea to you, again and again, they mostly do it for their personal gain and advantage. So I tend to take any of the famous reviewers with a large rock of salt rather than a pinch.
     
    So, I wasn’t referring to any of those "big names " but rather more, as I wrote in the opening post of this thread, to the many reviews (ofter annoyingly about the same things: over and over and over again!) of non professional reviewers ( although some might be shills but I can’t imagine someone paying for some of the frankly rather poor lucubrations)  collected on Scoop.it , which, if I understand this correctly, collects all manners of Fuji X system based articles and publishes a collection of those. If my understanding of that site is correct, authors enroll and the site publishes a link to their article.
     
    If that is the case, some mean spirited contributors do so specifically on the base of enticing the Fuji interested people with an attractive title and then proceed to link an article which ends up being only a platform to vilify what obviously people on that platform, Scoop.it, like.
     
    As I said passive aggressive strategy, you write a” review” in order to trash one or more of the things that you are reviewing.
     
    In other and simpler words, if all you want to do is to put down Fuji this that or the other, why do you even bother to write about it this way? It really baffles me.
     
    I have to say that just a couple of days ago an article appeared there which left no doubt, from the title onwards ( I won’t link it because someone might be offended by the language in that title) on the tone of what you were about to read. I’d much rather have that than reading a “ review” which turns out to be only a collection of negativity against Fuji.
     
     
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