milandro

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.
 
 

the “ components” aren’t almost identical between X-T1 and X-E1 ( very different EVF and the X-E1has an early processor, making many of the X-T1 improvements impossible for this camera) , the X-T1 has obviously superior performance and the update in just a few days will make the gap only that much bigger. Besides if you are a theater photographer  you will be missing the electronic shutter. Investing in a X-E2, at this point, is not wise since that camera will be the next one to be given a slow or no kaizen at all.
 
Obviously, unless somebody is crazy at Fuji, the X-10 won’t outperform the X-T1 and it certainly won’t in the area that a theater photographer should appreciate the most, the EVF.
 
Yet, I would wait until the X-T10 has come out and then I would put the two cameras side by side because it is possible that the the difference between the two is not big enough for you to decide to go the X-T1 direction.

This is my own bag with all the stuff I put in it
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I hate using bags that are too small and where lenses have to be kept in two layers to fit ( so that: if I need the lens under I need to fidget with the one  on top). So, I chose one very large bag which could easily accommodate my X-T1 body: Samyang 8mm f 2.8 , 10-24mm f 4, 35 f 1.4, 60mm f2.4 macro, 50-230mm f 4.5.-6.7.I also have a few filters, a gorilla tripod with a ball head, and some odds and ends which I think that I might need. 
 
I wanted a soft but thick leather, oil tanned, bag but I also didn’t want to pay an arm and a leg for it. 
 
So I went for a Jill.E design model Jack Camera Messenger ( the large one not the small), made of oil tanned dark brown Bolivian leather ( I still don’t know if that is a type of leather or it actually comes from Bolivia). It is apparently designed in the USA and made in China and I’ve paid €189 for it, which I found being good value for what I was getting and certainly compared to other brands of leather bags on the market.
 
I like the leather, the amount of space inside and the carrying belt, I don’t like so much the material inside the bag ( it's a bit loose, I’d prefer it if it were tighter) and the size of the 4 external pockets. I don’t use the laptop compartment ( but it has one which can obviously used for other things) and the zipped flap at the back doubles as an extra compartment when zipped but can be opened to fit the handle of a trolley case so you can carry both en securely, useful if you are traveling in airports and places like that.
 
The pictures are not of my case but taken from the Jill.E site. Not everyone would like the size of this bag, for some would be definitely too big but it is exactly the size of all the  bags that I’ve ever had before in my photographic life.
 
One thing that led me to buy this case was that next to the abundance of photographic items space ( as I said I truly hate crammed bags with things on top of each other) is the fact that  if you are traveling by plane you might be allowed only one piece of hand luggage. In that case, next to my photo stuff I can, at a pinch, stuff the upper layer and the other available compartments, like the laptop compartment, on top of the camera and lenses, where I keep the gorilla pod tripod, with clothes and other necessary things (including my diabetes medication) which I always carry should my case get lost in transit (It has happened before) . With what you can put in the bag I can easily survive a few days and have sufficient underwear to guarantee a few changes.

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!

well, everything is gone very quite indeed about the older Fuji X cameras. The potential for some update is there, obviously, but to me, it would only stand to reason if the updating of the older models would stay limited and at some time or other one would have to make a choice and upgrade or keep on working within the by that  (or perhaps this) time reached “ limits” of the older camera.
 
There should be no shame in doing this and for most of us this won’t really mean much since the capabilities of those cameras way exceed the needs of most week-end-warriors.
 
Classic chrome would be probably easily added to those cameras which don’t have it yet but, possibly, the new fast autofocus won’t be part of the upgrades offered to those cameras.
 
 
Let’s face it, these cameras have reached many people and Fuji would make them happy to revive a camera several years old, but since they eat every day at Fuji as you and I do, but there is only so much that you can eat now with the money that you’ve earned  3-4-5-6 years ago( + all the costs of developing new software), so at some stage the Kaizen for older cameras will stop.
 
I have several older Macintosh computers which still work but their software is no longer been updated. I can used an older Agfa scanner on an older Mac and use Garage band on that Mac to record music but it won’t even be wise to go on the internet ( it still works) because that OS is no longer protected from malicious users.
 
But I am still happily using those computers to do the things that they can do.
 
The X-Pro 1 is been sold now in my part of the world in a kit with two lenses ( 18mm, 27mm) leather cases for camera and lenses for €899 which is a lot less than the X-Pro 1 alone costed a few years ago.
I think that the Kaizen for that camera has very likely reached its sell by date or thereabouts.
 
 

Two different animals! With regards to which one you should go for, much depends on the type of photography that you do.
 
I agree if I could only have one lens and one lens alone it would be the 35 1.4 , in fact for a while it was the only lens that I had ( the first lens that I have bought when I just got myself the first fujifilm x camera , an X-E1, that I’ve used for a while until it needed being repaired ... long story) , but I am not really a street photographer! 
 
If I were, then probably the 23 ( which didn’t exist at the time) would have been the lens that I would have gone for.