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Personally I have the 34, 23 and 14 (hope to add the 56 soon, but currently use an adapted Zeiss 50 1.4). To me 21mm (equivalent) is a sweet spot in WA, and it sits in a lovely focal length where you could usually 'move your feet' to get either a 24mm/16mm (equivalent), apart from perspective effect of course. Also it's tack sharp, still relatively fast and has almost zero optical distortion, which is almost unheard of in a WA. So the vote goes there for me unless you absolutely need that f/1.4 regularly, in which case your only choice anywhere near that wide is the 16.

I'm loving C1 more and more. It snow letting me use my X-T1 as a main camera, brilliant stuff.

@epscott - all lovely shots, but I particularly dig #2.

Totally agree about Lightroom with Fuji RAW files; it's crap, pure and simple. It's not just the way it mushes all detail in foliage and fine grasses, etc., it also washes out all the colour. Never had a problem with any other camera in LR until I had a Fuji, Adobe just don't 'get' that sensor. It was so bad when I first bought an X-T1 last year, I couldn't understand the hype, I just thought the camera was awful, and sold it. It's only when a friend encouraged me later in the year to try different RAW developers that I went back to a Fuji body as a second camera. C1 does a much better job, as does Iridient. I don't personally find them easy to use, however, particularly in terms of Library management, which is why the Fuji is now a second camera. It excels on natural light portraits, and cityscapes/seascapes, etc. where this issue doesn't raise it's head as much. Personally, Fuji will never be a first camera again until they either ditch X-Trans and just use a state of the art BSI sensor with no anti-alias filter, or LR fix their handling of X-Trans RAW files very fundamentally. Such a shame. (P.S. yes, I've extensively tried different sharpening methods, turning off NR in LR, etc., etc., sorry, but to my eyes, on the subjects where this rears it's head, I've never found it to eliminate the issue, as it's a demosaicing problem, not a sharpening/NR one.)

That's stunning, Papedo.

Hope the lens survived!

Definitely. Great use of filters too, can't tell they're there.

That is immense, Naddan.

This sounds like the best reason yet for Fuji to implement IBIS

P.S. if you want a great Chuck Norris movie, check out Top Dog.

I love KR, he has none of the sycophantic BS of other sites' reviews, and he is doing most of this deliberately to wind up fanboys. Plus he cracks me up. That said, I wouldn't make a purchase decision based on his reviews, or anyone else's, in isolation, but thats not really the point of his site, I think.

By the way, if I link to a Flickr file, does that file also have to meet those max. dimensions/file size, or will the forum server automatically down-res?

Hi Andreas, Thanks that's really helpful - sorry I didn't find the thread you mentioned before posting the question. James

Could anyone quickly outline the best method for posting images on forum posts? I have a few images to post, but the one I posted so far I just guessed and used my old photobucket account as a source, but the quality doesn't look very good! - Can I upload direct, or does the image have to be hosted elsewhere? - Is there a current recommendation as to size/resolution for posting here? Thanks!

I appreciate your use of an extreme wide-angle lens to give the pier and post-box a slight slanting angle - without doubt an artistic representation of whisky-haze? : P Seriously, love the shot!

Two friends meeting. Water fountains in Place Masséna, Nice. X-T1, XF 35 f/1.4

@mehrdad - I love the alpes, that is beautiful black and white.

I think a WR version of the X100* is a great idea, since it's a fixed lens anyway and begs to be carried anywhere! I'd also vote for a slightly wider WA adapter, to 24mm (35mm equivalent).

+1 for MindShift Rotation series.

Agreed, and what you said about applying sharpening selectively is key - sharpening slightly OOF areas seems to highlight the problem worse, although it doesn't seem to be as much an issue in C1. I only learned that recently, though. Which sharpening presets do you use - do you mean the LR ones?

Couldn't agree more!

Sure - it's been said to death, and I don't want to annoy anyone, but briefly, I'm one of the people who does have issues with certain landscape shots in RAW (probably exacerbated due to where I live, where there is a lot of fine, green grasses/foliage, which is kind of a worse-case scenario). It's a bizarre issue though, as it's there on a percentage of shots, and not really a bother on others. I also live near the sea, and don't have any problems at all with seascape shots, as this type of pattern/texture/colour isn't encountered much. Similarly, I find it's a great street/people camera. These days, I tend to use my X-T1 for those applications, and leave verdant landscapes to my E-M1. That said, I'm liking Capture One more and more, which seems to play nicer, and I may move back full time to the Fuji at some point.

@naddan28 - that is gorgeous!

I'm not totally sold on Fuji as a landscape camera, but it rocks for seascapes.

Blake, that's stunning - think I recognise those recent hay bales; on the Military Road, just beyond Chale, with Tennyson in the distance, by any chance?