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Sebas(tian?)
 
I use the two Meike 320s that I have mostly off camera, so I don't miss the180 degrees head turn. For example I leave them standing on the table pointing upwards with the diffusers on, between the glasses, or with a napkin thrown over them, and me walking around the table taking pictures of family and friends. Great on a holiday having an evening meal, everybody relaxed and chatting. I have them at a low power setting, people don't seem to be bothered, after a while they forget about me and I have nice sharp pictures, albeit with the background filtered away, which often is no bad thing. Most of the time I don't even take the FlashQ tx off the camera. I have a third rx that I use with my old Canon 420EX alongside the two Ms when at home. I think the Ms are great little things. Good price but they have a premium feel about them. They work well with rechargeable batteries, which I see as a big plus (esp. environmentally).
 
Cheers
George

Rivière St-Maurice

Tremblant national park, Quebec, Canada
 

20160904-_DSF5851 by Sebastien Girard, sur Flickr
 

20160904-_DSF5846 by Sebastien Girard, sur Flickr

Got my FlashQ T1-S (new version) set, one TX and two RX. Tiny, lightweight, cool. Works to 1/200 with my X-T10 and my two Meike 320 for Fuji. Very small and portable mini setup. Good fun. The only downside I see as for now is that the RX does not fit firmly into the table-top stand that came with the Meike. A piece cut from an old credit card solves that.
 
The set was delayed for a few days (sold out) but the folks at LightPix were very fast and polite in their response to my mail and then it came very fast as promised. (4 days Hong-Kong to EU - Slovakia).

Tremblant national park, Quebec, Canada
 

20160904-_DSF5851 by Sebastien Girard, sur Flickr
 

20160904-_DSF5846 by Sebastien Girard, sur Flickr

Tremblant national park, Quebec, Canada
 

20160904-_DSF5851 by Sebastien Girard, sur Flickr
 

20160904-_DSF5846 by Sebastien Girard, sur Flickr

Rivière St-Maurice

Way too much fun with the x-t1 and 50-140 and TC 1.4x at the circuit of the americas - super fast sports cars were so much fun to shoot!  New blog post is up! 
 
https://fujisports.wordpress.com/2016/09/19/fuji-rocks-lonestar-le-mans-09162016/ 
 
There was actually a big fujifilm tent there from the biggest camera shop in Austin.  I got to hold an x-t2 in my grubby paws with a 100-400 attached ... oh my ... it only took 10 seconds to figure out that the canon gear needs to be sold to fund some more fuji gear! That x-t2 was awesome for the short time I spent with it :-) 

Rivière St-Maurice

Rivière St-Maurice

Tremblant national park, Quebec, Canada
 

20160904-_DSF5851 by Sebastien Girard, sur Flickr
 

20160904-_DSF5846 by Sebastien Girard, sur Flickr

Just another little word about the design of the upcoming Fuji medium format camera. I see we have a mock up suggesting that the Fuji is going to resemble the Hasselblad X1d. The problem is that Fuji have said this:
 
https://fujifilm-blog.com/2015/06/30/interview-with-mr-takashi-ueno-from-fujifilm-tokyo-why-dont-fujifilm-make-full-frame-dslr/
 
  In other words, when light hits the corners of the sensor at too steep an angle there is degradation of image quality and vignetting. The shorter the flange distance, the steeper the angle of light incidence at the sensor corners:     However, there are also advantages to having a short flange distance. On of these is improved acutance. Being able to eliminate the space taken up by the mirror box is also an advantage in lens design. However, make the flange distance too short and you run into the problem with degradation of corner performance.   One way to have a short flange distance and then reduce the angle of light incidence in the corner is to introduce telecentric design principles into your lens. You can see this on Sony FE mount lenses, which are often remarkably long. The way this lens elongation works is by creating extra distance between the sensor and the lens exit pupil position, which is moved further away from the sensor using an additional rear element. The disadvantage of this is that it makes the lenses really big, and the shorter you make the flange distance the more the lens size blows out. Because aperture size also affects the angle of light incidence in the corners, the wider the maximum aperture the more you need this telecentric lens extension i.e. when you increase the maximum aperture a lot it causes a disproportionate blow out in the lens size. So if you put these two elements together—short flange distance plus ultra wide maximum aperture—you end up with a massive lens.   With this you can understand the way lens designs work on mirrorless systems with extremely short flange distances. The best example of this is the Sony FE mount, a full frame mount with APS-C dimension. The reason why the full frame FE mount has an 18mm flange distance is because it was originally an APS-C mount ("NEX mount"). Compare that to the Fuji XF mount, which has a flange distance of 17.7mm, or the APS-C Canon EOS-M mount at 18mm. Now you should be able to understand why Sony FE mount lenses tend to avoid ultra wide maximum apertures, and when you do get these, the lens size blows out to become disproportionately large.   On the other hand, while increasing the flange distance reduces the size of the lens, you don't want to make it too long either, because that would negate the advantages of having a short flange distance. You can see the advantages of a longish flange distance in the M4/3 system, which has a 19.25mm flange distance, which is slightly longer than APS-C mounts despite being a smaller format. However, the lenses become really compact, even when they have fast apertures, and are much more affordable. It's all matter of give and take. Either you have a slightly bigger body with lots of compact lenses, or you can have a smaller body and lots of really big (i.e. expensive) lenses.   Now we have another example of a mirrorless mount that has followed the Sony example of setting an ultra short flange distance and that is the Hasselblad X mount, which has a flange distance of about 20mm. That is only a millimetre or so more than the M4/3 mount flange distance of 19.25mm. So we have a medium format mount with dimensions more like an APS-C or M4/3 mount. If you look at the Hasselblad X mount lenses, you will notice that they have quite slow maximum apertures.    In Hasselblad's case the decision may be deliberate. They want a small, portable system. It is an enthusiast's entry level system designed for slow lenses with modestly short focal lengths, rather than a studio photographer's system. Short focal lengths permit the omission of a retrofocal element and this helps the compactness of the lens further. On the other hand, by having such an ultra short flange distance, they are giving up on being able to readily make fast lenses (at least not without a huge blow out in fast lens size to brick like proportions), as well in the performance of ultra wide focal lengths where the corner angle of incidence becomes particularly steep. Hasselblad have deliberately introduced certain strengths and limitations into their X system so that it doesn't complete with their H system.    As for Fuji, they don't have multiple competing medium format systems. There is probably only going to be one system. And Fuji have expressed concern with excessively steep angle of light incidence in the corners. That can only mean that Fuji are going to take the flange distance of their XF system and increase it proportionately up to medium format dimensions. That will make the body larger, but it will keep the size, weight, and price of their lenses down. My prediction is that they will take the XF system flange distance and increase by the crop factor from the 4433 size sensor. This ought to give you an approximately 34mm flange distance, which is still a lot less than the 53mm of the Leica S medium format DSLR mount. That means the new Fuji will likely be nowhere near as slim as the Hasselblad X1d, but that is a good thing in many ways. We should welcome it, because it will control the blow out in lens size, especially when designing ultra wide aperture lenses.     

Tremblant national park, Quebec, Canada
 

20160904-_DSF5851 by Sebastien Girard, sur Flickr
 

20160904-_DSF5846 by Sebastien Girard, sur Flickr

Tremblant national park, Quebec, Canada
 

20160904-_DSF5851 by Sebastien Girard, sur Flickr
 

20160904-_DSF5846 by Sebastien Girard, sur Flickr

Two pics from my recent vacation
 

20160814-_DSF5590 by Sebastien Girard, sur Flickr
 

20160819-_DSF5767 by Sebastien Girard, sur Flickr

Two pics from my recent vacation
 

20160814-_DSF5590 by Sebastien Girard, sur Flickr
 

20160819-_DSF5767 by Sebastien Girard, sur Flickr

Two pics from my recent vacation
 

20160814-_DSF5590 by Sebastien Girard, sur Flickr
 

20160819-_DSF5767 by Sebastien Girard, sur Flickr

Northern Gannet
 
X-T1 + 55-200
 

Northern Gannet
 
X-T1 + 55-200
 

Northern Gannet
 
X-T1 + 55-200
 

Hi Fuji users!
 
Here are a couple of shots taken in a beautiful region from Quebec Canada. It's the first time I post pictures on this forum (which I really like!). It was also the first time for me to travel/hike since my move to Fuji. I really like the X-T1.
 

 

 

Hi Fuji users!
 
Here are a couple of shots taken in a beautiful region from Quebec Canada. It's the first time I post pictures on this forum (which I really like!). It was also the first time for me to travel/hike since my move to Fuji. I really like the X-T1.
 

 

 

Hi Fuji users!
 
Here are a couple of shots taken in a beautiful region from Quebec Canada. It's the first time I post pictures on this forum (which I really like!). It was also the first time for me to travel/hike since my move to Fuji. I really like the X-T1.
 

 

 

Hi,
 
I understand how the ES shutter is working and why the rolling effect happens. However, it seems that Fuji doesn't officially provide how much time the process is taking to read all lines of pixels.
 
I found this article http://janssico.com/2014/12/x100ts-electronic-shutter-speed-analysis/ where it says that the processing is taking about 1/15 second, which is really long! Even for shooting portrait, this is too slow.
 
So I'm wondering if this fact is true...and from your experience, are you able to get good sharp results with ES shutter? (I'm still new to Fuji).
 
Thanks

First, it must be announced