dolcemarta

I understand your disappointment and as Italian I'm very sorry for that. Rudeness is not permissible ever: everyone has to be respected as a person firstly and as a customer secondarily. No matters which nationality you belong. About his lack of answers I can assure that it's normal with Angelo Pelle: in the past I tried to contact him for a camera case and I got an answer just after lots of attempts and eventually I ended up buying another case from another manufacturer because he couldn't understand why I didn't want the back flap with the push buttons on the case itself. But they were nice with me. The idea I have of this manufacturer is that it is a very small "old" manner craft shop (thankfully we still have a bunch of them here in Italy!), so that maybe they don't use computer and email on a daily basis. One day I'll go to Florence and I want to pop up in his store, so I'll tell you if I was right or not!

I bought the leather Ona Bowery about three years ago and it's a beautiful bag (it's better to treat the leather with a special leather cream or grease because the it is too "dry" and cream makes it supple and a little bit more water resistant). Even though it is so small and compact I could carry in it my XPro1 with 18mm, 35mm and 60mm, spare batteries, a cloth, some personal items and my iPad mini in the back pocket. I really love this bag, but with use I realised that the leather makes it obviously heavier and less "elastic" than the canvas one. Therefore I sold it and I bought the smoke canvas Bowery and it suits my needs perfectly: it is very light and I can stuff even more gear in it because the canvas is not that stiff as the leather. I have also the Berlin I, a great bag, bigger and heavier than the Bowery, but I don't like the front zipped pocket, which is too tight and it's not comfortable to use (for example, the little pockets for sd cards are definitely useless). In conclusion I ended up using the Bowery for strolling and my beloved Billingham Hadley Pro for work or if I just want to carry lots of gear with me.

I got my X-Pro2 at the beginning of March and after a month and some shootings I want to share the issues I had before updating the camera with the new firmware. I'm using the camera with these lenses: 35mm f/2, 18-55mm 2,8-4 and 56mm f/1,4 1. Reset settings issue: it happened the same day I bought the camera and after recharging the battery properly no more problems so far 2. "Turn off the camera and turn it back on" message: using the 18-55 F/2,8-4 3. Overheating under various situations: mostly using the 18-55 f/2,8-4 4. Camera unexpectably freezing under random conditions: using the 18-55 f/2,8-4 5. Wi-Fi lock-up: it takes a very long time, it can get disconnected very easily and than no way to reconnect: the camera just doesn't recognize the device anymore (iPhone or Instax printer) 6. AF speed: not that fast compared to my previous XT1. Sometimes it doesn't lock at all even in good light conditions 7. Unexpected and strong underexposure (about 1 or 2 stops under): I was using the EVF and the center weighted metering mode and everything seemed ok even reviewing the images. The problem came up when I opened them in LR. In another thread here some users shared infos about this issue and it seems to be caused by incorrect LR RAW processing when the AUTO DR is on. About the lenses I use, whilst I did not have any problems with the 35mm f/2 and 56mm f/1,4, all the issues I encountered happened mostly with the 18-55mm, which, by the way, sometimes starts focussing unceasingly and I have to turn the camera off and than on or, when this operation isn't enough, I have to remove the battery. So fingers crossed until Fuji will release next firmware and Adobe will fix the Fuji RAW processing in LR...