dholland

I'll cautiously support this too. In the light that HiZis describes (about EV3 - restaurant lighting), I find that good DSLRs focus faster when shooting people, especially if there's a small amount of movement. But in dimmer light, I find the X-Pro2 does better than DSLRs - giving accurate (but slow) focus in light darker than a Nikon D750 can focus in, both with f/2.8 lenses. I've found that the X-Pro2 can focus pretty reliably on stars too - something most DSLRs struggle with. Settings I've found to help: High performance mode; release priority; single point AF and play with the size of the AF point (bigger = more sensitive in low light, but less precise on the thing you focus on); make sure NO PART of the AF area is outside of the phase-detect points; Face-detect off in dim light (it forces contrast detect); and if you're shooting burst with C-AF, turn on Pre-AF and buy lots of batteries. If anyone disagrees with any of these, or has more to add, I'll be keen to know. Can't wait for Rico's book for a good analysis of this. Dean

... but there's hope! A pocket wizard Flex TT5 for Nikon seems to be working fine on the X-Pro2, and with an AC3 it can remotely control manual power on a Canon flash on a Canon Flex TT5, AND it gives decent sync speed: 1/200th sec clean with remote manual power control (1/250th with tiny shading), or 1/250th clean in basic trigger mode, and 1/320th with minuscule shading. So if there are any other weirdos like me out there with a complete set of Nikon and Canon flashes and Pocket Wizards... it looks like we're all rosy to use Fuji. All the normal people are left in the cold. Chalk one up for us weirdos.

+1 for the overheat with Pocket Wizard TT1 for Canon. The INSTANT the camera was turned on, got the "The camera has reached its maximum internal temperature. Turn it off and allow it to cool" (or words to that effect). I'm not trying that again! This is odd, because I've used this Pocket Wizard extensively with an X-E1 with no problems. Unlike the first report of this, I wasn't in basic trigger mode for the TT1. I'm not going to try it either! It seems be OK with Pocket Wizard TT1 for Nikon in both basic mode (which gives clean sync from 1/250th sec) and the semi-auto mode with an AC3 that lets you adjust the power remotely, but only got a sync from 1/80th sec and longer with that mode. Unfortunately the Nikon TT1 isn't meant to be used in basic mode for a long time - the battery in the TT1 lasts less than an hour in basic mode. This is all rather frustrating!

This might just be a random unseen bit of dirt, but I had a persistent "! Lens Error" with the 27mm, even after removing and replacing the lens five times, and checking that all the contacts and the mount were good. Lens is fine on an X-E1. On startup on the X-Pro2, the rear display flashed on and off about 30 times over a period of 20 secs (with camera unresponsive), reporting the aperture as F1.0, before finally giving up and saying "! Lens Error". Repeated 6 times, removing and replacing lens. It was only when I swapped to another lens on the X-Pro2 and then back to the 27mm that the problem disappeared, and I haven’t replicated it in the last hour. Got to say that I'm kindof enjoying this "Where's Wally" of possible bugs. Masochistic, but fun.

+1 for the camera freezing when trying to connect to Instax. Wouldn't respond to any button or even switch off. Left for a couple of minutes, it unfroze without needing to remove the battery. +1 for the settings reset. Even though I'd left it with fully charged battery for 36 hours after purchase with light use. Changed battery and all OK... shooting and turning off and on a couple of times and all OK... then on turning on again, everything was back to factory default settings, and I find I shoot a video when I press my custom ISO button! Happened on first restart after turning OIS on on the 18-55, but that may just be coincidence. Normally I'd be pretty grumpy that a professional camera is unusable for paying jobs, but we know we can trust Fuji to fix it. As long as they're quick about it, all will be forgiven. Anyone been game to try to replicate the overheating issue with Pocket Wizard Mini TT1 or Flex TT5? I have both Canon and Nikon variants, and I'm just a little nervous of trying them! Dean