Hi All. I've attached a sort of guide/user manual for the Fuji X-T10. It started out as just a bunch info & tips from around the web that I collected. I started it because I'm an old fart who recently switched from manual film Nikon's to the Fuji (because of the manual controls). A friend also just made the switch so I starting organizing the info and making it look prettier for him. I'm posting it here so feel free to do whatever you want with it, including throwing it in the trash if it's a waste of time.
The images are good, like a movie shot on green screen, it has its place, but not in my photography, and if I was buying an image for the wall, yes, my pictures are memories, framed for my wall, RAW to JPEG to Print or SOOC
Just going to quote you instead of your whole post for the sake of convenient reading.
4k screens is still far from reaching the general market, the general offer is still above 500$ for a 40" screen, the average family will not be spending that much on a TV just to see videos shot from their iPhone, which they have no issues changing every year...
Good screens that will not make your eyes bleed cost more than just the offer at Monoprice. The screen base cost about half the price of their offer, I truly do not believe they could have make anything of decent quality by cutting that much corners.
Also, I do agree that 4k video is a good thing but Fuji video implementation has been so piss poor that I would rather have them not spend any time on a technology they are clearly struggling with, just to match the market need.
The time/energy could have been spent elsewhere for other features that would have been great for us, Zebra peaking for example, even for still photography would have been a great addition.
Some more lenses ? Faster advances in the AF speed to real start getting shoulder to shoulder with the competition...
There are just so many other places where improvement were clearly needed but they let those slip out because of 4k video ? That absolutely make no sense to me. How long have been asking for a decent HDR mode ? How many of us have been wondering if that lens would be fast enough for the AF speed to keep up ?
Beside, they did marketed themselves as something different than other products, they are making cameras for people who loves taking pictures, users who like to have the tactile control over their gear again.
It is not that I do not want that feature, I am most likely going to get myself a Nikon D500 later this year, 4k is small reason for it but mostly the video features are better implemented.
I really do like what Fuji did with the X-Pro2, but I can not help to think that the X-Pro1 should have been at that level right off the bat instead of making us wait 4 years for it.
Fuji was clearly testing the water with their first few model of the X series and now they seems to be branching out into the mainstream of pro-sumers, I really think they are going to bend themselves backward to follow the current trends instead of doing what they did when the X100 was released.
Slow things down, take the time to think about your picture and compose it.
I don't know, maybe I am getting angsty because my beloved company is loosing a bit of itself for the sake of more market shares.
For a video editor, I can perfectly understand your need, working with 4k files are a lot easier to down sample into full HD or even lower resolution while retaining as maximum information as possible.
I am still impressed by what the GH4 from Panasonic is capable in its video mode. That one is really impressive, specially since the last FW update where you can change the focus point in post.
But I find that unnerving that people around are getting excited over the 4k video feature while there are other things that would need a clear immediate fixing instead of announcing the video capabilities of the X-T2.
