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Kaisui

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    Kaisui reacted to tikinet in My favorite camera bag is...   
    Well, technically it's not a bag, but for home storage, and great for transportation, I use the Pelican iM2100. Case fits nicely in the safe. Always in an environmentally / climate controlled area. Perfect size for MY gear. Will survive Zombie Apocalypse, etc...
     

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    Kaisui reacted to kimcarsons in X-pro 2 - I don't get it!   
    My personal theory? It's Fuji's marketing department's way of ensuring that something you need/want is missing from each model, so that you end up buying both.
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    Kaisui reacted to BarryLaw in Ken Rockwell is unimpressed   
    Ken Rockwell is unimpressed with the X-Pro 2....
     
    ....and I have always been unimpressed with Ken Rockwell, so do the math...
     
    Ken unimpressed with XPro2  x  me unimpressed with Ken  =  impressed with XPro2  
     
    (negative times a negative = a positive kinda thing) 
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    Kaisui reacted to Hans5552 in Which Fuji X cameras do you use?   
    After a life of GAS I now calmed down and I concentrate more on what I really want out of the photos I shoot.
    Doing this with the Xpro1 in manual mode got me much further then all the years I spend
    in the company of Canon's and Nikon's which I used in aperture priority and af. 
    The original lazy AF of the Xpro1 brought me manual focus, over time the cameras limitation took away my own.
    I often use the back-button focus, check - fine focus manual and shoot. A great way of taking photographs if time
    is available. If not I pre-focus f5.6 and snap.
    When I invest now it's in prime glass and also very limited, I have to drive myself so far that the focal length becomes
    a part of my brain. After 30years of good quality zoom lenses, my lazy eye still couldn't see the picture quite right
    before I had put the camera to my eye.
    This improved a lot with my prime babies, today I see photograph's where ever I go,
    it's like i'm taking pictures all the time.
    The photos I really take, show it and bring me that smile on my face !
    As far as gas is concerned I'll buy a Xpro2 when the Xpro1 brakes down, when ever this will be.
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    Kaisui got a reaction from Hermelin in How do you deal with the parallax error when shooting with the OVF?   
    I don't know about any parallax error about the X-Pro 2 but to me the X-Pro 1 was like a mixed experience, i bought it mainly for the OVF, image quality, the amazing fuji lenses and the "retro" controls/dials, at first didn't noticed any terrible parallax error, then i started to compose "in more critical situations" with my 35 1.4  and started to notice it was there, at first was kinda frustrating because i don't liked the idea of using the EVF, so i started to practice at different distances with the camera mounted into a tripod and i saw the error is only present at the bottom and the right side of the image, top and left line of the OVF frame are very precise in my experience, nothing really bad if you aren't extremely obsessive, i just got used to it so i know when im taking pictures that there is going to be a little bit more at bottom/right, so i recompose based on what i learned, not distracting, it just becomes second nature, sometimes i just crop the extra bit without any problems or regrets, i just use EVF when the subject is at one arm of distance or less and that is like the 5% of the time, the other 95% i'm enjoying the OVF.


    Important note!!! The OVF zooms in by default when i mount the XF35 1.4, i ALWAYS zoom out the OVF, that's maybe the reason why it is less precise to me, i just shoot that way because i like to see more context outside the frame, just to get more of the "rangefinderish experience" and that's the way i like it 
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    Kaisui reacted to mckinleyma in What's more Important: Taking Pictures or Photoshop?   
    I was taught to get it as right as you can in the camera and it will save you darkroom time. Oh, the days of film and paper. Today I still try to follow that idea because I would rather be shooting than editing. What Peter seems to do is completely new images, it's more digital art. He is creating images that may never naturally present themselves. They are beautiful but misleading, but this isn't saying I might not give it a go myself.
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