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Furtim last won the day on May 12 2016

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  1. Yes - that is to be expected, and is why longer lengths are great for isolating the subject from the background. The longer the focal length the shallower the depth of field for a given aperture.
  2. Difficult to say it's not 3m away as we weren't there! Just to check though - when you're saying 3m DoF are you meaning the white indicator is on the 3m mark, or the blue 'range' either side of the white indicator is spread across 3m on the scale? I'm assuming you're referring to the white indicator which doesn't indicate a 3m DoF, it's the distance from the sensor to the area in focus. The blue bar either side of that white indicator (which is pretty much non existent at f2, even on film format), indicates the range either side of the area in focus that should be acceptably sharp and that constitutes the Depth of Field. You have to go to F16, film and focus out to something approaching 9m to get that kind of DoF from just playing with the camera - there are plenty of on-line calculators that will give you the precise numbers.
  3. Coming from Canon, I've spent the last decade shooting exclusively raw, because 'as any fool knows', it's *better* than jpeg. I've spent the last decade sitting at my computer tweaking and poking the files to get them to something I'm happy with and then printing or exporting the files for display. For the first 5 years, I loved working this way, it opened up new avenues, I could explore, it was fun, but for me, over the past 5 years, it's become a chore, a task, it's not fun anymore and I've noticed a significant drop in my social photography. I've had an X100 on the side for ages, but because 'raw is better', despite shooting in raw + jpeg, I only imported the raw files to Lightroom and my heart would sink when I would see something I was happy with (the jpeg preview) disappear to be replaced by the 'adobe standard' raw - knowing that signaled the start of another set of slider bashing to get it back to something I liked, but you know. it had to be done because 'raw is better'. Finally, with the XPro2, I've decided to reverse my workflow. I'll still shoot raw + jpeg, but I'll import the jpeg only into Lightroom. If (and it has not happened yet), I have a shot I need to push to the limits, I can go find the raw on the card and import it, if not, I'll delete them. For me this means I'm 90% of my time on the camera and perhaps 10% on the computer, perhaps even less. It would have been pretty much the opposite when I started out in digital, but do you know what, neither approach is correct or incorrect, it's just a matter of what works for you, but I'm sure there are a lot of people who shoot raw, not because it works for them, but because it is what is 'expected'. Back in the context of this thread, I'd say if you like the ACROS from the camera, use it. You can develop in camera from your raws and tweak the settings as needed - kind of like a mini version of Lightroom in the camera, with the Fuji magic built in. To my addled mind, the goal of photography is the visual impact of the product, not having a technically lossless version of it.
  4. Hi, David here, from Sussex in the UK. Started way way back ago with an Olympus OM1, most recently been Canon wall to wall since the 350D came out just over a decade ago, moving through their range up to my most recent 5D3. A few years back, I bought an original X100 on launch day because I thought it looked cool. That started the Fuji itch. Last year I finally got fed up logging the DSLR kit around and sold the lot to buy a Leica, but the one I wanted was on back order, so to scratch the itch, I added a X100T to keep me going. The X100T worked really well for me, fixing all the issues I had with the X100 so I stuck with it for a bit, and last weekend, I decided to ditch the plans for the Leica and jump in with both feet and bought and X-Pro2 and the 23mm and 56mm lenses. Which brings me to here.
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