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Few weeks ago we finally exchanged rings with my wife. Nothing too big, a little ceremony at my parents garden with 60 friends and family members. Although my wife wasn't too happy, having me carrying my camera with me, I couldn't leave my Fuji in the bag and had to take some behind the scenes shots. Here are some of them. All shot with X-Pro2 and 35/1,4.
 
My Wedding @Tallinn, Estonia by Hendrik Osula, on Flickr
 
My Wedding @Tallinn, Estonia by Hendrik Osula, on Flickr
 
My Wedding @Tallinn, Estonia by Hendrik Osula, on Flickr
 
My Wedding @Tallinn, Estonia by Hendrik Osula, on Flickr
 
My Wedding @Tallinn, Estonia by Hendrik Osula, on Flickr
 
My Wedding @Tallinn, Estonia by Hendrik Osula, on Flickr
 
My Wedding @Tallinn, Estonia by Hendrik Osula, on Flickr
 
 

The best snap I've made so far. It was the photo of the day at Smithsonian.com, a Daily Dozen at National Geographic, and in the featured gallery at Lensculture.

Available light to read newspaper by ewm19, on Flickr
 

X-Pro2 XF35mmF2 R WR F7.1 ISO200
 

 
upstairs. by Peter Zimmer, auf Flickr

One more:
 
Ülle Madise, The Estonian Chancellor of Justice @Tallinn, Estonia by Hendrik Osula, on Flickr
 
X-T2 + 56/1,2

For me, the joystick was the main reason to upgrade from XT-1. I used to shoot with Canon 5D MkIII and select focus point manually. I don't regret switching to Fuji but I was really missing the joystick. Now that I have a joystick, 24Mp sensor, hugely improved focusing and superb lenses I am satisfied with equipment and need to develop the photographer in me. 

Here's my favorite setup. I have found, after trying out most bag versions over the years, that there is no perfect setup. It's not even fair to try. The best we can hope for is a bag that helps us feel some relief as we manage a portfolio of tradeoffs around what we want and what we need. it helps if it has some style to it, at least for professional work that requires moving in an out of a variety of offices and meetings over a week.
 
The best quality bags I've found are ThinkTank and Ona. Others are good, too, but even some of the really expensive bags out there have frustrating inserts, or stiffness in the bag, that makes them hard to work out of. For those who use their bags to transport their equipment from one table top to another, I think there is a larger selection of bags that check most of the boxes you need. But if you're going to be working out of a bag for longer stretches, there are just a lot fewer options where the tradeoffs don't become overwhelming pretty fast.
 
I don't carry around a bunch of loose lenses. I almost never change them when shooting out of a walking bag, and I've found that the best way to get the benefit of multiple lenses is by keeping them mounted on multiple bodies. For all my professional work, I use two XT2 bodies (XT1 before that) and then I have a "third body" for a third lens, or that I use in terrible weather (never want to chance it with the main bodies if I can avoid it). My third body, right now, is an XT1 that also serves as a very small "cocktail camera" when I need it to be as unintrusive as possible.
 
I keep the 23mm on a body almost always, and then either the 56mm or the 90mm fuji lenses on the other. If it's during the day, I generally have the 90mm on it as it's a great tradeoff for size against the 135mm equivalent reach. I found I'd be called in to shoot a protest or a fire scene or etc, and I'd want to keep some distance. With fires, you never know the fumes present in the smoke. The three fuji bodies don't get too heavy for me, but I could never do this when I had the big DSLR rig going.
 
My daily carry setup is one of two Ona bags. I have the Bowery in canvas (leather does start to get too heavy with that bag) for days when I need all three bodies on me, plus a laptop or tablet. And when I only need one or two bodies and no computer, I use a leather bowery bag.
 
I find both bags to be outstanding in terms of both function and style. I can wear them with a tux or with jeans--in a boardroom or on a loading dock--and never have to think about it. All in all, I love this setup and it is, by far, the most productive set up I've worked with in my career. I can wear either of these bags, loaded with my equipment, all day long with only minor complaints about strain after even a long day of constant wear. I love the large pockets on the front of the ONA bags--they're among my favorite "front pockets" in the business. I only wish they had some sort of locking mechanism for slightly improved security when traveling.
 
Cell phone pics, but you get the idea.
 

 

 

 

 

 
Edited for spelling.

Oh.
I only see images of the camera, not by the camera.
 
Cheers.

Oh, my first posting in this forum
 
I have something to share with you guys & gals.
 
 
I made a .dcp color profile for Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw where I basically tried to reverse engineer the Classic Chrome simulation to have it available for my X-E1 and X-Pro1.
 
 
To install it, copy the .dcp file/files to:
 
Windows: /User/[your username]/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/CameraRaw/CameraProfiles/
Mac: /Users/[your username]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/CameraProfiles/
 
 
It should appear under the Camera Calibration tab as a profile with the name "Camera Classic Chrome (Homebrew)"
 

 
 
 
 
Have fun, and feel free to post some examples
 
 
-> Download the X-E1 Version <-
 
-> Download the X-Pro1 Version <-



Download V5.1 (published 16.02.2016) here:

Classic Chrome Homebrew V5.1 for X-E1
 
Classic Chrome Homebrew V5.1 for X-Pro1
 
Classic Chrome Homebrew V5.1 for X100
 
Classic Chrome Homebrew V5.1 for X100S
 
Classic Chrome Homebrew V5.1 for X-T1
 
 
 
Edit: links updated (dropbox killed all links to the 'public' folder)

It's all tongue in cheek, and he's generally quite disparaging (in one way or another) about most cameras...
 
Plus... By and large... He's not that wrong about things....
 
For example, the X-T10 does represent better VFM than the pro2...
 
He likes leica... But he pokes fun at them... He seems to poke fun at most cameras...
 
It's entertainment at the end of the day...
 
I bet when Huff eventually reviews it, we all like that review even less

"So do people who say they rarely use menus mean they rarely change the location of the focus spot or adjust the ISO during shooting?"
 
Auto ISO solves 90% of my needs. I turn it off when shooting in Manual, but rarely else. Focus spot doesn't need a menu - just push the buttons. I have my X-E2 set so that the directional buttons are linked to the focus spot so there is no need to even push  a start button. That locks out the four arrow buttons from being programmed for a function but that works for me. Any function I might ever consider changing is available in the Q menu (which I have also edited down to absolute essentials).

Ken Rockwell is the Chuck Norris of photography
Ken Rockwell's camera has similar settings to ours, except his are: P[erfect] Av[Awesome Priority Tv[Totally Awesome Priority] M[ajestic]
Ken Rockwell doesn't color correct. He adjusts your world to match his.
Sure, Ken Rockwell deletes a bad photo or two. Other people call these Pulitzers.
Ken Rockwell doesn't adjust his DOF, he changes space-time.
Circle of confusion? You might be confused. Ken Rockwell never is.
Ken Rockwell doesn't wait for the light when he shoots a landscape - the light waits for him.
Ken Rockwell never flips his camera in portrait position, he flips the earth
Ken Rockwell ordered an L-lens from Nikon, and got one.
Ken Rockwell is the only person to have photographed Jesus; unfortunately he ran out of film and had to use a piece of cloth instead.
When Ken Rockwell brackets a shot, the three versions of the photo win first place in three different categories
Before Nikon or Canon releases a camera they go to Ken and they ask him to test them, the best cameras get a Nikon sticker and the less good get a Canon sticker
Once Ken tested a camera, he said I cant even put Canon on this one,thats how Pentax was born
Rockwellian policy isn't doublethink - Ken doesn't even need to think once
Ken Rockwell doesn't use flash ever since the Nagasaki incident.
Only Ken Rockwell can take pictures of Ken Rockwell; everyone else would just get their film overexposed by the light of his genius
Ken Rockwell wanted something to distract the lesser photographers, and lo, there were ducks.
Ken Rockwell is the only one who can take self-portraits of you
Ken Rockwell's nudes were fully clothed at the time of exposure
Ken Rockwell once designed a zoom lens. You know it as the Hubble SpaceTelescope.
When Ken unpacks his CF card, it already has masterpieces on it.
Rockwell portraits are so lifelike, they have to pay taxes
On Ken Rockwell's desktop, the Trash Icon is really a link to National Geographic Magazine
Ken Rockwell spells point-and-shoot "h-a-s-s-e-l-b-l-a-d"
When Ken Rockwell went digital, National Geographic nearly went out of business because he was no longer phyically discarding photos
For every 10 shots that Ken Rockwell takes, 11 are keepers.
Ken Rockwell's digital files consist of 0's, 1's AND 2's.
Ken Rockwell never focus, everything moves into his DoF
Ken Rockwell's shots are so perfect, Adobe redesigned photoshop for him: all it consists of is a close button.
The term tripod was coined after his silhouette
Ken Rockwell never produces awful work, only work too advanced for the viewer
A certain braind of hig-end cameras was named after people noticed the quality was a lot "like a" rockwell
Ken Rockwell isn't the Chuck Norris of photography; Chuck Norris is the Ken Rockwell of martial arts.
Ken Rockwell never starts, he continues

I have no daughters that I know of.