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tom3q

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  1. The curved one is probably just showing lens correction. The only thing (besides a hardware or firmware issue) that comes to my mind is that, for some reason, aperture changed while the camera was reading pixels from the sensor, but that only would have an effect if your total shutter speed was very short (near the sensor readout time).
  2. Well, the post you reference doesn't give any sources for the claims. It doesn't help either that you can't take exactly the same picture in both uncompressed and lossless mode, so it might be that author's uncompressed shots were slightly better focused or even the air changed a bit. Moreover, the comparison is done in Lightroom, which is known from not the best handling of Fuji files. So, while I can't say this cannot be true, because I don't have any evidence for it, I can say that we didn't get any evidence for this being true either.
  3. Really nice new features, thank you Fujifilm, but... ...bugs still not fixed: - horrible AF-L ergonomics regression versus X-T1 (have to press shutter first to focus and, while holding shutter, press AF-L to lock), - picture preview after shooting disappears instantly if you don't release the shutter in time. Other than that, it's still a nice upgrade and the above aren't really so big showstoppers, so keep up the good work. (Still would be good to have them fixed...)
  4. What's your SD card? Card handling in X-T2 firmware seems to be quite buggy, which makes the camera quite picky about the cards you use, which manifests in various strange bugs, including what you described, if you don't use one of the certified cards from the compatibility list. Hopefully they improve this in a firmware update.
  5. The EVF switching issue is an evident firmware bug, possibly switching re-triggers SD card re-initialization, which might take more time with "problematic" cards. Still, I'd say the problematic part here is the firmware, unless you use some really cheap no-brand or counterfeited cards. In my opinion, the whole SD card support (or lack of thereof) issue should be taken care of by Fujifilm ASAP, along with other firmware bugs and usability regressions (such as the strange AF lock functional change vs X-T1). Hopefully the rumored firmware update takes care of them. I really hope Fujifilm keeps the firmware support on a good level and not go into new product rush mode, as many manufacturers do, leaving older products without support. I'm especially worried since the GFX series was launched and there is also the rumored new X-series super camera to come...
  6. Could you share the source of this information? It doesn't sound reasonable to me, since the camera can access two cards at the same time. In any case, "controller" sounds really abstract, there might be one "controller" block in the chip, but if it can control two cards in parallel it's really no different from two separate "controller" blocks on the chip, where one "controller" can control only one card. Moreover, you can have a system with two separate controllers sharing some common resource, such as clock generator and this could actually pose problems when using two completely different cards. On the other hand, you could have one controller and two clock generators and have no problems.
  7. Sorry, didn't manage to test the copy yet, but found some more information. There is an official compatibility table on Fujifilm's website: http://www.fujifilm.com/support/digital_cameras/compatibility/card/x/ The general table seems to cover only up to UHS-I, but there is one more table below specifically listing tested UHS-II cards. In addition, owner's manual [1] contains following statement "A complete list of approved memory cards is available at “Compatibility”. Operation is not guaranteed with other cards." which given my earlier explanation about the difficulty of covering all the cards in the SD/MMC controller driver, could explain the problems being reported by users. It doesn't change the fact that I'd expect better testing coverage and quicker response (i.e. firmware fixes) from a maker of such high grade camera. [1] http://fujifilm-dsc.com/en/manual/x-t2/first_step/insert_card/index.html ("Compatible Memory Cards" section)
  8. I might be wrong, but I think it's not a fair comparison, as what you see on the attached pictures are not raw pictures, they are already processed. I don't know exactly how Lightroom uses the parameters, but if I remember correctly, the Detail section affects the demosaicing stage, which is very important for X-T20 (with X-Trans color filter) and not so much for X-A2 (Bayer filter). Not even mentioning the not-so-good quality of Lightroom X-Trans demosaicing algorithm...
  9. It reminds me someone posting about some magic RAW conversion method in a similar way some time ago. Anyway, I despise such behavior and am going to actually be helpful even if the other side was not helpful for me before: It looks like X-T2 can for some reason be really picky about the cards being used. There was a thread about lock-ups happening on certain cards/cameras: http://www.fuji-x-forum.com/topic/3955-x-t2-freezes/ . This IMHO is a software bug - I've done some work involving programming SDHCI controllers in Linux kernel and I know that getting this right for the wide range of existing cards is quite complicated and the faster the standard is, the less tolerance for hardware settings remains. FYI, depending on camera and/or card unit, even if it's the same model, the firmware might need to choose different parameters for the SDHC physical interface - this is called clock tuning. Possibly someone got something not fully right in X-T2 firmware. Also generally the second slot is known to be slower than the first one, but it should be still faster than UHS-I. See http://www.fujix-forum.com/threads/raw-jpeg-slower-card-in-second-slot.66119/. That's probably expected, since the camera in RAW/JPEG dual slot mode always uses slot 1 for RAW and slot 2 for JPEG and you can't make it the other way around, which makes sense as it would slow you down. On the other hand, I have a set of two UHS-II cards from Lexar, one 32 GB (LSD32GCRBJPR2000) and one 64 GB (LSD64GCRBJPR2000) and I've never experienced any problems, but I only use RAW/JPEG mode and haven't tried copying pictures between cards. Will try to test this when I have some time. My guess is that you need to keep bugging Fujifilm to fix the firmware to support more reasonable range of cards. BTW. you haven't mentioned what cards you have.
  10. My list, sorted from most to least important: - Bring back AF lock behavior from X-T1 (focus + lock, not just lock alone), - +1 for highlight warning, - Support for external, dedicated GPS module - one could possibly plug in through USB or just connect with WiFI. (The phone-based geotagging is almost useless unfortunately...) - +1 for usable WiFi, - +1 for more bracketing frames.
  11. Would you mind being a bit more informative, please? I'm sorry but everyone in this post provided a lot of useful information (especially Isaac Hilman@) and you seem to be "playing a game" here (especially since you even used this exact wording in your other post). I don't really want to be rude, just I believe people want to use this forum to share and/or find information, not have some pointless arguments.
  12. Yeah, in my opinion Fujifilm hardware is on a really high level, but despite a big number of kaizen firmware updates for X-T1, there is certainly a room for improvement in communication about firmware and software. (Hello Android camera remote app and lightroom demosaicing algorithm!) Let's hope that the (rumored) professional support (first in Europe) brings something new to the table...
  13. I think the more interesting part of the video is that underexposing to get lower ISO seems to be a workaround for the issue. Since the camera is basically ISO-less and the amplification is supposed to be happening in camera processing engine, I'd guess that higher ISO triggers some additional processing (to remove the noise?), which also causes the waxy skin effect. From a embedded software engineer point of view, I can say that this could be most likely fixed in a firmware update.
  14. Hey, Thomas from Tokyo, Japan here. Not so much experience with photography in general, doing it just for fun in my free time and to preserve some memories. I got myself an X-T1 last year as my first serious system and recently managed to get my hands on X-T2. Reading FR almost from the beginning of my journey with this system. Cheers
  15. Which makes me wonder, do we have any official way of communicating all the bugs to Fujifilm? Or maybe even any beta test program? FYI, I can read and write Japanese, so I can help with interacting with Japanese support department if necessary.
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