Randy Pollock

Glad he's enjoying it! My 10 year old son is actually taking a once-a-week photography class for tweens that begins tonight. I picked up a used silver X-E2 off eBay for a couple hundred bucks and put a 27mm f/2.8 on it for him to use. Funded the purchase by selling off an old Canon G11 and some Canon flash triggers I had forgotten about that were just sitting in a drawer. He's excited to have a camera that "looks like Daddy's" (I have a silver X100F) and I figured if he actually gets into it he could try using any of my lenses, supervised of course. 

The 90 mm with extension tubes works great as a macro

You should get it I got one, and I have no regret. Great lens !

I have both the 16 and the 10-24. I like to shoot landscape and I use the 10-24. The 16 is a wonderful lens but I wouldn't find it fitting my needs in a walk in the hills here. Lake District UK.

Most likely you will find the 10-24mm more useful for landscape, the wider angle makes the difference. It's a good lens for travel as well. I prefer the 16mm only when it gets real dark or the weather is bad. 

If you're worried about not having anything wide enough, and your budget is a factor, why not try the Samyang/Rokinon 12mm f2? It's a permanent part of my travel kit and I think the IQ is great, comparable to Fuji glass. If you can deal with no autofocus, I think it'll serve you well, especially for the price of $250, it's less than 1/3 the cost of the XF 10-24mm. Protip: Set to infinity, and everything beyond 3 feet is in focus, so if landscapes are your thing, you probably won't have to adjust focus much anyway.
 
Also, it's 2 stops faster. The only negatives I can think of with this lens is noticable light falloff on the edges, especially wide open (depending on your style, this may or may not be negative) and lack of communication with the camera, so no autofocus/EXIF data. Other than that, it's small, light, cheap, fast, and the IQ is good. It's a really good landscape photographer's tool.
 
Flickr has lots of shots taken with it. Check it out.
https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=rokinon%2012mm
and
https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=samyang%2012mm

Well the 10-24 is a lot more useful than a 16 for the obvious reason that it covers more focal lengths! Only you will know whether your personal style will benefit but I find that a lot of my work makes use of around 20 to 24mm and the longer focal lengths of the 55-200 with occasional use of wider down to 10. I believe that the 10-24 is considerably larger and heavier than the 16 though.

There are many threads for this. I will resume the easiest solution (I personally use it). Buy X-Transformer for Windows from Iridient, it's really cheap and it doesn't change the workflow that much.
 
1) convert your RAF with this tool
2) import the DNG results into Lightroom
3) work with Lightroom as usual (apply film simulation if you want)
 
Some subject/pattern are less affected by this pattern so I don't use the tool for all images.
 
The tool can be also used as a Lightroom external editor. In that case, you import your RAF, and you convert from Lightroom, it's even easier but requires minor configuration.

As you'll note in my signature down below i own various lenses.  Each has it's own filter size.  However, having come over to the light side from Nikon Full-frame all my filters are 77mm in size.  So, I have a step up ring from whatever lens I'm using, up to the77mm.  So, on my 18-55 which is 58mm, I have a step-up ring from 58-77, etc. etc.
 
As far a filter brands I've always gravitated to the Singh-Ray brand.  They are pricey, but are just amazing.  They also offer outstanding service and/or replacement policy, which I put to good use once.   Other brands could be Hoya,  BW, Tiffen. I have a Hoya Circular Polarizer that is older than dirt and it still works and does an amazing job!
 
To me, the main thing is to standardize on a size (77mm in my case) then build around that.  Many folks, and you'll probably here from many here use the Lee system.  To me they are way to over-priced, and almost never in stock.  
 
If you are planning on using any filter with a wide-angle lens, try and get 'thin' filters, and thin step-up rings;  doing so will avoid the vignetting where you can see the filter in the four corners of your image.  This is an advantage to using the larger, square Lee (and other) system but again, easily preventable.
 
Whatever you get:  GET QUALITY filters from some of the brands I mentioned above. You've spent hundreds and hundreds on Fuji lenses, don't cheap out on polarizers (or any other filter you place in front of your tack sharp lenses).  If you take care of them, they will last a long, long time.  
 
Hope that helps.  Good Luck

Breakthrough's polarizers are some of the finest on the market today IMHO (along with Zeiss and Nikon).  I have just received the 62mm that will work directly for 3 different Fuji lenses - I already had the 77mm.  I also use step-up rings so I can use multiple lenses with just one polarizer but it is limiting as there is a fat piece out in front of your lens (the step-up ring and polarizer) and the lens cap for that lens will not go on the stepped-up filter.  It is not a clean solution, but it works.  Preferably, I have 3-4 filters that fit all of my lenses.

Hi
 
From last weekend, taken at the Canada Cup Long Track Speed Skating competition in Québec City. 
Close to one hundred of the best skaters in Canada were in town for a three day event, the first races in a series of four this season. 
Shot with a X-T2 and the XF50-140mm with the XF1.4TC, AFC on zone (3x3 grid), on CH at 11 fps with the battery grip on boost.
 
I shot this event twice before, twice in 2015 with my T1..... and I got to say it,  I just love my T2  
 
PP in LR 6.7 and the Nik suite for all sharpening and Noise Reduction.
 
For those of you who would like to see more here is a link to the Flickr album: https://flic.kr/s/aHskHye7Vf
 
Thanks
 
Gilles


 




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After speaking to the seller of a used X-M1 and seeing pictures of the camera and lens, I was able to win a used X-M1 with 16-55mm lens for 275...
 
He should enjoy it and of course being the concerned father that I am.... I'll have to test it out until Christmas (and even after Christmas) to make sure it works well.
 

 
and to Hermelin, he was already using a old Olympus camera this year and enjoyed taking pictures and shooting video (of his hot wheels) so I think this will be a good investment.
 
Thank you to everyone that gave suggestions it was really helpful.

Get a cheap compact camera for 100 bucks. If he still has the interest after a year, then buy something more expensive.

As a nine years old boy might lose his interest in photography for some time you'd better get something usefull for you as well.

I concur, for a 9 year old, a used X20 or X30 is a fine gift.

X20

An x-pro1 with a bit of wear can be found for $350 from time to time.

Check other Fuji lines.
XP90 - rugged; waterproof; small; 200gr; easy to use; zoom 5x with OIS; under 200$;

what about a used X-E1?

X-M1 for $150 and XC16-50 for $150, both on eBay.
 
If he treats them right, he may be able to use some of your other lenses some times.
 
This one ends in 11 hours with no bids: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fujifilm-X-Series-X-M1-16-3-MP-Digital-Camera-Black-Body-Only/272418298502?_trksid=p2141725.c100338.m3726&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20150313114020%26meid%3D1cc46c29eb6a4ee5ae260236818ee31c%26pid%3D100338%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D14%26sd%3D322282442855
 
Seeing buy it now for the lens at $150.