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  1. Worth it? Definitely! I switched from the X-T1 to the X-T2 as soon as I could. My X-T1 always hesitated for an instant when I pushed the shutter button. This was irritating -- and the X-T2 fixes this. It is more responsive. And it has a nice, quiet shutter sound. A Sony A7 camera sounds like a small gun in comparison to the X-T2. Some other improvements: - The Acros film simulations! They are so good that they are worth half the price of the camera. - The autofocus joystick. Every camera should have one. - High ISO performance. With the X-T1, ISO 51,200 was nothing but a bad joke. The T2 is usable all the way up to 51,200 -- and we can now shoot RAW at all ISO settings. When you use Acros, even jpegs at high ISO settings look good. - The battery meter works as it should. It doesn't drop from half full to PANIC. - You don't need to push down a tiny locking button to change ISO. And of course Fuji wouldn't be Fuji if the camera didn't have some quirks and inconsistencies. - We got a "My menu", but certain settings can't be added to it. No idea why. - The buttons on the camera back are still too small and too shallow, making them difficult to click. - We can now see battery level in percent, but only on the LCD, not in the EVF.
  2. Very strange. Perhaps this problem is lens-related? I've just made several test shots with my X-T2 and the 35/1.4 -- all of them are perfectly sharp. Daniel.K -- please let us know what happens.
  3. Hendrik Osula: "Biggest difference between X-T2 and X-T1 for me is speed and I don't mean AF speed of FPS, I mean responsiveness and shutter lag." This is very good news! It's just the improvement I'm hoping for. My X-T1 always hesitates a little before it takes a picture. A shutter should be frighteningly fast; anything less is a disappointment.
  4. X-Pro 2 images have a green tint according to camera reviewer Lloyd Chambers: http://diglloyd.com/blog/2016/20160327_2124-FujifilmXPro2-GreenTint.html If anyone has read his article, could you explain what he has found? I don't have the X-Pro 2 but I am getting more interested in correct white balance and natural colour and hope to learn something from this. How do I measure if my camera (X-T1) has a similar tint? How do I remove the tint -- would manual white balance from a grey card be enough?
  5. At last, I can switch off the irritating "camera shake" warning for shutter speeds below 1/60. Thanks, Fuji!
  6. "... Fuji's white balance. Their 'daylight' white balance is, in fact, not a daylight white balance. A true daylight white balance should be 5,500k with no tint. (Some people argue daylight should be 5,600k.) Fuji's daylight balance, however, reads at 5,200k with a +7 tint towards magenta. This is clearly a cooler balance than the industry standard used by everybody else. --- This suggests that Fuji are running their colour much greener than it should be" Could you explain what this means for practical photography? If I want neutral white balance, should I bring a gray card with me everywhere and shoot manual white balance only? What about Fuji's auto white balance - does it also give greener colours?
  7. So many comments about what Fuji should or shouldn't do. What they have done is unprecedented - transforming the X-T1 into a much more competent camera (silent electronic shutter, new focusing system ...) all through free firmware upgrades. If they should do anything differently in the future, here is my small advice: don't announce anything until just before it's ready to ship. A long waiting time plus the "I want it now and I want it for free"-mentality that the net inspires makes it very likely that someone, somewhere will leak new firmware. And once it's out there, it will spread like wildfire.
  8. An f/1.0 lens? Yes, I'd definitely want Fuji to make one. Make sure it gets a fast, noiseless focus motor, not a slow and buzzing one.
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