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I prefer Lightroom myself. It's non-destructive so if your skills improve or your tastes change over the years you can go back to an image and fix it. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Depends on what kind of sport. Goes all the way from long telephotos for racing, tennis and football to fisheyes for dramatic close-ups of 'action sports.' Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

So I'm giving fisheyes another go. After saying that I couldn't see the point of them, I've just bought a Samyang 8mm to replace the one I sold. I'm going to test the theory that I was perhaps using it in the wrong way and for the wrong things. I sold it because I used it to take briefly interesting but ultimately unrewarding 'novelty' pictures of things and places made bendy and weird-looking by the lens's extreme distortion characteristics. Or pictures where I tried to get so much of everything in that nothing stood out and grabbed my attention. But reading through profiles of action photographers on the United Skateboard Photography Project website, it seems that the vast majority of them use fisheyes. Here's why: they say that a fisheye allows a photographer to get really close and fill the frame with a powerful, dynamic subject - while at the same time fitting in all of the background context that tells the story of what's just happened and what's about to happen. So I'll give it a go and see how I get on. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I used to use the 16mm as my main wide angle lens when I had an XT1 and I never used my 18mm. Now I've got an XPeo2 the 18mm is one of my most-used lenses and the 16mm feels too big and bulky Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Nice shot. I suppose my question would be, what story are we telling here? If there's nothing else around, that's an interesting juxtaposition with graffiti, which seems a very urban thing. So I'd walk back a couple of steps and show a bit more of that nothing. That way you see the urban graffiti in the middle of nowhere and it gets you thinking 'who did this?' Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You have a really nice 'standard' lens. I'd look for a nice wide-angle and portrait lens to go with it. For wide, there's the very affordable and very wide 12mm, then there's the Fuji 14mm which is a great landscape lens, and the slightly more expensive, slightly bulkier 16mm f1.4 which is a beautiful lens, especially if you want to use it for people photography in tight spaces as well as for landscapes. Then there's the often-overlooked 18mm which is cheap, small and a really good indoor/photojournalism reportage lens. Any one of those is good. For your portrait lens I'd go for the 56 f1.2, which is a great lens and more versatile than the 90mm Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

That seems fair enough. For me, the 18mm and the 35f2 are the perfect size to go with my XPro2. If the new 23mm is anywhere in that range, I'd buy it. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Or shoot in Raw and try out different film simulations in Lightroom after the event. Sometimes it can surprise you - a scene you think ought to look best in Classic Chrome actually looks better in Velvia, or in black & white. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

The big difference is the X Pro 2, with its optical viewfinder. For a lot of people it looks, feels and works better with smaller, lighter lenses that don't block the viewfinder. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I'm not sure I'm convinced about fisheye lenses. I had a Samyang 8mm and loved it for about a week, and then it stayed in the cupboard for a year or so until I sold it. I've seen some interesting close-up sports shots with fisheyes and every now and then I'm tempted, but then I think the distortion is just too great and it overpowers everything else. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I'm guessing you have an XPro2? Those small lenses go really well with it. A question - when the 23mm f2 comes out, are you planning on buying it? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

A couple of shots from my new X70 Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

The Billingham Hadley Digital is a nice small bag Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

One more with the 18mm f2 Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Two approaches to this, basically. If what you're looking for is good, close-up images of gorillas in their natural environment, then you're going to need a zoom of some kind. Preferably one with a wide range, because you won't know how close, or far, the gorillas are going to be. Thing is, if I were trying to get this sort of imagery, I know it probably wouldn't be as good, or as interesting for my audience, as imagery captured by professional wildlife crews. Which you can buy cheaply on DVD. Which brings me to the second approach: documentary/reportage photography of your trip, showing the journey, the trekking through the forest, the interactions between the party as the gorillas are sighted and so on. For that I'd probably use the 18mm f2, given the tightness of the space between trees. Maybe even the 16mm f1.4. This approach, I think, would produce images that are unique and interesting to an audience back home, and not simply an attempt to replicate what wildlife documentary crews have already done. Oh, and I'd definitely get the X Pro 2, with its superior low-light capability Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Or even sell the X100T and buy an X Pro 2 and an X70 as your small, high-quality pocket camera. The X100t isn't a great deal more pocketable than the X-Pro 2 with a pancake lens. Whereas with the X70, you can fit one into the back pocket of a pair of jeans. There's less of an overlap between the two cameras and it widens the range of occasions on which you can comfortably carry a camera Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I had to look up T-Pain on wikipedia. Turns out it's a 'he' and he's a rapper. I'm still none the wiser about why he's like these pictures. But on the subject of photography versus photoshop, I'm firmly in the photography camp. It's really clever to be able to manipulate images and create amazing effects and so on, but for me photography is about capturing the emotion of what Henri Cartier-Bresson called 'The decisive moment'. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

A couple more 18mm f2 shots Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I think it's the X Pro 2. The rangefinder style goes really well with compact primes - I've resurrected my 18mm lens, bought the 35 f2 and I sold my 23 f1.4 in anticipation of the new 23f2. It makes for a system you're more likely to carry with you more often, and so take more pictures. You can have one lens on the camera and one or two other lenses in your jacket pockets without the need for a camera bag Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Has anyone tried the wide-angle adaptor? I have a WCL-X100 and I'm wondering whether it works on the X70, or whether I need to sell it and get the X70 version. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Me too Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

There are two aspects to a good photo: 1. A main subject that's in focus 2. A pleasing composition that balances the main subject with the other objects in the frame and tells a story that engaged the viewer's emotions The rangefinder-style X Pro 2 has an OVF that lets you see objects coming into or going out of the frame, to help you get the best possible composition. It's not designed for a style of photography that changes the parameters of the frame constantly by zooming in and out while shooting. A DSLR is better for that

X Pro 2 and X70 16mm 18mm 35f2 56mm Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I sold my XT1 and X100T and got an XPro2 and X70. Because the XPro2's optical viewfinder goes better with small lenses like the 35F2, I found myself taking it to places I would have taken the X100T. So I got the X70 for something smaller and more pocketable. So I agree with dali27 above. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

A zoom helps you take the best possible picture from wherever you happen to be. A prime forces you to realise that where you happen to be may not be the best place to get the best possible picture for your focal length, and forces you to move around or look for alternative angles. Personally, I'd go for the 16mn Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk