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Qiki

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    Perth, Western Australia
  • Interests
    Street, Travel, Sports.

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  1. Hi All. I have a month of travel/photography planned for later this year and am keen to come up with a plan for backing up my images while I'm away. In the past I've used multiple memory cards and have downloaded images to a laptop every few days, but with file sizes as they are (particularly RAWs) this is a slow process. Same problem with backing up to the cloud. So, what do others do? I'm know that there's hard drives that can be written to direct from SD cards, but the seem pretty expensive. Don't mind paying the money if they're reliable and fast, but don't want to fork over a bunch of cash only to find they're no better than my laptop solution. TIA.
  2. Apologies if this has already been covered, but I'm wondering how to change the battery life display on the Pro2 to %. Everything I read indicates this can be done, but I can't for the life of me find it in the camera menu.
  3. I've had the new XF 50mm f/2 for several weeks now and am very impressed with the IQ, build quality and autofocus for the price. Bokeh is in the eye of the beholder, but I find it pleasant enough.
  4. X100(S/T/F). Spare battery. Here endeth the lesson.
  5. Sharpening was set to zero and none applied in PP.
  6. FWIW, I purchased the 50mm/2 last weekend and have managed to have a bit of a 'play' with it since then. So far I'm really impressed. It has a great quality feel to it (nice aperture and focus ring action), is very sharp wide open and focus is quick and accurate on my Pro2. The only slightly unsettling thing is that it is dead silent when focusing. You'd think the green box in the viewfinder would be enough to tell me when focus has been acquired, but it would seem I've become accustomed to listening for when other lenses stop hunting to judge when focus is achieved. So, for now at least, I've turned back on the camera beep for when focus is locked. Haha.
  7. It's not a case of it not being good - I used to shoot raw all the time with DSLR. But for street, I just prefer the much quicker workflow associated with jpeg. And let's face it, the quality of the jpegs from X cameras is one of their main selling points.
  8. That fact that the rest of my photos seem fine is because most of the street shots on my website were taken with and X100S ad X100T. Never had an issue with either of those cameras. And I guess that was the reason for my post. I'd have expected the X-Pro2 to produce images of at least equal quality to its 'siblings', but if these shots are anything to go by, that doesn't appear to be the case. I'm at a bit of a loss.
  9. Perhaps, but as I don't wish to shoot raw for my street shots, and even if I do Silver Efex is not something I can use, the question is moot.
  10. They're both heavy crops, so obviously that exacerbates things, but other than that they are both SOOC.
  11. Should I expect better? Is there anything I'm likely to be doing wrong? The results from my X100T (with regular monochrome) seem far better.
  12. Thanks for your patience. Here's a link to a couple of fairly tight crops of images that highlight what I'm unhappy with. These were shot at ISO 200 and 640. What do you think? http://aqphoto.format.com/private
  13. Thanks for all the replies folks. I realize that a certain amount of 'grain' is intended with Acros, but it just seems to me to get a little out of hand as soon as ISO gets beyond maybe 800. For what it's worth, I had a quick play with the X-Pro 2 again last night and the other simulations are certainly cleaner. Maybe I was just expecting a little too much from Acros. I'm not currently able to get in front of the PC I use for editing, but will post some pics in the next few days as examples. As for Silver Efex, I've always liked what people can achieve with it. Unfortunately though, my preferred software is ACDSee Pro, which doesn't support Siver Efex. Again, thanks for the replies. Much appreciated.
  14. Grain is off. It doesn't default to 'on' with Acros. I'll try to post something later.
  15. Hi All, As someone who shoots a lot of high contrast B&W I was really looking forward to using Acros on my new X-Pro 2. But after some experimentation yesterday I have to admit to being just a little disappointed. Not with the B&W so much, but with the amount of noise I was getting. Admittedly a number of my shots were at ISO1600, but for a camera with a reputation for being so good at high ISOs I'd have thought 1600 would have produced much cleaner images. My settings were Acros+R, with zero noise reduction and sharpening and +2 shadows and -1 highlights. Any suggestions about what's going on?
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