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  1. Well to begin with, are your viewfinder settings identical, for brightness and white balance etc? Have you set up both cameras, on all the same settings, so as to make an identical simultaneous photo of something? Because otherwise, everything is subjective. I used Canon for decades, and loved their equipment. But Fujifilm have had me in their grasp for twenty years now ...
  2. No idea, but 4.32 is, I think, the latest software update.
  3. A new update reminder (4.32) just showed up in my email inbox this morning, may be worth checking that out.
  4. What Chas said. It's impossible to objectively determine how 'sharp' a lens is while you're shooting hand held. I don't think even a monopod was used to take those pictures. Even if a photographer doesn't have a proper chart, objective assessments can be made taking pictures of a brick wall (including barrel/pincushion distortion found in some zoom lenses).
  5. What further upgrades do you think the X-T2 requires?
  6. My X-T2 doesn't 'work' that way. If the On/Off switch is turned on, that will illuminate the screens just fine, but then the initial touch of the button only triggers the camera to focus and set its' exposure. I have to push further to make the trigger go off. Quite controllable, to my mind. I just tried this with my camera settings the same as yours (Single shot, Averaging metering), so I suspect there may be something in your various settings that may be triggering this (forgive the pun). Hope you're able to figure things out, or it may be time to send it to Fuji for a quick repair; I would suggest that you send that video you made to your local distributor and see how they respond. Best of luck!
  7. This thread here may have the answers you're looking for.
  8. Are you shooting with the lens at full aperture? Put that camera on a tripod - heck, you're shooting what is effectively a 600 mm (which I think would be a 900 mm equivalent in 35 mm terms), so trying to hand hold the camera isn't likely to work very well anyway. Those stationary seagulls don't need 1000th of a second, but lenses generally produce a crisper image when stopped down a bit.
  9. Looks normal to me, given the wide aperture and near focus point.
  10. No, it's a digital camera. They're all complicated and fiddley - even the point-and-shoot type. Sometimes, I get the feeling that in the film era the choices were much simpler, and the camera was - at least potentially - a tool designed to help the photographer realize his/her vision. But in the modern era, it's as though the designers don't even actually take photographs themselves, but feel compelled to produce the device with the most menus, buttons, and choices - regardless of whether they are of practical application in assisting the photographer.
  11. Why don't you try going into a real camera store, and try the actual Fujifilm flash on your Fujifilm camera? If it works, then you know the problem isn't the camera. So far as compatibility is concerned, it was around 1976 (the era of the Canon AE1) that simple hot shoes (negative contact through the sides, positive contact through the single point in the middle of the shoe) became a thing of the past. Meanwhile, your X-T2 has five (5!) additional contacts in the shoe; I'm guessing that some of them actually have a purpose.
  12. Just a random thought; but if there's an intermittent electrical glitch it might be worth considering whether the camera was under heavy use (creating a fair amount of heat) when the problem occurred. If there is such an association then it would make sense that you can't reproduce it easily. On the bright side of things, should my guess be correct, then with two X-T2 bodies in your possession then maybe you could work around it instead of throwing money at it?
  13. Couldn't agree more. Equivalent to a 35 mm lens on a 35 mm camera, with that 63 degree angle of view, so more universally useful. Plus, apart from the excellent specifications, it's pretty lightweight and compact. If I only had prime lens to go out and shoot with, this would totally be my choice.
  14. Alexander, I don't believe you're imagining things! Like yourself, I'm oftentimes finding the EVF eyesight adjustment has changed (so then you have to go through the nuisance of re-calibrating it to your shooting eye, which for me is the left one) although the camera has just been sitting in the bottom of my backpack; I reckon it must be from putting other objects into and out, even though I never leave anything resting atop my camera in there. The other phenomenal adjustment (that was a play on words really) that occurs is when the exposure compensation dial moves from its normal 0 position. Both of these could have been prevented if the camera had been built with similar locks for these dials as are found on the other top dials. Can't comment usefully on the electronic/mechanical shutter issue though ... I might speculate that you've pushed the trigger inadvertently while the lens cap was on, but honestly my comprehension of how and when the camera would switch to one or the other is very limited. Hope this helps some, Paul
  15. Might help if you told us what lens you had attached. At a guess, this will be a contact issue between the contacts between the lens and the body, but that's only a guess.
  16. I'm pretty certain that he was providing advice to myself, as the originator of the thread, seeking knowledge (thanks, Bergat). What he's saying makes sense, from my experience; my 'best' results so far using the Panorama feature in the X-T2 have been achieved using a focal length of 35-55 mm (about 50-85 mm equivalent to shooting in 35 mm film format). It's more challenging to get this right when shooting hand-held but yields a better result. Incidentally, the second 'to' in your sentence is redundant.
  17. I'm not familiar with the lens, or using non-Fujifilm lenses on a Fujifilm camera, but maybe it would help to let us know whether you're using an X-T2 or X-T20?
  18. I'm experimenting here, not sure if I'm going to see my image from Flickr or a link to my Flickr account. Jerome, Az Edit: yeah, what I thought, it's just a link. How the heck do other people manage to paste images into this site, from Flickr or wherever?
  19. Thanks to all for your input, very helpful! I'll see if I can actually figure out how to put a couple of images up, and then maybe get some more feedback. I am an analogue kind of guy at heart ... and Flickr doesn't seem to be what you would call intuitive ...
  20. I'm a bit dismayed. I thought this forum was about the X-T2 & X-20, and a key reason that I waited to obtain my X-T2 a couple of years back was because of the panoramic feature. Aren't there any others out there with some useful feedback and input? There are some smart people who contribute here, from what I've seen. 😐
  21. When I bought my X-T2 (part of an insurance claim, when my Fujifilm 645W film camera and Fujifilm X-10 were damaged) I talked to my camera retailer guy, and although I could have received instant gratification by choosing an X-T20, I decided instead to wait for delivery of an X-T2, which was in in short supply at the time. Panoramic pictures have been something of an obsession for me, photographically speaking. I would enjoy some feedback from other X-T2 users on how they're working with, or around, this feature. The focal length of the lens sure makes a difference to the electronic brain in the camera. Separately but related, what's the best and easiest photo upload source to use on this here site?
  22. Camera cases are a waste of time, in my opinion. A damn nuisance too, with film cameras, when you need to switch rolls. If you don't want to look at the back LCD (though it's actually ideal for composition, compared to the EVF) I'm sure there's a way of turning it off.
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