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Stop trying to use your iMac in the process, it doesn't work that way is my understanding. Download the firmware update onto the SD card using any computer that's connected to the internet, put it back in your X-T2, and then update the camera directly from the card, that's how it works.

Good to hear, I guess every cloud has a silver lining. Or something ...

Not exactly, but there was an update for it from the Google Play store just in the last couple of days so maybe they've improved things a bit; certainly there was room for improvement.

I've been on holiday in Europe, shooting in dark bars and various night-lighted streets - often without the encumbrance of a tripod. Going through my photos on the computer at home, I've been delighted to see the results where I've taken the ISO off the automatic setting and just cranked it as high as necessary to get a sharp hand-held image; all with the 16 - 55 mm f 2.8 zoom.

I was right there the other day, when my niece came upon a four leafed clover! My luck hasn't changed any though - two months on, nobody has contributed anything to this thread except a click of their mouse (or maybe they used Tapatalk on their phone to indicate nothing useful whatsoever ... )

I've been shooting for 50 years now, with umpteen different cameras of various types and formats (starting with a box brownie,). Always figured I understood cameras, until the digital age. The last while, I've been using the X-T2, and have decided that maybe I'll never understand cameras ... but oh boy am I having fun with this thing.

That's a pretty scientific analysis, then.

Fair enough, but being as the camera is a battery pig, and being as using the grip is providing power from three batteries instead of one (however configured electronically) what else else is viable? People would be most unhappy if the camera was running low on juice, and didn't tell them; this is sort of a fundamental thing in all the devices we use from laptops to iPhones that run on batteries. But people would probably also object if the display had three independent battery charge indicators, using up screen space, I bet. So for most users (which is all the manufacturer can hope to satisfy, because you sure as hell can't make everyone happy) having the camera tell you as obviously as possible that your ability to continue using the device without it shutting down seems like the answer. For myself, so far I only have the camera with the battery that came with it and the additional battery I bought as my own backup. I'm still saving up my shekels to buy the grip, plus another couple of batteries to put in it; which here in Canada represents an outlay of about $500, and that's a heck of an expense quite frankly.

I've always wanted to experiment with a tilt & shift lens, using an X-T2. There are adapters? Recommendations appreciated. Oh yeah, interesting sculpture.

A refund/replacement would obviously be ideal, but if that's not a viable option then get the store to send it to the local Fujifilm people for analysis and repair; once your camera has had the 'once over' from their Tech Gurus it should be up to standard. Meanwhile, just as a general comment on dealing with camera retailers, I can imagine where a policy like this ... ... could lead to a consequence like this ... After all, if a retailer is forced by law to refund somebody who has decided that they simply "don't like it" after that somebody has played with it for two or three weeks, then what option does the retailer have but to vend it to someone else as a new camera? I'm not at all sure that this attempt at consumer protection in the UK is going to necessarily provide the protection that was expected. Best of luck in getting this resolved, anyway!

I never even heard of Ken Rockwell until this thread came along. Don't think I've missed anything. Meanwhile, am I the only one around here who likes his X-T2 more, every day, in every way? From the built-in horizon check to the rapid focus lock, this camera thinks like I do; and that's all a person can ask for in my humble opinion.

I liked Rand's picture way better.

I don't know a lot about this (film I know about, digital still a newbie) but to my mind, unless your cards are all showing the same 18% grey background - and I mean, the same grey, same brightness - then trying to draw conclusions about colour saturation or accuracy seems, well, impossible. (OK, now I look forward to being told why my theory doesn't work ... )

Good on ya, Neil!

What he said. This Thread may be helpful to some.

I really wish the mods would close this thread ... or, at least, the damn poll ...

I find myself wondering why you have set up the camera in this way, to write to one card first then to write to the other one. What if one of the cards proves defective? There's more than one thread in this forum that relates to this being a potential problem. Personal preference is to let the camera write jpgs on the one card, RAW on the other. Then I know I've got a backup against a defect occurring on a card, and with relatively frequent downloading to my PC, I'm covered against losing an image.

The only useful suggestion I might offer would be to ensure both your cameras have been updated then reformat your cards in camera. It's a weird beast, this camera. While I have no personal interest in videography, I do keep mine set to automatically bracket exposures, and keep two cards in it with one loading as jpeg and the other as RAW. The other day, while shooting one frame at a time, but repeatedly (trying to capture dragonflies, go figure) I once hit a point where the camera couldn't keep up for a moment. I'm sure there are threads here about shooting 4k video with the camera, maybe they'll have something more useful.

Well stated, Larry. Even with the high minimum ISO provided by modern digital cameras, it should surely be enough to have an ND-2 and ND-4 filter in the camera bag in order to force longer exposures when this is desired. And I'm a photographer who rarely uses filters, but I've always had a top-quality circular polarizer in my kit.

That's a clever observation. 60hz where I live, though this banding problem isn't something I've encountered so far. The shallow depth of field in the pictures, and overall lack of sharpness suggest a hand held camera at a relatively low shutter speed, probably with the lens close to full aperture.

From interest, don't Fuji make an equivalent piece of glass?

Did you remember to take off the lens cap?

Thanks for the link, good data. Still love my 16-55 though!

Well firstly, thank you for telling us where England is. Lots of ignorant people on the internet who would have needed to look that up, I'm sure. And while the UK - like most civilized countries (not counties, that's a different thing) may have comprehensive consumer protection laws, expecting a refund or replacement after several weeks of satisfactory ownership is absurd. Apart from anything else, no matter who you think you have a 'contract' with, the retailer didn't design, build, and manufacture the cameras and other items in his store; whatever repair or replacement options that retailer may have are dependent on the policies of the manufacturers, essentially. In the 70's and 80's I worked for various retailers, both in consumer electronics and photographic retail. Kits Cameras in Edmonton, Calgary, Abbotsford and Vancouver, as well as London Drugs (a major photographic retailer in this country) and Lens & Shutter, one of the leading photographic suppliers here in Vancouver. Which is on the west coast. LD had a very liberal policy in those days, in terms of ensuring consumer satisfaction. I've seen them refunding customers in full, for items returned without packaging or receipt - or reason. Who pays for this? And I well remember one 'customer' who bought a brand new Nikon, motor drive, lenses, the works. Came back to the store two weeks later with a suntan, and handed all the stuff back saying he didn't really like it (not sure why, he wasn't clear on that). Having obtained his refund for thousands of dollars worth of equipment, he then went over to the photofinishing counter and dropped off a couple dozen rolls of film for processing. His holiday snaps, no doubt. Wanna buy a 'new' camera and other equipment from a store like that? I don't! Because it isn't new, it's used, and if I'm going to buy used equipment I expect to pay substantially less for it (while anticipating something like a 30-day warranty, rather than a year or two). Retailers are going to vary, in their approach to this type of issue. No customer should be taken advantage of, at any time - but neither should the retailer. Contracts work both ways, sir. And retailers need to take care of their rights, just as customers do. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For many years, Canon was 'my' brand; I think I've owned at least half a dozen different Canon cameras and quite a number of their lenses. Ironically, being as I'm a fan of the brand, I've also had two different brand new Canon cameras fail on me, and just at the worst time - when out of the country on holiday. Let me relate my experiences. Around 1979 I had bought the one of the last new Canon EF's in Canada, from Leo's on Granville. Several days later, I'm in San Francisco, and the thing has gone dead on me; the meter didn't work, nor did the electronic shutter. 2 hours. That's how long it took Canon's store in SF to effect the repair (some companies have international warranties), and I was back in action. The camera never let me down again. About five years later, having recently bought a new Canon F1 and added it to my arsenal, I was shooting in St. Paul's Cathedral - that's in London - and the light meter quit. Yikes, right at the beginning of a three week vacation. I called the local Canon Distributor/Repair Centre - it's now lunchtime, and I'm heading north the next morning. They encouraged me to get the camera over to them as quickly as I'm able, and next thing you know I've grabbed the rental car in Reigate and I'm on the north circular, wondering what the chances are of getting this problem resolved right away. What do you know? In the time it took to have a pie and a pint at the local pub, they had the thing fixed. As with the EF, that camera never afterward gave me even a moment's trouble, and I owned both of them for years and put them through the hard use they were designed for - shooting in all conditions and situations. This kind of solid support is why I'll always be ready to buy Canon, or Fujifilm (who clearly provide a similar level of support, I'm now owning my third Fujifilm camera). Retailers come and go; it's a tough market out there, particularly in this internet age when the brick-and-mortar stores are falling by the wayside. It has to make you think. About values, about transactions, about support and fairness.

Why would you expect the retailer to replace the camera, if the owner has been using it for several weeks? It's now a used camera that cannot be re-sold as new even after repair, and I doubt very much that Fuji would be prepared to buy it back from the retailer, only to fix it. That's why items like this are sold with a warranty. So they can, and will, be fixed by the manufacturer.