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jorjitop

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  1. In the interview posted today, you quote the Fuji Manager as saying, "But in future our goal is to satisfy everyone." This is ridiculous. You can never satisfy everyone. The camera market is increasingly competitive and difficult survive in. While it might be nice to make a Medium Format camera, is the market big enough and profitable enough to justify the investment in a new sensor, new body, and new lenses? I think that this is a niche market which will not justify the diversion of resources. It makes much more sense to try and make the X-series APS-C range the best it can be and further invest in the lenses available for this range. There are still many people who criticise Fujifilm X cameras for things like colour fidelity and quality of images. While we might love Fuji cameras for what they are, I think that the company should do everything to remove these objections and make their cameras the unquestioned best. Nobody can be all things to all people, but Fuji should focus its resources on the X series and not dilute those resources with other ventures.
  2. I think that this is a big question in photography. I am not a professional. Photography for me means seeing a "photo" and recording it. I count on the camera do make an accurate recording. It irritates me if what I see in the camera is not what I saw with my eyes. To be honest, since moving to a Fuji X-T1 from a Nikon SLR, I more often question the colour fidelity of the Fuji. The manipulation of the images is an art form. Whatever you use, let's say Photoshop to generalise, it is the creation of a new image. Since you are away from the original scene, your creation may not be exactly what you saw. I do not begrudge those who create "art" out of photographic images. It often generates magnificent images, but it does not do what I want. I want to spend my time seeing a "photo" and capturing it. I have no interest in spending my time manipulating it later. That, to me, is not photography, it is another art. Not less, but different.
  3. Having moved to the Fuji X system from an APS-C SLR mainly to save weight, I was initially disappointed that I was saving rather little on the lenses, though the body was lighter. Now, we have seen some creep in size and weight with the X-Pro 2, so I am worried that we will see the same with the X-T2. The truth is that after the recent firmware update, I bought an X-E2 which Rico says is pretty much an X-T10, both being much lighter than my X-T1. I almost prefer the X-E2. Bottom line, while I would like to see the X-T1 updated, please be conscious of keeping size and weight down. Save my aching back!
  4. I would say you should go for the X-T10 or the X-T1. Then you can see what lenses you might want to accumulate. The X-pro 2 will not be available until the end of February, will be much more expensive, and is bigger and heavier than even the X-pro 1. The X100T is really better for street photography, but loses out if you want flexibility. Sorry, but for all those who recommend the X-pro 1, that is very old technology even if the sensor is the same as all but the newest X pro.
  5. The current 23mm f/1.4 is fine. But I would not mind if it were weather resistant.
  6. Strange time to publish this headline. Just when he publishes a rave review of the X-T10. Looks like click bait to me.
  7. As someone that loves to take pictures of towns at night, inside poorly lit cathedrals, and of events in darkly lit rooms, I have never missed IS. And I usually do it with relatively slow zooms. I agree with "deva", above, that if the effort and money has to be spent somewhere, it should go towards faster AF. If money and effort are no object, then IS would be nice to have, particularly if it could be built into the body. This would enable all lenses to be a little lighter.
  8. I would definitely go for the 10-24 zoom if you don't mind the weight. It is one of the best quality zoom lenses made by Fuji. And it adds tremendous flexibility under various circumstances. It is not as fast as a prime, but I have had no problems given the broad ISO capability of the X sensor. I would also go for (already have gone for) the 18-135 zoom. The fact is that I have never had a problem taking pictures (hand held) at night with the zooms. It is great to walk around taking night scenes after dinner. It all depends what you like to photograph. But, if you want to cover the range from close up architecture (try and get a building in from the other side of a narrow street) to some distant church towers on the horizon, you need the tele as well as the wide. That is currently impossible with just primes. As I live in Europe, I am faced with all these problems quite regularly. It is all so close!
  9. I am not a fan of the X-Pro look. So, with equal features I would choose and X-T2 over and X-Pro 2. However, what I would really like is an X-E3 with the same features as the X-T2. Somehow the X-Ex series does not look as clunky (that is a highly technical term) as the X-Pro series.
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