RadBadTad

I just use my shirt wrapped over my finger. I've never had an issue before.

Are there cameras out there that DON'T have this warning? Is there a camera that won't stop recording when the battery dies?

20fps burst with AF checked 60 times per second without any viewfinder blackout is way better than X-T2
 
It has way more phase detect AF points, spread over much more of the image.
 
It has way better battery life despite having way more horsepower under the hood
 
The electronic shutter has no rolling shutter issues
 
It has in-camera 5-axis IS
 
It's full frame
 
Just because another camera comes out that's better than yours doesn't mean your camera gets worse. You can be excited for Sony and for people who will buy, use, and love the camera, all without having to hate your gear, or feel bad about yourself. The a9 is objectively better than the X-T2 in basically every objective way, and yet the X-T2 will probably do just fine taking nearly any photo you could want to take. It's okay. Take deep breaths. 

20fps burst with AF checked 60 times per second without any viewfinder blackout is way better than X-T2
 
It has way more phase detect AF points, spread over much more of the image.
 
It has way better battery life despite having way more horsepower under the hood
 
The electronic shutter has no rolling shutter issues
 
It has in-camera 5-axis IS
 
It's full frame
 
Just because another camera comes out that's better than yours doesn't mean your camera gets worse. You can be excited for Sony and for people who will buy, use, and love the camera, all without having to hate your gear, or feel bad about yourself. The a9 is objectively better than the X-T2 in basically every objective way, and yet the X-T2 will probably do just fine taking nearly any photo you could want to take. It's okay. Take deep breaths. 

I don't consider myself a pixel peeper at all... I am a professional photographer, working with Canon 5D camera's, and also using a Fuji X-T2 recently.
 
I have used Fuji camera's before, but only for my vacations and free work projects. For that purpose I was happy with the results I get out of LR. But now I want to use Fuji also for some professional work, and then I am going to look more critical at the raw processing and the results.
 
Now last week I have sent some images to a client of mine, taken with the T2 and edited in LR. Pictures from a building in a green park (so with a lot of foliage surrounding the building). And then my client complained about the strange way the foliage looked to him... And I can only say that his complaint was right!
 
The way LR renders the RAF files is just not good enough for professional use.
 
So this is not about pixel peeping but about making money with photography and keeping clients happy, take them seriously by providing them with pictures with the highest possible IQ!

After shooting several thousands of photos using the X-T2. I realized I don't like the joystick. It's too slow. When I press the joystick to one direction, the focus point moves too slowly.
 
I shoot fashion/models mostly. So when the subject's head moves, I have to move the focus point to follow them. With the X-T1, I was able to mash the directional pads to move it. It was much faster than the joystick of X-T2. And no, I can't use face detect AF. I tried it, and it isn't fast enough, and it doesn't detect the face sometimes to make it useful for me.
 
I think Fuji needs to release a firmware update to speed up the focus point movement with the joystick.
 
What is everyone else's thoughts on the joystick? 

I've talked about this here before, but I think it was back on the X-T1. I thought it might be worthwhile to bring it up again, since it still hasn't happened.
 
I would love to see camera-orientation specific AF points, so that when you rotate to Portrait orientation, the AF point jumps to where it was the last time you were in portrait orientation. 
 
The Canon 7D has this, and it's invaluable for fast paced things like shooting concerts, and energetic portraiture. When I'm in portrait orientation and I have a performer's head at the top of the frame, and then I rotate back to landscape for a different shot, the AF point jumps back to where it was the last time I had it in landscape, which keeps the focus point on the performer's head, assuming I'm keeping their head in the top of the frame. Without the feature, it's really annoying to quickly switch back and forth between portrait and landscape for the same subject over and over for different shots. The focus nipple on the battery grip helps some, but it still requires me to manually change the point every single time I rotate. 
 
Here's a (clunky) video of the 7D in action 
 
http://imgur.com/a/XfyLE
 
I tweeted to Fuji USA about the feature request, and they liked the tweet, but who knows what that means. At least I know someone saw it.

The plugin detects the original raw file and ignore the output tiff from Lightroom. But the resulted image is saved into that tiff.

There are lots of example videos showing the camera being used in the real world, in situations that are a lot more strenuous than I'LL ever use a camera in. I watched one last night of 20fps shooting of a pole vaulter in really low light (ISO 6400) with distractions in the frame, and watched the camera nail every single shot without even flinching. There are samples showing no rolling shutter issues. And yes, OIS CAN BE better than in-body, but all the usual arguments apply: Costs savings on lenses, getting stabilization with every lens you own, including legacy glass from back in the day, and as you said, it can be disabled in favor of in-lens IS. 
You may not care about FF vs APS-C, but many people do, and the benefits are obvious and well documented.
And no, battery life isn't worth $3000, but all the rest of it put together certainly is. It's a brand new sensor tech with completely unbelievable features that aren't close to being touched by any other manufacturer. Unless the camera literally doesn't work, then it's better than even a 1Dx or D5 in every way that counts, other than MAYBE durability and weather sealing, and only those because we don't know yet. 

20fps burst with AF checked 60 times per second without any viewfinder blackout is way better than X-T2
 
It has way more phase detect AF points, spread over much more of the image.
 
It has way better battery life despite having way more horsepower under the hood
 
The electronic shutter has no rolling shutter issues
 
It has in-camera 5-axis IS
 
It's full frame
 
Just because another camera comes out that's better than yours doesn't mean your camera gets worse. You can be excited for Sony and for people who will buy, use, and love the camera, all without having to hate your gear, or feel bad about yourself. The a9 is objectively better than the X-T2 in basically every objective way, and yet the X-T2 will probably do just fine taking nearly any photo you could want to take. It's okay. Take deep breaths. 

20fps burst with AF checked 60 times per second without any viewfinder blackout is way better than X-T2
 
It has way more phase detect AF points, spread over much more of the image.
 
It has way better battery life despite having way more horsepower under the hood
 
The electronic shutter has no rolling shutter issues
 
It has in-camera 5-axis IS
 
It's full frame
 
Just because another camera comes out that's better than yours doesn't mean your camera gets worse. You can be excited for Sony and for people who will buy, use, and love the camera, all without having to hate your gear, or feel bad about yourself. The a9 is objectively better than the X-T2 in basically every objective way, and yet the X-T2 will probably do just fine taking nearly any photo you could want to take. It's okay. Take deep breaths. 

There are lots of example videos showing the camera being used in the real world, in situations that are a lot more strenuous than I'LL ever use a camera in. I watched one last night of 20fps shooting of a pole vaulter in really low light (ISO 6400) with distractions in the frame, and watched the camera nail every single shot without even flinching. There are samples showing no rolling shutter issues. And yes, OIS CAN BE better than in-body, but all the usual arguments apply: Costs savings on lenses, getting stabilization with every lens you own, including legacy glass from back in the day, and as you said, it can be disabled in favor of in-lens IS. 
You may not care about FF vs APS-C, but many people do, and the benefits are obvious and well documented.
And no, battery life isn't worth $3000, but all the rest of it put together certainly is. It's a brand new sensor tech with completely unbelievable features that aren't close to being touched by any other manufacturer. Unless the camera literally doesn't work, then it's better than even a 1Dx or D5 in every way that counts, other than MAYBE durability and weather sealing, and only those because we don't know yet. 

20fps burst with AF checked 60 times per second without any viewfinder blackout is way better than X-T2
 
It has way more phase detect AF points, spread over much more of the image.
 
It has way better battery life despite having way more horsepower under the hood
 
The electronic shutter has no rolling shutter issues
 
It has in-camera 5-axis IS
 
It's full frame
 
Just because another camera comes out that's better than yours doesn't mean your camera gets worse. You can be excited for Sony and for people who will buy, use, and love the camera, all without having to hate your gear, or feel bad about yourself. The a9 is objectively better than the X-T2 in basically every objective way, and yet the X-T2 will probably do just fine taking nearly any photo you could want to take. It's okay. Take deep breaths. 

As you go up the ladder in terms of features and expense, your returns diminish while your costs increase. Do you believe a 1Dx is three times as good as a 5Dmk3? Do you believe that a Ferrari is 10 times as good as a Honda Civic? I don't, but they'll sell less of them, to people who absolutely need (or absolutely want) the few improvements that it provides, and the a9 is the same. 
 
The a9 isn't competing against the X-T2, it's competing against the 1Dx, and the D5. 

20fps burst with AF checked 60 times per second without any viewfinder blackout is way better than X-T2
 
It has way more phase detect AF points, spread over much more of the image.
 
It has way better battery life despite having way more horsepower under the hood
 
The electronic shutter has no rolling shutter issues
 
It has in-camera 5-axis IS
 
It's full frame
 
Just because another camera comes out that's better than yours doesn't mean your camera gets worse. You can be excited for Sony and for people who will buy, use, and love the camera, all without having to hate your gear, or feel bad about yourself. The a9 is objectively better than the X-T2 in basically every objective way, and yet the X-T2 will probably do just fine taking nearly any photo you could want to take. It's okay. Take deep breaths. 

20fps burst with AF checked 60 times per second without any viewfinder blackout is way better than X-T2
 
It has way more phase detect AF points, spread over much more of the image.
 
It has way better battery life despite having way more horsepower under the hood
 
The electronic shutter has no rolling shutter issues
 
It has in-camera 5-axis IS
 
It's full frame
 
Just because another camera comes out that's better than yours doesn't mean your camera gets worse. You can be excited for Sony and for people who will buy, use, and love the camera, all without having to hate your gear, or feel bad about yourself. The a9 is objectively better than the X-T2 in basically every objective way, and yet the X-T2 will probably do just fine taking nearly any photo you could want to take. It's okay. Take deep breaths. 

First, a comparison between X-Transformer's rendering, and straight Lightroom. Settings are exactly the same between the two images.
 
I've always struggled with the weird rendering of detail that I get with my RAF files in Lightroom. I've tried a few different processors to get my fine detail, but they either don't do much to solve the problem (Capture1) or are incredibly cumbersome to use (Photo Ninja) or are not available to me on Windows (Iridient)
 
I recently found X-Transformer (By Iridient) and found that it works more or less perfectly, and lets me keep my Lightroom workflow, so I thought I would share my process for anyone else interested or struggling with the same issues I was.
 
THE METHOD
 
I'm on Windows 10, using Lightroom CC
 
I went and got X-Transformer by Iridient
 
I then set it up to work as a plugin for Lightroom CC
 
Then, in Lightroom, once you find the files you want to work with and get your detail out of, you just choose to edit them in X-Transformer
 
And then put in these settings which strip out the horrible noise reduction and sharpening, and demosaic the data much better than Lightroom.
 
Then, once it's done running through X-Transformer, your image is back in Lightroom as a TIFF that you can treat exactly like your RAF files, except it's got fine detail in it.
 
It's the least cumbersome method I've found so far that gets really really good detail out of your shots, without forcing you to learn a crazy new half-broken editing software. The other program I found that gets this level of detail is Photo Ninja, but it is really difficult to work with, and feels almost like an Alpha for the first version of Lightroom. I don't advise it. 
 
Many photographers won't care about the improvement, and that's fine. Fine detail doesn't make or break a photo if the rest of the content/light/processing is good. But for those that want their full 24 megapixels worth of data, this is a great solution without having to give up Lightroom. 
 
Disclaimer: I haven't used the brand new CaptureOne which supposedly does very well with RAF files.
 
Links to two full res comparison photos

It works really well. I have it tethering to a specific Capture One hot folder and Capture One picks it up fast. This is probably the best way to tether to capture one. Since Capture One now supports compressed RAWs, it's a great solution. The only problem is you can't control you camera from C1. But that's ok. 
 
 

Is this what you're referring to?
 
"So about those footnotes. Some are ignorable, a few are important. For instance, while the buffer and frame per second calculations are correct for one card slot, the second card slot is not UHS-II. Why camera makers think this is a good thing to have differing slots when they are constantly performing integrity checks on the disk tables on cards, I don’t know. Basically you’re always limited by the slowest card in the camera. So shooting to both cards at the extremes of what the camera is designed to do is likely to have some downgrading effect, probably mostly on buffer. 
Likewise, that 120 fps viewfinder is actually 60 fps if you want the uninterrupted view with the electronic shutter. Not a terrible deal, but bragging about a spec in one place and then disclaiming for a critical use elsewhere takes away some of the excitement. Likewise, the 1/32000 shutter speed is only available in the Manual and Shutter Priority exposure modes (otherwise you’re limited to 1/16000). Note also that at apertures beyond f/11 focus doesn’t track with the electronic shutter, too."
 
http://www.sansmirror.com/newsviews/sony-goes-further-upscale.html

20fps burst with AF checked 60 times per second without any viewfinder blackout is way better than X-T2
 
It has way more phase detect AF points, spread over much more of the image.
 
It has way better battery life despite having way more horsepower under the hood
 
The electronic shutter has no rolling shutter issues
 
It has in-camera 5-axis IS
 
It's full frame
 
Just because another camera comes out that's better than yours doesn't mean your camera gets worse. You can be excited for Sony and for people who will buy, use, and love the camera, all without having to hate your gear, or feel bad about yourself. The a9 is objectively better than the X-T2 in basically every objective way, and yet the X-T2 will probably do just fine taking nearly any photo you could want to take. It's okay. Take deep breaths. 

20fps burst with AF checked 60 times per second without any viewfinder blackout is way better than X-T2
 
It has way more phase detect AF points, spread over much more of the image.
 
It has way better battery life despite having way more horsepower under the hood
 
The electronic shutter has no rolling shutter issues
 
It has in-camera 5-axis IS
 
It's full frame
 
Just because another camera comes out that's better than yours doesn't mean your camera gets worse. You can be excited for Sony and for people who will buy, use, and love the camera, all without having to hate your gear, or feel bad about yourself. The a9 is objectively better than the X-T2 in basically every objective way, and yet the X-T2 will probably do just fine taking nearly any photo you could want to take. It's okay. Take deep breaths. 

Thanks for this. I'll head over there and do some reading. If it's helpful, I'll report back. 

I left canon after the 5Dmk3, so your comment about that is accurate.
 
Also, regarding:  "I wholeheartedly disagree with you that the X-T2 has a lack of clarity and detail or moire. I do think that moire is a little more noticeable in 1080 than 4k, but other than that I think the video files look amazing."
I was referring to the photos, not the video. The video looks very nice.

20fps burst with AF checked 60 times per second without any viewfinder blackout is way better than X-T2
 
It has way more phase detect AF points, spread over much more of the image.
 
It has way better battery life despite having way more horsepower under the hood
 
The electronic shutter has no rolling shutter issues
 
It has in-camera 5-axis IS
 
It's full frame
 
Just because another camera comes out that's better than yours doesn't mean your camera gets worse. You can be excited for Sony and for people who will buy, use, and love the camera, all without having to hate your gear, or feel bad about yourself. The a9 is objectively better than the X-T2 in basically every objective way, and yet the X-T2 will probably do just fine taking nearly any photo you could want to take. It's okay. Take deep breaths. 

Here's a screen shot of my settings for you
 
http://imgur.com/a/jdHe8