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If budget is one of your points, the 55-200 is a great choice. It's slower than the 50-140, but much less expensive and a lot easier to handle on a lighter body like the X-T10. 

Traveling in Budapest recently I brought my X-Pro2, 23mm f/1.4 and 35mm f/1.4 as the only lenses. I do agree that the 27mm is a phenomenal all purpose, compact lens though..... and I think my wife would agree because she has claimed my copy of the 27mm for her X-E1 and never takes it off her camera! 
 
Here are a couple shots from the 35mm and 23mm from Budapest. When I travel with these two lenses they never let me down. Sometimes I may wish I had my 16mm or 10-24mm, but those only cover very specific types of shots for me. I need to catch up on my Flickr uploads, so I can't embed these in the post right now, but here are the links to them on my Tumblr blog posts:
 
http://orendarling.com/post/151403665492/budapest-hungary-september-2016-oren-darling
http://orendarling.com/post/151358460221/budapest-hungary-september-2016-oren-darling

I would second the recommendation of considering the the 35mm f/1.4 for another lens. I love my copy and it's on my camera more often than any other lens I own. With the Fuji discounts, it can get close to your price range new, but I'm sure there are a lot of used copies in great condition out there from people switching to the f/2 model. I think both versions are great lenses, but I personally prefer the f/1.4.

I would second the recommendation of considering the the 35mm f/1.4 for another lens. I love my copy and it's on my camera more often than any other lens I own. With the Fuji discounts, it can get close to your price range new, but I'm sure there are a lot of used copies in great condition out there from people switching to the f/2 model. I think both versions are great lenses, but I personally prefer the f/1.4.

I would second the recommendation of considering the the 35mm f/1.4 for another lens. I love my copy and it's on my camera more often than any other lens I own. With the Fuji discounts, it can get close to your price range new, but I'm sure there are a lot of used copies in great condition out there from people switching to the f/2 model. I think both versions are great lenses, but I personally prefer the f/1.4.

Personally, my favorite portrait lens is the Fuji 35mm f/1.4 because it's so versatile for other things and the images just have some kind of "magic" quality to them. You should be able to find a lot of used copies in good condition since a lot of people sold them for the f/2 version. I prefer the f/1.4, others prefer the f/2. I won't get into a debate on that because both are good.
 
However, I also own several Helios lenses that I bought from eBay that are fun to use. They are not the best (by far) and have flaws in everything that comes out of them, but they are unique and fun to use sometimes.
 
For adapters the most important thing I can say is to read the reviews before buying. On my Helios lenses there were a lot of adapters out there that people said would not allow infinity focusing. I didn't have to buy the most expensive adapter, but it was important to find one that had consistent, positive performance in the reviews. I'd suspect that is true for most adapted lenses.
 
Lastly, I would not wait and save for any rumored lenses from Fuji that do not have a set and announced release date. There are too many unknowns and potential disappointments. If you are ready to start shooting with it, stick with what is on the market now or what has an official release date. If something more appealing gets announced while you are saving, then switch your plan, but too many lenses get changed or canceled between the rumor and the announcement to build your plans around.

I had visited Budapest twice, the last one just month ago.
I think a week is a really minimum time for trip because so many interesting places. City center is crowded by places.

There is a great walking route on Danube promenade which can give you views to the most prominent landmarks arranged on the river banks.

Approximately start (or end) point is 'Szabadsag' bridge (huge one with chains, dark green colored), here is metro 'Fovam ter', old market building designed by Eiffel (behind the market, there is a modern mall a bit empty though), in front of market there is beginning (ending?) of 'Vaci utca' if you like shopping streets, of course you can see the bridge, also worth to cross the bridge and you have Gellert Thermal Bath building, on left side, and ancient church and monastery built in rocks, on right side.
All these places can take whole day or even more.

Next is distance from this 'green' bridge to white one, Elisabeth Bridge. You will see Gellert Hill across the river, with Liberty Statue on top. Citadel on hill isn't visible from here.
Near the Elisabeth Bridge you can find two churches, so-so. Bridge by itself is a relatively modern design, may be not so picturesque.

Next is distance to Szechenyi Chain Bridge, looks like 'central' part of promenade, here are many beautiful bronze statues, Castle Hill is across the river.

Note the Castle may take whole day - worth to walk on Chain Bridge, which is beautiful by itself, then you have old picturesque elevator, Buda Castle tunnel on right side and big mural on brick wall at left side, while staying in queue to elevator (not so long). Take one-way ticket. Lifted up, you have Buda royal palaces at left side. Note sometimes there are great expositions in museums of palace, the last one was Picasso's artworks.
Views to Danube from hill.
After visiting of Palace, worth to walk to Fisherman Bastion. Holy Trinity Column in front of church (sorry, forgot the name, St. Mattias?). Worth to see interior of church (pay for entrance) and walk through it's passages, in one of side passages there is original gold crown of Hungarian kings!
Yep, Fisherman Bastion, depend of sun position you can make great photos with Danube on background.
After bastion, worth to go to the nothern end of Casthe, then you have less-known Mary Magdalene Tower and picturesque old gate. After the gate you have 2 choices: at right side - large beautiful park with views and statues, great quiet place, or to continue in direction to Mammut mall, short distance.

But back to the promenade route.
From Chain Bridge go to the Parliament. Views to the Castle Hill and Danube. Parliament - building by itself, surrounding area. Best time is morning hours. Some nice old buildings in close proximity, interesting statues - 'man on bridge'. If you like salami, there is 'Pick' brand store at left (southern) side of Parliament's square.

From Parliament area there are choices:
 - go to 'Szabadsag ter' - square/park, monuments, architecture.
 - go to Nyugati train station - station by itself (built by Eiffel), WestEnd mall (biggest in Hungary), surrounding
 - keep walking on promenade

If keeping: go to Margit Bridge, some Danube views and bridge by itself, then worth to visit Margaret Island, whole is park area, very quiet place. Counting from the Margaret bridge, there are: fountain area with lots of flowers, Water Tower approx. in the middle of island (by the way, it's famous place for music events), beautiful Japanese garden at northern part. Immediately after garden there is Arpad Bridge for return, or walk back.


Apart from promenades:

Worth to get tickets to concert of organ music in St.Stephen Basilica, the hall has excellent acoustics, and basilica by itself is very picturesque both interiors and exteriors.

Big interesting area is: metro 'Hosok ter' - glory monuments - 2 good museum galleries at sides (one is contemporary art and second of old masters works) - large park - picturesque Vajdahunyad Castle with own garden - Zoo - Szechenyi Thermal Bath. May be, full-day of walking.

Old metro line (yellow one), probably the oldest in Europe. Note the each stop has two different entrances, depends of direction, also no ticket machines at stops.

Andrassy korut (boulevard), starting close to basilica, - luxury stores, Opera house, Museum of Terror, next long distance is less interesting but at the end leads you to Hosok ter, see above.

Moorish-style synagogue building at Dohany street, close to Karoly korut. If you keep walking on this street, 10-15min. approx., you'll get Boscolo mega luxury hotel, very interesting building, with it's own church (?) and diabolic figures at sides as a streetlights. Find the statue of black young devil across the street.

Corvin-negyed metro stop. Here are: Corvin Plaza mall, not big but not bad at all, picturesque building of Museum of Applied Arts (green tiles on roof)


For night shoots, both sides of Danube are great. Just look at first evening. At lower bank there are tram lines and other structural things which are distracted, so hard to find good position.

We spent a week there . there is a lot of place to see Castle hill is one of them. The Parliament, the opera house is a wonderful one especial inside a must to go for concert and the tickets are a bargain. the market is also a must. Do not miss  bath house Night  cruise on the Danube are great also for pictures. If you use the Up on buses, get the red one is the best. it is a great way to go around the city and they including a night cruise on the Danube .

I have the 18-135mm (which is actually my least used lens for a number of reasons I won't go into here) and it was the primary reason for pushing me away from the 50-140mm. The image quality is no comparison between the two, but 135mm was just not long enough whenever I really wanted some reach. I went with the 55-200 to get that extra length and it's quickly become a favorite lens. The image quality is stunning for a lens of that price. It has some tradeoffs, but that extra $1000 that I saved allowed me to buy an X-Pro2. The 55-200 is almost permanently attached to my X-T1 and then I rotate between the 16, 23, and 35 f/1.4 on the X-Pro2. If I had spent the extra $1000 on the 50-140, my gear would not be nearly as flexible right now.

Hi everyone,
 
Just finished my MFA in Electronic and Time Based Art at Purdue University. I first picked up a "real" camera a little over a year ago when I bought my Fuji X-T1, so I've still got a lot to learn. I shoot exclusively with that. My favorite lenses are the XF 23mm, 35mm, and 10-24mm, but I do use the XF 27mm and 18-135mm WR sometimes and have three vintage Helios 44-2 f/2 58mm lenses, one of which is modified with a reversed front element. 
 
Black and white is most intriguing to me in terms of my own work, but I enjoy good photography in all forms. I really like shooting landscape/nature and architecture, but I'm an equal opportunity photographer, I'll shoot anything that is interesting at any given moment. 
 
I have a photo blog that I usually update twice per day, but will eventually move to once a day when I get through my work from last year. 
 
Oren Darling Photography

I ended up getting my money back through the PayPal dispute. If the strap does miraculously show up at some point, I'll gladly transfer the money back to him even though I felt mistreated as a customer and will probably get another nasty email from him as a result.
 
I have found that most countries, regardless of whether they supposedly have good or bad reputations, have roughly the same proportions of good versus bad business people. The majority I encounter are fine and at worst may not be overly polite, but are not at all rude either. Whether they are American, Italian, Middle Eastern, or other nationalities, most small businesses I deal with are a pleasure to work with.
 
I still wish him well in his business, but I personally won't be spending my money in his shop again. 
 
I ended up going with a Tap and Dye wrist strap, which is more than I wanted to spend, but I have one for my X-T1 and have been very happy with everything about it, from craftsmanship to look to the fit. I guess sometimes it just pays to stay with what you know!

My wife this weekend in Millennium Park, Chicago. X-Pro2, XF 23mm @ f/1.4, 1/6400s, ISO 200.
 

 
Mahdieh by Oren Darling, on Flickr

I love leather bags, but I don't use them for my camera gear. They just scream "expensive!" too loudly even if they don't look like a camera bag. They seem more likely to be stolen. Of course I don't have any statistics to back that up, so I wouldn't fault anyone for going with a leather bag if they really prefer the look. Just my opinion.

I completely agree with you on that point and I swear by Billingham for that reason. For myself though, already owning a Hadley Pro, it's hard for me to buy a Hadley Digital at about $40 less when the bag is less than half the size. To me, the Hadley Pro is priceless, but I would be inclined to examine all other options before spending that much on the Digital.

In my opinion, the 18-135 has some quality control issues compared to other Fuji lenses. Some people swear by it as an incredible lens and their images back it up. Personally, it's my least used lens, even when traveling, and find that I have to use the dehaze tool way too much for my liking on any landscapes with some real depth to them. It just loses contrast like crazy in those situations. Also, the bokeh is not very good. That's to be expected from a slower zoom, but it's just not there. Perhaps those quality control issues have cleared up, I bought mine very early after the initial release. Not sure. Where it shines is the image stabilization. I've shot it at f/5.6 inside Mammoth Cave, half second handheld. All that being said, it's still miles ahead of the 18-135 kit lenses that other camera companies put out. Even if I had a good copy, 135 doesn't quite cut it for the long end of the range for me. It's all about versatility.
 
My 55-200 has none of the issues that my copy of the 18-135 shows. Beautiful lens. The autofocus is a little slow at times, but for landscapes that's not really an issue.
 
The 18-55 is a great lens too, but since you mentioned that you like wide angle lenses, I think the 10-24mm is an obvious choice. If you like to shoot cityscapes at night with some action or you like to have the extra range in your depth of field for miscellaneous other shots, then the 16mm is one to consider. I own both and they each have their purposes. It's a great combo to own if you like wide angle lenses. But to start with, I'd pick one or the other to match your needs then consider adding the other later. 
 
For the primes, it kind of depends on what you go with on the wide end. If it's 10-24, then one of the 35mm lenses. If it's the 16, the maybe consider the 23.
 
My favorite kits depending on where and what I'm shooting are either 10-24, 35 f/1.4, and 55-200 or 16, 23, 35 f/1.4, and 55-200 with a Pro2 and X-T1. 

I've been using my Billingham Hadley Pro exclusively for almost 2 years now. Absolutely the perfect bag for me and I try to buy quality and stick with as few bags and other accessories as possible so that I can focus my finances on lenses and trips..... However, I do a lot of hiking and my wife finally told me that I really need to get a backpack that I trust with my gear as much as my Billingham because I look ridiculous and awkward carrying both a cheap daypack and my camera bag in the woods. She's asking me to buy more gear? No arguments here! Damn I love her! 
 
I didn't want to go with a backpack that is exclusively for photo gear, so I bought a Millican "Dave the Rucksack." Exactly what I was looking for. Is it for everyone? No, but if you live in an area where you can get your hands on one to try out I would highly recommend it.

My wife this weekend in Millennium Park, Chicago. X-Pro2, XF 23mm @ f/1.4, 1/6400s, ISO 200.
 

 
Mahdieh by Oren Darling, on Flickr

This is for any long exposure photography that doesn't necessarily fit into the Landscape category. These first images were taken on the Roaring Branch near Arlington, Vermont. All three were done with the XF 10-24mm and 10-stop neutral density filter on my X-T1, about 75 seconds each. 
 

DSCF6807_1 by Oren Darling, on Flickr
 

DSCF6797 by Oren Darling, on Flickr
 

DSCF6796 by Oren Darling, on Flickr
 
 

Luigi said by email that his X-Pro2 half case may be ready later next week and to check with him by email to confirm it. I've always like his work, but the plastic strip running behind the tilt screen on the design for his X-T1 half case made me go with Arte di Mano for that camera.

This is an open topic for anyone who has information on half cases for the X-Pro2. I realize that not many are available for such a new camera, but as people find them, please post here. 
 
I'm not a fan of the Fuji branded half cases and will be looking for a nice third party half case as soon as there are some options on the market to choose from. I'm guessing that the usual companies such as Luigi (Leicatime), Gariz, and Angelo Pelle, and Arte di Mano will have X-Pro2 cases in the near future, but I'm always interested to see what new options appear as well.

It's tough for me to get down to just 2 lenses for a travel kit without using the 18-135, which I own, but I'm not a big fan of when it can be avoided. My 3 lens travel kit is the 10-24mm, 35mm f/1.4, and 55-200mm. I find that many things from 25-54mm I can zoom with my feet using the 35. I use the wide and normal lenses on my Pro2 and the 55-200 on the X-T1 to minimize lens changes. I realize that changes if you're only using one Fuji body though. My 4 lens travel kit is the 16mm, 23mm, 35mm, and 55-200mm, again with the primes on the Pro2 and the 55-200mm on the T1. I rarely crop images, but if I need to be quick, the Pro2 gives me a little extra resolution to work with, while the 55-200 on the T1 I compose a little more carefully in the camera. For a 2 lens solution, the 18-135mm and either the 10-24mm or 35mm f/1.4 depending on what kind of trip I'm going on.

Turkey Run State Park, Indiana. January, 2016 with the X-T1 and XF 16mm WR.
 

DSCF1822_1 by Oren Darling, on Flickr
 

DSCF1830_1 by Oren Darling, on Flickr
 

DSCF1829 by Oren Darling, on Flickr
 

DSCF1834 by Oren Darling, on Flickr

There is an old man in Lafayette, Indiana who has a mobile nativity scene in the back of his truck at Christmas. He was fine with me taking a photo of his truck, but he did not want to be in the photo himself.
 

DSCF0566 copy by Oren Darling, on Flickr

I think that part of that "magic" is the fact that the f/1.4 is optically a better lens. Mechanically and in some other ways such as weather sealing, the f/2 has an advantage. However, to get the price point and size down while only giving up one stop of light and improving other things, they did make some sacrifices in the optics. The f/2 is not optically corrected, it relies on digital correction, but the f/1.4 is optically corrected. That doesn't mean you can't have a great lens that relies on digital correction. The 10-24mm is wonderful and that relies heavily on digital correction at the wide end. However, you don't expect a wide angle f/4 landscape lens to have that "magic" in the same sense that a fast "normal" lens might. Fuji hit a home run on the f/2 given the price, features, focus speed, etc, but optically they hit a grand slam with the f/1.4 version. That is where the consistency comes from in producing those "magic" images.

Luigi said by email that his X-Pro2 half case may be ready later next week and to check with him by email to confirm it. I've always like his work, but the plastic strip running behind the tilt screen on the design for his X-T1 half case made me go with Arte di Mano for that camera.