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X-M1 + 90mm f/2 

 

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X-M1 + 90mm f/2 

 

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X-M1 + 90mm f/2 

 

M o d e l : N a m w h a n   #XE1 #XF90mmF2  

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X-M1 + 90mm f/2 

 

Hi All. I've attached a sort of guide/user manual for the Fuji X-T10. It started out as just a bunch info & tips from around the web that I collected. I started it because I'm an old fart who recently switched from manual film Nikon's to the Fuji (because of the manual controls). A friend also just made the switch so I starting organizing the info and making it look prettier for him. I'm posting it here so feel free to do whatever you want with it, including throwing it in the trash if it's a waste of time.
 
Jan 8, 2017: the newest version is attached
 
 
Fujifilm X-T10.pdf

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M o d e l : N a m w h a n   #XE1 #XF90mmF2  

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Lazy (X-T1, XF23mm @ f/1.4)
 

Lazy by Pascal van Gerven, on Flickr

Things Fuji are getting wrong?
 
Blimey, I didn't realise they were doing sooooo much wrong that it required a serious debate.
 
I was very much of the impression that Fuji are doing an awful lot of thinga much better than the other brands.
 
My only real gripe is why do they make cameras for such small hands - but that has pretty much been explained in another thread.
 
It would be nice to have a second card slot, or a wifi link up to the iPad that works for back up purposes - but I'm not a pro so I'm being picky.
I'd love an ISO facility of 1024000 but I'm again honest enough to know that is me just being lazy and not wanting to carry a tripod or cable release.
I do have a shutter speed of 1/32000th sec available to me - not enough? Seriously? Haven't found a need for it yet.
Oooohhhh - just found a serious one - I need a body with go faster stripes on it so it looks really really cool. (not!)
 
OK, that is the end of my comment on this thread.
 
There is one last point - if you're really happy with Fuji, you can always pay the much higher price premium for one of those more popular brands...

Personally, I like your metering suggestion, though I do think for it to be truly useful it there would need to be a touch screen and the metering should be disconnected from the focus point. It would be great for me to pick "Zone System" from the metering options, tap the white and black points on the screen and have the camera pick the exposure from there. That would be awesome and I would think simple enough to implement. I have wondered for a while why I have never seen it.
 
Speaking of touch screens, I miss the touch to set focus point. I don't miss the scads of touch to change setting options. I would love to see Fuji implement a touch screen that was fully customizable. I could turn it completely off if I wanted or could just turn on touch focus, metering, and pinch to zoom along with select settings changes (like the various AF modes). Let me decide what stuff I use enough to justify touch screen access and what stuff can just stay hidden in the menu system.
 
I don't have a particular opinion about the rest of your points. Better flash would be nice and I would expect it to come along at some point. I do not have an issue with the lens lineup or road map. I think they are brilliantly offering a great fast prime selection and keeping the quality way up there to entice people over. I suspect that if I found the 56 to be too short then the 90 would be the perfect next step - don't see an overall advantage to sticking another prime in the middle. A flash that used the camera battery would be great - I hate having to have AA's floating around. Then again I rarely use flash and going out once a year to buy a monster pack of AA's to shoot all day flash would certainly be cheaper than having a stack of mostly unused camera batteries laying around.
 
Mike

Well as far as I'm concerned, I think you are being overly critical.
 
1. The shutter speed dial is reflective of every camera ever made (to the best of my knowledge) that has a manual shutter speed dial. The ability to adjust in third stops using the dial is a bonus. The new changes with FW4 will further enhance this for manual shooters. Trying to have 40 odd click-stops on such a small dial would be overkill.
 
2. Seriously? Take a shot and review the viewfinder display, or bracket - it's on a tripod for goodness sake. Better yet shoot in RAW.
 
3. If the 56mm is too short and the 90mm is too big I don't know what they could do for you. 85mm effective focal length has been portrait standard for years. The 90mm (135mm equivalent) is the next step in virtually every pro system. Got an issue? Use the 60mm macro and cover your portrait AND macro needs.
 
4. Yes the Fuji system has flash shortcomings. They know it and are working on it. Buy a couple of cheap Yongnuo triggers and get over it until they bring out the new flash units.
 
5. Don't you think if Fuji could fit the X-T1 battery in the X100T they would have done it? It's like a pro canon shooter complaining that his 1Dx battery won't fit in a 5D3. Wow, Fuji is doing this "horribly wrong". If managing two battery types messes you up this much don't get a X100T.
 
Some of your suggestions are valid, but they are certainly not things Fuji is doing "horribly wrong".

When the Fuji-X-system was released, I was very exited. Finally a system that does so many things right that so many camera manufacturers have been getting wrong for the last decades. However, after using the X-System for a while, I started to take issue with certain features of the Fuji-X cameras or in some cases the lack thereof. I have therefore written this little rant and would be a much happier X-shooter if Fuji could implement these suggestions in the future.
 
1) The Manual Controls of the Fuji-X Cameras are insufficient, especially the Shutter Speed Dial
 
I am not at all satisfied with the shutter speed dial of the X100s and the X-T1 (I haven’t tried other cameras so far). It is far too hard to turn, it isn’t nearly large enough and only offers adjustments in full stops. The whole point of a manual shutter speed dial is to enable the photographer to shoot comfortably in manual mode and avoid the use of fiddly plastic dials. However, when you use the shutter speed dials of the Fuji cameras, you have to resort to using the flimsy plastic back dial to adjust the shutter speed in third-stops, which completely defeats the purpose of having a metal shutter speed dial in the first place. Ironically, the Sony A7 and the Olympus cameras offer a much nicer manual shooting experience, even though both cameras still have the traditional PASM mode dial. There are furthermore lenses with aperture rings for the MFT and the Sony system, which means that Fuji practically doesn’t offer anything unique in this department anymore. I find this really strange, especially since Fuji should have some experience because of their analog rangefinders like theGF670, which had a shutter speed dial that even incorporated exposure compensation into the shutter. Conclusion: The manual controls of the Fuji-X-system are nothing more than a gimmick and do not encourage to 'get out of auto'.
  2) The Metering System fails to achieve be a useful for landscape photographers   Given that we can use electronic viewfinders with both cameras, I simply don’t understand why Fuji doesn’t incorporate some sort of indication showing what the camera meters on. It would especially be helpful to be able to see the spot of spot metering and it would be even better, of you could move the spot metering spot around. This would be a tremendous help especially for landscape photographers, because you could meter different areas without moving the camera. This could also render a manual meter completely obsolete. It would further be helpful if the user could select the calibration of the light meter. Traditionally, the spot meter only meters medium grey (18% grey or zone 5 in terms of Ansel’s zone system). It would be a tremendous help if you could set the meter to other zones in order to get a perfect exposure in complex lighting situations. Sure, the photographer could also meter the area for zone 5 and make manual adjustments to push or pull the exposure to the intended zone. The problem with that is that the dynamic range of the X-Trans sensors is not consistent for all ISO values, which means that manual adjustments can be rather complicated to execute. Conclusion: If Fuji would include a feature like this, it would easily revolutionise a traditional landscape workflow. Frame, meter, set exposure, focus. All with a tiny instrument and without moving the camera around. I don't see why a system like this isn't the standard for mirrorless camera that meter directly off the sensor.   3) The Lineup is still weak for Portrait, Macro & Flash Photography   I really wonder why there isn’t a decent portrait/macro lens for the Fuji System. Both, the 56mm and the 60mm are in my opinion too short to provide flattering compression and the 90mm will be quite a beast and I’m note sure whether it will have any macro capabilities. I also might be a little bit too long for macro work (given that it will have a 135mm FOV). A perfect Lens would be a 70 or 75mm f2 with a well working focus limiter. This lens in combination with the 14mm and the 35mm would make for a hell of a travel/landscape combination and make a very decent fit for 99% of all shooting conditions. The MFT system already offers similarly great combination of three lenses with their 60mm macro, 45mm and 12 mm. This is why am actually considering switching to MFT. A much stranger, but perhaps genius idea would be to build a x100s tele counterpart with a fixed 75mm lens with a leaf shutter. With this combination, I would sell anything else I have an live happily ever after, knowing that this combination would be incredibly useful for flash work (since I could benefit from unlimited sync speeds), as well as 95% of most other shooting conditions. Another Problem in this regard are the sync speeds of most Fuji bodies. My lovely X100s offers phenomenal sync speeds. The EVIL options, however, are even behind DSLR standard. I don't understand why sync speeds of 1/500 aren't possible, especially since Nikon already achieved this with the D40 almost 10 years ago. I am not an expert on technical limitations of camera shutters, but I could imagine that the sync speeds of modern cameras are so low because shutters are build for higher frame rates in continuous shooting. If there is actually a limitation like this, Fuji could use this as an opportunity and build one pro-line body (x-t2?) with high frame rates in continuous shooting and one model with a high sync-speed and silent shutter for portrait and travel photography (x-pro2?). I believe a segmentation of camera bodies would be a very, very refreshing and healthy novelty for the camera market, which is already oversaturated with 999.999 almost identical DSLR bodies. Conclusion: There is a lot of potential for future development and segmentation both for camera lenses and bodies.   4) Flash   Speaking of Flash: Flash with Fuji is awful as we all know. Rather than cooperating with what's left of METZ, Fuji should maybe find a partnership with a Flash manufacturer like Nissin or even Yongnuo and do something that hasn't been done before (at least to my knowledge). Some of the Yongnuo flashes incorporate TTL receivers in the the Flashbody. This helps to avoid clutter in the camera bag for wto reasons: First, you don't need to carry a receiver. Second, you don't need a second set of AAA batteries just for the stupid receiver. Now imagine how great it would be if a TTL transmitter for this flash would be built in and fully adjustable from the camera. The Flash and the camera could communicate without the need for any additional equipment and batteries. As a travel photographer, I would be in heaven since my gear would once again be much simplified. If these internal transmitters and receivers would allow for high sync speed (which the Fuji-bodies should have, see above), you could get away with using relatively small flashes, since you could make better use of them. Again: Lighter and simpler gear. Conclusion: Fuji could do a lot to achieve the proclaimed target of mirrorless photography (light and simple gear) for flashwork.     5) Get rid of clutter   Finally, I want to address a minor point, that is nevertheless very important to me. I have two Fuji cameras, which use two freaking different kinds of batteries. If I go on a short trip and try to fit everything in my small camera bag, I hate that I have to bring to sets of batteries. Please, Fuji, in the future use the chunky NP-W126 of the X-T1 for all of your High-End bodies. And here is a even greater idea: If you decide on a great option for flash photography, offer us a flash that uses the same rechargeable lithium Ion batteries as the camera! The Godox V850 uses a rechargeable Li-Ion battery, which means that it cannot be impossible. Also, if you give us fast sync speeds (see above) we don't need really powerful flashes, which could make the use of relatively small Li-Ion batteries possible. Conclusion: Please, Fuji, do stuff to help us minimising clutter.   All right, that was it for the moment. Let me know what you think.

Lunch - Maha Bandula, Yangon, Myanmar (X-E2, XF18-55)
 

And some of my most recent work. Still some shoots to edit, but lacking time at the moment.
 
 

Coming from a Nikon D7000, I had a Sigma 18-35 f1.8 zoom lying around collecting dust. (If you don't know, this is widely regarded as the best zoom lens for APSC DSLRs)   So what I did was ordered a Metabones lens adapter and stuck it on my XT1!  
  My findings   - Sharper than the fuji 18mm f2 @ 18mm 1.8, especially at the edges - Very very close to the Fuji 35mm 1.4 when shot at 35mm 1.8 - HUGE. People thought I was using a telephoto lens. - Quite heavy. Definitely throws the XT1 off balance. - Very nice bokeh   Just a bit of fun, thought I would share   Awesome image quality, just with HUGEness, HEAVYness and MF of course.   Ask if you have questions   Some samples  


   

As a cosplay photographer, portability was a key part in switching over to the Fujifilm mirrorless system. With my other photographer friends carrying their heavy SLR gear around the convention, I can easily fit 4 lens and 2 flashes in my camera bag and not worry about weight. Carrying your gear all day can wear you down towards the end of the day, where sometimes you need to remain focus on your work and client.

The gear I usually bring with me is my X-pro 1 with the 23mm and 56mm lenses and a Westcott 26" rapid soft box with a Yongnuo speedlite.
 
 

Princess Mononoke
 

Tomoe
 

Syaoran & Sakura
 

Mikasa Ackerman
 

Sheik

I wanted to start a thread for this awesome little lens. I bought it over the 14mm because it was about half the price at the time (due to a sale), and I thought the slightly tighter field of view and extra stop would be better for me, because I mostly shoot people.
 
There's definitely a decent amount of distortion in the RAW files, but the in-camera JPGs really aren't bad, so it can still be good for landscapes and the like. It's great for people - sharp and fairly quick to focus, and it's so tiny. I ignored it for a while after I got my 23 1.4, but when I put it back on my camera I realized how much I liked it. Before, I just saw it as my wide angle for when I needed a wide, but now I choose it for its character.
 
Dawn by philbabbey, on Flickr
 
Bluewater Bridge by philbabbey, on Flickr
 
DSCF0447 by philbabbey, on Flickr
 
DSCF0189 by philbabbey, on Flickr