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Actually 56 1.2 on APS-C is like 85 1.8 Full Frame in terms of DOF, not 1.4.   So using 56 1.2 at 1.2 give me same DOF as using Nikon 85 1.8 on my D800.  

Going colour crazy at Railay Beach after sunset 9 days ago....
X-T1, Samyang 12mm f/2.0
 
Edit: BTW if someone knows the model let me know... I was shooting the sunset, didn't have my portrait lenses, and she arrived with another photographer and stood in front of my composition (had the tripod installed and all), so I continued shooting, she was sort of hidden behind the boat, but on one moment the waves made the left boat turn and I had the shot ... and as fast as they appeared, they were gone so couldn't ask for their email to send them the pic, and on the camera LCD she was mostly on silhouette so they wouldn't be so thrilled neither if I showed them the shot then.
 

I have an always running 4 year old.   With my Nikon D750 it is very easy, just put the camera in CAF mode, choose 3D AF, and press the shutter button and voila, you got a series of perfect in focus photographs.   Doesn't get easier than that.
 
With Fuji XT2 not so simple.  Was trying different zone sizes, etc.   Still searching for perfect AF setting to work with
 
       

Few words about "magic" F0.95 number.
 
Usually when photographers see that on the first time, they say (or think) "Wow! F0.95".
Yes, there are old film lens like Canon 50mm f0.95, which are massive and huge lens with extremely narrow DOF wide open.
But it's not something unusual in terms of APS-C or m4/3 frame coverage.
 
I'm ex-Nikon shooter, and often used quite popular lens like 50mm 1.4 and 85mm 1.4. With that lens + autofocus the narrow DOF on F1.4 is very usable for portraits.
 
With Fuji system, its nice and lovely XF 56mm 1.2 replaces Nikkor 85mm 1.4 it terms of DOF. And using 1.2 there is almost the same.
F0.95 35mm is just corresponding equivalent of Nikkor 50mm 1.4
 
So the main reason for me to try ZSM 35mm 0.95 - getting similar results I had with Nikon. From that perspective this "magic" 0.95 number is just regular F1.4 I got used to.
 
 

Couple of people contacted me that the new Face Recog in FW4 is not accurate in that when you pick 'auto' eye, while it supposed to focus on a closest eye, it picks the other eye. I have not noticed it so I had to check myself. When the face is not parallel to the plane.... I tested it (not extensively though) and I think these people found a possible issue with the firmware. Here is a photo I took at night time the other night.   I set the Face Recog on "auto" which is, in accordance with Fuji description, means the closest eye.   Yet it clearly focused on the farthest eye.     Has anyone else noticed it, or nobody uses Face Recog anyway in order to have PDAF on?
 

I also did see the incorrect eye focusing when it's on Auto.
 
The problem is that you have to dive into the menu every time to change the option left or right eye. This isn't an option when shooting people who are not static.
 
I really wish Fuji will combine the Face Detect function and Eye function into one so you can assign a Fn button to it so we can easily switch between left/right eye.
Or make it that the Eye function can be assigned to either a Fn button or the Q-menu
 
Hope this will make it into FW 4.10
 
(Already send Fuji Tokyo a mail about this, and off course a "Thank you")

Couple of people contacted me that the new Face Recog in FW4 is not accurate in that when you pick 'auto' eye, while it supposed to focus on a closest eye, it picks the other eye. I have not noticed it so I had to check myself. When the face is not parallel to the plane.... I tested it (not extensively though) and I think these people found a possible issue with the firmware. Here is a photo I took at night time the other night.   I set the Face Recog on "auto" which is, in accordance with Fuji description, means the closest eye.   Yet it clearly focused on the farthest eye.     Has anyone else noticed it, or nobody uses Face Recog anyway in order to have PDAF on?
 

FYI
In CL you can use all new AF features, so wide tracking with contrast detection all over the frame and zone AF wit 3x3 - 5x3 - 5x5 box
In CH you can use only the part of the sensor covered by PDAF. So no wide tracking all over the frame and no 5x5 box

Everything working great and 35/1.4 all of th sudden is a fast focusing lens

I had two XE1 which each would freeze.  Flysurfer acts like he is surprised about it.   Even Dpreview, the largest photography site in the world, acknowledge in their reviews of first Fuji X cameras that they freeze and software crashed in them.   But they loved the cameras anyway.     

My X-E1 has frozen on me probably 10 times in the 1.5 years I've owned it. Easy enough to reset but not fun especially when it happens while writing a big batch of images to card. 

Listen, lets not kid ourselves.   Fuji put plenty of official firmwares that had plenty of bugs.   Remember when XE1 was freezing from ttime to time????   Flysurfer is full of it. 

Patrick thank you very much.  went to the park with my 3 year old today.   He was running and I changed my XT1 with same 56/1.2 to MS only.   Every shot in focus at 1.2!!!!   He was running, and everyrthing was in focus!  MS only, no Face Recog, CH.   The only thing is Continuous High is rated at 8FPS, but I was not getting 8FPs clearly, even though my shutter speed was close to 1/4000....  I was getting at most 4-5fps (more like 4) but all in focus, camera took time focusing between shots with that 56/1.2 which is not the fastest focusing lens.  But I was getting everything in focus, so thanks again.  I was using 5X3 boxes which I think is the largest Fuji allows you in accordance with their new Firmware 4.0 AF chart for continuous AF

C-AF, Zone, 5x3 and 3x3 PDAF mode. And CH burst. No face detection of course, face detection is so useless on 4.0 too   
 
The Zone C-AF requires a bit of patience   Do not release the shutter immediately, just keep pushing halfway the release, leave a little time to find the "target". After that it will track your subject relative succesfully depends on lens and the complexity of scene. No other object in the field zone? Success. Too many object? Error.
 
Never will be 100% of the shots in focus, but I think this C-AF zone is fantastic... specially with "old-man-slooow" AF 56/1.2. I never had a MILC that was capable to track my dog.

Right you are! X-T1 is by itself already self-sufficient and it is hard to imagine what else can be improved.

So far no problems no bugs with the firmware.   And I don't see anyone here or any other place who had this for the last few several days to complain about a single problem with the firmware.   Because there are literally 1000s of people right now with it on their XT1 actively using it, which is times more than usual with normal beta software, we would have heard something surely if there was anything wrong.   Everything works as it should.
 
Further, with firmware 4.0,  it is not clear whether Fuji is going to update it any further.   What else do you think they could squeeze in the software for that 2 year old camera???  What features you are thinking?  The camera is limited by its sensor and autofocus system at this point.  So the present firmware is possibly the last one anyway when it comes to this model.   At least I don't see how much more they could improve it beyond what's already in this firmware. 

Further, if Fuji produces more firmware and it does not update to 1000s of us who updated with this so called beta 4.0 who is Fuji punishing???  Who are the people that ran and updated immediately???   It is the same crazy Fuji fans that is a core base of Fuji, the same people who pre-order and run and buy Fujis next camera and all the lenses.     We are the core of that crazy group of early adapters and people who preorder and buy new things from Fuji, guaranteed.  
 
Does Fuji really want to offend that core group of its most enthusiastic early adapters and buyers of all their gear????  Not a good move. 

So far no problems no bugs with the firmware.   And I don't see anyone here or any other place who had this for the last few several days to complain about a single problem with the firmware.   Because there are literally 1000s of people right now with it on their XT1 actively using it, which is times more than usual with normal beta software, we would have heard something surely if there was anything wrong.   Everything works as it should.
 
Further, with firmware 4.0,  it is not clear whether Fuji is going to update it any further.   What else do you think they could squeeze in the software for that 2 year old camera???  What features you are thinking?  The camera is limited by its sensor and autofocus system at this point.  So the present firmware is possibly the last one anyway when it comes to this model.   At least I don't see how much more they could improve it beyond what's already in this firmware. 

Further, if Fuji produces more firmware and it does not update to 1000s of us who updated with this so called beta 4.0 who is Fuji punishing???  Who are the people that ran and updated immediately???   It is the same crazy Fuji fans that is a core base of Fuji, the same people who pre-order and run and buy Fujis next camera and all the lenses.     We are the core of that crazy group of early adapters and people who preorder and buy new things from Fuji, guaranteed.  
 
Does Fuji really want to offend that core group of its most enthusiastic early adapters and buyers of all their gear????  Not a good move. 

Here are my results so far.  I only have 3 Fuji X lenses currently.
 
35/1.4  the most dramatic change.   Lens just gets to focus without rocking back and forth.   Amazing for this lens.  All of the sudden it is like a different lens!!!
18-135.  I tried to lower the light in my bedroom and focus at tele end.  It is usually a slow lens to focus in low light.  Result - much quicker acquisition.   
56/1.2    seems to be no changes whatsoever with how that lens focused with previous firmware. 

Here are my results so far.  I only have 3 Fuji X lenses currently.
 
35/1.4  the most dramatic change.   Lens just gets to focus without rocking back and forth.   Amazing for this lens.  All of the sudden it is like a different lens!!!
18-135.  I tried to lower the light in my bedroom and focus at tele end.  It is usually a slow lens to focus in low light.  Result - much quicker acquisition.   
56/1.2    seems to be no changes whatsoever with how that lens focused with previous firmware.