olli

It would be nice to know a little bit more about other members so perhaps those who are willing could post here.
 
I'll start. I'm olli, orginally from Northern Ireland, now a serial expat, currently located in Pasay City, part of Metro Manila in the Philippines. I've been shooting seriously since around 2008 with a variety of cameras but switched to Fuji just over six months ago. I have the X-E2 with 18-55, 55-200, 23 and 35 lenses. I describe my kind of photography as 'urban documentary', which means I wander around the streets taking pictures of things. I have a website at photography by olli and I photoblog at Manila Days.
 
Looking forward to hearing from more members.

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

Just had a look at your website Tom. Some nice stuff on there.

A couple from Arlington Cemetery in Virginia with the XF55-200 at 200mm and f4.8.
 
DSCF2600 by olli, on Flickr
 
DSCF2607 by olli, on Flickr

At a time when the mirrorless market is trending relentlessly upwards in cost the best thing Fuji can do with the X-E3 (as they have, to their credit, done with the X-T20) is maintain their commitment to high quality affordable options. Not everyone wants to, or is able to, spend 1200, 1500, 1800 or more a camera. And for those who think there is no market for the X-E line this site shows otherwise since the poll carried out in Feb 2016 (http://www.fuji-x-forum.com/topic/2214-which-fuji-x-cameras-do-you-use) showed the X-E2 to be the second most popular X model.
 
The X-E3 should get the core updates - the new sensor and the improved autofocus system. The rest is detail. What it should not get is a host of additional changes that drive up the price. For those who want the features found on the X-T2 or X-Pro2, buy an X-T2 or X-Pro2. The options are already there for you. For those of us who want a good quality affordable camera in the rangefinder style we're still on the X-E2s. Only Fuji knows the real size of this market, but the partial information we can pick up suggests it is significant.
 
Fuji, if you're listening, keep it affordable.

It would be nice to know a little bit more about other members so perhaps those who are willing could post here.
 
I'll start. I'm olli, orginally from Northern Ireland, now a serial expat, currently located in Pasay City, part of Metro Manila in the Philippines. I've been shooting seriously since around 2008 with a variety of cameras but switched to Fuji just over six months ago. I have the X-E2 with 18-55, 55-200, 23 and 35 lenses. I describe my kind of photography as 'urban documentary', which means I wander around the streets taking pictures of things. I have a website at photography by olli and I photoblog at Manila Days.
 
Looking forward to hearing from more members.

At a time when the mirrorless market is trending relentlessly upwards in cost the best thing Fuji can do with the X-E3 (as they have, to their credit, done with the X-T20) is maintain their commitment to high quality affordable options. Not everyone wants to, or is able to, spend 1200, 1500, 1800 or more a camera. And for those who think there is no market for the X-E line this site shows otherwise since the poll carried out in Feb 2016 (http://www.fuji-x-forum.com/topic/2214-which-fuji-x-cameras-do-you-use) showed the X-E2 to be the second most popular X model.
 
The X-E3 should get the core updates - the new sensor and the improved autofocus system. The rest is detail. What it should not get is a host of additional changes that drive up the price. For those who want the features found on the X-T2 or X-Pro2, buy an X-T2 or X-Pro2. The options are already there for you. For those of us who want a good quality affordable camera in the rangefinder style we're still on the X-E2s. Only Fuji knows the real size of this market, but the partial information we can pick up suggests it is significant.
 
Fuji, if you're listening, keep it affordable.

It would be nice to know a little bit more about other members so perhaps those who are willing could post here.
 
I'll start. I'm olli, orginally from Northern Ireland, now a serial expat, currently located in Pasay City, part of Metro Manila in the Philippines. I've been shooting seriously since around 2008 with a variety of cameras but switched to Fuji just over six months ago. I have the X-E2 with 18-55, 55-200, 23 and 35 lenses. I describe my kind of photography as 'urban documentary', which means I wander around the streets taking pictures of things. I have a website at photography by olli and I photoblog at Manila Days.
 
Looking forward to hearing from more members.

This is the front window of the AidaMar ship.
 
The ships window by Stockografie, on Flickr
 
And this is the ship.
 
Row,row, row your boat by Stockografie, on Flickr

Ardbeg, Islay
 
DSCF3237 by olli, on Flickr

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

Rangoon Central Railway Station, Burma (X-E2, XF18-55)
 

These endless discussions are even more fun when you know that everyone deeply modifies his RAW files through the Photoshop mill.
So that at the end, no photographer is able to recognize which brand of camera was used by simply looking at the final picture.
In addition, the best of them are sponsored to extoll their "favorite" brand, while they did the same for another sponsor the year before.

I also have both and like most other posters consider them sufficiently distinct to keep both. You might also consider waiting for the mourned but fairly cerain arrival of the 23 f2 which will presumably be significantly cheaper than the current f1.4 model. I say this because for me the one downside to the 23 1.4 is that it is a bit bigger and heavier than the 35 1.4.  I might trade it for the 23 f2 when the latter finally arrives.

It would be nice to know a little bit more about other members so perhaps those who are willing could post here.
 
I'll start. I'm olli, orginally from Northern Ireland, now a serial expat, currently located in Pasay City, part of Metro Manila in the Philippines. I've been shooting seriously since around 2008 with a variety of cameras but switched to Fuji just over six months ago. I have the X-E2 with 18-55, 55-200, 23 and 35 lenses. I describe my kind of photography as 'urban documentary', which means I wander around the streets taking pictures of things. I have a website at photography by olli and I photoblog at Manila Days.
 
Looking forward to hearing from more members.

Wat Pho, Bangkok
 
DSCF4187 by olli, on Flickr

Some amazing weather here in the UK today. I spent the afternoon wandering around Bristol with my X Pro 2 and 16mm. Typically I use the 23mm for street photography but I thought I'd give this a go for a change. Really fantastic lens!
 
SP-544
 
SP-542
 
SP-529
 
SP-525
 
SP-516
 
SP-512

Ride to the light by Kaan Turan, on Flickr

Two streetportraits of a friendly man in Parma
 
The old man and the bike I
 
The old man and the bike II
 
Regards, Dieter

After figuring out how to add pictures, here are a few of mine!
 

 

 

 

 
 
First one on the X Pro 2 and the rest with the X-T1.

by oscillik, on Flickr

Fuji xt1: 23mm and a dash of rain
Reflection by Mark S, on Flickr

Much as I appreciate the wide ranging update and all the new features, I'm amazed that they still didn't provide the option to set different EVF/LCD options for shooting and playback modes. How hard can it be? Is it also absent from the X-E2s?

Interesting proposal but in removing the four way controller you just significantly degraded the ability to customise the camera. I don't use the controller for focus points but all of the buttons are assigned a specific function. You can't replicate this on a touch screen without requiring the user to remove his /her eye from the viewfinder.

Good news and bad news.
 
Good in that it's now free. Bad, in that it's final proof of what has been clear for a while, given the failure to update any of the Nik Collection products, which is that Google was only interested in Nik for the Snapseed app. Google's announcement makes this clear:
 
As we continue to focus our long-term investments in building incredible photo editing tools for mobile, including Google Photos and Snapseed, we’ve decided to make the Nik Collection desktop suite available for free, so that now anyone can use it
 
No doubt they will find ways to incorporate some elements of these products into Google Photos and Snapseed, but neither of these is an adequate replacement for the Nik Collection. Of course, these tools will continue to work well for now, but in the longer term, we have one less option.