JoeOrban

The 100-400 with the 1.4 teleconverter was finally delivered today. f/8 the largest aperture with both, the sweet spot. Took a few photos just as sun was setting. Bumped up the X-T1 to ISO 800 with OIS on, 1/250 speed, it was excellent! This is going to be my new wildlife gear. Big and heavy in Fuji terms and difficult to keep still while hand holding, but with sufficient shutter speed that OIS is sweet and the reach is awesome for wildlife! Will post some pics once I get a chance to exercise the lens and learn its character. Agree with darknj, must hold the lens at all times and some better camera straps are on my list as well. The X-T1 almost seems tiny when attached to this lens. Overall however it feels just as heavy as my Nikon D600 with the 80-400 that I used for wildlife in the past.

With the 35 f/1.4, faster focus and what really impressed me was spot on focusing under lower light conditions. Need to exercise the other new feature but initially very pleased with v4.

My 2014 Roadstar Silverado. Miss Behavin' airbrush art in the style of WW2 aircraft nose art. One of the first photos I took with the X-T1 with 18-55 kit lens.

Hello, I am Joe Orban a hobbyist photographer with some photos at http://www.joeorbanphotography.squarespace.com/ and also at http://www.flickr.com/vidular which are still mostly from the Nikon butI will be adding Fujis over time. Originally I started shooting wildlife and nature with Nikon and purchased the X100 years ago when it first came out to do Street photography. Very impressed with Fuji technology and customer support so when the X-T1 was released I felt it was time to get serious about mirrorless so I sold some large expensive Nikon lenses and started building an X system. Very happy with it, indeed used the X-T1 with the 50-140/2.8 to shoot a talent show I did in prior years with the D600 and 70-200/2.8 and was please the results were just as good, perhaps even better with face tracking turned on. My photography interest have expanded beyond wildlife as I do some photography for local community organization including some some sports activities and portraits. I still use the D600 and 80-400 lens for wildlife but am very interested to see what Fuji delivers in that long 100-400 lens. I hope to learn from some the the more experienced people on this forum and perhaps contribute occasionally. Great to see some members have blogs and write about Fuji cameras, I will be sure to read some of them. My Fuji kit now contains the following: X100 X-T1 (4 batteries and some very fast memory cards) 10-24, 18, 18-55, 35, 56 and 50-140 I use Lightroom CC for processing. -Joe