Claudio Monelli

I relize that the XF 18-120 is not cited very often in the forum: I hope that some of the participants can answer my questions. I'm evaluating to get it for travel photography and video with my X-H2s, hoping that it can resolve some of ancient Fuji problems. First. For sake of operational speed in traveling, I would like to avoid manual exposure, fixing the shutter speed (1/50 to have the proper motion blur and to avoid flickering of electric lights) letting the aperture to vary automatically, but with all my lenses (and, for what I know, all the Fuji lenses) when light changes and the iris opens or closes, the exposure steps in a terrible result. Do the XF 18-120 suffer the same problem? Second. Parfocal. Does the XF 18-120 keep the image in focus during zooming? I thank in advance every friend that will answer to my questions.

I'm thinking of buying the 16-55 for photos and videos for my X-H2s and I'm unsure between the mk I and the mk II. Given that the optical quality seems more than good already with the mk I, more than sufficient for my needs, and that the greater weight is not a problem, I'm wondering if it's really worth it (for me, obviously) to buy the mk II at more or less full price or the mk I perhaps used or new, counting on the depreciation that I hope will be on the market in a little while. In particular, I ask anyone who already owns the mk I with the latest firmware updates (I think it's 1.33): 1-is it parfocal? (I hate, on video, zooming with moments of out of focus); 2-at a fixed focal length, choosing automatic shutter priority, switching from a light scene to a dark scene and vice versa in the same clip, does the exposure change in steps or gradually? (the jerky variation is a typical flaw of many Fuji lenses); 3-zooming on the same scene (at fixed brightness) does the exposure vary jerkily during the zoom? I cordially thank anyone who wants to inform me of their experience.

Fantastic, RuiBit! I have a similar problem: I always use the videocamera through the C1-C7 presets: I set the camera volume to the proper manual value for my ext mic and stored it in the Cx config; everything ok up to switching off. Then, switching on, the camera went to -30 dB even if the menu value was the right one! Simply by touching again the value in the menu, the volume set properly, up to the next switch off. Thanks to your hint, I went in the Video position of the PASM wheel and discovered that the volume was set to -30 dB: every time the X-H2s was switched on, it gets these settings, not the settings of the Cx's! Now I set the volumes of both the Video position and the Cx positions to the correct value and it goes fine! It's a fault of Fujifilm: a FW debug is neccesary. A big thanks to you!