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Agreed olli.. this does sound weird. looking at the dates of the posts was useful to me. The order is somewhat backwards as listed on Fuji Rumors website. Here is the flow in correct order as it appears on Facebook. Question from Fuji-x.fr (forum admin): May 11th: Electronics and the sensor being shared between the elements and the Xe2, Rotationally Xt1 I hope that it will not be forgotten Response from Fuji France: May 15th: Hello, this is possible because we [Fuji France] know that our Japanese engineers are working on it currently but we have no more accurate information. Follow up Response from Fuji France: May 22nd: Following the announcement of the updated firmware of the x-T1, We [Fuji France] received a lot of requests for an update to the x-E2. In response to these requests, we [Fuji France] plan to publish an update to the x-E2 as soon As possible. The date of publication is not yet fixed [by Fuji HQ] and will depend on the changes made by this update, that we will define from the requests of our users. [<-- IMHO, this last part is pure 100% grade A BS. ] Sounds like a classic case of the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing and speaking out of turn from what is actually happening in HQ. I somehow doubt Japan management is very happy with Fuji France right now. Likewise, Fuji France is probably not very happy with HQ either for keeping them and their customers in the dark either.

wow... so much drama. this thread might just turn into "sh*t my wife says" go on...

lol, who doesn't "like" primes? You pick the tool that does the intended task best. If you are after shallow DoF and absolute minimal size on in your format, why would someone not like a prime? My primes greatly out number the few zooms that I own. Probably 6 to 1. They are most all for FF cameras that I own. Canon FD and Nikon FX. I choose mostly zooms on Fuji because the versatility and size of the zoom lens are quite acceptable compared to my FF camera and IQ is on par with most primes in the focal range intended. When shallow DoF is the goal, i.e. portrait shoots, I reach for the primes on the FF Nikon which have the advantage over cropped sensors in terms of DoF at the same aperture. It just depends on the intended goal, and other relative options available to me on various camera systems. Restricting yourself just to zooms or primes based on some kind of dislike for a particular lens type is simply limiting and short sighted on the benefits of each.

There is a reason a lot of women judge men by the shoes they choose to wear.

I found this video from TheCameraStoreTv witty and funny. Especially what they came up with for the Fuji X-T1. Hope you enjoy it.

Hi nshafer, Welcome to the forum. Could you refer me to the statement you found from Fuji. I'd like to get some more context. Maybe it can help explain it. Thanks.

Does anyone know if it captures IR well with associated IR filter?

There is a reason I ignore you. Try to figure out why that is. Your grief is self inflicted due to your negativity and your disrespect for others which you feel are inferior; qualities you are all too eager to demonstrate to everyone on this forum and I assume in your daily personal life also. Consider what you say and how others view it, impacts how they respond to you or if they ignore you completely going forward- like I have done. I think when and if you decide to become a thoughtful and civilized human being one day, your life will become a lot more satisfying. Do with this advice whatever you wish. Listen or discard it. If you want to continue to attack me personally and laugh at other people, that is really up to you. Whatever you think is going to make you ultimately pleased with yourself. If you decide you want to make a change and turn your life around, you can start with your avatar that mocks others. Frankly however, I doubt you will change but hopeful you will find your way none the less. Everyone desires to be happy. Good luck.

I agree. With an introductory chapter to first help people identify their own and their partner 's personality type and traits, followed by appropriate categorized responses for those personality types and traits.

Cheers aceflibble, It seems that after almost 2 dozen posts we are back in agreement with my original statement. :-) "Looks like on par zoom to prime IQ is no longer reserved to Fuji lens. In fact, Sigma does one better on Nikon's own turf. "

Sorry

I really don't care which camera or if it's SooC, personally. It's cars not religion. Cheers.

I love how you carefull composed the corners.

Lead by example. Support them in what they love to do through your own generosity and it should come around full circle.

I like the drama in the sky and rolling hills. Looks like a beautiful place to ride. Enjoy!

Rico, I find your automobile photos really enjoyable. Do you have anymore to share? A dedicated thread would be great if you have a significant number of them. Danke

The AF-L button can be program to work differently. Check your menu setting user manual pg 61 "Use G AUTOFOCUS SETTING > INSTANT AF SETTING to choose whether the camera focuses using single or continuous AF (P 78)."

aceflibble, I agree with everything you said in your prior post. except this part: this was already taken into consideration. no mistake was made. If it helps to simplify things if we are just talk about the IQ over the image circle of the cropped region on a FF sensor. For example, we can mount both of these lens onto FF 36MP camera or 50MP or 1000 MP, whatever we like. In both cases we have the same distance from exit pupil to sensor. There should be no other design considerations here between full frame and cropped sensor other than making sure the image circle covers the required area of the seniors. Having said that, the image quality from the center of the frame out to the end of the image circle to cover the cropped area will be better with the Sigma zoom than the Nikkor primes in the range compared in the video. At no point will the IQ be better with those Nikkor primes within the cropped area. This means the Sigma zoom's glass is better in this region from center all the way out to 2/3 from the center. It pretty straight forward.. The Sigma zoom has better glass over this portion of the sensor, pixel density doesn't change the quality of glass. Just the sample resolution. We are aligned. Let me know if you still think a mistake was made in the post that you responded to. Go back and reread it please. Not sure why you thought something different. We are in agreement. As for the rest, before this section in your reply and and everything after. Yes. yes.. agreed. We are aligned and glad we agree about the IQ of Fuji zoom vs Fuji primes. This is the very reason that I am mostly buying zooms on the Fuji platform (vs relatively heavy zooms on FF) and keeping fast primes for my FF Nikon for shallow DoF needs. btw, funny to see you write some lens are too sharp. So true. I have a FF Tamron SP 90mm/2.5 Macro and a FF Nikkor 85/1.8G. Set them both to F2.5 and take a headshot. One will quickly discover that few female models will be happy with the result with the FF Macro. Just too darn sharp compared to the FF 85/1.8G. So it's not just reserved for Fuji cropped sensors lens.

Patrick, Similar story with the XF 10-24 vs primes. Too close to call for 14, better than the 18. Got to hand it to Fuji and sigma. Zooms have come a long way. http://www.fujivsfuji.com/10-24mm-f4-vs-primes/

I agree that higher MP camera can exceed the resultion of a lens. However, the fact that the sigma zoom was design for crop is providing no advantage to the sigma . It's simply better glass than the primes. If there was any advantage here it would have been to the primes for using the mid part of the lens instead of the true corner. Again, it's just better glass. Anyway we spin it. Cropped center design is irrelevant as an advantage. The zoom simply resolves better everywhere on the glass compared to the primes. There is no need to make excuses for the primes. If we want to say the zoom was designed for higher MP than the primes, perhaps. Keep in mind all these primes are used in 36MP FF nikons and the 35mm ff prime was released not too long ago.

Well you got to make enough to feed your family. So every extra bit helps. Not sure where I saw the $900 figure. Maybe Istanbul ? Don't know. Sorry I goofed up the price. Can't convince you to post a link or pm me to places on the internet you have helped on blogs as stated above? Would appreciate it.

I agree. As little tweaking in post would be best.

when things don't seem to be going my way, understanding of the root cause seems to help me. Obviously you don't share this belief. Good luck and hope things work out your way.

Hard to tell you what I would see if I was blind folded. Probably something better than the photo I actually took. But seriously, I am thinking if someone cares enough to spend hundreds of dollars more on premium glass to get just that extra bit of sharpness compared to a less expensive model, then spending a little more money on SW which gives better out of the box results with all of your premium glass may sound like a deal. I have tried quite a few suggestions that I have found on the internet. I have yet to produce results in LR after tweaking controls which are as good as with most other convertors produce straight out of the box. Thus, I am asking for an example to see what I may be doing wrong. It shouldn't have to be this hard, right? As Rico has said before, he has heard this over and over again. millions of times. So I'm thinking there most be something to this and I am not alone. Surely worth publishing an e-book... translation: common problem --->e-book solution--> $$$$. Looking for side by side example or reference to a RAF file and resulting JPEGs from LR. I have been looking for a while now online, but no one seems to care enough to provide one and compare the result to other raw convertors. let me know if you know of a reference or link which gives you as good result out-of the-box as other RAW convertors. Like Irident Developer, Capture One, etc. Rico did suggest attending his workshop, but attending a $900 workshop (+ expensives) just to see Rico show me his LR technique, seems a bit expensive and time consuming. I'd rather buy an e-book from him focusing on this subject specifically. Unfortunately, I have not been successful in convince him to write one thus far. Maybe a video recording from his workshop would suffice, along with reference RAW file and JPEG outputs in comparison to the other RAW convertors. Does this sound like something you would be interested in doing Rico?

that sounds like a great lens. Take a look at the other thread here where it beats all of Nikon FF primes in the range on a cropped sensor Nikon body. Even in the corners where you would think the FF lens would have an advantage because they are using best part of the lens with the cropped area. http://www.fuji-x-forum.com/topic/275-iq-of-zooms-vs-primes/?p=2303 Zooms and 3rd parties like Sigma and Tamron have come a long way. Too bad Fuji is not as big as Nikon or Canon to draw Sigma and Tamron. Both are doing outstanding job lately in the premium segment. Maybe even better than Fuji on lens. Hard to tell. Seems clear to me that Fuji, Sigma and Tamron believe that the days of low end budget items are gone. The gloves have come off and they are giving it all they got in lens based on quality instead of price.