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  1. Weeeellllll, it is not July yet.
  2. Big Bear, Big Dipper... Every now and then one of the images I post will have an asterism, which is just a pattern in the stars that is interesting to see, but the stars have no relation to each other unlike stars in constellations. There is a famous one where both happen at the same time, the stars are in an asterism and in a constellation... This is a screen capture from Stellarium, with annotated star names added on top. All of the stars are part of constellation Ursa Major. The blue-ish colored lines and the white-ish colored lines connect the main constellation stars, the white-ish colored lines alone form asterisms. The orange-ish colored labels are for the stars in the two asterisms. This is the equivalent of an 80 seconds exposure. As a side note: Alcor and Mizar are a famous double star pair, very easy to see visually or with binoculars or telescopes. http://stellarium.org/ https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/ursa-major-constellation/ https://www.space.com/ursa-major-constellation-great-bear
  3. @George_P, these are amazing. Thank you for posting these.
  4. Beautiful! Do you have any others you can show us? Welcome to the forum.
  5. I am not a Lightroom user, but there are a couple of places things can go weird and cause troubles. Like other operating systems, macOS has default actions that can be set for various situations. Try opening the Image Capture and go through its options, there is one that you can set as a default action when connecting a camera to the computer. Set this to “None”. (The background os may be trying to ‘help’ with importing and does not realize you are already set up for that). As I recall, Lightroom has a preferences section that handles the Auto Import actions. Try resetting each of these completely, even making new watch folders to see if this clears things up. p.s. Welcome to the forum.
  6. I am going to stick with guessing it is a hardware issue, those chips can have many (+) and (-) traces going into them so that the cells are supplied with juice all at once rather than one at a time. A cold solder joint can cause one set of cells to not be refreshed properly while the others are just fine. But, this will take some diagnostic efforts to trace. a software issue on the other hand would show up in more than one camera body. I do hope you are able to get this resolved.
  7. "Will you walk into my parlour?" said the Spider to the Fly” * Back on page one of this thread, there is a post showing a quick exposure isolating IC 405, The Flaming Star Nebula. That section of the sky has so many things to see it is almost a tourist-oriented nature-viewing area. Some of the highlights include tadpoles, starfish, spiders, flies, pinwheels and more. This is the equivalent of just about 56 minutes of exposure. * The Spider And The Fly by Mary Botham Howitt Messier Object M36 (The Pinwheel Cluster): https://www.messier-objects.com/messier-36-pinwheel-cluster/ Messier Object M38 (The Starfish Cluster): https://www.go-astronomy.com/messier.php?Messier=M38 IC 417 (The Spider Nebula): https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/spider-nebula/ NGC 1931 (The Fly Nebula): https://waid-observatory.com/ic417-2020-01-19-HOO.html IC 410 (The Tadpoles Nebula): https://skyandtelescope.org/online-gallery/ic410-the-tadpoles-nebula-a-star-nursery/ And, of course, IC 405 (The Flaming Star Nebula): https://theskylive.com/sky/deepsky/ic405-flaming-star-nebula-object Will the spider once again coax the fly into its parlour? Will the fly escape the machinations? Their exchange is in the sky for us to ponder...
  8. I do not think the X-H2(S) was affected by the bug: https://fujifilm-x.com/en-us/global-news/2022/0202_4199100/ but it is good to know that it is not an issue.
  9. Fujifilm fixed this a while back (releasing firmware updates for the various affected camera bodies). Essentially, the fix changed the maximum number of files per folder from 9999 down to 999 per folder). As I understand the issue, macOS had problems recognizing all of the card’s files if the card was ejected while while the computer is in sleeping mode or under other “improper” circumstances. The firmware update seemed to fix the issue as far as reports mention. p.s. As of the time of this post, no commercially available camera is using SDUC cards.
  10. There is an internal capacitor (it acts like a battery in that it can supply some electricity but only for a short length of time) used to keep the settings storage chip running. You mention the problem is only happening sometimes, which makes it sound like one of the parts has a slightly loose (possibly power) connection rather than being a dead part. Unfortunately, the only way to find out is to put it on a test bench and trace the electronic pathways and see what turns up. A camera repair shop should be able to do this for you. Replacing the capacitor itself on that circuit board is not something easily done, unless you have the equipment and skills to do circuit board repair. Camera repair shops and computer repair shops tend to be more practiced at that kind of work. p.s. Welcome to the forum.
  11. 😂 Definitely roflmao!
  12. Holding Spring back is getting tricky, it is chomping at the bit... 😀😇👺😀.
  13. Welcome to the forum. You have a lot of options. You can use the X app (iOS / Android) to connect your phone or tablet and use it for basic settings: https://fujifilm-x.com/global/products/software/xapp/ If you get a basic wired remote release, you can get your camera settings ready and use the remote as a shutter button. You need to hit the switch yourself though at all intervals to get the complete sequence. Fujifilm has the RR-100 https://fujifilm-x.com/en-us/products/accessories/rr-100/ Or, a basic Canon remote release works as well. A more advanced remote release version such as one of the Vello Shutterboss II versions gives you essentially full control over timed and interval shooting, there is a version for older Fujifilm bodies I do not know if that will work with your X-T5, but the ones with the basic Canon connector — same one the RR-100 has does work. The only drawback is that you need to be in bulb mode, so you have to use the mechanical shutter (in bulb mode, the electronic shutter is limited to one second exposure). Even more advanced, as long as your computer / laptop can run astronomy — astrophotography programs such as KStars/EKOS, you can connect your camera to your computer as have EKOS fully operate things. Sitting in the background is something called libgphoto2 which talks to supported cameras and allows you turn on or off various settings and capture images. Your X-T5 is one of the supported cameras. Other astro programs may support your camera as well, you will have to check. Show us some images! p.s. If none of these options are amenable to what you are looking to encounter when you set up to get the images, try setting the camera to take some several extra shots in the sequence and start shooting early. Then just discard the first few empty images, the remaining ones should have no camera shake. p.p.s. And if you wish, when you are setting up the camera’s parameters for interval timed shooting, one of the last options is a delay time before starting the sequence, set it to one or two minutes. This should give the camera enough settle down time.
  14. Beautiful!!! These are well worth the wait; more, more, more please. Even if we have to wait until July! These are incredible George.
  15. Winter's Days ... have gone bye. Forward Spring!
  16. That camera is so new, that, right now, there are probably not a lot of members that have one yet. As far as IBIS goes, noisy sounds is commonly reported in cameras from every manufacturer that includes it in the bodies. Usually it turns out that unless you are hearing the noise followed by dust and camera bits falling out of the body, there is nothing to worry about, some quiet noise is normal.
  17. Which lens are you using? That makes a difference in how you can set the options. Since you mention an aperture ring, it sounds like you are using a XF type lens. There is a little switch on the XF lenses that have an A mark and a symbol mark. If the switch is set to the symbol mark, the ring controls the f-stop (aperture). If the switch is set to A, the body can set the f-stop. Hopefully, this link helps: https://jmpeltier.com/change-aperture-fujifilm-x-cameras/
  18. That is item three (3). https://fujifilm-dsc.com/en/manual/x-t20/about_this_camera/display/index.html p.s. Welcome to the forum.
  19. Busy as a bee… Not far from Castor and Pollux in Gemini, actually just in the next constellation over to the “left” in Cancer, is Messier Object M44, The Beehive Cluster: M44 is fairly easy to find visually or when using binoculars or small telescopes. This is the equivalent of 58 minutes of exposure. https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/science/explore-the-night-sky/hubble-messier-catalog/messier-44/ https://www.galactic-hunter.com/post/messier-44 https://www.constellation-guide.com/praesepe-m44-the-beehive-cluster/
  20. This sounds like something, that if you really wish the folks at Fujifilm to take another look into the issue, you should gather your thoughts into written explanations and send to their development teams. You have a good start already.
  21. There is the option of shooting manual exposure. I know, I know, that is not always a favored approach. It sounds like the half shutter press will give you the fastest response time for the cases when your subject(s) are moving quickly from dark to light to ... p.s. just to check, toggling INTERLOCK SPOT AE & FOCUS AREA on / off has no effect? https://fujifilm-dsc.com/en/manual/x-t5/menu_shooting/af_mf_setting/ https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4163800
  22. If it was stuck, the contact cleaner and nudging probably could have gotten it working again. The cleaner may still work, but it sounds like maybe a quick trip to the local camera repair shop is more likely to get it back in complete working order. Sorry about that.
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