Dani Zisserman

I had the 50-230 for a few years, and got some nice shots with it, but eventually I tried out the XF55-200, and never looked back...
 
The 50-230 lacks that extra bit of sharpness, especially beyond 135mm, which tends to bother me on critical viewing...
I find the 55-200 to be sharper at all ranges. The difference is not colossal, but it is there and it can be seen.
 
The 55-200 also has much better bokeh rendering, and I've actually started using it for portraits instead of the 35/1.4 for the better compression and flattening. 
 
And finally, the 55-200 has better IS..by at least 1 stop - and that is very significant, especially when combined with the extra light it can gather....

Hi,
Just in case you want another example - I've just finished an album where the 50-200 was used almost exclusively (except for the last 2 photos which are 35/1.4)
 
https://www.facebook.com/dzisserman/media_set?set=a.10154245690033191.1073741933.769908190&type=3

Hi, I haven't done too many portrait shoot with it yet, though an upcoming album will be almost entirely based on it...
In the meanwhile - you can look at this album:
https://www.facebook.com/dzisserman/media_set?set=a.10154058546103191.1073741929.769908190&type=3
 
The first 6 images of the girl with the light blue costume were shot with the 55-200. The other images in this album were shot with the 35/1.4

Just read in Rico's overview of the X70 that Fuji actually made the Trash button into a full-fledged FN when in shooting mode. So it IS possible...
Good start Fuji - now do the same for us XT users...

Just read in Rico's overview of the X70 that Fuji actually made the Trash button into a full-fledged FN when in shooting mode. So it IS possible...
Good start Fuji - now do the same for us XT users...

Make sense to not have B between T and A..
 
And take the lock away from the shutter dial (and the ISO dial) and move it to the exposure compensation dial.

As to your points:

1. Hmmm, well, I have to say I rather like this arrangements, and am quite pleased I don't have to resort to the back dialfor changing Aperture. Then again, when using XC lenses, I DO have to do that, unless I switch the button mapping in the BUTTON/DIAL menu, and then I can assi\gn Aperture to the front dial instead...
 
2. I also find this quite annoying, but this is a hardware issue and won't be solved in Firmware. Before the "T" setting was used for Universal range, this didn't really matter, but now I find I would have really wanted to have the Shutter Dial look like: "A->T->4000->2000->etc.". That way I could switch quickly from A to T and back. Hope the XT-2/XT-20 will have this arrangement....
 
3.You can disable the automatic magnification and use the back dial for manual magnification toggle (on/off) only when you need it....
 
4. On one hand, yeah - the option would have been nice. However, it would rather defeat the purpose of the "AUTO" mode, as most settings wouldn't really matter anyway. You CAN simulate RAW auto by doing the following:
                a. Set to RAW
               b. Set to P mode (Aperture+SS in A)
               c. Turn on Face/Eye detection
               b. Put camera in AF-C and Zone focusing
There - you have your RAW auto mode...
And besides, I like AUTO mode to be in JPEG as that gives me an option to get good shots on the go, when quality is not critical, but card capacity is....

5. Yeah - that would be nice... I hope we get the +-2 bracketing from the X-Pro2...

Hmmm... Well, I have been thinking a lot about possible firmware improvements for my X-T10, but my list is somewhat different. 
I will use the opportunity to present it here, and address your points in my next post:

1. Make trash button into Fn8. Come on Fuji - this is really a no-brainer. This button is literally trash - almost pointless. I'm sure you can tweak the nice function menu to squeeze in another entry. This will really help those of use who use the D-pad for focus control.

2. Center-weighted metering. Ok, so this is a new X-Pro2 feature, but I'm sure the old processor can handle this quite easily. I would REALLY like to have this mode for portrait shooting.

3. Allow flash, even if only external, to fire in CL (at least). 

4. Allow Movie mode to be set as one of the Adv. options. For RAW shooters, those are really wasted, and it would be nice to use the Drive wheel to switch to video recording (with shutter activation) in those rare cases one would want to. A movie mode should have been on this wheel from the outset...

5. Add the option to use a "Basic" JPEG quality, especially in conjunction with RAW shooting, so that more shots could be squeezed into a card. I'm using JPEG just for focus checking anyhow, and it is a shame to waste a few MB each time I take a shot...