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At no time has there been any doubt that Fujifilm would eventually release a fourth X100, aka X100F, that would replace the third X100, aka X100T, which replaced the second X100, aka X100S, and so on. As for timing, I remember seeing fresh speculation about this on Facebook, it was linking to a popular rumor website where there was talk about a delay due to Sony's quake-related inability to get things done as planned and ordered. Makes sense.

Yeah, right. That's why Fuji sells about ten times as many old X-T10 as new X-E2S cameras, even though both are pretty much identical except for the form factor.

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You can use and adapt Fujinon PL mount Super 35 cine lenses. 4K video has an additional crop factor of 1.17, so all Super 35 lenses will work perfectly. There are adapters for PL mount on X-mount, for example: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Arri-PL-mount-lens-to-Fuji-X-Fujifilm-X-Pro2-x-mount-camera-ciecio7-adapter-/261118309301 While Fujinon offers a good choice of professional PL cine lenses, there are also great PL mount options from several other brands like Cooke, Leica, Angenieux, Zeiss, Panavision etc., not to mention more affordable "to own" (as opposed to "to rent") options from other manufacturers.

W/o a power booster, the Pro2 can't focus as fast as the T2. It's a hardware matter. 5 fps with live view or 11 fps w/o live view simply isn't in the cards. AF-C customization has no impact on AF speed. However, it may impact AF-C accuracy (specifically the keeper rate) in a positive or negative way, depending on your subject and wether or not you know what you are doing.

I'd love to and often get requests, but my next huge X event will be the Fuji X Secrets Ultimate workshops in Phuket, Thailand in November. One week in English, one in German. Our base will be this villa.

So do I.

It's time for our annual X user meeting and BBQ at Gisi's Mumienheim in Schwabach, Franconia. We have a decent weather forecast for Sunday, 17JUL, so let's do it on short notice. Last year, I had a prototype of the great 90mmF2 lens, this time I'll have two X-T2s with power booster grips. Wanna come? Then head over to the German version and register.

Not gonna happen.

We know there is a boost mode in the camera menu. We also know what it is supposed to do. However, we don't know if it's actually doing it. It appears that the OP wants independent confirmation of the claim.

You can always do a manual black frame subtraction in Photoshop. Most astro professionals do that, because they don't want to wait for the camera to do it after each shot. When the sensor is heating up, hot pixels are unavoidable. In my X-T2, black frame subtraction already sets in at shutter speeds of 8s and slower at base ISO 200. At this ISO, I remember speeds of 30s and slower in the X-T1.

I'd never disable NR, because that very feature is there to remove hot pixels.

By the way, even the very real "X-Pro2 forgets all user settings" bug apparently wasn't half as bad as the shitstorm in the forums made us think. I had an internal firmware fix (1.01A, but the "A" didn't show) for this bug several weeks before it was officially released, so I of course offered it to each of my workshop delegates who came in with an X-Pro2. Turns out only one of several new Pro2 users actually wanted it, the rest didn't really seem to experience the problem and decided to wait for the official release. TBH, I found that quite surprising.

"Issues" are general problems with a product. If an individual camera is broken, have it repaired. If Fuji can't repair it, this forum is a great place to complain about bad service. If they do repair it, it's also a good place to praise the service. There is a current "Fujifilm service praise thread" in the German version of this forum, so this is not totally uncommon. In any case, I don't have a hot pixel problem with my current X-Pro2, but I can imagine that a faulty sensor or processor may cause such things. I remember seeing this problem in one of my beta cameras during very long exposures (several minutes).

That's what Fuji says in the specs. It's not that simple to confirm that claim w/o some kind of measurement setup, though. So in the end, most of us will have to trust that the numbers are correct.

Serious issues are quite rare. I'm entertaining Fuji workshops that are pretty intense (they go over 2 days), so there's plenty of time to talk about any serious issues delegates may have with their cameras or lenses or workflow. While there is plenty to learn, there aren't many things that are seriously broken. If there were, my delegates would surely mention them. Forums are cesspools of discontent. Instead, just go to a real-life meeting with actual Fuji users (I'm hosting one this Sunday here in Schwabach, as folks asked me to see and try the X-T2), and you'll feel a very different and constructive vibe.

Maybe when it's really hot and you shoot a lot. But probably not. I'm not even sure that the X-T2 gains a lot. On Friday, everybody was shooting all day in the sun with the old batteries. Didn't hear a single complaint.

Indeed, and it's also the source of much confusion among such customers. I can observe this not just at my workshops, but also in many mails from users seeking help (which I get on a daily basis). It's weird for a company like Fujifilm to spend so many resources to build the best ISOless APS-C cameras in the known universe, then hide this USP from specs and brochures, where even the advantages of the powerful DR function are mostly ignored. This basically implies that the developers are actually trying to deliver state-of-the-art cameras, but then the marketing department appears to be reluctant to praise them as such. Instead, they sell them like they were some kind of "classic camera simulator" that will emulate a 30 years old analog experience. Like building a modern state-of-the-art flight simulator for an old 737-100.

Modern camera makers could simply use angle-of-view and T stop to describe their lenses. That would be state-of-the-art and useful as we could quickly compare lenses across various systems with different sensor sizes, be it 1", APS-C, APS-H, 35mm, 44x33mm or larger. Sadly, most camera makers consider many of their customers old-fashioned and resistant to learning current stuff, so they don't dare to change a thing. Fujifilm, for example, are disqualifying themselves by mentioning the "35mm equivalent" in pretty much every lens description, acknowledging that their core customer base consists of old men who have been socialized with 35mm film and don't know anything else. They also stick to nonsense like "ISO sensitivity", as if the sensitivity of a digital camera sensor would/could ever change. Nobody dares to speak of "ISO amplification", which would be the correct description of what's going on.

There is no crop factor on Fujifilm XF lenses, because these lenses have been designed for X-Mount and APS-C. So they are perfectly "full-frame". You'd have to adapt XF lenses to MFT cameras (or smaller) in order to achieve any crop. The new Hasselblad lenses for the new Hasselblad medium format camera are full-frame, too, as they are specifically designed for the 44x33mm sensor inside this camera. However, adapting Hasselblad H series lenses on this camera will result in a crop factor, because the H series covers a larger image circle. So crop factors become relevant in systems that support more than one sensor size (like the mentioned Hasselblads, pretty much all legacy (D)SLR systems, but also Sony's new mirrorless system that features a mount that's used for APS-C and 24x36mm sensors). When you adapt a lens that was made for 24x36 film on APS-C, you only use a cropped portion of the actual image circle, so there is a crop factor to describe that portion and the resulting image impression based on the larger (aka full-frame, uncropped) image circle. That's why we have focal reducers like Speed Booster Ultra or Lens Turbo II, which let us use 24x36mm lenses on APS-C in a way like they would perform on a full-frame camera (and with one stop of additional brightness, hence the Speed Booster name). Referring to "full-frame" as a synonym to 24x36mm cameras is basically a lazy relict of the past, based on the fact that many legacy users only know and used that format. That's why they use it as a reference point for everything, which results in crazy stuff like "crop factors" below 1 for medium format lenses. All this will probably vanish when the current regime of "old farts" will be replaced by the "smartphone generation" who couldn't care less about such relicts.

Not that well.

Capture One doesn't really support the X-Pro2. It's irresponsible to call the current situation "support". C1 can only open a handful of several thousand images I took with this camera, because it still can't decode compressed RAWs. Even these images aren't fully usable because of the digital distortion correction issue. And even the few remaining images still can't be rendered (lossless or not) with Acros (which is what this thread is about), because C1 doesn't support any Fujifilm film simulations. Never did, never will. AFAIK, there still isn't any third-party (aka user generated) profile for Acros. Even Silkypix and AccuRaw now support the compressed RAW files, so do Lightroom/ACR, Iridient and PhotoNinja. Also, the problems wrt lens corrections are unique to C1. In any case, Adobe and Silkypix support all four Acros profiles. Iridient told me that they will add the new film simulations in the future.

Already available with MFT, will become mainstream by 2018 (global shutter).

No contacts, no grip.

Possibly.