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notnotmaurice

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  1. The problem with the 10-24 is that it is slow, not weathersealed, soft for a fuji lens, and stabilized for no reason. I've had it for two and a half years, I've used it a lot but only because it's the system's only wide zoom. A 2.8 wide is invaluable for concert and astro photos, and while the f4 works, it's a compromise. This is a lens that is meant to be close to its subject, and one of the more interesting, dynamic subjects is water. This lens killed my x-t1 by letting an errant wave right into the lens mount last year, and nearly ruined a trip to Iceland because as soon as there's any humidity in the air (like say near any of their famously endless waterfalls) the lens locks up and tells the camera not to take photos. blow-drying your lens is not part of a healthy morning routine, especially at 4am rushing to catch sunrise. This lens is the closest to average in fuji's otherwise stellar lineup of glass, even at f8, it's not exciting to look at the photos up close the way it is with the two 'red label' zooms, there's only so much they can do, but i think they choose to work towards size rather sharpness, which is a fine choice but not my preference. also the rounded aperture blades mean that this lens has one of the grossest sunstars of any high-end system. The OIS however, was a terrible idea. Without any help, you can handhold a lens this wide at 1/15-1/8s, extending that out into times where any normal person wouldn't want to try to stand perfectly still and it makes sense to use a tripod anyway is silly, it just hurts quality. It's potentially useful for video, but it would be remarkable as one of the only things fuji have intentionally done to make video better in this system. 99% of the time i use this lens off the tripod, i wish i had access to faster shutter speeds, not slower ones. I don't know what kind of photographer fuji thinks this lens would be perfect for, but it's definitely not me, so excuse me for being desperate for news about a 2.8 WR replacement.
  2. With the 5Div out (and looking pretty great) and my 10-24/4 continuing to drive me insane, the allure of canon's system with it's fast, weathersealed wide is getting harder to resist. I'd appreciate any news you can find, FR1 wild speculation even, about the 8-16. Anything you can tell me about why it's not at photokina or on the roadmap, when/if it's coming, even if that just goes into the main FR feed, would be extremely useful!
  3. I hope it doesn't get delayed! Keep these rumors coming, I'm excited for this camera
  4. I have the 10-24 and i wish it was a 2.8, even without ois. For landscape/astro and concert photography alike ois doesn't help much, i want to use faster shutter speeds, not slower! I'm always considering selling mine for a 12/2.8, 12/2 or 16/1.4. FWIW i still have the 10-24, so it's at least not worth the hassle of switching. If it was a 2.8 we wouldn't be having this discussion.
  5. I use a timbuk2 messenger bag with their camera insert to hold a 10-24, 35, 56, 50-140,x-T1, x100ss, instax, a bunch of filters and junk, and then strap a tripod to the bottom. it's all a tight squeeze but it does fit! The only issue i have is that i can't fit anything else and the tripod swings back and forth a bit , which gets annoying at times.
  6. I've always felt like 'zooming with your feet" was easier with normal lenses than wides and teles, so only having a 35 to cover between 24 and 60 isn't so bad. I didn't really get on with the 55-200 because of the changing aperture and the way it quadruples in length as you zoom, really throws off the balance and attracts a lot of attention, more than the 50-140, I've found. I don't really miss the 140-200 range, but you can always check your LR metadata to see how much you use it. I use a 10-24,35 and 50-140 and could definitely get by with the 55-200 in that kit, but that's for my use case. I'd keep the all a little while and ruthlessly sell the ones you don't use enough to justify keeping.
  7. My wish list for the X-T2 looks like this 1) a battery meter that actually meters the battery. I've taken my camera out when it says it has a full battery and had it die before i was finished framing a single shot. If the battery is halfway to dead or even on the verge of dying, i would appreciate the meter saying as much. How the hell has this not been fixed yet. 2) higher resolution sensor - I make prints and I would like them to be sharper, these lenses kick ass and my printer is using every pixel on anything larger than 8". I don't care if it's X-trans or not. It would probably be better if it had more than 15 phase-detect points. 3)push-push locks on the dials. As useful as dial locks sometimes are, I'd love to be able to unlock them and have them stay unlocked. I keep accidentally changing the drive mode while contorting my hand to change the iso on the go. 4) Built-in GPS. The phone app is a janky disaster, a gps antenna uses almost no power and geotags are very useful to me. 5) RGB histogram, and the option for zebras in the viewfinder 6) A RAW shooting mode, or at the very least the ability to save raw files when you bump the drive mode from S to double exposure or whatever (i hate that S is dead centre on the dial next to that minefield). It'd be nice to see a preview and histogram based on the raw files, but I'll at least take not being stuck with jpgs after. If i really had my druthers, raw mode would hide the millions of options cluttering the menu that only effect jpg files. 7) either drastically improved or completely untouched video. But since they're probably working with a new sensor and don't have the option to do nothing, they might as well go all out and nail it the first time: 4k, all-i, super high bitrate, all the pro video bells and whistles i don't fully understand. The same consumer-level video, followed by a kaizen update with marginally better consumer-level seems like a massive waste of their development time. Panasonic's success here kinda proves that video is mostly a software problem and all you have to do to get a huge fanbase is offer good enough video. 8) ETTR metering. We have the exact output from the sensor and a fulltime histogram!!! If I'm shooting in A-mode in the early evening with the sun outside the frame there is no reason to have blown highlights!! I know this is a lot to ask, but we're 20 years into the digital revolution, i would like my camera to work in a way that understands it's own medium. Having to shoot even my casual snapshots in full manual specifically because my camera is not programmed for a digital sensor is ridiculous. 9) everything else pretty much exactly the same, these are almost the only things i don't like about my x-t1 My Lens wish list looks like this 1) A WR 10-24/2.8 that's as uncompromising as the other two red-label 2.8 zooms are. The 10-24/4 is probably my least favorite Fuji lens. It's an awesome lens overall, especially compared to other uwa zooms but its slow, a little soft and not weathersealed. 2) knowing they won't make that, a ~10 or 11mm F/2. It would bookend the current lineup of primes and give both night landscape and concert shooters a new favourite lens. If it had straight aperture blades that would be icing on the cake. 3) 16-90 F/4 WR. As solid as the 18-135 is, it's not a constant aperture and its not wide enough. Going all the way to 90 would be a nice way to oneup canon and nikon's F/4 zooms. 4) A bigger 35mm, faster or better corrected, whatever, i just want a lens i can use comfortably without taking the grip off my xt1. This is admittedly a kinda stupid thing to complain about. An x100 with a fixed 35 is probably more sensible. 5) some cheap slow ish, decent-performing primes so that i don't have to tell people interested in the system that nearly every interesting lens is exactly $1000. Maybe sigma could release some more of those DN lenses, they're spectacularly alright for the money. I switched to Fuji in the first place because their philosophy gelled with mine, so i don't think most of this is too outlandish.
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