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  1. quincy
    Jep, my favorite two lens travel combo for Australia would be the 100-400 + Samyang 12. But as Tikcus said, that's me, and is not guaranteed to work for you.
  2. quincy
    Just buy it if you want it, it's unrivaled in it's focal lenght range anyway. What I forgot to say: It seems to be very energy efficient. With my 55-200, I need all three batteries for one day of shooting. That day in the zoo with the 100-400, I was able to get about 900 shots out of one battery, and had to put in the second one only for the last hour.
  3. quincy
    Had to split the post. I didn't have much luck with wildlife in the woods, thus I decided to make a trip to a zoo to deliver at least some animal shots here. And guess what? They had free-flying wild egrets and cormorants because they drained a large pond to dig out the dirt. And some zoo animals: Action, OIS and panning detection also works pretty good: All in all I can say at least my sample seems to be sharper when focussed close, but that's perfect for me.
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    I wanted to contribute to this topic for days, but I was looking for a way to upload high resolution images. I've dediced to upload them to flickr, set to private. I hope you can see them. You should be able to click some them to see the big versions: My first image with the lens: I think the image quality is nice, but you can see slight CA at the crow's throat. For me it's okay, the black crow on the bright blue sky is a pretty harsh transition and this is the only image that I've seen CA. Then there was a cute little woodpecker: And a nice great tit (dark, high iso): If you ever asked yourself the question which Fuji-X lens has the nicest "bokeh", the 56 1.2 or the 90 2.0, the answer is: The 100-400. But don't take my word for it, have a look: The nine-bladed aperture does a great job. /edit: I'm slowly migrating the images to the forum, for persistence.
  5. quincy
    Take a look at the f/2.8 image. The black box with the white letters on it, in the top right corner of the crops. The 18 2.0 is unsharp, the other two are not. When you see this, you'll notice more differences (e.g. the big grey box, "2 Originals of Something").
  6. quincy
    Yeah uhm... so... It actually didn't take that long to decide what to do. I uhm... was out in the woods with 1.4 kg of glass the last days and only came home to sleep and charge batteries (and order a new, wider strap to attach to the tripod socket). For now, I'll do what Patrick suggested, and cross out the discontinued lenses. When there are more of them, I'll probably move them to the bottom of the posting, below the chart.
  7. quincy
    Hmmmm... so there it is, the day I have to decide how to treat discontinued lenses. Thank You, yukosteel, it's always so helpful for me when people post new lenses here, I really appreciate that. Honestly, I can't keep track of all the manufacturers. I'll add this one as soon as I have decided upon that discontinued stuff. (can't just grey them out like the pending ones)
  8. quincy
    I got my 100-400 today, so I decided it has now officially been released and updated the OP.
  9. quincy
    The Fuji X lenses are not made for video. The aperture is neither declickable, geared nor mechanical, the focus is by wire and also not geared, the zoom lenses are not parfocal, but the zoom is mechanical, so I don't see why someone would want to use those for video when there are much better alternatives available. What's wrong with renting a Sony FS7, Canon EOS C300 or Blackmagic URSA together with some good lenses for more serious video stuff? Renting gear for video is a common thing, even with really big productions. The right tool for the task.
  10. quincy
    There's the Fuji MHG-XT S baseplate with sensor-centered tripod thread and built in arca swiss compatible rail, that allows access to the battery door. However, I don't know what a Peak Design standard tripod plate is.
  11. quincy
    Just came to my mind: might this be the first medium format lens?
  12. quincy
    Hey Antonius, Thank You! Last thing I heard about the 120 Macro was "June". I also hope your rep is right. @milandro&johant: You two probably can't imagine how much I'm interested in that. I always thought that our barbaric european languages were only spoken until much later (apart from scandinavian rune notices carved in pieces of wood and bone), and that latin was the only written language here.
  13. quincy
    Cool, and I think they are first with it! That thing in an X-T3 would be nice. By the way, do we know if they will use it for their medium format camera?
  14. quincy
    Three different approaches, and while I like none of them, I think Fuji's is still best. Canon's camera floating out of this animated space-thingy is just ridiculous. Nikon's version is a bit better (the opening scene is quite nice, though rather shot with a drone and not the D5) but those buzzwords like "outstanding", "strong", "uncompromised" should not impress anyone, and their annoying "I AM" campaign... uargh. Fujifilm at least forgoes stupid animations and buzzwords, bringing the focus to what is important to them: people. I agree that their choice of photographer and model might be a bit "artsy", but I think their approach is better than the others. Just the implementation lacks a bit.
  15. quincy
    That's just a bit of math, i guess. Depending on the size of the people on your picture (a bit less than 1/3), and your camera's angle of view of about 63°, I'd estimate your distance to about 5 m from the heads of your subjects. Assuming that your camera was at about the same height as your subjects heads, 19° of your FOV point downward, 44° upward. This gives us about 5 m of additional wall on top of your subjects. That wall is about 7 m away from your camera on top of the frame. If your camera was focused at the faces (5 m), your DOF at f/4 ends at about 2 m behind the subject, assuming an acceptable circle of confusion of 0,009 mm. That'd be right where the wall is on top of the frame. Taking into account the loss of sharpness towards the edge of the frame every lens has, your image might just be what is to be expected, or slightly worse.
  16. quincy
    Thank You for showing! Seems to be a cute lens. I actually started to like vignetting lately.
  17. quincy
    I know, I've seen your photos. They are partly responsible for my irrational wish to own this lens. Oh, and thank you for your offer! Although I doubt that we will meet anytime soon, I'll gladly accept if I should be near Belgium.
  18. quincy
    mine too... somehow... towards you at least. I guess I need to practice this
  19. quincy
    To the OP: I would not use EF lenses on Fujifilm cameras, as long as there are no smart adapters like the metabones for sony. They don't focus, you can't close the aperture, and you lose the image stabilization. I'd rather think about this: The XF 100-400 for your X-T1, or a Canon 7D II for your EF 100-400? Both will cost you the same. I'll buy the 100-400 as soon as I can get one. But for now, none of my photo shops has it for preorder, can you believe that? what they did (the 100-400) is actually a lot better than the 55-200 with a 1.4x or 2.0x teleconverter. This would give you either a 78-283 F4.8-6.7 or a 110-400 F6.7-9.5, both with superbly slow focus and probably pretty bad image quality. And that is the reason why the teleconverter mechanically only fits those three lenses (50-140, 100-400, 120) where it is reasonable optically.
  20. quincy
    My NP-W126 came in soft translucent silicone pouches when I bought them. I keep them in those.
  21. quincy
    There are others that will be able to tell you more about shooting such events, but a few thoughts from my side: - LED lighting does not have to be dark. This market segment is slowly picking up after being pretty bad in the last years. But it brings other problems with it. Without going too much into detail, most LED powered lighting technology only emits narrow bands of color, most of them in the yellow and blue frequencies. This could lead to ugly looking images, while your eyes and your brain would work together to make it look almost normal to you. - I guess you are not planning to buy new equipment, but I think you are good anyway. The 35 is fast, and the travelzoom has a great OIS. - Think about a monopod. Not as big as a tripod, but still helpful for dimly lit scenarios. - I'd set the aperture manually (+shutter speed for the real action stuff) and let the camera do the rest. Aaaand... have fun!
  22. quincy
    Since this popped up again, there's actually something I'd like to ask: Sometimes, after starting capture one, the profiles show up in a different order. Is there a way to prevent this behaviour, or even determine the order myself?
  23. quincy
    Yeah, my eyes were getting weak from all that tiny typing in a dark cellar, with only candle light....
  24. quincy
    That's cool! Thank You for reading, I hope you'll like it here! @all: I've stopped to post the "changelog", because I don't think anyone is interested in retracing those changes anyway. Small things like repairing links, correcting mistakes or cleaning up the chart in the original post will happen unanounced now, but I will keep on writing a new posting if bigger things happen, like adding a new lens. /edit: The Modula Optics didn't make it, kickstarter failed. Had stated it in the original post some days ago, but I thought I should perhaps repeat it here.
  25. quincy
    Seems like things are slowly picking up again : http://www.dpreview.com/news/2812773176/metz-announces-uk-availability-of-new-mecablitz-44-af-2-flash-video-light
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