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Canon 40D and 50D with various lenses. The Fuji is a lot better in potential image quality, but the problem is that often enough it's just too slow to actually get the shot. Or it sits with Fuji service because of rubber coming loose, the lens connection not working, the side door bulging or light spilling on to the sensor when and from where it shouldn't ... Conceptually the Fujis have advantages but the technology isn't even close at this point in time to play this advantage properly other than in non or slow moving subject situations.

The interesting part is that except potential front/rear focus issues (which I luckily don't have), my many years old DSLR still spanks the crap out of an X-T1 with firmware 4.0. It'll probably take until X-T4 or 5 or later to get to the same reliability and performance (AF, tracking, general camera reliability and usability, battery life, shot to shot black out time and so on) as today's DSLRs have. Until then we have the smaller size, less weight at similar quality of slow or non moving subjects. Good enough for nearly all use cases, but anybody saying that the MILCs are "better" than DSLRs in anything but size is dreaming in my personal opinion. Whether they need to be is a different story though.

While I like to think about what I'm missing or what I don't like in the current Fuji camera generation, the one thing that drives me completely nuts is that Fuji hasn't been able to come up with a single, consistent, working user experience for their high end X cameras. It shouldn't be so hard to come up with one consistent button layout, one consistent dial layout, one consistent way of displaying menus or Fn selections. Aren't the engineering teams talking to each other? Do they have a different designer per camera? Can't they just lock these folks in a room, turn off the light and see who comes out still walking? Whatever the interface is, whether I like the changes or not, as long as they are consistent in the camera range, it will be a good change.

The different battery sizes, the different Fn buttons, the different Q menu capabilities, the different hardware controls. Sorry to say but Fuji has, in best Microsoft manner, created a user interface nightmare with the various cameras. I'm leaving for a long weekend and refuse to take the X100T as a second body because I just can't be bothered by all the differences in use. Just taking the X-T1 with 14 and 35mm lenses and my wife takes an X-E2 with 18-55 and 56. Same batteries and chargers, filters and same lenses usable on both. Still different usage, but not as different as the X100T. When I'm back I'm going to sell the X100T and TCL as I'm just fed up with the idiosyncrasy of the system. Still thinking whether I keep the rest, but so far it looks like it, even though I'm not very happy with Fuji.

Didn't sound like humor to me. More like an always repeated argument why Fuji wouldn't do a compact 23.

Sorry, but that isn't an argument. They do have an XF23 which is HUGE. That's the main problem. Telling someone who has an ILC system to buy a fixed focal length compact camera, because that is supposed to be the "35mm equivalent" is nonsense.

I want an X100/50 with a 50mm (FF equivalent) field of view at f/1.8 or so + weather sealing + a 1.6x TCL and a 0.6x WCL . Rest could be just like the X100T today.

Depending on your education on a certain topic you'd also understand the common acronyms that are used there. Depending on your education you'd also understand if someone here started writing in a different language than English. I might interpret this the wrong way, but right now, you only come across as a language snob, not someone who actually wants to help by starting this discussion. Please accept my apologies if that's not the case, it's just my impression.

While I agree with you, here is a good tip how to search forums: http://bfy.tw/23NO The LMGTFY link is not a cynic reference, it's to illustrate the process a little better.

No rechargeable batteries in the trigger or receiver. So far I have only used Eneloop NiMH rechargeable batteries in the flash itself. I don't see how that would influence the performance but I can give it a try with Alkaline batteries. If that's the case though, it's just as bad as not working at all, because I'm not going to blow through Alkaline batteries because of a primadonna flash ...

Pfff. Rarely have I seen such an incompetent person with such self-confidence. You are proposing a "solution" that isn't working for EVERYBODY who doesn't like the way the X-T1 doesn't work today, with arguments that make absolutely no sense at all as your push button way doesn't make any difference in that regard. Na, I'm done wasting my time with you. Go and annoy folks with your "knowledge" ...

Hmm. Are you not able to learn after a few times to keep the switches and buttons where they should be? Seems like it ... Seems you aren't even thinking about features you request. A switch instead of a spring loaded lock button would be the best of both worlds. Don't you agree?

Pffff. You're my hero with your incredible knowledge.

Hell no. Just make the buttons "smart". Not "press and hold" to turn but "switches". Then you can have locked or unlocked as much or as little as you want.

IP addresses come from pools, a lot of networks don't give fixed IP addresses to their users but recycle them rather quickly. You block IP addresses you block all the people getting that IP in the future. IP address banning is only a short term measure and needs to be removed after a short time or you cause co-lateral damage. And there are many, many people who can't remember their passwords. I find it rather disgusting how you judge that, but that's just my personal view - having dealt with customer service for products that are used by hundreds of millions of people ...

Not a good approach. IP addresses are easy to spoof, easy to obtain different ones, and not a reliable measure at all. It's very likely that you are annoying your real users a lot more than the actual spammers. Second: even if the whole database of this forum was put in clear on the internet - if you feel less secure due to that, it would be better for you to approach forums more critically: use different passwords everywhere, potentially use different email addresses and/or usernames, be careful with other private information. And one forum not having seen spam intrusion while another one does isn't indicative to the first applying better measures, it's just as likely that it hasn't been attacked the same way or attacked at all. Overall, security of a basically public community is a balancing act. You want as many people in as possible but you don't want the wrong ones in. It's cheap today to pay a real person to create accounts in as many forums as possible. There is a whole service industry around spam and it's an arms race between the spammers and the admins of communities. If security and openness get out of balance you end up with systems like the TSA or the Patriot Act. Not something I'd want on public discussion forums.

This is normal. It's the camera opening and closing the blades for optimal light for EVF. You can hear this on other lenses as well, like my XF35 is fairly loud.

For me: I can screw up every photo with every converter and I can get satisfying result with all of them as well. In more than 10k photos from the Fuji cams so far I found only one or two where LR resisted successfully and completely to provide useful results. Iridient worked for these. Definitely not an issue for me and certainly no reason to switch to a different DAM and raw converter for day to day use and buy into the different pain of using these.

I'd like to see 16 f/2, 23 f/2, 35 f/2 - all WR, fast AF, small size with non-petal-shaped lens hoods. As much as I love the fast lenses, they are just too big (or not WR).

I can't imagine the 56 being that great for something like when used wide open as it doesn't have consistent sharpness across the frame until something like f/4.

I'm going through my lens collection right now, evaluating what I like and use and what I don't use as much. I own the 14, 23, 27, 35, Zeiss 50, 56 and 18-55 lenses + some M glass. My personal taste is to go for a little wider spread in focal length, like 18 (which I don't own), 35 and 90 (I have an M-Rokkor 90). Tried the 23 + 56 route for a while, but the 23 is just not a lens I got ever used to. Bummer, it's optically great, just too frigging big.

I've never shot anything professionally, but done a lot of events, including weddings in other technical roles - and the first thing I'd do is add a backup to a critical piece of gear. So, second body first, preferably the same as the primary so you can put different lenses on each and grab whatever you need without swapping lenses and without rewiring your brain to a different button layout. If you get by with the current focal lengths, I'd stick to them until you have that second body and whatever other gear you don't have today. Only then would I add to the available focal lengths. Again, I'm not a photographer, but speaking from experience as someone for whom it would be a catastrophe if a critical piece of equipment failed during a job.

I can't make my Nissin i40 work reliably via the YN 600/602 series triggers. I get shutter curtain shadow sometimes even at 1/125s shutter speed. The Yongnuo YN560-III and TX-560 combination works just fine at 1/180s. Therefore I used the YN560 via radio and the Nissin as fill triggered optically.

It certainly is ... wife wanted a new LinkedIn photo, so we played around in the living room ... Portrait @ Home by Guido Neitzer, on Flickr

Every single time. The new phone always came a few days after the software upgrade.