[Nightmare - Pictures Visible in Camera from SD but not on Mac]

the macOS cannot read compressed fuji raw files.

Change the camera setting to uncompressed and the raw files will be perfectly readable. (not the old ones)

Using compressed RAWs causes 30% of them to turn up missing?

[X100F: Q-menu button annoyance]

C'mon, your statement sounds like a Trumpet...

 

 

I don't know why, but that made me chuckle. 

[X100F: Q-menu button annoyance]

Fuji should replace that designer guy with small hands who insist that’s a good position for the Q button or whatewer button.

 

 

Fuji should hire staff to specifically cater to your demands?

 

I personally much prefer the location of the Q button on the X100F over that of the Q and AEL/AFL buttons on my X100T. No layoffs required on my behalf though.

[Firmware 3.1 issues Xpro2]

What is silly about taking off the lens cap during a firmware upgrade?

[Dog photography]

Beauty all around.

[Identify this lens part X100T]

Glad you find the replacement. I always have my len filter on all the time because len is one of the most expensive "part" of a camera.

Why do you call it a "len"? I'm asking because you seem to do so consistently in your posts. It's something I've seen in forums off and on over the years and never quite understood.

[Anyone planning NOT upgrading to x100F from x100T?]

APS-C sensors have reached their limit (for quality still applications). In fact for some types of work, like architectural or landscape, APS-C is already of little use.

Oddly though, this does not seem to hinder droves of skilled photographers from cranking out a boat load of stunning images in those very categories using nothing but APS-C cameras.

[Video really needs to be top priority for Fuji]

Ask 10 different people what Fujifilm's priority should be and get 10 different answers.

 

 it's kind of comical ....

 

Ask 10 different people about anything subjective and get 10 different answers.

 

It's not comical, it's why we are here debating these topics in the first place.

[A rant about rants]

Bugger. The forum is unusable. I will leave!

[Do we tolerate the bodies because of the lens qualities?]

I don’t like viewfinder cameras and have tried many in over 40 years

no one HAS to buy view cameras. You like them, great. You don’t like them? Move on to something else.

[Charging X100T battery from portable power pack]

Unless you're already schlepping one around to charge your other devices, bringing a few spare batteries saves you the extra bulk, recharging time and effort of using a power pack.

[X-pro 2 - I don't get it!]

My personal theory? It's Fuji's marketing department's way of ensuring that something you need/want is missing from each model, so that you end up buying both.

It's called product differentiation and some companies are quite adept at it. Like Apple making you feel that you need an iMac, MacBook, iPad AND an iPhone and not at all think that one might be redundant.

[Advanced Filter disaster – don't let it happen to you]

Time to crawl away and cry …...........

You have my sympathies.

[A plea to Fuji ...]

All companies are of the view that OIS is more effective, but it that it is not required on all lenses.

 

Not all companies obviously.

 

It *does* have an impact on image quality,

 

I hear that all the time. But having worked with both IBIS and OIS based systems, I never noticed any adverse impact whatsoever. What is the basis for your claim?

 

it will not be implemented if it also makes the lens too large or too heavy.

 

Another argument in favor of IBIS.

 

My advice? Use a tripod.

 

Not always an option for a variety of reasons.

[A plea to Fuji ...]

we’ve managed to shoot pictures way before any of these systems showed up  (and even before it was feasible to shoot at very 3200 ISO without having grain as big as 000 shotgun pellets ), and I have news, despite life being tough, we did it all the same, that means we found a way to do it or around it.

 

I just had a look between some of the most iconic ( quite literally so) images of the 19th and 20th century, many  undoubtedly affected by motion blur and many other “ defects”, yet, despite blur ( and some not all that well focused too) they are and remain forever immortal pictures all the same.

 

Methinks...It’s not the box, it is the one whom holds the box.

 

 

Ah, the tried and trusted "we didn't need it 300 years ago, so why would anyone need it now" platitude.

 

I imagine you're that guy who keeps remembering everyone at birthday parties how in the olden days, children used to walk to school in winter, for 50 miles in both directions. Waist deep in snow. Carrying a 20 pound satchel. Barefoot. On glass shards.

 

And I can only assume that you (would) have met the introduction of zoom lenses, autofocus and digital cameras with equal disdain. Humbug! The photography gods of yesteryear created masterpieces without them new-fangled automated contraptions. Hail the pinhole camera!

 

The fact that some of the non-luddites among us embrace and appreciate the advantages that new technology can bring, does not negate the fact that we can still be competent and accomplished craftsmen and/or artists without it.

 

I honestly can't fathom why some people feel compelled to polarize these discussions into oblivion and project their own requirements and those of antiquity onto the entire global photographic community.

[A plea to Fuji ...]

life is tough

 

 

Thank you for sharing that inspiring pearl of wisdom.

[A plea to Fuji ...]

If I can't use a high shutter speed I use a tripod or a flash. It has worked for me for over 30 years.

 

 

There are plenty of situations where using either or both of those options are prohibited, impractical and/or impossible.

[Why does X-Pro2 cost more than X-T2?]

The X Pro 2 isn't more expensive than the Fuji X-T2....

Just answer the question please. [emoji6]

[X-pro 2 sooc waxy skin?]

There is no account for taste, but why? I simply don’t understand it.

 

 

It's quite simple. When there's not enough ambient light and flash is not an option, you have the play the card you're dealt. It's not a matter of taste, but of necessity.

[X-pro 2 sooc waxy skin?]

I really don’t think that I shoot portraits at high ISO

I do.

[Fell really hard, although scratched, x-pro2 is doing fine!]

I wonder how the ISO ring (around the shutter speed dial) ended up ground down around the entire circumference. That seems like an atypical damage pattern for this sort of incident.

 

And did anyone notice how the finger prints on the left side of the top plate look like they are somehow etched into the paint?

[XF 23mm f2 balance on X-M1]

Never understood the notion of or people's preoccupation with lenses "balancing" on a camera body.

 

As soon as you put a lens on a camera, it becomes front-heavy. As such, the combination of the two has no inherent balance.

 

The only way to balance a camera is to hold it properly, i.e. support it at the fulcrum point by cradling the lens in your left hand.

[Use our Fujis as workhorse tools or keep them pristine?]

Perhaps the resilience against dropping, dousing or submersing a camera don't quite carry over from a relatively simple mechanical film body to an intricate and complex modern digital device?

[Use our Fujis as workhorse tools or keep them pristine?]

I concur. Professional help.

It could be worse. I heard of a guy taking selfies while staring at walls.

[Very disappointed with X-Pro and battery life (and low battery notification)]

I can't help after reading your post but think, the whole idea of the xpro2 platform is a compact rangefinder style camera. Light weight and "nifty" if I may.

Wasn't that supposed to be one of the principal benefits of the mirrorless revolution? Yet it seems that everyone and their brother are itching and yearning to bulk up their light weight and nifty camera bodies with a big honking grip. Go figure.