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My adopted home city of Porto (in Portugal) is so beautiful and photogenic, that even Leica send photographers here to shoot.
 
I may live here, but I don’t have a Leica… But it’s not problem, because I have a Fuji! (3 in fact!!)
 
If the people make a place, and in turn the place makes the people, then what sort of pictures can you capture?
 
Well Leica have just released a new model M. No don't worry, here's not the place to find out about it, you can do that at their website. But I cannot tell a lie, I did watch their promotional video...
 
...for one simple reason, they sent a trio of 'Togs to Porto.
 
So the mighty Leica deem Porto worthy of flying in photographers to capture street scenes here... Cool! But for me, when I want to do that, I just leave the house!
 
So armed with a "mere" (sic) Fujifilm, let's take a bus ride (sorry I can't spring for a plane) into town and see what we can see!
 
The Purposeful Explorer by Adam Bonn, on Flickr
“The Purposeful Explorer"
 
Porto rolls down the valley into the Douro river, criss-crossed by ancient side streets. Like any popular tourist destination, it pays to explore away from the main areas, to see and feel as much as possible. Who knows... maybe you'll be so enamoured with a place that you'll end up living somewhere new!
 
Street Cards: A Serious Matter by Adam Bonn, on Flickr
“Street Cards: A Serious Matter"
Wander away from the main streets and you'll see local life flourish. Groups playing card games, this is clearly a serious business!
 
The Attraction & Fear of Nice Things by Adam Bonn, on Flickr
“The Attraction & Fear of Nice Things"
Porto has many shops, a lot of them are not 'chain' stores, but independent places selling treats and delicacies. Meats, cakes, Port, wine, coffee... Nice things! You should definitely treat yourself, well if you're allowed in that is!
 
The Attraction & Fear of Nice Things by Adam Bonn, on Flickr
 
 
A Forgotten World by Adam Bonn, on Flickr
"A Forgotten World"
 
To my eye at least, Porto offers the chance to see people go about their lives, in surroundings that have not really changed for a great number of years. This, too me, has a special charm that drives home the notion that things do change, but they really don't.
 
It's wonderful that a company such as Leica acknowledges Porto* as a destination that demands photography, if you visit the city, I guarantee you'll see the sights that those Leica photographers did, you'll love them and photograph them, and you should start there.
 
But if you then venture just a few hundred meters away from those famous places, you'll see the views from a slightly less well trodden (but no less authentic) path.
 
The Timeless Line by Adam Bonn, on Flickr
"The Timeless Line"
 
Whatever camera you shoot (and no matter who's picking up your travel costs) you'll find a little spark of visual magic on these streets.
 
Happy travels, where ever you go
 
(*Yes, I'm aware of Leica's manufacturing connection to Portugal!)
 

It is a non-issue only if you aren't affected by it. I don't really mind the current settings, but I see no downside to having this camera behaviour customisable. In fact I would like to have the option of setting different viewfinder-lcd behaviours for the Q-menu and the normal menu. This would be a fine upgrade to add to the next firmware update

yes, very nice.
 
Although I agree with the spirit of most of the article, I find that he is preaching to the converts, since the “ lens intention diagram” used to to explain and visualize the concepts, is yes, a very nice tool but one that wouldn’t convince the trend follower.
 
Mr. Khong says what many of us of the old generation think but don’t say because of the unpopularity of these common sense concepts. One is bound to be flamed for spousing these concept which go against the grain of the popular “ wisdom" of these times.
 
And we know that popular wisdom goes well together with tar and feathers. Nowhere more than on fora people keep a boiling caldron of tar and a sack of feathers always at hand. The lynching mob is only one click away.
 
The popular wisdom of the righteous is soaked with the milk and honey of hype.
 
Hypes have been around forever, in photography as much as in everything else. 
 
Common sense is a lot less common than popular wisdom which is certainly popular but is hardly wise.

Maybe we can put this to rest: 80% of the people we showed prints in 24x36 inches couldn't tell whether a photo was shot with a 5MP iPhone or a  ~12MP Canon 5D. I think it's totally ridiculous to assume they could tell the difference between a 16 and a 24MP x-trans sensor. 
 
So, stop bothering. It's nor worth it.

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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. 

Hi darknj,
 
I'm sticking with the X100S.  It has no problems.  The X100T has been mothballed until such a time as Fuji sees sense and corrects its firmware.
 
The X-Pro1 is also still fantastic, and gets great use.
 
I don't have a personal problem with the XP2, as it hasn't even been released for sale yet.  Maybe Fuji will read my comments, and those of many others in the Internet who are complaining about the same, single issue.  I have also written to Fuji in Japan asking them to reconsider their "improvements", but have never received a reply.  Fuji aren't famous for replying.
 
I bought the X100T on trust gained over five years of fantastic Fuji use.  I was disappointed.  A lot of people are disappointed about the change in menu viewing.  The recent change, for some photographers, is sufficient to render the camera unfit for use for their style of photography.
 
As an analogy, when governments create new laws that clearly go against the will of the people, the people protest and make their feelings known.  Often the governments will listen and adjust what they have done in order to be more acceptable to their voters.  To just accept changes that are not good is called apathy.  This process also applies to the retail sector.  We do not work for Fuji.  Fuji works for us.  If Fuji, like a government, does things that are wrong, people will stop supporting it.
 
I use Fuji cameras.  My last major exhibition was clearly publicised as an exhibition of images taken on Fuji cameras, as are all my exhibitions.  That exhibition in Milan saw over ONE MILLION visitors, all of whom were informed that the images were all taken on Fuji cameras.  I believe in Fuji.  I like Fuji, but if Fuji get something wrong I will tell them, so they can reconsider and get back on the right track.
 
Sadly, there are a lot of apathetic people around who just blindly accept changes, whether good or bad, and whose answer is simply if you don't like it, go elsewhere.  That is negative, apathetic and not conducive to improvement.
 
I have been a journalist for over 40 years.  I expose issues in the public interest.  It's what I do.
 
95% of what Fuji are doing is fantastic.  4% is not so good, and 1% is bad.  That's better than most producers
 
On behalf of those who blindly believe that everything Fuji do is perfect, and that to criticise it in any way is nothing short of blasphemy, I will voice my thoughts as widely as possible, hoping that those thoughts will help Fuji to avoid the 1% that some people would rather quietly ignore, and suffer in silence.
 
Fuji is fantastic, but sometimes it needs to be shouted at a bit..... as has been mentioned by others in this thread, if you speak quietly Fuji doesn't always listen

Milandro, take it easy. You are one of the most active persons in this forum. You should already have got used to this kind of discussion.
If someone has a question like "Can I do A with my X" you can be sure there are replies like
- Why do you want to do A. Doing A is stupid. Do B.
- No one ever buys X to do A. You should have bought Y to do A.
- You can do C. It is not the same as A but C is great.
Another alltime favorite for is:
- I don't have the answer, but would be interested in the answer as well.
 
This is what we have to expect when we post. So just ignore it.

of course... just add more questions in this thread

http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2015/06/i-dont-know-why-it-swallowed-a-fly-weather-sealed-lens-with-a-fly-inside
 
Well.....looks like Fujifilm lenses not the only ones.   :mellow:  

Isn’t meter-and-recompose – the standard approach to spot metering – much faster and more flexible than shifting the spot? Since there is no recomposition error as there is with focusing, what would be the downside? Note that the spot you are focusing on may not be suitable for spot metering which assumes an 18% reflectivity.