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C1 9 is great. Little tip for those of you that had reconfigured your working area in C1 8, if you goto I think its view or one of the headings at the top maybe Workspace, I will have to check when I have it in front of me. IF you click and scroll down the list you will see and entry something like User Capture One 8 Workspace, click it and it re configures C9 to match your old workspace pretty much dead on apart from the new features. Another useful thing, it does not auto convert images to the new processing engine so if you have pic you are happy with it will leave them alone unless you tell it otherwize. You can create a new variant and then convert that to compare. Sadly it seems as though focus mask and auto mask are still not working for X-Trans thanks to the 'non standard' sensor style. I hope they fix this one day, but I guess maybe they like the rest of use are waiting for the X-Pro2 as they may as well get it right for the newest generation of sensor. This is extremely optimistic thinking on my part. G

I would give some serious thought to a second hand X-E2, the prices on those are compelling. In the UK you could sell your X-E1 body only for about £150 and pick up an X-E2 body only for £250-£275 that might be a relatively cheap stop gap until the X-E3 Its a great camera, I upgraded to an X-T1 and to be honest, the AF upgrade seems to be more noticeable depending on your lens. IF you have the first primes 18/35/60 or the 55-200mm you are better off with an XT model, if you have the newer primes 23mm/56/16 etc or zooms you are going to notice less of a difference. I upgraded 4 months ago and i can honestly say there has only been one shot that I have doubts that I could have got with the X-E2 the rest I would have got them. I don't shoot sports, but if you have an X-E1 then you probably don't either

I am calm about it, but there are two things than continually frustrate me around the Fuji narrative i see here and in forums elsewhere. 1) That we don't need video. True some of us don't but the reality is some of us do and there is no mystical impact to still just by having video. I dislike lazy thinking like that. 2) The X-Trans sensor is somehow inferior because lightroom can't deal with it. There are many other programs that do but involve a change to your workflow. I guess I am image centric as a photographer and the idea of putting workflow in front of image quality annoys me, I want the best possible IQ from my camera and will utilize everything possible to maximize it. This should give you some insight as to my views on video. I.e if i genuinely though 4k would impact IQ I would be against it. You could ruin my party or more accurately all those who continue the narrative of we don't need 4k. That may already have influenced Fuji if the rumour is to be believed as the X-Pro2 may not have 4k. So that has ruined my party as it means that I am unlikely to buy one. Its also potentially ruining everyones party because if the X series cameras remain niche then Sony and others will continure to maintain and gobble market share and we might see Fuji fail. I grant you both possibilities are an outside chance, but it just seems so stupid to risk it for the sake of ill founded prejudice and what I suspect is a form of reverse snobbery on the part of a lot of the anti video crowd. G

This old chestnut again You don't want video, fine don't use it, but why ruin the party for the rest of us, and its not going to mess with your lauded IQ and AF in fact it may improve it. The main impact of 4K on a camera is in terms of processor speed and firmware. Basically the firmware needs to have good codecs, good compression and ideally avoid line binning all of the above cost in processor speed. So you need a really really fast processor. How does this impact Stills, it doesn't because its not like you take video and stills at the same time, so the processor is just over powered for stills. No negative impact to you and in fact a positive one if you process raw to JPEG in camera as that will be quicker, if you are JPeg shooter or JPEG+RAW shooter the write speed to card will be quicker so that will also help with burst shooting. Oh an interestingly the processor will help with AF speed. So having a bitching processor in your camera is good for stills, if you have to have 4k in there to justify it then just deal, you will be getting the IQ and AF, just faster. The only negative that video potentially brings to stills cameras comes from IBIS in my opinion, video recording generates heat on the sensor, this is easily dealt with a heat sink, however an effective heat sink is hard to implement at the same time as IBIS. All of this is academic as we currently have no IBIS in the Fuji line up they have decided to go lens based for this, which I actually agree with. It means the stabilization can be optimized to the lens in question. In terms of lens for video, I have the 10-24mm which is my primary video lens as its gives a fabulous 15-35mm range which is perfect for most of what I shoot in terms of video, its a constant aperture across the zoom and it has fantastic OIS that so far on HD usage with my X-T1 has given great results with due care. The only thing missing from this zoom is true manual focus, but for my purposes which is to lock focus its workable. I grant you if you want to do repeatable pull focus your hosed, however if your doing that, you probably have a dedicated rig for video. It also has a massive advantage over the Pany and Oly equivalent Wide Angle fixed aperture zooms in that it has a Filter thread so you can put filters on it without faffing around with a Lee mount. It ironically in my opinion the best all round zoom for video for mirrorless, the irony being that the camera's it works on don't have the codec or bitrate to do it justice. The most important reason to not object to video though is money. Fuji cameras are in a very interesting niche, they can achieve professional and astounding results and yet there are within reach of enthusiasts. I am an enthusiast, and there is no way on this earth I can afford or justify a Sony A7 Rii or to compliment my Fuji with a Panasonic GH4, or maintain two lens library's/ I love my fuji, and stills are my main endeavor, however I like to record video of my family and more importantly I record gigs and do the occasional youtube video with bands that I am in. I would like to a) only have to spend money on one system to do this I think that some of Fuji's lens are astounding and I would like to see what they can do with a decent video Codec. I will state here that while 4k would be nice. I would happily settle for a rock solid, non line binning high bitrate HD codec and be more than happy. Finally on the competition front, whilst I tend to agree that my ideal next camera woud be a 16MP not 24MP sensor with upgraded Firmware and 4k and Phase detection pixels over the entirety of the sensor. I don't need the extra resolution and I rather like the rendering of the current sensor thank you. However to remain competitive Fuji have to be seen to innovate otherwize all DPReview lot will be pointing out how superior Sony's are all the time. I think it cobblers, but to the man in the street you have to appear competitive becuase they look at specs not images. I want fuji to be successful becuase I want more cameras and lens please. I rather like them

Well just because there is no 4k does not mean its not a new sensor, personally I think 1 of 2 things is happening here. In both scenarios below I believe it will have a new higher pixel sensor and processor ie it is the next generation. 1) They are deciding for the purposes of product differentiation to keep 4k for the X-T2 i.e keeping the purity/simplicity of the range finder. It may also be a pain to implement it along with a hybrid OVF that could also be a contributor. 2) Its planned to have 4k but they have not ironed out all the bugs so will launch as HD and then add 4k via firmware update, because given the history of the X-Pro2 they realize that if they delay it one more time a lot of people are going to be upset and its not worth delaying it for 4k a feature that polarizes opinion anyway. My suspicion is it will be a bit of both the above. I think launch without 4k, most of the early adopters will be purists and won't care. Then at the same time of the X-T2 launch or shortly after they will release a 4k firmware for the X-Pro 2 so that it retains its joint flagship status. It may well be they are taking the above approach as they have a suspicion that the X-Pro 2 does not need 4k to attract buyers, and would prefer to differentiate between cameras, but it gives them 6 months to look at sales figures and change there mind before launching the X-T2.

I believe the OP wanted to add one lens to compliment his existing lens, from the following options 56, 60 and 90. Personally and while I love and own the 90mm and its a fabulous lens, its a large lens. 1) I would add the 60mm, he has the X-T10 so most of the adverse criticism of this lens being slow to focus can be ignored, I honestly notice no difference between this lens and the 18 and 35mm now. 2) Which brings me to my second reason the 60mm renders and colours the image in a very similar way to his existing glass. The 56 i find more clinical and less warm. Not a bad thing as its purely subjective, but if he wants his images to sit well together the 60 will get him there with less effort. 3) This is a travel kit having the versatility of the 60 in his kit will serve him well, it will allow macro shots plus it pack smaller and lighter. 4), Its also very versatile as a portrait lens for those of you interested I actually like it over the 56 as I can get in really close if I want to do abstract stuff like just an eye or over filling a frame etc, I think it gives more creative options for portraits out the box. The 56 is an amazing lens but its more of a I want to take a standard blow your mind magazine spread portrait. I find that the 60 serves the travel/street portrait better, in the same way that the 18 mm is a better street/travel lens than the 10-24mm, 14 or 16mm for my money. My current go to street kit that I walk around london with at all times is X-T1, 18mm/35mm/60mm. The other advantage of this set up is that even the X-T1 while a decent size camera most people think its a flim camera when I have those lens in situ as they are so small. Soon as the 18-135mm goes on there people start getting a little more wary. G

There are two broad purposes to a camera to capture memories or to capture an arresting or artistically satisfying image. Some people are in one camp or the other some in both. If you are only after memories a record of an event of people special to you a Smartphone will do the job admirably. I think its for this reason the Small compact market has been hit so hard. I think that that market will pretty much disappear. You will have enthusiast and pro cameras only, the main differential between the two probably no longer about resolution or IQ but AF speed and how many card slots The more and more that I pursue photography the more I realize that the most important skill a photographer has is self curation. The ability to look at our work objectively and brutally remove anything that is not up to standard, as we develop this curation is honed and honed, I regularly remove pictures from my flickr stream that I no longer consider up to scratch. I am sure I am not there yet either and that many there today will not be there in a year. This is the antithesis of the memories photographer who will keep everything regardless of quality because each photo is a memory. I do that as well. I use facebook for my memories and I have a far less stringent curation process (although I am still fairly fussy) because its about sharing memories and experiences with my friends and family who are not geographically local to me. Flickr is my outlet for the stuff I want to put my name to. It is an iterative process, and comes about but becoming aware of your own abilities and those of others and your personal 'bar' moving higher and higher. This sort of development is not new to me its the same with learning a musical instrument. However all of these are endeavors, labours of love, passions something which gives a person joy in the process as much as the result. Otherwize why bother. For many there is no joy in this and that is fine they just want to snap and forget and that is totally cool. Everyone is different. I can't stand golf, but for many it is there favorite pastime. The article at the top of this thread could just as well be titled memories vs hobby as iphone vs X-T1 G

Interesting points it might have. If it wants to retain Flagship status that would be a good move as then it would have the key features of the X-T1 fast AF (hopefully) direct ISO control and on top of that the OVF They will have to do it and retain the clean lines of the Rangefinder body though. I don't know where you would put it without cluttering up the area where the SS and EV dial are. I suppose they could go the GX8 route and have a stacked dial with ISO on the bottom and EV on the top. Or stacked with ISO bottom and SS on top, which actually might be better. Personally I could live without the EV dial completely as I would much rather just control ISO directly and have it be far more incremental. Have Aperture SS and ISO with finer increments and you have total control of exposure right there. EV dial just controls whichever one of the above happens to be in Auto mode. Get rid and use manual set yout A and S to what you require for the nature of your shot ie to set depth of field and freeze the action/create blur and then set ISO to expose. Maybe that flies in the face of proper photography but it would work for me. G

Makes sense to release close-ish to X-Pro 2 I think Fuji have a bit of a marketing nightmare on their hands. X-Pro2 is rightly the flagship in the sense that it has the hybrid viewfinder and with AF updates and a new sensor its going to be a great camera. However a lot of people (rightly or wrongly its still a fact) prefer the SLR shape and the additional control provided by an ISO dial etc. I think Fuji realize that they have a huge audience for the X-T its been there most popular camera and that if they wait to long to release it after the X-Pro2 then they might annoy everyone. They obviously want a little bit of time for the X-Pro2 to be the only game in town so it does not get totally trounced in sales which would be embarassing given its the 'flagship' model, and more expensive. G G

Ah and we reach the limit of my saxaphone knowledge as quickly as I had anticipated I love photography for its immediacy and the fact that I can get instant results without having to rely on 7 other people being in the same place at the same time. However music is, and always will be my first love. G

You a Selmer, Mauriat or Borgani man? G

Ps mind you I own 7 guitars so maybe I just like owning stuff. On a more serious note though, I like owning multiple instruments because I find that when I am uninspired sometimes picking up another instrument will force me to play in a slightly different way or sound slightly different and that will send me down an more interesting avenue, so maybe havin lens options is not about needing them, but about keeping the inspiration fresh. If you don't need that or you get your inspiration from knowing a small number of tools inside out, they awesome, i guess they are just different approaches, I know my bank manager would prefer yours G

I hear you Milandro I try and only take 3 lens at a time when I go out as i rarely use more. It is a luxury, i sort of justify my lens collections in the following two ways 1) Thanks to buying the majority of the lens above with kits or on ebay I have not spent comparatively speaking a massive amount, probably the same as what I would have had to spend if I wanted a Nikon D810 or Sony A7Rii plus 2 lens, I am so happy to have an X-T1 which gets damn close or in some way betters those cameras (personal preference) and I get to have a very flexible lens collection that I would not have been able to afford if I was using those systems. 2) My photography falls broadly into 4 main camps and the lenses above serve those very well in allowing me different configurations. Ski-ing - 18-135mm/27mm/10-24mm This set-up works really well, as the 18-135mm is great as I can get long shots of my daughter and if I am filming her I usually ski ahead a ways, start filming and as she get nearer i zoom out. I would not normally zoom during a shot but for this kind of stuff its okay as long as its gradual. The 10-24mm is great for taking in the breathtaking scenery in the mountains. Also great for shots of guys going off jumps and rails. The 27mm is not actually necessary to this kit at all, but its a nice to have for wandering around the Ski Station stuffed into a jack pocket when we are out of an evening, I could go with 35mm but to be honest their is significant potential for the lens to get banged about so I tend to leave that at home as its my favorite lens. In all fairness the 18-135 is probably the only lens I really need in this kit, its get most use and being waterproof is the most practical. I only take the 10-24 out on blue bird days. Street Kit 1 - 18/35/90mm - All primes and I actually have room in my bag to fit the 27mm with this kit if I so choose. This is a great pure prime kit that I sometimes swap out the 60 for the 90, but I find that somehow the 18/35 and 90 all seem to render in a very similar way and the 60 while great does not share quite the same character and I like the continuity across those 3 lens. Street Kit 2 - 10-24mm/35mm/60 - This is another great lens combo if I am going somewhere where there is nice architecture as the 10-18mm range this afford me over the above kit is very handy. Again I may swap the 60 for the 90 here depending on how I feel that day. Travel/Family - 10-24mm/18-135mm/35mm - This gives me a supremely flexible set of lens great for family and traveling with my family, 18-135 do everything and not drive my wife up the wall with lens changes, 10-24 also fits that bill to an extent and allows me to have many wide options and the 35mm gives me low light options and a prime Portrait kit - 35/60/90mm - Great portrait options, virtually classic, I suppose its missing a 23/27mm option and I could include the 27mm in there for completeness, but I rarely use that focal length for portraits, just does not speak to me, I know some love it. More power to them, but you have to know what you like. So looking through the above the most obvious lens to get rid of first for me is the 27mm but its so small and that is useful and it was the cheapest lens to purchase I got a fantastic deal on that lens £125 uk so its seems a bit pointless selling it, although that is the very definition of hoarding. The next most obvious is the 60mm as more and more I am using the 90mm in its stead, but its a great little lens, its also macro and finally If I want close up abstract portraits where I am just shooting a partial of the face, this lens is the best due to close focusing distance and sharpness. I also love the bokeh rendering on this lens. So all in all I think I may just stick, I can honestly say that I am very very happy with my lenses now, this is it. I have trialed the 14/23 and 56mm and they just don't work for me, this is my kit. The only lens that might peak my interest is the new 33mm F1.0 but to be honest it probably going to be massive compared to the 35mm and the 35mm is my favourite lens of the lot. If I had to sell everything tomorrow and keep one lens and one body it would be the 35mm F1.4 hands down. So while I may daly with the idea of the 33 unless its a blow your socks off kind of lens and it has similar character to sit well with the 18 and 90 its going to have its work cut out to supplant the 35mm. I have to say that I am content at this point. I may consider upgrading to the X-T2 some point down the line but I am in no rush the X-T1 is a hell of a camera, I love the images I get, I find cool news things to do with it every time I shoot it, and the AF is very very good now. I also think that lens are more important than camera which is why I have focused on them. This means that budget wize whatever camera I purchase next it probably won't be until 2017. Interesting aside, my most recent purchase, the 18mm, a lens that gets some slating for AF performance, and its definitely one of the weakest of all my lens on that front I thought. However after a few days using it, I checked the firmware version when I was importing some images and had a clean card and low and behold it was still on version 2.01, the guy who sold it to me had not updated it since he bought it. I put the latest software on there, suddenly a different animal, and in Single AF with either spot or Zone focus its very very decent now. I think that so many people judge equipment without first ensuring its on the right firmware. In fact with hindsight that was true of the 3 best deals I got on my lens 27mm 60mm and 18mm all were on old Firmware version all were sold very cheaply, all of which have had reps for slow AF. All of which are now very very usable on an X-T1 on Fimware 4 got to love Kaizen. G G

Lumens +1 Protect the sensor as a priority over the lens. Lens you can give the back element a nice clean with a cloth or lens pen and in fact I do this regularly because the dust in the back of the lens will get into the sensor next time you put lens on camera. But yup in the filed I would rather get dust in a lens that I can clean either at home or in the field (cafe) as opposed to the sensor which is a much harder proposition. Yes there are at home sensor cleaning kits, but personally it scares the whatsits out of me to have to touch the thing so I try and avoid the necessity. G

I think it really depends on what styles you like to shoot. My lens collections is currently 18mm 27mm 35mm 60mm 90mm 10-24mm 18-135mm I have previously owned the 8-55mm and 55-200mm I agree with milandro that for me the 10-24mm is a lens that I am constantly considering selling. I don't shoot landscape my main style is street and I much prefer the 18mm for that for two reasons, one I like its rendering better than the 10-24mm and I like the fact that I can fit in the 35mm in the same space in my bag. However I ski and in the mountains the 10-24 is majestic, although how many pictures of mountains can you take. The final thing holding me back from selling is that I am still holding out hope for decent video in the X-T2 and for the type of filming I will be using it for a wide angle is a neccesity (tight spaces) So I have my perfect street/portrait set up 18/35/90 along with the 18-135mm for travel I am currently trying to decide on whether to sell the 10-24mm or the 27 and 60mm I don't have to sell any of them they are bought and paid for, I have got some great ebay deals over the last year especially on the older primes which are by the way fabulous. Its just I am not sure I can justify 7 lens, I just don't use that many. Thats the problem with Fuji lens every time I think about selling one I take it out for a last hurrah and then take a great shot and go, hell no am I selling that bad boy. G

HI My vote would be the 18-135mm its a great lens. I have owned the 18-55mm I sold it and the 55-200 and bought the 18-135mm Caveat I did this because I have primes that cover most of the 18-55mm range and prefer primes. I replaced the two zooms with the 18-135mm so I could have a walkaround do it all lens for when I am shooting with my family on holiday and don't want to be constantly changing lenses. However what I have found is that in certain situations the image stabilization has worked more in my favour than a low aperture. If you are after bokeh then yup you are better off with a F2.8 or lower, but the reality is the 18-55mm did not really give bokeh in fact its easier to get pop with the 18-135mm by standing further away and using a longer focal length to get some compression. Anyhoo for shootting low light with a high depth of field the OIS serves you better as you can run it at F5.6 and a low SS and get the shot. Obviously moving targets will blur but the inside of a church for example is going to be easier to get a shot with teh 18-135mm I believe that the stabilization on the 18-135mm is the second best in the FUji range only beaten out by the 50-140mm whcih is not a practical lens nor will it give you the standard focal lengths between 18-50 The 18-135mm is not quite as tack sharp at 18mm as the 18-55 but its very good and I like the way it renders and I found the colours to be richer. I think its a no brainer and the money you save buying the 55-200 you can put towards the 23mm or 35mm prime which will give you another flavor of low light option and better bokeh options than any of the zooms discussed. Be careful though primes are like crack G

What dis said, Only thing I would add is hold camera with sensor pointing sideways or downwards while lens is off the camera, less likely for dust to float in or settle on the sensor if you have gravity working for you. Oh and always have camera switched off as when the sensor has current it will attract dust more. G

To be honest how bothered are we really. I mean if Sigma could put out lens that were as good at a quarter or half of the price then maybe, but otherwize I think the Fuji lens line up is pretty comprehensive and good value. Do we have as many lens as Canon and Nikon. Probably not, but what we do have is exteme quality that punches well above its price point in comparison. Canon and Nikon have a lot of layering in their ranges, 4 different 50mm for example L Glass etc. Lets take my favourite lens as a good comparison point the XF 35mm 1.4, the Sigma equivalent for Canon/Nikon mount is £359 the current street price of the Fuji £375 so for basically an extra £16 I get a lens that in my opinion has equal or better IQ plus is designed specifically to work with my camera, and has an Aperture ring. I think the Aperture ring is probably the thing that has killed 3rd party lens the most. I don't think any of them have any appetite to develop a lens with that functionality as no other brands have that technology so the dev cost can't be covered. However releasing a lens without one is going to immediately lose out to the equivalent Fuji lens. Once you have used one fuji lens with an aperture ring, even if its a zoom with an unmarked ring, its very very hard to go back to one without. Part of the appeal of the X-T1 to me is that with a prime on it, I can look at the camera and at a glance see what my set up is before I even switch it on. Why would I buy a lens that does not do that unless there was a significant cost saving. Sigma are not stupid and have worked that out, but its no bad thing. I also think that Fuji is making serious inroads with the X-T10 finally allowing reviewers to recant there views. I think the only sticking point now is all the mis-information about the X-Trans sensor, once that dies down further it will improve. I have had a few fellow enthusiasts say oh but the X-Trans RAW files look really bad and are hard to process. I was like er take a look at my flickr and then lets talk about that. That was 3 years ago, now capture one and Scottie Wangs ICC profiles and my processing time is so quick compared to Lightroom its not funny. G

Marcelo I just saw this, sorry I did not post before you went to Barcelona, although no harm no foul, the little girl statue is in London not Barcelona its just in front of the gherkin on St Mary Axe London. I hope you did not spend a lot of time looking for it.

This is an interesting one. My view is that we should have the Glossary sticky and continue to use TLA's (Three Letter Acronyms) My reasoning. Another topic that came up in this thread was whether or not it is acceptable to use advanced vocabulary. I am a huge proponent of using good words. I personally believe that you can often be more economical in your communications with an advanced vocabulary. I also question dumbing down for the greater understanding of the many. I always feel that this is a very negative outcome. If I read a word I don't understand whether on a forum or in a novel or a non fiction tome, I am pleased. I go to google or my theasaurus and I educate myself to its meaning. I have benefited from someone using this word as it has increased my vocabulary. If they had dumbed their post down I would not have benefited from learning something new. As a society as we keep dumbing down in the interests of being understood what we are effectively doing is destroying our language, which is a real shame and a loss that we will regret at our leisure. To those who say it is snobery, it is not, language is a democracy, google has made language available to anyone who wants to spend the time. Language and learning are no longer denied to someone based on income, but based on effort. I am happy with that it is a meritocracy rather than elitism. To that end I cannot protest the use of Acronyms, if you are serious about a pursuit, hobby or profession you will learn, you will teach yourself. 3 years ago I did not know what ISO or SS or EVF vs OVF was, in looking up these aconyms not only did I learn what the acronym stood for, I learned the meaning/concept behind the aconym, and therefore my technical understanding of photography increased. This was vital as it meant that I could focus on the creative as the technical stopped being something that blocked or slowed me down while pursuing a shot. So to that end I feel the best compromize is a sticky, to provide a resource to those who have not yet been initiated into the wonderful acronyms that accompany photography but are willing to learn. Active learning where you have to chase the knowledge down yourself is often the most effective in terms of retention. This is just my 2 pennyworth, take it in the spirit its meant, which is 100% positive and not about snobery or feeling superior. Regards Gordon

The 35mm is not a million miles faster than the 60 in all fairness. Both are older gen lens and to that extent not as snappy as some of the newer lenses. Sadly both lens would have been a lot better on the X-T1 you broke. I had a X-E2 and since moving to the X-T1 I have noticed a significant improvment in focus accuracy. Interestingly more so with Zone focus mode than single. In ZF mode its very very snappy as it the 60mm. Ironically the 60mm is now one of my favourite lenses. It does not quite get you Bokeh Pron like the 56mm but it has that beautiful rendering that the 35mm has it just has a vibe. Lets put it this way it forces taste on you. The 56mm at 2.8 and above is gorgeous, but I just know I would be using it at 1.2 for the first 6 months till someone slapped me Be aware that the 60 is a better portrait lens that it is a macro to my mind. however by one of the macro rings and it gets a lot closer to being a really good macro lens. The other option is the 27mm a criminally underated lens. I love it, I don't use it that much anymore but I got it for a very good price and like having it around for those one lens smaller camera days it turns my X-T1 almost into an X100T however it is my second favourite lens with the Macro tube (the 35mm is the favourite funnily enough) What is my conclusion in all of this, if you can get 1 lens get the 35mm 2 lens get the 35 and 60 or 27 and 60 (which is a good option as they share the same filter diameter) To be honest you could probably pick up all 3 second hand for the cost of the 56 brand new, i know what I would do. G

Saw your lastest update. I agree Fuji can't be beholden to Sony to quite that level I agree ith your assessment. I think that Fuji have either called on a clause in the contract that limits how long a delay can be imposed. Or renegotiated. In light of SOny trying to position themselves so that they are Sensor market leaders providing sensors to other companies, its going to be hard to sign new deals with companies if there is this kind of commercial block in place. I imagine Fuji have pointed this out. ANother possibility is that this has been going on so long that Fuji have managed to develop a new sensor with someone else or on there own and are going to go with that. Or a combination of both. I wander if Fuji got close enough with a new sensor to say to sony hey look put up or in another year we won't need you. Final option SOny are making Fuji's medium format sensor and as part of that deal Fuji renogotiated the whole thing to remove the Wait clause on the other sensors they get from sony. G

Ha you beat me to it http://www.boredpanda.com/bride-photographs-own-weddings-lissa-luts/ I found it there. It funny I came accross it via unrelated link and as soon as i saw first shot I thought, that looks like fuji colours, looked closer oh look an X-T10 surprise..........not I was at a wedding recently and was showing a mate with a Canon DSLR some of my picks, he was blown away. The revolution is coming G

I never understand why everyone insists on 1.2 and 1.4 lens for street? I get the portrait justification for BOKEH, but again I often find that compression from a zoom can make a pic pop without the need for heinous levels of bokeh. In fact its advantageous, because if I had a penny for all the amazing bokeh shots on flickr with eyes out of focus thanks to DOF issues I would be a rich man. For street I use the 10-24 at 24mm and F8 and am very very happy with the sharpness. I use the 35mm, at F5.6-F8 for street and around 1.4-2.0 for portrait I have the 60mm and use that at 2.8 for portrait and f5.6-8 for street although with both primes I do sometimes shoot wide open becuase I forget to stop down in the moment. I am pretty happy with the results. If you look at my flickr gordonrussell76 the latest shot 'Discovery' is using the 60mm

If I could only take one lens I would take the 35mm My old travel kit when I had M4/3 was 14mm/25mm/45-200 which was okay but to be honest I rarely if ever used the 45-200 In fact about 80% of my shots were with the 25mm, that was partly because it was light years ahead of the other lens in IQ and partly because you really can live with just one focal length. Now I take 10-24mm 18-135mm and 35mm What I like about that combination is whicever lens is on the camera I can use it as a walkaround. The 10-24 is great at 23mm which a lot of people use as there only focal length (X100 etc), the 18-135 is obviously the most versatile lens in the line up, or if I am feeling some prime action the 35mm can happily stay on my camera all day. I.e whatever is on my camera at any time will not limit me as a travel based lens, but at the same time I have a very wide overal focal range 10-135mm and I have low light options from teh conventional F1.4 of the 35mm to the 5 stops light advantage from the Stabilization of the 18-135. The only loss in that kit is the nice compression and portrait characteritics of the 55-230 but you can get that from the 60mm and its not really neccessary when travelling. you can get close with 18-135 at 90mm. From your lens line up I would take 12mm 35mm 55-230 This will cover all your bases. I would also seriously consider selling the 18-55 and 55-230 and replacing with the 18-135 then your travel kit could look like this. 12mm 35mm 18-135mm and depending on the size of your bag you will be able to squeeze in the 27mm or even the 60mm Personally I would go with 27mm as then if you want to go out with just your camera in a coat pocket and no bag for dinner etc then you have a very compact solution. G