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I agree, hands down. As perfectly wrote by Mervyn, it's called "consumerism". I'd call it anyone "ability to resist".

In the end I've got the i40 and it works perfectly

I have the same options, camera and manual updated to the last firmware and version. I don't remember how it was before the update, probably they haven't updated the manual as well.

Ugly? That's a piece of art

Of course. Just since I asked about this matter, I posted my experience. As simple as that.

Thank you. Actually I always has the shoot without lens ON, due the fact I often switch lens. I've been told about this "issue" and I've tried. And you saw the result above.

I add that watching the images here, the difference is more subtle than on the computer screen. But there is though.

Here's a couple shots I took a little while ago. Even if the light changed a little bit between the two shots (doing a cloud passing by), they were taken with the camera still on the ground, auto shot, auto focus and nothing else. The first images are with shoot without lens OFF, the second ones with the option ON. As you can see, it's not just my opinion but there's a difference in contrast and in the focal lenght between the two options. Of course is a ON-OFF switch, but I think it affect the presence of any sensor on the lens. I don't know technically what this means, I guess is just a software difference. The images taken with the option OFF are sharper, no matter what. The images are not resized nor modified in any way. The crops are at 100% Above corner with option OFF, below option ON. Crop 100% Above center option OFF, below ON Center image above option OFF, below ON. Crop 100%

Actually it does. I discovered since short time. I took a sample a couple days ago to send it and I don't have it anymore. But it's quite clear in your roof pictures. Check 'em better.

I don't know if the X-T series has the option "shoot without lens" but I think so. If so, is it on or off? When you keep it on, the overall image will be softer.

That seems to be only a metal cover. Remove it and check it. Probably it's everything else ok. There are some black paints for the metal parts of the lenses.

Warwick, I hope you didn't take it as an offence. Which "amateur" is not, of course.

If about Alitalia, it wasn't a group of people. A little group only cashed a shameful bunch of money out of the people, who paid for "saving" the airline. Which has not happened. But that's the normality in italy.

Warwick, for an amateur it's right like that, unless particular case. You go somewhere to take a certain type of pictures and shoot those pictures with the lens you have with you. Sometimes I shoot with manual lenses and I only have that with me, I know that. But if I go to a place to take pictures, only having the 18-55 I carry with me 18, 23, 35 and 55 millimeters. Which is almost everything I might need, this because I usually have with me the 55-200 and the 12mm also.

Hi Oliver, like Warwick said above, primes are different lenses. It doesn't mean they're better or worse. Technically they're usually better than zooms, but it's not that one replaces the other. The matter is much relevant comparing the 18-55 and the 16-55. But of these two, I prefer the first: the only carachteristis of the second is the fixed focal. The weather seal is just marketing, I've never seen anybody taking pictures with rain falling dirrectly on the lens. But the 18-55 has the stabilization, which the 16-55 doesn't have. And for me is much more important, even though I don't use it that much. Some weeks ago I was in Venice, taking pictures stuck on a boat in the middle of a channel. The 18-55 was the perfect solution since I couldn't move at all. If I had to use primes, I'd needed at least a couple cameras each with a different lens. So, your lens is capable to do whatever you need. just use it much and learn use it at its best.

I have both. 18-55 is ok, 55-200 has a very little play, it seems to turn very, very little but it's up to the bayonet. But not a problem at all, nothing to get worried about.

I'm reading on the net there seem to be alot of problems about supported flash for this model. I won't even care about the EF-X500 because it costs almost like a used body. I guess in manual every flash works, or almost. But what about a ttl/hss that suits the camera?

I cannot help since I only use half pressing the shutter speed to block autofocus, just have you checked the function is enabled in the menu?

Right, Picturer. The silliest thing is they put a control for working with a certain mode, aperture priority or speed priority, and not making it work when you want to do all in manual. As said above, with a normal camera (read "analog") you could keep the aperture and time chosen and act on the iso. Well, now it would be the same just because it happens the same. I set up a certain speed and aperture, so if I can adjust the compensatiion without touching anything else, ISO included (I mean not having to change from 100 to 200 or so), it would be useful. At least for me.

Maybe what I'm talking about is not clear: is the exposure compensation dial. And it does NOT work in manual mode, also as said in the manual.

Because it's there. Having the chance to work on the ISO, beside speed and aperture, I want to have the chance to adjust it the way I want without having to change the speed or aperture to reach the same results. That won't be the same, obviously. And I have my camera update to the latest firmware. Also on full manual, the dial doesn't work in manual mode. And this is an issue, not a personal thought nor preference.

Karin, just be careful when holding the camera no to go with your thumb or other fingers on the wheel, or on the buttons. For example, I kept going with my thumb on the AE-L and AF-L buttons of my X-E2. So I bought a handgrip, only for that reason. I usually don't buy all the stuff put on the market by the producers solely for consumerism, but this is quite helpful in that sense.

I've noticed that on my X-E2 there's a big issue, and I've read it comes from the X-E1 and it's never been solved by Fuji: the EV dial do not work in manual mode. It's really silly. It does in AF-E and AF-L but not in manual. So if I want to keep the speed and aperture I chose, acting on the EV dial, I can't. Hope Fuji will solve this major issue.

The problem, that's really not a real problem at least for me, that with the advent of digital, the cameras stand more on the computer side than on photography side. This means that manufacturers produce a model after the other, introducing little not significant stuff "highly recommended and needed by photographers". Just to make an example. Years ago I've bought the Sony RX100 that was a great compact camera, when the Mark II was already on the market. It costed something like 200 more Euros only because it had the viewfinder. I compared the two and the Mark I was quite better. I think Sony put on the market 4 models in about two years. Ridiculous.

If B&H is reputable, buy it. For my experience, at least here where I live, the importers, during the years, earned two or three bunch of money with the "story" of the warranty. Then, finally, with the EU laws, many shops and websites started selling the same stuff, always with one or two years warranty, at half of the price.