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I'm Ed in Lenexa, KS. Amateur at its worst, but have been shooting since before digital. Started with a Minolta Maxxum and went digital in 2006. Just recently picked up a X-T1 to consider in place of my Nikon D3300. Also keep a couple of film cameras around for fun. Canon A1 and Canon EOS 630. Here are a few my recent shots. There are a few in there shot with Velvia slide film. https://www.flickr.com/photos/welshkc If this is the right spot, I also have a question about the X-T1 and a Soligor 650mm lens I was recently given. An adapter is working just fine for attaching the Soligor to the X body. It is a t-mount system and the adapter was easy to find. The Soligor is 650mm with a fixed F/8.5 aperture. I found in the menu where to set the lens length for inclusion in the metadata, but the aperture setting menu item is grayed out. Since the camera has no way to know what the aperture is, it actually reads F/0, then it would have problems with calculating the exposure. Right? Of course I am running in all manual mode, but would like to use Av if possible. The X-T1 manual didn't have any clues. Can anyone point me the right direction for why the aperture setting menu item is not available with this adapted lens? Thanks and I am glad to have found a X system community.