New XT2 Firmware upgrade, very disappointing.

[miguel]

We now have two forms of tethering?

 

The new one to Adobe which has lots of facilities but IMHO is of little use to the majority of Fuji users because it is not a Remote Wireless package. Who wants to be using cables in this day and age.

Studio photographers will like it but how many studio photographers use Fuji cameras. I shoot a lot of wildlife and would love this package if it were wireless, being cable is no use at all.

 

The existing Remote Wireless app does not appear to have any enhanced facilities. It functions well for me but it is very limited. No motorised function is a killer, one frame at a time. If fuji cant give us a motorised exposure function, perhaps they can allow us to set the Brscket function to allow 3 or 5 frames to be fired with on press on the remote ipad. I did try this but alas no joy.

 

We now have a new locking facility, well I can think of much more useful enhancements than this.

 

As a wildlife photographer and I am sure there are plenty of us wanting to use the fantastic XT2 for this purpose, I use the 100-400 zoom. OIS is no use on the high shutter speeds one needs for birds in flight etc so I normally aim for high shutter speeds, about 4 times the focal length minimum with this lens and employ AutoIso. A really useful upgrade would be to increase the selectable shutter speeds in Auto ISO to 1/1000 and 1/2000 and I could shoot with a bit more confidence.

 

If Fuji read this forum, how about opening a topic and inviting your loyal customers to make suggestion for future firmware enhancements.

 

Its a great camera, lets make it even greater.

[RadBadTad]

>Studio photographers will like it but how many studio photographers use Fuji cameras.

 

Devil's advocate: Not many people are using Fuji cameras in a studio setting because they don't have basic studio features like nuanced flash control capabilities, or wired tethered shooting. I use my X-T2 in a studio setting more often than anything else, and would love to see better studio-integration. 

[Adam Woodhouse]

Yes, I expect studio photographers using Fuji are a very small percentage.  So naturally any work done by Fuji in this area may have a marginal return, thus not far up the priority list.   But in supporting studio photographers, they are breaking into a new demographic and hopefully it ends up being a worthwhile line of business for them because we all benefit in the end.

[Larry Bolch]

I expect that the GFX 50S may become quite popular in studio settings. APS-C not so much.

[RadBadTad]

I expect that the GFX 50S may become quite popular in studio settings. APS-C not so much.

 

Why would it not? With APS-C, you lose low light capabilities (not relevant in a studio with controlled lighting) and narrow depth of field (not relevant when you have complete control over a background and no need for blur)

 

The only issue might be fine detail, but the 24mp sensor on the X-T2 and XPro2 is worlds ahead of completely acceptable studio cameras from 5 years ago. 

 

Maybe flash control? But with Pocket Wizards, you're doing the flash controlling from the controller, not in camera.

[Jwctp]

I use Fujis in studio all the time. It's great. 

[Adam Woodhouse]

It depends on the needs of the studio photographer and their clients.

 

If a client demands minimum 50mp image for their billboards ... you need that tool.  If your client is fine not printing larger than a print publication, non-medium format is perfect.

Edited December 6, 2016 by Adam Woodhouse

[Vasilis]

is it just me or the LCD seems brighter with the new firmware in the default settings?