Film, Fuji X, and why I don't care.

[Iko]

It will be incredible to see one of those server farms in person, you lucky guy

 

But as I said, 4.5 TB of data are nothing, internet is huge, very huge

 

It sounded strange to me too, but megnetic tapes are a really good metod to store "cold data", data that are accessed only once in a time and

don't need high access speeds. And however nowadays a magnetic tape as big as a briefcase can hold more than 150 TB of data, and as CDs they are cheap,

really cheap compared to an hard disk.

[Nick05]

to answer the OP's question, I have very little experience with film. I bought a Pentax 35mm point and shoot at 8 years old and used that until I bought my first digital camera in my teens. My uncle gave me an old Pentax SLR that I played with for a while, maybe 12 rolls of film or so. Everything else has been digital. I really liked the 5D Classic.

 

As far as fujifilm cameras, it's really about the camera. I've always loved the look and feel of the old Pentax SLR I was given as well as classic rangefinders I've seen. I really liked the looks of the X100 and the X-Pro1, but didn't buy one. After the X-E1 came out and the price dropped, I ordered it. Partially because it reminded me of a Leica and partially because of the X-Tran sensor. It was somewhat of a love and hate relationship. The EVF lag and sluggish AF annoyed me. I loved everything else about it. I ordered the X-T1 and fell completely in love with it. I've since traded the X-E1 for the X-E2 and bought the X100T and both are excellent. I will probably sell the X-E2 and buy the X-Pro2 when it comes out. I think that will be the perfect combination of features. I love having the OVF and EVF in the X100T. Of course image quality matters too and the fujifilm cameras deliver there as good or better than anyone else.

[darknj]

It will be incredible to see one of those server farms in person, you lucky guy

 

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Actually, once the hype wears off, it's just a large open space with tons of PC that's being kept cold that generate a rather loud buzzing sound.

It's not really the physical aspect of it, but really the idea that truck load of data are transiting every single second into that place, most likely more information for any human to be able to learn in a life time.

 

But back on the subject. I got a Fuji mostly because it's small, the IQ is great even on a 3 years old sensor, kinda make me wish my old and aging D5000 could produce anything remotely half good as this, plus I could have full physical controls that I wanted.

Some limitations that I wasn't aware did threw me off, mostly the native ISO being capped at 6400 and same goes for the RAF files not going any higher than that.

 

I was considering the X-T1 against the OM-D EM-5 with the 5 stops in body stabilization and super small lenses but the sensor size was not really much of an improvement with my Nikon 1 being my regular get go camera.

[Aswald]

Fujifilm experience brought me closer to my A-1 days. And I love etched numbered dials and direct access.