The Fabulous Fuji X owners thread

mickledore said:
And another thing.....be vary careful of the little plastic screw cover on the front of the body. Both @Mr Perceptive and I have lost ours within minutes of starting to use the cameras. Letters are going off to Fuji - the cover on my X-T1 has never even looked like coming loose.
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My only complaint so far is this, the plastic cover fell off in my office yesterday, I put it back, and today after shooting with Frank, it's gone completely, lost in the wilderness that is Birkenhead !!! As Frank says, never had a problem with the X-T1

But that's the only negative, it's a great camera, much snappier than the X-T1, and I just love Acros, can see that a bit of effort to get 'my referred' settings in camera will save me loads of LR/Silver Efex time.
 
mickledore said:
No updates available for CS6 or LR5.7.
Maybe if I upgrade LR to v6 then I could see the files there, but they still cannot be viewed in CS, so initial processing could be done, but more detailed work cannot apparently be done.
Looks like it's either subscribe to CC or nothing.
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Frank, Adobe free download DNG converter 9.6.1 (updated August 2016) will read and convert your X-T2 files.(y)

George.
 
You are on CC are you not? That explains how you can see yours.

P.S. How's the missus?
 
G.K.Jnr. said:
Frank, Adobe free download DNG converter 9.6.1 (updated August 2016) will read and convert your X-T2 files.(y)

George.
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Will it? Now that could be a (short term)answer to the problem.
I'm just about to get dressed up to take SWMBO to a party so will look at that tomorrow.
Thanks George.
 
mickledore said:
Well Houston, we have a problem.
Just been out on a shoot with @Mr Perceptive.
Two cards in place. #1 set to RAW. #2 set to JPEG.
Previews and reviews of either card showed an image that corresponded to the Film simulation that I had chosen. That was always the case with the X-T1.
Came to download and as above LR 5.7 will not accept the files.
I viewed the files in Fastsone Image viewer and even though I could see the RAWS the JPEG processing was showing. I went from there to CS6 and that would not recognise the files either.
No updates available for CS6 or LR5.7.
Maybe if I upgrade LR to v6 then I could see the files there, but they still cannot be viewed in CS, so initial processing could be done, but more detailed work cannot apparently be done.
Looks like it's either subscribe to CC or nothing.

And another thing.....be vary careful of the little plastic screw cover on the front of the body. Both @Mr Perceptive and I have lost ours within minutes of starting to use the cameras. Letters are going off to Fuji - the cover on my X-T1 has never even looked like coming loose.
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I lost the The cover on my XT1 graphite the other week and ended up having to buy the kit with the flash cover.

Apparently the Nikon ones on ebay fit you can get 10 for a few quid but the quality control needs sorting.
 
Mr Perceptive said:
My only complaint so far is this, the plastic cover fell off in my office yesterday, I put it back, and today after shooting with Frank, it's gone completely, lost in the wilderness that is Birkenhead !!! As Frank says, never had a problem with the X-T1

But that's the only negative, it's a great camera, much snappier than the X-T1, and I just love Acros, can see that a bit of effort to get 'my referred' settings in camera will save me loads of LR/Silver Efex time.
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I wasn't planning on getting the XT2 but thought I would email WEX for a quote on my Graphite XT1 just out of interest. They have offered 480 plus the 100 Fuji cash back.

Also have an unexpected bonus from work next week as well so would cost me around 400 to upgrade.

Need to have a think.
 
Mr Perceptive said:
Which also is not in the Lightroom Acros Profile, but only in camera
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So the only way to get the proper acros effect is via jpg?
Makes sense, i'm sure I read earlier that the same was true for all film simulations in lightroom - that they are just very close approximations. For others I guess it's easier for Adobe to get close enough as they're just tone curves/colour profiles, whereas acros has the funky noise algorithm too.

Either way, it looks awesome. That pump face shot look gorgeous!
 
mickledore said:
I had that setting and both cards are RAW. Something else must be in control. Wonder what it is?

Edit, not with the bracketing though.
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If you bracket film sims you cannot also shoot raw.
 
jimmyjamjojo said:
So the only way to get the proper acros effect is via jpg?
Makes sense, i'm sure I read earlier that the same was true for all film simulations in lightroom - that they are just very close approximations. For others I guess it's easier for Adobe to get close enough as they're just tone curves/colour profiles, whereas acros has the funky noise algorithm too.

Either way, it looks awesome. That pump face shot look gorgeous!
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Thanks, there are of course a multitude of Acros settings Acros, Acros+Red, Acros+Green and Acros+Yellow, and then you can alter highlight, shadow and sharpness. It's going to take some experimentation to work out whats best.
 
mickledore said:
Well Houston, we have a problem.
Just been out on a shoot with @Mr Perceptive.
Two cards in place. #1 set to RAW. #2 set to JPEG.
Previews and reviews of either card showed an image that corresponded to the Film simulation that I had chosen. That was always the case with the X-T1.
Came to download and as above LR 5.7 will not accept the files.
I viewed the files in Fastsone Image viewer and even though I could see the RAWS the JPEG processing was showing. I went from there to CS6 and that would not recognise the files either.
No updates available for CS6 or LR5.7.
Maybe if I upgrade LR to v6 then I could see the files there, but they still cannot be viewed in CS, so initial processing could be done, but more detailed work cannot apparently be done.
Looks like it's either subscribe to CC or nothing.

And another thing.....be vary careful of the little plastic screw cover on the front of the body. Both @Mr Perceptive and I have lost ours within minutes of starting to use the cameras. Letters are going off to Fuji - the cover on my X-T1 has never even looked like coming loose.
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As per my previous post, you don't need cc, you can upgrade to lr6 for £60 which is good value imo. The new camera was never going to work with unsupported versions of Adobe products I'm afraid, this has been the case for all manufacturers for about a year now :(

If you want to save some dosh, and don't want to download the free Adobe cc trial, then I'd recommend purchasing MetaRAW which allows you to open raw files from unsupported cameras in older versions of Photoshop. It basically converts your file to dng on the fly and allows you to edit as normal. Again, you can run this as a trial :)
 
Adamsk1 said:

I enjoyed this. Those colours! That detail at higher ISO
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That is indeed impressive. I really wanted to feel "Meh" about the x-t2. Looking at the numbers, I thought i'd be able to resist easily. But seeing acros in action and that extra resolution, it really is quite special. I couldnt believe some of the crops in that video!
That said, I "grew up" on a 12mp sensor, then another, until just this year I picked up the x-t10. That jump to 16mp made much more of a difference than I thought, which makes me think the 24mp must be heavenly, but i'm still in the honeymoon stage with my 16mp x-t10. :)

Edit: also, that video opened my eyes as to just how much you can push the processing! So quick and dirty, but very impressive results. I wish I could smash out my processing that quickly!
 
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jimmyjamjojo said:
That is indeed impressive. I really wanted to feel "Meh" about the x-t2. Looking at the numbers, I thought i'd be able to resist easily. But seeing acros in action and that extra resolution, it really is quite special. I couldnt believe some of the crops in that video!
That said, I "grew up" on a 12mp sensor, then another, until just this year I picked up the x-t10. That jump to 16mp made much more of a difference than I thought, which makes me think the 24mp must be heavenly, but i'm still in the honeymoon stage with my 16mp x-t10. :)

Edit: also, that video opened my eyes as to just how much you can push the processing! So quick and dirty, but very impressive results. I wish I could smash out my processing that quickly!
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well if you want to sell the xt-10 just give me a shout! :P
 
jimmyjamjojo said:
That is indeed impressive. I really wanted to feel "Meh" about the x-t2. Looking at the numbers, I thought i'd be able to resist easily. But seeing acros in action and that extra resolution, it really is quite special. I couldnt believe some of the crops in that video!
That said, I "grew up" on a 12mp sensor, then another, until just this year I picked up the x-t10. That jump to 16mp made much more of a difference than I thought, which makes me think the 24mp must be heavenly, but i'm still in the honeymoon stage with my 16mp x-t10. :)

Edit: also, that video opened my eyes as to just how much you can push the processing! So quick and dirty, but very impressive results. I wish I could smash out my processing that quickly!
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Absolutely. What I love is that the grain that appears in the higher ISO cat photo looks so natural as apposed to lots of nasty artefacts. It's not harsh at all.

I was dead set on going Sony, and I still might, but this camera is VERY impressive. I need to know what the video is like though.
 
Spaghetti Explosion by jimmyjamjoejoe, on Flickr

With fresh eyes, I prefer the slightly tighter crop on this, much more intimate. Amazing the difference a slight crop makes. I notice it with a lot of my photos looking back, I should edit, then leave it a while before posting...

Doesn't help that my phone and ipad have different ratios!
 
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Made the mistake of going shopping with the missus today, came back with an X-T2 so I probably ought to sell one of the X-Pro2's now...

I guess I should be grateful they didn't have an XF100-400 as I have been keeping an eye out for one of those but have so far managed to keep the credit card safe by not playing with one yet.
 
Barrysprout said:

Apparently you lot have been beating the swear filter!
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LMAO brilliant. So Fuji says he's roite ! He might be roite but he's still an assh@le. Right I'm off to do some waxing :eek:
 
I see he quoted my post. I hope you all watched karate kid last night so you learned how to wax on, wax off. :D
 
ricky1981 said:
Made the mistake of going shopping with the missus today, came back with an X-T2 so I probably ought to sell one of the X-Pro2's now...

I guess I should be grateful they didn't have an XF100-400 as I have been keeping an eye out for one of those but have so far managed to keep the credit card safe by not playing with one yet.
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Where did you get yours from please?
 
OK folks. Progress is being made.
Thanks to @G.K.Jnr. The DNG convertor he pointed to works. As I normally convert to DNG files anyway this adds just one extra step, but I've set up my workflow so that it takes virtually no extra time. The new RAW files are read and converted and able to be used in both LR5.7 and CS6. No need for upgrades or CC subscription. Thanks to @Alan Clogwyn for highlighting this.
There is also the added benefit that you can view the DNG thumbnails in Windows but you never could view RAF files in there.

Next I think I've sorted out shoting to two cards. You need to set the menu I.Q.>Image Quality to shoot Normal & RAW. Then in the Spanner section choose Save Data Set up>Card Slot Setting>RAW/JPEG. This saves the RAW to card 1 and the JPEG to card 2. The previews/reviews you see are JPEG files and will be goverened by the JPEG setting you have chosen. So if you have chosen Acros then you will only ever see a mono image, even if reviewing the shots on card 1 - the RAW files. You only see the RAW files when you get to the DNG editing process.
If the camera cannot save a RAW file - panoramas or @Greggster exposure bracketing - you will only get JPEG files saved.

Does all that make sense?
Here's a quick snapshot I took of @Mr Perceptive when he realised that he would finally have to settle his debt and buy me a pint....

FUJI0017 by mickledore on Talk Photography

...processed from the original RAW file.

Looks like I'm up and running.
 
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