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A good length for the zoo though!!
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A good length for the zoo though!!
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I have the SMC 50 1.7 Pentax and it's not a bad lens. I also purchased a Kiron 80-200 f4 macro. It's built like a tank and weighs a tonne!!!
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I have that 50mm too (the K version) and I've taken some great stitched pictures with it in the past. I think it's lovely. My current plan is to put it on a Lens Turbo II and use it for street photography at night as a super-fast 35mm equivalent. Cheaper than buying the Fuji version!
Edit: beg pardon, mine is the 1.4. Not quite the same lens. But it'll be even faster!
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I've had a play with the trial of Capture One. It seemed very capable, just a bit overpriced for what I would use for (I just do a basic process in LR, any heavy lifting is done in Photoshop). Worth a look though.
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Very nice Dave........shot with classic chrome ?This picture has shown me how much I have to learn about photography. I mean, intellectually I know that when the sky is cloudy and the light looks bad, it's still worth going out. But nonetheless, on this walk (back on Sunday) I was thinking to myself "Well, I probably didn't get anything worthwhile, but I love Christchurch Meadow and I've still had a really nice walk". I must be bananas. OK, I had to combine exposures a bit (I was already stitching two to get the composition I wanted), but it wasn't that huge a challenge, and it's as nice a picture of this spot as I've ever taken. Moral: your eye sees things one way, the X-Trans sensor another!
Christchurch Meadow in autumn by David Hallett, on Flickr
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Be careful if you buy a lens turbo ii, the first one I had damaged the inside of my camera (only cosmetically but it created a circular mark inside the body). Replacement arrived with a badly scratched rear element. Costing quite a bit to keep sending them back to China
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Easiest thing is just go through all the menus and see what does what, it's what I do for every camera TBH. The X-T1 was pretty easy to get used to TBH, a lot less options than the D750 which I know you've just chopped in for the Fooj. That being said, the X-T2 has a few more AF options and apparently it takes a while to work out what works best. Shouldn't be an issue for you though as I know you're an AF-S only shooter
After that just decide what functions you want in which button. You'll have more choice than me as I've had to assign every 'd-pad' button to direct AF assignment but you have the little bipolar for that
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Thanks! But no, from RAW I always go with either Pro Neg Std or Adobe Std, depending on whether I want more contrast, or need the shadows a bit more open, etc.. Colour stuff after setting the white balance is mostly done with Photoshop, either Colour Efex Pro or occasionally Topaz Adjust (not so much these days, it's a bit unsubtle, but I might get an interesting look and then blend that layer back in).
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Ooh. I hadn't heard that with Fuji, only with the weird Sony mount. Which body were you using it with?Be careful if you buy a lens turbo ii, the first one I had damaged the inside of my camera (only cosmetically but it created a circular mark inside the body). Replacement arrived with a badly scratched rear element. Costing quite a bit to keep sending them back to China
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TBH John I tried a lot of the suggestions, capture one, irident, photo ninja, silkypix but they all felt second rate and clunky compared to LR. TBF Capture one did actually feel like a pretty decent bit of software but I didn't get on with it. Irident felt like going back to 15 year old software. Fortunately I have aperture (which I forgot about until after trialling all those above) and so use that for the files LR doesn't like. Sorry, doesn't help you much but I just don't think there's much to rival LR. Capture one has a free 30 day trial so maybe give that a go.
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X-T1 and X-E2. Scraped both, only realised it was the adapter that caused it when it damaged the X-E2! The second one fits fine but the scratches on the rear show up at apertures smaller than f/5.6. Bit of a faff but the seller has agreed to replace it again (this is the EF mount version from the seller on Amazon).
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Interesting, thanks for the heads up. Clearly quality control is not what it might be, but that's not a huge surprise given how much cheaper it is than the Speedbooster. Makes me think it may be worth buying through Amazon for easier returns.
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Maybe...but it's still a third party seller (they don't sell them directly). It's a risk whoever you buy a product from, if it's not Amazon direct, I guess.
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Damien lovegrove was due to post a video on Fuji love showing his workflow on LR. Anyone seen it yet?
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...and Capture One uninstalled.
I zoomed into an image, looked good, left clicked, it muttered about being unable to make a mask, left an annoying dot on the screen, I pressed delete to remove it and bam, photo deleted, but not to the recycle bin, no, to its "trash", spent more time trying to find where it had binned my picture to than actually using it.
No, thats not intuitive at all and is gone..
One down...
I zoomed into an image, looked good, left clicked, it muttered about being unable to make a mask, left an annoying dot on the screen, I pressed delete to remove it and bam, photo deleted, but not to the recycle bin, no, to its "trash", spent more time trying to find where it had binned my picture to than actually using it.
No, thats not intuitive at all and is gone..
One down...
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Thanks David I do like the merge to HDR function in LR, it gives you the end result in 32bit to play with plus you can also use the film presets on the image. I find it a lot quicker than blending images manually.
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Good question. I'd probably start here, but not sure if that's the right place for 'feedback' or not.
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I've tweeted them before and had a quick response. Not about new functionality though. Fuji seem to listen to the polls on Fuji Rumours as well.
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I would think that as well as direct contact they "listen" to user experiences on forums such as this one.
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Do any of you ex Canon guys have a spare unwanted OCF cable? There's another thread going where the idea of cutting and joining Fuji and Canon cables to create an OCF TTL possibility is being discussed.
The cable will be cut in two so it won't be returned. Anybody got one lying around they want to donate. If you want to do the work I'll let you have my Fuji cable!
The cable will be cut in two so it won't be returned. Anybody got one lying around they want to donate. If you want to do the work I'll let you have my Fuji cable!
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Had a play this morning at product photography with available light and dabbling about, took an age to edit, learning curve stuff.
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What flash are you intending using Frank? Can you give a link to the other thread? I may well have an old (already chopped) cable in a box somewhere.
I'm presuming this is something to do with the new flash protocols because the Canon OC3 cords work for ttl on a nissin I40 on the X-T1 etc.
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Many thanks - I have contacted them via the normal contact page, so now lets see
For interest I wrote the following.
Morning,
I often hear it said that Fuji listen and note too that you have a continuous improvement program.
As an ex-Canon\Nikon user who found their approach to firmware lazy at best it is refreshing to find a company that actually makes their products better through firmware.
I have used an alternative firmware in the past called MagicLantern (http://www.magiclantern.fm/) which is an add on to existing firmware and in my eyes shames Canon when you look at what the bodies can do with the same and in some cases very old hardware.
The feature list is extensive covering every aspect of photography and video that can be imagined, including trap focus, sound and motion triggers, follow focus, rack focus, zebra, custom overlays, HDR video the list just goes on and on - the kicker is that they are doing this with new and old models alike with minimal impact.
The best thing - its open source so there is no reason not to take a look.
I obviously have something of a vested interest in this having recently moved to Fuji, owning now both an XT1 and 2.
To be clear I have no involvement with the project other than as an end user.
Please pass this to the R&D department, as although you are ahead on features relative to either Canon or Nikon you could take in so many of these features that there would be no doubt as to which camera company leads the way and really listen to their customers.
Kindest Regards,
I often hear it said that Fuji listen and note too that you have a continuous improvement program.
As an ex-Canon\Nikon user who found their approach to firmware lazy at best it is refreshing to find a company that actually makes their products better through firmware.
I have used an alternative firmware in the past called MagicLantern (http://www.magiclantern.fm/) which is an add on to existing firmware and in my eyes shames Canon when you look at what the bodies can do with the same and in some cases very old hardware.
The feature list is extensive covering every aspect of photography and video that can be imagined, including trap focus, sound and motion triggers, follow focus, rack focus, zebra, custom overlays, HDR video the list just goes on and on - the kicker is that they are doing this with new and old models alike with minimal impact.
The best thing - its open source so there is no reason not to take a look.
I obviously have something of a vested interest in this having recently moved to Fuji, owning now both an XT1 and 2.
To be clear I have no involvement with the project other than as an end user.
Please pass this to the R&D department, as although you are ahead on features relative to either Canon or Nikon you could take in so many of these features that there would be no doubt as to which camera company leads the way and really listen to their customers.
Kindest Regards,
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Thanks for that. I'm in Pret a Manger at the moment so can't do links.
Nuzik started a thread about flash for X-T2 and it has developed from there.
Just as an experiment I wanted to see if the camera end of a Fuji cable could be married up to the flash end of a Canon cable. I would then use my 580EXIi flash gun to see if it works.
Probably won't work on the T2 because of software changes but should work on T1.
Doesn't have to be Canon could be Nikon but I don't have one of those guns.
Does all that make sense?
Be back home around 3PM if you can't find the thread. Nod was heavily involved, so beware!
Edit...TTL is the aim not just manual operation.
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It's not going to work for TTL. If you are determined to try I'll have a look over the weekend to see if I still have the chopped lead.
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Maybe Frank has special holy water to overcome this?
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My fault! (In part, anyway...) I was thinking out loud and wondering if it was possible to match the pin outputs from the camera to the inputs on the flash so the relevant functions married up as far as pin to pin communication goes.
I'm not a flash user beyond using the built in as a hit of fill in daylight. My only real experience was way back when a flash was a flash and fitted any system using either the PC socket or a simple, dumb hotshoe!
I'm not a flash user beyond using the built in as a hit of fill in daylight. My only real experience was way back when a flash was a flash and fitted any system using either the PC socket or a simple, dumb hotshoe!
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Ffordes are now showing the XT2 & 18-55mm as stock item, all other options a listed as pre - order, as was the XT2 and kit lens when I was considering buying a few weeks ago. Maybe worth a call to check. > http://www.ffordes.com/product/16070709593251
http://www.ffordes.com/category/Dig...Ascending&PageIndex=2&SortExpression=ItemName
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I have no idea. It just followed from what Nod was saying. The thought was to transfer the info from the lens to the gun. But thinking about it the gun won't understand the signals will it?
Think we'll consign that idea to the bin....along with all my others. Thanks anyway. Blame Nod!
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I always blame Nod.
Forgot to put the bins out last night and when Mrs Sprout mentioned it this morning I blamed Nod. She asked me who the **** is this Nod you keep blaming!
When threatened with a picture of him in a mankini she let the subject drop.
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Exeter LCE only had a kit in stock. Wouldn't split it BUT gave me the price difference between kit and body only as a deal. I suppose I could have taken the kit and flogged the lens on at a slight profit but I CBA so took the easy option! Maybe Fuji have a pile of 18-55s they want shot of? TBH, I'm not sure the 18-55 is a good choice as a kit lens for the X-T1 or 2 - the WR 18-135 is a much better partner IMO, even if it is a bit slower.
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It was the other way round for me in Carmarthen Cameras last week, they wanted to take a kit lens out of a XE-2 and sell the XT2 as a kit to me. I thought no, as not official kit and no box for the lens, I'm a little OCD like that. The owner p***ed me off back tracking on prices given to me by the manager. I decided to stay with Nikon as I could still feel the weight with the 100-400mm on my dodgy shoulders. Also, wouldn't take anything off for a display Nikon 70-200mm f4 lens and the rubbers were white and then stated that I would have to pay the same price as Wex when the new lens came in at £1039 although they had it displayed at £989.00. I tried to explain I wasn't buying from Wex but them!
Try to support a localish dealer and they try to take the p***. I went home and bought a Nikon 70-200mm f4 from Amazon and a Tamron 15-30mm f2.8 lens from Uttings, somebody else had nearly 2k of my money when they could have had it.
