The Official Fuji X10/X20/X30/XF1/XQ1 Thread

There was a TP meet at the weekend, most of my images were taken with the X10 despite lugging the big kit around all day.
http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=407296

This panorama kinda sums up the day - perfect weather, classic scenery and good company.
Difficult to believe the image covers 180 degrees!
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Lindsay D said:
What a beautiful place Duncan, and great shots as always.
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Many thanks!
The meets are as much social and exploring new areas - so the X10 was in its element.

Your latest Amberley images are very inspiring and one of many superb blog posts; I've subscribed to your RSS feed.
I'm sure you are to blame for any increase in the number of photographers visiting the museum.
 
Thanks Duncan. The museum is great for photographers - friendly and welcoming. Unlike some of the National Trust places I've been to!

I'm inspired by your photographs as well - but I doubt I'd even come close to your stunning landscapes - they are one of the main reasons I started to follow this thread.
 
Bhangra Morris Fusion - what a sight! :nuts:

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Taken a week ago.
I'm chuffed to announce that both were included in a set of ten images accompanying the festival's press release.

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Note that the second shot is straight into the light.
There is no visible flare and the contrast in front of the windows has only been affected a small amount.
Which is WAY better than I would expect from most of my DSLR lenses.
Lack of flare is definitely one of the X10's top 10 features.
 
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Three Cliffs Bay is such a magical place. I have shots taken with a Canon Powershot. But will hold off posting until I can get there with my X10 (which I love). Your images have inspired me to return very soon.
 
TiggyWink said:
Three Cliffs Bay is such a magical place. I have shots taken with a Canon Powershot. But will hold off posting until I can get there with my X10 (which I love). Your images have inspired me to return very soon.
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It was only my second visit; hopefully wont be too long before I get back there again.
The meet piccies thread is still missing images from Ryan and Simon; they are both excellent photographers and I'm looking forward to seeing what they have produced.
 
Lindsay D said:
Wow Jonothan - I love that flower shot, it's really beautiful!
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Thank you for your comment.
 
Just some feedback on the camera after a 7 week trip to NZ. I had the x10 with me all the time and there were many days, when the DSLR just stayed in it's backpack. The x10 worked beautifully - though I sometimes had to change the battery 2 times a day.

My only concern still is the autofocus - it very often needed 2 or 3 attempts to focus properly. Other than that it did a beautiful job especially in light conditions that would have needed a ND grad filter with the 5D.

And it does take a bit of a beating - I dropped it onto the concrete carpark of a campground.:bonk: There are now a few scratches but everything still works fine.

I love that little thing...:love:
 
It's been a while since I've posted any pics. A few pictures from Leeds Castle...

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Souldeep - impressive set :thumbs:
That white peacock - WOW!

Meruby - Here's a few focussing tips I've worked out.
Experiment with the size of the green focussing square; some sizes gave far better results.
If the green square is over a moving subject then it really struggles. Dancing light on water as well as actual moving things. Find something at about the right distance that isn't moving quite as much, focus and recompose.
There's a weird behaviour with the focus beep. Sometimes you get the focus square changing colour to indicate focus, but you don't get a beep. When this happens, you don't have focus! Listen for the beep and retry until you get it. Stealth mode is a challenge, take a few and keep your fingers crossed!
 
Yes, and I've found that sometimes the focus indicator flashes, but focus has definitely been achieved, so I don't know what that's all about. I keep all my beeps turned off.

Eva - the autofocus on my X10 is very reliable. If you had problems it's worth double checking that you haven't accidentally left one of the macro modes set (I've done this before). And remember that most cameras need something contrasty under the focus point before they will lock on.
 
Got the X10 today so just charging the battery up now :)
Had a very quick play and looks like im going to have some reading to do . .
Coming from my D90 I understand ISO, aperture, shutter speed and how one effects the others etc, however Ive never heard of Dynamic Range or EXR so have no idea what these do and what effects they will have on my images!
 
Congrats on the camera Ben!

To begin, it might be easiest to just shoot as you normally would on an SLR. The differences you'll see are more DOF on the X10 due to the smaller sensor (this can be an advantage at times) and I tend to set DR to Auto, where I think it does a good job. From there, it's a question of refining how you shoot to suit your tastes - some users swear by using EXR mode, but personally I never touch it and I prefer to control everything myself in either Av, Tv or M mode. Give it all a try over the coming weeks and you'll soon find what suits you. In my experience it can over expose a little in Av mode so I tend to set -1/3 Ev or sometimes -2/3 Ev. The JPEGs are so good you may not use RAW much at all. I keep mine set to large fine JPEG and occasionally I press the RAW button on the back of the camera if I suddenly need a RAW copy (say, in difficult lighting). Have fun!
 
Thanks Lindsay,
I'll definatly give what you've suggested a try. I usually shoot RAW but it will be nice to have slightly smaller file sizes lol.
Will probably use Av the most as thats what i used on the D90. Went through a stage of doing everything in M but foun that i got just as good results in A anyway...
 
Hi jamin100,

In summary;

EXR is a software mode provided by Fuji for in camera JPG processing.

A simple way to think of dynamic range is to picture a tree casting shade framed by a bright sunny sky. In the shade is a pot - you want to capture the pot in the image as well. Low dynamic range won't be able to capture all the bright information plus the dark information with high detail (contrasted scenes). By raising the dynamic range (when camera allows) you will notice that the amount of detail captured in the darker part of your image is much more detailed whilst no loss on the lighter areas of the image. - it basically balances out the contrasts.

I'm sure someone will come along and give you a more technical explanation but I hope that explains it at a higher level.
 
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I also like using A mode. I only ever use S when shooting from the car where I use fast shutter speeds or when I'm taking long exposures. That said, I've been leaving the camera in P mode more and more because it is really useful just for quickly getting a shot - plus if I do need a bit of extra control it is there.

I agree that the JPEGs are very good from the camera, but wanting to branch out into RAW I've been using that a lot more. I still shoot in RAW+JPEG because sometimes - due to my own lack of skill/experience of editing - I can't get the RAW's to look as good as the JPEG. However, I really like the flexibility in exposure that RAW gives me and I also convert to black and white often and RAW always gives a better result when doing so.
 
A mode has it's place but with a small sensor the DoF is always pretty large unless partciularly close to an object so I also just use P (mainly due to less chance of user error as using A I sometimes left it on F2.0 and the shutter would max out! - I take a lot of shots solely through viewfinder and usually have screen turned off all together so not as easy to spot the mistake.)
P mode tends to err on side of widish aperture and fast shutter, again because it can get away with it without risking too low a DoF. In fact it seems to use F4 wherever it can.
 
chrism_scotland said:
Quite tempted to pickup an X10 to accompany my X100.....
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Sounds like a good combination to me! They compliment each other well which is great and as a bonus, its easy to find your way round the menus because they are have the same look and layout. You can change the background colours to match too.

Allan
 
As I said earlier I am shooting RAW+JPEG at the moment but have some across something really weird. If I go between the RAW and the JPEG of a few different images the JPEG has a wider angle (left to right, but not up and down) than the RAW. This makes no sense whatsoever. I could understand if the JPEG had been cropped but there is more there than in the RAW!

Here is a comparison. This is the cropped left hand side of an image taken using RAW+JPEG settings, other than the crop they are straight out of the camera.

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You can clearly see that the JPEG has more in the shot than the RAW.

Anyone know what's going on? Lightroom says that they were both the same focal length and are both 4000x3000
 
AESamuel said:
As I said earlier I am shooting RAW+JPEG at the moment but have some across something really weird. If I go between the RAW and the JPEG of a few different images the JPEG has a wider angle (left to right, but not up and down) than the RAW. This makes no sense whatsoever. I could understand if the JPEG had been cropped but there is more there than in the RAW!

Anyone know what's going on? Lightroom says that they were both the same focal length and are both 4000x3000
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See post #1 :D
Please Note: White Blob Syndrome and Adobe Camera RAW issues:
Yup - we acknowledge these problems exist.


Been there since first Adobe beta which supported the X10, but people seem to have stopped talking about it.
Besides - only possible to notice when taking both RAW + JPEG; take one or the other and looks fine as nothing to compare. :)
 
Samuel - cropping issues aside the RAW actually looks like the better image! Did you PP the RAW or is it SOTC?
 
Ahh, I didn't realise it was a known issue. I've not found it a problem but are there any other issues? Is it "safe" for me to keep using ACR?

I haven't done any PP on the RAW yet.
 
AESamuel said:
Ahh, I didn't realise it was a known issue. I've not found it a problem but are there any other issues? Is it "safe" for me to keep using ACR?

I haven't done any PP on the RAW yet.
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As far as I know, that's the only issue with RAW.
RAW is excellent and well worth getting to grips with!

My rule of thumb for RAW is to expose for the highlights and let the shadows take care of themselves.
Although my testing has indicated there is a fair bit of highlight detail that can be recovered, it just somehow isn't quite natural enough - not sure what I mean, but highlight recovery give better results on the 5DII. Not that this represents a problem as the 5DII highlight recovery is still class leading (including that new Nikon).
On the other hand X10 shadow detail recovery from RAW is amazing and compares favourably with both of my DSLRs! Check out the gate and tree shot I posted a while ago where the foreground was black until I lifted the shadows.
 
DuncanDisorderly said:
Experiment with the size of the green focussing square; some sizes gave far better results.
If the green square is over a moving subject then it really struggles. Dancing light on water as well as actual moving things. Find something at about the right distance that isn't moving quite as much, focus and recompose.
There's a weird behaviour with the focus beep. Sometimes you get the focus square changing colour to indicate focus, but you don't get a beep. When this happens, you don't have focus! Listen for the beep and retry until you get it. Stealth mode is a challenge, take a few and keep your fingers crossed!
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thx duncan - I didn't know about the size of the green square yet. And I usually tried to find an alternative focus point as you suggested and recomposed the shot. As I shoot nearly all the time in stealth mode I am having a hard time with the focus sound :bonk:

@Lindsay D: thanks for the advice with the macro modes - that might be one of the problems as I didn't pay much attention to them yet if they are deactivated or not. :thumbs:
 
Camera came yesterday and on the first charge I got a few images that the D90 just wouldn't have. This one in particular.
Not technically the best image in the world but a nice memory


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Just messing around camera at arms length but i think even with the D90 and the 50mm I just wouldnt have got this image due to the weight of the D90.

However, I had the camera set at Auto1600 ISO and it decided on ISO800 with a shutter speed of 1/640. Surely it could of come down to around ISO400 and 1/320s?
 
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I'd like to share a little bit of good news I got last night.
I'm our Camera Club's Phototographer Of The Year :D
Nice big trophy, etc.
Bit of luck though as hotly contested between three of us and with a score of nearly 300 I only won by one point!
Putting it mildly, the standard was excellent and it really could have gone to any one of the three of us.

Anyway - two of my images were also short listed for Picture Of The Year.
The winner deserved to win, so no complaints from me.

One of the short listed piccies was taken with the X10.
The A3+ print looks flawless and really couldn't have been bettered if it had been taken on the 5DII.
It's also one of the very first images I took on the X10, I was only using JPEG with auto everything.
"Solitude"
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This was taken on the 5DII with a 24mm TSE II.
I've kinda gone off this image now as I feel I have stronger compositions from the same set. The blank bit in the middle annoys me.
But it's what I submitted and I now have to live with that decision :)
"Sunset over the Isle of Rhum"
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jamin100 said:
Just messing around camera at arms length but i think even with the D90 and the 50mm I just wouldnt have got this image due to the weight of the D90.

However, I had the camera set at Auto1600 ISO and it decided on ISO800 with a shutter speed of 1/640. Surely it could of come down to around ISO400 and 1/320s?
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It could even have gone down to ISO 100 and 1/80th but if it detected movement in the scene (which is probable in your case) then it will have upped the shutter speed, and you did give it the option to after all.

DuncanDisorderly said:
I'd like to share a little bit of good news I got last night.
I'm our Camera Club's Phototographer Of The Year :D
Nice big trophy, etc.
Bit of luck though as hotly contested between three of us and with a score of nearly 300 I only won by one point!
Putting it mildly, the standard was excellent and it really could have gone to any one of the three of us.

Anyway - two of my images were also short listed for Picture Of The Year.
The winner deserved to win, so no complaints from me.
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Congratulations Duncan! Its also nice to see images of the X10 in the running along side DSLR pictures.

So, just how big was the trophy then? :thumbs:
 
That's excellent news Duncan! :)

Out of interest, because I'm not particularly smart, was the A3 reprint from a RAW file or from the JPG?

I love this thread and the kindness of it's members who so freely contribute so richly :) It's because of you that I got my X10 and I love it!


Will post a few as soon as I can, but posting from my iPad makes posting images a little tricky at the moment.

Andrew
 
DuncanDisorderly said:
I'm our Camera Club's Phototographer Of The Year :D
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Congratulations Duncan..........well deserved. Your shots on this thread have been an inspiration - as have many others :clap::clap:

I'm still finding using this little camera a steep learning curve.....but I'm getting there (I think).

Here are two I took yesterday:

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A Fuji view of St Hubert's, Idsworth by Keith Burton, on Flickr

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A Fuji view of St Hubert's, Idsworth by Keith Burton, on Flickr

Taken on full Auto EXR mode.
 
Everybody - Thanks for the kind comments :thumbs:

Firebaby said:
Out of interest, because I'm not particularly smart, was the A3 reprint from a RAW file or from the JPG?
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I wasn't taking RAWs back in those early days :)
The Adobe RAW converter hadn't been released and the JPEG quality was so good that I was bothering to take RAW + JPEG so I could go back and re-process it later.
The JPEGs are plenty good enough for exhibition quality A3+.
 
DuncanDisorderly said:
I'd like to share a little bit of good news I got last night.
I'm our Camera Club's Phototographer Of The Year :D
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Nice one, Duncan. Congratulations. I've got no means to compare, but I'm sure they've picked the deserving winner. I'd just like to say that you've been a driving force behind this thread as well as a true inspiration for some of us (at least for me, that is). Your contributions (photos as well as writing) made me nearly 400 quid poorer, but that's something I ought to thank you for; I've rediscovered the fun and pleasure of taking photographs (something I'd lost long ago). My X10 hardly ever leaves my side.

Thanks again & enjoy your trophy!
 
I too am considerably poorer now thanks to Duncan and Lindsay's excellent posts. :thumbs:

Wouldn't be without my X10 now.

Allan
 
Rob, Allan - thanks :thumbs:

And now for a challenge....
Here's an image I took last weekend.
I like it, but have no idea why. Compositionally, there's nothing obvious making it work.
But it could be that I'm on my own here. Does it do anything for any of you lot? :thinking:
Love to hear your thoughts as it is leaving me rather confused.
Straight out the camera.....
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On the technical front....
The X10 has got the exposure bang on in P mode.
There's just enough shadow and highlight detail retained that I haven't needed to resort to RAW and LR4 to recover the image.
 
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Im actually richer as I sold all my Nikon stuff and brought the X10 to replace it :)
 
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