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

Many photographers do a 365 project, this is Dave Crocker doing a 365 painting project called "On the Path" where he is recording 365 images of the South West Coast Path between Mountbatten & Wembury.

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He has already had one exhibition but is due another between the 21st-23rd of August at the RE legacy gallery (35 New St, Barbican, Plymouth) I'll popping along to see the finished painting above and look at the others done so far. Be interesting as this is also an area I cover many times myself and was surprised we hadn't come across each other before!

Paul
 
DuncanDisorderly said:
This is getting ridiculous!
Still no X10...

Even though I rang at 8am yesterday they couldn't deliver same day, so postponed delivery till Friday (today).
Mid morning the website status indicated the parcel was delivered last Monday, so called them again!
They said they would investigate and call back - which they didn't.
Called again mid afternoon to find my parcel status has already been escalated and are investigating. They don't know why it went wrong and can they call me back... :(
This time they did call me back and although they gave no reasons for the problems they offered to attempt delivery tomorrow (Sat) and that I will get a call to confirm the parcel is on its way.
I'm now on my third parcel tracking number! :cuckoo:

It will be a cold day in hell before I ever send anything via City Link :bang:
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Well - I've got to give City Link full marks for creativity!
Their website currently shows my X10 'in the system' being returned to the sender. :bang:
Already had a chat with another of their their customer care representatives who rang around to get more info then called me back promptly (huzzah! That's an improvement); apparently I can ignore what the website is telling me and my X10 will be delivered this PM.
I've heard that one before! In fact that's the third time this delivery!

This is the fourth day I've been trapped in my house waiting for the van.
I'm not putting any money on this delivery happening!
Grumpy of Somerset...
 
some how flicked into multimode.
She became a mashed twin......well ;)

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Sure looks windy in the last two!

Allan
 
allanm said:
Sure looks windy in the last two!

Allan
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Haha, yeah, they're lucky to be standing :-)
 
WW2 Rolls royce Griffon V12 "Spitfire" engine

About to Take off...:)

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Forgot how lovely this camera is for black and white. And how smooth and satisfying it is to edit with Nik silver efex.

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Wow - what a diverse page of shots!!! To add to this here are some from Cornwall

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Lovely pictures souldeep, I really love the 5th one in your first post, it just looks so clean and the colours are lovely.

I recognised the restaurant up at Carn Brea, and the last one looks like St Ives, am I right?
 
Wow Souldeep looking at your pics has really made my day they are superb :thumbs:
 
AESamuel said:
Forgot how lovely this camera is for black and white. And how smooth and satisfying it is to edit with Nik silver efex.
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Lovel set, Asa (as is Souldeep's; must be something in the air down there...). I'm assuming from your reference to Nik silver efex that you took these in colour and converted them, rather than using one of the black and white settings, is that right? Or were you tweaking the BW files?

I've found it interesting to walk around with my X10 set to BW. When I started photography (many decades ago!), it was all black and white. I remember a year or so after I got my second camera and started shooting in colour, that I was having difficulty "seeing" in black and white; my eye was looking for the colours rather than the tones. I think being able to see a BW image on the back of my X10 is helping me get my BW eye back again (that, and taking some rolls of black and white film, of course).
 
ChrisR said:
Lovel set, Asa (as is Souldeep's; must be something in the air down there...). I'm assuming from your reference to Nik silver efex that you took these in colour and converted them, rather than using one of the black and white settings, is that right? Or were you tweaking the BW files?
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Yep, took the RAW files and put them through photoshop to silver efex 2. I find I get better results from a raw file than JPEG when converting to black and white. If you know you are shooting to take a black and white shot sometimes it can be handy to have the camera set for black and white but shoot RAW. That means you get a preview of what it might look like while you take the shot, but still have the full colour RAW file to convert later.

The only downside to silver efex is when you use the structure slider in a picture that has blown highlights you get a very odd texture appearing. (more on that here: http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=401977). It normally only happens with JPEG but the leaves photograph I took was the first where it happened with RAW. I normally have to clone out the texture.
 
Huzzah!
I've finally got my X10 back from sensor replacement.
Repair note says the sensor was changed, no mention of software upgrade but everything needed setting up from scratch.
It's got my serial number and the lens is dust free (it already was).
The body was cleaned and looks mint other than the paint worn off the dimples on the bottom (that was me!).

Image quality appears unchanged - phew!
A quick test in RAW at ISO 100 shows excellent fine detail, ISO 800 looks great, and pixel peeping at ISO 3200 look noisy but comparing with some of my old images it looks identical.
Had a quick look for orbs shooting unshielded bulbs and not a sign of them!

In summary - an excellent job by Fuji.
Would have been perfect if they had used any other carrier than City Link!
 
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Great news. I would say the software was adjusted if your images are noise free, I was seeing noise at low iso settings before the software fix, now its lovely and clean.
Still waiting for mine to come back after the electronic level fix.
Allan
 
allanm said:
Great news. I would say the software was adjusted if your images are noise free, I was seeing noise at low iso settings before the software fix, now its lovely and clean.
Still waiting for mine to come back after the electronic level fix.
Allan
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Allan, I'm suddenly wondering if the horrible noise in my most recent attempt with Raw was related to the X10 being post-new-sensor but pre-software-upgrade! My difficulty is I'm using Aperture 3 and Apple has not yet released a X10 raw capability, so I'm having to use the Raw-> DNG Converter-> DNG-> Aperture route, which is clearly not optimised. I shot some Raw+JPEG at the local Camerabuddies sunset shoot the other week, and was horrified at the result.

Worth trying again, d'you think? Or is that workflow so crippled as to be unlikely to work?
 
Got my x10 back from fuji about a month ago and I'm noticing that my images don't seem straight.

I've taken a photo of a spirit level and it does seem that the camera is off a bit and images that should be straight are not

Anyone else experience this?
 
A little story for your amusement.

I had a worry on Saturday when taking my X10 to Blackpool.

I was lining up a shot and couldn't decide whether to shoot landscape or portrait. I turned the camera to the portrait view from landscape and to my horror the screen turned itself off!!! I've only had the camera a week so I thought this must be a faulty example. I turned it back to landscape and it came back on. Everytime I turned the camera to portrait it went off again.

At first I thought it must be something to do with the electronic level type thing but it turns out it wasn't.

In fact before I tell you what the 'problem' was, I'll let you have a guess.....?
 
DuncanDisorderly said:
Holding the zoom ring while turning the camera?
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Nope. I'll give you a clue. It was a sunny day.
 
jamin100 said:
Exposure comp too set all the way up?
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Nope. I won't drag it out too long so last clue before I tell you. I had my sunglasses on at the time.
 
If your sunglasses are polarized you'll get a black screen... happened to me quite a few times
 
marcQc said:
If your sunglasses are polarized you'll get a black screen... happened to me quite a few times
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Bingo! It's so weird, but also makes sense when you realise what it is. I thought my camera was knackered but it was just my polarised sunglasses. :-D
 
paul williams said:
Many photographers do a 365 project, this is Dave Crocker doing a 365 painting project called "On the Path" where he is recording 365 images of the South West Coast Path between Mountbatten & Wembury.l
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Good shot Paul. I love the softness of the image. Guessing it was magic hour sunlight.
 
AESamuel said:
Lovely pictures souldeep, I really love the 5th one in your first post, it just looks so clean and the colours are lovely.

I recognised the restaurant up at Carn Brea, and the last one looks like St Ives, am I right?
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You are right. And thank you :)
 
Eightball said:
souldeep - great pics! so vivid - what are you doing?!!
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Thanks Jason. Using the clean cornish air and quite a few of the shots use the Velvia film simulation. I do find I'm using Raw more often now but they sure do require some disk space.

I'm going to get myself a NAS I think. What do the rest of you do for storing your X10 images?
 
I've just bough an X10 refurb, so far I'm very impressed with my (relative) bargain. I bought this to fill the compact void in my life :)
 
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