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

Another one from the same Austria set. Pulled back on the highlights a little and increased overall contrast (plus a wee bit of sharpening).


DSCF0860-dt by Robenroute, on Flickr
 
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Gary_Macleod said:
superb images from everyone

took x10 to work with me today and here's one of my buddies

added a bit of Vignette

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Love'in this Gary :D

Rob - feeling the last shot - like the water movement.

Andy - thanks mate :) Nothing travel related - work in the city - just save the money and travel as often as possible. Next trip iceland!
 
souldeep said:
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Love'in this Gary :D

Rob - feeling the last shot - like the water movement.

Andy - thanks mate :) Nothing travel related - work in the city - just save the money and travel as often as possible. Next trip iceland!
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Cheers, mate. Water is magical stuff, and always good as a subject...
 
robenroute said:
I'd start with a few spare batteries; generic ones work fine and are loads cheaper (I've got two from "The South American River" shop). If you're out & about, I'd also get a case/cover/bag with some kind of rain/weather cover. As I don't like carrying the lens cap with me, I've got a filter adapter + decent UV filter permanently screwed on to the front.

That's basically my kit for the X10. Depending on your habits, you may be interested in a thumb grip, soft release button, flashlight, etc.

Have fun with the camera! For me, it's brought back the joy of taking photographs. Wouldn't want to miss it any more...
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Thanks for that - I think protecting the lens is a good plan. And spare batteries too - The dealer offered a case but the price was rather shocking!
THanks
 
Too many good pictures recently to comment on any of them.

Typical when I'm in one of my hating the X10 periods! A while since I used it to be honest, but thought I'd try some panoramas this afternoon - except the light failed on me when I got where I planned on doing them..




 
Ed Sutton said:
Too many good pictures recently to comment on any of them.

Typical when I'm in one of my hating the X10 periods! A while since I used it to be honest, but thought I'd try some panoramas this afternoon - except the light failed on me when I got where I planned on doing them..

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Knickers and twists, Ed/Dave? What gripes are you having with the X10?

Anyway, the sky pano invoked a little chuckle: it looks like two trees playing a game of throwing swirly fluffs at each other :lol:
 
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This thread is a monster of shots and advice.

A few from today as I went scouting with the X10 and D300. I used the EXR mode as it was location more than end results for now that were important.


Winter by foggy4ever, on Flickr



The Boat Inn by foggy4ever, on Flickr
 
wow, lively thread at the moment with more great images, here's one of mine from London yesterday. I was up there for work but the X10 came with me in my bag, the SLR has always been too bulky to lug around when I'm in work mode. I usually shoot RAW in aperture priority but this was shot in auto EXR as my head was in work mode and it left me free to think a bit about composition.


window cleaner by petercastleton, on Flickr
 
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I can't keep up with this thread :) Anyway, here are some of the images I got from Warwick at the weekend. They were all taken with AWB but it seems to have done a good job this time.

I had intended to take most of them in RAW to try out the processing but I must have not selected the option correctly cause they were all JPG's.


Warwick Castle 4 by Bushtography, on Flickr


Warwick Castle 2 by Bushtography, on Flickr



Warwick Castle 3 by Bushtography, on Flickr

This one was take to try out the pro low light function after seeing results on here.

Finally, a couple of pano's.


Warwick Castle 5 by Bushtography, on Flickr


Warwick Castle 1 by Bushtography, on Flickr
 
AlfyB said:
I can't keep up with this thread :)
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Nor can I :gag:
I'm not sure what's happened to kick it off recently. Maybe it's because the X10 is no longer new and trendy. We can feel proud to shout that we own one without looking pretentious.
As an early adopter, I'm not sure what that makes me :D:D:D

petercastleton said:
wow, lively thread at the moment with more great images, here's one of mine from London yesterday. I was up there for work but the X10 came with me in my bag, the SLR has always been too bulky to lug around when I'm in work mode. I usually shoot RAW in aperture priority but this was shot in auto EXR as my head was in work mode and it left me free to think a bit about composition.


window cleaner by petercastleton, on Flickr
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Wow - cracking image! :clap:
 
Wow I second others comments on this page - and so many great shots I want to combine responses in one post so we don't got to the next page too quickly!

Lindsay D said:
Funnily enough I was just about to ask that. And to offer myself as an assistant. :cool:

Souldeep - great images but those panos are sensational!
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Thanks Lindsay - always honoured to get a thumbs up from you! To be honest I tend to only take pano's when I see an interesting curve in the landscape - seems to be the best way to work with pano's. It's why I threw out the gauntlet to Asa (Samuel) to grab a shot from Logan's rock before I get there this summer hehe. Duncan - of course - goes and proves the opposite with the best straight pano I've ever seen from the X10!

In regards to a second - would be a pleasure (although it would be me seconding you with your eye and skills). I am already fully booked up for Iceland but in the process of planning Nepal/Bhutan trip in a few months and was planning to go by myself as it will be backpack and a few dodgy border crossings - you really game?

Ed - I second Rob's thumbs up. Fun picture and well spotted!

Colt - I love that first B&W. Delicate and peaceful.

Ian - you've made great use of the pano's function! You have the eye for sure. The first shot stands out as a great composition - the wall leads the eye to the main subject and it makes for a very interesting picture :thumbs:

Now where's DayDreamer!? I must be seriously slacking for John to be so quiet!
 
petercastleton said:
Thanks for the feedback chaps, my real point is that I wouldn't have captured this image at all previously. Quite impressed with EXR in this application.
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I find EXR a bit of a hit and miss, personally. Strangely though, the EXR shots I see here seem to work rather well (your shot seems to prove that point particularly well, Peter). I can't possibly know what the ratio of hit vs. miss is with others, but my EXR hits seem to lose more than half the time against the misses; most of my EXR shots seem to be over exposed. I'm still inclined to believe it's the photographer, though, not the camera (algorithm) :dummy:
 
souldeep said:
Andy - thanks mate :) Nothing travel related - work in the city - just save the money and travel as often as possible. Next trip iceland!
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ahhhhh a man after my own heart, i really need to do some travelling whilst i'm still young and foolish. I wish i had the discipline to save money but there always seems to be something to pay for instead though! :'(
 
robenroute said:
Knickers and twists, Ed/Dave? What gripes are you having with the X10?

Anyway, the sky pano invoked a little chuckle: it looks like two trees playing a game of throwing swirly fluffs at each other :lol:
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Funny how people see different things. I liked the way the clouds made a subtle bridge-like arch. Which is a different interpretation of the same thing!

Niggles? Same as always - slow focus (frame, focus, subject moves - if it's animate ;)), viewfinder not accurate and the screen will not hide all the info (even when turned off it appears when you half press the release), the (sometimes useful) 4:3 aspect ratio which you are stuck with in RAW, files slow to load in Lightroom, prefer the SOOC colours from my Nikons.

On the positive side I do like the aspect ratio for portrait orientation shots, I really like the pano function and how it performs well for low level, wide angle close-ups, I like it's size, the manual zoom and the controls, I like the what you can pull out of the files.

It has its strengths and weaknesses. I've got some great pictures with it, but I know I've missed a lot of shots too. It doesn't suit my impatient, slap dash way of taking photos too well!

I'll not get rid of the X10 just yet, purely for the panos and close ups, but I am eyeing up a XEX6.
 
DuncanDisorderly said:
Nor can I :gag:
I'm not sure what's happened to kick it off recently. Maybe it's because the X10 is no longer new and trendy. We can feel proud to shout that we own one without looking pretentious.
As an early adopter, I'm not sure what that makes me :D:D:
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Makes me wonder how different the X20 is going to be and is it going to lose the magic that the X10 has.
Once in a while, a camera comes along that is just so good at everything that it retains its credibility long after it should have been put to rest.
I think the X10 is going to be one of those cameras.
Allan
 
petercastleton said:
Thanks for the feedback chaps, my real point is that I wouldn't have captured this image at all previously. Quite impressed with EXR in this application.
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Just to be clear (because the X10 is VERY confusing)...
Pro Low Light mode is not EXR, it is an Advanced function !
It's not the same as the EXR S/N mode which sounds like it ought to reach a similar goal.

EXR modes take advantage of the oddball EXR sensor, and Advanced uses pixies living in the camera to merge multiple images.
 
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allanm said:
Makes me wonder how different the X20 is going to be and is it going to lose the magic that the X10 has.
Once in a while, a camera comes along that is just so good at everything that it retains its credibility long after it should have been put to rest.
I think the X10 is going to be one of those cameras.
Allan
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Hi Allan, the X20 feels every bit as good in the hand as the X10 but your comment about losing some magic is an interesting one and I think potentially quite relevant. For me, the bespoke sensor of the X10 makes it pretty special and no other camera I've used (including other X cameras) behaves in the same way in terms of colour and tonality. The autofocus on the X20 has been improved but I was always impressed by the focus speed on the X10, it is by far the fastest of all my X cameras. The deal breaker for me on the X20 is, as you have probably already noticed, the X Trans sensor, however for purely recreational photography it may not be a big issue for most unless you wish to produce more serious work or prints. We all know that the original X10 produces JPEGs which are so exceptional that there simply was no need to worry about RAW processing and the auto white balance on the X 10 is phenomenal. X Trans does not behave in the same way, the JPEGs are very good but they do not have the look or pop of the X10 images, and of course thus far we do not have good quality RAW support as yet for X Trans.

In terms of software support, I can confirm that during my talks with heads at Fuji I was told "Adobe have assured us that we will see improvements over the coming months". You can make of that what you will. I also asked if there is anything that the photographic community can do to encourage Adobe along this path and I was met with a blank stare and "No".
 
souldeep said:
In regards to a second - would be a pleasure (although it would be me seconding you with your eye and skills). I am already fully booked up for Iceland but in the process of planning Nepal/Bhutan trip in a few months and was planning to go by myself as it will be backpack and a few dodgy border crossings - you really game?
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Unfortunately I will have to confine my activities much closer to home, the most time off I've ever had in one go amounts to a few hours :'(

Now that the festive season is thankfully behind us we really must get together for an outing somewhere.
 
andy1868 said:
ahhhhh a man after my own heart, i really need to do some travelling whilst i'm still young and foolish. I wish i had the discipline to save money but there always seems to be something to pay for instead though! :'(
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Yes traveling whilst young affords you a certain freedom that life’s later responsibilities make considerably harder to accommodate. Believe it or not my early years only saw me travel abroad once, and that was because we were gifted a holiday by friends of the family. My wanderlust started in my mid-teens when I was very lucky to get the opportunity to work in Brazil for a year sandwiched between school and college. It was a life changing experience and I never looked back. Since then travel has been an integral part of my life. We all make priorities in life, some maybe new cars, others latest equipment etc – I focus on travel. I figure we’ve only got one shot at this thing, and in my subjective opinion amassing money or materials gives me no comfort when thinking about my life flashing before me on my death bed, however to be able to reminisce in the knowledge that I’ve tried to learn and experience as much as I could about the planet and cultures gives me some sort of satisfaction. Whatever lays beyond one thing is certain, we won’t be able to take the physical accumulations with us – but just maybe - we will be able to take the memories.

I hear you - there is always something that requires an unexpected payment or fee. Without you are an extremely disciplined budgeter money just seems to seep through the fingers. If you’ve got it, you spend it right. Well I have got an answer for it. I use 1 year fixed regular savers for that sort of thing. You can’t touch it for a year however much you want that new X20! I recommend First Direct that currently offers £125 to join the bank and an 8% regular saver account. Set it up this month, and put in the max of £300 if you can (think it can be as little as £25 per month), and next Jan you’ll have £3725.17 plus the £125 to spend on holidays that year. That will buy you quite a few trips away and leave you money left over. The time will pass quicker than you expect and before you know it you’re in control of the holiday budgets ;-)
 
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Lindsay D said:
Now that the festive season is thankfully behind us we really must get together for an outing somewhere.
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I actually had you on my mind this morning - frost abound in my back garden and I thought what a great time to have of met up at the Guilford spot. Let’s keep one eye on the forecast for the weekends and PM each other, time allowing, when the frost opportunity materialises.
 
souldeep said:
I actually had you on my mind this morning - frost abound in my back garden and I thought what a great time to have of met up at the Guilford spot. Let’s keep one eye on the forecast for the weekends and PM each other, time allowing, when the frost opportunity materialises.
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Guildford sounds good. The usual female requirements prevail though - loos close by and a warm cafe/tea room!
 
allanm said:
Makes me wonder how different the X20 is going to be and is it going to lose the magic that the X10 has.
Once in a while, a camera comes along that is just so good at everything that it retains its credibility long after it should have been put to rest.
I think the X10 is going to be one of those cameras.
Allan
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Allan - I agree with you. I had the Fuji F30 before the X10. It certainly moved into that cult status – unique pictures. I seem to be drawn, unwittingly, to these type of cameras.
 
Lindsay D said:
Guildford sounds good. The usual female requirements prevail though - loos close by and a warm cafe/tea room!
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Not actually sure Lindsay - I believe you mentioned you've visited the lake before so reckon you're much better placed to know if the onsite facilities adequately satisfy your feminine requirements ;)
 
souldeep said:
Not actually sure Lindsay - I believe you mentioned you've visited the lake before so reckon you're much better placed to know if the onsite facilities adequately satisfy your feminine requirements ;)
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No, that will have been somebody else, I've only ever been to the shops in Guildford. You might be thinking of the lake at Petworth, where I go from time to time.

National Trust places can be good, the facilities (bar the main houses) are normally open all year. I'll have a think.
 
Lindsay D said:
No, that will have been somebody else, I've only ever been to the shops in Guildford. You might be thinking of the lake at Petworth, where I go from time to time.

National Trust places can be good, the facilities (bar the main houses) are normally open all year. I'll have a think.
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Sorry - Yes thats the place. Thought it was in Guildford area. We saw some photos of the lake back last year and you had asked how the chap had got in so early and he explained about a side gate that is open.
 
Ah - that's right, I remember asking him about a different way in to Petworth Park (which I never got around to investigating) and I've continued to enter via the official entrance. I'm not sure if using the other gates rules out the tearoom or if you can still access it.
 
Bit of advice from you X10 owners if you don't mind.

I've been looking for a camera for my wife. She likes playing with my DSLRs but finds them a bit big, especially when she's out on her own with the kids. I've been looking at the X10 as it seems to be a 'compact' that I wouldn't mind using (my main cameras are 5DIII and 1D series cameras) when we are both out and about with the kids etc as the results seem very pleasing to the eye. I normally am a RAW shooter, she normally prefers jpg so she doesn't have to process etc. What are the RAWs like?

Do you think that the X10 is suitable?
 
If pocketability/handbag space is an issue, consider the XF-1 too - same guts, different lens. Better looking (and that's an issue for some, even if it isn't for me!) than the X-10 too. Either will do the job and both can save raw files, although it's worth reading the whole thread to see what people think of them!

Do you think that the X10 is suitable?
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In a one word answer, yes!
 
Today I'm liking the X10! :D I suppose the best camera really is the one you have with you.



 
Ed Sutton said:
Today I'm liking the X10! :D I suppose the best camera really is the one you have with you.
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Happy you've talked things out with your X10 :D

Interesting shots, Dave. The first one I like because of its geometrical paterns, and the "off" orange prop.

The second one is interesting to me from a different perspective: the railing rods closest are all a bit jagged. The X10's stitching algorithms can't seem to cope with these well-defined lines. I'm guessing it's because the railing was rather close to the camera, and, hence, straight lines become extremely distorted when sweeping the lens/camera.
 
Andy_S_T said:
Bit of advice from you X10 owners if you don't mind.

I've been looking for a camera for my wife. She likes playing with my DSLRs but finds them a bit big, especially when she's out on her own with the kids. I've been looking at the X10 as it seems to be a 'compact' that I wouldn't mind using (my main cameras are 5DIII and 1D series cameras) when we are both out and about with the kids etc as the results seem very pleasing to the eye. I normally am a RAW shooter, she normally prefers jpg so she doesn't have to process etc. What are the RAWs like?

Do you think that the X10 is suitable?
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Nod said:
If pocketability/handbag space is an issue, consider the XF-1 too - same guts, different lens. Better looking (and that's an issue for some, even if it isn't for me!) than the X-10 too. Either will do the job and both can save raw files, although it's worth reading the whole thread to see what people think of them!



In a one word answer, yes!
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I'm being a bit more cautious here. What do you mean by "likes playing with my DSLRs"? Is she, photographically speaking, technically inclined? If so, the X10 could be a nice "compact" for her. And yes, the JPGs straight out of the camera are absolutely wonderful. If she likes playing because she's rather "impressed" by all technological bits, bobs and knobs (but she relies on the automatic "everything" of the big camera), I'd certainly consider an XF1.

Regarding the RAWs from the Fuji X-series: results and satisfaction vary amongst the many users. SilkyPix is the only RAW-processing software (at this moment) that can properly handle all the delicate details of Fuji RAWs. So, if you're used to different RAW software and have a more or less fixed workflow for your RAWs, Fuji might not be the way to go. But then again, the JPGs can take a beating and are definitely worth showing others (as we do in this thread).
 
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robenroute said:
The second one is interesting to me from a different perspective: the railing rods closest are all a bit jagged. The X10's stitching algorithms can't seem to cope with these well-defined lines. I'm guessing it's because the railing was rather close to the camera, and, hence, straight lines become extremely distorted when sweeping the lens/camera.
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Sometimes straight lines work out okay in panos. I think you are right, that it depends where they are - and possibly how smoothly the sweep was performed.

Fiddling with the file in Lightroom there is also some odd vertical banding in the sky when it was darkened - which has been mentioned earlier in the thread.
 
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