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

Thanks for the advice Gary will give that a go, trouble with Norfolk is panoramic s are well.......lacking errrr depth but I will give it a go, must be great to have a small camera in your pocket out there, post some more when you can would love to see one of that poor sheep and you at work up there, would love to get up there very jealous of that scenery. Regards.
 
Those clouds really make the panorama, Gary. I've been really impressed by what the X10 can achieve with this function.


Returning from a late afternoon stroll today, and only a few yards from the cottage, there was a brief commotion in the undergrowth at the side of the road; I caught sight of the rear end of a deer hastily beating a retreat. However, his (or her) chum decided to stay and stare me out - I've never managed to get anything like close enough to photograph these animals before. So easy are they to spot grazing in the fields around here that I was struck by the effectiveness of the colouring (amounting to camouflage) in this setting - the deer's more normal environment:


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I had to use the X10 at max. focal length, and crop vigorously to establish this was a roe-deer still in his velvet. Of course, I inched slowly to the gate to get a closer shot, but our buck wasn't that brazen and departed with the usual haste:


DSCF3772 by wylyeangler, on Flickr

Not brilliant pictures, but I felt lucky to have had the opportunity to record what is always going to be a rare event in the countryside outside deer parks. Of course, the use of really long focus lenses for this sort of thing is another matter.

Pete
 
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I think that's a pretty good job for a X10 user, Gary (much of the year, anyway...).
 
Piscator Pete said:
Those clouds really make the panorama, Gary. I've been really impressed by what the X10 can achieve with this function.


I had to use the X10 at max. focal length, and crop vigorously to establish this was a roe-deer still in his velvet. Of course, I inched slowly to the gate to get a closer shot, but our buck wasn't that brazen and departed with the usual haste:


DSCF3772 by wylyeangler, on Flickr

Not brilliant pictures, but I felt lucky to have had the opportunity to record what is always going to be a rare event in the countryside outside deer parks. Of course, the use of really long focus lenses for this sort of thing is another matter.

Pete
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You did better than me. I've seen deer reasonably close up twice in the past 10 years. On both occasions I only had a 28mm prime attached. Still, at least I had a camera.
 
Great capture Pete!, says a lot about a person who can have a camera handy and whip it out quick enough to react to a situation like this brilliant stuff, isn't this what photography is all about? Just having fun and sharing everyday occurrences? Love it keep em coming, the best thread on this site in my opinion hence I got an X10.
 
hannahntilly said:
You did better than me. I've seen deer reasonably close up twice in the past 10 years. On both occasions I only had a 28mm prime attached. Still, at least I had a camera.
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Exactly Peter! I've amply demonstrated I'm no expert, but to misquote the apocryphal epithet of the famous golfer who was, "the more I carry the X10, the luckier I get!".

simo said:
...isn't this what photography is all about? Just having fun and sharing everyday occurrences? Love it...the best thread on this site in my opinion hence I got an X10.
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Many thanks Simon. I do agree with you about the thread, but miss the 'big guns' some of whom have mysteriously disappeared, and apparently all at the same time.

Pete
 
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Hi Tom love the gorgeous dog image, wonder what Sebbe was thinking about ha, not tried anything macro yet myself but hope to do soon looks interesting, thanks for sharing.
 
The viewfinder in the X10 has finally done my head in. I spent an hour using an old bridge camera last week and found it suited me better despite the clunky controls and small smudgy files!

Today I've been playing with a borrowed Panasonic G2 and the experience was similar. I much prefer using a viewfinder to a rear screen, and I need one that shows me exactly what I'm getting.

If the X10 had a viewfinder like the other X series cameras I'd be a happy, happy bunny, because apart from that it does everything I want in a small camera. I doubt I'll be getting rid of it though. ;)

Here's some flowers for you all. :)

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Lovely flowers, take it they are wild ones Dave? Re viewfinder I agree in some ways, what issues do you have, is the lack of info shown? To be honest I have been glad of just having a viewfinder at all with the bright sunshine which makes screens difficult to see. I rather forgive this camera its shortcomings in this respect.
 
They're not in a garden, but I can't be sure they weren't planted there. They made me feel like spring is finally arriving.

I don't mind there being no info in the viewfinder, a focus point would be nice, but it's a framing issue for me. It's the only thing in photography that I get really worked up about - being able to compose my pictures so they turn out the way I framed them.
 
Yes can see that might be annoying, I just wing it....take a shot alter zoom a tad, check and repeat as required.................crop to what i was hoping for when I get home!
 
Ed Sutton said:
We all have our different ways of operating. :)
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We do Dave, and I would guess much of that depends on the equipment we've been used to over the years. I have never used a single lens reflex, either digital or for film, only having previously owned a 35mm coupled rangefinder job from the fifties. Being used to parallax error and an inaccurate viewfinder, I find the X10 no problem at all - in fact the viewfinder is the main reason I bought it. In addition to finding a screen difficult to use in daylight, I discovered 'panning' with it impossible: one of the first photos I took with the X10 last October (in poor light) is below - a test using the viewfinder to see if there was any improvement on my little Lumix 'point and shoot', which 2 years before, missed me a great shot of an E-type 'losing it' at the Goodwood Revival.


C-type in the lead at Castle Combe by wylyeangler, on Flickr


I love primroses, and there seem to be masses about this year - odd, because those that grow in my lawn have failed to put in an appearance so far!

Pete
 
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I've finally managed to move on my spare 40D body, so I'm on the lookout for an X10. I have to say this thread has rather inspired me to give one a try. :thumbs:

I've almost ground to a halt photography wise, I'm just not taking my DSLR kit out with me when I go anywhere :(

The refurb site looks promising, just keeping my eye on here and elsewhere to see if any pop up over the next days for sale.
 
Piscator Pete said:
We do Dave, and I would guess much of that depends on the equipment we've been used to over the years.
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That is probably it, Pete. Apart from an Instamatic I've always used SLRs or bridge cameras.

I, too, bought the X10 because of the viewfinder, but it's only served to frustrate me to the point of usually using the screen. :(

It doesn't look like you messed up that panning shot! :)
 
Ed Sutton said:
That is probably it, Pete. Apart from an Instamatic I've always used SLRs or bridge cameras.

I, too, bought the X10 because of the viewfinder, but it's only served to frustrate me to the point of usually using the screen. :(

It doesn't look like you messed up that panning shot! :)
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Crikey, I'd forgotten all about the "Instamatic'', Dave!

Although I use the viewfinder almost exclusively for framing, it doesn't mean that it couldn't do with the improvements you imply - simple crosshairs with some sort of parallax indicator would help me too, although I now have learnt where the 'centre' is. One thing that is irksome for me is having to keep checking the screen for shooting data - but I guess there is an answer to that; is it called the X20 or something? My head's well and truly 'in the sand' - the amount of photography I do, and am capable of, can't possibly justify further expense!

Yes, I was pleased with the X10's performance 'at the races' (although, of course, not really the right equipment), but not with its owner! Over a 40 year gap, I'd forgotten at range, a thousandth of a second is too fast for a laterally translating car and doesn't allow the background or wheels to suggest speed. At this point, the C-type is braking for Camp Corner, but is probably still doing about 120 mph. A five-hundredth or more would have been fine, and helped with the severe underexposure. (Mind you, I've always envied those with focal plane shutters that could suggest pace with the elliptical wheels etc., now so beloved of cartoonists!)

Pete
 
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wibbly said:
I've finally managed to move on my spare 40D body, so I'm on the lookout for an X10. I have to say this thread has rather inspired me to give one a try. :thumbs:

I've almost ground to a halt photography wise, I'm just not taking my DSLR kit out with me when I go anywhere :(

The refurb site looks promising, just keeping my eye on here and elsewhere to see if any pop up over the next days for sale.
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Hello "Wibbly" Dave,

We all seem to love the X10 here, but often for different reasons. In my case, the camera ended a photographically barren 40 years in providing much of the 'feel' and portability of my old 1950s' Agfa coupled rangefinder instrument with all the advantages of modern technology.

I hope it can do the same for you, whatever its specific personal appeal.

Pete
 
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Piscator Pete said:
Although I use the viewfinder almost exclusively for framing, it doesn't mean that it couldn't do with the improvements you imply - simple crosshairs with some sort of parallax indicator would help me too...
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That reminded me that I'd lied about only using SLRs. I had an Olympus Mju II compact as my pocket fishing camera for a good few years - that had a fixed 35mm lens and frame lines in the optical viewfinder. No controls other than an ability to disable the flash, but a great little camera.

I guess camera manufacturers launch cameras and then watch the feedback to improve them in the next generation. Most of the time. So the X10 was bound not to be perfect!
 
Ed Sutton said:
That reminded me that I'd lied about only using SLRs. I had an Olympus Mju II compact as my pocket fishing camera for a good few years - that had a fixed 35mm lens and frame lines in the optical viewfinder. No controls other than an ability to disable the flash, but a great little camera...
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Well, I'm blowed - I'd forgotten too! I finished up with a film 'point and shoot' Olympus (below) after my 1950s' coupled rangefinder camera packed up many years ago. Used for the same purpose as yours as well - all my big barbel are on film taken with it. Still working when I abandoned it, but from online searches, your Olympus looks to be a bit more up-market!


DSCF3777 by wylyeangler, on Flickr

I progressed from that to a 'point and shoot' digital Lumix given to me a few years ago. There it is then, 4 cameras in a lifetime, including the X10 - five if I count my first little box camera which used 620 film.

Pete
 
Your Olympus looks more advanced than mine! Somewhere I have a lovely slide of me holding a pike at dawn, taken on the Olympus using the camera's flash and the sky glowing red behind me. All done automatically as that's the only option there was. A great camera for handing to passers by.

I'm have to confess to owning more than four cameras in my lifetime. :lol:
 
wibbly said:
I've finally managed to move on my spare 40D body, so I'm on the lookout for an X10. I have to say this thread has rather inspired me to give one a try. :thumbs:

I've almost ground to a halt photography wise, I'm just not taking my DSLR kit out with me when I go anywhere :(

The refurb site looks promising, just keeping my eye on here and elsewhere to see if any pop up over the next days for sale.
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Go for it! I got a great deal for an X10 at Camera World in London which I went in store and paid cash for £20 more than the refurb price. A great deal I thought!
 
Paul Heyes, that is on the edge of being a gob smacker, a little more forward depth to include the mouth and wow. It’s pretty good all the same. Look into my eyes, :lol: :thumbs:.
Rhodese.
 
Piscator Pete said:
Hello "Wibbly" Dave,

I hope it can do the same for you, whatever its specific personal appeal.
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DaveKing said:
Go for it! I got a great deal for an X10 at Camera World in London which I went in store and paid cash for £20 more than the refurb price. A great deal I thought!
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Thanks guys, I've been looking at the refurb site today... there's still a couple of codes floating around for 10% discount bringing the price down to under £225!

Sounds great value doesn't it... :thumbs:
 
After the eye popper from Paul Heyes, I feel a bit reluctant to show my efforts from today’s debacle into the back garden. Our garden was a bit of a safari for me as I have been as stiff as a board for weeks (lucky you I here some of you say). So with the help of the missus and my upside down monopod with attached mirror acting as a low angle viewfinder, out I went. It was warmer than I expected though quite windy, the daffs and tree branches all on the move. Waiting for a lull in the swaying motion was a bit of a challenge, in the end I finished up having to sit on a chair. After about twenty minutes, my back gave out and that was the end of that. The blossom was taken using the monopod as an extension to hold the camera up into the branches, the camera being upside down in this scenario.
Two from thirty one taken.

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Rhodese.
 
Like both lovely colours in that daffodil, well done getting out and hope your back improves.
 
I echo Simon's comment, Rhodese, and the blossom in the first shot, stands out on my monitor as though it were in 3D!

Pete
 
Thanks for the positive feedback, I took them wide open in aperture mode so maybe the DOF was a little too shallow from only an inch or so away.
Here are a few more that I took lying on my belly trying to creep up on frogs :D





 
Thank you very much :), yes I had a little trouble setting up the account on here in my name (think it had been taken) so ended up using another.
 
Fantastic shots from Paul Heyes/Chris and Rhodese!

Rather than 85% view, I would like my viewfinder to be 110% view (with guide lines), as in a rangefinder. That way you can more easily take account of what's coming into your frame. It would give the X10 (X30?) a real advantage over SLRs which of course can't do that! Oh, and some information, of course...
 
ChrisR said:
Fantastic shots from Paul Heyes/Chris and Rhodese!

Rather than 85% view, I would like my viewfinder to be 110% view (with guide lines), as in a rangefinder. That way you can more easily take account of what's coming into your frame...
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Those frogs and flowers are great. :thumbs:

And that viewfinder might suit me!
 
Good afternoon, thanks for the comments.

Chris/Paul Heyes, I think the first one in the second set is nearer the mark; I like them a lot.:thumbs:

ChrisR, I have been a life long fan of rangefinders, it’s what attracted me to the X10 in the first place.
Your comments on the re-spec of the X10/20 viewfinder are realistic in this day and age. I still use a Yashica Electro 35 (a brilliant camera) and that has all you list plus the viewfinder frame lines are always bright as they are lit from a separate window. It also auto corrects for parallax. If it was done in the sixties, it could be done now.
Rhodese
 
Pushed the button last night on an X10 from the refurb site, looking forward to hopefully getting my hands on it tomorrow... :)

Let's hope we get some good weather, so I can give it a good run out!
 
Really nice Tom, number 1 is a cracker! :thumbs:

You're obviously getting to grips with it well enough... I had one delivered today, initial impressions are it's very nice and very capable - I just need to learn to use it! It seems very different from a Canon DSLR :D
 
You'll get used to it quick enough.. The menu can take a while to get around, but it will soon become second nature!
 
Great stuff Tom, blimey those cars look tiny, not been there, must be very high.
 
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