X-shooter zone: Switch to the X, “Yongnuo triggers for my X-E2” and more
Hi all,
time to dedicate a little space to some FR-readers who patientely waited to be featured in the X-shooter zone. If you wanna skip the waiting list and share your pictures immediatly with other X-shooters out there, feel free to use the FR-facebook wall. The most liked images in the facebook wall will be shared in the next X-shooter zone.
enjoy your Sunday
Patrick
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Karthik Ramani
Hi Patrick
I follow FR regularly and more now that I have made the switch from Canon 5D. I recently took advantage of the $300 price drop on X-E1 (courtesy: FR) :-)
With all the love and attention X-E2 is getting lets not forget the original “sexy 1”. The image sensor is the same. While the improvements X-E2 are welcome adds (Wifi, video and phase detect) I think X-E1 easily matches X-E2 if you know to use them both.
I got the X-E2 first and with the price drop, I sent to a back to B&H and got the X-E1 with kit and the 60 mm XF macro for portraits. What a piece of glass!!!! It’s. So sharp that it can cut your fingers :-)
At the end of the day, you have to “click”. So let all rejoice the wonderful creations in both X-E 1 and 2.
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Baranya Janos
My Name is Baranya Janos and last month i test the new fuji x 23mm f1.4 lens and all is amazing ,best lens what i see in my life .
And i think this lens really good rival to leica and hasselband,all test pic i put in November portfolio i hope you will be love .
Have great day and stay in touch .
best regards Janos
Link :
http://onlymylife.com/?
Baranya Janos
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Tjeerd in ‘t Veen
Hi, love your site!
I have an article that might be interesting, about switching from DSLR to Fuji.
http://tjeerd.me/blog/2013/11/2/traveling-lightweight-to-bali
Pictures are here, all made with the x100 and x-e1 with 35 and 14mm
http://tjeerd.me/travel/bali-2013
Kind regards,
Tjeerd
Tjeerd in ‘t Veen
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Rodger Kingston
Hello Patrick,
I enjoy your blog, and check it out several times a week. I just read your Dec 7 X-shooter zone, and thought you might like to know about a project I’m working on using the Fuji X20, and before that the X10. It’s called “Searching for Edward Hopper” and can be seen at my web site, http://rpkphoto.smugmug.com (images dated 2012 were taken with the X10 and 2013 with the X20). There’s an Introduction that provides a context.
Below are a few teasers (all made with my Fuji cameras). As I wrote in the Introduction to the web gallery, a friend recently said in an email to me, “As for the photographs, they are very beautiful and very much in a spirit of Hopper. Thanks for sending them to me. I can’t stop looking at them.” I hope you can’t stop looking at them either.
Best regards,
Rodger Kingston (Gallery: Hopper Project)
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Antoine
Hi Patrick,
I’ve been following you’re site for a while and I would say it was instrumental in supporting my decision to switch to the Fuji X-E1 from my old faithful Canon DSLR.
I do mostly landscape photography as an amateur, and I’ve been doing it for the last 35 years now. I’ve owned Canon EOS gear for the last 25 years now and I just put my 5D mark II for sale. I’ve bought myself a nice little X-E1 this summer and used it on an European vacation. I initially bought it for the weight: reality is I’m not getting any younger and packing a 40 pound pack on my back with full-frame body, grip, and three professional grade Canon “L” glass was ruining my backbone. I was impressed by the optics and the quality of the X-E1. It’s lightweight, and most of all a pleasure to work with. I’ve taken over 3000 pictures in my trip. I had to fight with the controls for the first few ones but finally gained more and more confidence with usage. I would say now that I completely love the camera. I got myself the 14mm, the 18-55, the 35 mm and the 55-200mm. All in a small bag about a quarter of the weight of my former gear. I can say now that I feel free. And the pictures I took are stunning.
The funniest moment was on the cruise on the Adriatic. There was that group of about 5 Chinese tourists, each equipped with at least 2 full frame DSLR (5D mkIII or Nikon d800e), each with huge glasses. And they were set with tripods and all and shooting at the sunset. An I was beside them with my little X-E1 in my pocket. Then one of the Chinese fellow came to me and asked me, with a smile of envy on his face, if this was a Leica? I smiled and said no. He was kind of disappointed. Don’t know why? ;-)
When I came back home, I took my Canon 5D MkII and my Fuji on a side by side comparison, shooting same scene with both cameras. I shoot almost exclusively RAW but I started shooting RAW+jpeg now on the Fuji, and I have to admit the quality and rendition of the jpegs are so appealing I might change my modus operandi. Anyway, the shootout conclusion is that the quality of the image on the Fuji is equivalent to the one I get on the Canon. I almost cannot tell them apart. So the decision is made and I do have now very nice Canon gear for sale.
Here is a link to the comparison I did, and an extra few shots I did this week-end.
http://www.flickr.com/x/t/0092009/photos/59482538@N05/sets/72157635440414161/
Cheers,
Antoine Dagher
Antoine
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Linh Pham
Hi,
I’m a Vietnamese photographer and I’m traveling in Myanmar currently.
I was a fan of Sony NEX from the day they released it. I’ve heard many good words on the Fuji X family but only have chance to own and use one Fuji X100s in the beginning of this year and it completely blowed me away. The super silent shutter sound is a main reason.
I still have my Sony NEX with several luxury Leica M lens but I haven’t touched them in around 3 months.
You can check out my blog with photos by X100s at: http://linh-pham.com/blog/
Cheers,
Linh Pham
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Dan Hogman
Hi Patrick,
Great and informative website. A daily resource. I’d like to share with you my gallery I took at Burning Man. I hope to be shown in the x-shooter section of your site. I use the X-E1 and 18-55mm, but I occasionally mount Nikkor lenses via adapter.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/
Thanks,
Dan Hogman
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Robert Gilmore
Hi Patrick,
I sat on the fence for ages when it came to buying into the Fujifilm range. In your last post you describe the Fujifilm as an X-virus and I blame you and your site for infecting me. Reading Fuji Rumors was the start of the infection. Picking an X-E1 up and playing with it has given me a full blown infection. I had to have one! Now it seems an X-E2 has appeared in my kit. I love the combination of style, quality and not to mention the Fuji glass. Am now seriously thinking of selling my Canon gear.
I just thought I’d send you a thanks for your informative website and being influential in my decision to hope on the Fujifilm train.
Regards, Robert.
Some samples (flickr)
Robert Gilmore
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Elmer Ventura
Hi Patrick!
Im a long time reader of Fuji Rumors and because of your amazing work, took the leap about a year and a half ago and picked up a Fuji XPro 1 with 35mm f/1.4 lense to back up my Nikon DSLR’s. Its been an amazing journey thus far with the camera and i am eagerly watching and reading everything you post to hopefully hold a XPro 2 in my hands in the not too distant future.
Since i haven’t seen too many, if any, posts about music photography on the blog, i thought i would share this blog that I’ve just started about shooting in challenging low light situations with live music.
I hope to keep posting regularly as I’ve shot with over 100 concerts with the XPro 1 as my secondary camera, and have a lot of photos to choose from.
Even with the slow focus and the relative lack of continuous shooting… vs a DSLR… well, ill just let people read about my experiences!
Here is my favourite X-music-shot. I wrote a blog post. It was one of those shots that i feel i would not have without the Fuji X-Pro1. Read it here.
website: http://www.eventuraphoto.com/
Elmer Ventura
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Grigore
I had 10 days for testing a Fuji X-E1 and 35 1.4. You can read my review and admire the pictures here: It’s written in romanian, but this is the link to the google translate.”
Grigore
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V
Hi Pat,
Just thought I will share my latest wedding post with you. As you are aware, I shoot weddings exclusively with two X-Pro 1s but I decided to introduce my travel camera, the X100s into my wedding kitbag recently.
I am loving it so far,the image quality of this little gem is simply amazing! I am finding the 35mm focal length is a joy to work with and it compliments the 50mm focal length quite well for a days coverage.
All the images in this post is a combination of my X100s and one of my X-Pro 1 with the 35mm 1.4 lens.
http://vopoku.com/gaynes-park-wedding-photography-dionne-rowlando/
Regards,
V.
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Andrey Simakov
Today I’ve finally got my [shoplink 22828]Yongnuo YN-603 II C1[/shoplink] (3 pcs) set. I’d like to share my small experience with it.
A couple of words about them. They’re the triggers for Canon. As you can see the heel is 5-pins Canon-type. I had some doubt about pins on hot shoe, I’ll come back to them later.
Just a little history. Some time ago I’ve dealt with Yongnuo YN-602. My buddy asked me to help with the purchase them on eBay for his 600D body. It was an ancient thing. Frankly speaking they triggered well too. But the devil was in details. First, the transmitter was a dedicated unit, it was intended just for cam. It was powered with a special and rare battery type. There was no possibility to turn it off. Second, it was impossible to lock the transmitter as well as receiver on a hot shoe. You could flick them off from hot shoe accidentally. Especially it was funny if there was a flash on the receiver. Third, any interchangeability – just only the transmitter or the receivers. If your transmitter was broken you need buy one again.
Later Youngnuo released 603 series transceivers. We’ve got the interchangeability. Each unit decided automatically if it will be the transmitter or the receiver. As far as I know there were operation confusions.
Finally Yongnuo has announced [shoplink 22829]RF-603 Mark II[/shoplink] in October 2003. The device became more serious. We’ve finally got a heel lock. The Power/TRX/TX switcher has been added, so now it’s possible to select the operation made – the transmitter or the transceiver. The product feeling is pleasant. A plastic, metal parts, an assembly, a package – everything is very well here. I’ve heard about dubious soldering quality inside but who knows.
Now, facts only.
The trigger looks nice on the cam. I’d like to have a possibility to rotate and allocate it along the camera body but the heel could become more complicated.
One more thing I like is the possibility to rotate the shutter speed dial after put and lock the trigger on the cam. If you, for example, use Canon Speedline 580EX II you need take it off the camera hot shoe before changing the shutter speed.
About the device functionality.
1. Remote function. I’ve bought C1 version instead of C3 consciously because thought more about Fuji than about Canon 5D MkII (my second cam). The difference is just in that curly cord between the trigger and the camera remote socket. C1 is intended for Canon xxxD series cameras, with 2.5mm jack. The remote feature works perfect. Half pressure is supported for camera pre-focus and shot on full pressure. Only one minus here is the trigger doesn’t awake the cam from sleep mode via the remote socket.
2. Flash triggering. Everything is flawless. The flash works properly. Prefocus and then flash triggering. No fuss, no muss ;)
3. Min X-sync speed. I’ve read they’ve improved minimal X-sync speed to 1/320 in the second generation but we talk about the exact cam. In spite of declared X-sync at 1/180 the cam makes shots at 1/200 as well. The whole frame area is illuminated properly. The frame bottom becomes shady at 1/250. But it’s possible to crop the frame depending on what you shoot.
4. Slept flash awaking. It’s fine. First time I had a doubt about pins on the hot shoe that I’ve written before. I even thought a seller has sent me a wrong exemplar (one trigger was sticked to a standard set box with 2 triggers, I’ve bought three). I was afraid Canon flash need those absent pins to be awaken. But it’s OK. I even hadn’t to disassembly the triggers to remove a couple of pins as in some hacks from the Inet.
I just wasn’t able to pre-focus and make a shoot with the cam and the trigger on it from the other trigger set up onto the other cam. In other words it’s impossible to shoot the shooting cam. But I’m sure I can live without it :)))
Finally the device is pretty nice and isn’t expensive, a bit more $12 per one item if you buy three, or even less $10 if you purchase four.
As a resume I’d like to mention about the manual flash Yongnuo YN-560 III. Main thing here is it contains a receiver compatible with the 603 series transceivers. You don’t need buy the additional transceiver to burn it. Just turn on and make a shot. Also it has the guide number 58 as much expensive Canon Speedlite 580EX. And the price – from $72 per a head.