Enough of This Mirrorless Nonsense :: X-Pro2 Reviews :: & more (miXed zone)

Silverstone 24hr with the 100-400mm shared by chphoto

Fujifilm X-Pro2

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Olya, high key portrait shoot with the new Fuji X-Pro2 at alessandromichelazzi / Starting my blog with my Fuji X-Pro2 impressions at dragan.photos / My Experiences with the Fujifilm X-Pro2 in Shooting Weddings at petapixel / X-Pro2 review at thephoblographer / Fuji’s holy trinity of XF zooms and X-Pro2 Acros-R simulation — a hot combo at aboutphotography-tomgrill / Heart Of Gold – Thoughts about the Fuji X-Pro2 at littlebigtravelingcamera / Samyang f/2.8 Fisheye II lens on a Fuji X-Pro2 at aboutphotography-tomgrill / X-Pro2 Mini Review at jaredcharney / Using the Fuji X-Pro2 OVF and XF 100-400mm for birds in flight at mirrorlessons / X-Pro2 Review in Dutch at pixelmania (translation) / When I tested the X-Pro2 at hmeye / Fuji X Pro2 at russellordphoto / The Fujifilm X-Pro2 is One Solid and Sexy Camera at petapixel / 3 weeks user review at billfortney / X-Pro2 review at findingrange / Fuji Xpro2 Auto Focus review at thefxworks / New Year, New Camera at doncraigphoto / WEC Press Conference in Black and White at macleancomms / DR vs ISO chart is now updated with X-Pro2 at photonstophotos /

Other X-series cameras

The X-T1 And Battery Life at thewanderinglensman / She said “YES!” (X-T1 + 56mm) at leiaphoto / X-T1 JPEG Sharpening Settings; Pros And Cons at thewanderinglensman / The Brewer staircase with X-T1 androloria / X-T1 in Japan at dariocannone & X-E1 in Australia at dariocannone / Model Shoot with the Fuji X-T1 at dcphotoartist / A nice day out with the X-T1 at elliotpaulstern / Why I Went Mirrorless With the Fuji X-T1 at davidjulian / Day Out With The X-E2 at daveyoungfotografia /

X100/S/T + X70

Fuji X70: Beyond the Specs at staysanesleepoutside / Fujifilm X100T Review at photographic-central / Fuji X70 review at techradar / Kevin Mullins Fuji X70 First Look at f16.click / X70 Review at cameralabs / X70 review at sftwins / Concerts with the x100t: King Diamond, Corrosion of Conformity, Crowbar joshsisk / Brighton Rocks… and so does the Fuji X100T at daveyoungfotografia /

Lenses

X-mount lenses

XF100-400mm explores Skye at bencherryphotos / XF100-400 review at photographyblog / XF100-400 Review at glazerscamera / The Fujinon XF100-400mm…(Whew!) at studio46west / XF100-400 review at mirrorlessons / The Fuji 100-400mm Lens; My Initial Thoughts And Use  at thewanderinglensman / 55-200 review at ollithomson / Fujinon XC 16-50mm F3.5-5.6 OIS II: The Urban Traveller at photodanielm / the versatile XF18-135 at billfortney / My 1st Month with the Fuji X Pro2 at imaginegnat / The Fujinon XF 60mm F2.4: the twin personality lens at photodanielm /

Jpeg / RAW / Converters

Darktable 2.0.3 Fuji X70 support. More at darktable / Mylio Adds X-Pro 2 Raw Support at thomasfitzgeraldphotography /

Travel X / Switch (or not) to the X / Fuji X for Weddings

Hiking in Budawang National Park at richardsimko / Incredible India ! at cedricleclercq / One More Comment On “The” Decision To Choose Fuji over Olympus at thewanderinglensman / New Beginnings: Why I Switched From the Fujifilm X Series to Sony’s Alpha System at keenanrivals / Quick Day Trip to Washington DC at xshooters / Bhutan at inabyss / 11 Days in Myanmar at thomasdlh /

a bit of everything
(Enough of This Mirrorless Nonsense)

Enough of This Mirrorless Nonsense at olafphotoblog / A Road-Trip & Fuji Instax Mini 90 at alexsopchak / What I Would Like In An X-T2 at thewanderinglensman / New fujilove magazine / Incident at the 7-mile Bridge, or Know your Rights as a Citizen and a Photographer at xshooters /

Deal

From a FR-reader: You can get the xpro2 with 35mm 1.4 for $2600 with a few other deals. You don’t need to bring in an old camera but if you do it gets donated to charity. Deal running in Australia at teds /

Images

The Other Side of the Moon by Goran

Fujifilm currently focusing on development of compact WR lenses instead of XF33mmF1.0! Smart Move? Vote the POLL!

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Official Lens Roadmaps are something you should always take with a grain of salt. We have seem many times how Fuji can change specs of lenses as well as the expected release indicated on the roadmap anytime.

Moreover, as you have seen with the 2.0x Teleconverter, not every lens Fuji announces appeared previously in the roadmap (only in our rumored roadmap).

Roadmaps are never something definitive since Fuji changes its plans often… very often! But as far as I can, I’ll try to keep you updated with the latest plans.

XF33mmF1.0 Recap

One year ago, in April 2015, a New Source told us that Fujifilm is considering to produce a Super-Fast F1.0 lens around 30mm. At that time, the decision was not final, as a source told us in May 2015, who also confirmed it to be a 33mm lens. Finally, back in October 2015, another source told us that Fuji decided to go ahead and make it.

But in the past we have seen too many times Fujifilm scrapping plans on products that almost materialize, so take it with a grain of salt. In any case, I do not expect this lens to hit the market in 2016, read why here.

XF33mmF1.0 Vs. Compact WR lenses

Today I have an update for you.

I had a chat with a source (right in the past), who told me that Fuji is apparently not really in a hurry to make the XF33mmF1.0, because they consider it a priority to launch more compact and weather resistant versions of existing lenses (like the rumored soon to come XF23mmF2 – read more here). The very positive response of the X-shooter community to the XF35mmF2 might have helped Fuji to take this decision.

If true, would this be a good choice? What would you prefer Fuji to focus on first: more small compact Weather Resistant lenses (like the rumored XF23mmF2) or should the XF33mmF1.0 be the priority? Drop your vote in the Poll below… I’m sure Fujifilm Tokyo will be very interested in the results.

More details about Fuji’s latest rumored roadmap here.

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“Sony’s Full Frame Mirrorless is a Fatal Mistake.” APS-C (and Fuji) is better! + The Answer of SonyAlphaRumors!

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A7rII + Zeiss 85mmF1.8 Batis Vs. Nikon D810 + the 85mmF1.8 Vs. Fuji X-Pro2 +XF56mmF1.2

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There is an article at Petapixel, that is creating quite a buzz. Many FR-reader dropped me a link to it. In short: Sony’s Full Frame Mirrorless is a Mistake (and some are afraid that Fujifilm will Make The Same Mistake one day. Here some reasons:

  1. Compactness: Full Frame lenses are Big, so you lose the size advantage of mirrorless cameras. “In many cases, Sony FF mirrorless works out as being bigger than a comparable DSLR.” […] If compactness really were your priority, you would choose the Fuji 56mm f/1.2, which also allows you to shoot faster in low light.”
  2. Weight: “The next answer you will hear is that a FF mirrorless body is still lighter and the height or width might be a bit less. However, that’s partly because Sony put such a miniscule battery in their FF mirrorless bodies that you end up having to carry multiple batteries, which negate any size advantage.”
  3. In Body Image Stabilization: In this case they quote a Sigma CEO, who said: “…the diameter is very small and makes it difficult to design high quality FF lenses … it almost looks like E-mount was designed for APS-C more than FF“.
    You might remember how a Fuji Manager said here, that IBIS is not good for X-mount because “The diameter of our mount was designed for the image circle without IBIS. It means the amount of light at the corners is reduced when the sensor is shifted. We could correct it digitally, but we don’t want to do it: we don’t want to compromise our image quality.” So the conclusions they make at the petapixel article is that “if you want IBIS, you have to design the mount in advance with a wider diameter, so that it doesn’t compromise corner IQ as the sensor moves around. What you don’t do is take an APS-C mount (NEX mount), turn it into a FF mount, then forcibly retrofit IBIS onto a mount never designed to take it in the first place.”
  4. Sony FF Mirrorless not good for ultra-wide angle: “Zeiss has admitted that the short flange distance of the FE mount makes it technically challenging to design ultra wide-angle lenses, because the short flange distance between the sensor and the rear element is an engineering challenge for ultra wide-angle lenses. At really short focal lengths, the light hits the corners at too steep an angle, which is exacerbated by IBIS when the sensor moves. It isn’t without reason that Sony have yet to come up with any high quality wide-angle zoom lenses for the FE mount.”

All in all it looks like APS-C (and Fujifilm) is the better way to go for the reviewer.

Before you start the discussion, you should read the response of SonyAlphaRumors. He highlights a few “errors”:

  1. Size: It’s not the “mirrorless” aspect that makes Sony FF attractive. But mirrorless is necessary for most of these innovative features to exist.
  2. Big lenses: The lenses are big because it’s high quality glass, for example the [shoplink 44295 ebay]new 85mm GM lens[/shoplink] is made for ultimate quality. […] Sartor, the author of the article, did not take into account that lenses are also designed for different image quality performances.
    “Let’s make a more fair comparison: Here is the Zeiss FE 35mmF2.8 Vs the XF18mmF2.0 (29mm f/3.0 FF equivalent) comparison by CameraSize (re-aligned on the LCD screen)”
    So SAR’s conclusion is that: “Owning a Sony A7 camera gives you an extreme flexibility: If small size is what matters you can use small APS-C or FF lenses on the very same E-mount. If extreme quality is what matters you can use the bigger FF GM lenses. Such a flexibility is yet second to none in the camera businessaligned
  3. IBIS: SonyAlphaRumors says that Sartor doesn’t bring a real actual proof to support his thesis.

Check out the Full articles at SonyAlphaRumors and Petapixel… and then feel free to drop your own considerations in the comments.