Fuji X-T2/X-T1 – Recce in Bali

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A cataclysmic shift

I had a cataclysmic shift in my photographic equipment this year. As many seem to be doing now (after dipping my toes in the waters over the last few years), I bit the bullet and sold my beloved Nikon D3X and lenses, and swapped fully over to Fuji. I won’t bore you all with the minutia of the details – but suffice to say it was a very big emotional and financial endeavor. I have been shooting Nikon for over 30 years now – starting with the Nikon F3 and worked my way up through all the models, ending with the D3X. My wonderful Nikon F4 served me so well for many years of shooting ‘stock’ in the heyday (90’s).

However a few miles under the belt and a few creaky bones later, I was finding it increasingly difficult to lug my huge D3X and Nikkor 70-200 around in the tropical heat of Asia. My wife and I live in a small gold-mining town in the Western Australian desert. It is the most boring forsaken place on the face of God’s earth. However, with stable paying jobs and other reasons we choose to live here at the moment. However, because there is nothing to photograph here, my cameras sit locked in their little cupboard most of the year. Fortunately travel to Asia from Perth airport (not counting the 8 hour drive to get there), is cheap and not many hours flight. We go to Asia a lot and that is where I love to photograph.

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Fujifilm GFX :: “Autofocus? It’s Almost like Working with the X-system” (VIDEO)

Pål Laukli is working with a pre-production Fujifilm GFX, and in his video shared at Fujifilm Global here, he says:

  • If you are used to the X-system, then you will get used soon with the GFX.
  • Shooting tethered is possible
  • JPEG with amazing color depth, very sharp, the skin tones, and X-System feel.
  • Having worked with many different Medium Format System, it was a pleasure to see that the focussing system on the GFX is almost like working with the X-system [NOTE: he does not specify if the AF speed is similar to the one of the X-E1/Pro1, X-E2/T1 or X-T2/Pro2. But it’s safe to assume it could eventually match the speed of X-series cameras with only contrast detection AF, hence X-E1/Pro1… and franky, that alone would already be quite awesome for a MF camera].
  • All the optics delivered a special feeling.

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FIY: The footage was filmed with FUJIFILM X-T2 in 4K quality

Fujifilm GFX :: Current Pricing About $8000 (body + lens) – New Source

Fujifilm X-T2 Roundup: “An Absolute Monster. Astonishing JPEG’s. It Can Match the Big FF Boys” + Charity Auction

James shared his comparison Fuji X-T2 vs Nikon D750 at James A Photography Youtube.

Autofocus on X-T2 is fantastic, outstanding IQ, the JPEG’s are great and “you hardly have to touch them. They are perfect, the colors, the contrast, the sharpness“, and even better ISO (smoother and cleaner of 12,000 ISO for the X-T2). At the end of the day he just “can’t believe that this little thing [X-T2] does what it does. It absolutely competes with the Full Frame Nikon D750.”

And here are some more X-T2 links:

Fujifilm X-T2: USA: BHphoto / AmazonUS / Adorama / CANADA: AmazonCA / EUROPE: AmazonDE / Calumentphoto DE / AmazonUK / AmazonITA / AmazonFR / AmazonESP / PCHstore / WexUK / AUSTRALIA: CameraPro

CHARITY AUCTION

40 Italian photographers (including X-photographers like Max Angeloni and Luca Bracali) organized an auction for December 15 at the city of l’Aquila, to support some friends, who lost everything in the recent series of earthquakes. If you are in the area, you can go there to see the exhibition and eventually also join the acution.

The exhibition starts December 15 (and the auction will take place in the evening of December 15).

More details at riflessifotografici (translation)

Leaving Canon, Sony and Nikon for Fujifilm :: Lightroom Vs. Capture One :: Fuji X-T2, the Perfect Travel Companion? + More (miXed zone)

Fujifilm X-T2: shared on the fujirumors facebook page by Lightforge – Dennis Radermacher
feel free to keep up sharing & voting :-)

Fujifilm X-T2
USA: BHphoto / AmazonUS / Adorama / CANADA: AmazonCA / EUROPE: AmazonDE / Calumentphoto DE / AmazonUK / AmazonITA / AmazonFR / AmazonESP / PCHstore / WexUK / AUSTRALIA: CameraPro

Fujifilm X-T2 F-log sample footage (with download link) from ONV on Vimeo.

Fujifilm X-Pro2
USA: BHphoto / AmazonUS / Adorama / CANADA: AmazonCA / EUROPE: AmazonDE / AmazonUK / WexUK / PCHstore / AmazonITA / AmazonFR / AmazonESP / AUSTRALIA: CameraPro

  • Traveling with one camera + one lens: FujiXpro2 + 35mm F2 WR at iamnatasha
  • Concert Photography on a Fuji X-Pro2 at medium
  • Iceland: The Frozen Exposures (X-Pro2) at om-blog /
  • Fuji X-Pro 2 : Are Mirrorless Cameras Better Yet? at lenselite

Other X-series cameras + lenses

X-T1 IR: Sea of Trees at medium // Fuji X70 v Ricoh GR: Which is the best large-sensor pocket camera? at macfilos // 5 Reasons why you should get excited about the Fujifilm 23mm f2 WR lens at Chris Perkles youtube // 23mmF2 Review at mirrorlessons // 55-200 or 50-140?… Bokeh Anyone? at xshooters // Why I Love the Sweet Little Fujifilm XF 35mmF2 at danbaileyphoto // The X-Pro1 + 56 x 11. So what does that add up too then? at adambonn

X-Trans RAW conversion

Lightroom vs Capture One (bloodsport) at aevansphoto // Good News for X-Trans shooter. Capture One Pro 10 – A First Look for Fuji X-Trans Users at thomasfitzgeraldphotography // Fuji X-T2 – RAW Processing Examples at mostly.photos Fuji X-T2 – RAW Processor Comparisons at mostly.photos // Fuji X-T2 – Fuji Velvia at mostly.photos

by FR-reader Stefano: “I would like to suggest a look to this extension for Apple Photos: With Apple Photos I import on my Mac the RAW+JPG from my Fuji camera. Normally the basic editing tools from the app are enough for me, but I miss the Fuji Film Simulations (… Fuji should wake up in my opinion and make an extension for that …). With that extension I can from Apple Photos, open the Fuji raw converter, choose a film simulation, save back in Photos the modified JPG. Seems to work. You can call whatever picture editor you like and it costs only 1€”

Switch To Fujifilm from Nikon and Canon

Sony and Canon suck? Why I left both (mostly) for Fuji at aevansphoto // Why I Switched From Nikon To Fujifilm at bhphoto // Reasons to switch from Canon to Fuji at Chris Perkles youtube

a bit of everything

 First Look, SmallRig Cage for Panasonic GX8 1844 (with comments about X-T2) at creativityinnovationsuccess

Free eBook: Keep the Focus – A meditation guide for street photographers on Keep The Focus Facebook

The Switch to Fuji…err, Back to Fuji? Have I Really Switched?

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I always enjoy reading other people’s blogs/posts about their journey to switching over from one of the other manufacturers.  I get that some people get fed up with size and weight issues (their camera rigs, people), others feel like manufacturers aren’t listening to what the people want or that Fuji cameras, and their output, are just flat out better than the rest.

Me?  I don’t know…I love(d) my Nikons.  I did sell off my D750, D7200 and 97.8% of the Nikon lens collection…but something inside me won’t let me cut the D300 bodies loose.  It’s not that my X-T1 has left me wanting with what I shoot (surf, turf and…whatever) but I love the output of that generation of Nikons

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