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Have to admit it does look cool!
My 10 Stop filter arrived today, looking forward to getting out at the weekend for a play, I know it's not everyone's cup of tea but my main reason is to try and remove people in crowded places, off to New York in November if anyone's got any tips!?
Have you used the X-PRO1, as you say you started with the X-E2?
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Funny thing is that I took my Canon 5D3 with a 35L to NYC a few years ago. I also had a gorilla pod for a night pano on top of Rockafeller centre.
In terms of tips? I guess you are thinking photographic?
The view from Rockefeller is better than Empire State, purely because you get to see Empire State from Rockefeller, it is more iconic.
Plan early to go up to Rockefeller, it is very busy at sunset. I fully intended to go there for 6pm but had to get a ticket for 8pm when i got there. They limit the number of people going up.
I suggest just walk around, and fingers cross for the weather. I went in late october, hoping for fall weather...it was sunny like the summer but then the week after Hurricane Sandy hit and everything changed! NYC can get bitter cold or 40c hot.
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Are you implying that I have no emotional connection to photography, and that it is purely a technical exercise? Yes, my eyes are indeed rolling back into their sockets at this kind of logic. The suggestion that you are either "technical or non-technical" is to my ears a pseudo-luddite sentiment that is completely at odds with the fact that people who say this stuff are in fact using technically advanced cameras vs anything that was around 10 years ago. If you and others were as purist as the clichéd sayings would suggest, then you would be using significantly less advanced manual cameras than Fuji's.
There is absolutely nothing wrong or strange about wanting the technology that enables you to be as creative as you can possibly be with a camera, or that allows you to get shows that would not otherwise be possible in the situaiotns you know you are going to be using a camera in, that's just basic common sense. It is nothing to do with lacking emotion or soul, because the two are not mutually exclusive in any way. I love my camera, I am emotional about photography, I like to have soul in my photos (especially as I take so many family portraits and they are deeply special to me), but I do nonetheless, like most serious amateurs, appreciate the differences in technical capability between cameras as a tangible factor in photography.
I realise that your perspective is defined by your previous experiences, such as your father etc, and that's of course fine and dandy, but please just understand it is a wholly subjective viewpoint with little reflection on how any does or does not feel about their kit and so ideally it's better not to try to transpose those views on others.
The beauty of Fuji is that it perfectly marries cutting edge (for the most part) technology with an old-skool feel, retro design, manual dials, awesome lenses, and it has brought the joy back into photography for a hell of a lot of people, including myself. The Fuji X-T2 is the first mirrorless camera I have used where I finally feel it is a replacement for my Nikon D750 in terms of being able to get the same kind of shots in the same kind of situations (FF differences notwithstanding) and that includes fast-paced photography using continuous focus. That was not a reliable possibility before the X-T2, and that is purely for technical reasons.
Anyway I am not trying to 'argue' so please don't think that, but I do feel very strongly when I see it repeated that photography is some spiritual and emotive experience where you need to discount the technical aspects to truly appreciate and connect with it, because considering the rate that technology is evolving in photography it is, especially in the mirrorless world that is playing catch-up in some ways to traditional DSLR's, a logical fallacy. Technology is imo a photographic enabler, nothing more, and it's up to the person behind it to use it to get the shot they want.
Anyway...
I am stupid, possibly found the Facebook page although not that sure but TP?
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TalkPhotography - though if you don't know it you probably won't be able to buy on there as I think it has restrictions like the MM. Long time since I've been there...
Had to send my new X70 back to Fuji, its only a couple of months old but the focus had started playing up. When on C focus mode, on half press it would snap onto one thing, then another in a totally different part of the frame, then another, just continuously. The focus was just constant pulsing all over the place. Very odd.
Lets hope they are speedy at repairs as im now cameraless, seeing as my son has pinched my D7000.
Lets hope they are speedy at repairs as im now cameraless, seeing as my son has pinched my D7000.
Thanks Raymond Lin much appreciated! Did you find yourself shooting at f1.4 much?
I'm planning on taking the 23 f2 and Samyang 12 f2 or possibly the 10-24 f4 and 16-55 f2.8 but undecided just yet..
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I almost always shoot wide open on the go...except when I am doing the landscape stuff. I even did this at 1.4. I know, I am mad.
The china town photo was 2.8. The night shot on Rockafella was f/7.1 though.
I need to print this...it's 31,000 pixels wide and 3600 tall. A 360 panoramic on the Brooklyn Bridge.
What shutter speed? I tried to check the EXIF but it's not embedded.
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In Aperture priority, so normally in daylight, even at 100 ISO it can be easily 1/500th and higher.
The extreme would be. Extreme being still hand held manageable shutter speed and still at ISO 100.
1/60th hand held, ISO 100. F/1.4.
1/25th, f/2.8, ISO 100.
1/8000th, hand held, ISO 100, F/1.8...I probably close down a bit because it's at 1/8000th!
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Yes you are MAD! lol
I understand the requirement for when you are working in low light or wanting to change the DOF but, I don't see why you would use f 1.4 when you have enough available light and/or taking land/city-scape shots
Don't get me wrong they look great
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Yes you are MAD! lol
I understand the requirement for when you are working in low light or wanting to change the DOF but, I don't see why you would use f 1.4 when you have enough available light and/or taking land/city-scape shots
Don't get me wrong they look great
I do shoot with narrower aperture for landscapes like 2.8
but often 1.4 is enough when something is far away on a 35mm because it is wide enough, like the Flatiron building or even the Brooklyn Bridge photo.I did also take a compact, Olympus XZ-1, this is 1/10th, ISO 100 at F/1.8 (wide open). I actually got it for night shots mainly. It was hit and miss.
This one is good, sharp.
This is is not 100% sharp. 1/6th, ISO 100, F/1.8. Was way under exposed, had to pull it up 2 and a half stops.
I guess the Fuji may be somewhere in between?
Not at all. As I said "For me, and I suspect others".
To illustrate what I'm saying, I quite fancy an X-Pro1 too. Because I like the styling, the idea of an optical viewfinder. I could afford an X-Pro 2 but the 1 would fulfill the criteria I'm after at a bargain price. The fact the 2 has higher resolution, better AF etc etc would be fairly low down in my priorities since I could fulfill my needs with a 1.
Really can't decide if I should get a used X-T1 and 18-135 or an X-T20 with 18-55 . Basically this will be a walk about / holiday camera. There is nowhere in Newcastle I can try them out, we don't even have a Jessops now. Worried about the EVF on the T20.
I have used a Canon 550D as my holiday camera for the last 9 years but want something smaller.
I have used a Canon 550D as my holiday camera for the last 9 years but want something smaller.
Only my 2p but I went from a Nikon D50 (similar to your Canon) to a XT10. I'm really happy. I looked at the XT1 in store and size wise it feels more DSLR size/shape. What's your issue with EVF? I'm loving the EVF on the XT10.
My decision making was quite similar to yours although I didn't consider the XT1. In my mind if I wanted a new camera because I wanted something smaller and more portable, why when deciding between the two contenders would you go for the larger? I took my XT10 with a 35/f2 and 14/f1.8 and it was like using a compact camera. Just had it in my bag, or walked round with just a hand strap. A million miles away from using an SLR and that's exactly what I wanted.