guest post by Kamenev Dmitry
I’m a lucky owner of [shoplink 21553]X-T1[/shoplink] from Russia and several days ago I’d been traveling in Iceland with friends. It is a country where every photographer (even the worst one with an old mobile phone camera) can feel like a superprofi.
Only two years ago I owned [shoplink 16850]5Dmk2[/shoplink] with EF 24-70/2.8 and a full kit of accessories for wedding photography – it was my little hobby (I’m far from profi). But suddenly I’d got a lack of free time for my hobby and decided to sell everything, because my DSLR was gathering dust on the shelf due to its size and weight.. But I couldn’t stop taking photos and bought [shoplink 15293 ebay]Fuji X100[/shoplink], which I think is really a great camera. I’ve owned X100 for 2 years and everything was good but I felt a great lack of lens change ability… So when I heard rumors about X-T1 I already knew what I would buy next.
And here it is Iceland! Real challenge for new Fuji… with only [shoplink 12889]XF35/1.4[/shoplink]. I was ready to chew my hands off because several weeks ago I’ve sold my [shoplink 12887]XF18-55 lens[/shoplink]. No, XF35 is an excellent lens but it’s about crime to go to Iceland without wide and zoom lenses. It was my first and the most serious mistake. Next time I hope I’ll have XF 16-55 f/2.8.
But 35mm is better than no lenses and such fix is very strict lens and makes you think very carefully before you make a shot.
The second mistake – I took only one battery. I charged it every night but its 250-300 frames capacity was extremely insufficient for me during the all day. So it made me think twice before making a shot. Next time I’ll take at least 2 batteries.
And the final mistake – memory card. I thought that 32GB card would be enough for me. No, it would not! I had to delete several photos to shoot some more. So it made me think thrice before shooting.
And now I can say that it was challenge not only for my camera but for me. As for X-T1 – now I like it much more: its weather sealed body helped me to shoot near waterfalls and during heavy rain; its lightweight allowed me to climb over hills and mountains and so on.
As a result of my trip here are some of my most favorite shots. By the way, some of them were taken out of the car while moving!
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Wonderful pictures from an amazing country! I guess that single lens really make one think….However, Now I know I will keep my 18-55mm lens with me 🙂
18-55 is just the optimal combination of quality, aperture, weight and cost for a normal zoom lens. I can’t think of a better lens in this range. I primarily chose to switch to fujifilm because of the isharpness and aperture range of that zoom. I have a zeiss touit 32mm in that range and shooting at f4-5.6 I can’t tell the difference in sharpness, although like the color of the xeiss abit better.
The pictures have good angles. And natural in coloration. But the xt1 does not seem to be that great as landscape camera. The detail is not impressive and the contrast is average.
Love fuji x – but I have the smae feeling – it’s not an impressuve landscape camera. What do you think would be the ideal landscape camera less of a full blown medium format kit?
If you want Fuji, X-A1 has the best sensor for landscape (but framing is only with LCD screen). For landscape it is said that Sony is the best -FF A7, 7s, 7r or APS-C A6000.
Can you please explain, what are the technical requirements for landscape photography, I mean – why X-T1 is worse than X-A1 or those Sony cameras, what is wrong with X-Trans sensor for landscapes?
It is not about the camera in your hands here, it is about the person behind the camera – creativity and experience (exposure, composition and pp work) is what makes an image, not so much the camera/lens… You of course can shoot fantastic landscape/portrait/event/street images with *any* of the latest fuji offerings… just not sports, 😉 Just take a look at David Duchemin’s work with the xe1…
http://davidduchemin.com/2013/05/final-postcards-from-italy/
http://davidduchemin.com/2014/01/towards-mastery-again/
just say’n…. I am too, now mirror-less in Africa with fuji, and all my nikon stuff at home, including the 14-24 and the 400
Every camera has own strnghts and weakness,they differ in rendering images – color, moire, details, dynamic rande, tonality, etc, so not everything is about the person who use the camera. It’s also a matter of personal aesthetics. in my view Fuji X-cameras do not perform well on landscape (X-A1 is best among them), they are better for architecture, events, for landscape it;s better to take Sony. But the best – still is film 🙂
shift lens is what really needed for landscape on FF or aps-c. I’d say a FF shidt lens with a shift adapter on fuji or higher-res sony.
Haven’t tried them myself yet (I don’t shoot much landscape), but the Sigma cameras with the Foveon sensors (SD1 and DP series) are really impressive in terms of detail, sharpness, resolution and color rendering with excellent lenses and should be great for landscape based on what I have seen. The ergonomics/AF etc. are less than stellar, though, so you’d probably be using them like an old medium format camera on a tripod. You also have to use the Sigma raw converter software for best results. But the images out of these cameras are amazing. If need be, you can shoot with a slightly longer focal length and pano-stich your images in Photoshop for even higher resolution.
there’s lots of samples online and many of which were featured on here. ever heard of 500px or flickr? also, try google. here’s one set of samples from tumblr…
http://fujifilm-italia.tumblr.com/post/84505109540/andrea-burla-sono-appassionato-di-fotografia-e
Notice the weak dynamic range in the clouds :/. I thought fuji was better.
Depends also if it was shot in RAW. I got a great dynamic range on the X100s (same sensor as X-T1 I think), but shooting in RAW is more forgiving I think.
Would love to see the full size samples of these images before judging how good or bad the detailes are
FYI, these images are obviously heavily compressed .. of course there’s no detail. And the DR, color or contrast, well that can be due to an infinite amount of variables. Surely no basis at all to judge whatever tool he used for it – other than the user’s own personal experience of *using* the camera, which is all this post seems to be about.
If you want sharp, natural details, get a Sigma DP Merrill. At a pixel-level, they have better image quality than any bayer or Bayer-like camera, including the D800E, because each pixel is RGB – bayer and Bayer-like sensors rely on interpolating 2/3 of the data for each pixel, which results in false details, artifacts, and overall lower resolving power per pixel, especially colour information. The D800E has comparable image quality to the DP Merrills only because it has over two times as many megapixels – a full frame, 30 megapixel, Fovean sensor would likely blow it away. That is not because the DP Merrills are resolving at 36mps, but rather the D800E really isn’t resolving at 36mps, irrespective of which lenses are being used, because of the limitations with interpolation.
I would be much more excited to see the X-Pro 2 come with a layered sensor (each pixel RGB) with good ISO performance up to ISO 3200, than one with a bayer or Bayer-like sensor (X-trans) with exceptional high-ISO performance. But, unfortunately that won’t happen…
I guess layered sensor in a fuji body is everyone’s dream. I would then just take another camera for the evening.
Yes, that would be great…
canon rumours are they’re coming out with layered sensor. and supposedly a hybrid vf. it’ll be interesting to see what their 7d2 and 5d4 will get.
Yes, that is what I heard too…If Canon releases the 7dII with a fovean-like sensor with good high-ISO performance, that would be a very good sign for the future of digital cameras, and it would likely have far superior image quality than any other Canon camera. Actually, I would perhaps consider getting one to use with my Canon lenses. That said, Canon is a little too conservative, so I have my doubts ~ though I would love to see it…That would be a great change for the camera industry, as it would compel others to follow suit and would perhaps be the start of the end of bayer sensors, which are not optimal, in my opinion.
It’s not fuji! 35mm is not landscape lens:)
Here it is for example one of the shots in full resolution:
http://i.imgur.com/yqdSqt5.jpg
I’d worry more about the decision making of the photographer (lens selection, time of day, settings, tripod usage, post processing, etc). NOT the camera.
If you own a X100, then using only the 35mm on the X-T1 is a waste indeed.
I have a X100s and when I’ll finally get a new ILC I will probably go for a zoom lens. The X100s and the two adapters already offers a wonderful set of primes.
Nice views, but they all seem over-exposed and somewhat poor in dynamic range . Would be interesting to know if exposition was automatic or manual. And what type of DR tweak has been choosen. As XE-2 and XT-1 owner, I am surprised that the colours do not hit a bit more. As well as the details.
Those images look heavily processed to me. Lots of local contrast (ACR Clarity?) and what looks like some kind of shadow boosting. Almost like some sort of HDR effects. On top of that, they are heavily compressed for the web.
These are aesthetic choices made the artist, and we can either agree or disagree with them. I am surprised that so many people here are jumping to conclusions with regards to the capabilities of the Fuji system based on these photos.
You’re right. Most of shot have lot of local contrast, sharpness and of course HDR effect. Every shot was processed via Lightroom – it took me one week to make color/light-corrections to about 250 shots.
So I can’t agree with previous comment that photos have over-exposition and poor dynamic range. I tried to make best from fuji RAW files – and in paper (I’ve printed some of them in 45x30cm) they look really georgeous.
” I charged it every night but its 250-300 frames capacity was extremely insufficient for me during the all day”
I’m old enough to remember going on holiday for two or three *weeks* and only being able to take enough film with me to be able to shoot roughly that much. And I had to worry about which ISO ranges to cover.
Digital has really changed things 🙂
Geez, I barely remember those times at all. I am a digital kid. 😉
Ahhh, how lucky you are. It was a royal pain in the behind having to lug film around, conserve it and worry about crappy airport scanners fogging it. I don’t miss those days at all.
I took a 3 week trip to France in the early nineties and took 360 shots for the whole trip (10 rolls of film). These days I’m just as likely to take that many shots in a single day.
These forums are amazing. A lot of people are suddenly discovering photography after buying a new camera. To make the conclusion on the same forum this is the best camera ever. To be honest, whatever you are using “think carefully before making a shot” is about lesson number 1. It’s not even a great conclusion, it could have been learned from Henry Cartier Bresson’s interviews. The man would have told about the same about the lenses too. Yes, 35mm is one fixed lens. And 23mm another inevitable one. Nevertheless he’d gone Leica and there’s still ground to do so. About the 23mm, the “real’ 35mm, Fuji also knows everything about it, that’s how the marvelous X100 was born. Because in a next lesson, Mr. Kaminev will likely learn what the statement “if your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough” means. This one is Capa of course, because making very distant landscapes is the first everyone that just decided to a bit more with photography ever does. Does this tell something about the X-T1 and the 35mm? Not anything more than I already new. I’m just curious when the next wave of rumors about the X-Pro1 – likely to be announced at Fotokina, Cologne – is kicking off. Or is it a little bit unnatural to start the discussion now, at moment Fuji is still warming up the last potential buyer to go for the X-T1?
According to rumors I’ve already spread, the X-PRO2 could come only in 2015… but if you have some information about an X-PRO2 coming at photokina, feel free to contact me and tell me more about.
“think carefully before taking a shot” is an excellent sentence and a good reminder in an era where people take so many images as never before.
I like the idea of this unolvuntary limitation of Kamenev: one SD card, one battery, one lens…. limitations that force to you to think more about your image and therefore can boost one’s creativity.
And sure, the X100/S is perfect for this… but it could also have been a phone, or a RicoGR, or whatever… because, as you know, “the best camera is the one that’s with you”.
If that’s true, what a disappointment. To be honest my X-Pro1 starts feeling – with its persistent issues and quirks – like a camera that has passed its due date very long time. Is this now really the top notch beast that many see as a better alternative than a 5DMkIII or D800/810, even want to put in the same league as a Leica M? What I’ve always been thinking (and fearing vs the not insignificant investments I made): Fuji is not the most stable, reliable partner and their R&D and marketing drifts on a strange logic most of us won’t ever be able to understand. But they are also seeing numbers over model sales that we don’t know. In such a high competitive market my feeling is still that the whole X-empire can still collapse by one serious move of their closest competitors. Or the ones they don’t expect, like Nikon & Canon. Also that could explain the delaying a product like an X-Pro2 that can only add a small band on top of their sales. It gives me again that strange mood of having the one and only X-Pro-model ever.
I had similar thoughts about the X Pro1 being the most out-dated camera in the whole line-up. But hey, isn’t it exactly this retro feeling that makes shooting this camera so much fun?!
Didn’t we want an old-school rangefinder-like camera at the first place?
Didn’t we want a camera that is cool, quirky and behaves like a women?
At the end of the day, the X Pro1 is capable of taking fantastic photographs. If one knows how. That’s what counts, and this fact isn’t taken away by any following model. I really don’t care about newer models. I care about lenses.
…”behaves like a woman”? What is it exactly about the X-Pro1 that makes you say that?
DiBo is correct. It’s not about ‘retro’. A retro camera never took so long to fire off 5 images. You wind, you shoot, you wind. The X-Pro 1, even withe fastest cards, is terribly slow to write. It can take over ten seconds to write four to five RAW images. The EVF refreshes too slowly, you can’t even manually select the maximum flash sync speed.
It is a GREAT idea and has a lovely layout. But it was half-baked from an ergonomic design stand point where all the camera’s internal options should be accessible, but are not. The X-Pro 2 should come around when Fujifilm have figured out HOW to make it work and not before.
We don’t need a MKII just because. We need an X Pro that the 1 should have been.
‘It can take over ten seconds to write four to five RAW images.’….Really?? Never noticed that because I don’t use (what is clearly NOT meant for) XPro1 for sports…and I’m not a ‘spray and pray’ kind of guy.
Maybe my expectations were low as I bought the XPro1 as a replacement for my Leica M8…not a DSLR. I’ve been pretty happy with the XPro, and most of my concerns were addressed with the FW updates.
Besides unless you were like me and bought the X-Pro the second it was released, there’s really no excuse for being unhappy with your purchase. Within a month of the release there were literally dozens of reviews outlying the pluses and minuses of the camera…not to mention that 5 mins in a store with the thing would have identified much of what you complain about. In other words…no one put a gun to our collective heads to buy the thing.
I also didn’t take sports with the X-Pro 1. But because its EVF updated so slowly (particularly in darker event venues), it was necessary to shoot several images to get one one in focus. All images were RAW.
Even the A7r is a hair faster, though I use it only for still life since it is awful for everything else, especially because it is so loud.
The M8 is faster to operate than both.
I bought the X-Pro 1 a year after it was released and was surprised by its reluctant approach to recording images. I tried other X-Pro 1s and found them to be the same.
I love the camera, but it is too slow to operate. Five minutes in a shop isn’t enough to see what the problem is. You can’t tell in a somewhat well-lit atmosphere how well a camera works. I bought it primarily to carry around whilst travelling, and ended up using it for events. As long as there is no natural light at an event, the X-Pro 1 is a very slow experience, slower by far than a film camera.
I’ve said many times that it was my favourite mirrorless ILC. It’s just that it is so poorly realised for write speed, EVF speed, and because you can’t even manually select its flash sync speed, it makes you rely on very very slow flash sync in the studio, or TTL, which I don’t use.
After all that has been written about the Fuji X-Pro1, I’m starting to think that my X-Pro1 is not the same camera as you will buy today. I could lay my hand on one of the first cameras that was delivered in my country and I’m not even sure it was via the standard distribution lines. I had a colleague, that was in the same roll out. From day one we owned a quirky, irritating piece of electronics rather than a picture camera. Yes, the firmwares did bring improvement, my friend sold his one, being tired of all the issues. Mine still locks up frequently, the orange light keeps on burning, fun over. And that’s not the only concern with this camera. Also to flashes it responds in an extremely unreliable manner, sometimes it ‘sees’ it, sometimes it won’t and the hot shoe refuses any operation (also with transceivers). Unfortunately, I’m not like many in this forum that bought model after model, I’ve very much regretted it to be a wave one adopter and very likely I would never do it again. Same story with lenses, this is my third (yes!) XF35mm F1.4 and vs the first I had, I also feel difference. Production adjustments, maybe?
Retro? The X-Pro1 is quite battery-hungry. Between pushing the shutter button and the picture lies often a disturbing world of change (it’s slow). The writing-process to the SD-card can get locked up for seconds. Using a flash/ transceiver is weird on this camera. That’s not where I bought it for – pure frustration for a camera @ same price of a premium DSLR (at its release). The lenses, yes they are optically good but not without flaws and most of all, production issues either which is just not acceptable at this premium price level. Fujifilm didn’t really make it easy to let me keep on loving their system. Do I? Well maybe if ever in 2015…an X-Pro2 appears on the radar with a Leica-alike build quality with a solid firmware like in any DSLR I might forget the hassle during those 2.5-3 years. Looking at some of the pictures the X-Pro1 produced there’s a chance that could ever happen.
I think the 50 lens (equivalent) its OK for the majority of pictures. On one or two I would use 35mm.
Been to iceland with my X-Pro1 and a 18mm lens – two years ago – was perfect – no need to think about which lens to choose….
As I said I’d like to have only zoom lens instead of fix one. It was very hard to shoot views along with portraits with only 35mm.
Pano might have been an option.
Oddly nostalgic. Looks like something I would’ve shot 38 years ago. I was 5 years old then…
That’s a bit harsh, or were you brilliant at 5?
Neither, I think. However, “5 years old” was a good excuse for a similar lack of just about any pictorial skill or sense. Yet it seems that Dmitry’s only excuse is “35mm is not a landscape lens”, which is über silly, especially coming from an ex-wedding photographer.
As I said I’m far from profi, it’s only my little hobby. But thanks for comment.
Since you’re fluent in English… Try to get yourself a copy of “Professional Photography on a Budget The 5k Challenge with Zak Arias” (есть на торрентах, именно так и называется на большинстве трекеров), then watch and listen carefully. Especially the part where the image editor has a say. All about what makes a photo interesting to the general public.
Also have a look at Galen Rowell’s essays, they are absolutely timeless: http://mountainlight.com/articles.html
That’ll be a good start, IMO.
Seriously? This is not a competition and you are not the jury champ. Since you didn’t grow up try to get yourself a copy of “http://www.amazon.com/When-Will-Grown-Up-Grow-Understanding/dp/0761162410” and Rearrange your behaviour…
And Dmitry, thank you for your post…
Well said
Sounds lie I hit the nail in the head. Good, good. Let the butthurt flow through you.
Hopefully, some Russians who can also read English will finally start reading something outside of the “list of recommended forum literature” (which, in case of Russians, somehow always consists of aforementioned single book by Lapin and ages old awful translations of Dan Margulis).
Heck, if you shoot Fuji X and not 100% confident in what you’re doing, you MUST read at least Rico’s book about your camera.
You’ve got to chill Talbot) The fact that you see yourself as an expert doesn’t mean you don’t have to obey rules of public behaviour. We got your point, you don’t like this photos.
In fact, you’re so great, write a book, I’ll read it, will be the most educated Russian, photography-wise, after you of course))
Ok guys. Let’s chill alltogether.
I understand and find it very kind that you jump in to defend Dmitry. Personally I also like some images very much. And I also like the idea of this unvoluntary restriction that forces Dmitry to change the way he shoots, to think more about his shots.
But Trenton (and others) doesn’t like the images. De gustibus non est disputandum. He may have said it with a bit of irony, but that’s the essence of his message.
I also have to apologize for compressing the images that much. But I had to, in order to avoid biblical page loading times. The imagas are obviously better and full of details, if you look at the Full Size samples (which Dmitry shared in the comments).
It’s all about liking or not Dmitry’s images and text. In any case, I find it very nice and courageous that Dmitry shared his story and his images with thousands of other FR-readers, exposing himself to the judgement of many photographers. Some liked, some not… that’s what happens when you show and say what you want.
if there is anyone else out there who’d like to share, well, then drop me an email.
Sorry about misbehaving a bit as a guest, just wanted to see if anything changed in a past 15 years in a wonderful world of keyboard warriors. And nothing has changed indeed, damnant quod non intellegunt. It was ridiculously predictable, as a matter of fact. For example, if you combine photos you don’t like, Russians and a key word “reading”, within an hour someone will pop up with the name Lapin (probably the worst book an aspiring photographer could read, yet coveted as a Bible of photography in Russia). Every usual pun is included, of course: “show me your photos”, “don’t be rude”, blah-blah-blah…
Now, back to these photos from Iceland. I’d love to visit that country someday. I love well photographed Icelandic landscapes. Heck, I even know the guy who moved to Iceland because of the landscapes (here: http://500px.com/IurieBelegurschi)
I also happened to like an X-T1 (which is a great landscape camera if you know how to use it) and XF 35/1.4, which is an excellent optical instrument. Can you photograph a great landscape with the 50mm equivalent lens? Hell yeah! Can you do that with X100s (35mm equivalent)? Absolutely.
…yet when I see photos in this post, I feel that both Iceland and Fuji gear deserve better. Much better. Because this stuff is mediocre at best, don’t blame compression for it. It’s just bad photography and tasteless PS filters.
If I remember correctly, in a CreativeLive seminar that I’ve mentioned somewhere above, Zack Arias said (among other things) something like “You can take bad photographs all day long if you wish… just don’t show them to anyone”. Ditto.
Oh, Zack Arias…that must be gospel…
The best book ever is called “Fotografia Kak”, by Aleksandar Lapin. Believe my this guy teaches why one have to push the trigger at all 🙂
No-one explains better about composition and emotion!
http://www.si-foto.com/aleksandr-lapin-fotografiya-kak/
Free for download. Purchasing hard-copy online is horror, sadly only available in Russian, luckily I understand enough from this language
After finding this book I laugh on every business project about photography one can find on amazon for instance..
Thanks for your photos.
They’re really good. People here are so rude.
Maybe you should put yourself out there and put a post with your pictures for us to evaluate?
Why the fuck would I do that?
Unlike you, I use my real name. Google.
Because if you’re going to dish it out then you should be able to take it by posting your own travel story with examples.
Like the man said….he goes by his real name…Google it if you want to see his work!
I did. I wasn’t impressed.
Well that’s fine, never said I was either…but you can’t exactly accuse the man of not putting himself ‘out there’.
You can write a post and send it to the webmaster instead of trashing this man’s work.
I hope you’ll see one day that excessive pride is not the only way to value yourself.
Congratulations for your pics and post Dmitry. In addition I should say that you can use the excellent 35 mm lens as a wide angle by taken several pics of the scene and stitch later in your favourite stitching program.
Still trying to wrap my head around “think carefully before making a shot” and “some of them were taken out of the car while moving!” Seems to be a bit of a contradiction there.
There’s no contradiction here. It wasn’t easy to make those shots, because they were not spontaneous. When you are driven by car you are looking around and looking for a great views. When you see it you have only 1-2 seconds or less for all manual configs and pulling the trigger. It’s not a secret that 90-95% of all my “road” photos were trash, but you know the ramaining 5% worth it.
Great Photos. You are so right. Having a single fixed length lens really promotes thought of taking time to build a shot. For may photographers it has become far to easy to click off 50 or 100 shots and spend a few hours in photoshop building layers until you get a photo that actually didn’t exist.
I agree. 99% of my photos are taken with one lens. When hiking, however, I tend to shoot with telephoto lenses as I love a sort of macro focus on a subject, where they really stand in contrast to the scenery. I think a 35mm equivalent lens plus a 90mm equivalent lens are perfect for hiking.
The OP did well and framed a lot of his images well. The minimal processing is refreshing as are the washy colours. I like them.
I also like how his choice of lens shows how different each of us is. I guess the thing is there are no small/compact 35mm equivalent or 90mm equivalent fujifilm lenses yet. Would be great if they released a 23/2 or 23/2,8 (35/2,8 or 35/4 equivalent) lenses that would be small, ringed, labelled for infinity and aperture, plus a 60/2 or 60/2,8 (90/2,8 and 90/4 equivalent) lenses.
My screen calibrator arrives next week, but I can clearly say many of the pictures above are not nicely processed. There are some nice approaches but too different styles are mixed in same collection. This is definetely not advertising for x-t1
I didn’t set a goal to proccess all shots in only one style. There were very different weather conditions (rain with heavy clouds, sun) and very different landscapes: here you see green grass, and in one hour you see orange desert, one hour later you find yourself in mountains with tons of snow around. I don’t know how to process all those different photos in one style. I tried, honestly..
You did it just right, and you surely don´t have to account to someone in the virtual space. It´s about the feeling of such a various place – and you did it only with the 35 mm, that´s even better done (I´m very curious about the 16-55 too).
Dimitry, it’s alright. I appreciate your intention!! What you do is much better than criticizing others.. compositions of your works are fine- good exploration with the 35 prime!
Stupidest thing I’ve read today.
At the end of the day, the people that are saying these photos aren’t great, are the same people that take photos of cats and flowers.
You went to Iceland. You took some awesome photos. Don’t let it get to you.
+1
Epic trip to Iceland taking photos vs pixel peeping keyboard warriors. Kamenev my friend, you win any day of the week. Thanks for sharing your experience.
Thanks! Glad to hear it!
It was good to read your post and look over some photographs you made Kamenev. I’ve been seriously around photography for well over 50 years and like you, I’m still learning too. Iceland must have been a great experience – one that I and my X-T1 (and 10-24) would also love to have – and like you, learn from. In fact, I hope I never get to know it all – I think I’d end up being a bit of a sad case if all I had left to do was to criticise.
My personal view: the submitted photos are awful (quality), probably because of compressed jpeg. I can make better pictures with iPhone. People who had no experienced with Fuji X will get wrong opinion about Fuji X-T1 and lenses. The lens is absolutely wrong for landscapes. It is at least unreasonable to buy rather expensive and cool X-T1 and save money for lenses, and it is absolutely stupid to have one battery and one flashcard for travel. I suggest to show photos and discuss an article with friends before making them public next time.
Can you show us some of your better iPhone pics?
Wow! You know the saying “if you don’t have nice things to say, don’t say anything at all” it was published because it shows meaning that you can make things work with what you have.
What a particularly awful and pointless comment.
I think that’s a fair comment, especially comparing the cost of a 32GB card and single battery against the cost of travel. Still, mistakes are made, by all of us and perhaps this is what he was trying to put across in the article… how to get the shot when you leave the house and forget some gear (to go to a foreign country (where they don’t sell memory cards (or Fuji camera batteries)))?
Dmitry, can you share some of the processing you did or whether they are mostly OOC?
I am guessing you took contrast down and added clarity and vibrance in Adobe camera raw for some (wild guess)? They look bright and cheerful to me (and make me want to visit there some time).
It’s not a great secret. Here are presets for the 2nd photo (see attached screenshot). Of course there are also color corrections for green and blue.
Nice set. I did the same trip in 2012 with my xpro and 35mm as only lens.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sjunnesson/sets/72157631510699563/
Shot DSC_1551bw is nice! I didn’t risk to get my camera out of my pocket behind that waterfall: too much spray.. But of course I have some photos of it! I like this one most of all:
nice shoot. fun to see similar photos from a lot of Icelandic trips. 🙂
regarding getting the camera out Im a big proponent for bringing the camera with me in all conditions. So far no problems at all even though its lack of weathersealing.
I like those shots, especially because of the 35mm perspective. I never understood the rule, to use ww for landscape only. Isn’t this “normal view” a form of “concentration to the real”?