Juju Gamin: Louis Vuitton Fundation, Paris France. Taken with Fuji X-E1, Samyang 12, f/4, 1/125, 3200 isos.
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Every time I check out the images X-shooters shared at the Fujirumors facebook photostream and at the Fuji X Forum, I’m amazed about how many gorgeous images the X-community creates with X-gear: low light, sports, landscape, portrait, architecture, street, astrophotography, fashion, weddings… simply everything can be done with stunning results!
These images also tell me that, for me, Patrick, there is no real need of Full Frame to get a higher keepers rate in my shots. On the contrary, I better invest my time & money in following other photographers and learning from their work. I better buy tutorials, ebooks and go to workshops. I better know my gear and don’t blame it for the lack of my skills. I should ask for advice and study. And of course, practice… go out on the field and shoot, a lot! Try different styles. Challenge myself. Experience frustration and joy… and at the end, have Fun while painting with light!
So, for next hours, I’m out of here guys and I’ll do my homework with the X-T1 now… which is actually one of the few homeworks I really enjoy to do 🙂
have a GREAT weekend,
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Holger Glaab: Frankfurt, Tower 185. Fuji X-T1. Walimex Pro 8mm, f 2.8 fisheye. Some LR and PS editing.
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Eric Anderson: Kok Kiya valley and the lake, Kol Suu just on the other side of these mountains is my favorite part of Kyrgyzstan but way too few tourists go. For info on how to get there, read this: http://wp.me/p5bwRq-1a3 X-E2, 35mm F/4.5 1/1000
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Inaki Gorraiz: Taken at the Agora of Athens, Fuji X-E2, 18-55 at 55 mm
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Darren Brown: A few days ago, while my wife and I were enjoying an early-evening walk, I took this photo from Calton Hill, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Fuji X-Pro 1. XF 60mm f/2.4R
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Steven Dempsey: Tara. Fujifilm X-T1 18-135mm Processed with Silver Efex Pro 2
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Roy Cruz: Fujifilm X-E1 + Samyang 12mm. Tongyeong, South Korea By Roy Cruz Photo
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Beth Anthony: Grand Teton National Park under the stars. fuji x-t1 and 10-24mm
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Roy Cruz: Fujifilm X-T1 + XF 60mm. Gyeongju, South Korea By Roy Cruz Photo
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Michel Mayerle: waiting in the streets of Lucerne. Fuji X100s
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A man, A beard, A camera. Sunset is my favourite colour. Who else is still carrying their original Fuji X100? Mine is my daily camera. I take it everywhere. It’s still a very capable little camera! This shot – Fuji X100 @f/2, 1/60 sec & ISO 400.
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Mansur Alam: My first day with Fuji XT-1 & XF 56mm F1.2
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Roy Cruz: “A Morning Greeting”. Bulguksa Temple, Gyeongju, South Korea. Fujifilm X-E1 + Samyang 12mm By Roy Cruz Photo
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Mansur Alam: Fujinon XF 56mm f1.2 R — at Mansur’s House.
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Thank you very much, Patrick, for sharing my photo: the one of Edinburgh, taken from Calton Hill.
That is a stunning cityscape.
Thank you for the kind comment
wonderful image
Thank you very much.
It turns out that it is not the camera, it is the skills of the photographer that matters. Photographers with the necessary skills can take great images even with an one inch sensor.
Indeed.
if a good photographer can already make great images with an one inch sensor, imagine what he/she can do with a fullframe? so gear does matter.
I would have liked it if Fuji originally introduced the X-Pro 1 with a full frame sensor, as the larger sensor has its benefits. However, now, after using my X-Pro 1 for nearly three years and investing fairly heavily in X-Series lenses, I have mixed feelings about whether I would want to change now – the cost and the wait for a full set of lenses would be a pain.
Also, I like the size of my X-Pro 1 and lenses. When I need more resolution, I use my Sigma DP Merrills.
It’s difficult to switch if you invested heavily in any system.
Yes, that is true. A few years ago, i made the switch from Canon to Fuji. If Fuji were to release a full frame mirrorless system with a set of high quality fast primes, i would definitely be interested. However, there isn’t any full frame mirrorless camera out right now that has me thinking of switching.
Agreed. If Fuji made FF camera it must be the best. I switched from Fuji to Nikon only because I need better ISO performance. I now stick with Df. I sometimes miss how Fuji renders color.
Nikon makes some great cameras. When I switched to Fuji from Canon, I thought about switching to Nikon. However, I ended up choosing a Fuji X-Pro 1 for the size, design and feel. If Fuji released a full frame mirrorless system, I would consider switching, as my wife would still use the APS-C line – we share the lenses at the moment.
An X-Pro- or X-T- like camera with the sensor in the A7r II would be fantastic, assuming it would come with a set of fast primes. An X200 with that sensor a high-quality 35 mm lens and conversion lenses for 50mm and 21mm would be a no brainer. Fuji should definitely offer a full frame X200, as they need to design a new lens for that line anyways.
Instead of full frame, if possible, I would prefer if they would introduce a square format sensor size, such as 24 x 24 or 30 x 30, assuming we could use the same lenses with that format. I think 30 x 30 would provide the same image quality as 24 x 36. And, doing so, would provide Fuji with something unique for modern cameras.
It isn’t.
Here are the steps to do it:
1) Sell your current gear
2) Buy the new gear
That is how easy it is.
It will be difficult if person is unwilling to switch systems or has emotional ties to specific gear and can’t see what really works better (bigger != better).
1) and 2) are easy (though they can be expensive), but you forgot steps 3), 4) and 5):
3) Learn all the new settings and the menu structure and save the new buttons/dials in “muscle memory”.
4) Learn to process the new files to your style, create new presets, learn the capabilities of the new sensor.
5) Learn the strengths, weaknesses and limits of your new gear and which settings work best in which scenario.
Those are the real challenges in switching systems!
2nd hand prices for Fuji gear is not very good. Plus there is emotional tie.
The camera wouldn’t have to be any larger. Neither would the lenses. Keep the same FOV and DOF characteristics for each and you get:
21/4 (equivalent to 14/2,8)
24/2 (equivalent to 16/1,4)
35/2 (equivalent to 23/1,4)
50/2 (equivalent to 35/1,4)
etc. and so on.
The lenses that really are tiny: 18/2 I have no idea how a 28/2,8 would ever be made that small. That thing is a work of art. The 27/2,8 has its equivalents (with aperture rings and exact same aperture) from Nikon and Zeiss, so it is less of a marvel.
The point is this: the X-Pro 1 (size of the Leica M full frame digital camera) wouldn’t have to get larger, and since everyone seems to agree that they don’t want less DOF, if what are considered moderate to fast (not super fast f/1,4) lenses were kept as DOF/FOV equivalents, the FF camera and lenses would be the same size as the X-Pro 1 and lenses.
True, they probably won’t be as small (although we have already been surprised by some modern lenses in terms of what is possible), but look at the Voigtlander 28mm 2.8 – even with an adapter it is a relatively compact solution.
Love everything about my Fujis, even the quirks. But a good big ‘un beats a good little ‘un…
If Fuji is still losing money on everything in their camera division except the Instax, even while Canon and Nikon have yet to seriously enter the mirrorless market, then their presence in it long term cannot be guaranteed. Witness the Samsung model. Witness the Fuji model in DSLRs.
Perhaps the best outcome for me would be for Sony to buy Fuji’s camera division and with it the image processing and colour rendering know how. A FF Sony A7 with Fuji image characteristics would be a dream.
After I see the “shot by iPhone” campaign from Apple, I smashed my camera, started using iPhone exclusively. Why use the huge APS-C sensor with big lens, just use iPhone!
Bingo. This is the logical conclusion to these endless ‘why do I need XX sensor (which is larger than the one I currently have’ threads.
I need a big full frame DSLR like I need a 7 pound cement block hanging around my neck.
According to Home Depot, a cement block weighs 28lbs. So you could save that neck a lot of trouble if you got rid of the block and started using a lightweight DSLR like a Nikon D4 or a Canon 1DX. The image potential would be better too.
What does FF have to do with dSLR? The Sony RX1 is smaller than any X camera out there, but is FF. It’s not size that has anything to do with anything. Most if if not all APS-C and M43 dSLRs were or are larger than most of their sensor counterparts in mirrorless land.
The sensor size has almost nothing to do with the size of the camera unless you start talking about massive sensors as seen in 56×44 middle format back-module SLRs. Still, those can be attached to small bellows such as the Flexbody and in terms of do-everything, but more useful than any sensor/lens combination.
A Sony a7rII (just as an example) with 24mm, 50mm and 85mm lenses would also allow you to shoot at 35mm, 75mm and 125mm with the same resolution as a current Fuji camera (providing you use good glass). It is all tradeoffs and subjective decisions, rather than broad generalizations).
If smaller sensor is just as good, we can safely jump to M43. Why you pick up a APSC instead of MFT is why we want FF.
Indeed. The argument has logical conclusions which end in the words Apple, Samsung, and iPhone and Android. Smaller and still good. There is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ in sensor sizes. But demonising one as too big, or one as too small, based on what you believe as ideal is ridiculous.
Precisely. It is funny how people think that their point of sufficiency is valid for everyone else.
Sure, one can take good photos with anything, but I would get the best I can. FF will provide better IQ in some specific situations, higher resolution for cropping and proper access to many amazing lenses. Of course, these are the advantages for my type of use.
Surely a cement block is medium format.
People will always shift the blame and in this case they are shifting the blame onto the APS-C sensor.
As I told a few times, it’s not a matter of technical/optical performance only. Sony, Leica, Canon & Nikon have/will have premium 35mm sensor mirrorless solutions, enabling native support to their legacy glass. Fuji, Ricoh, Samsung and also Pentax won’t have anything like that soon – while the market price of their products are topping some of those 35mm solutions. And of course there is also 4/3 – Olympus & Panasonic but I still keep on thinking this is a bit of different market. No, from quite a few understandable perspectives you don’t need full frame in a shrinking, more and more premium and advanced user market – but I’m not so sure it enables a bright future to stay in the sideline with anything smaller than 35mm. Precisely for this I’m looking with a certain fear for what might happen to Fujifilm in 2016 – I’m not so convinced they can enable a bright new future for the X-series just using a cheaper Sony compact camera APS/C sensor – while maintaining full frame prices for the top range cameras.