The Fabulous Fuji X owners thread

chrism_scotland said:
Belter of a shot, forgot how much I liked the Samyang 12mm when I had one last year, struggled a little with Manual Focus though!
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Thanks Chris! I've found focus fairly straightforward since I learned to take the trouble to zoom in on the focus assist. Before that I was thinking things were sharp that really weren't.

Mr Perceptive said:
Agreed great shot, but MF on the Samyang is pretty easy, focus to infinity and then back off a smidge to effectively hyperfocal distance it. The problem with the 12mm is though getting a composition that doesn't say 'I've got a wide angle and I'm going to use it!!' - @dave.hallett seems to have worked that one out though!
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Cheers David! I've struggled with that quite a lot myself, but the beach works better for me than most locations. I think there are a quite a lot more to come from later in the week, so we'll see how I did. But my first reaction on putting the 12mm on initially was that this lens was going to be much harder to use than I had realised, and it didn't get a lot of outings in its first year of ownership.

G.K.Jnr. said:
Very nice shot Sir, with spot on exposure, good comp, and some lovely light.(y)

George.
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Cheers George, very kind as ever as much appreciated!
 
dave.hallett said:
Cheers David! I've struggled with that quite a lot myself, but the beach works better for me than most locations. I think there are a quite a lot more to come from later in the week, so we'll see how I did. But my first reaction on putting the 12mm on initially was that this lens was going to be much harder to use than I had realised, and it didn't get a lot of outings in its first year of ownership.
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When shooting this wide, you really need to check the whole frame in the viewfinder, and then check it again before pressing the button, its so easy to get something in the frame that you didn't intend. Its also way to easy to get too much sky or too much foreground, rendering the image less interesting, I think as a landscape lens it's quite hard to use, but you can certainly get some dramatic shots especially if you change the viewers eyepoint, to something low down, or high up. In an urban environment its probably easy yo use, as the buildings/architecture usually introduce a decent element of height.

I briefly owned the 12mm, but prefer my XF14mm (the 'classic 21mm) FOV, but I find that often now, I'm shooting landscapes with the 23, 56 or 90!!! Though the later brings it's own challenges regarding DOF.
 
Mr Perceptive said:
When shooting this wide, you really need to check the whole frame in the viewfinder, and then check it again before pressing the button, its so easy to get something in the frame that you didn't intend. Its also way to easy to get too much sky or too much foreground, rendering the image less interesting, I think as a landscape lens it's quite hard to use, but you can certainly get some dramatic shots especially if you change the viewers eyepoint, to something low down, or high up. In an urban environment its probably easy yo use, as the buildings/architecture usually introduce a decent element of height.

I briefly owned the 12mm, but prefer my XF14mm (the 'classic 21mm) FOV, but I find that often now, I'm shooting landscapes with the 23, 56 or 90!!! Though the later brings it's own challenges regarding DOF.
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In my case it was my own finger from holding the focus ring, or the hood where it had got knocked and was on crooked! That's why I went for the 14mm, and subsequently the 10-24mm.
 
Terribly sorry to have missed both these comments earlier. I blame my phone! :-D

psybear said:
I like that Dave. Interested in seeing more from you with this lens, I've thought about picking one up myself.
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I think it's excellent value, so long as you can find the situations in which it works. Hopefully I'll have some more to share, but as I've mentioned, I didn't find it the easiest to get to grips with. For one thing, on a sunny day with the sun behind you, it's almost impossible not to have your shadow in the picture unless you're tilting seriously upward! Getting your feet in shot is also far from impossible...

BacktotheFuji said:
That's a beautiful shot Dave! The sort of thing I'd expect to see on the front of Practical Photography and the like :)
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That's very kind of you. I think I aspire to something a bit grittier, but I'll take it with thanks! :)
 
Alan Clogwyn said:
In my case it was my own finger from holding the focus ring, or the hood where it had got knocked and was on crooked! That's why I went for the 14mm, and subsequently the 10-24mm.
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Yes, you do have to make sure you have the hood on straight, I've done that one before! I imagine the same is true of the 10-24 though...
 
Off to shoot some puffins this weekend, worried my ancient XE1 just won't be up to the flight shots, budget can't stretch to a X-T20 at the moment, would an X-T10 be an improvement for AF over the XE1?
 
bossy said:
Off to shoot some puffins this weekend, worried my ancient XE1 just won't be up to the flight shots, budget can't stretch to a X-T20 at the moment, would an X-T10 be an improvement for AF over the XE1?
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Yes, but don't expect miracles.
 
bossy said:
Sure, understand it won't be fantastic. Worth the upgrade would you think, or just stick to ground shots?
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The X-E1, whilst still producing great results, is pedestrian at most things so as long as you get on with the small and, to me, fiddly controls then it's worth the upgrade. As it's probably not worth much used, I'd be tempted to hang on to the X-E1 as a spare.
 
Mr Perceptive said:
Agreed great shot, but MF on the Samyang is pretty easy, focus to infinity and then back off a smidge to effectively hyperfocal distance it. The problem with the 12mm is though getting a composition that doesn't say 'I've got a wide angle and I'm going to use it!!' - @dave.hallett seems to have worked that one out though!
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I'm currently rocking an XT10 and 35/f2. I rented the 14/f2.8 for a trip to Cuba and loved it, but I don't think I can warrant the expense of that or the 10-24mm which also had my eye. Very tempted to get the Samyang 12mm, I'd love to see some street shot/candids with it? I'm also worried about focus -- but at f2.8 isn't your DOF like 7ft anyway?
 
dave.hallett said:
I said I'd have a few shots with the Samyang 12mm eventually, I think there will be more to follow as I got the hang of composing with it (the beach is definitely a good place to take it so long as you protect the front element from the spray).

I'm afraid I don't know what f stop this was, probably f/8 at a guess, but it's sharp enough for my purposes. OK, so there's no critical content in the far corners. But why would I do that anyway? :D

Swarm by David Hallett, on Flickr
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That's a superb shot David maybe your best from Eigg yet.
 
psybear said:
Haven't been active here for a while, need to get back into it!

One from London a few weeks ago.

X-T2 and 10-24mm.

Millennium Bridge by Brian M, on Flickr
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That's is lovely Brian it as an unblanced symmetry to it with the 2 clouds at different height and some lovely lead in lines. As already been said one of the best shots I've seen from this location.
 
yamahatdm900 said:
That's is lovely Brian it as an unblanced symmetry to it with the 2 clouds at different height and some lovely lead in lines. As already been said one of the best shots I've seen from this location.
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Very kind of you to say so Graham, thanks.
 
G.K.Jnr. said:
Just a simple candid street style shot taken of a guy taking a rest from his work on a construction site.

X-T1, 55-200mm Lens, 1/250th @ F4.2, ISO-200, Handheld.
Resting-03062 by G.K.Jnr., on Flickr

:ty: for looking., (y):fuji:

George.
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His boots are cleaner than mine!
 
Scam said:
I'm currently rocking an XT10 and 35/f2. I rented the 14/f2.8 for a trip to Cuba and loved it, but I don't think I can warrant the expense of that or the 10-24mm which also had my eye. Very tempted to get the Samyang 12mm, I'd love to see some street shot/candids with it? I'm also worried about focus -- but at f2.8 isn't your DOF like 7ft anyway?
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I've taken at least one decent street shot with it. But a lot of the time you'll find things are rather far away for classic street. Architecture with people is playing nearer to its strength, if you see what I mean.
 
My sunset never materialised tonight, so after a last minute dash across to Stirlingshire I finally made it to the Loup of Fintry (after the nice light disappeared, typically).


Loup of Fintry by Ian Williams, on Flickr

No filter needed here as the lack of light and smaller aperture resulted in a sufficiently slow shutter speed to give me the movement I wanted. Definitely a place to go back to again (hopefully when there's less midges!).

Cheers

Ian
 
dave.hallett said:
I said I'd have a few shots with the Samyang 12mm eventually, I think there will be more to follow as I got the hang of composing with it (the beach is definitely a good place to take it so long as you protect the front element from the spray).

I'm afraid I don't know what f stop this was, probably f/8 at a guess, but it's sharp enough for my purposes. OK, so there's no critical content in the far corners. But why would I do that anyway? :D

Swarm by David Hallett, on Flickr
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Great capture. Lovely colours
 
chrism_scotland said:
I've not had one personally but a few reviews seem to suggest its similar to the other "f2" glass (23/35) which means it should be pretty good!
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I've seen quite a few myself and it's been commented that it's similar but better than the 23/35 glass. Also heard a reference to micro-contract which is supposed to be awesome for B&W photography. I've never heard the term myself but after researching what it means, it sounds very nice.

Needless to say I've purchased the lens :)
 
YoshiK1 said:
I've seen quite a few myself and it's been commented that it's similar but better than the 23/35 glass. Also heard a reference to micro-contract which is supposed to be awesome for B&W photography. I've never heard the term myself but after researching what it means, it sounds very nice.

Needless to say I've purchased the lens :)
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Be interested to hear your thoughts, like the 56mm but its a bit specialist maybe for me, 50mm would be nice.
Might be coming back to an XT2 again!
 
YoshiK1 said:
I've seen quite a few myself and it's been commented that it's similar but better than the 23/35 glass. Also heard a reference to micro-contract which is supposed to be awesome for B&W photography. I've never heard the term myself but after researching what it means, it sounds very nice.

Needless to say I've purchased the lens :)
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Think that is a Typo for Micro-contrast. which is something you see more often see from high quality large format.
 
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