The Fabulous Fuji X owners thread

Ordered the X-T5 an 16-50mm for next week on the Fuji free trial, looking forward to trying it out. One disappointment though is that the 16-50mm doesn't appear to have a proper aperture ring as it's a multifunction ring and so doesn't have markings and there's no hard stop. I'm not sure why Fuji chose to do this, one of the nice things about Fuji is that you can have that 'oldschool' manual control but it means having to check the EVF/LCD everytime to check the aperture which I don't like.

1st world problem for sure, but it's an unecessary niggle imo, is there a particular reason they chose to do this?
 
snerkler said:
Ordered the X-T5 an 16-50mm for next week on the Fuji free trial, looking forward to trying it out. One disappointment though is that the 16-50mm doesn't appear to have a proper aperture ring as it's a multifunction ring and so doesn't have markings and there's no hard stop. I'm not sure why Fuji chose to do this, one of the nice things about Fuji is that you can have that 'oldschool' manual control but it means having to check the EVF/LCD everytime to check the aperture which I don't like.

1st world problem for sure, but it's an unecessary niggle imo, is there a particular reason they chose to do this?
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That lens isn't constant aperture is it? It's 2.8-4.8, so for anything below F/4.8 the aperture is going to change as you zoom in: unless the aperture ring moved as you zoom I don't think it would be possible.

Having said that, they do the same thing with the 10-24 which is constant F/4, not sure why.
 
skullfunkerry said:
That lens isn't constant aperture is it? It's 2.8-4.8, so for anything below F/4.8 the aperture is going to change as you zoom in: unless the aperture ring moved as you zoom I don't think it would be possible.

Having said that, they do the same thing with the 10-24 which is constant F/4, not sure why.
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The 10-24 has a proper arerture ring with hard stops and numbers.
 
skullfunkerry said:
That lens isn't constant aperture is it? It's 2.8-4.8, so for anything below F/4.8 the aperture is going to change as you zoom in: unless the aperture ring moved as you zoom I don't think it would be possible.

Having said that, they do the same thing with the 10-24 which is constant F/4, not sure why.
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Of course, the aperture changes as you zoom, what a muppet I am sometimes :lol: In my defence it's a long time since I've used a zoom without constant aperture ;)

The 10-24mm does have a proper aperture ring with markings and a hard stop.
 
morning, it’s just a thought that’s come to mind and I’ve yet to use a Fuji body or lens, the aperture rings are they clicked like my 40mm voigtlander on Sony mount?
 
Seriously thinking about swapping the XT5 for another X100VI.
I’ve only been using the 27mm 1.7.
The 16-50 has been used for a total of 5 pics.

Anyone know whether WEX ‘pre-orders’ are coming through regularly?

Alternatively, could buy a 23mm but the XT5 body is still a bit too thick even with the pancake.
 
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Impressed with MPB, had a decent offer got X-T3 plus grip (£458), but on receipt they upgraded the offer to £501 which was more than I had it up for on this site!!! And money in my account a few hours later.

So owned for 20 months, added 30K clicks to the shutter count (total now 45K), sold it for £14 less than I paid for it, and still have a couple of spare batteries - happy days :)

Good result (and goes partially towards offsetting the £800 hit I took on my X-T2 when Fuji’s were less popular…..,
 
bl0at3r said:
Seriously thinking about swapping the XT5 for another X100VI.
I’ve only been using the 27mm 1.7.
The 16-50 has been used for a total of 5 pics.

Anyone know whether WEX ‘pre-orders’ are coming through regularly?

Alternatively, could buy a 23mm but the XT5 body is still a bit too thick even with the pancake.
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I got mine from Wex but I went on every day and then one lunchtime out of the blue they showed stock, later on in the day it was gone again.
 
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Topsy said:
The 10-24 has a proper arerture ring with hard stops and numbers.
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snerkler said:
Of course, the aperture changes as you zoom, what a muppet I am sometimes :lol: In my defence it's a long time since I've used a zoom without constant aperture ;)

The 10-24mm does have a proper aperture ring with markings and a hard stop.
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Mine doesn't. It's the mk1 though, have you guys got the mk2 WR version?
 
skullfunkerry said:
Mine doesn't. It's the mk1 though, have you guys got the mk2 WR version?
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I don't have it as I don't havea Fuji ILC, but it was the WR version I was referring to (y)
 
zx9 said:
I particularly liked the second one though I don't think I would want to rent / own a beach hut in such a high density beach hut 'city' but you made a great photo of it.
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I agree. Sort of defeats the object of them IMHO.
The ones to the left are 2 to 3 deep in places aswell.

Ps there are colour versions on my Flickr as well
 
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zx9 said:
I like your B&W conversions over the original colour ones, it is the very dark brown or black ones that detract from the colour for me.
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They are not conversions, just straight from the camera B&W.

My camera is set for 3 exposure bracketing most of the time.
B&W + yellow, standard and Velvia. Usually get one I like from it.
I really like B&W from this camera and my wife normally dislikes them, but in this case she agreed B&W was nicer
 
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leaky5 said:
They are not conversions, just straight from the camera B&W.

My camera is set for 3 exposure bracketing most of the time.
B&W + yellow, standard and Velvia. Usually get one I like from it.
I really like B&W from this camera and my wife normally dislikes them, but in this case she agreed B&W was nicer
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I usually run my Leica M240 as B&W jpg plus RAW which obviously can be colour or converted to B&W, I have only been using the X-T4 for a month or so and have not tried the film simulations. I have been mostly concentrating on getting the AF to work the way I am happy with, it is so different to the Canon way that I have had twenty odd years to get to grip with.
I am enjoying the Dynamic range 200 setting which generally makes the raw files easier to work with than Canon 2CR or 3CR files but have lots more to set up / play with.
 
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