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Mr Perceptive said:Set focus on infinity, then back off just a touch
How to Focus on a Distant Object by Mike Smith, on Flickr
Sorry - G&T and a couple of glasses of Rioja - hic
Mr Perceptive said:Set focus on infinity, then back off just a touch
Welcome aboard.I'll have to join in on here when I get something to show and tell!
Just bought an X-T10, traded in an X-Pro1 that I just wasn't getting on with. I'd bought it as a smaller camera (well, smaller than my Nikon DSLRs) when kayaking, hiking and biking but was never convinced. The X-T10 seems more what I was after in the first place. I've grabbed one of the Speedbooster adapters as well, as I have a few old manual Nikon lenses with the film camera, so will be interesting to see what comes up!
Good advice. I find the magnification focusing aid to be more reliable for me than focus peaking, but you should definitely use one or the other. Try both and see which you get on with better.F8-F11
Set focus on infinity, then back off just a touch, then everything will be in focus front to back, unless you are really low down, in which case you might have to back off a bit more
Put focus peaking on
Don't forget to Set 'Shoot without a lens' - On
Quick one from the garden this morning, saw him flutter by in the strong wind and stop for a rest...
Untitled by jimmyjamjoejoe, on Flickr
X-T10, 18-55mm, and extension tube.
Good advice. I find the magnification focusing aid to be more reliable for me than focus peaking, but you should definitely use one or the other. Try both and see which you get on with better.
When I'm in Crete (and a fair bit in Oxford) Not when I'm on the west coast of Scotland!And you were telling me you did street!!!
Quick one from the garden this morning, saw him flutter by in the strong wind and stop for a rest...
Untitled by jimmyjamjoejoe, on Flickr
X-T10, 18-55mm, and extension tube.
I'll have to join in on here when I get something to show and tell!
Just bought an X-T10, traded in an X-Pro1 that I just wasn't getting on with. I'd bought it as a smaller camera (well, smaller than my Nikon DSLRs) when kayaking, hiking and biking but was never convinced. The X-T10 seems more what I was after in the first place. I've grabbed one of the Speedbooster adapters as well, as I have a few old manual Nikon lenses with the film camera, so will be interesting to see what comes up!
Thank you George. I know I have been a pain, asking all sorts of questions while I got myself kitted out - but now I am up and running I hope I shall be able to contribute some pictures for people to pull to pieces. I don't mind, I have broad shoulders (well, one broad shoulder left, the other is a bit less now!) and thick skin, so be as unkind as you like, it will be taken on board and the advice / suggestions filed away for my future improvement.
I did a fishing feature for a countryside magazine the other day (yesterday?) and got some crackers. They are still in the camera at the moment, but I shall have to download them and get the batteries charged as I have a bike to do in Swansea, hopefully tomorrow, but until I get the off caerma flash system sorted I shall be a bit limited. Once that is sorted I shall be away on all cylinders. I need three decent power flashes that I can work remotely to match what I had in the Nikon system.
I'll have to join in on here when I get something to show and tell!
Just bought an X-T10, traded in an X-Pro1 that I just wasn't getting on with. I'd bought it as a smaller camera (well, smaller than my Nikon DSLRs) when kayaking, hiking and biking but was never convinced. The X-T10 seems more what I was after in the first place. I've grabbed one of the Speedbooster adapters as well, as I have a few old manual Nikon lenses with the film camera, so will be interesting to see what comes up!
I have the Fuji XT1 and have never been particularly happy with the AF speed, has anyone had both the XT1 and XT2 and is the 2 noticeably faster? Thank you.
I have the Fuji XT1 and have never been particularly happy with the AF speed, has anyone had both the XT1 and XT2 and is the 2 noticeably faster? Thank you.
First of all no one's a pain for asking questions Sir, that's just what the forum's all about, to improve our photography and know how.
With regards to your off camera flash set up, if you still have your Nikon flash units you can fire them off camera using any basic radio trigger and receiver units available from fleebay. They obviously would only work in manual mode though ie no TTL flash.
I still use my old Nikon SB800 units with my Fuji set up, but I have ripped the inards out of an old Nikon SU800 control unit and incorporated the circuitry from it into a box I made up with some Fuji circuitry that I obtained it enables me to control the SB800 units all from the camera. Took a bit of working out to do but it works a treat.
George.
Beautiful! I want to learn to process like that. Then again, I would love to live somewhere somewhere with this kind of beauty (or at least have time to visit).
I love the foreground interest here.Probably the last shot of Laig Beach for a while. As you can see, the X-Trans sensor has produced all sorts of strange worminess here. No wait, that's how the seaweed actually grows. My bad
Whitened by David Hallett, on Flickr
I would love to know what you did here. Did you lift shadows in LR/PS?This might be of interest to show the dynamic range in the Fuji sensor - shot with XT-1 and 10-24
Before:
Melrose Abbey - unedited by Mike Smith, on Flickr
After:
Melrose Abbey Sunset by Mike Smith, on Flickr
These are really nice. It looks like you're getting the hang of the X-T20 .Just a couple that I finished in LR from yesterday.
Smile your`ve been snapped by David Ore, on Flickr
Take a Seat by David Ore, on Flickr
Hi! I'm new to this thread. I got my X-T1 a year ago, and an X-T10 a few months later (I bought a lens and X-T10 on eBay for less than either cost alone). I keep the 27mm lens on the X-T10 and rotate my other lenses on the X-T1.I'll have to join in on here when I get something to show and tell!
Just bought an X-T10, traded in an X-Pro1 that I just wasn't getting on with. I'd bought it as a smaller camera (well, smaller than my Nikon DSLRs) when kayaking, hiking and biking but was never convinced. The X-T10 seems more what I was after in the first place. I've grabbed one of the Speedbooster adapters as well, as I have a few old manual Nikon lenses with the film camera, so will be interesting to see what comes up!
I love when nature photos have motion blur like this. As for multiple photos in one post, just keep clicking on the image icon and adding a new URL for each photo. (at least, that's what I've done)View attachment 108269
Again, I wanted to try and get away from the standard, fast shutter speed, action stopped picture of the action when landing a fish - so I used a slow shutter speed and let the blur tell the story. There is enough 'sharp' within the image to define it.
Thanks I ended up getting this one:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/SHOOT-Shut...TF8&qid=1502355293&sr=8-3&keywords=RR-90&th=1
£13.99 and all the features work fine
I actually went into the outside world this week with the camera, first time in aaaaagggess!
Not pin sharp, blowing wind made getting the shot very tricky, had to accept what blew into the plane of focus!
REALLY like that. Nice complementary colours. I suck at these shots where the subject becomes the background, but really like them...I actually went into the outside world this week with the camera, first time in aaaaagggess!
Not pin sharp, blowing wind made getting the shot very tricky, had to accept what blew into the plane of focus!
Quick one from the garden this morning, saw him flutter by in the strong wind and stop for a rest...
Untitled by jimmyjamjoejoe, on Flickr
X-T10, 18-55mm, and extension tube.
I actually went into the outside world this week with the camera, first time in aaaaagggess!
Not pin sharp, blowing wind made getting the shot very tricky, had to accept what blew into the plane of focus!
The only shot I've managed to take off the camera from yesterdays fringe meet. Transferred from camera to flickr using the fuji app.
2017-08-12_02-36-07 by barrysprout, on Flickr
View attachment 108269
Again, I wanted to try and get away from the standard, fast shutter speed, action stopped picture of the action when landing a fish - so I used a slow shutter speed and let the blur tell the story. There is enough 'sharp' within the image to define it.
I went out yesterday to play and took a couple of harbour shots at Wells-Next-The-Sea in Norfolk with X-T10 / 55-200.View attachment 108275 View attachment 108276 View attachment 108277 View attachment 108278
This was in my garden, trying out some close focussing on the 35 f1.4.View attachment 108279
Unfortunately I am starting from scratch - all my Nikon gear was lost in a crash on the M40. I was on my motorbike and a fellow on his mobile phone hit a Porsche Cayenne, which collected me, on my bike, and put me in front of an E-class coming up the outside lane. I bounced fairly well, but my panniers with the camera kit in was ripped off in the subsequent crash and wasn't recovered with the bike. So I am having to get going again from a standing start - hence the opportunity to try the Fuji system. Every cloud and all that.
I agree, and have the same issue myself with the 34mm wide open at 1.4. The focal plane is just so damn fine it's easy to just miss it with the tiniest of movements.Another very nice shot Sir, with spot on colour.
"As with your other shots this one to me doesn't look sharp, I'm sure the shot itself is, so for some reason you appear to be losing the definition during posting. Please don't take it as a nit picking complaint as I'm just trying to help you display your shots at there very best"
George.