Great pose!
Great macro shot. Pity it seems as though that fly is spider food now!
What lens are you using for 'travel'?I purchased an X-T2 yesterday and love it after only using it for one night (it's replaced my X100T as my travel camera).
I'm struggling to find a nice wrist strap for it though.. I picked up a peak design as a temporary measure but looking for something a little nice such as a leather or rope type.
Can anyone recommend one?
Amazing detail in that image GeorgeJust a simple Macro/Close Up shot of a Fly. The shot was taken in my barn and the fly was in actual fact hanging upside down on the top edge of a window but I thought it looked better to present it with the fly the right way up so to speak.
X-T1, 105mm Micro Nikkor Lens Plus Ext' Tubes, 1/180th @ F11, ISO-200, Modified Ring Flash, Handheld.
Fly (1)-03117 by G.K.Jnr., on Flickr
for looking.,
George.
What lens are you using for 'travel'?
Amazing detail in that image George
Don't. It don't make sense. Several of us have done just that. Bottom line is we were all scared of letting go the big DSLR gear. Then 12 months later when we realise that it has been sitting there doing nothing we sell it. At a lower price.As some of you know, in just over a month I will be getting the X-T2 and as of today I have made up my mind, once I have used the X-T2 + 18-55mm for a while, I am going to get rid of most of my Canon lens to get me the X-T20 plus another Fuji lens, so I will just keep one lens for the 70D
Don't. It don't make sense. Several of us have done just that. Bottom line is we were all scared of letting go the big DSLR gear. Then 12 months later when we realise that it has been sitting there doing nothing we sell it. At a lower price.
Get rid of the Canon. Hard to accept, but you'll find that the X-T2 will do just about everything that you want. Unless you are thinking of becoming a top line pro or wanting to print out bigger than A3 you won't miss it. Bite the bullet...says the voice of experience!
Oh - youll have to ask the mods to change your user name, or you'll look even odder!
Who is/was Scotty?BUT as Scotty probably never said, "Ye cannae break the laws o' Physics."!
I purchased an X-T2 yesterday and love it after only using it for one night (it's replaced my X100T as my travel camera).
I'm struggling to find a nice wrist strap for it though.. I picked up a peak design as a temporary measure but looking for something a little nice such as a leather or rope type.
Can anyone recommend one?
These are used by quite a few on here.I purchased an X-T2 yesterday and love it after only using it for one night (it's replaced my X100T as my travel camera).
I'm struggling to find a nice wrist strap for it though.. I picked up a peak design as a temporary measure but looking for something a little nice such as a leather or rope type.
Can anyone recommend one?
I don't know your background but I started out in the days of film. When I picked the X-T1 up it just felt like old times. Maybe I'm an old codger (cue insults from @Nod ) or maybe it's the ergonomics. For me, and I've heard others say the same; the fooj just feels right. You'll be surprised how quickly you learn your way round it.
Insults from me? Nah - I just point out the truth!!! I'm a young codger!
Frank's right. Although there are still a few things that my D750 do do better than even the X-T2 so I've kept the Nikon system alongside the Fujis. I'm extremely lucky to be able to afford to have that luxury but if I ever had to pick a single system, it wouyld be the Fujis and live with its (very few) shortcomings.
It's the 80% rule isn't it? Just about every camera/system will do 80% of what you would ideally like 80% of the time. If you can accept that then you've got a good system, but is there any system that gives more than that?
TBH, I reckon the Fuji system gives ME closer to 90%. Having 10mm-800mm available in 3 lenses is (to ME) more important than the faster apertures which are available in the f/2.8 zooms and the fast primes.
It would be lovely to have a single body with a single lens which allowed everything from fisheye up to 800mm reach in a package the size of an X-F1 BUT as Scotty probably never said, "Ye cannae break the laws o' Physics."!
Thank you very much guys, I like to try and take photos of nearly everything as my Flickr shows, but I am actually fed up lugging my Canon stuff about and that is the reason for the total change. I will have the 18-55mm lens with the X-T2, then once I get to know how to use the fuji that is when the rest of my canon gear will be traded in. I have three canon lens with original boxes and one canon L, so I am hoping that will get me the X-T20 + 35 f2 mm.
LOL, I will match mpb trade in price if that is the road you insist on going.
I'm off for a day out with SWMBO tomorrow. I'll be taking the camera but with the 18.55 on it. For general purpose photography it's a darned good lens. No chance she will put up with me swapping primes all day long so the 'kit" lens is an almost perfect compromise. Well up in @Nod ''s 90% bracket.
It's called the kit lens because it is supplied as standard with a complete set up. In reality it is a far better lens than the term "kit lens" leads you to expect. Only the pixel peepers find fault with it.....but they can find fault with anythingLook forward to seeing some photos, as I have not read one bad review on this lens at all.
Who is/was Scotty?
Nope no in joke. Believe it or not I never watched Star Wars. I know.... missed out all that culture.C'mon. Every old codger should remember Scotty from Star Trek..
or am I missing an 'in' joke..
Dunno. I'm a non-watcher also. Prefer Corrie, but I don't think it was said in that either.I hated Star Trek, but I know the "beam me up Scotty" thing. Is it true that was never actually said in the series?
It's called the kit lens because it is supplied as standard with a complete set up. In reality it is a far better lens than the term "kit lens" leads you to expect. Only the pixel peepers find fault with it.....but they can find fault with anything
DaveT2 could be my new name
ing that you want. Unless you are thinking of becoming a top line pro or wanting to print out bigger than A3 you won't miss it.
Yes. I was just being cautious. Erring on the side of caution!Saying that, I've just had a 24x16 print delivered, which taken with my X-T10 and it looks great, obviously this has the 16mp sensor rather than the 24mp, so with an XT2 you should be fine to go big.
I'm off for a day out with SWMBO tomorrow. I'll be taking the camera but with the 18.55 on it. For general purpose photography it's a darned good lens. No chance she will put up with me swapping primes all day long so the 'kit" lens is an almost perfect compromise. Well up in @Nod ''s 90% bracket.
They look pretty good to me.
As to shadows...I'm constantly impressed with how much LR recovers. I no longer worry about shadows in my shots. Highlight recovery is also pretty good too.
You need @Mr Perceptive here. He knows far more about the techy bits than anyone else. (Well it is his job!)