The Fabulous Fuji X owners thread

snerkler said:
I find the histogram much more useful as it shows you whether highlights are being blown and blacks being crushed. A light meter needle like on the OM1 SLR only shows whether it's over or underexposed, the light meter on modern cameras tells you this, but also tells you how much over/underexposed, which again for me is much better than a very vague needle. Of course YMMV
Click to expand...

Well, the needle on the Yashica Mat has got me 10 rolls out of 10 so far with no issues :ROFLMAO:

I just find the histogram in the OVF very difficult to read clearly.
 
LeeRatters said:
Well, the needle on the Yashica Mat has got me 10 rolls out of 10 so far with no issues :ROFLMAO:

I just find the histogram in the OVF very difficult to read clearly.
Click to expand...
Yeah it’s not great on the OVF to be fair, I rarely use it and use the light meter instead.

I do find the X100VI underexposes a touch too.
 
Went in to Castle Cameras (Salisbury) today and nearly bought the 150-600. Lucky, they didn't have it in stock..... But I am looking to pick up a new mini scope from them on Tuesday - maybe the big zoom will be back by then, who knows....
 
Last edited:
That's hands down the best lens I've ever used. It's so sharp it actually makes a the viewfinder seem like it's been upgraded just looking through it.

It's left me with quite a dilemma. It was a big stretch to buy it. It's sat on my credit car and I always had in the back of my mind that I would likely sell it on pretty quickly after this trip once I'd had my fun. I'd even checked MPB trade in price before buying to make sure I would be losing less than just hiring one would cost. But it's really tempting to keep it. I'd have to sell my 50-140, 100-400 and viltron 75mm and chuck another few hundred quid at it. Tough choice. It's not the most useful lens in the world being massive and a prime but the results are such a level up from what I'm used to using.

It's not perfect though. I found the hood is easy to knock off and the aperture ring is a little too easy to accidentally adjust too. Splitting hairs a little here though.
 
gad-westy said:
That's hands down the best lens I've ever used. It's so sharp it actually makes a the viewfinder seem like it's been upgraded just looking through it.

It's left me with quite a dilemma. It was a big stretch to buy it. It's sat on my credit car and I always had in the back of my mind that I would likely sell it on pretty quickly after this trip once I'd had my fun. I'd even checked MPB trade in price before buying to make sure I would be losing less than just hiring one would cost. But it's really tempting to keep it. I'd have to sell my 50-140, 100-400 and viltron 75mm and chuck another few hundred quid at it. Tough choice. It's not the most useful lens in the world being massive and a prime but the results are such a level up from what I'm used to using.

It's not perfect though. I found the hood is easy to knock off and the aperture ring is a little too easy to accidentally adjust too. Splitting hairs a little here though.
Click to expand...
I think for that sort of money you're entitled to split a few hairs!
 
gad-westy said:
That's hands down the best lens I've ever used. It's so sharp it actually makes a the viewfinder seem like it's been upgraded just looking through it.

It's left me with quite a dilemma. It was a big stretch to buy it. It's sat on my credit car and I always had in the back of my mind that I would likely sell it on pretty quickly after this trip once I'd had my fun. I'd even checked MPB trade in price before buying to make sure I would be losing less than just hiring one would cost. But it's really tempting to keep it. I'd have to sell my 50-140, 100-400 and viltron 75mm and chuck another few hundred quid at it. Tough choice. It's not the most useful lens in the world being massive and a prime but the results are such a level up from what I'm used to using.

It's not perfect though. I found the hood is easy to knock off and the aperture ring is a little too easy to accidentally adjust too. Splitting hairs a little here though.
Click to expand...

Excellent shots, I can see the sharpness (especially compared with your LM 24 shots on Flickr). Sharpness is very difficult to get past (IMO), once seen you crave for it all the time, its one of the reasons why I was happy to chop in a lot of my Fuji gear for the Leica Q3. A lot of motorsport sharpness coming from decent panning techinique, something which I often lack, I have short periods where I get in the zone and nail it, and other periods where quite frankly I'm hopeless. But nailing it witha sharp less makes the whole thing worth it :)

I only have the 50-140 and 100-400 and I could see myself losing the 100-400 for the XF200mm (+TC) but I couldn't get rid of the 50-140 as well, quite a lot of what I shoot is at close range (hillclimbs, infield at Oulton) and 200 would be too long. Then only selling the 100-400 doesn't put much of dent in an XF200mm price!!

I'm tempted to get one for an event on the free 48hr hire offer (though there is a £2750 deposit to put down!!)

In your shoes its a very difficult shout, because I would also be considering X-T4 -> X-H2S, and realistically thats about a £1000 (at least) upgrade once you take into account a CF-Express Card. I have found the X-H2S a big step up from the X-T3 (from the blackout free, the fact that I can use ES all the time with no artefacts, and the AF speed) - of course mentioning that doesn't help you!!

Credit Card Blanace Transfer to another card with 0% or very low interest period might help..........
 
Mr Perceptive said:
Excellent shots, I can see the sharpness (especially compared with your LM 24 shots on Flickr). Sharpness is very difficult to get past (IMO), once seen you crave for it all the time, its one of the reasons why I was happy to chop in a lot of my Fuji gear for the Leica Q3. A lot of motorsport sharpness coming from decent panning techinique, something which I often lack, I have short periods where I get in the zone and nail it, and other periods where quite frankly I'm hopeless. But nailing it witha sharp less makes the whole thing worth it :)

I only have the 50-140 and 100-400 and I could see myself losing the 100-400 for the XF200mm (+TC) but I couldn't get rid of the 50-140 as well, quite a lot of what I shoot is at close range (hillclimbs, infield at Oulton) and 200 would be too long. Then only selling the 100-400 doesn't put much of dent in an XF200mm price!!

I'm tempted to get one for an event on the free 48hr hire offer (though there is a £2750 deposit to put down!!)

In your shoes its a very difficult shout, because I would also be considering X-T4 -> X-H2S, and realistically thats about a £1000 (at least) upgrade once you take into account a CF-Express Card. I have found the X-H2S a big step up from the X-T3 (from the blackout free, the fact that I can use ES all the time with no artefacts, and the AF speed) - of course mentioning that doesn't help you!!

Credit Card Blanace Transfer to another card with 0% or very low interest period might help..........
Click to expand...

Cheers. One interesting new challenge I had at Le Mans was heat shimmer. I thought the lens might have a problem. Then I switched to the 100-400 and that did the same and I started to think I had a camera problem until the penny dropped. There are actually whole hours worth of photos that I've binned off because they're mushy. Other than getting closer, it doesn't really seem like something that is easy to work around. Not normally a problem in the UK! Panning is always hit and miss and particularly tricky at LM finding space to do it and dealing with the shear speed and acceleration of the quicker cars. In rallying, I'll often pan down to 1/30s. At LM, at full race speed even 1/250 is hit and miss. The 2kg weight of the 200mm possibly helps with smoothness but I had to rest my arms a lot!

The 50-140 is a tricky one to get rid of. The other two not so much. I used the 100-400 a lot at LM but most of the time, it's not going to be needed. The 75mm is fantastic but I don't have many uses for it. The 50-140 is used a lot and as you say, sometimes you need less zoom but still some speed (I do have a 70-300 for general telephoto stuff). But then the 50-140 is replaceable with a little diligent saving. The 200mm f2, not so much!

Funny you mention the XH2S. It's not really on my radar at all. Motorsport doesn't make up that big a portion of what I like to shoot and I much prefer the X-T bodies. The cash I have had squirrelled away was likely going to go into an X-T6 though the X-T4 generally serves me okay for everything I do.

The actual CC balance doesn't bother me. That can be paid but my wife and I have our own frivolous spending accounts and I don't really want to use 'family' money for my follies. Got some thinking to do!
 
gad-westy said:
That's hands down the best lens I've ever used. It's so sharp it actually makes a the viewfinder seem like it's been upgraded just looking through it.

It's left me with quite a dilemma. It was a big stretch to buy it. It's sat on my credit car and I always had in the back of my mind that I would likely sell it on pretty quickly after this trip once I'd had my fun. I'd even checked MPB trade in price before buying to make sure I would be losing less than just hiring one would cost. But it's really tempting to keep it. I'd have to sell my 50-140, 100-400 and viltron 75mm and chuck another few hundred quid at it. Tough choice. It's not the most useful lens in the world being massive and a prime but the results are such a level up from what I'm used to using.

It's not perfect though. I found the hood is easy to knock off and the aperture ring is a little too easy to accidentally adjust too. Splitting hairs a little here though.
Click to expand...
For motorsport I always find that technique is far more important than the outright quality of the lens. I've sometimes considered selling my Sony 70-200mm f2.8 GM II and 100-400mm GM to buy the 300mm f2.8 but I'm pretty sure I'd miss the flexibility. The 300mm f2.8 is only 1470g though, I'm not sure I'd want to lug around the Fuji 200mm f2 at 2265g on a regular basis. I got rid of my Tamron 150-600mm for that reason, and that was 'only' 1951g.

Lovely pics by the way.
 
When I’m at home later I’ll see if I kept any. If not the memory card will still have them on. Shows up as general softness. You’d think out of focus except nothing in the image is sharp even at 1/8000s. Played around with OIS on/off just in case but no difference. Track temperature itself got well over 50c which is not something I’ve had to deal with before.
 
snerkler said:
For motorsport I always find that technique is far more important than the outright quality of the lens. I've sometimes considered selling my Sony 70-200mm f2.8 GM II and 100-400mm GM to buy the 300mm f2.8 but I'm pretty sure I'd miss the flexibility. The 300mm f2.8 is only 1470g though, I'm not sure I'd want to lug around the Fuji 200mm f2 at 2265g on a regular basis. I got rid of my Tamron 150-600mm for that reason, and that was 'only' 1951g.

Lovely pics by the way.
Click to expand...

Thank you. I’d generally agree with you about the lens vs skill thing and I’m living proof that a bad image can be taken with a good lens but in low light or indeed in the dark that extra stop (or three stops vs 100-400) makes a huge difference. Just makes some shots possible that wouldn’t be otherwise. I shoot a bit of UK rallying and I could see it being great for that. But yeah, you pay the price with weight! And not just in terms of holding it but even just fitting it to the camera etc is an effort. The 100-400 feels incredibly light next to it. I always had that down as a chonky beast!
 
Last edited:
gad-westy said:
When I’m at home later I’ll see if I kept any. If not the memory card will still have them on. Shows up as general softness. You’d think out of focus except nothing in the image is sharp even at 1/8000s. Played around with OIS on/off just in case but no difference. Track temperature itself got well over 50c which is not something I’ve had to deal with before.
Click to expand...
I had a similar issue at silverstone with the heat haze, also at times it looked liked it had just not focussed at all as everything was out of focus. I thought I had a lens issue but I read that heat haze can cause havoc with the AF system
 
Jelster said:
Went in to Castle Cameras (Salisbury) today and nearly bought the 150-600. Lucky, they didn't have it in stock..... But I am looking to pick up a new mini scope from them on Tuesday - maybe the big zoom will be back by then, who knows....
Click to expand...
I hope no one minds that this is effectively a double post of one I made a while ago. I bought my 150-600, ex demonstarion, from a LCE branch at a reduced price last year . Long story short. I took it with me on a cruise to get ship photos but I only got a few worth having as the visibility in the Med was hazy most of the time.

I did manage to get a couple of a cargo ship crossing the Bay of Biscay, unfortunarely I can't find them now. When I first looked at them enlarged on my computer screen, I could read the the name of the ship we were passing, she was at least 2 to 3 miles away.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top