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Thanks for some nice examples of how this lens performs, Rico. I've used a 50mm f/1.2 manual focus before and I'm really looking forward to finally having an AF version for low light photography. I preordered on the day it was announced and you've done nothing to change my mind about that :)

I might have to duct-tape my phone to the back of my camera ;)

I can't believe it's taken 4 pages of this thread for someone to mention the flip screen! This is THE NUMBER ONE reason I want this camera. I enjoy shooting from the waist, which is hard to do when the screen faces your belly instead of your eyes ;) Furthermore, I hope it is a touchscreen! Have...

Good overview of the X system, John, though I was a bit surprised you didn't mention that most of the XF lenses are metal on the outside (excepting only the pancakes, I believe). Some people really love their metal lenses... Your images were great, as always; I loved the subdued use of coloured...

Never realised what a wideangle junkie you were, John :p For my part, I'm currently happy with the 14mm, but the reason I got it was because the 10-24mm wasn't out and I didn't know when it would be out. So far the 14mm is a great lens (what little I've had time to use it) and I'll be reading...

2.5mm port user here too. These cabled releases are ubiquitous and cheap; I got one off of eBay years ago and have used it with 3 brands of camera I have owned so far. It's a simple one that just features half-press to AF and lock press for bulb; enough for my simple needs. I think it was $15...

OK Rico, now you have to explain to us why ISO is treated differently than its siblings, shutter speed or aperture, and hence why their limits are also treated differently. I am reminded of Animal Farm, where all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. Is the X-E2 part of...

Rico, I am greatly enjoying our useless discussions on this topic :cool: So here are two major bugs I found for you to report to Fuji: Bug Number 1 While indoors in a darkish room, set your camera to a shutter speed of 1/1000 and the lens aperture to A. Now set Auto ISO with a Max...

Yeah, why is that? It's not like all of a sudden you would stop wanting DoF info in the EVF.

I would like the option to exist for me to choose whether the limit is a real limit, or just a suggestion. I would choose for the limit to be hard, but the camera would still fire, of course, it would simply take an underexposed image.

I can't increase the ISO because I'm at 6400, and I'd happily push the file in post, but the camera blows past my shutter speed limit in order to expose correctly (but with a much slower shutter speed than I want) when I'm shooting in Av + Auto ISO. The only way for me to work around this is to...

I'm pretty sure one of the first pages of these lenses' manual alerts you to how the clutch mechanism works (not to mention every single review out there). Do people really return products without RTFM'ing? I'm having a love-hate relationship with the clutch-focus. On the one hand, I love the...

Of course it's heated—we're talking cameras, dammit! :D

But you're asking me to accept wrongly exposed results instead. You see, the camera is capable of reaching ISO 25,600 (it does so in JPEG mode), yet if I shoot RAW you are asking me to accept a motion-blurred shot at 1/20s + ISO 6400 instead of the correctly exposed, non-motion-blurred shot I...

That's one option, yes. But I'd rather not have to push a Fn button and not have any type of menu list at all. The ISO number shows up at the bottom of the EVF/LCD display, just have it vary when you turn the rear wheel, like shutter speed and aperture do. I just don't understand why so many...

We're not understanding each other, Rico. I don't want an extra ISO wheel, I want to be able to change ISO with the rear control wheel without the need to press a Fn button first, and without a huge list of available ISOs popping up in the viewfinder. In Av you don't get a list of available...

I'd have to say the Pentax 77mm f/1.8 Ltd. It not only renders wonderful images, but it's lovely to hold and handle. Given its compact size and metal construction, it will be quite at home with the native Fuji lenses it now lives with. Yes, it has a pull-out hood. And why yes, it's available...

Just tested it: Yes it will.

John, I both do and don't agree with you, which is why I think there should be a menu option allowing us to choose if we want the override or not, and let me tell you why: ISO 6400! On a few occasions already I've run into shooting the 35mm wide open, hitting ISO 6400, and the camera...

It's amusing to see the recommendations, as I assume everyone is rooting for their previous (or maybe current) DSLR brand. Allow me to do the same! :D I know you've already purchased one, but this might be useful to others: Look for Pentax-M lenses such as the 50mm f/2 (tiny!): ...or...

Oh, rats...

Who needs a manual when you have these fora? ;)

Yes. And no! :D What I was complaining about was a) How the menu is accessed (I don't think it should be a menu, just like aperture and shutter speed aren't menus); and b) How large the menu is on the screen such that it blocks my view of the scene I'm shooting. We're not saying completely...

Oh, definitely! Auto-ISO needs to be there between 6400 and 200, quickly accessible when needed (which is almost all the time for me).

Excellent use of this lens! But now I'm worried I don't know where MY office rat is...

Do you feel like someone asked you if your computer was turned on when you complained the DVD drive didn't work? :p

The issue was that you click on the Fn button to bring up the ISO menu, and then you change the ISO, and then you click it again (or half press the shutter release) to close the ISO menu. What I would like to see is being able to press the top Fn button, then change the ISO by spinning the wheel...

Pentax allows it too (you can assign ISO to one of the two control wheels or the back wheel while pressing an ISO button); and I'm pretty sure I remember the Ricoh GRX allows changing ISO with the rear toggle wheely thing. Anyway, let's hope these requests make their way magically to Fuji HQ...

Hey BB! I didn't know you lived here too ;) Good to see you, and I hope my little one gives me some time to go street shooting with the X-E2, which I am really looking forward to, so I can post some pictures.

No need to give any buttons up, this is how it works, for example, on Pentax DSLRs: You can choose in a menu the default behaviour of the 4-way control buttons; one option has the buttons giving you access to Flash, WB, etc, and when you hit the OK button you go into AF Area mode and the arrow...

Aha! So it was you! :p I continue to find it difficult to change them on purpose. I wonder if there's a way to loosen them up...maybe with a hammer... I fully understand that, John, I would simply like the camera to do it for me, as do all the other cameras in the World. Also, when...

Hi Everyone, My first post here at FujiXspot. I'm a long-time Pentax DSLR user, most recently shooting with a Samsung NX10 + 30mm f/2 for my street photography. For a few years I wrote and edited Enticing the Light, where I championed the Fuji X100 from day 1. Never actually got one because...

I'd also prefer 40mm, but would probably still buy 50mm. An external OVF with an info overlay would be a nice touch. Just don't charge $250 for it.

+1. I always thought the whole point of the modules was to offer multiple bodies, not just multiple lensors. I would like to see a GXR body with built-in EVF of better quality than the current detachable EVF.

Maybe, but in the meantime me and most other people will have bought into another brand's system. Furthermore, the longer they wait, the more advanced everyone else's system will be (better technology, more lenses, accessories, etc.) so they're only hurting themselves by waiting. Nikon and...

You might say I'm one of the whiners... :026: One Small Step for Photographers, One Giant Leap for Nikon’s Marketing Department | Enticing the Light

Well, whaddya know? :doh: To me, the GXR is like the Volvo of cameras: They're boxy, but somehow attractive, and oh so sturdy. Thanks for the link, Remko, although I'm not sure whether the judges take into account beauty, or if they're just a bunch of engineers for whom functionality is the...

Paul, I'd like to hear why you went for the GXR instead of the Fuji X100. This is the type of idea that we, as users, happily come up with, yet camera brands never follow up with :smile: I suspect that the big camera brands have a gentleman's agreement not to step on each other's toes and, to...

I love seeing great pictures taken with cheap equipment. A big thumbs up for the review, the camera+lens combo, and the high-quality images you're producing, Chad :bravo-009:

I just came across the post I wrote back in November 2009 when the Ricoh GXR was announced. My prediction was that this system would be a flop. Some 17 months later it's still trudging along; though I wouldn't qualify it as a success story, it certainly hasn't flopped. It's nice to be wrong...

I'll quote the beginning of my 2nd paragraph: Let me make something clear: All images you will see in this review have been shot in RAW and processed manually in Adobe ACR 5.6. None of them are straight from the camera... The problem is the mount module would be very large, even larger than...

Glad you liked it, BB. Credit where credit is due: The first time I saw them called lensors was by Thom Hogan, and I thought that was a funny name. That's one of my favourites too. When I was going to take it I was annoyed that the guy was there, breaking the symmetry, but then he gave me...

I thought it was the same 12MP sensor; where did you hear it's new? It does/will have a focal plane shutter, while the lensors have leaf shutters.

Introduction The Ricoh GXR body and lensors came loaded with firmware v.1.18. I tried out the 50mm on my way back from work and found the AF to be very slow; once on the metro it struggled to focus in that poor light and most of the time just gave up. I didn’t feel positive about the upcoming...

From what I've read, it'll be $800 with the zoom lens. For Pentax's sake, I hope this is incorrect. I don't know who in their right mind would pay that price when they can get a Canon S95, Panny LX5 or Olympus ZX-1 (all of which have a better lens) for well under $500. Here's the back of the...

I hope this isn't the 5.6x crop factor mirrorless Pentax, but the APS-C one. In fact, I hope all those rumours of a 5.6x crop mirrorless Pentax are fake, fake, FAKE. I like Pentax too much :wink:

Chuck, I feel you! I need -3.0 on my diopters and most DSLRs only make it to -2.5. I use an external diopter attachment, like the ones used back in the film camera days when there were no adjustments and all cameras had -1.0 diopter viewfinders. The problem with the X100 is that there's no way...

Me too, and it's not because I'm a he :biggrin:

What's a reversed step down ring? Of the reversed step down ring, please! :)

Unless that picnic doesn't have health insurance, in which case it is a picnic :026: