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Posted: Tue Sep 20th, 2016 11:08

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Eric

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Iain wrote:
I liked the IQ out of the Fuji but the focusing and the view finder just let it down for me.

You are absolutely right Iain, in terms of high speed focusing and shooting situations like sport and wildlife.

I have however been having a lot of fun shooting the XT on general scenery and people shots. Put it in manual and just played with the settings to suit the subject like the old days. Even managed to get all the displays off, so a bit more battery saving.

Unless there are significant inroads on the speed of the EVF refresh rate ( by that I mean it stays on the taken image for far too long so that you need to find where the subject move to in the meantime) I don't see EVF for wildlife and sport.

Which means I will probably join Graham and Malcolm with a D500 and ditch all my short range pro glass and the D750.

The Fuji is fine for day to day use...so I don't need Nikon duplication.

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Posted: Sat Oct 1st, 2016 01:53

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I had an XPro1 and the 18-135. I sold them both when I wish I had sold the lens, kept the brilliant body, and bought decent primes. I never got on with the 18-135, it's not something I can put my finger on but it was one of those lenses that had a "look" to the results you either get on with or not. I didn't. I wrongly blamed the XPro. The OVF is great and I prefer it to the EVF. I like the XT1 for its weather proofing (I do live in Scotland). I also like the tilting screen, which eats batteries yes, but it's great on a tripod. No more bending. I think if I was going to get a new body I would struggle to decide on XT2 or XPro2. If they somehow put an OVF on the XT2 then I'd buy one.

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Posted: Sat Oct 1st, 2016 15:21

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My critique of the Fuji XT1 is several fold.

Let me say firstly it's capable of producing excellent images and the lenses are sharp. As mentioned before, the battery life is woeful. Even with the LCD switched off I only got about 150-200shots. I have the extra battery grip and EVERY day that battery was drained and the internal one needed to come to the rescue. Which meant EVERY night I had to charge two batteries.

The second gripe is the proliferation of knobs and their poor distribution around the body that caused me to HAVE to check something hadn't changed everytime it came out of the bag, or when I changed a lens. I know many people argue against menu only adjustments on Nikon entry bodies but there's a lot to be said for keeping things away from fingers and other surfaces ready to change everything from exp comp to focus mode in the blink of an eye. Yes I know about gaffer tape...but come on, these are supposed to be 21 century evolutions.

I guess the number of shots I lost through erroneous setting changes contributed to my fewer good shots per battery tally.

My biggest gripe is the EVF. It's pokey, off colour, pixelated and slow to refresh. Even shooting Cont H, there is a loss of positioning with moving subjects. Example...photographing large yellow spider on web by a fast running stream.....no problem at all with the Fuji and 200mm lens.
Photographing a Dipper, bobbing and weaving under the same fast running stream or Kites and vvultures flying 'lazily yet unpredictable in direction' against a blue sky and the EVF is too busy 'keeping control of itself' to let you follow or catch the second decisive moment ...assuming it focuses in time to get the first decisive image!!! I would also add that trying to keep track of a fast moving bird in and out of shade and full sun was far harder to watch on an EVF than an optical viewfinder. The image in the viewfinder is harsh and electronic making it an obstacle to clear sighting.

Basic camera functions shouldn't irritate and as a result, get in the way of best practise.

I think back to the film days and the Canon EOS RT (real time) body with its fixed pellicle mirror. With that you could see the exposure as it happened and keep composition. Sure you lost a half to one stop of exposure and the viewfinder was dim...but it was amazing for keeping your eye on the action.

I can't help thinking with the high ISO capability of modern sensors, resurrecting and refining that idea rather than EVFs would be a far better route for lightweight bodies without mirror movement.

You might have guessed there will be Fuji clear out soon.

I will keep the IR converted body and the right lens or lenses for IR work. But I just don't see the point on hanging onto a system that needs help from other cameras to cover more acting subject matter.

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