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The following opinions have been automatically translated with Microsoft Translator. | Fujifilm XF10 Pros: Small, discreet, always with you, great optics and great sensor Cons: Unreliable AF, frustrating in use Opinion: Taken as every day camera last winter, hoping to find a very light and discreet contraption to always carry with me, it turned out to be a broken promise, at least for me. Let's start with the pros: it is really tiny and invisible, the sensor is the best there was in APS-C at the exit, and the optics, when you hit the focus, is stunning for engraving on the whole frame (in a couple of shots it sent me nicely aliasing the sensor). Here, however, the cons begin. For one thing, AF is unreliable. Doing thorough tests, I noticed that by focusing, for example, the same subject 5 meters away for n times (from a standstill, in AF-S single point) the focus will fall once at four meters, once at five, twice at four and a half, once at six and a half, and so on. Everything is clearly visible if you keep an eye on the scale of the focusing distance on the monitor. In addition, the optics have a certain curvature of field: as long as you shoot at nearby and central subjects, in short, in shots where the quality at the edges of the image is secondary, the accuracy of the AF is still sufficient and the extended pdc covers many flaws. But if you shoot at longer distances, for example for a glimpse of landscape, it becomes really difficult to get sharp photos on the sides using autofocus (even generously diaphragm), due to the curvature of the field and the focus that, in fact, while aiming at the same subject, will fall now at 20 meters, now at 50, now at 15, now to infinity, in a completely unpredictable way. The only solution is to work very carefully in manual focus, going to focus AROUND infinity, with an eye to the distance scale and viewfinder magnification, and doing several tests. Unfortunately, even in MF the machine still uses the AF motor, so it is not possible to leave the lens "locked" on a certain distance as you would do with a real manual lens: the setting is reset every time the machine goes into standby, the results are not replicable, and the focusing process must be repeated for every single shot. It is probably a design limitation due to the very short stroke of the focusing unit on a pancake optic; and I think this behavior is the reason why online you can find those who consider the optics equal to the phenomenal 28 of the Ricoh GR, and those who consider it less than mediocre - try it! Snap focus modes do not help as they are optimized for short/medium distances. This, for me that I counted on using it also for landscape when I'm around, turned out to be an annoying flaw. Beyond that, though, I found the XF10 frustrating even in the use it was designed for. The machine is a strange hybrid between advanced functions (copied from the GR project) and found by entry level; However, neither is properly implemented. The firmware is lazy, the touch not very responsive, the raw huge, the keys too small. It is too slow to use it in full car as a snapshot machine; but also too castrated and cumbersome to use it calmly in manual (see above). This is extremely annoying, because when all the stars are aligned properly and the shot is right, it returns images of great quality. In the end I resold it and replaced it with something else - now I carry a kilo and broken more, but with the certainty of _always_ bringing home the shot I want, unless mistakes on my part of course. To close on a more positive note: it is still very nice (in black), built well, the battery life is decent and the flash, although tiny, surprisingly useful, thanks also to the central shutter. I do not want to contest the various positive reviews that preceded me, but I hope that these observations are useful to those who are keeping an eye on it for a future purchase. sent on August 26, 2022 |
 | Nikon AF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 D Pros: Versatility, quality/price, sharpness, macro function Cons: Nobody Opinion: Found at a pawnshop for the insane sum of £70, it became my only accompanying target. I use it on an equally old D700 for family photos and landscapes; he does everything he has to do and he does it well, on the 12 megapixels of the D700 then he goes right to the wedding. Excellent sharpness but not cruel (my specimen yields slightly only to 105 mm, however very usable), decent autofocus even continuously, blurred not annoying, distortion contained at 28 mm, macro-like function very convenient for close-up shots on the fly. It does not weigh and does not clutter. As said by another user, it is an "honest" perspective, and for this reason it is loved. sent on July 12, 2022 |
 | Nikon D700 Pros: Robustness, ergonomics, reliability, controls, file quality, few frills. Cons: 200 ISO native, 95% viewfinder Opinion: Taken more than anything out of curiosity, after having heard so much about it, made me question the whole Fuji kit that shortly thereafter ended up on sale without regrets. Incredible machine when compared to the age that has: for accuracy and speed, for AF performance, for image quality despite the "only" 12 megapixels. While being my first Nikon I learned to handle it in an afternoon so much are intuitive and well-arranged physical commands. Built like a boulder, I put it to the test during a trip to Iceland where he endured changes in temperature, humidity, rain, sand and salt water splashes without losing a shot. Considerable weight but well balanced. I use it especially for portraits and landscaping: 12 mpx can be a cons if you make huge prints or if you are fixing the detail to monitor, but for normal use the raw files, in my opinion, are excellent-very well workable even at ISO quite high , they return clean and "human" details, and above all show the full sense of 3d depth that is expected of the FF. Pity only for the viewfinder with coverage at 95% and for the base ISO to 200, but we are living quietly. sent on June 29, 2018 |
 | Fujifilm XF 23mm f/1.4 R Pros: Construction, yield, brightness, versatility Cons: Hood Opinion: I have only recently reached this lens but from the first tests I believe I have finally reached the peace of mind. I was in love with the 35mm focal length (equivalent) using the X100T, for the practical genres and for my tastes is the ideal focal length: wide-angle enough to give breath to the landscape image (while maintaining a natural perspective), perfect for street , and still "human" in the set portrait. While with the X100T but in the long run I did not find myself as ergonomics, I find this lens combined with my perfect X-E1 in terms of balance. The yield is, in my opinion, simply spectacular - corrected optically, much already engraved by f1.4, but the real strength for me are the colors and the contrast never exaggerated, which returns very malleable files in post. The blurred clearly is not (and can not be) as soft as the one of 35 / 1.4 I had before, but I still find it pleasant and more than enough to detach the subject from the background even in chaotic situations. The building then givestwo runs at 35 / 1.4 - this 23 is a small boulder, the right hand brake linings, no play, no "empty" feeling - 300 grams of pure tactile pleasure. The AF is fast enough for me (I still use a body with poor performance and I do not doubt that on more recent models goes even better) and as I have seen so far extremely precise even in difficult conditions, however I was a little surprised that is noisy almost as much as the 35 / 1.4.rnrnUnica sore note, as mentioned by others, the hood - does its dirty work, but it is definitely "landing" with respect to the quality of construction and the price of optics. The sooner I will try to repair the square Fuji metal shade (used) or the JJC equivalent. sent on December 30, 2017 |
 | Fujifilm X100T Pros: Dimensions, philosophy of use, construction, aesthetics, personalization, image quality, "character" Cons: Scandalous battery life, "with character" optic, non-tropicalized Opinion: I was curious about the minimalist philosophy of the X100 series for a while and a month ago, with a good offer on the used, I decided to jump by selling my mini Fuji kit to take an X100T. So far I have had very positive impressions. The idea of ??doing everything (or at least everything I care about) with a single focus has always fascinated me and fortunately I find the 35mm equivalent very natural compared to my way of seeing. Surely it is a machine that must be understood and tired (I'm still working), also because of the many customizable options, not always intuitive or well-explained in the embarrassing manual; On the other hand it is much more versatile than you might think - I'm using it for street, set portraits, and urban scenery, and I would say that it does it honestly in every situation. I found the hybrid viewfinder excellent, which I use almost exclusively in OVF mode with confirmation box (very comfortable), and I was amazed at her discretion - in black version is almost invisible on the street andThanks to the central shutter you can really kick almost in the face of people without being noticed. But the best thing is that I'm slowly getting rid of the pixel-peeping mania: let's say if the overall image quality is unquestionable, the 23/2 optics, however good, is not in my opinion fixed XF that I had before. However, this is a sacrifice to be taken into account: you lose 10% of QI, but you gain a lot in terms of bulk, serenity and fun ... because at the end the point is that this X100T is especially fun: it invites you to carry it Always below and use it in any situation, and after a while even the most obvious optical defects (flare, softness at TA) are also pleasant to use creatively. The only real faults I think are the battery life, which is also low for the ML standards, and the absence of tropicalization, that on such a car would in my opinion beessential. sent on June 10, 2017 |
 | Fujifilm XF 14mm f/2.8 R Pros: Construction, image quality Cons: Hood not up Opinion: I have a few days this fantastic goal, I have not yet got to squeeze it well, but the first impressions confirm all the good things they read around: monstrous sharpness already at 2.8, accurate colors, perfect correction of chromatic aberrations and geometric, AF precise (and also quite fast), and not least a flawless construction that makes it a beautiful object even to handle. Comfortable the manual MF command on the ring and the scale of distances to work in hyperfocal, the setting and shooting without much thought to f5.6-8 you have everything in focus from one meter to infinity. Many have complained of an aperture ring too loose, personally I have not noticed, maybe it was the beginning of a series problem. The lens hood is functional but I found it sometimes uncomfortable to montare.rnrnEro long been torn between this and the Samyang 12/2, but the pictures taken with it that I saw on the net never convince me entirely; also the focal 14mm seemed a more manageable hair and versatile than the 12, so I decided to sborsare something more - the Fujinon used costs almost twice the new Samyang but I think abundantly repay the expense. sent on January 09, 2017 |
 | Fujifilm FinePix S6500fd / S6000fd Pros: Image quality, construction, versatility, battery life Cons: Obscene JPG at medium-high ISO, bad raw processing software, lack of OIS Opinion: It was my first "serious" camera, purchased just released in 2006 and I had it with me for 8 years until it is dead after a bad fall. Despite all the inherent limitations of a machine of this type, it gave me great satisfaction and was an excellent point of entry into the world of photography. The 6mpx superCCD returned files with beautiful natural colors and excellent dynamic range (surprising considering the tiny size of the sensor), ipg practically perfect at 200 ISO, over it needed to work in RAW as the software applied a noise reduction really excessive that plan every detail . In RAW you could easily use 800 ISO and something more but you had to work with the obscene and very slow application provided by Fuji. LCD and electronic viewfinder ridiculous than what turns today but at the time there was a great shot! The superzoom optics, even here with all the intrinsic limits, allowed an excellent versatility lending itself to landscapes, portraits and close-ups withdiscrete results, unfortunately did not have any kind of stabilizer that would have helped a lot on the tele.rnrnOggi side if it still finds some used on 40 euros, it may be worth it only if you want to try with a minimum investment the color rendering of the superCCD sensor, still unmatched even by the beautiful Fuji X series. sent on January 01, 2017 |
 | Fujifilm XF 35mm f/1.4 R Pros: sharpness at all apertures, lifelike colors, blurred pleasant, robust construction, price Cons: noisy, not stabilized Opinion: Got used after a bit 'of indecision between this and the new f2, I chose the 1.4 for the stop in more than diaphragm and to the reputation of religious lens which has already earned. Prior to this the only Native lens Fuji I had used was 16-50, that is, the leap is scary in (almost) all the senses, I am very satisfied so that I have not yet detached from the machine after more than a month, it has become my all-rounder for landscapes "tight", portraits and travel photography. Coupled to the X-trans returns tons of detail and contrast even at large apertures, sometimes even too much - in portraits, I found myself having to lower the sharpness in post since it does not forgive the slightest imperfection of the skin. Closed at f5.6 - f8 is monstrous throughout the frame, in large apertures instead pulls out a blurry in my beautiful, with a yield almost vintage. robust, solid construction, has survived without a scratch and without the slightest problem in a fall onthe concrete by a meter altezza.rnrnIl much-maligned AF I do not create any particular problems for the type of photos that I, a little effort 'in low light or backlit but nothing tragic (though I use it on an X-E1, on bodies latest probably is much better) ... in this sense, however, the plasticotto 16-50, as well as having a good stabilizer was much faster and mostly quiet - 35 at times it seems to be grinding the coffee during focusing. rnrnAl price at which now runs on used is to have at all costs. sent on September 15, 2016 |
 | Fujifilm X-E1 Pros: Beautiful, well-built, lightweight, intuitive menu, sensor spectacular Cons: Sometimes a little 'slow Opinion: Bought used (body only) a few days ago to accommodate a monkey sudden and I'm loving it. The pros I have listed above, and that is enough - for now we only mount on old manual lenses, thanks to the focus peaking are a joy to use. The yield of the sensor is simply spectacular, brings out the best even from humble Soviet lenses. With a Takumar 35mm 3.5 is the perfect size to carry around for street and urban landscapes. In general it is fantastic to use in manual and broke away for a moment from my side since I have it. At the first opportunity I'll get more in used even 18-55 XF to carry with you. The video did not try it, you might as well not be there for me and I'd be fine comunque.rnVenendo a DSLR Sony had some doubts only on ergonomics and the absence of stabilization. As for the first I am better than expected, but after a few hours of use your fingers a little 'you indolenziscono; the second honestly I do not miss, because if there is littlelight you can safely push the ISO on almost anything without losing quality. The battery lasts me for about 350 shots using too much the rear display so I'm not complaining, it is not certain autonomy from SLR but me aspettavo.rnUnica sin if ever it is that certain functions (especially the display of images) are a bit 'slow, but it is a trivial matter. Now is used around at ridiculous prices (I paid 140 pounds less than 4000 shots and all accessories) and definitely worth every penny and more! sent on December 31, 2015 |
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