Originally posted by Wheatfield I'm not as enamored with the classic Limiteds as others are. They are good lenses, but I don't think they deserve the cult status that they have.
There isn't anything out there on the market that is anything quite like them. Of all the lenses I have worked with over the decades, among modern lens designs the FA limited lenses are unique.
Pentax K10D SMCP-FA77mm f/1.8 Limited @ f/1.8 Originally posted by Wheatfield The Fuji lenses that I have are every bit as good if not better than the Pentax glass meant for APS-C. To be fair, I only have the 14/2.8, 23/1.4, 35/1.4, 56/1.4 and 60 macro.
I was thinking of putting together a set of primes: 14mm f/2.8 23mm f/2 35mm f/2 50mm f/2 90mm f/2 - you know, the classics. I can adapt my faster Leica lenses to Fuji X. But lenses wider than 21mm do exist but are still pretty uncommon in Leica M.
Originally posted by Wheatfield he Fuji bodies are rather power hungry for the size of battery they have, and I also have some issues with the electronic viewfinders. They give me a headache fairly quickly so my shooting strategy with the XT-1 (I might just pick up an XT-4 at some point) is to set the viewfinder to turn on when the camera is at eye level and set my shot up very quickly. I rarely have the camera to my eye for longer than 5 seconds.
I have a few colleagues who cannot stand flickering light of any kind, Kino-Flo or HMI lights with a dodgy ballast can set such reactions off in short order. I have fortunately never had such a response, my earliest encounter with EVF was a old Fuji S7000z from the early 2000's without issue. In more recent years I have since worked with the Leica SL - A camera that thoroughly
perplexes me as the existence of Leica S and M cameras makes it somewhat superfluous. And also the New Nikon Z9 - which has a few notable quirks surrounding the EVF that are bothersome.
Originally posted by Wheatfield What is your concern with focus by wire? I know we still have mechanical manual focus with Pentax lenses, but AF has always been some form of focus by wire.
Focus by wire bothers me because it drastically reduces the tactile qualities of manual focusing - which, I admit I use manual focus quite a bit. As much as I appreciate the advancements of AF in current Pentax cameras the reason why I have so few issues with Pentax AF is because I hardly ever use it!
Originally posted by Wheatfield I know about the issue with wormy foliage but I have been fortunate to have not noticed it in my own work, and I am using Adobe software. Overall I'm satisfied with the raw conversions I get from Fuji.
Unfortunately for the kind of landscapes I do, it would likely present a significant issue: hence my hesitation to commit to a system that has such a systemic flaw*.
Pentax K-1 SMCP-FA 31mm f/1.8 Limited * Also perusing the image samples on other forums upon close inspection colour information on X-trans sensors appears to be curiously
smeared. To my eye there is sometimes a lack of definition at the borders of sharp transitions with certain colours on X-trans. Bayer sensors sensors do not have this rather unsettling trait even though moire is problematic, it isn't an insurmountable problem.