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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
07-09-2016, 03:54 PM
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Nice ! The 100mm macro is something I'm interested in getting also, but I'm also interested in the new XT2 but its listed at some ridiculous price like the X-Pro2. Its not too far off the cost of the K-1 and if you want the boosted battery grip, I'm sure it will come to around the same price.
One of my other gripes with Fujifilm, is that the lenses have linear motors - thats not a bad thing - its that as a consequence, they don't have focus scales. Zeiss has an LCD distance scale on a couple of their lenses for mirrorless cameras (or whatever they fit), and Pentax too is going to linear motors. The HD Pentax-DA 55-300mm F4.5-6.3 ED PLM WR RE does not appear to have a distance scale. Linear motors in single or multiple configuration might be a very good setup where they just move the focusing elements back and forth, so there is no traditional mechanism that rotates to display the focus scale. Perhaps they could make a focus scale thats longitudinal - that would be better than nothing, or an LCD distance scale which Zeiss now probably hold the rights over.
Though I don't often use a distance scale, they are an integral part of photography. Though some say how cool Fujifilm is for being retro and traditional - where's the stinkin distance scale ? It can't be done ! Maybe it can (mechanically).
I don't quite know about the pricing of the XT2, a 7Dii is cheaper, and you don't have to buy the grip for turbo boost. Fuji is just pricing itself out of the market. Or a lot of the Fuji hype online gives Fuji a huge pair of b*lls to charge what they are charging - Its not what its worth, its what people are prepared to pay for it - Canikony marketing !!!!! Every dingaling has a youtube video heaping praise all over Fuji - they're like teenage girls at a boy band concert !
Its all about life after Canikon. They shoot Canikon, the IQ in apsc has been ordinary, they see Fuji IQ and go woooooooow ! Buts what happened when I left Nikon, I went Sony and the IQ was so much better than Canikon IQ. It was so much more punchier, vibrant, organic just better. Now with Fuji, its almost like my old Sony except it can actual white-balance properly. Yes the Portraits are very nice, yes smaller scenes are very nice, but outdoors for landscapes I give it a 4 out of 10 - where my K-3 just excels. These film simulations are in effect interpretations of a given scene - albeit the interpretation of computer programmers who built the X-Trans or EXR firmware. This is where My K-3 beats my Fuji, because Prime is not pretending to be a film simulation, its just what-you-see-is-what-you-get, no gimmicks juts accuracy. As soon as the firmware goes off a tangent to boost this or simulate that, like with my old Sony it looks like a contrived image and I also look back at the images and go - well thats not quite how I remembered it. With Fuji, the Firmware pushes one or two areas real well, but landscapes really suffer in the simulations.
Anyway, I hope you're enjoying both cameras !
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
07-08-2016, 05:10 AM
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Yeah thats what I was thinking, i regularly get moire @ 2.8 on the 50-135mm, its a fantastic lens - my favorite. I've got some Fuji gear its pretty good, I've got the bottom of the line X-A1 with the really great high ISO. Comparing it next to the K-3, I think the K-3 is a better all rounder. I've tried out the X-Pro2 and the auto focus wasn't too great on the 100-400mm, plus the OIS kept failing regularly giving blurry shots, but the lens is real sharp. That was in a store with good lighting. Fuji uses film "simulations", whereas Pentax is "what you see is what you get". Though good, I think my Fuji is kinda like takes a facsimile rather than, the Pentax which takes an accurate representation of a scene.
I had a Sony SLT and it kicked butt over my old Nikon, and then I bought a K-5 and shot them side by side for a year, and thought the K-5 had 8 million fewer pixels, I came around to Pentax for the texture and the accurate representation of a scene (I'm talking Prime over Bionzx). The K-5 had slower AF just the images were real while the Sony's though beautiful felt contrived.
Similarly I've had this Fuji next to my K-3 and while the images are real good off the Fuji, Prime just does a better job over EXRii. I might get the X-T2 and put it head to head against my K-3, but the K-3 is over two years old now, but I do like the look of the XT2 with the faster shooting rates.
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