Hi guys, been a fuji user starting from May this year with the x100t , love the noise performance and the colours. Bought it as a companion for my Sony A7ii camera and as a travel camera and later switching fully to fuji with xpro 2 . Back to the question that someone ask here, why fuji and not sony, if u hav handle sony camera before u will know that it is slow to startup from Off to On state. My x100t takes 2-3sec but the a7ii took 3-5 second to get ready and sometime longer (Xpro2 from 1-3sec) . For some it is bearable but for me it dampens my eagerness to take picture.

To me the sony camera has very loud shutter sound and it bothers me when taking pic in quiet environment, the fuji xpro 2 has lower shutter noise and dont need to talk about x100t its an angel in the shutter sound department . If u compare the a7 series and the a6000 shutter its almost the same, its loud.

I was a canon user, canon 50d to be precise. Was using it for 5 years with 50mm 1.8 taking event photos. It show its age when in the 5th year, I know I need a new camera when I went to Japan and it cant focus on the subject anymore . I was choosing between Sony, Olympus and Fuji camera. This time I need to hav video functionality so I opted between Sony and Olympus as fuji at the time wasnt known for their video capabiliities. The sony wins with the 5 axis stabilization and having the headphone jack without the need of extra battery grip attached (Oly EM5ii). The video department is a bliss but then I realize the shooting experience is something left to be desire. The menu is hard to navigate and been using it for a year and still couldnt remember where the setting for certain thing . Couple with startup time and shutter sound, new system was on the mind .

When talk about FF and aps-c, I found that FF recovers over expose highlight area better but the main reason I wouldnt mind aps-c over FF is the noise performance. When comparing sony a7 and fuji x100t noise, it is almost the same at ISO6400. Then it clicked to me that the reason I want to go for FF is the noise performance. If the noise is comparable why would I ignored the aps-c system (Mind u that I dont use ISO more than 6400). Yes I know the sony a7rii has better noise performance, but the price left something to be desired and the it doesnt even improve in the card write speed and startup time . One last thing is the lenses price I didnt consider after switch to sony, its unbearble with our currency not improving and GST some more

Note:
- Fuji film simulation is a nice addition compared to other manufacturer filters.
- I tend to edit pic less with sony than fuji becaude sony measure the exposure correctly most of the time,
Fuji tends to overexpose or underexpose but the in-camera raw editor is saviour for this situation The xpro2 improved in this department compared with x100t

This post has been edited by streme21: Sep 11 2016, 09:23 PM

Just wanterd to share.
This is the pic I took last month for my friend preconvo shoot.

2nd one

I use Xpro-2 and 56mm f1.2

The first one I edit to get the mood on lightroom mobile.

Yeah it should help, just dont take pic of someone running while using electronic shutter

Come2 join Fuji side, I already sold my Sony equipment . Almost bought a6300 to complement my a7ii but decided to go for fuji x100t before I went for europe trip. I challenge myself to bring x100t only and wasn't disappointed. Since then I was hooked towards Fuji side

You wont be disappointed with the 56mm
I'm fully committed towards prime lens. I didnt even used my kit zooms on my Sony a7ii last time, felt wasted buying along it

That is true until you need that longer reach, fuji currently have no prime longer than 90mm. I'm eyeing 90mm f2, that extra compressions should make a nice potrait

Step the aperture down to f2 and the AF improve, it hunt more at f1.2 although that seems the case for xpro-2, on xt-2 it improve the AF, waiting for xpro-2 firmware update


For now nope, using prime lens and know where to get the subject light up properly is enough for me. Although later might go for Nissin i60 and hoping that the air commander is announced for fuji system as well

if u already had wider lens, go for 56mm, u wont be dissapoint. I used 23mm for street shooting. When I use 35, it bothers me that it wasnt that wide or narrow, better have 23mm and 56mm as a pair. Thats my opinion

The only time I bring 2 camera is when I take photos for event, I try to limit bringing to many gear, because not all is needed, I would aim for 14mm/12mm + 23mm + 56mm or 16mm + 35mm + 90mm setup. If I wanted to challenge myself, just bring the x100t only.

Do take note that the small hook provided with the leash for attaching to ur camera is an old version. Buy the new version as the old one tends to break after used extensively

I bought for 3.2k at YL camera last time during promotion

I happily used it than my A7ii last time for some of the event I shoot


This is actually quite nice

My x100t also hunt sometime but when its lowlight situation, I prefer to use the manual focus, suprisingly I focus faster that way

For 1st question, the x70 is smaller than the x100t due to lack of viewfinder for the x70 but it had swivel screen that can flip up for taking selfie (*Call it whatever u want ) which the x100t had a fixed screen . The x70 have a 18.5mm fixed lens while the x100t have 23mm (28mm & 35mm in term of full frame lens equivalent), it a tad wider that some prefer than the other. What interest me for the x70 is the conversion lens u are able to buy for the x70 which change the lens perspective to 21mm in full frame format , which is good for wide angle shot (**The x100t has conversion lens that equivalent to 28mm and 50mm).

2nd question, not sure about the difference between XC and XF lens, but I tried it at the shop and the quality of pic using XC lens is good, nothing to complain about . Lens wise, I can get macro shot as near as 10cm from the subject with x100t, I'm pretty sure the kit lens cant do that (Correct me if I'm wrong ). I don't know how far is mount fuji and the lake, but the best bet for wide angle shot is the x70 and the conversion lens but that will exceed ur budget I guess(**Need clarification on this, does x70 plus conversion lens goes beyond RM4k)

Yes x100t has flash built in, might not be strong enough, but can try bounce the flash using small mirror if u are indoor to get that external flash look . I bring tripod in the luggage bag for trip but never got it out cause it a hassle to bring big tripod around while u are touring (PS: I do bring my joby gorilapod tripod in my bag cause its smaller that my regular sturdy tripod )

Use pocket mirror but as I said the flash is not that powerfull This can be tried if the ceiling is not that high, I did it with my Canon 50D built in flash but its cumbersome .

1. If u talk about x100t and x70 of course the x100t produce more depth of field due to one run at aperture f2.0 vs f2.8

2.Its a bit bigger than fujinon 35mm f2 I think . Yes it a bit heavy but you wont be taking wide angle shot that often right? So tuck it in ur small bag and u are good to go.

3. It depends on your usage, sometime the viewfinder is useful if u want to save battery life or if the glare from the sun is to much but if u like to take photo from hip or low angle then the swivel screen is much better

Still worthwhile to buy now, I jump ship into buying one instead of Sony a6300 and now I'm heavily invested in Fuji system . If want to save money get 2nd hand



You edit RAW file on your iOS? I haven't tried using grain effect so not sure whats going on

This post has been edited by streme21: Oct 4 2016, 10:49 AM

It was disabled by default by Fuji, not sure when they will unlock the function

Oh, I was about to comment regarding flash cycle, my bad in jumping to conclusion based on my finding

But it seems interesting that you can fire flash in continuous mode for the xt1, I use nissin di622 mark ii and wasnt able to do that but then again that flash has worse performance in cycle time and tends to overheat

Yeah, just tried it back, it can use flash with continuous shooting but must use eneloop battery one, and also during 8fps the flash couldn't sync anymore

Congrats and do enjoy ur camera

It does give better result but I wont be bringing around a bulky D5 for my type of shooting

During my study I bought only 1 camera body + 2 lenses and a flash and use it for 5 years

The only reason to go for 50mm equivalent lens is because its cheaper than other lens on Canon or Nikon (True in Fuji world also )
I opt for 50mm on my A7 last time and regret it cause it wasn't the focal length that I really want.

Try to ues the 23mm and 35mm before buying.

The 23mm f2 should already come out right? On shashinki.com the price around RM2000+.

Bro Kelvinling got any info?

My 50D is 6 years and counting . The only thing that let me down is the lenses, not working well as they should. Would have jump ship to Canon 6D but I want more AF point and the shutter speed max at 1/4000 while my 50D at 1/8000 .

Go out and take more pic, I went for photowalk last saturday just to get my camera running

Wasn't the battery percentage also available on the info screen at the Lcd? They only wont show the percentage during live view session either on the evf or Lcd screen but yeah the percentage only available for new camera, it was not present in x100t which is hard to predict how much battery is left out

This post has been edited by streme21: Oct 4 2016, 07:36 PM

Improve AF is a happy thing for me . I don't need the custom AF-C, rarely used the continous AF

The price they quote before release was RM7.6k for body only for XT-2 but after the release the price is cheaper than XPro-2 . If it weren't for that quoted price, I would have take a leap for Pre Order the XT2
But then again when I tested the XT-2, I wished the playback & delete button is nearer to the right hand as is better for one hand operation just like the XPro-2 (I know we can set one of the function button for playback but we will lose one function button ).

They remove the record movie button but the placement of the Function button in between the shutter speed and exposure compensation dial could be shift next to shutter button for easier use. I cant easily reach the function button when it is cover between those big dials

But yeah, the price of the XPro-2 could be lesser or the same as XT-2, I cant justify why I would choose the XPro-2 instead of XT-2 with just the present of HVF and more pixel LCD back screen.
(PS: I used more of the LCD screen than the HVF for my last shooting because I took more pic on the ground and the XT-2 swivel screen would be super useful in those situation)

Not really stealthy if u put big lens on it

This post has been edited by streme21: Oct 5 2016, 11:50 AM

I already have 23mm f2 for my x100t , cannot justify to buy one when I have the f1.4 version and 35mm is not the kind of view I prefer to work with.

Not me, still loving the one hand operation

I find the focus speed between 35mm f2 and the 23mm f1.4 is not that much faster as I hope for. I was hoping it will be as fast as the 90mm f2