few reasons why i like Fujifilm is because of the after sales support. They continuously update the firmware for older models to have better feature and auto-focus. While competitors just release new model, completely ignoring the older models.

another reason is their solid JPEG picture colours and quality. Not many brands can render that quality of JPEG.

Then it would be their buttons and dials, gives full manual control for the higher end models and feels in grip for my hand.

and another would the their lenses. It's expensive, but it's solid and can last many years (I am using prime lenses, btw).

Cheers

This post has been edited by xCM: Sep 11 2016, 02:01 AM

anyone selling their 35mm f1.4 here?

I see second hand market price is RM3,300 now.

Hmm, im thinking to jump ship to a FF camera, any advise? means need to jumpship from fuji... lol

okay, thanks

Thanks for the reply. Spot on comparison with both 85mm focal length in FF equivalent. The Z6 wins in terms of (DOF, Sensor size, IBIS) while the fuji wins in (Size, weight, price, face AF, colour). Lol. I'm really stuck with the choices. Considering my budget I guess I'll stick with the Fuji.

any comments on the xf10-24mm f4? f4 is abit slow but is it sharp? I used tokina 11-16 previously. Writing here to gather some info.

I see. thanks!

what camera bags are you guys using? Been finding one that fits XF10-24 and need a small sling shoulder bag.

I saw it yesterday too. it is around RM400-500. Seems a bit pricy but it's gonna hold my expensive gear


hmmm. is it durable?

xf35 f1.4 vs Viltrox 85 f1.8 by Chee Ming Mak, on Flickr


Just got the new Viltrox 85mm f1.8 autofocus lens. AF speed is fast!

I got it from ebay. Link here Viltrox 85mm. I bought at USD379. Seems like they hike the price by a bit.

Cruious, why do you stop down to f2, f1.6 and f1.4 when using xf56? it seems inconsistent, any reason?

This post has been edited by xCM: May 11 2019, 11:55 PM

I bought one vil*s* battery for my x-e2. First the shot compared to my fujifilm original battery is about 75%.

Second is the battery will "kembang". Not sure but i have had a few third party fuji battery kembang after some time.

Yes, to protect myself against defamation lawcase

Ya, saving 50 ringgit but giving more headaches not so worth it. Ori still gives more shots and reliability.

I have the 85mm 1.8. AF is blazing fast. Faster than my XF35 1.4 and XF18 f2.

The focal length of 128mm (85x1.5) is telephoto and limit to a few type of photography. I would say this lens is good for half body portrait.

if you prefer a more flexible lens get the xf56 or wait for viltrox 56mm (heard it's releasing).



This post has been edited by xCM: Jun 1 2019, 05:24 PM

I bought here Ebay. Delivered using DHL express. Quite ok the packaging for me as I was worried too.

So far I think the sharpness I would categorise falls between xf35 f1.4 and xf18 f2 (this lens when 100% crop not that sharp). I only have these two lenses, so yeah. I am comparing 100% zoomed in sharpness in this context.

The centre area focus is sharp while the corner areas less sharp for the 85mm viltrox.

If you don't pixel peep and not doing commercial works then this might be the lens for you. If you want perfection then topup 1k and get the xf90 second hand cause it's around 2.9-3k ish myr now.

Try view at timestamp @2:00 at this video. I think this video is representative of the lens and is the most up to date review of Viltrox 85mm. I saw a few negative reviews about this lens in youtube but I think those reviews were before the firmware update for this lens.

damn, i'm considering swapping viltrox 85 to 56 when it comes out. hmm

i think around there the market price, take it with a grain of salt i might be wrong.


Btw what colour profiles and photography workflow you guys use?
Thinking to shoot raw, but I think the best raw converter is from the camera itself. I have an X-E2 (old camera) so I couldn't use Fuji X raw converter tho.