miloz wrote:
There are lens profiles worked out that you can choose to use, correcting distortion, vignetting and CA
Yes, but the m43 lenses have information contained in the RAW files that the converter uses automatically to correct for the vignetting, distortion and CA characteristics of the particular lens design. It's not a separate profile that you can choose to apply or not. The lens testers that look at the uncorrected lens generally need to find a converter (not ACR or LR) that will let you see the file without the corrections applied. I'd hope that the X-Pro 1 would work similarly, I certainly have no desire to see the uncorrected shots.
kidtexas wrote:
Personally, I'd get the 18mm, but I love that FOV.
However, I'm not preordering this. I'll let you guys sort it out to see if it's worth buying. Though it looks like it is.
I completely agree. I think this thing will be awesome, but the price really scares me. We will see how it works out, and hopefully something else comes along that really shakes the market up and drops the price on these.
Spyro P. wrote:
Also a lens manual (never really understood why these things exist, but anyway...
One good reason for making a lens manual available before the product is on the market is that a quick look through the manual shows me that the X lens mount rotates on and off in the same manner as Canon EF. This is of course the only correct way to do it, at least in the Northern Hemishpere.
Fifty pages on gear that almost no-one has their hands on yet. It certainly proves that retro styling's a sure-fire way to extract money from the punters in time of retro-style recession.
Roy
jcolwell wrote:
One good reason for making a lens manual available before the product is on the market is that a quick look through the manual shows me that the X lens mount rotates on and off in the same manner as Canon EF. This is of course the only correct way to do it, at least in the Northern Hemishpere.
Isn't it funny how those things stick with you? Since I too started with Canon, it just feels natural that way. I'm glad m4/3 has the mount that way too (though a different registration mark). Every time I swap my Nikon adapter between my two Nikon MF lenses, it screws me up and it takes me a minute to remember to twist the other way.
jcolwell wrote:
One good reason for making a lens manual available before the product is on the market is that a quick look through the manual shows me that the X lens mount rotates on and off in the same manner as Canon EF. This is of course the only correct way to do it, at least in the Northern Hemishpere.
Yeah, but you can see in the product photos that the aperture ring is the wrong direction. And based on the manual, the focusing ring direction is also the wrong direction from that of Canon, Leica... Great I guess, if you're a Nikon or Pentax shooter.
Ron; lens focusing direction and aperture stop direction will perhaps be the "golden compromise" bound to frustrate old timers but will have no impact on new comers.
Unless you adapt Lenses to it that turn the other way with both aperture and focusing. That will suck, but is nothing new.
RoySussex wrote:
Fifty pages on gear that almost no-one has their hands on yet. It certainly proves that retro styling's a sure-fire way to extract money from the punters in time of retro-style recession.
Roy
I guess you are assuming that if people write 50 pages on gear that hasn't been released, and it is retro-styled, then the retro-styling is the reason for the writing.
I am pretty sure that this is not correct. Retro-styling alone doesn't sell anything. The product has to hit other notes too. There are a lot of old Fuji fans posting in this thread, so colour probably has a lot more to do with it. There are also a lot of people here who like the smaller, mirrorless designs, so portability combined with a relatively large sensor probably also has more to do with it. Finally, Fuji knows how to make good lenses, so there is a good deal of interest in the lenses too.
I even forgot to mention that this is the first digital camera released ever, that I can think of (and I am sure someone will immediately remind of some other camera which I didn't think of), which is released with an entire lineup of AF primes and no zooms (there, I avoided being blind-sided with the Leica M8). That is a major milestone IMO, and something other companies should take note of. Too many zooms these days.
carstenw wrote:
I even forgot to mention that this is the first digital camera released ever, that I can think of (and I am sure someone will immediately remind of some other camera which I didn't think of), which is released with an entire lineup of AF primes and no zooms (there, I avoided being blind-sided with the Leica M8). That is a major milestone IMO, and something other companies should take note of. Too many zooms these days.
+1
a 28-85mm and 85-300mm equivalent slow zoom combo does not mean you have a full aps-c lens lineup. there is no reason it should take 5 years to have a few decent primes at key focal lengths (i'm talking to you every single maker of aps-c cameras other than fuji). adding 5 versions of said slow zooms doesn't make them any more attractive.
Yep. I'm into primes for this puppy. Fuji prime lenses in medium and large format are nothing short of fantastic. The X100 is also a very fine product. I can hardly wait to get my hands on the XF 35/1.4 R and 60/2.4 R Macro. I'm especially interested to see how the 60/2.4 R performs wide open as a portrait lens.
RoySussex wrote:
Fifty pages on gear that almost no-one has their hands on yet. It certainly proves that retro styling's a sure-fire way to extract money from the punters in time of retro-style recession.
Roy
Did you even read any part of the thread? Who cares - your idea sounded neat so it must be correct, right?
