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Subject: [Leica] Fuji X-Pro1 - Steve
From: gwpics at me.com (Gerry Walden)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:59:05 +0000
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Too early for me to tell you Steve, but I will try to give you an indication 
as soon as I have shot some more. Thanks to finally having time actually 
read the manual, I have now found how to move the focus spot. There is a new 
review of the camera on LuLa which is a little critical of the controls for 
moving the focus spot, but I do not feel it will be a problem in practice. 
There is also some comment about Fuji not co-operating with Adobe over the 
raw processing but I find this difficult to believe as they appear to have 
always done so in the past, and I feel it is just a timing thing. Here is 
the LuLa link:

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/.shtml

BTW, it may be different in the US but my dealer has a cash-back scheme on 
the lens which reduced it by about $60, and he also knocked about $150 off 
the body price so I was a pretty happy bunny.

Gerry

Gerry Walden
+44 (0)23 8046 3076 or
+44 (0)797 287 7932
www.gwpics.com

On 21 Mar 2012, at 13:15, Steve Barbour wrote:

> 
> On Mar 20, 2012, at 9:41 PM, Gerry Walden wrote:
> 
>> Sorry - two possible interpretations of the same question.
>> 
>> Shooting for the first time I missed a couple of shots early on but I 
>> think that was more to do with having the right pressure on the button 
>> and/or the lens not being in focus because I was unclear about the focus 
>> spot. certainly my first few frames were out of focus which I am 100% 
>> sure was operator error. Once I had gotten used to things a bit more 
>> there was a very limited amount of shutter lag, nothing which bothered 
>> me. Please bear in mind I have only taken about 40+ shots, and I was 
>> under a bit of pressure at the time, so I was not paying too much 
>> attention to camera niceties.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> with my M9 I enjoy manual focus, however a major reason to consider the X 
> Pro-1 would be for the auto focus it provides....
> 
> for me to  buy it would have to provide rapid sure focus/minimal shutter 
> lag...
> 
> so I continue to be very interested in that capability Gerry,
> 
> and needing badly to answer that question.
> 
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
>> 
>> Gerry
>> 
>> Gerry Walden
>> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or
>> +44 (0)797 287 7932
>> www.gwpics.com
>> 
>> On 21 Mar 2012, at 04:24, John McMaster wrote:
>> 
>>> How fast to focus is what I think Steve meant? The X100 will often miss a
>>> shot while it decides to focus...
>>> 
>>> john
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> 
>>> f1.4 - the 18mm (= 27mm) is f2 and the 60mm (= 90mm) macro is f2.4. The
>>> whole thing looks and feels right, if you know what I mean. It is almost 
>>> the
>>> same as the M9 size-wise, and just a little lighter (body only). In my
>>> opinion Fuji have really done there homework on this one. The 35mm lens 
>>> hood
>>> is metal and square with a plastic cap and marked with the lens size.
>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> At the moment I only have the 35mm (= 50mm f1.4) but the autofocus 
>>>>> seems
>>> spot on.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> how fast is it?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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