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Subject: [Leica] Fuji X-Pro1 - Steve
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:31:24 +0530
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Gerry,
Who is your dealer in the UK?
Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Gerry Walden <gwpics at me.com> wrote:

> 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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