[Leica] Fuji XE-1

[pklein at threshinc.com (Peter Klein)]

Jim Hughes is the former editor of Camera 35, from which I learned an 
awful lot of what I know.  And also Camera Arts. So I suspect he knows 
what he's doing.

Here's what I find really interesting.  This guy edited two seminal 
photo magazines and wrote books on Gene Smith and Earnst Haas. He edited 
the writing of master craftsmen like David Vestal. So what was his film 
RF gear before he went digital? Not a Leica. He prefers a Canon 7 and 
LTM Canon lenses. And he still wants to use those lenses on a modern 
mirrorless camera.  He says they see like he sees. Food for thought.

I'm a firm believer in RAW myself. But many users of Olympus E-series 
cameras who have found that the Olympus JPGs are so good that they can't 
do any better processing the RAWs. This of course assumes that they've 
gotten all the umpteen parameters set just right before they take the shot.

There was not a lot of RAW support for the Fuji X-E1 and X-Pro1 when 
they came out, so some people got used to shooting JPG. It was that or 
use SilkyPix.  :-)

--Peter



 > I have the XE-1 on my list, and also noted that.  Seems strange that he
 > would settle for an in-camera jpg conversion.
 >
 > Ken
 >
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org
 > [mailto:lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of 
Bob
 > Adler
 > Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 5:56 PM
 > To: Leica Users Group
 > Subject: Re: [Leica] Fuji XE-1
 >
 > Except he doesn't shoot raw!
 >
 > Sent from my iPad
 >
 > On Jun 4, 2013, at 9:51 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
 > wrote:
 >
 > > Nice review:
 > >
 > >
 > 
http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2013/06/fuji-x-e1-the-keeper.html