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    Photo Ninja

    Yes I noticed the same thing, which is why I decided to try and get an answer as to whether it was intentional or not. Personally I prefer sharper + more noise versus softer + less noise. There are lots of ways to reduce noise in an image, and Photo Ninja has them too with Noise Ninja, but its...
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    Photo Ninja

    Would be nice if a version of Photo Ninja became the bundled software for Fuji X, but its never going to happen. Despite being the best at 'unlocking' the files, it's far too 'dangerous' to let photographers loose with. They might fail to apply the appropriate noise reduction, and we can't have...
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    Photo Ninja

    Some interesting comments from Jim Christian, the developer of Photo Ninja. Photo Ninja - Some comments from Jim Christian, the developer.
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    Sigma John Millich L-Plate grip for DP Merrills

    The SOUNDIMAGEPLUS blog: The John Millich Sigma DP2 Merrill L-Plate Grip I haven't posted here for a while, but thought I would add this. I've just put this piece on my blog, with lots of pictures, about the John Millich L-Plate grip for the DP2 and DP1. As you will see its a very positive...
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    Fuji X-PRO 1 Fully Leaked by French Magazine 'Responses Photo'

    Biased! What on earth are you talking about? "Beloved NEX-7"?? I guess these days you can't post anything without somebody trying to jump on it to make a point. A simple post about the weights of various combinations and I get this. I'm afraid I'll take my "bias" somewhere for a while then. In...
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    Fuji X-PRO 1 Fully Leaked by French Magazine 'Responses Photo'

    I checked some weights. Fuji X-Pro 1 is 450g 35mm f/1.4 is 187g so 637g. Sony NEX-7 is 353g Zeiss 24mm f/1.8 is 225g so 578g Panasonic GX1 is 318g PanLeica 25mm f/1.4 is 200g so 518g Leica M9 is 589g Voigtlander 35mm f/1.4 is 200g so 789g Fuji X100 + lens is 445g Nikon D5100 is 565g 35mm f/1.8...
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    Fuji X-PRO 1 Fully Leaked by French Magazine 'Responses Photo'

    Well yes. Maybe for a Serious Compacts market. If you would agree that Leica users are one part of that target market, then they (and I as an ex-Leica user) are used to hauling around some pretty chunky pieces of metal. The Leica M8 and M9 aren't light and many of the current Leica lenses aren't...
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    Fuji X-PRO 1 Fully Leaked by French Magazine 'Responses Photo'

    I'd like to think so, and I'm actually in no hurry, as I'm very comfortable with what I'm using. I just find it strange that they should post the samples they did. They are not bad by any means, but expectations, certainly mine, had been raised by the build up. They have been claiming this new...
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    Fuji X-PRO 1 Fully Leaked by French Magazine 'Responses Photo'

    There are some very small Voigtlander m-mounts, the 35mm and 40mm f/1.4, 12mm f/5.6 & 15mm f/4.5, which are FF lenses. Entirely manual of course. I tried to find out whether the lenses have AF motors, but couldn't. I suspect not, given their size. I would mention that not everybody, myself...
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    Canon Canon Finally Go Mirrorless

    And with a sensor 6x as big underneath.
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    Samsung I'm afraid Samsung has lost its way

    I'm very much in agreement with what you write. I too was surprised at no NX20 announcement, and seeing the potential that the sensor in the NX200 has, I was looking forward to a camera that I might find a bit more user friendly. Do you get the impression, as I do, that Samsung are more...
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    Fuji X-PRO 1 Fully Leaked by French Magazine 'Responses Photo'

    Anything from Sigma Foveon sensors, the long gone much lamented Kodak SLR/n, and both the Leica M8 and M9. Incidentally all cameras with no AA filter. It is odd. You'd think they would post absolutely the best they have. Yes too many times. Agreed, I was too. I only decided to buy one when...
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    Fuji X-PRO 1 Fully Leaked by French Magazine 'Responses Photo'

    Interesting. They are really quite disappointing samples. The broach at ISO 200 didn't exactly knock my socks off. I realise its a jpg. but I would have expected a lot sharper than that. As Armanius suggested, very reminiscent of the Pentax K-5.
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    Fuji X-PRO 1 Fully Leaked by French Magazine 'Responses Photo'

    Gave the UK price as £1000 for body - £500 each for the lenses.
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    Fuji X-PRO 1 Fully Leaked by French Magazine 'Responses Photo'

    And we all thought (well at least I did!) that Fuji were going after Panasonic, Olympus, Sony etc. However it seems that are going after Leica! This is an unbelievably ambitious camera, crammed full of new technology, including a new type of sensor array. Dpreview wrote:- "the X100's image...
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    Fuji X-PRO 1 Fully Leaked by French Magazine 'Responses Photo'

    Panic over - Preview is up at Dpreview Fujifilm XPro-1 Preview: 1. Introduction: Digital Photography Review
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    Fuji X-PRO 1 Fully Leaked by French Magazine 'Responses Photo'

    Thats it. If anyone else watched that and I missed anything significant, then please feed it in. Sensor array looked different, and the wide angle and zoom lens this year looked interesting. I doubt this is going to be cheap. Anyone read German and can see if the website has any more info?
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    Fuji X-PRO 1 Fully Leaked by French Magazine 'Responses Photo'

    German website is up:- http://finepix.de/cms/home/presse/pressemeldungen/meldung/article/img-srcfileadmindesignimagesneugif-border0brfuer-hoechste-ansprueche-die-systemka/?tx_ttnews
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    Fuji X-PRO 1 Fully Leaked by French Magazine 'Responses Photo'

    Mutterings about $1700 Buffer - 10fps Sync 1/125th, sec. Apparently Fuji targeting wedding, portrait photographers.
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    Fuji X-PRO 1 Fully Leaked by French Magazine 'Responses Photo'

    First indication of size in the hand.
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    Fuji X-PRO 1 Fully Leaked by French Magazine 'Responses Photo'

    Couple more images. Including lens road map - super wide and zoom lens this year. No price apparently decided as yet.
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    Fuji X-PRO 1 Fully Leaked by French Magazine 'Responses Photo'

    Some images coming off the live blog feed.
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    Fuji X-PRO 1 Fully Leaked by French Magazine 'Responses Photo'

    If anyone is as sad as I am, there is a live blog feed from the Fuji news conference / presentation starting in a few minutes. Since I write a blog I'll pretend its "research"!!! (It is just sad really!)...
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    A new product you can actually try out.

    The Corel / Bibble raw development software - Aftershot, is available as a free trial download. I've just given it a brief tryout and its actually quite good. Works like absolute lightning on my mac. This is all a bit like Christmas at the moment!! Graphic design software, photo editing...
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    Fuji X-PRO 1 Fully Leaked by French Magazine 'Responses Photo'

    It looks very like the Leica M8/M9 grip, which is attached to a base plate which you subsitute for the original. I must say its looking better and better, I'm just hoping they have speeded up the AF and organised the menus somewhat more logically, though I suspect if my bank manager was...
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    Fuji X-PRO 1 Fully Leaked by French Magazine 'Responses Photo'

    Press release confirms the lack of AA filter. Be still my beating heart!!
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    Fuji X-PRO 1 Fully Leaked by French Magazine 'Responses Photo'

    Lets hope so. E-P3 speed AF would suit me very nicely.
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    Canon Canon Finally Go Mirrorless

    I suspect you are on the right track and that it will make quite a few manufacturers think "Why haven't we got something like this?" If its a success, then I think large sensor fixed lens compacts could become commonplace. And thats no bad thing.
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    Canon Canon Finally Go Mirrorless

    That link you gave has a video from Canon UK which I've included here:- <iframe src="" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="560"></iframe> Interestingly for a Canon it looks quite sexy!
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    Canon Canon Finally Go Mirrorless

    There's also more on it at Imaging Resource - Canon PowerShot G1 X Camera - Preview
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    Micro 4/3 Sigma and m4/3 lenses

    43 Rumors | Blog | (FT5) Hot! Two new Sigma m43 lenses coming soon. After all the excitement from Fuji and Canon, 43rumors have pictures of two Sigma lenses apparently for m4/3. The somewhat pulse slowing pair entails a 19mm f/2.8 and a 30mm f/2.8. Mmmm.... did I miss something here or are...
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    Fuji X-PRO 1 Fully Leaked by French Magazine 'Responses Photo'

    I guess I knew it too. I was just trying to delay the inevitable.
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    Canon Canon Finally Go Mirrorless

    I think the simplicity and the all-in-one approach is incredibly appealing to a lot of people. It seems to have a lot covered from large sensor to HD video to a decent zoom range. I've always wondered how many of the "point and shoot upgraders" are that interested in interchangeable lenses...
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    Fuji X-PRO 1 Fully Leaked by French Magazine 'Responses Photo'

    I sense I'm doomed to do just that!
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    Canon Canon Finally Go Mirrorless

    Indeed. I always imagined a less ambitious zoom. I would guess that there's a hell of a lot of in camera correction going on with this lens as it is It saves them going through all the rigmarole of a standard zoom, a pancake, a telephoto zoom, a lens road map, the "yes we're going to release...
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    Canon Canon Finally Go Mirrorless

    Shows I think the advantage of "coming late to market". There's an optical viewfinder and a flip out screen in there. Canon have pulled off a nice trick here, a competitor to the CSC's and yet not a competitor to their DSLR's. Looks very interesting. Makes Nikons direction with Nikon 1 look even...
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    Canon Canon Finally Go Mirrorless

    I've always been surprised that no-one has done this before. It is basically a small(ish) camera with a big sensor and all the other perceived "attractions" of a compact. I can't see it failing to sell in its 10's or 100's of thousands.
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    Canon Canon Finally Go Mirrorless

    Its got an "X". Must be good!
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    Canon Canon Finally Go Mirrorless

    Canon finally go "mirrorless" (or something like it) Canon PowerShot G1 X Preview: 1. Introduction: Digital Photography Review The rumoured Canon "super compact" has arrived. Sensor between m4/3 and APS-C, fixed lens. 14MP 1.5" CMOS sensor (18.7 x 14mm) 28-112mm F2.8-5.8 lens...
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    Fuji X-PRO 1 Fully Leaked by French Magazine 'Responses Photo'

    My credit cards getting nervous. Firstly can I say how much that last statement resonates with me. Cameras come and go here on a pretty regular basis, but there always seems to be a m4/3 camera (or two) around. Regarding the Fuji. I guess it shows what a diverse lot we are. I was prepared to...
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    Panasonic Charlie Waite on LX5

    Geting paid by Panasonic to wander around, take a few snaps. No wonder he thinks its fun! Like you I wonder how often he uses a camera like the LX5 on his advertising assignments, his books and his print sales. I'm all for well-known photographers promoting "ordinary" cameras, however I think...
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    Fuji X-PRO 1 Fully Leaked by French Magazine 'Responses Photo'

    I remember having you down as the X100 menu "guru" when I had mine. I saw a piece once that claimed a certain camera manufacturer split its body and menu design teams into separate units who only met when the camera was displayed and announced to the world. They were apparently both shocked...
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    Fuji X-PRO 1 Fully Leaked by French Magazine 'Responses Photo'

    From the reaction to it, it seems the X100 menu system satisfied less than most.
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    Fuji X-PRO 1 Fully Leaked by French Magazine 'Responses Photo'

    I suspect this is going to be very much a "niche" camera. But that niche could be quite large. Last time I saw some figures Fuji had sold 70,000 of the X100, and they were apparently both pleased and surprised by that. Its very much in the "upmarket" compact(ish) market sector. The Contax G...
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    Fuji More new Fuji CSC rumors (drool, drool, drool)

    Couldn't agree more. I beat you. Mine lasted a week before going onto ebay. Shortest time I've ever owned a camera. For me the "road to damascus" moment was getting hold of the OLED viewfinder for the 5n. It became a different camera as far as I was concerned. The NEX-7 just takes that...
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    Fuji More new Fuji CSC rumors (drool, drool, drool)

    It seems the leaks are coming thick and fast. Kind of looks like a GX1 with a built in viewfinder. If the prices are correct its not cheap. The item in the "description" that did quicken my heartbeat however was :- "- There is no Anti Aliasing filter on the sensor." Mmmmm........
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    Fuji More new Fuji CSC rumors (drool, drool, drool)

    Several Points. I'd be interested to know what experience you have with NEX lenses. I currently own them all, and as I constantly write in my blog, I'm bewildered as to where this "myth", and it is a "myth" comes from that says that NEX lenses are somehow inferior. I've done tests against other...
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    Fuji More new Fuji CSC rumors (drool, drool, drool)

    I was wondering that too. Didn't they do stagecoaches? The camera looks very interesting, and if this is true, then a high quality 16MP sensor with fast primes is certainly going to prove popular, for lots of us "retro-heads". I'm a bit more skeptical about this sensor. Fuji have been known to...
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    Mind Blowing Processing

    I've just posted something similar in another thread:- https://www.photographerslounge.org/f93/film-101-scanner-requirements-basic-b-w-development-5525/index4.html here are a couple of samples of what I posted. Relatively simple in Photoshop. These are from colour images and Photoshop...
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