Fabio Amodeo

I have just started using the 90mm Sonnar, and I am amazed at the quality. Full aperture there is no match, I have never seen similar results. But the quality itself is a trap. It is mantained on...

The only Nikon offer in this area is the 14-24mm zoom, big and expensive. The other offer, the 20mm/2.8, is compact, nice, but optically far from outstanding. The 21mm Zeiss is well considered, but...

I have been working this way ever since I discovered that a RAW camera shoot was much more “workable” than any scan. Camera sensors keep getting better, while scanner technology seems mummified. At...

In the quality department there is no match. The 14 is superior on every account. The 18 is an easy-going available light lens, very practical, nice to use in many situations, but the extreme...

If you want less depth of field: use a longer lens. I keep my (adapted) Nikkor 180/2.8 just for those occasions. But the lighter and far more usable 200/4 does a good enough job. For the filter...

I use the Cactus, and it works fine. Flashes in manual, as obvious (but I used to work this way also with Nikons)

In the early times of X-Trans I did exactly that: use the Fuji/Silkypix converter just to do the demosaicing, then save to TIFF and do the proper work in Photoshop. My advice: pull the contrast...

Vignetting is the easiest problem to solve in post processing. My experience is that if you are working in very exact situations, like architecture or interiors, you'll be mostly using a tripod and...

I think the new offering by Nikon is quite interesting, mostly because it offers the chance to print native A2 at 240 ppi with the quality expected by the lack of filter. My X-Pro1 experience has...

My telephone, which is in no way smart, has killed, as far as I am concerned, the travel alarm clock and the voice recorder. Those were cheap consumer products, maybe all produced in the same...

My opinion is that X-Trans images are not better or worse than Bayer images. They are different, just like low ISO images from Foveon are different.Let me give some details. First of all, I think...

My experience. The full potential of Capture One comes out when you apply esposure, clarity and, most important, undharp mask to areas using the masks. Then you can really fine tune the look of the...

Don't just ask. Inform Adobe that Phase One is going to have your money, and LR is already travelling to the trash of the computer. They are not sensible to consumer requests, but they are to $$$.

The 14mm should be out in a few weeks. It has been delayed by the nunber of 18-55 orders, which has been higher than forecasted. It must not surprise: after years hearing from industry sources that...

I have found that my best performing lens on my XP-1 is the 55mm micro Nikkor. Up to 5.6 it outperforms my 50mm Summicron, which is the other lens I use in this range. It may be bettered by the the...

I'm afraid on screen visualization does not do justice to bw works. BW has always been mainly one thing: the print. In digital times, when it's an afterthought product, the interaction between the...

Dear Gentlemen,
the Interfit SXT3200 3 Head Tungsten kit is not a “strobe kit”, as you state, but a continuous light kit. As such the heads do not “fire” as you state, but are always on: the...

I bought the XPro1 to replace my DSLRs. Been using them for years, but all the time I was asking myself: which button shall I press next? Where's the aperture? Shall I turn left or right to open or...

Yes, ooc Jpegs are corrected for distortion and CA. Silkypix conversion does the correction as well, but no other RAW reader does, and that's a point in favour of the two steps process...

There is one solution. Write to Fuji: my money is ready for you and your wonderful cameras and lenses, but you will not get any until I am sure of decent support by Adobe (and Capture One, and...