you mix two kinds of percentages.
percentages that represent the number of orbs in the total amount of photos taken so far (which i asked) and percentages that reflect how big a chance you have of orbs in a given situation.
Knurl, go back through ALL of the posts as I took time to do and you'll see that I quoted what each user stated - not what I wanted to quote as you did. It's YOUR thread and YOUR little set of posting rules and guidelines - so let's see YOU post the results, shall we - rather than debating the results. I do think that you owe it to all who participated to provide your results in a comprehensible manner, stating what each photographer said verbetim, rather than trying to skew comments to suit any personal agenda you might have.
By now you should realize that different shooting conditions present orbs. Therefore, the survey was doomed from the start with any 'sense' of fairness removed from the table. I think it was a scatterbrained mess and I'm glad I didn't start the thread as I'd be hiding ostrich-style right now.
Look and see how many times in this thread that several photographers (some who didn't even participate in the survey) told you this over and over, and still - you are not recognizing such. Because shooting conditions are the influencing factor - you have to take this into consideration.
As GaryJP said, it's best not to do surveys if you don't like the numbers and that counting is now subjective.
you do seem a little biased as you turn "a handful" into 10% and omit "closer to 1%" in the sentence 1 to 10%.
If you want to hear that the orb issue is insignificant, make another thread on the front page of the FTF and exclude those who take long exposures, night shots and subjects and scenes containing secular highlights.
If you shoot in conditions like Paul, like JW, like Timur and like Shutterbobby - tell them it isn't an issue - or to the SIGNIFICANT others who have either returned the camera because of such, or who have also experienced the issue, or who aren't purchasing the camera because of such. We don't have 1 or 2 people here peeing on the x10 party. As Fuji-lovers, the regular posters here WANTED the camera to be all that it was promised, although several newbies here claim otherwise.
you can also come to another conlusion if you only look at the people that gave percentage of the total nr of pics so far.
then you're actually seeing :
7 shooters that fall into the 1% or less category,
2 shooters that fall into the 2% category (trevor and tom schum) and
1 shooter falls into the 10% category (shutterbobby)
besides that there are 4 shooters that don't give total number but describe shooting situations (!) in which they got up to 100% of orbs. (paul, timur, wj & shutterbobby)
(garyjp only describes it as "far too many". which is too subjective. for some 1% could already be far too many.)
This is why you need to go back through each and every comment as I did instead of cherry picking your preferred results as people amended their stats through the thread. You should provide EACH photographer's comments and percentages as well as any special notes they mentioned about the shoot.
At this point, I've just about reached the conclusion as another poster in this thread - to just sit back and gloat over Orb City. But there are people here like JW who owns the x10 and whom I care about and therefore, I hope the camera gets a Fuji whammy in the right direction.
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