X-S1: The Myth of No Droopage

About 10 days ago I was in Japan for a holiday. My hotel was next to two major camera stores where virtually every model camera you could think of was on display and able to be handled. Talk about a store hard to leave. You go in there and dont come out hours later! Just one example, Yobadishi had on display a Canon 1Dx along with EVERY Carl Zeiss lens. I had never handled a Carl Zeiss lens even once before and I left that store having shot with EVERYONE! Well almost everyone. I never slapped on the 18mm or 25mm lens.

Anyhoo, at both these stores and a few others found while hiking through Kyoto, I checked out every X-S1 I could find. Looking for the mythical no droopage one. Formula One season is almost here and need some telephoto power to shoot the cars.

Sadly, EVERY LAST X-S1 I found, even in Japan, had very significant droopage.

I must have checked out close to 50 X-S1s now, in China, Hong Kong, the UK, the USA, and now Japan.

I dont believe one exists.

This is growing a little old now . We all know that the xs1 has lens droopage. Even fuji say sending it for the sensor fix doesn't mean you get a droop less lens by return. It's more a case of some are better than others. It's seems us Europeans got the best of the batches . Mine has very little movement . No worse than my canon and sony dslr kit lens anyway. Cheers Paul UK.

Ratty think its time for you find something else before the F1season starts . I look forward to your pics from this.

Question is what will fit the bill. Could you live with the droop to get the 2/3 sensor or are you going to go with a hs or switch brands completely . ( iPad for in the pits lol) only joking I know you have a pet hate for those.

Please tell me what's on your short list. ( we can always go over to open talk if its non fuji ) cheers Paul UK

I must have gotten a Euro-spec one then; I bought one brand new from B+H (s/n 21***) and at most it wobbles maybe 1/16 of an inch at full extension. If it's affecting lens sharpness at full zoom or if the IS and AF cancel it out, I'm not technically accomplished enough to tell you. I think it's sharper at 300mm hand-held than at 600mm, but then, what wouldn't be? It is sharper on the big tripod at 600mm, so that tells me at least part of it must be my caffeine intake!

There is nothing discussed in these forums that keeps me up nights, gives me ulcers, or haunts may waking moments. It's remarkable from someone who owns so many Fujifilm products. I can never really decide if you're really that aggravated, or you become an agent provacateur to get a rise out of everyone. It's funny, actually, if a more than a little tiring by now.

I bought my X-S with no illusions that it would keep up with a Nikon or Canon APS-C body with a good lens, much less a D4 or D-1X with serious full frame glass, for the same or half or a tenth or twentieth of the price. For me, a bridge cam is the luxury of a big all-in-one camera. When I first started shooting pictures 40 years ago, a camera like this (or most everything around today) would have been science fiction. That it packs the capabilities that it does into one camera for me is remarkable; that for $600 it's less capable than larger-sensored DSLR's or that its' construction betrays it's price point in a few places is big news? Hardly.

Going to shoot F1, eh? Well, get yourself a D-1x and the 100-400L and a good monopod and some extra batteries and cards (and an extender and the 24-105L just to be ready for anything), and send us some pics when you can !

Park youself at the bend at the end of a straight, and the D-1X will be fast enough to keep Vettel and Massa and Lewis and the boys in focus and perfectly exposed as they close on you, head on at 250kmh or better. Would prefer Spa F or Monza, or Suzuka from your side of the world. And best of all, no droop and no orbs !

And, Get Happy ! ! !



All the Best,

JW

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labe wrote:



Please tell me what's on your short list. ( we can always go over to open talk if its non fuji ) cheers Paul UK

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My short list is pretty short: X-S1. That's it. I have $3000 worth of gear in my B & H cart and the X-S1 is not in it.

I am going to take a pass on F1 this year I think. My plan was to attend both the Chinese and British Grand Prixs this year. However, my colleagues in the UK convinced me (along with the crazy stupid prices there) not to go to the British Grand Prix. So I have booked 5 days in Paris starting that weekend. No need for an X-S1 in Paris.

MY OP was just an expression of how I cannot find, in any situation, an X-S1 that does not have extreme droopage. How many countries does one have to visit to find the mythical droopage free X-S1? I look now just for the fascination of it all.

;-) It's just the OP's method for telling us of his worldliness and his/her $3000 B&H cart.

Any man or woman strong enough to haul an XS1 should be strong enough to handle the weight of droooopage. Lens droopage, that is.

A nice Tuesday or Wednesday to all/

I took my X-S1 to Guatemala and Belize, just back and checked out the pics at 100%. I shoot it as a 6 mp camera and tend to support the extended lens with my left hand and could find no evidence of the lens being significantly decentered even at full stretch but then I never shoot at faster than f8 with a lens of that type and this might be significant. I find the X-S1 very useful for the better sort of holiday snaps and it has a friend in the X10 that can use a 0.75 conversion lens. So 21-640 mm with only two cameras.

Rodolfo said:

Rodolfo wrote:

;-) It's just the OP's method for telling us of his worldliness and his/her $3000 B&H cart.

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You have an extremely overactive imagination.