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Hey, Fuji, do 12-35mm f4 next.
(unknown member): FUJIFILM X-A5 Key Features:
2MP APS-C
:P typo ^
As a real Japanese company they managed to write '24' without using 'four'.
ecka84: Well ... the 7 ate 9, but who ate the 4? :)
It's not a polite thing to mention number four in Japan.
Imager of: 15fps 4k video recoding fpr 5 minutes. Wow, that’s stunning! 🤔
It's better than no 4k at all. The X-A3 had the same price and dismal video.
idefixx: Is the focus-stacking Jpeg only or Raw?
Definitely jpeg. I don't know any camera that would synthesize a raw file from multiple files.
I wonder if they used the old single stage sensor from X-A3 or a new dual gain sensor from X-T2. The old sensor wasn't that good at high ISO. Judging from the fact that X-A5 goes to ISO 12800 it might be a new sensor.
It's time for manufacturers to standardize the camera API, so anybody would be able to write portable camera applications. They all probably run some Linux port, so it shouldn't be difficult to agree on API.
J A C S: I do not watch videos but looked at his slides. It seems that he spends a lot of efforts to recover the tonal curve from the JPEGs instead of just using the RAWs...
Raws? And who's going to do demosaicing and where would he get the tone curve from? He did the only reasonable thing one could do with that project.
Mike CH: Well, some students apparently do have a bit much free time on their hands :-) :-) :-)
Free time is the mother of all inventions.
Cool. Now we should demand Adobe creates an Excel plug-in for Lightroom, so we can all make any crazy pixel manipulations we want.
koseng: Why criticizing the model? It's fashion photography. The model did her job really well to convey some kind of attitude. If you like a smiling model, go to the lousy MetArt site.
Never blame the model, she is just doing whatever the photographer tells her. If something goes wrong it's always a photographer's fault.
koseng: Shock to learn some fashion photographers don't use a light meter to measure incident light. I wonder how they control and measure the light that falls on their subject.
Lightmeeters? The ancient 20th century technology? Modern cameras have precise metering, and smart metering at that, taking into account highlights and shadows, and they also use Lightroom where they can achieve whatever tonality they want in real time. There is no need for cumbersome guesswork with light meters.
raztec: The ONLY advantage of film for me is the fact that using my FM2 with manual focus lenses is a far more engaging experience than my D700 with AF lenses.
The size of the split prism viewfinder + the butter smooth action of the MF lenses truly immerses you into the scene.
As for the colours, resolution etc. I doubt if even seasoned pros could tell the difference.
Contemporarize, man -- get mirrorless.
Mildly interesting video, boring pictures, all the same -- one would have been enough. No point comparing film to digital, film is dead and there is nothing that can revive it.
kobakokh: 600 USD for this lens is budget option? I think such kind of chinese lenses must cost about 200-250 USD, not more, there will be true budget option.
Who are the buyers? Leica is a fashion item, like a jewelry. Who of the rich women would put on a $10G diamond bracelet and cheap $500 zirconium earrings?
kobakokh: 600 USD for this lens is budget option? I think such kind of chinese lenses must cost about 200-250 USD, not more, there will be true budget option.
It looks worse than Chinese Yongnuo 35 mm f/2.0, which retails for $80+.
BBnose: Why Leica users need budget lenses?
Good question. It's like buying a Walmart rubber band for Rollex. Both Leica and Rollex have only one purpose, viz. to show to others how much money one can throw away. Having a budget lens completely destroys the narrative.
Look at the test charts. The image quality is awful. After looking at that you start respecting Sony kit pancake zoom.
Mindprison88: It's a decent lens, but something that immediately throws me off is the unimpressive minimum focus distance of 70 centimeters, as that will severely limit its creative possibilities. I know such characteristic is not uncommon for 35mm lenses of old, but I don't see a reason to copy something so undesirable on a modern-made lens.
Strange...
rangefinder cameras were never close focusing, because parallax can't be compensated at close distances.
where did they get that bloody-handed dude from?