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When I was out at Gulf Photo Plus in Dubai I was fortunate enough to get to meet some of the folks from Fujj ME. The guys were beaming at the release of the new Fuji XT1 – the new 16MP mirrorless camera. Business was brisk, and after a few minutes of chatting w the reps there, I handed over my license to ask to borrow one for the day. I was chomping at the bit to see if this iteration of the camera would live up to the expectation (and desire) I had to check out this form factor.<\/p>\n
You see, several years ago I was a pretty vocal critic of some of the limitations of the ( at the time. ) newly released X100. I got my hands on that camera busting w excitement to try out a camera that I stylistically thought was going to be a great fit. Man did I really want<\/em> to like it.<\/p>\n I found it problematic to focus. When the camera locked a focus- it was razor sharp. \u00a0It was just that I couldnt get that to do it often for what I was shooting.<\/p>\n When Fuji announced the X100S – you started seeing cameras that included both contrast detect and phase detect focus. \u00a0As this happened, you were blessed with some sharp shots! \u00a0I was pumped in that I had been renting (through Borrowlenses) the XPro1, and loved the form factor. \u00a0Was just waiting for what would technologically come next.<\/p>\n So now I was staring at a camera that spoke to me on several fronts. \u00a0I -loved- the analog design of it – dials for every major thing i’d want to do.<\/p>\n Tale of the tape? \u00a016 Megapixel – APS-C, small, Lightweight – GREAT viewfinder, weather sealed magnesium alloy body? \u00a0Oh. \u00a0And fast to focus. \u00a0oOnly camera in the space thats shooting to the new UHS-2 SD Cards.. which are really fast.<\/p>\n And accurate. \u00a0Very accurate. \u00a0“This is Finally what I was Waiting For” accurate. \u00a0I have been looking for a system to complement my DSLR – and man, this looked good.<\/p>\n Id love to sit and chat about the technical details of it, but I think Gordon Laing did a great job of digging into all of the tech. \u00a0I agree with his assessment on almost all parts – you can check out Gordon’s XT1 review on the Cameralabs site.<\/a>\u00a0 At this point, I just wanted to see how it felt in my hands shooting a couple of different things – put it through its paces (as best I could with the time)<\/p>\n I ran out and tried to shoot a couple of shots with the time I had. \u00a0Obviously being deep into the 2nd Edition to the #HDR book<\/a>, that would be the first thing i’d try.<\/p>\n Camera handled very well! \u00a0The + – on it only hit three frames at 1 stop apart. \u00a0Easily wished that was more (in steps and frames). \u00a0I came back and told the folks, who (to their credit) took immediate notes on that. \u00a0I had been told from the folks in Dubai on how attentive the Fuji group was here.. so that was kinda neat.<\/p>\n This isnt an HDR. \u00a0Most of the shots that I was able to work on were on JPG. \u00a0I shot Raw, but Lightroom had not had an update to the Raw processing yet. \u00a0While I was there, the Adobe Labs site did come up with a Photoshop Release Candidate for Camera Raw 8.4 with support for the XT1<\/a> . so that was kind of cool.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Second Time Out: Portraits<\/strong><\/p>\n Back at GPP, I started playing around with the camera in between classes that I was teaching. \u00a0My buddy Steve from Phottix was supporting the event there, and I started fiddling around with his lights and modifiers. \u00a0I figured I had gone out and done some HDR work, I may as well treat my other side of the brain with trying out some portraits. \u00a0I setup the Phottix Luna Beauty Dish<\/a>\u00a0with a 14×56 Strip Softbox\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0on a pair of Phottix Mitros<\/a> flashes. \u00a0We setup a black VFlat inside of a storage room and made a mini portrait area – so small we shot the BTS with an Olloclip Fisheye\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0for the iphone.<\/p>\n I totally blanked on switching the camera to RAW and just got to shoot these as JPG. \u00a0When I went back to Lightroom, I noticed I was a little under.. but other than that… I was pretty pleased. \u00a0The level of detail and sharpness was awesome! \u00a0Click on the image above to see the full res shot.<\/p>\n I was so excited about how the setup came out and that I dragged the Fuji folks into the storage closet to make some shots of them. \u00a0I figured it was the least I could do for taking their camera out on loan. \u00a0Below I am adding the pictures of them individually. \u00a0All JPG shots from the camera, with slight crop\/exposure to taste. \u00a0Clicking on them will bring the full size up. What I loved about the shots is that they all had a great look to them. \u00a0You could tell they were proud of what they were doing. \u00a0Double bonus!<\/p>\n Kunio Aoyama –\u00a0Fujifilm Japan<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Yuta Kawamura –\u00a0Fujifilm Middle East<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Keitaro So –\u00a0Fujifilm Middle East<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mohamad Al Moumani –\u00a0Fujifilm Middle East<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jidal Mouna –\u00a0Fujifilm Middle East<\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/aboutrc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/daniel-1.jpg\" "\\"daniel-1\\"")
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