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Bouncing the Flash - Fuji XE1 | Amy Medina on Digital Photography Review

Bouncing the Flash - Fuji XE1 | Amy Medina on Digital Photography Review | Fuji X-Pro1 | Scoop.it

 

Yes, it's true... you can bounce the little flip up flash on the XE1. The way it pops up seems to lend itself to easily holding it with a finger, pointed at the ceiling... and this is a very welcomed thing. I'm not normally a flash shooter, AT ALL... so I don't even know the best settings for inside flash shots. I just took these quick to show the difference.

 

NOTE: Sorry about the subject - I didn't have a model that would sit still otherwise. ALSO these are straight out of the camera. If the white balance seems a little "cool" it's because the ceiling in this room is painted a light but stylish shade of teal blue.

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Lerne deinen X-Pro 1 Optical-View-Finder (OVF) kennen | Harald Lembke

Lerne deinen X-Pro 1 Optical-View-Finder (OVF) kennen | Harald Lembke | Fuji X-Pro1 | Scoop.it


Viele kaufen die X-Pro 1 wegen ihres optischen View-Finders. Auch für mich war das ein wichtiger Grund für die Entscheidung für die XP1. Wer jedoch den OVF, womöglich mit den Hilfslinien, benutzt, zweifelt schnell an seiner Fähigkeit, die Kamera gerade zu halten.  Weder der eingeblendete Rahmen noch die Linien scheinen eine wirkliche Hilfe, wenn es um genaue vertikale oder horizontale Ausrichtung des Bildes geht. Der Horizont oder Gebäude werden immer schief, wenn man sie an den elektronisch eingeblendeten Hilfslinien ausrichtet. Als Ingenieur hat es mich nicht ruhen lassen, mal rauszukriegen, was ich eigentlich wirklich durch den OVF sehe. Hierfür habe ich eine Messung durchgeführt, bei der ich die XP1 mit dem 18 mm und 35 mm Objektiv aufs Stativ gesetzt und durch dem OVF auf eine ca. 2,5 m entfernte Wand geschaut habe. Dann habe ich mit einem Laserpointer den Rahmen und die Hilfslinien auf die Wand markiert und abfotografiert. Die so aufgenommenen Punkte habe ich anschließend interpoliert. Das ganze habe ich auf 2,5 m und unendlich fokussiert. Hier nun die Ergebnisse: Der blaue Rahmen zeigt an, wie der OVF-Rahmen sich in die reale Welt projiziert, der orangefarbene das tatsächlich aufgenommene Bild.

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Man sieht sofort, dass der OVF das Bild verzerrt. Darüber hinaus stimmen die Hilfslinien überhaupt nicht überein. Daher ist eine präzise Ausrichtung des Bildes mit dem OVF nicht ohne weiteres möglich. Aber: Die linke Seite stimmt ziemlich gut. Zusammen mit dem künstlichen Horizont kann man damit die Kamera gut ausrichten und das Bild hinreichend genau einschätzen.....

 

Was hilft die Erkenntnis? Der OVF kann auch genutzt werden, wenn es auf gerade Horizonte oder vertikale Linien ankommt. Man muss nur wissen, wie!

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Brighten frame lines when using adapters | X-Pro1 | Adam J Piper

 

Dull frame lines make it almost impossible to use the OVF outdoors during the day with mount adapters But I found a way to change this. I apologize if I'm the last one to figure this out but here is a little tutorial on how you can trick the camera to brighten them if you didn't already know how. This isn't written in the manual as far as I know.

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X-Pro1 OVF Tips | Gregor Dawdle

X-Pro1 OVF Tips | Gregor Dawdle | Fuji X-Pro1 | Scoop.it

thanks to Gregor Dawdle for this tip, but it doesn't work for me in OVF mode :-(

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the brightness of the display superimposed on the OVF, can also be adjusted. By QMenu "LCD brightness" if you have the eye in the viewfinder. Indeed, adjustment of brightness OVF and EVF / screen are seperated.

 

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Flax's comment, May 2, 2012 4:37 AM
What I am seeing is LCD Brightness can be set independently for the EVF and LCD.

However it does not appear to affect the OVF HUD. The HUD seems to gain up/down on it's own depending on the available light.
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The X-Pro1 OVF proves it self | Jimmy Dovholt

The X-Pro1 OVF proves it self | Jimmy Dovholt | Fuji X-Pro1 | Scoop.it


Once a year, in early march, the sun puts up a fantastic lightshow during sun set in one specific stockholm crossing. I discovered this last year and decided to go back sunday weekend when the sun showed up. The plan was to try to evolve the paning shots I did in 2012, but instead I found myself shooting a jumping dog. You got to love the unpredictability of the streets! And I’m really happy for the X-Pro1 OVF. The strong light makes it more or less impossible to shoot into the sun with the EVF. That was my main argument for chosing the X-Pro1 over the X-E1, and I have been proven right more than one time.

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Fujifilm shows-off zoom lens on X-Pro1 and denies XF lenses allow full frame | Digital Photography Review

Fujifilm shows-off zoom lens on X-Pro1 and denies XF lenses allow full frame | Digital Photography Review | Fuji X-Pro1 | Scoop.it
FUJIFILM has been showing off the way its X-Pro1's hybrid viewfinder will behave when used with zoom lenses - which we demonstrate in a video. It has also moved to quell suggestions that its XF lenses are ready for a full-frame X-mount camera. 'It would not work - XF lenses could not be used with a full-frame sensor,' said Hiroshi Kawahara, operations manager of Fujifilm's product planning division. He also drew our attention to the way X-Pro1 users will be able to use the hybrid viewfinder with zoom lenses - a feature that will be added in a forthcoming firmware update.

Initially it was unclear whether the X-Pro1 would be able to use its hybrid viewfinder with a zoom, or whether it would be restricted to using its electronic viewfinder mode. The good news is that it's not only is it possible, but its implementation is rather elegant.

Zooming the lens causes the viewfinder frame lines to smoothly contract, to represent the new field of view. The clever feature comes when you get to longer focal lengths. As with other long lenses, to avoid the framelines taking up a tiny section of the finder, holding the VF mode selection lever for 2 seconds engages the viewfinder's magnifying lens - giving a larger view of the subject and framing.

As you zoom out, once your view becomes wider than the magnified viewfinder allows, warning arrows appear at the corners of the finder to stress that you aren't seeing the whole frame. Holding the VF mode lever again reverts to the unmagnified view.

This video, shot on the Fujifilm stand at Photokina, shows the viewfinder as the lens is zoomed. At the full extent of the zoom, the magnified view is engaged. The lens is then zoomed-out again, showing the out-of-bound warning arrows at the corner of the finder.
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