On 15/6/12, Steven Desjardins, discombobulated, unleashed: >Some of you have heard about the infamous "orb" problem with the Fuji >x10 camera. In short, if your scene has a bright light source like a >specular reflection or a streetlight at night the sensor will render >the bright spot as a sharp edged circle, especially at iso 100. I >gather most CMOS sensors do this to some extent but the problem was >pretty obvious with the X10. The web reaction became so severe that >Fuji developed a replacement sensor and offered to swap it out. I >just got my x10 back from Fuji and it's a whole new camera with a new >serial number. Given that the new batch of SN starts with "2" it's >going to be hard to sell the older ones that start with a "1". This >could be really expensive for Fuji. Just to mention, the problem >didn't bother me too much but some test shots show that the orbs are >much better and about the same as the E-PL1.
Thanks for the info Steve. I'll look into getting mine sorted - although never noticed the orbs that much. But like you say, residual value will be higher so worth doing. Interestingly, I've just bought a GoPro wi-fi bacpac - even though I don't have a GoPro yet!! It means that when I do get one (next month hopefully) I can beam live viewfinder info to my iPhone for use when setting up the camera remotely on the front of (say) a canoe, or when using remotely on a pole etc. Quite exciting! For those that don't know what a GoPro is, the video on the GoPro home page is entirely watchable: <http://gopro.com/> -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ---------- http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
