Needs an adapter.
On 3/15/2014 8:24 PM, ma...@redwoodhorses.com wrote:
Am I to understand the Pentax A* lens fit the XT-1 Fujifilm X mount?
Jonathan
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Subject: Re: A* 85mm lens happiness
On 15/03/2014 6:28 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote:
On 14/3/14, Bill, discombobulated, unleashed:
Was shooting today with the A*85/1.4 on the XT-1.
There was great joy in the experience, though the pictures are pretty
mundane (my niece being molested by my Rottweiler).
How do you find manual working with this combo? I presume you're
setting ISO manually, aperture manually and letting the shutter speed
take care of itself? If the speeds aren't in the right range, then
bump up the ISOP a bit?
Steve, it's just like using an LX. Set the ISO, set the shutter speed and
move the aperture to center the histogram.
Or, set the shutter to A, set the ISO and move the aperture to set the
histogram.
Bump the ISO if required.
While the camera forces me to use my A series lenses as K lenses, it seems
to get less in the way than the Pentax, I think because even after
10 years of using front and rear dials on the body, slipping back into using
the more traditional controls on top of the camera was like putting on a
comfortable shoe.
This may not be for everyone, but for anyone who has been doing photography
long enough to have used a full manual camera, the control familiarity is
wonderful.
I was also playing stabbing random buttons last night and found out just how
customizable the viewfinder it. In addition to being able to turn all the
overlays off and have a very big unobstructed viewfinder to look at, one can
also set the finder to a somewhat smaller output, probably about APS-C
sized, which makes it much easier to see the corners for us glasses wearers
(but also takes away part of the reason for buying the
X-T1 in the first place), and one can also set up a dual image where the
entire image is on the left side, and on the right side is a view of just
the focus point, much enlarged, which makes manual focus a snap.
On the subject of manual focus, the choice, in all viewfinder modes is plain
screen (no focus aids), what Fuji calls digital split image (self
explanatory), and focus peaking (including in the magnified views).
I know you mentioned that you were interested in what I had to say about the
camera, since I'm not a fanboi, but I have to warn you, I have very much
become a fanboi of this camera.
So far, the only niggles I have with it is the camera shake warning, which
cannot be turned off, and sits there like a wet fart in the viewfinder. It's
annoying, but can be ignored, or put outside the image area by dropping the
image size in the finder, the four way buttons are certainly on the small
side. The people complaining about them have a valid point. The buttons
really need to be sitting about a millimeter prouder of the body for
perfection, and the battery life (which is pretty ugly coming from Pentax).
There are decent workarounds for all of my complaints, and quit honestly,
they are the camera equivalent of First World Problems.
The vertical grip is not nice when using the camera horizontally, especially
with manual focus, manual aperture lenses, and because of the traditional
control layout and shape of the camera, the camera can be flipped into what
I find is a more comfortable shutter button down vertical position when
shooting. If I am doing a lot of verticals, such as a portrait session which
would pretty much be all verticals, then the battery grip becomes a thing of
beauty (and doubles the shooting life to something close to a decent number
of shots).
In use, this camera is as close as I have seen to an LX in a digital camera.
The control layout is virtually identical, and the size seems to be very
close as well. I might dig out an LX this weekend and do some size
comparisons.
Fuji has, for me, been almost uncanny regarding this camera. It's really
like they read my mind and custom built a digital camera just for me.
The X-T1 doesn't get in the way.
Apparently a lot of people feel the same way, they are selling them faster
than they can build them.
bill
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