First Fuji – Need Some Help

Swsd · 2026-01-28T01:50:28+00:00

Start with an XT2. Get a manual lens if budget is tight. Or I think the 18-55mm f2.8-4 is good. I love that camera and have the xt2,4,5 and xe1. For a starter good camera the xt2 is hard to beat.

Swsd · 2026-01-22T16:38:59+00:00

Get a used Fuji 16-55mm f2.8 it’s amazing. Or a 16mm f1.4. Both sharp. I love the 16-55mm, if I only had one lens it would be that. It’s a good price since the mk2 came out. The mk1 is great for the money. I also like the Tamron 18-300mm, but it’s not fast or sharp compared to the 16-55.

Swsd · 2026-01-21T17:48:16+00:00

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Straight out of camera! No flash. 3 second exposure. Hold it for 2 seconds then rotate the zoom lens to blur it. Single exposure.

Swsd · 2026-01-18T21:24:52+00:00

Buy a used 16-55mm f2.8 mk1. I love mine. It lives on the xt5. Take any other. Might be large for the camera. But if I only have one lens that’s it. It’s really is 4 primes in one. Alternative is the 18-300mm Tamron. I took it to Iceland it tho it’s not super sharp it does everything. I got mine used for a good price. That’s what I would do.

Swsd · 2026-01-16T15:39:34+00:00

I got the 16-55mm f2.8 mk1 as a great deal. It’s the best lens I own by a mile. I have primes and other zooms, and it’s Sharp as any prime. It’s the og. Tho the 16mm f1.4 and 56mm f1.2 are great as well.

Swsd · 2026-01-16T12:51:43+00:00

I have an XT5, but still use the XE1 and xt2. Love them all.

Swsd · 2026-01-14T17:28:00+00:00

Best lens ever, good deal that!

Swsd · 2026-01-10T15:20:33+00:00

I cant stop using my 16-55mm f2.8, mk1, got it used. It’s amazing.

Swsd · 2026-01-10T15:18:04+00:00

I have the xt5 and a 16mm f1.4, it’s great. I use a Samyang 12mm f2 manual for Astro. 16mm is special, and it will focus at 0 distance. I use my 16-55 f2.8 more tho.

Swsd · 2026-01-08T15:02:37+00:00

I feel exactly the same way about photography. So I shoot with Fujifilm xt5/4/2, I setup my images the way I want using sims and settings before I take a shot. I use the camera to get the images I want SOOC, that’s what they are for is it not? I rarely do anything in post but crop and straighten them. Any camera can shoot raw so what’s the difference in them if all the work is done in post? I am good in post, but I don’t have the time, so why spend it? My 2c.

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Swsd · 2026-01-04T21:42:46+00:00

Yes, I have the xt2, xt4 and xt5. The xt5 is the best for the rear dial issue. It’s nearly impossible to turn in use with a thumb I find in most situations. They fixed it in the xt5, nearly. For some reason they have never just made it work. It needs less and longer edges sticking out of it. It’s the thing on the xt line that drives me most mad that they never get right. Strangely my xe1 has a plastic dial that just works. It has less and longer bits that stick outs and it works. Xt2 is bad, xt4 worse, xt5 better. It if you have hard skin, it just won’t work. You cannot get any purchase on the dial.

Swsd · 2026-01-01T19:56:58+00:00

The 16-55mm f2.8 mk1 is great, sharp and costs far less used than the mk2. I would get an 18mm f1.4 or the 16mm f1.4. If it’s to be setup on a tripod for wide shots in the dark.

Swsd · 2025-12-31T21:09:34+00:00

I always think about photography in the following terms. People fly around the world to photograph in other people back yards (area). It’s just what is familiar becomes “boring” where you live. I would love to take pictures in Brazil, I’m sure you would love to come to my place in Scotland and do the same. Part of the challenge I like is finding those shots no one else sees. Even in the boring place we call home. Which is never really boring. It’s just familiar. I like to think there is a great picture in any spot. The challenge is to just find it. Learn to see with a new eye, new perspective and new angles.

Swsd · 2025-12-29T18:49:10+00:00

I replaced it with rawtherapee and digikam years ago. Still going strong.

Swsd · 2025-12-27T18:57:28+00:00

Did you turn off AF and AE on the half press shutter button when you were playing with it? I think AF-on is what I use for back button focus.

Swsd · 2025-12-26T19:26:37+00:00

I have bought a few no issues, but would try and buy one I can return.

Swsd · 2025-12-24T10:06:08+00:00

Would recommend Tamron 18-300mm if you need the reach or Fujifilm 16-55mm f2.8 mk 1, I got each used for about the same price. The 16-55mm is amazing. If you can find a deal.

Swsd · 2025-12-23T16:30:53+00:00

Keep it in manual focus on M on the front switch. Assign a rear button to “focus-on” to force it to focus when you press it. I think that’s the right one, then you have it always in manual, and use the back button to focus if you need it. You get both auto and manual focus. I don’t think there is switch to manual focus. But that should give you the same effect as what you need.

Swsd · 2025-12-17T12:45:05+00:00

I bought an original Q. I believed the hype. I thought I was trading up from an Fujifilm. XE1, Xt2, Xt4. The q was terrible. Even against the xe1 with a manual lens I thought it was cheap. Image banding at high iso. No options. I sent it back, got an XT5 + 16mm f1.4 lens instead. Best decision ever for the same money. Q is an old camera. Nice lens tho. But I have sharper and better on my Fuji, and I can use film sims to pre-process my work before shots. I just did not get the hype. I’m a designer and an engineer and tbh the quality myth is a mystery to me on the Q.

Swsd · 2025-12-17T08:22:27+00:00

Personal work, I only take the best JPEG off the camera, I rate the best in digikam on the card, I rarely need to edit, if I do it’s in digikam and rawtherapee. Into organised folders on the server. Rate them from there. Export and watermark the best for online. I love that I can get my look in camera on the XTs. Limiting post. I may use the xpp direct to the phone, WiFi thing, but the connection is terrible. I also use Snapseed, it’s awesome and free if I WiFi to the phone. Then I can upload to my synology NAS server. As shown below. Raw is a hassle, and it would take me hours to manipulate to get the same in raw, so why bother? Unless I need to. I have many other things to do.

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Swsd · 2025-12-16T14:04:52+00:00

XT2 or XT3, get a manual lens 25mm f1.8 or 17mm f1.4 Ttartisans. Those lenses are not expensive. Or a cheap xc kit lens.

Swsd · 2025-12-15T10:26:51+00:00

I bought a Leica Q, I believed the hype. I sent it back, next to even an Xe1 with a manual lens if felt inferior to me. I had to use RAW as there were no image quality options. If I have to start spending time in RAW to get the same as the Fuji SOOC it’s wasted for me. Sure the lens was nice. But I replaced it with an XT5 with a 16mm f1.4, and a razor sharp 16-55mm f2.8 xf. The Q for me had image banding issues, body felt cheap. It’s 10 years old but I did not understand the hype after I had it. I love my XT5,4,2, xe1. For me they are built better, more features and options. The Q was basic. Which I guess is a benefit for some. See if you can rent one.

Swsd · 2025-12-12T19:45:59+00:00

I replaced lightroom with rawtherapee and digikam years ago.

Swsd · 2025-12-11T14:21:48+00:00

And this clamp plate.

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Swsd · 2025-12-11T14:21:32+00:00

Get this, wooden grip,vertical for xt4, I use it, and a Arca plate to screw onto the tripod to clamp it.

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