A new T-10 to complement our superzoom camera!

I often shoot with the 42x HS50EXR camera. One can shoot all day with extra batteries with this camera. The time to next shoot is imperceptible and the focusing and exposure adjustments speed is quite fast for general subjects while shooting inside a fast moving van. I could not do that with the Nikon D5100 or Canon SX50HS which do have better image resolutions.

I could not resist however to ignore the lower "bargain" prices for most of the fujifilm X mirrorless camera system. The Fujifilm X-T10 can be had for about 5000 pesos less with a standard 18-55mm kit 1:2.8 f-stop, 58mm diameter lens. There is a cheaper alternative 16-50 mm lens with plastic construction with slower 1:3.5f-stop,but I opted for the 18-55version not only for the faster speed but for the stronger metal construction. I was surprised by the bright finder and screen when shooting during the evening.

I still need to study the camera controls and I will start writing articles for this camera real soon! The nice thing is that I can use the NP-W126 [8.4V 1280 mAh, 7.2V 1200mAh] lithium batteries, the lens cap(the one from HS50EXR has convenient string to attach to the camera!) and the UV filter(for front element of the lens) from the HS50EXR camera on the X-T10. I am thinking of complementing the camera with another lens, perhaps a fixed focal length wide angle prime lens. Unfortunately the price of lenses can be higher than the price of the camera itself!

Extra euipment you should have with Fujifilm cameras.

Peripheral equipmment list for serious Fujifilm photographers. I read this article

Fuji love came up with the following list this photographer uses.

• YNN-568EX II flash
• YN-622 receivers
• YN-622-TX transmitter
• gelatines
• foldable snout
• foldable reflector
• clamps
• Vebon UT43D tripod
• teleconverter
• batteries, 7.2 Volts, NP-W126
• cards

V-22 Ospreys: Always have a full charged battery and spare sd card.

I heard the drone of a helicopter and then I saw two V-22 Ospreys,flying with their large proppellers facing vertically overhead. Unfortunately the camera batteries were about to gave out, and then I found out the sd card slot was empty since I planned to copy the images to my computer.

Nevertheless, the low resolution (640 wide pixels of the image format for the the internal buffer allowed me to shoot even a short movie. I just wish you can have a separate buffer using and external SD card.



Here is the short movie clip.

Scenes from the 5th floor of SM North Annex

You may be able to see the quezon monument and some tall buildings in the direction of Fairview when you are at the 5th floor of SM North Annex. These photos were taken on the morning of November 21,2015.

Ffirmware version is at 1.02

I only knew today that Fujifilm had released Version 1.02 to fix a Windows 10 image file read error. Head over to
http://www.fujifilm.com/support/digital_cameras/software/firmware/s/finepix_hs50exr/, The instructions are clear enough, but if you do encouter trouble you may comment your problems after this post. We are glad that Fujifilm is not ignoring its old camera models!

Its a camera and lens festival time for November!

I visited SM North and was surprised that Fujifilm had a camera and lens festival which started on September 1, with price drops for various X cameras up to 12,000 pesos! Hurry up as the promo ends on November 30, 2015. I do not know if they allow zero percent interest credit card payments, so ready your cash. We first present the latest camera prices.

X-T1	silver graphite body	79,990	69990
	black body	65,990	55,990
	black body, xf18-55mm	85,990	75,990
	black body, xf18-15mm	97,990	87,990
X-T10	body	40,990	35,990
	XC16-50mm	45,990	40,990
	XF27mm	45,990	44,990
	XF18-55mm	56,990	51,990
X-E2	body	46,990	34,990
	XF18-55mm	62,990	50,990
X-A2	XC16-50mm	27,990	25,490
	XC16-50mm w/ instax share	32,990	30,490
	XC16-50mm & 50-230mm	36990	34,490
	XC16-50mm & 50-230mm w/ instax share	41990	39,490
X-100T		64,990	59990
X-30		31, 990	19990

November 14,1015 photos of the day

I shot only a few scenes and mostly in Philcoa. The EXR Auto mode is fine for me, it has very quick focusing for bright scenes and the 42x max zoom helps capture even far away objects. The manual zooming also helps in quickly framing the desired object.