Fuji X1. 00. T : : First Look . It was the original X1. Fuji cameras, and I haven’t looked back since selling my DSLR gear in favor of the Fuji X series for my small format cameras. Yes, I’m going back to film days and saying that 3. That’s not a dig at full frame sensors. That’s just calling 3. But, before I digress into hyperbole and enrage the trollz, let’s jump into this new camera and why or why not you might be interested in it.(Click on any image in this post for a larger view.)This post is not a review of the Fuji X1. T per se, but more of a first look at the new camera and its new features and my opinions about it. Upgrade #1 : : Speed. To test the X1. 00. T I went back to the original X1. I walked around and shot with the original X1. By: Zack Arias In Gear · September 10, 2014 Fuji X100T :: First Look. I have had a pre-production copy of the new Fuji X100T for a week and I have been putting it. How to Decide Which DSLR Camera is for You? So how do you decide which DSLR to buy? There are an increasing array of them on the market so you have a real choice. The CIA has had the ability to turn routers and network access points into surveillance devices for years, according to secret documents published by WikiLeaks on. BibMe Free Bibliography & Citation Maker - MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard. One of the biggest engineering challenges of building a towering skyscraper isn’t keeping the structure from falling over, it’s moving all the people around. It is no longer the slow weird beast I fell in love with nearly four years ago. I then walked the same path with my X1. S and then the X1. T. I wanted to get a feel for the progression this camera has made. The new X1. 00. T shows just how much Fuji has moved this camera forward. It’s like using an i. Phone 3 and then going to an i. Phone 5. Focusing is much faster and far more accurate in both OVF and EVF modes. The overall speed and responsiveness of the camera is faster and more fluid. Walking the same path with the X1. S shows how much in the middle that camera is in- between the X1. X1. 00. T. Shooting my original X1. OVF brought back tons of memories I’ve had with these X cameras. I just wanted a nice compact camera to walk around with. I never thought it would have such an impact on my life; from getting me started in street photography, to picking Fuji up as a client and shooting for them, to the wholesale dismantling of my DSLR kit. I have such a strong nostalgic connection to my original X1. I’d love to actually put the first firmware back into it just for the good ol’ days. I’ve now been shooting with the X1. T for a solid week and as much as I didn’t go back to the X1. X1. 00. S, I see my X1. S falling to back up camera as of. I have three of them and I finally said “to hell with this” some time ago. The Fuji XT1 was the first camera I’ve used where Wi. Fi didn’t completely suck. I’ve used Wi. Fi on Canon, Sony, Fuji, and Panasonic and so far Fuji is doing the best job integrating Wi. Fi to i. OS. I’ve never tried it on Android so I can’t relate my experience with that platform. The Wi. Fi on the X1. T is working like a champ for controlling the camera remotely to browsing and downloading images to an i. Phone and i. Pad. I’m heading to Europe this week and I’m not taking a big camera bag nor am I taking a laptop. I’m taking this X1. T, two conversion lenses, and an i. Pad Mini. However, let me state that Wi. Fi is still buggy and there’s a healthy amount of lag when remotely controlling the camera while shooting. I think this technology has a long way to go, but it is usable in shooting and it is wonderful for downloading to a device for editing and sharing. One thing I’d love to see upgraded on the Fuji cameras is allowing the photographer to control the camera from the camera while it is being previewed on a device. This would be extremely helpful during a shoot as I can keep shooting and my client or crew can see the images popping up on an i. Pad. As it stands, when a Fuji camera is being controlled remotely via Wi. Fi the camera goes dark. You can only control it via the app. And dearest Fuji — We still want tethering to a computer. Upgrade #3 : : Classic Chrome. I have a confession to make. I have had a hacked X1. S all summer that had this new Classic Chrome film simulation loaded into it. Fuji asked if I would test it and I half heartedly agreed to. Don’t know what you’re going to get from it. I don’t use the film simulation modes.” Then I shot all summer with Classic Chrome and that’s all I shoot with the hacked X1. S and X1. 00. T. I really hope it is coming to the rest of the Fuji lineup via firmware. I haven’t heard anything about new firmware. I might know more after Photokina next week. I’ll update you here on DEDPXL if I hear anything new. But yes. This might be sacrilege to some but it could almost be called an Eggleston filter. I do not want to cheapen this film simulation with a dumb name or anything like that, and I sure as hell do not want to cheapen the name of William Eggleston. I only say that because it reminds me a lot of Eggleston’s palette. Please don’t flame me over this. I’m just trying to describe my feelings and emotions when I started shooting this film simulation. I love Eggleston’s work and his use of color is so unique that it became his signature at times. It makes sense, though, since Eggleston shot Kodachrome most of the time, and this is called “Classic Chrome”; I’m kind of thinking that Kodachrome was the inspiration for this film. I could be wrong. Just my opinion. There’s this “something” to this new film simulation. Whatever that “something” is I love it and I’m sold on it. It’s slightly desaturated and slightly flattened out without making highlights and shadows muddy like some film simulators tend to do. It can still hold a nice “snap” of contrast especially if you set your shadow tone to +1 which is something I am doing a bit more of these days. People don’t believe us Fuji shooters when we say we love the JPGs coming straight out of these cameras. Fuji has always processed images better than anyone else. I remember fashion shooters swearing by Fuji S1’s and S2’s for skin tone straight from camera. All of the sample images above were shot auto WB, auto ISO, aperture priority, some sort of exposure compensation, and using the Classic Chrome film simulation mode. These are straight out of camera JPGs that have been sized down to 2. Most were shot with the hacked X1. S. This blog post is coming right along! I’ve got a squirrel, my kids, a cat and a dog, and a flower! I might have to set up some kitschy sh! Let me know if you need those images to truly get an idea of what this camera is capable of. Maybe a photo of a quarter at every conceivable aperture and ISO setting? Let me know if you need those. Oh — you’re going to love this. I have hit the pinnacle of success as a professional photographer. The new Fuji brochure features some images I have shot in Classic Chrome and one of the images chosen is that flower shot above. I have a picture of a flower in a camera brochure guys!!! I’m looking forward to my early retirement. Upgrade #4 : : Layout, Displays, & Custom Functions. The menus have the XT1 feel and look to them with a few further refinements. One of the new features I’m most happy about is you can now customize your Q menu now! That’s been a huge request and just one more sign that we speak and Fuji listens. The new D pad on the back has been upgraded and I wish the XT1 had this exact D pad. Fuji got the D pad right! High fives all around! I think they have finally found the perfect mix of size, feel, and function. Each of the four buttons on the D pad can be programed to do whatever you want them to do. Currently I have the top one set to choose the AF area. The right button turns macro on and off. The bottom button turns face detection on and off. The left button cycles through the conversion lens settings. I have the top function button set to turn the built in ND filter on and off. I’ve kept the Wi. Fi function button at its default setting of turning on Wi. Fi. The seventh Fn button is the trash can button and that can be set to do something when in shooting mode. It is still the trash button when in playback mode. While I’m talking about buttons I need to mention that the AFS / AFC / MF selector button on the left side of the body is new and is the best yet. There are longer spaces between the M, C, and S positions and there’s a solid click as you hit each one. It’s a very small detail but one that has needed to be addressed since the original X1. Glad to see that improved. From the X1. 00. T brochure comes this interesting note — “After feedback from customers, the design philosophy and layout of the rear of the camera has been standardized on X series models.” So? It’s a pain moving from one X camera to another and remembering where all the buttons are because they’ve been moved around a lot. Some may argue they’d rather have this button there or that one here. I honestly don’t care. I just want one consistent layout and be done. They could have 1. I care and let us program each and every one. Just as long as there is some consistency moving forward is what I’m happy about. Upgrade #5 : : New Hybrid Viewfinder. The already wonderful hybrid viewfinder has been redesigned and it is fantastic. First, when in Optical Viewfinder (OVF) mode you now have a real time parallax preview as that white frame moves with focusing distance. You can also see the overall interface has been cleaned up as well. You can still have a digital level, framing guides, focus scale and all the rest. I used to have all that stuff turned on but lately I’ve been stripping my displays down to bare essentials. The image above was shot with my i. Phone so it does not do the viewfinder justice but it gives you a basic idea of the look of it. Notice the little preview in the bottom right corner? That’s a real time preview of your focus area and it lets you know what the camera is actually locking on to. It is also very helpful when using manual focus in combination with the OVF. As you move your focus point around the viewfinder the preview follows it. My preproduction unit has that turned on all the time in OVF mode and there have been times when I would like it turned off. I think this will be a feature that is user selectable once the firmware is finalized because I see it as an option in the new brochure. The new OVF is also brighter and larger than previous models and it’s beautiful. It also seems to cover the entire field of view of the wide angle conversion lens. When you set the camera to the wide angle converter the box changes to corner markers in the full frame of the OVF. Leaked Files Show How the CIA Can Hack Your Router to Spy on You. The CIA has had the ability to turn routers and network access points into surveillance devices for years, according to secret documents published by Wiki. Leaks on Thursday. In the latest installment of its Vault 7 series of leaks, Wiki. Leaks has disclosed an alleged CIA program known as Cherry. Blossom. The purpose of the initiative is to replace a router’s firmware with a CIA- modified version known as Fly. Trap. In some cases, Wiki. Leaks says, physical access to the device may not even be necessary. The potential applications of this toolkit are harrowing. With control over their router, a remote observer could monitor the target’s local network and internet traffic and inject malicious malware for a variety of purposes—injecting keyloggers to collect passwords or seizing control of a device’s camera and microphone, for example. Further, Cherry. Blossom would allow the CIA to detect when a person is using their home network and divert the user’s traffic through predetermined servers. Most of the router listed in the leak are older models, indicating that the documents themselves may be somewhat outdated, though there are undoubtedly plenty of targets still using the affected devices. One document, which is not dated, lists over 2. Wi. Fi devices allegedly susceptible to the Cherry. Blossom program. Once Fly. Trap is deployed successfully, agents are able to monitor the target using a web- based platform called Cherry. Web, the documents say. The command- and- control server that receives the data collected by Fly. Trap is codenamed Cherry. Tree. The Cherry. Blossom disclosure is part of an ongoing Wiki. Leaks series titled Vault 7 which began on March 7 with the leaking of weaponized 0- day exploits used by the CIA in targeting a wide range of US and foreign products, including i. Phones, Android devices, and Samsung TVs. The CIA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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