Joe I recently bought an unused copy of this camera after seeing your photos and Matteo Ceschi’s taken with this camera. I love it so far. Ive found i do not need to go above ISO 400. Ive found the monochrome Jpegs are excellent. Can you give anymore insight into using this camera. I have turned sharpness to 0. Its sharper than my 35mm F2 prime. Enjoying your blogs so much
Thank you very much Gill 👍🏻 I have owned pretty much every Fuji camera ever made through the years and the mighty little X30 is one of my favorites. Like you mentioned the JPEGS it produces are amazing and I mostly use mine as a monochrome camera at higher ISO’s because the noise resembles film grain. I use the camera mostly in aperture priority mode because I like to control my depth of field and set the auto ISO 1 to a maximum of 800 and auto ISO 2 to a maximum of 1600. I rarely use auto ISO 2 mode because the lens is so fast that you can still use a decent shutter speed in low light conditions. I normally use film simulation bracketing and select Standard, Monochrome + Y, and Monochrome + R. The camera is a wonderful street shooters camera because its small and not intimidating to your subject and the auto focusing is fast enough. I’m not much of a post processing type of person so I never shoot in RAW with the X30. I find that the JPEGS are flexible enough to tailor to my liking in post. I do wish Fuji still produced this camera and my only complaint is that I wish I had the black version instead of the argent (silver).
It is an amazing structure and it was so cool being in there shooting with you and Stacy 😀 I just wish I could narrate the history of places I visit like you so often do on your site. Thank you very much Laurie 😀
What the heck is The Oculus? The name of this building, I imagine. Where is it and what is it for. An amazing shot, Joe. The repetition in the architectural lines with the photo wall works so well together.
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Joe I recently bought an unused copy of this camera after seeing your photos and Matteo Ceschi’s taken with this camera. I love it so far. Ive found i do not need to go above ISO 400. Ive found the monochrome Jpegs are excellent. Can you give anymore insight into using this camera. I have turned sharpness to 0. Its sharper than my 35mm F2 prime. Enjoying your blogs so much
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Thank you very much Gill 👍🏻 I have owned pretty much every Fuji camera ever made through the years and the mighty little X30 is one of my favorites. Like you mentioned the JPEGS it produces are amazing and I mostly use mine as a monochrome camera at higher ISO’s because the noise resembles film grain. I use the camera mostly in aperture priority mode because I like to control my depth of field and set the auto ISO 1 to a maximum of 800 and auto ISO 2 to a maximum of 1600. I rarely use auto ISO 2 mode because the lens is so fast that you can still use a decent shutter speed in low light conditions. I normally use film simulation bracketing and select Standard, Monochrome + Y, and Monochrome + R. The camera is a wonderful street shooters camera because its small and not intimidating to your subject and the auto focusing is fast enough. I’m not much of a post processing type of person so I never shoot in RAW with the X30. I find that the JPEGS are flexible enough to tailor to my liking in post. I do wish Fuji still produced this camera and my only complaint is that I wish I had the black version instead of the argent (silver).
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Joe, this is such a great shot, and I love knowing exactly where you were when you took it 🙂
So fun!!
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It is an amazing structure and it was so cool being in there shooting with you and Stacy 😀 I just wish I could narrate the history of places I visit like you so often do on your site. Thank you very much Laurie 😀
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love the clean lines Joe
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Thank you very much Kathy 🙂
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What the heck is The Oculus? The name of this building, I imagine. Where is it and what is it for. An amazing shot, Joe. The repetition in the architectural lines with the photo wall works so well together.
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The Oculus is actually the new transportation center and hub at the World Trade center. One portion of it is actually a shopping mall Emilio. You have to love all them widescreen LCD TV’s meshed together. It really hits you as you are walking through this section. Here is another shot of a different part https://groupexpo.wordpress.com/2016/10/26/the-oculus/ and another https://thevisualchronicle.com/2016/10/17/inside-the-oculus/
Thanks Emilio 🙂
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Fantastic architectural shot, Joe. Nice work!
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Thank you so much Jane 🙂
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Excellent shot Joe!
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Thank you very much Patti 😀
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Awesome shot! What lens did you use for this one?
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Thank you Gale 😀 Actually I used my little carry everywhere camera the Fuji X30 – http://www.fujifilmusa.com/products/digital_cameras/x/fujifilm_x30/
The lens is not interchangeable but the zoom range is equivalent to 28mm to 105mm. I used the 28mm setting for this shot.
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Wow! That’s a handy little camera and it takes awesome pictures!
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Cool black and white Joe!
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Thank you James
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Fantastic shot Joe – I love those lines 😉
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Thank you James
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