CAMERA STERFF

Really surprised how well the Fuji and its 35/1.4 handles high ISOs: seems to do very well and it seems more comfy with the process than my other lenses. I also like the bokeh: it has a bit of the glow of the Canon 35/1.4 wide open BUT holds its softness for longer through the apertures until f 5.6.
I have a "home focal length" for each of my lenses, which I know will resolve the most detail at low-contrast for that lens: for my 14mm(21 equiv) it's f 5.6, for my 55-200(70-300)(er, did I get that right??..) it's f.11(yep, better than f8 on mine; the 35mm is classic "f8"... and I always feel one's 50mm length equivalent is worth the extra-f-stop investment on the grounds of getting an excellently-bokehed portrait lens and a beltingly sparp and bright optimum aperture general lens all in the one.

I have to say though, it's the "Fuji Trade Off": for each GENIUS bit of stuff that Fuji do you can bet that that there's something fecking maddening and incomprehensible the buggers have hardwired into the phenomenon alongside it:the resolution and bokeh are exceptional, there's good performance right across the 3 zones ...BUT every once in a while its autofocus will have a bout of mild but slap-worthy Tourettes Syndrome, and go off spitting and muttering to itself JUST a micro-tad LATER than you can SEE you want to take the shot NOW.
The moral as ever is for me: if you're serious, get a Fuji. But if you're serious, don't make a Fuji your sole camera, as one's artistry will always be of the poverty-stricken garret style rather than the breadwinning sort.

For example, wedddings. Nope, I do NOT believe a pro wedding snapper would EVER in his or her right mind take ONLY a Fuji to a wedding, unless the wedding were conducted in diving gear whilst swimming in treacle, or the guests were posing in scaffold-supported Edwardian diaphenousness(!). Don't get me wrong: 3 of your 12 will be absolute peaches, please the girlies and all relatives, win artistic wards for Utter Spawny Get Genius but will NOT be of the bride! The rest will consist of the usual Passables but you are guaranteed TWO Absolute Mingers out of your prize shots. No problemo, I hear you cry: but sadly they will be the EXACT TWO shots where Everything But The Bride's Closest Eye To The Camera is in focus but the Fecking Eye you bloody well NEEDED to be in focus.

Summary of the Fuji XT-1: One's relationship with one's Fuji could be that of typical domestic violence: passionate moments of life one couldn't get anywhere else, at the expense of needling each other to the point where one of you will shortly become very airborne...!