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  Oh yes, how's the Fuji project going JoJu?

 

Quietly, but with lots of surprises. I'm just at home and recovering from a surgery. Before that, I got a metabones adapter for Nikon lenses on the Fuji. Great thing, manual focus aid is extremely helpful. So, for 105 mm macro and 40 mm macro and 85/1.4 there's now a second harbor to dock in. Great. Of course, the little body behind a 150-600 looks odd and needs very patient subjects.

 

But the best part is yet to come. Fuji announced together with the really new X-Pro2 a simple update of the X-E2 and is not calling it X-E3 (because that one might be seen on photokina or not), but just X-E2s. Now, instead of buying that body with some helpful upgrades. I just can download the new firmware for the X-E2 and get the same features (although I kind of hesitate to applaud too early). Is that possible? electronic shutter up to 1/32.000, from 49 focus points up to 77, new tracking mode, face and eye detection, together with a new menu layout, no further need to use the "macro" button because it happens automatically - why not? But an increase in AF sensitivity from 2.5 EV to 0.5 EV? Without new hardware?

 

How cool is that? Did we Nikon users ever got a real cool new feature just by firmware update? Honestly, I don't remember more than bugfixes.