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<p>Twin Rainbows</p><div></div>

<p>tree</p><div></div>

<p>Winch on the beach</p><div></div>

<p>With regard to cases, I use the Op/tech Rangefinder soft pouch: I wanted something very small and am more worried about the occasional knock or contact with stuff in the backpack. It works very well but is probably not good enough for a deluge. You'd have to reverse the lens hood to make it fit.<br /><br />As for cards, I use UHS-1 cards (Sandisk and Transcend). My tests 18m ago with my X100s was that they were twice as fast when clearing the buffer as older cards.</p>

<p>Viking stocks.</p><div></div>

<p>Sanford, that's very funny. The X-E2 is slow, but is made slower, for me at least, by some of these weaknesses. I do agree with you that it makes great pictures. </p>

<p>Underwater plants</p><div></div>

<p>I am struggling with the AF system in the X-E2. Too often, the system chooses to lock focus on the area represented by a tiny corner of the active AF point when there is a plenty of texture in the majority of the image under the AF point. Unfortunately, that corner represents some textured surface that, almost always, is in the background and is several meters away from the intended AF point. This photo is a case in point though I have many others: the locked focus point is just to the right and several meters back from the front child.<br /><br />It is as if there is no nearest-distance or majority-area-under-the active-AF-point-at-consistent-distance heuristic in the system, and it makes snapshot portraiture with my 23mm and 35mm lenses very difficult. To make matters worse, unlike the OVF in my FF DSLR, and despite all its benefits, the EVF does not have the resolution to show me instantly that the camera has missed focus. Face detection is much better but really is not foolproof. I appreciate that one can make the AF point smaller. To be fair, my old X100s had similar failings but lacked face detection. Still, it seems to me that the AF system could and should be much, much better and makes an otherwise great camera very frustrating to use. </p><div></div>

<p>Bridesmaids at dusk. X-E2 with gelled SB-700, zoomed.</p><div></div>

<p>Flowers</p><div></div>

<p>Helter Skelter</p> <div></div>

<p>Place des Vosges</p><div></div>

<p>Great photos, Sanford. Building.</p><div></div>

<p>Ventilation</p><div></div>

<p>Holidays</p><div></div>

<p>I have the X-E2. I think that the X-A1, like the X-E2, builds its own wifi hotspot, so no external hotspot is necessary. Then a Fuji app on the smartphone will allow you to pull one or more pictures into the phone picture library, from where you can post anywhere. Not a single step, admittedly, but it works fine. <br /> I don't know of other cameras that can do this in one step (perhaps the Samsung Galaxy camera might).</p>