JRBERNSTEIN
Member
For those who have actually taken possession of their new XF bodies, what are your impressions, so far (particularly compared to the DF+ body)?
Thanks!
Thanks!
Great to see you here. Join our insightful photographic forum today and start tapping into a huge wealth of photographic knowledge. Completing our simple registration process will allow you to gain access to exclusive content, add your own topics and posts, share your work and connect with other members through your own private inbox! And don’t forget to say hi!
Some thoughts from our client Doug Sonders:For those who have actually taken possession of their new XF bodies, what are your impressions, so far (particularly compared to the DF+ body)?
Thanks!
Sounds like they are asking you to follow up with service/tech department instead of reaching out to Michael Muller or whoever is running Twitter and Instagram these days, who probably has no technical background....Just my thoughts...I asked Phase in a Tweet about the prism latch. Their reply:
"If you find the latch can be improved we'd welcome feedback through proper channels"
Sounds like they're in denial to me.
We've been shipping them to end users for a few weeks, but the pace of shipping is pretty slow and the backorder queue is quite large relative to that slow pace.What I'm not pleased with is the lack of information coming from Phase on when the WL will finally be released to the wild and I can finally get mine (which I've already paid for).
Don,Bill & Ken have already done the grunt work in answering. I just spent 4-days in Bryce Canyon shooting mainly in the morning both sunrise and then a little later. Snow, very cold, as well as very windy - think temps ranging from 5 to maybe 19 with winds gusting past 30 MPH. It was so windy at one location I had to get on my knees for fear of being blown over the ledge. I shot the entire location using the XF and IQ180 both with the latest updates and used all my lenses both because I wanted to test them as well as they worked for the location. 28D, 40-80LS, 75-150LS and the 240LS all worked and produced great image files.
In short, I'm very pleased with the XF both for the body itself as well as how good it works with my IQ180.
What I'm not too pleased with is the prism viewfinder's latch however I will admit I didn't have any problems on this trip. What I'm not pleased with is the lack of the waist level viewfinder that I order the same time as the XF. What I'm not pleased with is the lack of information coming from Phase on when the WL will finally be released to the wild and I can finally get mine (which I've already paid for). I could have and would have used the WL at least 60% of the time shooting in Bryce as it would have made my job both easier and safer being on the ledge. And then there's the 35LS. How soon are these lenses going to hit the market in quantity?
I've been a Cambo WRS user for 8-years and just last month decided to sell it and go all in on the XF - that's how good I think the new system is. And before we start a war on words here; as good as the XF is (and all the new lenses) it still isn't as good as any tech camera. I'm just changing how I do things.
Don
Don,
For DSLR use I use my Canon TS-E lenses from 17 - 90 on my Sony A7RII and also my Alpa FPS (the 17 & 24 TSE at least)
My choice was by design while your was happenchance :angry:. I'll admit that loosing movements will cause me some difficulties however more for stitching than anything else. The 40-80 is just that good at 40 and I believe the 35LS will allow me the file space to use one file and crop down to a pano size image without loosing too much resolution from my 180. I look at the coming months as a grand experiment - do I keep going with a leaner kit (XF, 180, 28D 35LS, 40-80LS, 75-150LS and 240LS w/2x) or do I revert back to a tech cam. I might be close to an answer next time we see each other.Don,
As a newly liberated tech cam user I was wondering how you felt about losing out on the movements that your Cambo provided? For me it's everything I think with the IQ back but that's as an amateur shooter who may be shooting with only a couple of lenses going forward. However, I have the full monty as regards the DF+ system and could buy in there instead of with just tech again (insurance claim).
For DSLR use I use my Canon TS-E lenses from 17 - 90 on my Sony A7RII and also my Alpa FPS (the 17 & 24 TSE at least)
Leaner kit?.... do I keep going with a leaner kit (XF, 180, 28D 35LS, 40-80LS, 75-150LS and 240LS w/2x) ....
It would be a good thing to get an answer on the focusing screen issue. Did Phase just revert back to the older DF+ screens and not tell anyone? Or are they eventually going to use the new screen which I was told is also brighter?
Indeed; the first batch of XF Focus Screens produced was not up to snuff, so most XFs shipped so far have been with DF+ Focus Screens. However, the most recent few XF bodies we've shipped to clients have had the new XF Focus Screen installed, so they ARE now starting to make it out into the wild!I feel a bit let down re the focus screen; what the sales literature and the instruction book said is not what I got. I understood that there was a manufacturing delay of some sort so they supplied the XF with the old DF/DF+ screen. However, there is still time for Phase to do the right thing for us early adopters!