Stunning Robin rescue Biggles.
So Fuji sent us a body and 4 lenses for two days trial and we thought we would run them along side our Hasselblad V kit and compare and contrast. We turned down the offer of a demo "cos we are pro's and know what we are doing", we didn't have time and my co-photographer has had Fuji cameras for years. Massive mistake!
Running the two systems side by side was not as easy as presumed, the tether cable supplied was 2 foot long and meant we had to move the laptop to the camera instead of 4 meters away with the monitor etc.
Then we could not get any improvement over the V system in the focus department, then it all started to take too much time and we became aware that the client was becoming aware that this was all taking up too much time so we abandoned the test and reverted to what we knew with the V system and finished the first job.
Whilst the next work was being set up we tried again but could not achieve an improvement over the Hasselblad in focusing, it was good but not staggering. Put it back in the case and finished the days shoot and went home to read the manual.
On the 2nd day we had a half day shoot and tried the same thing having purchased a decent length tether cable and though the focus issue remained we were able to resolve which lenses worked for us and so not a complete waste of the two day loan.
Later that day at home without the pressure of the clients foot tapping, we set the two cameras up side by side and with similar length lenses on the cameras and the manual in one hand and a soothing cuppa tea in the other, shooting with available light as we do for certain types of jobs we noticed that the tiny spec of paint on the back of a chair 15 feet away exhibited camera shake despite setting shutter delay and mirror up so we checked out the manual for image stabilisation and low and behold the stabilisation needs to be turned off when working on a tripod which is what we had been doing, or it shakes the whole thing trying to stabilise it, LOL.
The subsequent results were amazing, incredible detail and the order went straight in for a body and three lenses.
Frustratingly we've have three lenses sitting in a box in the studio for a week and no camera body as Fuji were out of stock.
So now we wait......