Recently I have been taking some more photographs for Pure Cornwall, who are one the County’s leading property rental specialists.

Competition
Recent Competition
Fuji 100-400 lens
Panorama
One feature of the X-T1 I’ve not used as much as I should is the panorama mode.

I find the ability to stitch the images in camera so cleanly very impressive. In the past I used my DSLR on a tripod and used various programs to stitch the images together afterwards but none have been as successful this.
There are various modes to allow the images to be either landscape or portrait, swung left to right, or right to left.
Neutral Density Filter
Evening Light
Fuji 18-135 Lens
Finally had a chance last night to try my new 18-135 lens on our “Up the Creek” boat trip.
This is a fantastic trip organised by Ann and Alan Cox for local charities where they charter one of the river ferries to take a group out on the very high tides to parts of the rivers you can’t usually access.
I’ve not tested it back to back with my 18-55 and 55-200 but initial impressions are that it’s not quite so sharp. Here are a few of the sample images taken from a moving boat:-
New Fuji X-T1 firmware 4.0
I have just updated my X-T1 with the latest firmware, which confirms one of my reasons to use Fuji due to their continued support of their products. Well done Fuji.
I’ve not tried all the features yet but ‘feel’ the autofocus is slightly better than it was. This was it’s biggest weakness over my old Canon 50D, which despite being several years old had a very snappy autofocus.
Yesterday I quickly tried the new focus tracking facility on a passing helicopter circling over the beach at Falmouth, which overall worked very well:-