According to this thread, it may be. My X-T1 (pictured above), with its impossibly recessed buttons, will go back next week for maintenance. I hope it comes back much easier to use.
JR Photography: Helios 44m-5 58/2 review
Some lenses eschew raw line performance in favour of beauty and draw. My favourite Canon 35/2 LTM is one of those. The Helios 44m-5 58/2 in M42 looks to be another. In his review, Jonas Rask does a fine job of relating to what photography it is best suited. All photos in his review are shot on a Fujifilm X-Pro 1.
Fujifilm to fix X-T1 light leaks free of charge
Quick, painless, and responsible. This is why I throw vast sums of money behind Fujifilm.
The original issue is documented in this video.
Going wide in Ebisu
Martin Irwin goes wide in Ebisu with the super Voigtlander 15mm f/4,5 LTM lens and his new Sony A7r.
Horseman VCC Pro - my X-Pro 1's first still life studio outing
The Horseman VCC-Pro is an interesting view camera for both medium format and smaller film and digital backs. I snatched one for a week thanks to the lovely Ms. Nitta, whom I met at this year's CP+. She set me up with Nikon mounted VCC and two large format Rodagon lenses.
Read morePoor poor Shigma...
Shigma (sic) may have lost this one to the tune of 14,5$ million, but that's okay- their strange sandwich-lookalike DP2 camera is bound to eat Nikon's lunch.
via Nikon Rumors.
Getty and Flickr partnership at an end
It's been fun (sort of) while it lasted. The good news is that from now on, users can choose what images to submit to Getty rather than waiting for Getty to get around to selecting the images they want in their image vaults.
Ulf Hoffmann's camera-eyed robot could join a table tennis club
Quite an amazing video. While its present skills wouldn't net it a place in the training regimen of second-year players, it looks like a great trainer for the beginning-level table tennis player.
35 images of Korea from 100 years ago
The world has undergone great changes over the last one hundred years. Just look at these images from Korea from around 1900.
DPReview: would you rather an X series camera with a PASM dial?
Gotto love the witticism of commenters at the world's largest camera forum. One of my favourite forum members, itsastickup, wins the battle again.
“Pain in the ASM, if you ask me. Not that you are.”
The entire pattle -er, battle, can be found here.