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Fujifilm announces XF 10-24mm F4 R OIS wideangle zoom
Fujifilm has announced the XF 10-24mm F4 R OIS, a premium ultra-wideangle zoom lens for the company's X system mirrorless cameras. It offers an angle of view equivalent to 15-36mm on full frame, and incorporates optical image stabilisation to reduce blur at slow shutter speeds when shooting hand-held. It also has an aperture control ring on the barrel, and is compatible with the company's Lens Modulation Optimizer function that promises more detailed out-of-camera JPEG images when shooting at small apertures. It'll be available from March 2014 for $999.95 / £849.99.
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Fujifilm launches the Fujinon XF10-24mmF4 R OIS – an ultra wide to standard zoom lens with an F4.0 aperture throughout
FUJIFILM Corporation (President: Shigehiro Nakajima) is proud to announce the launch of the Fujinon XF10-24mmF4 R OIS lens compatible with all Fujifilm X mount compact system cameras.
The new Fujinon XF lens is a 2.4x zoom lens – equivalent to 15-36mm in 35mm format. Its ultra wide to standard focal length capabilities make it the perfect choice for shooting dynamic, high impact landscapes images with maximum detail from the foreground to the far distance. It also comes into its own when shooting interiors, making small rooms look more impressive, while the maximum F4.0 aperture that is available throughout the zoom range, enables handheld shooting even in low light conditions.
Fujifilm's introduction of the Fujinon XF10-24mmF4 R OIS means its X mount series can now boast (in 35mm equivalent) focal length options ranging from 15mm to 350mm.
Key features on the Fujinon XF10-24mm lens
- Newly designed optical system with 4 high-precision aspherical lenses and 3 extra low dispersion glass lenses which maximize performance of the X-Trans sensor.
- A powerful Optical Image Stabilisation function which boosts the ability to work handheld when shooting in low light.
- Ghosting is minimized by Fujifilm's unique HT-EBC* multi-layer coating that is applied to all sides of Fujinon lenses.
- An additional newly developed coating has been added to the reverse side of the front lens in the XF10-24 composition to further reduce the ghosting that typically occurs when using deep concave lenses.
- Enhanced resolving power at all apertures when used in-conjunction with an X-series camera** that incorporates a Lens Modulation Optimizer (LMO) function.
- Seven-blade aperture diaphragm that helps to create smooth and round bokeh effects.
- The ability to shoot at an aperture of F4.0 from the lens' ultra-wide 15mm focal length to its longest at 36mm.
- A minimum working distance of 24cm means that with macro photography you can capture both the small foreground detail and the wider surroundings to give your subject greater context.
- Its high-speed AF is achieved via its inner focusing system which drives smaller lenses in the middle or rear lens groups without moving the larger lenses in the front lens groups
- Thanks to light weight internal lenses and the addition of a stepping motor, the XF10-24mm lens is also very quiet to use.
- With its precision-made, responsive, and finely-tuned metal aperture and focus rings, you are ensured a superb handling experience.
* High Transmittance Electron Beam Coating
** As of December 2013 FUJIFILM X-E2
Fujifilm XF 10-24mm F4 R OIS specifications
|Principal specifications
|Lens type
|Zoom lens
|Max Format size
|Focal length
|10–24 mm
|Image stabilization
|Lens mount
|Fujifilm X
|Maximum aperture
|Minimum aperture
|Aperture ring
|Number of diaphragm blades
|Aperture notes
|Special elements / coatings
|4 aspherical elements, 3 extra low dispersion glass elements
|Minimum focus
|0.24 m (9.45″)
|Maximum magnification
|Motor type
|Stepper motor
|Full time manual
|Focus method
|Distance scale
|DoF scale
|410 g (0.90 lb)
|78 mm (3.07″)
|87 mm (3.43″)
|Metal barrel, metal mount
|Zoom method
|Rotary (internal)
|Filter thread
|72.0 mm
|Filter notes
|Does not rotate on focusing
|Hood supplied
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This lens is heavier than the X-E1 so I hope the center of mass of the lens is toward the rear element otherwise things just become awkward. I have been waiting for this to be released and got a 14mm to tide me over to the release. This is the make or break lens for any system and myself. If it is terrible I will probably dump my X-E1 and lenses and put my eggs into my FF system (happy to dump the FF system if this lens rocks). I probably would need to get something like an X100s if this lens is horrible. Though I could stick with just the 14mm + other primes. I have my fingers crossed.
Hey, this is an pretty nice lens.
But I would like to see more pancake lenses to acomplish compact mirorless bodies. They could be slower, but should be optically and mechanically flawless and really compact. And then I will be in. M43 got too small sensor for me.
well if optically its a solid performer(yet to be seen). I would prefer buying this over 4 primes, doesn't matter the brightness and size. This focal length range can be best served with a flexible zoom. A good OSS/IS/VR, resolution, low vigg CA and distortion (don't need to be perfect) .. that's all you need .. post processing is very easy these days
also m43 got too small for you? well when it was not that small and then how small is not small for you :))
I ment that there could be an option of having really compact pancake lenses eg 24,35,40,50mm. Because main adevantage of mirrorless over dslrs should be in compact size. And zoom lenses and large aperture lenses doesnt accomplish that. Just to have combo of large sensor camera with lenses which fit into the pocket.
But you right, I am too choosy, there are already some good solutions.
Uh, sorry mister expert, the 27/2.8 pancake is one of the sharpest lenses.
And i agree with povetron, some more compact lenses would be nice, but it doesn't have to be really completely 'pancake' though, that only really benefits the X-A1 or X-M1 anyway. The 27 is almost too small on the X-E2. And doesn't have the aperture ring to complement the shutter dial on the body !
Depends if you account for the field curvature, most tests don't. That's the main problem with brick wall tests, the reason people should be looking at PICTURES for a change.
The performance is golden from edge to edge, Photozone shows the difference if you must have numbers. Don't forget it's smaller than Panasonics 20/1.7, almost the size of Panasonics 14mm now that is small considering its apsc, which i believe was the point of this conversation ..
Missing the point much? You claim pancakes incapable of high quality. I am showing you the problem lies not with pancake but the fact that people like you expect it to be small, have a fast aperture anyway, and still only cost a penny, those things do not mix. Fuji here shows how it can be done, and yes that comes at a price.
I you don't like it, don't like it, but stop with these useless and incorrect claims only to defend your wrongs with lame excuses later.
EF-M22/2 is a great lens, but I wish if I could like it's camera body
27mm fuji comes in a cheap double-kit lens with fuji X-M1 with their new zoom kit 16-50mm and I agree its slow and not the best fuji lens, but luckily it is cheap, does its job and compact. I only wish if its bundled with xe-2 dual kit too.
I held an X-Pro today in a store. What an ugly and chunky piece of hardware, can't understand the excessive laudatory remarks around these forums.
You're in the Fuji forum. The X-Pro is a great camera. I love it. I've loved other cameras, mostly Canon, but also Minolta and Pentax. What can't you understand?
Sorry the X-Pro1 is not to your liking. But for many people, including me, it is near-perfect.
Also, Fuji has shown themselves to be very responsive to customer needs and has even upgraded the firmware for obsolete models (X100).
I wish Fuji great success.
please never touch x-pro again!!!
" I held one in a store" and I "can't understand the laudatory remarks"…
Weird gear-head alert. You do know that cameras are for taking pictures and that is how they should be judged?
Taking pictures with the Fuji's is a pleasure once you take the time to learn them. And the image quality is fantastic.
If it really matters most to you what they are like when you "hold them in the store" without actually using them, then you need to accept that you are NOT a photographer.
Happy christmas.
someone complains about the weight? oh please~~~why don't you hire someone to carry the camear and lens for you then.
and please don't even have a doubt in fuji's optical performance.
I'll bet this lens is great, but I'll need more than a photo and a press release to be sure. I can't even state that I have compared it to the Canon 11-22 and found the Fuji is superior, although some fans have already made that determination. If only DPR could test lenses this quickly!
@audijam .. truely
why can't they use their other hand to hold the lens!!
I'm enjoying everything about the X-Series. With this lens, my bag will be largely complete: 10-24/15-36mm zoom with stabilization, 23/35mm prime which lives on the XE2, and 55-200/84-305mm zoom with stabilization.
congrats .. share your photos .. Policy
Fuji seems to be on a tear with its new lenses! I've been shooting Nikon DX for 6 years, the last 3 with growing frustration about Nikon's apparent halt to building out its DX lens lineup. I've been thinking about jumping the fence to the Fuji X-mount; this lens makes the choice more compelling. But, oh, the price! The Sigma 10-20 I shoot on my Nikon cost less than half the price.
Though DX (and DSLRs in general) are a dead end indeed, the Nikon DX system has had this lens for ages and then some:
- Nikon 12-24 f/4
- Nikon 10-24 f/3.5-4.5
- Tokina 11-16 f/2.8
- Tokina 12-24 f/4
- Tokina 12-28 f/4
And your Sigma costs less than half the price because it is optically terrible. You get what you pay for. I doubt Fuji would ever release a lens as bad as that Sigma.
Sigma is definitely a master in wide angle zooms but 10-20 is not as good as Tokina (that a good sample of DX10-24 may equal).
no one can get every lens super good, not Canon or Nikon. Fuji's X-mount lenses are so-so ones, maybe good compared with decades old lenses.
It's lenses like this one that really makes me think twice about having both a FX and m43 system - If I only had one system Fuji would be it.
In equivalent terms, the Nikon 16-35/4 is also a full stop faster as it covers a full frame sensor. If you don't like the size of the faster lens that's fine, but don't act like you are getting something equivalent but with less size going with Fuji.
joejack951 .. why don't you guys stop talking about conversion between two sensor types and sizes when you don't understand f-stop, aperture, brightness, dof measurement and simple maths!!
isn't it easier? none of the two is any stop faster .. fast is for shutter speed .. not physical opening size of aperture!! at equal exposure, both of these lenses including the one on 4/3 or 1" with f/4 will be equally fast (takes same time)
@: Naveed Akhtar - "fast is for shutter speed .. not physical opening size of aperture!!" - wait what?? Aren't 2.8 lenses *faster* than f/4 lenses?
"at equal exposure, both of these lenses including the one on 4/3 or 1" with f/4 will be equally fast" Does this even mean anything? At equal exposure the image from a FF sensor will always have less noise than APS-C, which is what is called as the one stop advantage - as the noise performance of FF sensors is typically one stop better than APS-C as the same exposure.
So, yes, the continuing equivalence talk.
Yes the FF will have less DOF and will be a stop better in noise for the same aperture and shutter speed.
But with a super wide angle used at base ISO that difference will be a very happy trade for many.
Plus for the equivalent DOF (if that's what you are after) the APS-C will be one f-stop wider, thus enabling a lower ISO (if not already at base ISO) for the same shutter speed.
There are no clear winners in every situation, but this lens is much smaller and lighter than the FX "equivalent" taken on whole.
well vzlnc .. the argument was not including noise factor or any dof ... also if noise is REALLY your concern .. no FF can touch Fuji's excellent APSC XTrans .. full stop
I am sorry to say, but neither price nor weight are surprising for this lens (since than optical performance and mechanical quality are there). If you want small and compact get a couple of primes or move to smaller sensor (price will most probably not change though).
Fuji makes great stuff, but i'm thinking they need to differentiate themselves a little more from Nikon and Canon. Big heavy lenses are the bread of butter of the big two. A slightly more sensitive sensor is not enough in my book. They should compete with M43 not with FF and APSC. Find a niche and preferably not in the wheelhouse of the bully on the block. Otherwise damn yourself to getting the scraps.
Oh I forgot about the huge market share and profits Fuji has developed with it's mirrorless cameras. It's substantially less than M43 let alone Canon or Nikon. Lets create a camera that nullifies half the advantages mirroless provides and make lenses the size of FF telephoto zooms. Being a 'cult' camera only works if the masses see it as such, if they see it as more of the same, it's an extinct camera line and you sir sound as if your a camera paleontoligst
Very happy indeed but I can't help and think about the size of this bad boy. Filter size of 72mm? I never thought we'd see that in mirrorless. THAT is not small.
A big APSC sensor needs lots of glass either way to get the kind of high-end performance people are expecting. That's just how it is. Mirrorless doesn't mean it has to be small by definition, just no bigger or heavier than it needs to be altogether. It's not just the kind of mirrorless that you'd take along when the FF camera stays home, it's supposed to replace all of it, it's the real deal. And believe me i'd rather carry around a complete 3-lens 1-camera kit of this stuff than even the smallest DSLR equivalent (or the biggest and baddest for that matter).
I agree with you in a way .. this won't look awesome sitting over a small mirrorless camera. But think it another way .. I would like to have a mirrorless fuji x-e2 with a small, fast and thin prime, lets say the one 28mm ff equivalent all the time. but when I need a wider or slightly narrower coverage, I don't have to buy and carry another heavy fullframe camera.
This lens makes Fuji x system more COMPLETE!!!! :)
Nice range, but big, heavy and expensive (43% more than 55-200/3.5-4.8 - they are crazy!). But a lot of Fuji shooters are going to make themselves a Christmas present. :)
This looks like a very good upgrade to fuji system .. congrats!!
Along with m43, only Fuji X-system is becoming an serious alternative for photographer wanting to go mirrorless route.
Totally agree mate!!
However new Sony A7 is a daring move .. and with the passage of time, I see a potential there :)
only if sony releases some good lenses for that system. So far on E-mount I have seen more bodies being released than lenses. Also Sony has history of abandoning systems for no reason at all.
i know dude .. and this is one of the main reason why am not adopting sony .. LENSES!!! nex is getting better though
the big reason behind adopting new standards is they are trying to find their stronghold and doing their every effort to win its grounds .. not like Canikon who already got stablished client base and getting lazy everyday, bragging on their existing lense catalog!!
I like innovation and new ideas and for those reasons, respect Sony and Fuji! Even though I am going to keep my m43 gear and probably will get into nikon fullframe as second bigger body one day!!
Sony has always brought some innovative design concepts to market. But when it comes to interchangeable camera systems- lenses are going to be at the heart of any system. And so far Sony hasn't been paying much attention to that. Lets see if 2-3 years down the line they offer lenses like m43 or Fuji-X. Until then I am going to stay away from Sony. I am hoping the success of A7/7r motivates Canon and Nikon to design and release their own FF mirrorless cameras. In past both these manufacturers had rangefinders in their catalogues so making small FF lenses shouldn't be a big problem for either of the two.
Even if CaNikon will make a small FF mirrorless, it will not be as easy to compete against Sony. Because small FF mirrorless will need new lenses!! Sony will progress on that grounds. Plus CZ will always be there for Sony.
Seems like an awesome uwa. But please! I need native iso100 for landscape photography!
sorry mate, don't wanna judge you here .. but I don't think you know what you want here .. lower ISO ? for what!!
Naveed do you know why people buy and use ND filters?
Lets say you have 3 stops ND filter and you can take a shot with 2 sec f22 iso 200
if you had iso 100 your f stop would be 16 which means better image quality (or you could take a photo with 4 s which means a lot for day light long exposure photography)and even if u had iso 50 you wud be more free to chose those values.
And sometimes you want to take a shot with f1.8 but your max shutter speed is 1/4000 for fuji x pro1 and you will need to use an ND filter to make this shot (which drops the image quality which is important especially if it s a portrait shot)
I have never needed to take a shot at ISO 3200 or more but yes I needed smaller ISO values.
BTW I know some cameras have some creative filters ND included which is really good but still if you had smaller ISO values that ND filter feature would be more useful with an extra 1 or 2 stops ISO advantage.
Xentinus .. thanks a lot dude for a detailed response, I really appreciate your kind efforts .. though, trust me, I know very well about ND, Polariser, Gradient fileters etc and know the impact of diffraction on different camera formats.
ND filter is deffinately a great tool to use for gaining longer exposure. But please give it to gilliath who is asking ISO100 to slow his exposure, he needs exactly an ND filter, it will help him much more!!
Every new Fujifilm lens makes my Nikon DX system look more and more like a dead end. No significant new DX lenses since the 16-85, and not a single wide prime without going to an enormous heavy lens that needlessly covers the full frame format. With full frame 2x or more the weight, bulk and price, Fujifilm is looking like the way to go for everything but long telephoto and f/2.8 zooms. Bringing out that 58mm and mapping out a path to a 300mm f/4 with 1.4 extender for birding would absolutely seal the deal. A battery pack for extended operation when needed (or a new top-end camera with a bigger basic battery and a bit more of a grip) would neutralize another DSLR advantage.
Not really sure what the issue is here. Nikon already has a full line up of lenses for DX. In addition to that, third parties provide even more to choose from. And let's not forget the affordable prices either. You can cover the entire focal range for less that the price of this fuji lens. You have the Tokina 12-24 f4, Nikkor 35mm f1.8G, Tamron 17-50 f2.8, Nikkor 24-85 f3.5-4.5 VR, nikkor 70-300 f4.5-5.6 VR. And don't forget the D lenses like the great 50mm f1.4D. These are just a few of the great choices that can be had FOR LESS THAN $350 EACH, used market.
Very nice indeed.
I am very, very impressed with Fuji. They seem to relentlessly plug away, continually improving their camera bodies ( firmware upgrades make a freshly update XP-1 almost a new camera compared to the original ) and they just keep on increasing the lens range.
Very impressive. And I must say the only weaknesses, around AF in the main, are also much improved too.
The web is full of some excellent work being done by bloggers and pros using Fuji now. People like Mike Kobal.
Like I said, its very impressive. Well done Fuji.
This looks to be another quality lens from Fuji but what all the makers seem to be be missing whether for mirror-less or just aps-c on d-slr's is a compact fixed focal length uwa prime.
On m43 that would be say a 8.5mm to give a f.o.v of a 17mm on FF and on aps-c say 11mm.
I use a Sony 11-18 on my A77 and the only reason I do is for the 11mm end really. My 16-80 takes me wide enough most of the time and if I need wider than 16mm it is usually 11mm.
The Sony is not a heavy lens at all and is rather underrated (very good geometry IMO) but still, I'd prefer a less bulky lens to lug about so a 11mm F3.5 would be great.
I just find it odd that for all sensors smaller than FF no matter what make you shoot the only way to get an ultra wide angle rectilinear lens is to buy a zoom.
"I just find it odd that for all sensors smaller than FF no matter what make you shoot the only way to get an ultra wide angle rectilinear lens is to buy a zoom."
Because 2x zoom can be made from a prime quite easily, and much more flexible and thus valuable for the market.
peevee1, The result is a lens the size of the Fuji. If I was an X series or Nex owner I might be tempted by that Zeiss mentioned by PatMann but the point still stands.
Bar that lens which is available in just two mounts you have to buy a zoom if you want UWA on aps-c and smaller sensors.
They may be easy to make (really!?) but they are still bulky lenses and you won't find a prime this wide for smaller format Nikon/Sony/Pentax/Sigma d-slr cameras.
I used ot own an Olympus 18mm F3.5 film lens for my oM cameras and it was muh smaller than the Fuji zoom and it was full frame!
It looks like the aperture control ring is similar to the one on the other zoom lenses - NO MARKINGS? I understand the reasoning for this on the other lenses that have a variable largest aperture through the zoom range, but why leave the markings off on this lens with a constant f4?
Variable aperture lenses from other manufacturers have always had marked aperture stops. I have no idea why Fuji would release unmarked aperture stops for the XF zoom line.
It could be that the aperture ring itself doesn't do anything and is only an electronic control ring. Perhaps that is the reason. It makes little sense.
I would JUMP on Fuji'x XF lenses if they were mechanically coupled to helicoids and aperture irises. Too limiting for me no matter how well some of them shoot.
I'm sure it is just an electronic control ring (same as on the other Fuji lenses, including the primes that are marked. I'm just baffled as to why they don't add the marks on the zooms, and particularly on this lens with a constant aperture. It's nice to be able to set the aperture before bringing the camera up to your eye or even turning it on.
That said, I'm still planning on buying this lens. It looks very nice.
An UWA was one of the missing lenses that meant I went with Sony a year ago, so nice that they're finally filling that gap. Would be interesting to see how it compares come next March, as I find the Sony 10-18/4.0 good at F5.6 and excellent at F8.0+. From the spec sheet I can see this lens is close to double the weight (410g vs 225g), and significantly more expensive - but that will matter little if it's genuinely sharper wide open.
I keep on waiting and waiting for my 56mm lens, what a frustration.
When i bought my X-Pro 1 a year ago, it was already in the pipeline,
so they said.
Or will the new X-Pro 2 be a full frame camera and the 56mm comes
out as a full frame lens ?
Weight weight weight... As an elderly micro four thirds fan I always look at what its going to feel like hauling it around with a portrait and longer telephoto! It all adds up.
If light weight is important, micro 4/3 is still the best choice. Get the Lumix GM1 with the new 12-32mm f3.5-5.6, a 20mm f/1.7 and the new Lumix 45-150mm f/4.0-5.6. This combo would cover almost any required focal length and its as light as a feather. The Lumix 20mm f1.7 would cover most low light situation.
Although the Fuji mirrorless cameras are quite good the lenses are as big as most DSLR lenses. Thus, the attraction is negated.
"Pentax K-3 is 2% (2.5 mm) wider and 34% (25.1 mm) taller than FujiFilm X-E2.
Pentax K-3 is 108% (40.3 mm) thicker than FujiFilm X-E2.
Pentax K-3 [800 g] weights 129% (450 grams) more than FujiFilm X-E2 [350 g] (*inc. batteries and memory card)."
There's your difference.
This looks like a very nice lens, especially if the quality is there, and it probably will be there.
Fuji was smart to move to the high end of the MILC market by offering better lenses and bodies, and ceding the low end to Samsung and Sony. This is the niche they will probably own in the future, especially if they keep creating top quality lenses.
NO ONE makes anything like this!!! And if their other lenses are any prove, it should be very sharp also!!! Amazing work Fuji!!! :D
No one? Well, m43 already has 2 good uwa zooms. Sony nex is also rather good. And well, let's see what Olympus will make for their pro grade uwa zoom, the 12-40 in this line is simply awesome.
Size is only "not that much different" because length of Pana 7-14 includes integrated hood. Mount a hood on the Fuji 10-24 and then compare. And 110g of weight difference is also with hood vs without - mount a hood and it is even more (but even 110g is quite the difference - and 14mm-eq is wider).
Fuji XF - the line up is as attractive as the m line up, even being APS-C only.
this lens has to be awesome, as good as EF-M11-22 for that's one of the reasons we need mirrorless mount.
@vratnik - Spoken like a true fan.
The 11-22mm is an excellent lens, but this would want to be for 2.5x the price!
well, EF-M11-22 got smaller apertures and not as wide, but otherwise a lot better image quality than Sony E10-18, so that I think EF-M11-22 can be used as a standard for "good wide angle zoom."
though the MTFs are not directly comparable XF10-24 does't look too promising (would really appreciate everyone use 15 and 45 lp/mm for APS-C).
@ abortabort: hy, i im a canon user, and got the 10-22 a few months ago, for the first time in my life i wanted to exchange it: the corners at 10mm were really bad with the 70D!!! only at 10mm but that is the focal for wich i bought it!!! (i had the 15-85 IS before!). I went to the shop and was lucky enough that a friend there helped me tested against another sample just arrived from japan(tripod and all, naturally!) there was a very tiny diference... and mine was better actually! I supose that the tests in Photozone.de etc were in lesser demanding sensors! :(
The EOS-M is kind of a dog but the 11-22 with the big sensor is first class. This determination that the Fuji will be better, from just looking at a picture of the lens is, well, what fans do.
If the only metric left by which customers choose their products is price, expect lots of plastic crap to hit the shelves, and by and by, deteriorating quality.
I welcome a Fuji that could focus on a market they want to capture and tweak until they have it. This do all and be all to everyone strategy will only dilute their brand. Focus on the mid-high end of the mirror less market and get rid of the toenail and puppy dog shooters.
F4 for all the focal lenghts - so why no aperture numbers/markings on the lens? Can't see them on the pictures anyway.
I love my XF14mm, so I will not buy the 10-24mm I guess. On my Canon 7D with 10-22mm I discovered that my widest shots over the last years, that I really liked, were around 12-13mm, so I decided to buy the 14mm for my X-Pro1 earlier this autumn. No need for 10mm... yet.. :D
i am looking forward to seeing images from this. i'll bet they're going to look really good :) mm fuji
If there was ever a company capable of making hasselblad lenses under the hasselblad name, it was fujifilm. And here we have it: More recent Fujinon lenses than Hasselblad for a body priced from $400 if you put a bit of effort into your search, rather than $40,000 for the cheapest Hassy equivalent.
Proof: http://www.prweb.com/releases/Fujinon/avatar/prweb3412524.htm
Looks like a useful choice for travel landscape lens, and not sure that fast but heavy or big zoom factors but flawed optically, are the right concept for the fuji X cameras, what it needs to be is sharp and linear across the envelope.
Do you guys think the 14mm will be sold for less once this new lens comes out? I should have bought the 14mm on sale for $668.
Because they both do 14mm. :P
or 14/2.8 if you need fast wide angle. This is an extremely useful range on APSC , and 10-24 2.8 would have been huge.
What is the point in a heavier f/2.8 lens that needs to go to 5.6-8 for sharpness, when you can have a lighter and cheaper f/4 and up the ISO? We are no longer in the early days when ISO 3200 was a noisefest in digicams.
bec even if its soft at f4 .. its worth it .. bec at f4 i like it soft and tender
and if its sharp at f8 to f12 .. thats all it counts!!!
long live fuji ..
24mm (35mm) is not super wide angle.
For use in any situation where you might want to use shutter speeds slower than you can comfortably hand-hold. With wideangles, this might include:
1) Shooting interiors of buildings
2) Shooting landscapes in fading light
3) Using slow shutter speeds to add motion blur, e.g. to water
Of course it's useful if you shoot video hand-held.
I agree, if only because IS adds weight and size. Careful landscape and architecture shooters will be on tripods anyway. Low light... I can fathom that being important, but not really. IS is becoming rather common and certain customers expect it. I have a feeling that many of those customers would benefit from boning up on stabler shooting techniques.
The first certainly is.
The first is what, the very reasons tripods even exist? Anyone who *plans* on shooting interiors without a tripod isn't being very professional, as you would want to use at least F11 anyway, so it's gotta be one awesome crib if there's enough light to do that handheld at base iso, even with OIS. Of course, you can't plan everything and you don't have to be professional if you don't want to.
there are some tricks to shoot interiors without a tripod, like pressing the camera against a wall, but often slow shutter is not enough for interior that a tripod is more needed for multiple shots (focus stacking, HDR, stitching).
it's really creative to shoot handheld, though.
I often shoot interiors without a tripod. For one, some buildings (museums, churches) have rules barring tripods. Second, even when tripods are allowed they're difficult to use in crowded environments. Third, if I'm traveling all day on foot, carrying a tripod is a difficult choice. It means carrying a backpack versus perhaps just carrying a small camera with single lens slung over a shoulder.
This lens is intended to be an excellent workaround lens, not just for professional work .. IS can be very useful for such casual use ..
Also at 36mm equivalent with IS, you may struggle to get a speed of 1/40 sec or to be on the safe side 1/70 sec, and specially in English weather we are facing now a days!!
Sony already has an equivalent E-mount lens for $749 at the local Sony store in San Diego. We will have to see what the street price for this Fuji lens will be after March.
All mainstream companies make good lenses and bad lenses. And they're all full of compromises whether that is built to a price point or with certain design objectives (e.g. small size).
And some lens design is outsourced or uses well known optical formulae that have existed for many years.
So your sweeping statement that Fuji makes better lenses is simply not true. In this case the Fuji lens may have been designed to be higher quality (at a higher cost and possibly larger size) than the Sony lens but all camera manufacturer's could probably produce or outsource an equivalent if they wanted to.
I think Sigma have shown that there are no magic ingredients.
Not true are you kidding? You can blame or thank who-ever you want, for all i care it was Tamron who designed them (it was not). The fact is that there is only one questionable performer in the XF lens line-up so far out of 10, or 11 if this one turns out to deliver, or 13 including Zeiss Touit. They had exactly 0 only two years ago!! Obviously they ARE designed that way, and no surprise that comes at a cost. Comparing this with probably the worst superwide zoom ever make no sense whatsoever.
And one more, the 56/1.2 is on the roadmap for next month.
M Jesper, I know that the Fujis are good lenses. I personally am very interested in the X system and may in the future run one alongside my m43 stuff.
Fuji has targeted a specific type of photographer with the X system who will be very critical of poor lenses and will happily buy expensive lenses.
For the Nex system with a large number of more casual users using Nex3 or Nex5 it may have made more sense for Sony to produce a cheaper and smaller lens at the expense of optical quality.
The point I was making is that the lenses are targeted at certain segments of the market and any major camera company **could** produce an equivalent of this lens (even if by outsourcing) but it may not be commercially viable (or less profitable) to do so.
That IS the point. Fuji XF is for those who seek more high-end equipment without the weight of a DSLR. And it's working, people love it, certainly not everybody but isn't that always the case with specialized equipment. Mainstream is not the only way to success you know. caver3d simply noted correctly that that is the difference with Sony. So i don't know why you keep defending them. Why would anyone care they COULD do it if they wanted to, the point is that Fuji is the one who is doing it now.
Sure there is ZEISS glass for Sony which is awesome, but Fuji actually IS doing it all on their own. To most the Touit lenses for X mount aren't even interesting either because Fuji's own offerings are more interesting with equal or better performance ànd more economic as well. Surely Fuji may have an advantage to their own equipment, nobody's saying there are angels at work, it's just the end result that matters.
You can't ignore the rules of physics. Rather big and heavy I guess. Why is there no weight info in the announcement?
since when 410g too heavy for an enthusiast photographer?!!
Olymore .. that's my only Ultrawide angle lens (9-18mm) and I agree its small, lovely and no doubt quite sharp.
However its no match for this fuji one for its coverage, brightness and OIS!
Fuji make good quality lenses for the XF range I would like one covering that focal length but at that price out of my reach. Maybe secondhand in a couple of years.
no mate, lens always new .. there can be so many issues ..
unless you get it for 1/10th of the original price
Now Sony needs to release an ultra wide angle constant f4 zoom for APS-C?
Why because they didn't already have a stabilised constant f4 UWA for a crop sensor? Oh wait...
Well done caver3d, you must be very proud ;)
Having owned an X camera myself, I found the 18-55mm already too front heavy with no grip, is this going to be any better?
The X system is smaller than current digital SLR cameras, but is the same size as older SLRs, which weren't often used with zooms. Solid, compact primes were typical. This lens is both longer and heavier than it needs to be.
I have no problem with grip less cameras. In fact, I prefer them to gripped cameras, but when one-handing a camera, a grip is sturdier with a heavy lens.
OK lets go step by step to be sure you got the point.
Your comment is the second the most nonsense comment i have ever seen (ur next comment will the the most:) )...
I said it is too big
You said you own x system camera :D wow grats!!
I wish you said "no its size well balanced with fuji x system".
Not to own a camera doesnt meant you can't make comment. And since i have something to compare with it
(I have Nikon d7000 and Tokina 12 24 on it and it s really well balanced..And while Fuji 10 24 lens has almost the same size with Tokina 12 24)
Yes I have right to say "hey it s pretty but too big ".
This is my opinion and you cant change it...
I also think that if it was 10 or 12mm prime ultra wide angle lens
with smaller size Fuji would be really more attractive to me.
The is an external Grip available for Fuji http://static.bhphoto.com/images/images500x500/849431.jpg
Fuji X series bodies are big too !!
This seems a decent lens with f4.0 aperture throughout. What is the pricing going to be in EU? Any ideas?
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Affinity Photo for iPad was touted as "the first full blown, truly professional photo editing tool to make its way onto the Apple tablet." This update makes it that much more convenient.
Yashica has released a new teaser video, and this one claims they'll be releasing an "unprecedented camera" in October on Kickstarter. Ready... set... speculate!
Storage solutions company Synology has just released its very first 6-bay NAS tower. Combined with the DX1215 expansion units, it can hold and control up to thirty drives.
We're always expanding our collection of product overview content, and we've just added videos for the Canon EOS 6D Mark II, the EOS Rebel SL2 and EOS M6.
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Super macro photographer Can Tuncer captured these incredible close-ups of a single peacock feather using a special setup and three different microscope lenses.
After successfully crowdfunding the Biotar 75mm F1.5, Oprema Jena is at it again. This time they're bringing back the Biotar 58mm F2: the world's only lens with a 17-blade aperture.
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A report by USSRPhoto is shedding some light on the return of the famed Zenit camera brand. It seems the full-frame mirrorless camera they're working on will be made in part by Leica using components from the Leica SL.
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The 58-year-old's daughter has accused the Argentina star in lacking "heart" due to a failure to perform for country as he continues to do for club
The 25-year-old has not replicated his record-breaking form for Barcelona when it comes to performing on the international stage.
And it has prompted some to question his dedication to Argentina, while others have questioned his effectiveness without the presence of his Liga team-mates.
Speaking to Radio Del Plata, Vanessa Sabella claimed Messi lacks "heart" and has urged the star to strike the balance required to scale the heights for country as he does for club.
"I will not deny that he is a skilled player who has broken many records," she said.
"He is the best player in the world and never plays badly, but he still lacks some heart [for Argentina]."

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Texas Groups Join Teaming With Wildlife Coalition
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Texas groups recently met with congressional and conservation leaders here as part of a coalition of 3,000 organizations that make up Teaming with Wildlife, an effort to boost state and federal funding for wildlife conservation, outdoor recreation and conservation education and prevent wildlife from becoming endangered.
Teaming with Wildlife is a national grass roots organization that includes wildlife managers, conservationists, hunters and anglers, and businesses.
The national steering committee includes the American Fisheries Society, American Zoo and Aquarium Association, Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation, Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Izaak Walton League of America, National Audubon Society, National Wild Turkey Federation, National Wildlife Federation, Nature Conservancy, Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, Wildlife Society, Wildlife Conservation Society, and Wildlife Management Institute.
The group is calling for new and greater funding to support full implementation of recently completed State Wildlife Action Plans, which lay out clear needs and actions for wildlife conservation in every state. To help launch the campaign, more than 150 people from 43 states flew to D.C. to speak with their elected representatives.
Plateau Land & Wildlife Management* CEO and former Nature Conservancy of Texas leader David Braun led the Texas mission to Congress, representing the recently reorganized Texas coalition for Teaming with Wildlife.
Accompanying Braun were representatives from the Nature Conservancy and National Wildlife Federation Texas chapters and the Texas Committee on Natural Resources. The group met with Texas congressional delegation offices, including members of the Congressional Sportsman's Caucus. A letter supporting the effort was signed by Texas Representatives Lloyd Doggett, Solomon Ortiz and Gene Green.
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Since 2001, State Wildlife Grants have provided more than $366 million to states across the nation, including $18.3 million for Texas. For many decades, U.S. game and fish conservation has been funded partly through federal excise taxes on hunting and fishing equipment.
In 1938, Congress created the Pittman-Robertson/Wildlife Restoration federal aid program. In 1950, federal lawmakers followed up with the similar Dingell-Johnson/Sport Fish Restoration program.
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SAN DIEGO — Regional life sciences association Biocom has introduced a new eco-friendly alternative to sanitary napkins and tampons. Enter FemmyCycle, a product from member FemCap.
The FemmyCycle was granted clearance by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Nov. 16. FemmyCycle creator Alfred Shihata is familiar with developing feminine products. His FDA-approved FemCap is one of the few hormone-free, woman-controlled contraceptive methods available.
"When I developed the FemCap, my goal was to provide women with a safe, effective, hormone-free birth control device. The motivation behind the FemmyCycle was much the same: to provide a safer, more convenient alternative to pads and tampons at a lower economic and environmental cost," Shihata stated.
The FemmyCycle's nonspill design collects and holds menstrual flow for up to 12 hours. Collecting menstrual flow rather than absorbing it eliminates the risk of toxic shock syndrome associated with tampons. In addition, women using the device reported an absence of odor and leaks as the device keeps menstrual fluid away from vaginal walls and vulva and unexposed to air, the company stated.
The FemmyCycle can be worn during exercise and other daily activities. It is a reusable device made of soft, medical grade silicone and lasts for a year or more, making it an environmentally friendly alternative to tampons and pads. The FemmyCycle costs $39.95 per twin pack and will be available online and in stores in early 2013.


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Hombre Nuevo distributed food, clothing and toys to the poor.
January 15th Hombre Nuevo, a Spanish-language mass media apostolate with
headquarters in Los Angeles, California, organized a special mission of
charity by gathering food, clothing, toys and other supplies and
taking them personally to the poorest areas of Tijuana, Mexico.
Legionary of Christ Father Salvador Fernandez, LC, directed the
effort. This marks the tenth consecutive year Hombre Nuevo
organized the project entitled Pequeño Jesús (Little Jesus) by inviting
its radio listeners to imitate the three kings who brought
Jesus gifts at the Epiphany. The generosity and response this
year was very encouraging as the number of participants doubled
from last year. It was quite a sight: 191 cars,
trucks and vans lined up to make the trip from
LA to Tijuana with 7,500 toys and over 600 boxes
of supplies and clothing for the poor in twenty different
villages. The recipients were moved by the generosity and charity
Giving brings great joy.
that the missionaries shared with them. Not only did they
bring material gifts, but in many cases their smiles, words
of encouragement and sheer testimony were the presents they appreciated
the most. However, those who received the most of this
mission were the missionaries themselves, bringing the Gospel to life:
"Truly I tell you, just as you did it to
one of the least of these who are members of
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text: Stan Hywet offers free admission to veterans Nov. 11n Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens is offering free admission to all veterans and military personnel who present their military ID and who visit on Veterans Day. Admission includes a self-guided tour of the 65-room Manor House, the Gate Lodge and Corbin Conservatory as well as access to the landscaped gardens and grounds. Accompanying family members pay regular prices. Stan Hywet is at 714 North Portage Path in Akron.Admission for self-guided Manor House tours (includes gardens and grounds, Gate Lodge and Conservatory) is $14 adult; $6, student, ages 6-17. Children ages 5 and under, and members are free.For details, visit www.stanhywet.org or call 330-836-5533.Doll and train exhibit to benefit Case-Barlow Farmn The third annual Doll House Exhibition and Toy Train Display, which will benefit Case-Barlow Farm, will return with all new miniature houses, room boxes and toy trains.The displays will be open Nov. 23, 24, and 25, and Dec. 2, 9, and 16 from 1 to 4 at the historic farm, at 1931 Barlow Road in Hudson. Admission at the door is $20 for adults and $5 for children. Some items will be available for purchase.A limited number of advance tickets will be sold for a special preview party on Nov. 18 from 5 to 8 p.m. The preview party will include appetizers and desserts, along with a glass of wine. Reservations are required and can be made by phoning 216-956-0848 or emailing to email@example.com Nov. 23 to Dec. 15, the exhibit may be reserved for private and group parties upon request. Contact CBF for details.For more information, call 330-650-0591 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The Truth About the Second Floor
Our man on the scene, project manager Dylan Eastman, just returned from a trip to Blog Cabin 2013. He shares his latest remodeling discovery below:
"During this trip, I removed some pieces of interior ceiling panel to determine how the second floor was framed and also to get samples tested for asbestos. The good news is that the house is asbestos free! The not-so-good news is that the second floor is framed at seven feet above finished floor with roughly 2 x 5-inch floor joists. Further, these joists measure anywhere from 30 to 40 inches on center and span 12 feet. There is a fair amount of sag and bounce to the second floor. These facts, combined with the short ceiling height, demand that we reframe the second floor with new joists installed one foot higher than present joists. Have no fear, Blog Cabin fans, we will save every salvageable piece of wood for use in the renovation or how-to projects."


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So we figured what better place to ask than all of you
What features would you like to see added to the site?
So far we have :
- Search Feature
- "Buddy" Feature
- Chat room
- Like button
- Sending multiple PM's
- Auto-redirect to your last post after you login
- New Icons - clapping hands
- link to Simplicity from the profiles of platinum members instead of having to go back to the forum page
- a "Favorites" button for certain threads.
- An image button to go along with the bold, italic and quotes
- Heart icon for new post that takes you to the latest post on that thread.
-Chocolate and wine for everyone
- Shoulder rub for Rebreather
- Ability to insert icons in the middle of the post
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- Formatting buttons on the edit screen post
- Gender of person starting a thread.
- Preview Post option before posting.
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My tolerance for stupid shit is getting less and less.
I don't want to rehash topics that have already been covered if I could just read about other people's experiences that have already been posted.
Not sure about the search feature. It could be abused by a WS wanting to see what their BS is saying.
A LIKE button on each entry?
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Seriously, this site is awesome. The only thing I'd wonder about is if when you're logged out and want to post on a thread, when you hit reply to post it directs you to the post after you go through the log in.
'til the roof comes off. 'til the lights go out. 'til my legs give out, can't shut my mouth
Can we maybe have a few more of these:
Like a clapping one?
Love you DS and MH!
I second UO on the chocolate idea.
[This message edited by simplydevastated at 3:00 PM, September 17th (Tuesday)]
Also, this might be way too much work, but one of those things that takes you to the last post you read? I know the heart comes up for the entire thread with new posts, but the last post read feature would be great.


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The first French town to host a Tour de France finish for its 99th edition, Orchies is a sporting town and cycling remains one of the most popular disciplines in the city. Each year, Paris-Roubaix comes to visit Orchies on the cobbles of Chemin des Prieres and Chemin des Abattoirs. In 1962, Jean Stablinski was both winner of the Grand Prix d'Orchies and the road world champion. Orchies's vocation as a major sports town was emphasised by the construction of a 5,000-capacity sports hall and the presence of a men's basketball team aiming to join France's topflight by 2013. Orchies was already known as a stronghold of women's basketball as the local team was one of Europe's leading squads in the 1990s. The new sports hall will host to the 2013 women's European basketball championship finals while international badminton events are also scheduled.
1297Philip IV the Fair invaded the town, which became French in 1305 after the Treaty of Athis sur Orge.
1370Orchies is handed back to the Count of Flanders.
1477The town is plundered by King Louis XI.
1668The Treaty of Aachen hand the town back to France.
1708 to 1712Anglo-Dutch troops seized the town during the War of the Spanish Succession. It changed hands several times during the 18th century.
1858Opening of the Leroux chicory factory.
1914Orchies is destroyed during WWI.One previous finish
Pop: 7,600
Head of canton of Nord (59)Economy : chicory, small industry.
Specialties : chicory.
Sport : Basket Club Orchies.
Celebrities : Fernand Herbo (painter), Alphonse Leroux (chicory manufacturer).
Festivals : Chicoriades (June), Arts Salon, Musikadonf (October).
Orchies and cycling
The riders will make their entrance back to France in Orchies, which submitted a joint candidacy with Tournai as a Euroregion, a unique happening on the Tour. But Orchies is also one of the rare towns that is a stage that does not have a winner! In 1982, only three teams had set off when the team time-trial was interrupted in Denain by strike action, as a protest against the closure of the Usinor Group. On the other hand, last year, the town may have witnessed the birth of a future great champion, with the victory of Germany's Marcel Kittel in the 1st stage of the Four Days of Dunkirk.
Orchies is also the town of chicory manufacturer Leroux, which sponsored between 1956 and 1962 the cycling team, which included renowned riders such as Jacques Anquetil, Andre Darrigade or Jean Stablinski. Robert Leroux was instrumental in convincing Tour organisers to give up national teams in 1960.
What to see
The Town Hall
It was built in 1610 in the Flemish Renaissance style using both brick and stone. The building was seriously damaged during WWI and was rebuilt in 1926 and inaugurated by Head of government Raymond Poincaré. In 1992, the town hall became too small to host all the municipal services and a new floor was added, which respected the architectural coherence of the lot. The main square of the town, la Grand Place, was refurbished in 2007 and is the main meeting point for the locals.
The Devil's Tower
It was built in the same times as the city's walls in1414. It was used as a watchtower and as a prison. On the upper floor, the wall-walk can still be seen, as well as the slits from which the watch was kept.
Orchies chimes
The first chimes were installed in 1559 and destroyed by the fire that destroyed Orchies in 1914. The latest chime system comprises 48 bells made in Germany in 1995 and weighing about four tons. The new chimes replaced the old ones in 1996 in the Notre-Dame de l'Assomption church. Every year, a festival is organised to promote an instrument typical of the regional culture.
The capital of chicory
Tour de France fans know the Leroux chicory well as the company was one of the pioneers of cycling sponsorship and took over in 1955 a pro team led by Jean Stablinski. Leroux later sponsored the team of five times Tour winner Jacques Anquetil. In its 150 years of existence, the world leader for chicory was always ahead of its time in terms of technology, marketing or environment, hence its lasting success.
In 1858, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Leroux bought the Herbo manufacture, then producing chocolate, mustard and chicory. Five years later, Leroux launched the first mechanical packing machine wrapping up 200 packages per hour. In 1871, the production was reduced to chicory.
The founder's son Alphonse Henri Eugene was also a visionary. In 1897, the company created a Mutual Assistance Society, which took over the medical costs of the workers, 32 years before the creation of France's Social Security. Alphonse Henri Eugene was also a gifted advertiser – he launched fidelity tickets, mail orders, the company's logo symbolised by a Breton woman, and was the first to introduce publicity on the radio as early as 1929. In 1904, he had the idea of opening a Museum of Chicory, which can still be visited today in the old family house.
In 1950, Robert Leroux started sport sponsorship with a cycling team and Leroux still supports Orchies basketball team and the RC Lens football club.
In 1998, Leroux pioneered a new organic system to recycle waters, which are used to irrigate a plantation of willow trees. The company keeps developing globally through its international branches Pacha and Molabe.
Portadores de maillots al final de la etapa 20
- maillot amarilloWIGGINS B.SKY
- maillot de lunaresVOECKLER T.EUC
- maillot blancoVAN GARDEREN T.BMC
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- equipoRADIOSHACK-.RNT
- supercombativoSORENSEN C.STB
Diario de la etapa
- 23:00Resumen de la carrera
- 17:43Impresionante traca final de Mark Cavendish
- 16:00Entrevista - Ganador de la etapa
- 19:23Y finalmente, el Lotto-Belisol
- 19:22Peter Sagan: "Nunca pensé que...
- 19:20Chris Froome: "Me siento feliz de haber...
- 19:09Tejay Van Garderen: "Dentro de unos años...
- 18:46Bradley Wiggins: "Hay que vivirlo al máximo"
- 16:35Mark Cavendish: "No hay mejor país para...
- 11:45Análisis de la etapa
- 11:30¿Quién puede plantar cara a Cavendish?
- 10:30Recorrido del día
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Clutter Stole Her Life
by Pam Magouirk
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I have a story that might seem to be a bit different than most of the ones you have here. I have always been a budget stretcher out of necessity. And for the past 30 years or so I have been what I always liked to call 'a saver'.
I saved everything and found good and frugal ways to reuse everything from toilet paper rolls to pieces of furniture I found in someone's trash.
Then about 10 years ago I started saving plants that were doomed to be trashed at the garden center that I worked at. I saved any one that had any bit of green on it. And also saved the empty pots and the soil. I nursed them back to health and then gave them away, and sold a few.
But after a while it was overwhelming me. I am a single parent of three. I hold two jobs and I would come home to a yard full of sick plants and a house full of various other things I saved "in case I needed them".
I enjoyed it less and less. I became sick, and always tired, and never had time for my family. I had all this 'stuff' to deal with.
It came on so gradually that I didn't even realize how much of a problem it had become for me and for my family. I couldn't mow my grass, couldn't even see it . I could hardly walk through my house because I had stuff everywhere.
And when I wanted to find something it was impossible. I constantly had to pay late fees on my bills because I would lose them or forget them, in other words, my stuff had taken over my life.
Of course I had thought for years that 'one of these days I will get organized' and thought that would be the solution. But what I didn't realize until I read a book by Mike Nelson, called Stop Clutter From Stealing Your Life: Discover Why You Clutter and How You Can Stop was that I was a clutterer. And that it was not a problem of organizing my stuff, but the way I felt about my stuff that was causing so many problems for me.
I thought I was being so smart to buy lots of things when they were on sale, and saving all the plants to give away, and reusing everything I could think of, saving old clothes in case I needed a zipper or a button. But it had in fact caused me to be much poorer than I needed to be.
I was always late for work(reducing my hours that I was paid for and preventing possible raises), because I had too much clutter to deal with: lost keys, can't find my shoes, etc. I was getting worse and worse about paying my bills on time, hence late fees. I had to rebuy things I already had because I couldn't find the first one. I had to let broken things go unrepaired because I didn't want to let anyone see the mess I was in. So I had leaky faucets and who knows what else.
But the point I need to make is that there is help for us clutterers, and it is not in organization, but a change in our attitude and our feelings towards our stuff. Once we break that emotional attachment with our stuff and see what it is really doing to us, we can take back control of our lives.
I don't know if any of your readers have this same problem as I have had, but I can imagine that they might. Some people just need to get organized but for some of us it is more serious than that and there are groups to help. I am well on my way now, thanks to the book and the support I have gotten from the website www.clutterless.org/
I would recommend anyone to look at the site, ask themselves if they might be a clutterer and know that there is help. And that we can be thrifty in ways that don't ruin our lives.
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Notre Dame could be a member of the ACC as soon as July.
The school last fall announced its intention to leave the Big East and join the ACC in all sports but football and hockey. It was expected that the move would take place in the summer of 2014. However, with the impending departure of the Catholic 7 basketball schools, Notre Dame officials accelerated their plans.
The ACC cleared the way and is ready to accept Notre Dame this summer, should the Fighting Irish be able to negotiation an exit fee with the Big East, according to ESPN.
Had Notre Dame stayed in the Big East for 27 months after notifying the conference last September, it could depart without an exit fee. Instead, it, like the Catholic 7, is negotiating for an early departure.
The Catholic 7 basketball schools — DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, St. John's, Seton Hall and Villanova — are expected to announce any day now they have come to a financial settlement to divorce the Big East football schools and create a basketball-centric league. Reportedly, the cost will be $100 million but the basketball schools would keep the Big East brand name and assume the contract to play the conference tournament at Madison Square Garden.
Should Notre Dame negotiate an early exit, too, the Irish would join soon-to-be former Big East schools Pitt and Syracuse in their move to the ACC this summer. This would give the ACC 15 teams for the 2013-14 season and then 16 beginning in 2014-15 when Louisville joins as an all-sports member.
The Irish football team, which plays as an independent, will play five ACC opponents each year beginning in 2014.
What remains of the old Big East would be a shell of itself. Leftovers Cincinnati, Connecticut, Louisville, Rutgers, Temple and South Florida will be joined by newcomers Central Florida, Houston, Memphis and SMU in 2013-14 with Tulane joining in 2014-15.
In the summer of 2014, Louisville will leave the conference for the ACC and Rutgers would join the Big Ten. Neither is able to move up its departure dates because scheduling for football is done so far in advance.


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A Year-End Letter to the DG Staff
Dear Desiring God Staff,
As 2008 fades into history, I want to tell you again what a precious, undeserved privilege it has been to serve with you in the mission of Desiring God. God granted 44 of you to serve at some time during 2008, 35 of whom remain while the rest have followed the Lord's call into other fields.
Most of the work—and the most important work—of Desiring God was accomplished this year through you. 1 Peter 2:17 says "Honor everyone." And so I want to briefly honor each one of you:
Larry Agnew, your godly, pastoral leadership of our remarkable volunteer corps is priceless. When you are here, a sage walks among us.
Scott Anderson, your humble and highly skilled leadership has made our conferences both spiritually rich and logistically excellent. Thank you, brother.
Kevin Beyer, it's great to have you on board now! Thank you for serving with us in our audio production.
Edd Blott, I can hardly believe we get to have someone of your skill and creativity leading our video production efforts. What you do is amazing!
Dan Brendsel, thank you for years of editorial partnership. God be with you as you pursue your Ph.D. at Wheaton.
Laura Cline, thank you for serving so many on the phone. God bless you in Nashville as you study for an M.A. in English.
Bryan (Stick) DeWire, words are inadequate to express my gratitude for how graciously you assist me, John K, and Carol. I love to hear how you make John laugh!
Sarah DeWire, your excellent assistance for Terry only begins to describe your impact at DG. Thank you for keeping your husband, Bryan, in line for me!
Brian Eaton, I bless the day that you began as Director of Children Desiring God. You are the right man. I treasure our friendship.
Andrea Froehlich, when I saw you serve a struggling caller with your Bible open, I was overwhelmed with how gifted we are to have you.
Ryan Golias, behind your quiet diligence in resource production is a spiritual depth and a bright mind I admire.
Katie Haas, I love that your work station is so close to mine. Your constant cheerfulness buoys my spirit. And you lead our resource consultants very well!
Karen Hieb, you are an answered prayer for the CDG team! You manage projects with great skill and I love your contributions at staff devotions.
Sarah H., I miss you here. I loved your cheerfulness on the phones and your infectious love of the Jewish people.
Eric Johnson, I will miss you too. You are a gifted leader; you have a compelling vision; and you're a true Christian Hedonist. Thank you for leading the internet team.
Tyler Kenney, your work in preparing so much of our archived material for the web has simply been invaluable. I love your heart. Great days are ahead for you.
John Knight, tears come when I think of the gift your leadership has been this year. Thank you for agreeing to come aboard and for your friendship.
Terry Kurschner, the DG ship stays upright and on course largely through God's provision of your financial leadership. I don't know what I would do without you.
Matt Lund, your leadership of BBC's bookstores, and especially the conference bookstores, have made them world-class in my opinion. Your job is harder than most know. But Jesus knows. Thank you.
Seth Magnuson, it's a joy to see you in the Int'l Outreach dept now where you heart beats. Exciting days are ahead!
Kate Martin, you are a gift. Beyond skillfully keep our supply chain running, you are always humbly serving the DG staff through your remarkable gift of hospitality. I think there's a Kate fan club developing...
David Mathis, all of us who at one time have served as JP's assistant rise up and call you blessed. You far excel us all.
Marty McAlpine, when you pulled me aside at the SLO conference to pray over the video equipment, I knew we had a treasure in you. I cannot begin to thank you for the technical expertise you have brought.
Jeff McFadden, our faraway friend in Phoenix. I rarely get to see you, but I regularly get to see how your excellent programming makes the website soar!
Peter Melling, thank you , thank you, thank you for leading the IT dept singlehandedly and so skillfully! Oh, the help you have been to me personally…
Nathan Miller, thank you so much for assisting David in serving JP! I really enjoyed the breakfast we shared in SLO!
Lukas Naugle, what would DG be without you? I don't want to think about it. So much of what we've done in the last 3 years had its genesis in your creative mind.
Aaron O'Harra, it is not lost on me that we have a pastor-theologian answering phones. Someday I'll probably be reading your books.
Peter Ostebo, your artistic filmmaking is missed, my friend. May God make you fruitful as you serve the precious church in Illinois.
Matt Perman, you came back! Thank you! Thank God! How good it is to have your brilliant mind and passionate heart in senior leadership at DG!
Bryan Pickering, you are missed. I love your passionate heart for Jesus. He will use you well at Impact and at BBC.
Abraham Piper, you more than anyone are responsible for making the DG blog what it is. Your being on the DG staff is an answer to prayer.
Jenny Rigney, all of us are so thrilled for you and Joe and unborn baby Rigney! But you will be missed more than you know when it's time to leave.
Josh Sowin, you are still our excellent Webmaster, and I miss you anyway (and Sara)! Though today you're not regretting your move to Florida. It was 10 below when I drove to work!
Carol Steinbach, your compassion for the suffering and care for prisoners has shaped DG. And thank you for helping us clueless guys actually notice other people.
Michael Stokes, thank you for helping make the Word heard through skillfully editing our audio sermons. Tens of thousands benefit from this every week.
Craig & Kathy Sturm, you are dearly missed. You both were great joys to have around. God's fruitful blessings on your new ministry in Canada.
Joe & Sarah Sweetman, you both are also missed, but the Navigators on the U of M campus are richer!
Kristin Tabb, you not only have served the CDG effort with editorial excellence, you and Brian have also become authors! Praise God!
Jim Tomaszewski, almost 9 years of partnership. God has used you so significantly to make CDG what it has become. Thank you for enduring.
Mike Tong, I wish I could clone you! Your leadership of the customer service team is outstanding. But it is your heart for Jesus and love of our mission that I treasure most.
Bill Walsh, we will mark 10 years of partnership together next month. I couldn't be more thrilled with your leadership of International Outreach. Hold tight! The ride will be wild…
And this is just the paid staff. Time would fail me to tell of Terry M, Candi, Nancy, Marlin, Nathan, Alice, Laurie, and a host of other volunteers who regularly give freely of their time to serve at DG.
I love you all and count it one of my life's greatest honors to have you as friends and co-laborers. Thank you so much for a fruitful year.
Jon Bloom


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An $8.3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will fund an international team of scientists, including a University of Colorado Boulder professor focused on finding new ways to diagnose, treat and prevent a critical global health problem: malnutrition in infants and children.
Rob Knight, a scientist at CU-Boulder's BioFrontiers Institute, will be working with a research team led by Dr. Jeffrey I. Gordon at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The goal is to discover novel dietary and microbial therapeutics targeting infants and children living in countries with rampant malnutrition.
"Our hope is that by understanding the differences in individual gut microbial communities in both healthy and malnourished individuals, together with influences in diet including compounds and microbes transferred in breast milk, we will be able to better understand and develop new treatments for malnutrition," said Knight, also an associate professor in CU-Boulder's chemistry and biochemistry department. "Such treatments could include prebiotics, probiotics, antibiotics or nutrition which might help reverse severe malnutrition in different individuals."
Severe malnutrition has long been thought to stem simply from a lack of adequate food, but now scientists understand the condition is far more complex and may involve a breakdown in the way gut microbial communities process various diet components.
"A complex relationship exists between diet, gut microbial communities and the immune system in severely malnourished children," says Gordon, the Dr. Robert J. Glaser Distinguished University Professor and director of Washington University's Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology. "We now have a way to tease apart these influences. Recreating the human gut ecosystem in mice gives us a way to control these variables. The lead compounds derived from these well-controlled, pre-clinical studies can be considered for future clinical trials in malnourished infants and children."
Research led by Knight has shown that people carry "personalized" bacteria on many individual areas of the body, including the intestine. His CU-Boulder lab will host the Gates Foundation study database integrating various types of information, including whole-genome sequencing and microbial community analyses.
As part of the project, Knight and his CU-Boulder team will develop methods for high-throughput sequencing and analysis of bacterial genomes from "personalized culture collections," in which hundreds of strains of bacteria will be isolated and characterized from the intestines of individual people. The personalized culture collections will be used to colonize lab mice in different combinations to test which strains are most important, said Knight.
The community of intestinal microbes and its vast collection of genes, known as the gut microbiome, are assembled right from birth and influenced by babies' early environments and the first foods they consume, such as breast milk. As part of the Gates Foundation's Breast Milk, Gut Microbiome and Immunity, or BMMI, Project, the scientists will evaluate the relationship among first foods, the developing community of microbes in the intestine and the developing immune system.
The new research builds on ongoing clinical studies in Africa, South Asia and South America of malnourished and healthy infants and children and their mothers, which also are funded by the Gates Foundation.
As part of the new project, scientists will evaluate the function of gut microbial communities in malnourished and healthy infants and children living in multiple countries where malnutrition is prevalent. They also will characterize the nutritional content and immune activity present in breast milk samples obtained from the children's mothers during periods of exclusive and supplemental breastfeeding.
In parallel, the scientists will use a preclinical discovery pipeline recently developed in Gordon's laboratory to identify next-generation probiotics and nutrient supplements or combinations of the two -- known as synbiotics -- that may promote healthy growth in infants and children.
The investigators will transplant communities of intestinal microbes obtained from stool samples from both malnourished and healthy children into germ-free mice raised under sterile conditions. These mice will essentially harbor collections of human gut microbes that mimic those found in the children, and they will be fed the same diets as the children.
Then using the mice, the scientists can carefully evaluate how various nutritional interventions influence the workings of the gut microbiomes obtained from the children. They will be able to determine which microbes respond, how they respond and how they affect the overall function of the gut microbiomes. The researchers also will evaluate certain aspects of childhood development.
CU-Boulder graduate students will be involved in the BMMI Project, including doctoral students in the Interdisciplinary Quantitative Biology, or IQ Biology, program recently launched by the BioFrontiers Institute directed by Nobel laureate Tom Cech. The students are involved in semester-long rotations that immerse them in mathematical biology, computational biology, biophysics and bio-imaging as they work toward doctoral degrees.
"IQ Biology students are being trained with the exact mixture of mathematical, computational and biological techniques essential for progress on complex, challenging projects like the Gates BMMI Project," said Knight. Dan Knights, the first graduate of the IQ Biology program, helped to lay the groundwork for the CU portion of the BMMI effort with novel research on applying machine learning to studies of the human microbiome, said Knight, who also is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist.
Other scientists involved in the Gates BMMI project include Per Ashorn of the University of Tampere School of Medicine in Finland; Kathryn Dewey of the University of California, Davis; Michael Gottlieb of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health; Kenneth Maleta of the University of Malawi College of Medicine; David Mills of the University of California, Davis; Jeremy Nicholson of Imperial College, London; and Linda Saif of Ohio State University.
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Why Is Christmas the Perfect Time for Telling People They're Overweight? — Health Check
Who says the holidays have to be all warm and fuzzy? According to some health groups in the UK, Christmas can be the perfect time to tell a loved one he or she is overweight.
It may sound rude, but experts insist the health risks involved with obesity, including diabetes, heart disease and stroke, make it worth the uncomfortable conversation.


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Brooks Tropicals fills food safety position
Homestead, Fla.-based Brooks Tropicals LLC has hired Clara Sarmiento to lead its food safety program, said Mary Ostlund, marketing director.
Sarmiento oversees the company's food safety initiatives worldwide, Ostlund said.
Sarmiento, who was an assistant to company owner Pal Brooks, has a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from Pontificia Javerianan University of Cali, Colombia, and a master's in business administration in international business from St. John's University, New York.
Center for Produce Safety wants proposals
The Center for Produce Safety, Davis, Calif., is scheduled to issue its annual call for research proposals Feb. 1, said Bonnie Fernandez-Fenaroli, executive director.
The center anticipates having $2.5 million to $3 million in grant money available for research projects, Fernandez-Fenaroli said.
Grants are awarded in late summer.
"I expect we'll have, in addition to core research questions that can pretty much apply to any crops, we'll have specific commodity questions on mangoes, leafy greens, pistachios, tree fruit and cantaloupes," Fernandez-Fenaroli said.
The center will have its annual symposium June 24-25 at Wegmans Conference Center in Rochester, N.Y.
It will be the first time the program is two days, Fernandez-Fenaroli said.
It's also the first time that it will be held in a northern region of the U.S., Fernandez-Fenaroli said.
FoodLink buys Truetrac, signs new customer
Los Gatos, Calif.-based traceability service provider FoodLink, which in November acquired another Web-based tracking company, TrueTrac, announced Jan. 7 that it had signed Florida-based fresh berry distributor Dave's Specialty Imports to its network.
"We looked at other solutions, but FoodLink stood out as the most flexible, cost-effective way for us to connect with our growers in Central and South America, and to achieve our goals in terms of labeling and traceability," Mike Bowe, Dave's Specialty Imports' vice president, said in a news release.
FoodLink's acquisition of TrueTrac has created a Web-based network directly linking information from a field all the way through packing, shipping and purchasing by retail category managers, ultimately bringing full visibility to shoppers in the store, said Kevin Brooks, FoodLink's chief marketing officer.
Kwik Lok closures pair with inkjet printer
Yakima, Wash.-based Kwik Lok Corp. now is working with printer manufacturer Squid Ink to market the 901 Auto Print, an inkjet printer that will pair with Kiwk Lok closures, said Hal Miller, vice president of sales for Kwik Lok.
"The burden is put on the grower-packer-shipper with all that traceability information, and we're trying to make it as easy as possible for them to apply the requirements to our Kwik Lok closure or closure label," Miller said.
The 901 printer is ideally mated with the company's closures, he said.
"You can put a 2-deep bar code or any information on our Kwik Lok closure," he said.
The product debuted at the Produce Marketing Association's Fresh Summit last fall in Anaheim, Calif.
New Limeco develops label system
Princeton, Fla.-based grower-packer-shipper New Limeco LLC, is working to keep in step with the Produce Traceability Initiative, said Don Edgar, operations manager.
"We're in the process of developing a labeling system that literally uses a process of bar codes and serialized labels which will identify, down to the pallet, every particular item that we carry," he said.
RedLine Solutions working on interface
Santa Clara, Calif.-based RedLine Solutions Inc., which helps its customers integrate tracking technology systems, is now working with Englewood, Colo.-based Junction Solutions to develop an interface to integrate their software products to allow produce companies to more easily trace products.
RedLine spokeswoman Audren Van Normal said the interface integrates RedLine Field with Junction Solutions' JunctionFB product. It is expected to be available by midyear.
RedLine is sponsoring "Building the Traceability Bridge," a Web seminar to explain the integration, as well as review PTI requirements and best practices, Jan. 23.
ScoringAg technology helps with verification
Venice, Fla.-based ScoringAg, a global traceback and real-time record-keeping system, is using "electronic machine tele-metry" in technology that assists clients with procedure verification, said William Kanitz, the data keeper's founder.
"How do you verify that I went on the packing line myself and I need to have proof positive in a court of law that I sanitized that line with what and how much? We've got that technology now, and it will be part of the database," he said.
SCS Global Services harmonizes marks
Audit service provider Emeryville, Calif.-based SCS Global Services, formerly Scientific Certification Systems, now is using the Kingfisher brand on all of its certification marks, said Chip Wood, marketing specialist.
"All of our certification marks looked different from one another, so we now have the Kingfisher brand that goes with all our public-facing marks and labels," he said.
The company also will begin offering GlobalGAP — Option 2 to growers in the second quarter of this year, said Nova Sayers, business development director.


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Villanueva's next start will be all business
LAS VEGAS -- Carlos Villanueva's next start will be on Friday against his former team, the Brewers, and hopefully they'll understand if he doesn't say hello before the game. He believes that players from opposing teams should not mingle on the field.
"When it's time for business, I'm all business," Villanueva said. "I'm sure they'll try to mess with me somehow."
Last year in Toronto, the right-hander said he would dash to right field during batting practice to avoid mingling with any players from the visiting team headed to the batting cages in left.
"I don't want to see you or talk to you before the game, because if I have to put one in your neck -- hopefully it doesn't come to that -- I won't feel as comfortable doing it," he said. "Outside of the stadium, we can chat all you want. In here, sorry.
"If you're a pitcher, we'll be best buds. You won't be facing me. If you're a hitter, I don't care where you're from. It'll be all business in here. I have to explain it a little bit to some of the guys."
The Brewers know that about Villanueva, but he anticipates some razzing regardless.
"It's just the way I am," he said. "I believe in the rule about no camaraderie before the game. I'm all for enforcing that rule 1 million percent. We're competing out there. Don't go behind second base and chat away. We're going to compete. That's how I see it."
He also feels strongly about supporting his fellow Dominicans in the World Baseball Classic.
"The last game, I got two calls from the front desk at my hotel, telling me to keep it down," Villanueva said of the D.R.'s 3-1 win over the U.S. in Miami. "I'm whistling and clapping. I think I was more nervous than those guys there.
"It's definitely exciting. You see the style of baseball, it's nonstop noise from inning one, and that's why you see all those young Latin guys coming up and they're unfazed by the big leagues. You pitch with that type of pressure -- you've got your family, your friends, and there's a lot of garbage being talked. It's definitely a way to prepare for the big stage here."
He is aware that the Dominican Republic may not have as large and loud a following in San Francisco as it did in Miami.
"We all wish we could be there," he said. "We have to take care of business here first."
Carrie Muskat is a reporter for MLB.com. She writes a blog, Muskat Ramblings, and you can follow her on Twitter @CarrieMuskat. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.