Fujifilm LC-X 100 and Fujifilm FinePix X100

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So I got one of those. Just could not resist. This was also the first time I have bought not Nikon camera (still feel bad about it). But I love it, every bit of it. ISO performance, photos quality, focus – once I have learnt how to use MF + AFL/AEL combo are just awesome, but what I like the most about X100 is its retro style and its size.

I just have something to those old / old looking retro camera. And X100 in its original leather (Fujifilm LC-X 100) case looks just awesome. X100 inside it I can carry pretty much everywhere just under my coat/jacket without even looking as I would carry a camera on me and – if I spot something – I can very quickly grab it, take shot and put it back on my shoulder.

The only problem I had was UV filter which I use on all of my lenses as a protection, not only against damage but also against dust/dirt which, sooner or later will get onto it. Then you can just clean it up from the filter rather then “scrub” the lenses itself.

When you use the original Fuji adaptor ring and put a UV filter on it, the case just won’t close what is really annoying.

I have started looking for a alternative case and by a fortunate coincidence stumbled across this post which suggested using Cokin extension ring as a alternative to Fuji adaptor ring. Cokin was supposedly much slimmer and allowed the case to close. It was quite a pain. I have checked stocks in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and all of the places I have checked were out of stock. However I have found it in stock in a Polish camera shop (and they still have them in stock! it was less then £15 including express delivery to the UK).

Initially I have used it with Hoya filter and the case was closing however there still was about a 1mm of a gap. I have came across B+W 49mm 010M MRC Nano Coated UV Haze Filter – XSDP Mount which apparently is a bit thinner then hoya and got it straight away. And now I have a perfect combo – Cokin extension ring + B+W 49mm 010M MRC Nano Coated UV Haze Filter gives me protection and very nicely fit the Fuji LC-X 100 leather case.

I think having the UV filter thinner by another 0.5mm would fit even better (and probably leave little bit of space) so if you know of a UV filter that’s thinner then B+W 49mm 010M MRC Nano Coated UV Haze Filter – XSDP Mount please do let me know.

Below are few shots showing how does it look now and how the case fits nicely now (bear in mind they were taken with my iPhone – to lazy to drag out my clunky D200 to take those few shots ;-) ).

And just by the way – here is my flickr set of x100 photos taken with x100.

Vlan2 is down, line protocol is down

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Today I came across very strange problem while configuring one of our Cisco switches.

(probably before I go any further it’s worth to note I am not a Cisco go; no CCNA or anything like this; but I know network concepts pretty well)

Anyway, I have been trying to configure a new switch. Most of our switches are configured in the same way, so I just simply created a backup of one of the existing switches, edited dump to reflect new switch’s IP and loaded it up onto new switch.

So, everything was nice and dandy, “show interfaces gi” was nicely showing interfaces being up, however I could not ping the new switch.

sh vlan 2 was giving following output:

Vlan2 is down, line protocol is down
Hardware is EtherSVI, address is 68bd.ab13.9141 (bia 68bd.ab13.9141)
Internet address is 192.168.91.245/24
[...]

It took me a while to actually find out how to get through this problem, and apparently, because I simply restored the dump, vlans were not “initialised” properly. To do so, I had to do following on the switch console:

sw5(config)#vlan 2
sw5(config-vlan)#exit
sw5(config)#exit

That made the switch to start responding to PING request immediately.

I like Cisco; I really do. But sometimes it’s driving me crazy because of it’s “logical behaviour”. I would never thought that simply changing config “path” to specific vlan could actually help with that problem.