Fred Greissing wrote:
That is great to hear. I have not tested my X-T1 in studio with strobe.
One of my favorite lights is the Elinchrom 35cm fresnel spot and it is really efficient, to the point that I shoot as low as 128 w/s with film 6x8 at f5.6 

What do you think about using ND on your lights rather than the lens? I guess it depends on the light modifiers. I've made ND filter holders that go inside my bigger diffusers soft boxes.

While I am sure that would work, it sure is easy to just turn the variable nd to bring down all the apparent light levels equally, and then open up the f stop. Especially since that is what I am going for. Plus, the studio where I work does not have any nd for the strobes. I have many gels of my own, including nd, but I use them at home and not in the shitty studio where I work. This way I do get to enjoy shooting at wider apertures with strobes that do not have the fine adjustment to be that low a power. And it's great being able to make a small adjustment turn on the ND filter and just leave aperture wide open.

SPierce Photography wrote:
Has anyone tried an Xt1 with a long exposure? 15-30 seconds? I'm curious as to how it reacts. I'm thinking of picking one up as a back up to my D800, and i'm really tempted to go mirrorless! I'd want to put it through it's paces when I get it, and that means hopping into my local favorite abandoned papermill to take shots in the dark. wondering how it'd react.

Yup...

You may also want to check out this guy...her does that almost exclusively.

http://stephenip.com/

Fred Greissing wrote:

I've used Fuji cameras for years. Never had a shutter go bad. 20 years on my Fuji gx680 cameras. Never the slightest problem.

As for sensor being used more I don't see that being a problem as it's a solid state device.

It is possible to cause failures in solid state devices due to excessive use. The constant heating an cooling cycles of bondwires can cause failures. This tends to lead to flexing of the bondwires (which are really small), and finally breaking of the bondwire. This is similar to a fuse opening, only on a much longer life cycle. It may take more hours than we all live in many cases, and in rare cases, the failures can come sooner.

Sony had a problem with many CCD sensors several years ago (my first Canon had one of these Sony sensors, which earned me a free, better Canon camera. Woohoo!). One "theory" (I don't think the true story ever came out) was bond wire failure:
http://www.imaging-resource.com/badccds.html#cause