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Life with the X100 series: thinking on the X100F.

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These are great, but flawed cameras. Great because of a lens that strikes all the right compromises (don’t ever change it Fujifilm), OVF and fantastic built in fill flash. Flawed because it’s a fixed lens camera (35mm equivalent) which isn’t as quick to focus as some of the most recent X series lenses. It’s worth …

Sometimes in the rain…

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Things go wrong. Sometimes you pound the streets all day looking for a story to tell. Other times you’ve been trapped by a deluge near your usual sandwich shop and a story presents itself. As I watched people running through the deluge I saw these guys approaching with copies of the local evening newspaper. I …

Satisfaction?

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Do you sometimes get that urge to write, or paint a picture, or bake a cake, or even fix up a shelf? A creative impulse. Have you even noticed the way sometimes, when that works best is when you just relax, don’t think too hard and let things happen? That’s the way I feel about …

Cardiff Match Day

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This weekend, after some late nights in work this week I headed to Cardiff, ostensibly for the excuse of watching Wales play Fiji at Rugby Union, but really to catch up with a group of old friends. A completely packed train, that I failed to get on, left me chewing on a supermarket sandwich at …

Wireless

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What’s all this about? Ridiculously, a terse exchange on a well known internet forum (comically I was accused of being a Nikon fanboy) led me to pick up my Fujifilm X-T1 again and play about with it. Following that, it so happened that meant the X-T1 ended up in my bag on a couple of …

Shoreditch Street Art with my X-Pro1 and Xf27mm

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So it has been a funny old week in my new office, not a million miles away from Liverpool Street. We’ve had a dead mouse in a desk, builders playing a girder and spanner symphony across the road and a seemingly endless walk to the kitchen. It is however a considerable improvement on a building …

How good is the X100S?

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Very.   This camera is simply addictive. The rendering, colours, ergonomics and VF are just amazing. At the minute, don’t shoot me, but I’m thinking of selling the X-E1 I only just bought. I’m also not adding the X-Pro1 back into my bag (though that has more to do with wanting to adopt a street/documentary …

Panasonic GX1 and Infrared

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Just before Christmas I came across a lightning deal on Amazon.co.uk on the Panasonic GX1 for £250. This is a funny old one – you are probably asking yourself why I need another camera (in retrospect, so was I). Well, I was curious about the GX1, having owned the E-P3 (a roughly contemporary camera) and …