Jon Adair

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Modifying my Fuji X100

4 May 2012 | Comments | 1 note | ⇀

I’ve had my Fujifilm X100 for a good few months now and I feel like I’ve really gotten to know it. When I first purchased the camera, I felt like I was constantly battling with it. I struggled with the slow AF, the exposure metering was different to what I was used to and the frame lines in the optical viewfinder were nothing more than a ‘best guess’ of what would end up in the final image. However, as I continued to use it, I started getting used to its quirks. I learned to slow my style of shooting down from what I was used to with my big DSLR. When using the DSLR, I always felt under pressure to get my shot and move on, as if at any moment I was going to be arrested for photographing something I shouldn’t. I eventually began to realise that people didn’t care that I was taking time to compose my images with the X100. Apart from the occasional envious or inquisitive glance from another photographer, people didn’t pay me any attention at all.

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23 April 2012 | Comments | 1 note | ⇀

During a very brief respite in last week’s April showers, the evening sun caught a blossom tree in our office car park at just the right angle.

I only had time to grab a couple of shots as the light was fading but this one came out pretty well.

Taken with my Fuji X100 and tweaked slightly in iPhoto for iPad.

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1 April 2012 | Comments | 3 notes | ⇀

I decided that the only camera I would take with me on a week-long tour of Italy was my Fuji X100, instead of my Canon 5D Mk II and a bag full of lenses. The result was that I enjoyed walking round a lot more than I would have and looked for photo opportunities that suited the X100, instead of grabbing a photo of everything in sight.

I’m now seriously considering trading the 5D in for a new Fuji X-Pro 1 kit. Anyone else thinking the same?

Street in Parma, Italy on Flickr.

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16 March 2012 | Comments | 0 notes | ⇀