DRDDR
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I really need some help to stop me oscillating between choices...
Firstly, as this is my first post, a tiny bit of background. I grew up using film cameras, an old Praktica SLR to be precise. I really enjoyed using that great lump of a camera and while none of the images I ever took as a kid could be described as 'fine art', they are cherished family images and hold a lot of memories of times and people from the past - which is all I really expect from my photography.
Fast forward a few years and after the demise of old Praktica, I find myself having gone through numerous cheap and not always so cheap digicams, none of which have been particularly fun nor enjoyable. Along the way I've gather a wife and a new son and I'm crucially aware that my current digicam, with its flaky autofocus and non-existent low(ish) light capabilities are causing me to lose moments of my son's early life that I'd rather weren't consigned to the vagaries of memory and so I'd like to make a replacement.
Now I've pondered long and hard over what to get. The logical choice is one of the Nikon DSLRs D6/7/800, I'm certain, would be way more than enough for anything I could throw at them and would last for many years. However, I've fiddled with the D7/800 and really found the whole exercise, well, cumbersome - there were too many buttons and too many flashing lights for me to feel comfortable with the device. Also, the sheer size of the thing reminded me of the only bad aspect of that old Praktica - carrying the things around became a pain in the neck (literally as well as figuratively).
The Fuji X-Pro 1 seems to offer what I'm looking for. Certainly in terms of IQ, it's way up there and although it isn't small, it's clearly a lot better than one of the mighty Nikons. Trouble is, there's a fly in the ointment - a while ago, when I was on a business trip to New York I wandered into B+H and there I fondled a Zeiss Ikon...
I don't really know what it was, but I felt an attachment to that little camera, I instinctively knew how to use it, although I'd never seen one before and the act of bringing the camera to my eye and actually (gasp!) focussing brought back so many memories of what I enjoyed about photography from the past. The trouble is, I can't help thinking that that's exactly what the Ikon is, a bit of relic from a bygone age; perhaps soon even to be rendered an ornament by the lack of film to feed it. And yet, every time I go to order the Fuji from Amazon, I'm drawn to the fotoversand website, where there sits the Ikon, waiting so patiently.
Any thoughts on how to break the tie between heart and mind...
Cheers
Dan
Firstly, as this is my first post, a tiny bit of background. I grew up using film cameras, an old Praktica SLR to be precise. I really enjoyed using that great lump of a camera and while none of the images I ever took as a kid could be described as 'fine art', they are cherished family images and hold a lot of memories of times and people from the past - which is all I really expect from my photography.
Fast forward a few years and after the demise of old Praktica, I find myself having gone through numerous cheap and not always so cheap digicams, none of which have been particularly fun nor enjoyable. Along the way I've gather a wife and a new son and I'm crucially aware that my current digicam, with its flaky autofocus and non-existent low(ish) light capabilities are causing me to lose moments of my son's early life that I'd rather weren't consigned to the vagaries of memory and so I'd like to make a replacement.
Now I've pondered long and hard over what to get. The logical choice is one of the Nikon DSLRs D6/7/800, I'm certain, would be way more than enough for anything I could throw at them and would last for many years. However, I've fiddled with the D7/800 and really found the whole exercise, well, cumbersome - there were too many buttons and too many flashing lights for me to feel comfortable with the device. Also, the sheer size of the thing reminded me of the only bad aspect of that old Praktica - carrying the things around became a pain in the neck (literally as well as figuratively).
The Fuji X-Pro 1 seems to offer what I'm looking for. Certainly in terms of IQ, it's way up there and although it isn't small, it's clearly a lot better than one of the mighty Nikons. Trouble is, there's a fly in the ointment - a while ago, when I was on a business trip to New York I wandered into B+H and there I fondled a Zeiss Ikon...
I don't really know what it was, but I felt an attachment to that little camera, I instinctively knew how to use it, although I'd never seen one before and the act of bringing the camera to my eye and actually (gasp!) focussing brought back so many memories of what I enjoyed about photography from the past. The trouble is, I can't help thinking that that's exactly what the Ikon is, a bit of relic from a bygone age; perhaps soon even to be rendered an ornament by the lack of film to feed it. And yet, every time I go to order the Fuji from Amazon, I'm drawn to the fotoversand website, where there sits the Ikon, waiting so patiently.
Any thoughts on how to break the tie between heart and mind...
Cheers
Dan
