dee
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Thanks everyone .
My apologies for nor responding to your good wishes , but I found myself a bit out of it for a while . Not that the is new as I am ever distanced - using a camera as a way of being a part and apart .
We are awaiting some tests to decide if she is living with cancer ... or recovered .
It's a strange limbo land in keeping somehow with the isolation of over 70s .
I hope that you all keep safe .
Jut before lockdown , I was going to London with my wife taking shots from the bus , as you do , faced with a ghost town which was unsettling.
I was musing on the OTT excitement of being able to acquire new of ex-dem Fuji cameras at much less than the original price .
It's about the money ... but it isn't .
In another , pre-retired life , retirement forced by what we might have called a 'nervous breakdown ' and and early end to my career and enjoying London with a camera , i had my Leica M8 and the Leica Digilux 3 from an inheritance .
Because they had an analogue feel .
Post that I was in entry level territory with what turned out to be a dreadful Minolta A35 which managed to ruin the joys of an SLR with mirror and an EVF which was dreadful ! Either that or the boxy A290 with CCD but allowing the continuity with my Minolta lenses .
I played with the Fuji X-Pro 1 in a camera store - remember them ? - and loved it , but £1400 was just a dream .
In 2016 Fuji seemed desperate to clear 1st Generation attempts , so I found a new boxed body @ £168 .I picked up a 27mm for £150 and it transformed my trip to Malaysia .
I was not the money - it was the opportunity of finding another analogue styled camera which just feels right .
I had heard of that special sensor - and how slow and awkward it is - and I am unsure about the kit zoom gathered in when I found an X-T1 .
The 27 just fits perfectly .
OK i caught an X-M1 and Champagne X-T 100 on close out probably because I know that if my X-Pro dies on me , I would not attempt to get it fixed .
I have no desire , or intention of looking out for the next generation Fujis , I am amazingly content , as i was with my Minolta XD 7 and SRT 102 / 101 way back .
The wierd element is that I am grounded in this uncertainty by my Fuji family .
Not apologising , just how it is / I am .
Respect
dee
My apologies for nor responding to your good wishes , but I found myself a bit out of it for a while . Not that the is new as I am ever distanced - using a camera as a way of being a part and apart .
We are awaiting some tests to decide if she is living with cancer ... or recovered .
It's a strange limbo land in keeping somehow with the isolation of over 70s .
I hope that you all keep safe .
Jut before lockdown , I was going to London with my wife taking shots from the bus , as you do , faced with a ghost town which was unsettling.
I was musing on the OTT excitement of being able to acquire new of ex-dem Fuji cameras at much less than the original price .
It's about the money ... but it isn't .
In another , pre-retired life , retirement forced by what we might have called a 'nervous breakdown ' and and early end to my career and enjoying London with a camera , i had my Leica M8 and the Leica Digilux 3 from an inheritance .
Because they had an analogue feel .
Post that I was in entry level territory with what turned out to be a dreadful Minolta A35 which managed to ruin the joys of an SLR with mirror and an EVF which was dreadful ! Either that or the boxy A290 with CCD but allowing the continuity with my Minolta lenses .
I played with the Fuji X-Pro 1 in a camera store - remember them ? - and loved it , but £1400 was just a dream .
In 2016 Fuji seemed desperate to clear 1st Generation attempts , so I found a new boxed body @ £168 .I picked up a 27mm for £150 and it transformed my trip to Malaysia .
I was not the money - it was the opportunity of finding another analogue styled camera which just feels right .
I had heard of that special sensor - and how slow and awkward it is - and I am unsure about the kit zoom gathered in when I found an X-T1 .
The 27 just fits perfectly .
OK i caught an X-M1 and Champagne X-T 100 on close out probably because I know that if my X-Pro dies on me , I would not attempt to get it fixed .
I have no desire , or intention of looking out for the next generation Fujis , I am amazingly content , as i was with my Minolta XD 7 and SRT 102 / 101 way back .
The wierd element is that I am grounded in this uncertainty by my Fuji family .
Not apologising , just how it is / I am .
Respect
dee
