dee
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This is in response to the question of if a given camera can improve photography, maybe not for most but ....
My experience of the Fuji X-Pro 1 in Malaysia indicates that , for someone with glitches [ ASD + ] it can calm anxiety about standing out with a DSLR , of a fixed nom 41mm high quality lens eliminating the distortion of wide angle , and the lack of constancy of a zoom .
OK , a compact or CLC can do this maybe better , but not at £310 and with a typical kit zoom.
It slips into my shoulder bag , is discrete , and is mostly OK in low light .
In the street , at markets , restaurants , family dinners , I could hold it without framing at high or low level because I can envisage the 41mm frame approximately , and it was strangely familiar ...
Upon return , I happened upon my Minolta SRT [ a black one found recently on e-bay, mine are chrome ] with 45mm f2 , my preferred combination 'back then ' .
Unlike most digitals , the X-Pro is a similar size , so , with the OVF , it's almost back , to the familiarity of film .
The M8 did not quite fulfil this role as I had not used rangefinder , though revisiting it was a pleasure , it seems more suited to mono townscapes and details when I worked in London .
Did it improve my photography ? Did it heck , but it did open up a further layer of comprehension of how ASD imprints on something and looks for something equally 'safe' and familiar , and why my snap shots are somewhat erratic due to glitches in remembering settings etc ... some were OK though ...
it's unimportant because a camera filters the world for me , cuts out some of the out of phase stuff , so it's equally important , to include those of us for whom a camera can be much more than a tool to create images , but an essential companion to contain a confusing world .
Overall , thanks to Adam Bonn's X-Pro 1 pages and the continued patience of others in RFF , I did not leave the week old camera behind , and am now more content with the reasons for inconsistency and dee's comfort with much photo gear .
Respect .
dee
My experience of the Fuji X-Pro 1 in Malaysia indicates that , for someone with glitches [ ASD + ] it can calm anxiety about standing out with a DSLR , of a fixed nom 41mm high quality lens eliminating the distortion of wide angle , and the lack of constancy of a zoom .
OK , a compact or CLC can do this maybe better , but not at £310 and with a typical kit zoom.
It slips into my shoulder bag , is discrete , and is mostly OK in low light .
In the street , at markets , restaurants , family dinners , I could hold it without framing at high or low level because I can envisage the 41mm frame approximately , and it was strangely familiar ...
Upon return , I happened upon my Minolta SRT [ a black one found recently on e-bay, mine are chrome ] with 45mm f2 , my preferred combination 'back then ' .
Unlike most digitals , the X-Pro is a similar size , so , with the OVF , it's almost back , to the familiarity of film .
The M8 did not quite fulfil this role as I had not used rangefinder , though revisiting it was a pleasure , it seems more suited to mono townscapes and details when I worked in London .
Did it improve my photography ? Did it heck , but it did open up a further layer of comprehension of how ASD imprints on something and looks for something equally 'safe' and familiar , and why my snap shots are somewhat erratic due to glitches in remembering settings etc ... some were OK though ...
it's unimportant because a camera filters the world for me , cuts out some of the out of phase stuff , so it's equally important , to include those of us for whom a camera can be much more than a tool to create images , but an essential companion to contain a confusing world .
Overall , thanks to Adam Bonn's X-Pro 1 pages and the continued patience of others in RFF , I did not leave the week old camera behind , and am now more content with the reasons for inconsistency and dee's comfort with much photo gear .
Respect .
dee
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