My 30 Day Adventure With The Fuji x100s

Please observe that this is not a technological evaluation of the Fuji x100s. There are many fantastic testimonials currently created by photographers who are technically more savvy than I am. This is basically an account of my knowledge as I make my first methods away from a DSLR technique.

I lastly did it! I remaining the DSLR and lenses behind and boarded a aircraft to France, through Iceland, with 1 camera and a fastened focal length lens. I can hear some of you feel out loud: “Iceland with out all your gear? Are you crazy?” Well… Perhaps I am, but I was ready for the challenge and I by no means seemed back! If you are not familiar with the Fuji x100s, it’s a retro looking mirrorless 16MP digital camera, fitted with a 23mm lens (35mm equivalent) and an APS-C X-Trans CMOS II sensor. Google it, everybody is talking about it!

I wrote fairly a bit about the electrical power of limitations in pictures before. This is not a new issue for me. Even with my Canon 5DMarkII, you ended Pad up much more probably to see me with a 40mm lens recently than a zoom lens. Limits assist you expand as a photographer. Touring with the Fuji x100s for a thirty day period, from Iceland to my property country in France, was really liberating. Not only the comfy dimension and bodyweight of the camera was a excellent advantage, the reality that the camera grew to become a straightforward device and did not get in the way among me and my eyesight was the best part. It was almost like capturing with a digital camera mobile phone with out at any time sacrificing handle or high quality.

I’m not a landscape photographer, I’m an city shooter. That does not indicate that I do not value a lovely landscape when I’m in front of one particular. Iceland is like no other location on earth. The considered of my Canon equipment, countless numbers of miles absent, did cross my head a pair of moments while using in the incredible Icelandic minimalist landscape. But, as they say: “The ideal camera is the a single you have with you.” And I experienced a heck of a fantastic piece of equipment with me on this journey.

Even though my true really like is street images, I shoot whatever moves me anywhere I come about to be. I can honestly say that I uncovered a renewed joy for the craft. I felt like a child at perform again. I cherished the fact that no one particular took me severely by the seem of my digital camera. Currently being so inconspicuous when you shoot road images has a number of advantages. You will dare some photographs that you could not really feel so comfortable capturing with a greater digicam. Also, if you appreciate performing avenue portraiture as well as candids, you will discover that individuals are considerably much more receptive to getting a portrait taken in the street with some thing that seems like a point-and-shoot than a specialist hunting camera. With a scaled-down digicam, you grow to be a whole lot much less daunting.

Many photographers have asked me if I would exchange the x100s for a product with interchangeable lenses. NO, I wished some thing diverse!  I presently own a system with the ideal glass in the entire world (even though I would love to attempt a mirroless system with interchangeable lenses eventually…) Fact is, the truth that you cannot change lenses IS the purpose why I chose the Fuji x100s. If you don’t believe that a mounted lens will support you increase as a photographer, try it for a 7 days. Put any mounted focal duration lens on your digital camera physique, get out there and shoot the planet about you. It will gradual you down, you will consider far more treatment in your composition, you will be much more innovative. With a fastened lens, your toes turn into your zoom. You will pay nearer focus to what you incorporate in your frame, and far more importantly, what you decide to depart out in get to make a more powerful image. Try out it! My workshop college students get a little nervous at initial when I advise they shoot with a 50mm all day in Paris and go away the rest of the equipment at the hotel. They soon comprehend that it is on those days that they produce their ideal operate.

What’s likely to happen to my Canon bodies and L glass? They are definitely not heading to accrue considerably frequent flyers miles anymore but I’m still making use of them for commercial shoots when I’m not touring or instructing workshops. For the time getting there is even now a area for DSLRs, especially in some specific genres of images such as wildlife, fast action athletics, and so on. For most other types of images, you won’t compromise on high quality with a smaller method. The perception from the client’s stage of view might be a barrier for a small although lengthier, but that as well will adjust. As significantly as I am concerned, I think I already very own my very last DSLR…

I manufactured a variety of photographs that I shot with the Fuji x100s over the previous few weeks, they contain a range of genres to show that you can rather a lot do everything with one mounted lens. It’s all about using permitting your creative juices circulation.

I would love to read through about your experience touring with small equipment or your concern to give it a consider.

I am not a landscape photographer, I’m a lot more an urban shooter, but that does not imply that I was insensitive to the minimalist landscapes of Iceland. It was time to utilize the declaring: “The very best digital camera is the a single you have with you.”

 

Valerie Jardin I dwell and breathe in pixels! Images is much more than a enthusiasm, it really is an obsession, virtually an habit. When I am not taking pictures for industrial clientele or writing about photography, I commit my time training this beautiful craft for the duration of image workshops in France, The US, and Australia! Pay a visit to my Site Adhere to me on Facebook , Twitter , Google+.