How the Fujifilm X-Pro1 helps me Combat G.A.S
against the Gorgeous X-T1 | Rob Lowe
For the better part of two years I have been mainly working and hobbying with only two systems – the fantastically portable and sumptuously rich file-producing machine that is the Ricoh GXR-M and the more modern, game-changing Fujifilm X-Pro1. Anyone who has been following my work over the past six months will know that I have a huge amount of praise for the GXR-M, a system to which I switched after an innocent two-year-old child who wouldn’t sit still during a shoot, one day last year, completely destroyed my faith in certain X-system lenses when I couldn’t lock focus on her face no matter how persistently I tried. Since that day, the GXR-M and manual lenses were my saviour. No AF – no option but to get on with the job the hard way; and it was fun (while it lasted). However, Ricoh’s now apparent and complete abandonment of the GXR system as a whole, coupled with Fujifilm’s continued support for even the oldest of their X-system cameras has seen me going back to my X-Pro1. After many firmware updates from Fuji, both to their bodies and their lenses, the whole system is just so much easier and quicker to use than it was a year ago. Not only that, but the fact that Fujifilm continue to support their X range of cameras and lenses affords me huge faith in their favour, in the knowledge that unlike many manufacturers, we’re not forgotten or sold down the river with only the one paddle. The X system just keeps evolving, not only with software updates to older camera bodies but also, with the introduction of newer bodies, compatible of course with the entire XF lens line-up; and now, as X-shooters, we welcome the the brand spanker of them all, the apparently gorgeous and no doubt incredibly performing X-T1. Bugger…
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