Marrakech – street shooting with the Fuji XT1 |
The Random Photographer

Further to my previous post on Marrakech, I ended up having to shoot at waist level with the XT1 and get what I could. I use the MHG-XT (large) hand grip with the XT1, it’s not a battery grip but it makes the handling much more like a DSLR but without the extra bulk. It also means that when shooting at waist level I can grip the camera and have my thumb resting on the shutter button. Using the neck strap I can have the camera hanging down near my waist and shoot very discretely, the shutter is also so quiet that ambient street noise pretty much drowns out the shutter as it releases. I used both the 18-55mm and 10-24mm lenses, sometimes with the LCD flipped out and sometimes blind. I found the camera nailed focus no problem and I only had one shot which completely mis-focused ( even though I had the camera set to „release on focus“ ), so be aware it can happen on the XT1, though it’s extremely unusual in my experience. Ironically I actually liked the shot even though it is completely out of focus, it has strange dream-like quality to it, I don’t know, what do you think?……

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