I shoot film, that’s the reason for this blog, but it was not always that way.

I have been shooting film since I was young (obviously, no choice there), but switched to digital in the early 2000’s. First I bought a point and shoot Canon to document the birth of my fourth child. It was a crappy thing with 2.1 megapixels, a shutter lag of about 1 second and a screen not bigger than today’s EVF’s.

Then I was lured by affordable DSLR cameras, notably the Canon Digital Rebel….. then a Canon 40D and some lenses.

After that came the Fuji X100 that led me back to film cameras, as I explained in the former post. But since that day, I have been tempted by digital time and time again. I bought a Fuji X10, several X20’s, an X30, an X-E1….. and sold them again.

I never came to like them as much as the Olde Film Stuff. But still they tempt me! Continue reading “That devilish temptation of digital…”

Let me be clear from the outset, this is NOT a review of the Fuji X100 series cameras! This is just my experience with these cameras, notably the original X100 of which I owned 3 or 4 over the last 2 and a half years.

I owned DSLR cameras until 2012, when I noticed that I hardly ever took them out of the camera bag (and said bag stayed put under my desk). As I really like photography and wanted to do much more of that, I started to study reviews etc and found the amazing X100, with all it drawbacks of slow focus, miserable manual focus ability. I got one used off ebay, a very nice and clean one, and had lots of fun with it.

Then the retro look struck me, hard! It reminded me so much of my good old film cameras that I bought some, lots of them, traded them in for other film cameras, tried the X-E1 to get away from all this trading, and still bought more…. GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) had hit me, and hit me bad. Continue reading “Why Fuji got it all wrong with it’s X100 series cameras!”