melanie.ylang
Veteran
- Location
- Australia
A rollercoaster ride through ownership of a number of compact cameras over the past few years has been an interesting learning curve, and one that couldn't have been achieved by simply trying out cameras at a store.
I went from Olympus XZ1 - intense love continued through upgrading to XZ2; Olympus Stylus 1 (loved using it but hated the results); Fujifilm X10 - intense love, also continued through upgrading to X30; a brief try of an LX5; then I decided to ditch compacts and focus on using my mft gear; and then late 2017 I did a loop-the-loop by returning to an XZ2 hoping to recapture the feeling (I didn't), and finally getting another X10. Phew, what a ride!
The jury is out on the results from the X10 (comparing with 16mp mft files), but I love, love the ergonomics, and how it makes me feel more like I used to when shooting film, especially when I turn off the LCD screen and preview and shoot using the OVF, worrying about the results later. I can be more in the moment, which is what I had lost. No doubt I'll still ache over the file quality (I only shoot JPEGs, and please don't try to convince me to do otherwise!), but if I remind myself that I'm keeping it as a snapshooter, maybe I'll still have it in years to come.
Have you had an experience like this in your compact camera use?
I went from Olympus XZ1 - intense love continued through upgrading to XZ2; Olympus Stylus 1 (loved using it but hated the results); Fujifilm X10 - intense love, also continued through upgrading to X30; a brief try of an LX5; then I decided to ditch compacts and focus on using my mft gear; and then late 2017 I did a loop-the-loop by returning to an XZ2 hoping to recapture the feeling (I didn't), and finally getting another X10. Phew, what a ride!
The jury is out on the results from the X10 (comparing with 16mp mft files), but I love, love the ergonomics, and how it makes me feel more like I used to when shooting film, especially when I turn off the LCD screen and preview and shoot using the OVF, worrying about the results later. I can be more in the moment, which is what I had lost. No doubt I'll still ache over the file quality (I only shoot JPEGs, and please don't try to convince me to do otherwise!), but if I remind myself that I'm keeping it as a snapshooter, maybe I'll still have it in years to come.
Have you had an experience like this in your compact camera use?