No,
thank you.
You've poured so many words into it, made a very competent and revealing X-Pro(2) review. In internet-years it's like your life's work or something. Don't stop now, the X-Pro3 is just behind the corner (we all hope).
But if you don't mind, I for one won't get tired of Fuji vs Leica comparisons.
Perhaps a short series about what would happen if you shot the X-Pro like you'd shoot Leica M? Would it keep up or does Fuji need to rely to features M doesn't have to win the match. Forget all about the gear portion and focus on the photography aspect.
If I were you and in a rut, I'd first write a fluff piece about X-Pro2's strengths (in various genres of photography) and then explore some of the weaknesses if you could name some in more detail. Again, not about the gear but more about photography using the tools you so well know by heart.
All I can say is that I envy you. I can't envision myself using and loving a tool so long as you have. I have GAS, I recognize it as a flaw in my character. I can only hope some day I encounter a camera body I'll treasure through the years (at least more than 1.5 years, which seems to be my limit).
Thank you very much Mike
I just can't think of much more to say about the X-Pro2 (I've written much about its strengths/weaknesses etc)
I'm curious about any X-Pro3, but if it came out tomorrow, sharing the spec of the XT3 I wouldn't buy one (IQ too similar and I'm not fussed about video and better AF)
But I can think of plenty more to write about regarding photography
I am toying with a M9 vs XP2 piece... that might be the final one
The other thing I'm noticing on my site is that the blog part is way more popular than the Sunday web articles now, I blog the Sunday articles about 15 weeks after they were first published on a Sunday (which is always funny when the Christmas post comes out in about April) and increasingly more people read them as blog post than they do on a Sunday!
So come what may, I want to move to a blog only model. (which offers more tagging and indexing options in word press)
The 3 cameras I have (XP1, Xp2 and m9) are all fairly close in how they work, so that they pretty much do the same thing, if like me, you like an OVF
The m9 in little things, is almost the opposite of the XP2.
Start up and shutter lag speeds are better on the Leica, but shot to shot and configurability are better on the Fuji
RE actual photography all the cameras are so supremely capable these days, that one should just chose one that one likes.
Sensor size mainly comes into play with the type of photos one wants to make... very hard to get a super wide on M43, very easy on MF for example.
Also for example, 50 F1 on FF has a "look" a look that isn't really available with other formats, simply because the glass doesn't exist! There is no 25mm F0.5 M43 lenses... or 35mm F0.7 lens.
There's not even many MF 63mm 1.2 lenses (approx. maths on that one!!)
So GAS is about choosing what you like to shoot and buying gear around it. (and FF is probably the sweet spot to be honest, unless one likes tele...)
I want to write more about a greater range of photography topics... I want to be a little bit free of
having to make a new article each week... as it's quite hard work... not just thinking of it and writing it, but sometimes even getting the source pictures... be that going out with two cameras and trying to shoot always the same thing, or making 50+ screen shots of some editing app.
Originally I was just going to run an eclectic series of articles alongside the Sunday ones.... but it's just fallen off the table and I've managed very few.
It doesn't mean that I'll never write about an X-Pro camera again, just that I don't want to feel I have to do it each week.
So by swapping to a blog specific format I can mooch about between ideas and still put my X-Pro hat on when the mood suits
I'll also planning to ask Fuji if I can borrow a GFX 50R... but I'm scared I'll like it too much, but maybe they're say no
On personal level I'm a little despondent with how photography these days seems more about the brand of the camera than the pictures, but that said I'm a little wary of disassociating myself from a brand (even if not physically)
anyway... cheers thanks for the kind words!