After all this, all this hemming and hawing what do I have in my hands? A full set of Fujifilm gear!
And I am quite satisfied with M. In 8 months I've shot 10,200 frames plus with it. I've got two lenses coming and I'm extremely satisfied with the ones I've had time to play with.
At the same time, it's been sad to see Q just gather dust while M is having the time of its life. So I've been trying to sell it. But the markets have been slow. And I don't exactly want to sell it for peanuts because in theory it's the ultimate street shooter, never once can a better camera form against the purpose.
But yeah, not much interest towards the camera.
Finally I gave in and updated the ads, now mentioning that I'm willing to entertain trade offers (Fuji gear and Leica M glass). Of course, all this discourse we've had and I've been having in my head about RF vs TTL, German Leica philosophy vs Japanese computerized-kitchen-sink-approach, all that. For parting with my beloved Q, for compensation I would be asking pudding, instead of meat. I'm like the kid asking to be paid in candy for mowing a lawn.
It didn't take long until an interested Fuji shooter emerged.
But here we are, and from a financial point of view this is not a bad trade at all. If I needed the cash, selling Fuji gear piecemeal or as a package is going to be easier than selling the Q. At the same time, Fuji has been on my radar for a while. I say this is not ideal but in reality, it is.
I wanted this, as evidenced by all the pointless ramblings I've been writing (with increasing frequency). I wanted to get a modern Fuji system side-by-side to compare things. I wanted weather proofing and one-handed operability and "cheap" lenses and TTL composing and fully evaluative metering modes and wonderfully sharp EVFs, and ... now we get to see if I really meant it.
When I got the MP240 I promised myself to spend at least a year and 10k frames with it until I made any rash decisions. I guess I can come up with a similar promise with this new Fuji setup.
And I am quite satisfied with M. In 8 months I've shot 10,200 frames plus with it. I've got two lenses coming and I'm extremely satisfied with the ones I've had time to play with.
At the same time, it's been sad to see Q just gather dust while M is having the time of its life. So I've been trying to sell it. But the markets have been slow. And I don't exactly want to sell it for peanuts because in theory it's the ultimate street shooter, never once can a better camera form against the purpose.
But yeah, not much interest towards the camera.
Finally I gave in and updated the ads, now mentioning that I'm willing to entertain trade offers (Fuji gear and Leica M glass). Of course, all this discourse we've had and I've been having in my head about RF vs TTL, German Leica philosophy vs Japanese computerized-kitchen-sink-approach, all that. For parting with my beloved Q, for compensation I would be asking pudding, instead of meat. I'm like the kid asking to be paid in candy for mowing a lawn.
It didn't take long until an interested Fuji shooter emerged.
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But here we are, and from a financial point of view this is not a bad trade at all. If I needed the cash, selling Fuji gear piecemeal or as a package is going to be easier than selling the Q. At the same time, Fuji has been on my radar for a while. I say this is not ideal but in reality, it is.
I wanted this, as evidenced by all the pointless ramblings I've been writing (with increasing frequency). I wanted to get a modern Fuji system side-by-side to compare things. I wanted weather proofing and one-handed operability and "cheap" lenses and TTL composing and fully evaluative metering modes and wonderfully sharp EVFs, and ... now we get to see if I really meant it.
When I got the MP240 I promised myself to spend at least a year and 10k frames with it until I made any rash decisions. I guess I can come up with a similar promise with this new Fuji setup.