grebeman
Old Codgers Group
- Name
- Barrie
Whilst out on Dartmoor today carrying out my bird survey work I saw in the distance a photographer engaged in landscape photography with a tripod mounted, rather slim camera fitted with an obvious old fashioned thread cable release. Now thinks I, there aren't many modern cameras with a threaded cable release, but I do know one range, so as the gentleman came towards me I made enquires, and sure enough it was indeed a Fuji, the X-Pro1. He turned out to be a professional photographer who's normal everyday camera is a Hassleblad "something or other". He was on holiday and for choice when out and about non professionally uses his Fuji. I must say it certainly looked the part, all black, smartly finished and equiped with a form of add on grip. He said that once his Hassleblad malfunctioned and the Fuji came to the rescue. The client seemed blissfully unaware of the substitution. Whilst he reckoned to be able to tell the difference between the two outputs, in his opinion there wasn't a big difference between the two.
He was quite interested to hear that I was using Sigma Merrills, a camera that had been on his radar, but he dismissed them on price versus features, though he said he'd been impressed with their image quality.
Not quite sure what to make of my encounter with the Fuji , certainly a very nice looking piece of kit and those aperture marked lenses, oh yes, that I do like, a proper camera!
Barrie
He was quite interested to hear that I was using Sigma Merrills, a camera that had been on his radar, but he dismissed them on price versus features, though he said he'd been impressed with their image quality.
Not quite sure what to make of my encounter with the Fuji , certainly a very nice looking piece of kit and those aperture marked lenses, oh yes, that I do like, a proper camera!
Barrie