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Two things in this video. A warning about estate sales, and a confession. I missed my DSLR. I was a Nikon DSLR guy. D70, D90, D700. Sold all of it, went Fujifilm mirrorless, never looked back. Except I missed the heft. The substantial feel in the hands. Mirrorless is many things, but it is not…

I have been thinking about photo versus video. These hybrid cameras shoot video as well as they shoot stills, better sometimes, and everybody records everything now. I come from before that. Late 70s, early 80s, the closest thing to a video camera was a JVC on your shoulder with a VCR hanging off your neck.…

What’s up, Fujifilm fanboys. You clicked because of the X-E5, so let’s talk about the X-E5. Fujifilm announced it with a very retro video, leaning hard on the idea that the X-E line is a classic now. First thoughts. First and foremost, the damn price. With the kit lens you are at roughly $1,900 plus…

Wait. Do not buy it. The Fujifilm X-Half will be the most available camera on the used market within months. Count on it. When people get tired of holding a horizontal camera and seeing a vertical frame with fake light leaks, when they realize they are locked into one film simulation for 36 or 72…

Every now and then a shoot turns into a poem. I found him wandering, shade in hand. An umbrella aloft in this sunlit land. A curious figure, black against blue. I couldn’t help it. He just walked into my view. So I chased him down that busy street, his shade a dance, a rhythm to…

About 30 days out from Portugal. Lisbon and Porto, street photography, and the forums are full of one topic. Theft. I don’t want any of my cameras stolen. I have been dumb enough to walk Naples at 2 in the morning doing night street photography and got approached a couple of times. It turned out…

It’s happened. I don’t know how. A YouTuber with maybe a thousand subscribers, and Fujifilm sent me an X-Half. Boom. The Fujifilm X… half. Okay, fine. It’s the Kodak Instamatic 100. In my family since the early 1960s. 126 film, a square format not far off a 35mm negative, which makes it the original X-Half,…