Dan Le Brun
@dan.le.brun22 May
Keep glancing at the 100RF. And I’m just about stupid enough to do it too
Stop-it Lloyd... I was finally winning against brain!
It rocks and prices are getting more palatable (or maybe less unpalatable is a better way to put it, haha). Do it!
Jordan... you do not realise how weak I am!!! haha
I keep getting put off by the F4 limitation on a fixed lens but then my recent obsession is to close the aperture down to F8 more.
I currently shoot with an X-Pro 3 and the lack of the screen urks me every day but then I bought it because of this!
Yeah I pretty much live between f4 and 8
No regrets. Here's my hard sell 😀
F/4 isn't the light limitation it's often made out to be because you can push the ISO so much higher with that sensor. I basically set aperture & shutter, then ride the ISO. It's very forgiving.
As for Bokeh, f/4 is equivalent to f/3.3 in full frame terms i believe. You can get lovely soft background shots - but you do have to shoot quite close. So perhaps not ideal if you shoot Portraits, and want that soft background look. It's a wider lense, so close up not always flattering.
As a travel camera, incredible. So hi-res you can really crop in - even wildlife shots.
It's the digital Xpan I dreamed of.
The aspect ratio dial really helps me see compositions, that i may not have imagined otherwise. Love it. Helps me be intentional. That said, if you shoot raw, everything can be recropped in post as well. So you can refine/salvage multiple compositions off a single shot.
(my best street shot is a landscape crop off an otherwise boring shot taken in portrait. 6491 x 2397 is still plenty of pixels!)
The caveat on all this is that I'm not that great at street photography - kinda why I'm here 🤣