#fuji xh2

[jonthefro]

Leaf Study, Single Strobe

I haven't shot my digi outside of video and using it as a film scanner for a minute there. It's my day off so I figured I'd futz around with the strobe for some practice with that too. Really wish I owned an autofocus macro lens though, maybe some day.

Ft. my calethea and new growth from my big pothos I call "the mothership"

X-H2 / 90mm f/2

[strange-spaghetti]

I was getting pretty dead set on Sony A7 IV but yesterday work was so slow which it never is - my boss told me to go get a feel for the cameras I want to rent (I get free 3 day rentals of equipment). I go straight for that camera & a fast lens... there's something ugly about it. I go for my second option, Fuji XH2 that I've slagged off since Sony is king & cropped sensors don't perform well in low light. But I'm shooting with this fuji x & I am in love. They're not f*cking kidding about how beautiful the colors are. & though af was an issue (I was shooting a skeleton figure & the face was in focus but everything sternum down was out of focus so that was weird.). I couldn't figure out shutter speed but other than that. We just had chemistry unlike me & the a7IV. A colleague comes up & talks cameras with me & I say how the a7 IV felt almost sterile. & he completely understood what I meant & agreed explaining how it's just a mechanical tool built like a machine & not a camera. Completely got that. Fuji's a f*cking camera, you know. Yeah, pristine resolution with Sony but like when I put my eye to the viewfinder of Sony, it just magnifies the world as it is. Fuji paints it as another world, & that's f*cking gorgeous. I want to live in that world.