Fuji X Half

Just recently my wife and I bought each other the Fuji X Half (wife got the chrome version) and have been learning how to use it over the course of the days. Much like my X100T the X-Half has quirkiness forcing me to figure out how to navigate the camera and the subjects differently than your standard cameras out in the market. This one is slowly bringin me back to taking photos more often than usual (I usually bring my camera out anyway, but seems like there's more incentive).





Perfect pairing for a shooter like me it's small and easy to just pick up and head out the door much like my other cameras that I currently have. The Leica (needs repair unfortunately), the Konica Hexar, the Olympus Pen F and even the QL17 all have that ability to not make any excuses and just grab and go considering how small and mobile they are. I continue to have this mindset because lugging a huge monolith isn't fun and almost looks kinda dumb.





Purely this is an Instagram Camera lol, but then again it's also a camera where you can just have fun with it without having to think about HUGE production. And I think that most photographers in this era think about that too much. They don't really know how to have fun with this thing and are pixel peeping and poo pooing the aspects of it not having RAW and wanting it to be like the camera they already have and not try to experience something new and actually run the paces of the camera for a long while and all this other shit that doesn't really matter. For the most part these images are only going to be digital copies and they'll never in their life ever try to print these images. I can almost guarantee that's going to be the case.

As for me I think I want to try my hand on printing these images in some way or another. There's an Instax printer ability for this camera (with much of their other cameras also able to provide the same concept), but also I think it's good enough to print a 5 x 7 or even an 8 x 10. This might be one of those cameras I use to make a small project on just to get on the feeling of shooting like that again. I'm not sure how I want to go about it, but it might be something good for like portraits and stuff??? I don't know. I don't know anymore lol, but I'm excited about it.


Until then I'm going to be putting it through its paces. We'll see what I can gather up


- ArToGraphEr

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