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My name is Jeff and I have GAS. Not so much in adding gear, but instead just changing out looking for "the" camera. I started with a fuji x-t1 when they first came out, living in seattle the weather sealing was great... now I live in Denver, wanted full frame so I moved from Fuji to a nikon d610 - man the pictures were great but just too big of a package. Time for my second x-t1, more or less a rinse and repeat... wanted full frame so I went back to nikon, this time with a DF, along with a fuji x-t10. Should mention that were a half dozen leicas and fuji x100's along the way. If you want you can follow the whole sordid trip on the sales forum. Oh and a couple of infrared cameras too. Today I am meeting a guy to get a sony a7II in the morning, and another guy for a leica m9 in the afternoon.
Guess you could say I have a problem, or more money than sense - or both. Then again I used to do the same thing with watches, cameras are Way cheaper.
Heres the rub, I love the size of the fuji cameras the feel and such fit my girl scout hands like a glove. I was all set to put my df and half dozen or so lenses up on the sales board and get another, wait for it, x-t1 - when I took some pictures in my home office in fairly low light, which are below. To be honest the difference shocked me, I used the same ISO and f-stop, pretty close on the framing. The fuji even had a lens advantage in that I stuck on the new 35mm f2 that everybody is raving about while the nikon had a zoom. Both are straight out of the camera jpeg, hate messing with raw.
This brings me to my question - should I get a pentax 645D? Kidding, kind of.. I read of guys who have one camera... like an extension of their hand. Kind of like bird hunters, some have one gun that they shoot like a master, don't even want to think about everything in my gun safe (safe's). Am I just missing the one camera for me, or am I not that way? You know you give a great photographer a holga and he will make art, Levinson Wood walked the nile with a leica alone and brought back amazing pictures. I just don't know.
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