This review is 3 years in coming, and isn't really a review but rather a personal history of why the Fujifilm X-Series, specifically the X-Pro1 and X100S, is a perfect fit for me: the cameras I had been waiting for. I am a very technical and precise person, but this is not a technical review. These cameras have been out for years and there are much better reviews, including one by my friend (and Fuji X-Photographer) Vincent Opoku. I wanted to write something initially because using these cameras was revolutionary for me, but I also wanted to let the beer goggles dissipate and write logically and dispassionately about the experience so those considering the system could get a realistic understanding of what to expect without all the usual superlatives that come from excitement, and also to spare readers the agony of run on sentences like the one you are enduring now.
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I see the world photographically, so I'm looking for photographs even in the rare moments when I don't have a camera. I'm just as happy shooting by myself or while traveling, though weddings are where I spend 99% of my time professionally. One of the things about weddings that I especially like is that they are social and you are immersed in hundreds of people all there to celebrate the joining of two people and two families. There is so much going on that all one has to do is pay attention: there is *always* something happening. The way I shoot is that I line up a frame and I patiently wait for the composition to line up and the right combination of facial expressions. I love shooting landscapes because it's very solitary and meditative. There is no timeline and no hurry, so I can look at something from multiple perspectives.
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