Hi guys!
I have been reading your post for a while now, and I never participated in the discussions because of someone always came out whit my point, and he says much better than I can.
But today I am looking to discover if I am crazy and alone in my position.
But before going to the point I wish to apologize because English is not my first language, and at a time my thinking gets a bit confusing for a mother tongue, so please bear whit me and try to understand.
Now to the point, I did study photography at school and I graduated in artistic graphic design and photography, in a time when the film was the only way, and my first camera was a Pentax K1000 that I still own. After graduation a carried out a couple of photojournalistic jobs, and then life and injury set me on a different phat for almost 3 decades, where I sporadically used the camera. About 15 years ago I friend give me a kodak digital camera, I thin was a 5MP Easyshare that I never liked to use and passed to my sister.
Then a couple of years ago I decided to give digital a second chance and after some research, looking for a light and compact interchangeable lens camera to take everywhere, I got a used Olympus pen2, and after I found my control setting on the camera, I really liked the pictures and use that camera, but the EVF refresh was too slow, and so I decided to upgrade the camera and format, I feel that Olympus put too much of gadgets in their bodies, and ultimately you pay too much for a 4/3 sensor.
So I decided APS-C, and the decision was between Sony and Fuji, Fuji was pricey with better optics but offering lower resolution, much beefier raw file not supported by may software, and fewer features, the xt1 was a camera for still photography, while the Sony a hybrid, when the XT10 came out I told that is it, all was in place, felt good in the hand, light and compact to carry everywhere, but a problem was the flash support like in the XT1, then the XT1 was given full flash support (adding HSS) by firmware update, and because the XT10 uses same processor and sensor I assumed it was going to receive HSS as well (after all is only a step down), but did not happens, and I been told by Fuji it will not happen. In the main time, the XT2 for good it is does not have any major improvement that attracts me, is a hybrid, so the XT20, and do not talk about the XH1 and the XT3, are we making pictures or movies? did they improve the dynamic range? did they extend the low ISO (only marginally in the XT3)? more megapixel is better hi ISO? no, they have done nothing to improve the capability of the still photography, but look at the video... oh yeah! ... but a moment, 3 years and I do not know if the Hi-definition video recording work in my XT10, (sorry one time by accident filled my memory card and drain the battery while hiking to a waterfall. Now I fill as a faithful husband cheated by the much-loved wife, I choose a camera like a wife, for the long run, because we want the same thing in life, and we want to grow in the same direction, I choose fuji because was going in the direction of rediscovering the passion for photography, and now I am pushed to live with a teenager that goes all over the places just because is fun. So I told if I must change body next year I'll go FF and ten new body and new lenses... what fill my criteria of one job done right without bankrupt me? Sony sells TV so guess what the direction is? the other option I can find is Nikon df (which tick all my boxes) and came out in 2013, 8 years old, does make any sense to restart a new with a camera so old in a digital time?
It is only me that feel forced to keep up with a trend that does not give back what you look for, I do understand that a lot of professionals need to stay up to date and customer ask more and more, and want to pay less and less, so they need bodies that can make their life easier and can do all a paying customer may ask, and vlogger and blogger, they have their need, but what about still photographer that do not want go through pages of menus to change one parameter, and will never use 3/4 of the function offered, are we happy to pay for the development of systems we do not use?
I am crazy and alone on that?
Please if you fell You have something to say just say it as you fell, free to disagree and be rude if you like if I am wrong I need to snap out of that.
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