As an X-Series user since 2013 I can tell you that one of the many features that creates "enjoyment use" of these cameras is the fact that most of the good-to-excellent XF lenses have an aperture ring - so why not use it? You're coming from a Canon where the facility is not available and is controlled by a command dial.

If you're gonna use Fuji please understand that there are some "habit changes" to make - so be prepared to accept, learn, start using - and guess what, you've suddenly got a "new" habit !

There are some changes that you can make with Fuji command dials - menu / set up / button and dial setting / command dial setting - best way to learn what they do is press the buttons, try them, see what works for you.

As a new Fuiji user you may well want to take a very close look at this YouTube channel - a fellow north American of yours, and, in my experience, one of the best "help tools" for Fuji that can be found anywhere.......

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBT6ZUFLWSkghYRzPQkWbhA/videos

Lots to learn, but be patient, take your time, learn the best new habits and you'll find out why there are so many "happy Fuji users" around the world.

Sunday I purchased a brand new 6T WD hard drive to use for backup copying of my most recent photographs. (my others are all full!). Yesterday, I plugged it in and chose one of my smaller HD's to copy to it. That's what I've always done in the past. Well, hours later I still had 0% copied! The computer crashed a couple of times. The new HD was "unavailable" about every 10th image. I tried a different USB cord, and that seemed to help. Now, I've learned that apparently the power cord connection isn't firm and keeps losing contact. So now when it stops on a particular image, I simply push in on the power cord and it will refire. I'm not sure I want to fight with this thing for the rest of my life. Should I keep pressing on, or simply remove all the files I was actually able to copy to it and take it back?

Your example shows a scene with an EV (exposure value) between 6 and 7, which while on the low side, is not particularly low light for modern cameras.

To your point - practice makes perfect - and will lead to a better understanding of a camera's capabilities, regardless of what the "experts" say. I too had a D200 that was supposedly terrible in limited light and at high ISO. But I did get decent pictures with it. Loved that CCD sensor - noise that looked more like film grain - and the most natural colors coming from a digital camera.

This image was taken at hand held with a Sony RX10M4, at 1/60, F3.5, ISO 6400 - which represents an EV of about 3.6, which is about 3 stops less light, and supposedly terrible lighting for a camera with a 1" sensor, especially with the extremely limited dynamic range available at ISO 6400. But the picture isn't terrible, considering the really low light levels.

I posted the scan of the front and the back of the photo. Just FYI!

This photo was, and still is one that will always bring back "Wonderful Memories" in my life.

This was taken by me in Dec. of 1966. I was 13 yrs. old then, and my "Great Grandmother Mae McGregor" was

96 yrs. old at time. She lived her last years with my family. She passed away my Senior year in HS. She was 99

yrs. old at the time. And she passed away in excellent health. She made the family dinner that night (She loved

to do this) and I went to watch a HS basketball game. My mother told me when I got home...that she just sat

down in her favorite chair, began to read her stories, (She Loved Romance Stories) closed her beautiful eyes,...

and went in complete peace.


She had lived on her farm of 215 acres before she came to live with us when she was 92. At that time she lived

alone, and still had...84 chickens, 4 cows, one horse, (Old)... 6 pigs...and a dog.

When I was a young boy, mother would take me to her farm where I would gladly spend a week at a time.

I was 10 yrs. old then.

I would stay there with "My Dog...and my 22 cal. Rifle". (Then, 22 shells were $.25 cents for 50 rounds)

I would spend each day helping her with the milking of the cows and feeding the other animals.

When my farm chores were done, I would spend the rest of my time in the woods with my 22 Riffle and my dog.

I loved the woods, and all the wonders that it held. I learned a lot at that old farm!


I had to be in the farm house, or be "Home" before dark. Grandma always called me "Daniel Boone", because I

loved the woods so much. I loved it when she called me that, because the "Daniel Boone Show" was big back

then.

When it came to be Sunday, and a neighbor would stop to pick us up for Church, Grandma would "HOLLER AT

ME"...and Yell..."Boone" (People still call me that today)...."It's TIME FOR CHURCH" !!!

(She tagged me with "Boone"...and it stuck)

If she were alive today, she would be 151 yrs. old.

As you can see by her face in the photo..."She wasn't a big fan of my camera".


The end of this short story is:

I still have this photo laying on top of my computer, and look at it a few times a week.

I will always miss her... but the memories, and the values I have of those days...will live in me forever.

I hope my children,... will have something like this to remember,...when they get to my age!!!

So...now you know where I got the name..."BOONE"...and who "Gave it to me".

(I'm just sure you were dying to know. LOL )

Thanks for reading about "MY Most Loved Photo"!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks,
Boone.