I read somewhere that frequent blogging is good for business... something about having fresh content out there to keep the outside world engaged. Well, the last one was weeks ago, which is far too long (shaking my head). Hmmm, now, what do I have of interest to blog about...? A new camera! Yes, that's actually very interesting... to me anyway. To my family however, well they probably think differently. Since we just moved here to this beautiful town of Derry New Hampshire, with its colorful leaves and all, I haven't really gotten to meet many of the locals just yet. So my family have been my sole test subjects and oh how have they ever been so subjected to constant and unrelenting testing (10,000 clicks and counting so far)! Same goes for Lola, our cat, who is ever so loyally walking across my keyboard and rubbing her face against mine as I try to type this.
So my new camera.. Well, I'll start off with its name, the Fujifilm X-T2. It's quite similar to my old camera, the Fujifilm X-T1. In fact, if you have ever seen me taking pictures, you probably wouldn't notice the difference. Maybe those of you observant souls may notice the number increase, but that's about it. The performance, however, is a different story. The X-T2 differs in performance by more than a factor of 1 from its predecessor (there is no standard to this value, but if there were then it would certainly be better by more than a factor of 1). That said, this won't be an overly technical review, or even a review at all. Basically, the reason why I have been so obsessively annoying my family the last few weeks is that for the first time in my life, I have a camera that captures what I want it to most of the time. This equates to far less blurry pictures to delete when I import them to my computer. This is highly exciting...to me, that is. The only downside is that I end up having many more beautiful pictures to edit. As a result, I'm drowning in editing debt. Somehow, I need to figure out how to put down this glorious piece of image-capturing hardware and get to working on the software. So, in the best interests of this blog, I will stop typing right now and get into LightRoom so I can provide the relevant photos for this photo blog (I think I'll rename it "Fotoblog" just for fun).
So there you have it, some of the very first pictures I've taken with my new camera. In fact, the very first one in the gallery is the very first picture I took with the camera. I had just entered my new home after a 9-hour drive with Lolita (cat) and there it was waiting for me. Though it may not be the best image of the bunch, it certainly was love at first shutter actuation (click). I really could have added hundreds more photos (no exaggeration), but I wanted to get back to finishing this blog, so I'll spare you! No one really wants to look at hundreds of photos anyway... there really is such a thing as looking-at-too-many-photos fatigue.
Oftentimes, after looking at a photographer's pictures, people make the comment, "Wow, you must have a really good camera!" Photographers really, really hate that, by the way. But, in this case it's really true. I really DO have a really good camera. I can't wait to let it loose on my new (NewEnglander) neighbors!