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I kept taking pictures with the X-Pro1 for work and using my Leica for personal photography. It became my main camera to scout locations and previsualize framings that we could use for our movies. X-Pro2 23.6 x 15.6), the focal length I would use on my photo camera would approximately depict a field of view I could expect if I used that focal length on my cinema camera. As a director of photography for movies I was looking for a camera that I could use to scout locations, and as the X-Pro1 has a very similarly sized chip to the cinema cameras we use (ARRI Alexa 23.76 x 13.37 vs. The Fuji X-Pro1 attracted my attention as soon as it was announced, back at a time when I was looking for another, lighter and more practical digital camera, mainly for work.
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I still had the Canon 5D around, but it just didn’t get any attention anymore, it would just be too cumbersome and too heavy to use for work as well. Last year I finally found a good deal and got one, and it’s now my main 35mm camera, but to be honest I still miss guessing the exposure and being right, seeing those two arrows align in the viewfinder or frantically turning that shutter speed wheel just to be able to set it right in time for the snap. The only camera that could extend what I could do would be the Leica M7 because of it’s aperture priority AE mode. I’ve used the Leica M6 for almost 10 years now, and at some point it became the extension of my eyes, my mind and my hands.Įvery other camera I’ve been trying and using in the past has not been able to come close to the experience I’ve had with the Leica. It has never ever let me down once since. I’ve tried so many other cameras, compacts like the Konica S3 and other M-mount bodies like the Bessa R3A, but at one point I finally gave in and had to do it, the allure of the red dot was too much and I became weak. When doing research on 35mm cameras, especially in connection with street photography, there is one product that always will appear down the line, that one brand one can not dodge and that more or less gave birth to the compact 35mm style. There was also a style that really spoke to me, a style that I discovered through Magnum Photos, that’s when I found out that street photography is for me. As the famed Gear Aquisition Syndrome also got ahold of me I needed more, more than just medium format cameras. I also got an Epson V700 and scanned all the negatives and slides that I would develop at home. Soon after acquiring a lot of other (proper) medium format cameras, I’ve started to develop myself as well, starting out with black and white first and then color. At that time I already owned a Canon 5D and was fascinated by those huge 6×6 medium format negatives and one of my first scans was actually with the 5D on a self-built stand. The first film camera I ever picked up was a Seagull, a Chinese Rolleiflex copy, and that started it all. The pictures included in this posting have been shot with the Leica M6/M7, X-Pro1 and X-Pro2.
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As X-Pro1’s are available at a very very low price at the moment I hope that I am able to inspire a few people who can’t or don’t want to afford digital Leicas to be able to give their M-mount lenses a digital life. This will be highly subjective and it will be about how I use the camera, how I transitioned from a Leica M6 to the Fuji X-Pro (1 and then 2) and now use both cameras side by side. I stayed with film, but in addition to that I somehow made the X-Pro work for me over the years, and it gives me that rangefinder feeling that I love so much with the benefits of the digital workflow.īear in mind, this is not going to be a technical review as many others are so much better in them as I am. Sure, there was the Epson RD-1, which I never had the chance to try, and there are digital Leicas, which I never had enough money at the side to be able to even think about seriously. A lot of people, myself included, seem to be struggling with getting that rangefinder experience in the digital world. Inspired by the recent article by Hamish regarding the Sony A7Rii, I wanted to share my way of working with my favorite digital camera, the Fuji X-Pro.