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So, when my wife and I decided to plan 7 months ago a trip to visit our daughter that was studying in Spain, it was the start of a long journey and introduction to Fuji. Up until then I was a Canon user, from the time I was a teenager. Fuji was never on my radar as a camera system I’d own. I didn’t want to lug around all my FF canon gear, even stripped down ( I had been using a 5D mkIII), and so asked a bunch of my photography friends what they recommended the X100V as a great travel camera. Sounded good to me, and the reviews looked good. I was willing to use a fixed lens for a trip, so I went to buy it. That’s when I discovered the x100V is rarer than a truthful politician, so searched out an alternate. I liked what I saw with the X100V, namely the super small size, and so I started looking at maybe the x-pro3. Well damn, that was as hard to find as the x100V! At this point I heard about the x-T5 coming out and I figured that I had a shot at getting that at least, seeing how hard it was to find a Fuji product. I got the X-T5 and was pretty stunned how small it was compared to my canon, and saw it was actually as small as my ancient canon a-1 I had as a teenager. I was also happy to see the dials and ergonomics was much much like the A-1 and that felt like putting on an old favorite pair of shoes. I was a bit concerned with using new equipment for a trip, but hey, YOLO. I had another trip before the one to Spain, and got to really use it at a race event and stress test the usability. I had also gotten the viltrox 75mm f/1.2 by that time and it was also a good time to test that lens for its ability to AF well. By now I was fairly comfortable with the camer, but the true raison d’etre for this journey was the Spain trip. I got back a few days ago and I have to say, the camera and entire ecosystem has brought back the pure passion for photography. The compactness of camera and lenses made the difference between a chore to take picture (which often results to just using a phone to take a picture) to always having the camera comfortably in hand and joyfully snapping away. I feel invigorated again to have a camera on hand. here are some of the pictures so far, and I’m still adding more. So many turned out well, far more than I would have thought. https://edwardpalisoc.smugmug.com/Places/Portfolio/ Be kind. 😝

I watched him for a while, basically becoming an analysis on his mental health. Not good. You will see patterns and issues over time. He has subscribers because he is controversial and they buy his BS for a while, and that's okay if you are entertained. The key here is that he complained about the things that he either praised or ignored in the past on the X-H series. He dislikes the ergonomics but it is virtually the same as the X-H1 and the GFX series that he LOVES. The battery charger being excluded is a deal breaker! LOL! You just paid what for this camera and are buying CF cards for how much? And a few bucks for the charger will kill you (plus most people who had the X-T4 will have this charger and an extra battery or two)? The hilarious part is that he was shunned by Fujifilm and then he quickly brought out a video trashing them. If that isn't obvious to everyone that he was just being a petty and vindictive man-child then I give up. Don't forget, he knows more about cameras than anybody, has more lenses than anybody, worked on more cameras than anybody, and is smarter than everybody. And yet he can't figure out how to put the fork down.

This might be just me but you're not getting me to follow along in a 20 minute diatribe with gruff and angry presentation. YMMV. No matter someone's history and palmares, if you want to get a point across don't turn a imaging tech video into a CPAC with torches convention. Vinegar meet honey.