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Spoke to this nice gent on Princes Street, Edinburgh with his record player about hifi and asked him for a portrait.

Mine was a Yashica 635 but the 35mm film was really stiff to advance. Couldn't see the point of using it in a medium format camera though. I tripped over my tripod when using it one day and the bulb setting no longer worked probably other speeds were affected too. Slides were superb. I took it on honeymoon to Rome and Venice. Lost all the photos, though.

I notice how sharp your photos are on here and I feel My screen name doesn't add up so much since although my images are sharp from my camera, when I put them on here even via an image hosting site like Photobucket, some have lost that edge. I think if I were to get prints of my images to frame, I may send the SD card to a good professional printer so it could be taken directly from the card. I thought putting them on Photobucket would have been better than they have turned out to be.

The Crannog, Fort William. My first pictures with the Xpro1. Coloued photo on Velvia simulation.

I can't remember which viewfinder mode I was in. I was playing around with my Xpro1 and found it is so easy to shift the focusing point to the left or wherever. Just hold down the AF button and use the directional buttons. I should have done that before first use. Next time I will place the focus point to one side, depending which direction I'm facing like I should have with the bearded man photo. I will have to practice zone focusing on the wife until It's more towards second nature. I enjoy using cameras so I think I may, if funds allow, get hold of a Rollieflex TLR at some time in the not too distant future and take that out on the streets. I used to enjoy the fact that the leaf shutter allows shutter speeds much slower than usual due to its mirror being static and the leaf shutter being so light and vibration free. There is also the advantage in people not realising a photo is being taken because they don't see a camera at your eye. They think you're just looking at your camera's settings or something. At least it'll be easier using a coloured filter with B/W film than trying to use a polarising filter. Man, that's a hoot!

As long as the lens can focus "half way to the stars", it'll be ok

When I was young, I would have felt intimidated by a sneering sales person but now, I would have said "Fujifilm make an adapter for m39 lenses, don't they?" After asking if he could show me a fisheye or 500mm telephoto, it would be funny to see his face if asked if he could show me his sales person of the year award. "Don't tell me you don't have one of those either?"

Beautiful. My favourites are the Dickensian images. They look like they're on a movie set.

Exactly! That's a better way of describing it, they get to your soul.

Thanks. I had time if I was familiar enough with the camera settings, to get it right. I saw him coming along the street. I've been thinking that sharpness is the most important thing. But although it is important, in street photography, I've been thinking recently that when I look at good street photos, it's not how sharp it is that grabs my attention but the way it makes me feel, the atmosphere and emotions it conveys. That's not to say I'm going to forget about sharpness, but I think I should concentrate on what makes a thought provoking picture first.

I posted the wrong photo of the bearded guy. I meant to post (if this works) this bigger one that the other was cropped from. I think the reason why the background was sharper was my use of f:8 or f11 and the guy was off center. I'll have to practice a lot more before going away again.

I should have focused on the bearded guy's face but it's the background that's sharper than the guy is. This is anlso my first try at street photography. Any sugestions on how I should have taken this photo?

This is my first use of my xpro1 on the Royal mile, Edinburgh.

Thank you for the reply btw, Andreas

I was just being careful. I tried to register with them but an error occurred when I entered the site via a search on Google, so I tried opening it in Safari on my Ipad but it wouldn't load. Being a bit hypervigilant, I was suspicious.Another search got me here. I did not intend to start any quarrel so I'm sorry if I came across as a bit contentious.