I got to thinking about photography and cameras having joined a Fuji Forum to find out about how people got on with the 18 - 55mm zoom as against using the primes; technical stuff, but hey, that's half of what photography is about, isn't it, the equipment? It's not supposed to be; it's supposed to be about the art, right? However, the forum's admin host kept on sending me messages about participating, so I began to compose an introduction.
"My first love is music: I listen, play, compose, and arrange. My second love is images; I look at them and have made my own ever since as a small boy I bought a Brownie 127 for 18/6 in old money. Nowadays I make them mostly with my XPro-1. I traded in all my Nikon DSLR gear in January 2014 for it, even though it was becoming an old model by then. I bought it because it takes wonderful images, because it looks and works like the old 35mm Nikons I used to have, and because a bag full of its gear is still small enough to haul about.
Now for the questioning bit: I also have a Sony RX100 Mk 3 which I carry about all the time. It takes great photos, nearly as good technically as the bigger-sensored Fuji. I don't love it. The tiny thing doesn't make me feel like a photographer. So am I kidding myself? It's all about the art, right? - and the eventual output of the media, in my case a picture diary for screen viewing and the occasional A4 print. So do I need the Fuji at all for my kind of photography? Yes."
