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  1. Richard Wakeford
    November 4, 2016 @ 9:57 pm

    I started with an Olympus OM1 in the early 70s. My brother in law had the darkroom and I developed my own slides. I then lapsed and bought a Canon 70D to rekindle my love of photography. I ended up not doing much with it though as it was just too heavy and didn’t feel “right”. I then saw someone using an X100T and saw the results and how he spoke about it and so I bought one having read the reviews. Suddenly I was in love with photography and properly for the first time. I then read about the X-Pro2 and, like you, looked at all the Videos and read all the reviews and bought one at the first opportunity and, like you, with the 35m f2. I have since bought the 16m f1.4 as well and take photos almost every day now. I love the X100T for its size and portability but the X-Pro2 is such a joy to use in every way that it’s my camera of choice and so light with the 35m. Thank you Fuji.
    Richard

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    • David Trewren
      November 9, 2016 @ 12:07 am

      Hi Richard, sorry for the slow response only just realized the article was live ! Sounds like we have had a similar schooling – I had the Olympus OM2 SP for a while. Like you I have recently bought the Fuji XT 16mm f1.4 ….. oh my lord, what a lens ! It’s weird, with the Nikon gear I was always going longer and longer lens wise – very close crop portraits. This Fuji 16mm has completely changed the way I look at things. I completely love the way you can get just inches away, be at 16mm and blow out the background at f1.4 – just amazing. Take some photos and write something down, that’s what I did and they printed it (shocked).
      Cheers and have fun, Dave

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  2. phil m
    November 10, 2016 @ 5:02 pm

    Glad to see I have been of some help to some people there Dave 😉 It’s true what you say, they seem to make products that talk to me. It’s something that should not be overlooked, but cannot be found in the manual or a spec sheet, the X-Pro2 has magic inside _ Phil M

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    • David Trewren
      November 11, 2016 @ 11:41 pm

      You speak the truth Phil – although new to the X system I can see it clearly has been sprinkled with pixie dust. Hope your future assignments go as well as India – look forward to more articles from your travels you lucky devil !

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      • phil m
        May 24, 2017 @ 9:50 pm

        How’s that 16mm working out for you? Still cant tempt you over to becoming a 14mm user yet then??? http://philippowell.uk/photography-workshops-tours/

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        • David Trewren
          May 25, 2017 @ 7:24 pm

          Hi Phil, I love the 16mm and use it almost exclusively. I use the weather proofing quite a bit – being able to wander about in the rain is a massive plus point !

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  3. Charles Pike
    December 3, 2016 @ 3:26 pm

    I started with Nikon gear back in the late 70’s, later it became just a tool, a really good tool but just a tool.

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    • David Trewren
      December 12, 2016 @ 11:47 pm

      Hi Charles, sorry for the slow reply (don’t seem to get notifications when people post). The Fuji X system seems to have altered what I now shoot. When I was a young chap messing about with cameras I was always interested in texture, macro shots and interesting use of depth of field. Once on the DSLR path a great deal of that creativity seemed to kinda ebb away replaced with one very similar portrait after another – I don’t really understand why that happened. As time went on I personally took less and less photographs and the passion went without me even noticing. Since having the X Pro2 and a couple of primes I have completely reverted back to the interest and passion I had thirty odd years ago. I now find myself back sitting in the dirt taking photos of rotten logs and fungi – it is just harder to get up nowadays. The odd thing is I honestly don’t understand why my passion has come back. I can’t put my finger on one particular thing about the system. I ‘think’ it maybe because when I am using the Fuji I am not thinking about the camera at all – everything is so intuitive and old school that distracting camera/gear stuff just takes a back seat and you can get on and take photos – sorry for the ramble, got carried away 🙂

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      • Charles Pike
        December 13, 2016 @ 12:22 am

        Getting back up here a problem also. Having fun with a Pro 2. People still asking me to take photos.

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