6/5/2023 0 Comments Fuji xpro 3You might think I’m completely wrong and that’s fine. So for me getting a digital camera that is closer to a film experience in many ways was appealing. I also never review my photos in the field. I also have little interest in shooting video generally. I am a person who learned photography on film and I’m currently shooting on a Leica M6 TTL along side the X-Pro 3. I can understand if you’re used to shooting on a phone for example why composing your shots on a screen might be preferable to you. If you think that this is a good thing or not will depend on your previous photography experience and what you want to get out of a camera. In doing this Fuji is basically telling you that with the viewfinder, in either electronic or optical mode is the ‘correct’ way of doing thing. You can of course fold out the screen and shoot with it folded at waist level or full down, but it doesn’t lie flat in the body with the screen facing out like most cameras do. You probably alright know if this is an acceptable situation in your mind or not. The main screen folds into the back of the camera at which point you only see the rear status screen and have to use the viewfinder to shoot. When I say Fuji wants you to use this camera their way this is a big part of it. I feel like I need to talk about the screens before much else here. Just over a year into the pandemic with no travel options in sight I decided I didn’t mind spending the money on a bit of gear and wanted to give the X-Pro3 a good go. I was also shooting a lot with the X100F at the time and was liking that form factor more and more. I moved to this camera body from an X-T2. It is a camera that wants you to use it the way Fuji designed it to be used and not in any other fashion. By pure luck I ended up with a Durablack model. The dura coatings should prevent most scratches from showing up but does cost an extra $300 Canadian at the time of this writing. This means the camera comes in painted black, or in a coated finish called Dura black or Dura Silver. With this model Fuji has moved to using titanium for the top and bottom plates. The X-Pro 3 is a very premium camera, there is no doubt about that. It is not a true range finder of course like a Lecia M is but it is made to look close to one and handle in many of the same ways. The Fuji X-Pro 3 is a ranger finder styled camera. As you probably know if you’re at all interested in this camera already. For reasons I’ll got into in a bit I decided to purchase one in the summer of 2021 and am just now writing a review. The Fujifilm X-Pro 3 was released I October 2019.
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