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Passion Growing | Life with the Xpro-1 | Nathan Smith

Passion Growing | Life with the Xpro-1 | Nathan Smith | Fuji X-Pro1 | Scoop.it


It is kind of hard to make blog posts about photos that are from all different points in my life and from different events. Most of the time the photos all revolve around one event that has some consistency to them. The problem that I have ran into is that I am shooting a LOT with my X-Pro1 and not all the photos are from the same time. I should say that this is a good thing... no, make that a great thing! Before I started shooting with the x-series (x100 & X-Pro1) cameras, all my photos were taken with either my iPhone or my Nikons. I love shooting with them, but the Nikon always meant I was "working" when I lifted it to my eye and the iPhone could be a bit of a bugger to work with in some situations. The x-series cameras have filled a void that I didn't know needed filling. They have brought back passion and fun to shooting photos again for me, and more specifically allow me to capture daily life without feeling like I am "Working." Sometimes simply picking up a camera is a chore and takes away from the thrill of capturing the mood or moment that you want. They can be big, clunky, and just more then was worth dealing with. Now, between my iPhone and x-series cams I don't feel like that much any more. That leads back to all the random images I am getting. My X-Pro1 has been at the ready since I got it, which has lead to the random snaps. While the cohesion is not in the images themselves, there is cohesion in the gear that I am using to capture my daily life and in my growing passion for my new gear.

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Your X-Pro1 may be lying to you! | Chris Dodkin

Your X-Pro1 may be lying to you! | Chris Dodkin | Fuji X-Pro1 | Scoop.it

 

You've spent a small, or even a large fortune on your camera, it's state of the art, has bells, whistles, and even built-in metering.

You head-out to take photos, secure in the knowledge that some boffin engineers have programmed your camera's metering system to give you perfect exposure every time. You set up your shot - choose your aperture, and click - the camera has chosen a shutter speed and your shot is in the bag. Here's what my X-Pro1 came up with: 1/160 f/8 ISO200. But what if this exposure wasn't 'correct', or I should say optimal.....

How else could we judge the correct exposure for this scene?

You can use a hand-held light meter to set your exposure - an incident meter measures the light falling on it, and gives you an exposure value. It has a little white dome which you point at your light source - in this case the Sun, and you can set ISO and in this case f/8 for aperture, and the meter provides an optimal value for shutter speed. My meter in full Sun gave me a value of 1/500 f/8 ISO200. I set my X-Pro1 to those settings and got this shot: As you'd expect, the change in shutter speed has produced a darker image - the colors are more saturated, the highlights are muted, and the shadows are deep black. If you compare detail from the camera exposure and incident exposure, you can really see the difference...

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