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I'm a professional traveler and I don't mean for pleasure. It's the kind of travel that involves a 4:30am phone call and a request to get to Caracas, San Salvador, Port-Au-Prince or swim across the Gulf of Mexico to New Orleans kind of deal. Usually it's a breaking news story in the shape of a riot, coup, flood or earthquake but almost always in fascinating locations and most often places where, by necessity, I have to travel light. Enter my Fuji X-Pro1, a camera that's changed me profoundly as a photographer. I bought mine just over a year ago along with the well regarded 35mm f/1.4 lens and more recently the 18-55 so called 'kit' lens. It's been a revelation; a small camera that people aren't afraid of that takes better pictures than my hulking DSLR and a camera that is, for me at least, an emotional beast. It's hard to explain but I think the Fuji made me slow down, think about each shot carefully, compose and capture. When I'm on assignment (as a reporter not a photographer) I rarely have more than a few minutes to capture interesting places and people and that's the Fuji's biggest strength; because it's compact, it's always with me and that's half the battle. Tucked away in my Retrospective5 bag few people notice it even in the less desirable places that my job takes me to.....
Via Thomas Menk
