Fujifilm X100

This was the camera that started it all.  No, it wasn’t my first digital camera, but it was the first digital camera that made me to gasp when I looked at the images on screen.  And then again, and again and again.

It doesn’t look like much.  A fixed focal length lens (it’s not even a zoom . . . but it’s at my favorite focal length, a 35mm equivalent).  And an optical viewfinder.  Sure, it has a retractable electronic viewfinder, but these were such early days that the electronic viewfinder, in a word, sucks.  And it was slow.  Very slow.

And I loved photographing with it.  It’s so light you can carry it all day.  Everything is manual, which allows (read: forces) me to slow down and to enjoy the craft of photography.  If you want to see what it can do, check out the Stone Town Zanzibar portfolio on the website.

And even though it only has a 12 megapixel sensor, oh what a sensor it is!  Use the camera within its limitations, and it will deliver lovely images!

When I returned from Liberia I think Ann thought I was nuts when I told her that I wanted to photograph with just this camera instead of upgrading to a sensor with more megapixels in an interchangeable lens camera.  I’m pretty sure she called the County Health Authority when I said I wanted to photograph with this camera only for a whole year.

And that’s what I did.  Basically, all of my images from mid-2013 through mid-2014 were made with this camera.

Unfortunately, now days it sits unused much too often.  I really need to fix that!