About My Fuji User’s Guide!

There is a lot of excitement in the emails I’m getting about my soon to come Fuji X System User’s Guide.  It appears that our rowdy Fuji loving group is an enthusiastic bunch!  Before I get into some details about the upcoming book, Let me mention a great learning aid that the Luminous Landscape folks released yesterday.  It is a 3 hour video that runs you through a lot of good info on the X-T1.  It is taught by Kevin Raber and Jarrid Spicer, two guys who certainly know there way around the photo industry and photography.  It is well done and worth the discounted $24.95 price!  Here is the link:

http://www.fujirumors.com/

Now on to my new book!  There are several excellent books that walk you through the menus. features, and specs.  That is all important and any Fuji user should be familiar with all of that!  What I will be doing is sharing how to take a very incredible system and use it to go out and have a lot of fun and make great images.  I want to delve into Fuji’s history with the X System and how it has and seems to continue to evolve!  Fuji makes several cameras, each are unique and have a special place in an arsenal.  I want to talk about some of the real strengths and weaknesses of the system.  One of the real strengths is the lens line and I have a lot to share about each individual lens that I have experience with.

The first camera was the X100, above is the latest, third iteration of that camera.  The X100 was in many ways a Beta product which is not at all uncommon in the camera industry today.  There is a good reason why camera companies produce Beta products.  The buying public demands the products they want NOW!  Often there really isn’t time to get everything perfect.  In the old days of film cameras a pro body might have a shelf life of 8 or even 10 years, that gave the companies a long time to design the next model.  The film cameras were not nearly as complex as a modern digital camera. In order to stay active in the market, they simply have to push products out and let us be the final testers.  This is where I’m very proud of Fuji.  They might have offered us a product that needed more work, but they have done that work and not only released two more cameras in the same line that each are greatly improved.  They even shared the firmware to keep the original X100 very relevant.  That cost them camera sales, but it was the right thing to do!  I’m always in the corner of those that do things the right way, for the right reason.  Fuji has done that.

Here are few things I want to cover;

ONE:  The Fuji user’s world seems to be somewhat divided between single focal length and zoom lenses.   I want to show why you just might want to own a few of each.

TWO:  The film palette options in the Fuji X cameras can greatly enhance how you capture various subjects, but you need to learn which ones work best for what kinds of subjects.  We will explore that in depth.

THREE:  The Fuji X cameras are great at certain things, but they are not the perfect fit for other kinds of photography. As Clint Eastwood said in his role as Detective Harry Callihan, ” A man’s gotta know his limitations.”  No matter how good a camera is, it does have limitatio0ns, it’s best to know them and know if there is a workaround!

FOUR:  The saved weight of the Fuji System is a big advantage, but you still have to give a lot of thought to how to build the system , how to carry it, and when to use which parts!

I was one of the early adopters of the Fuji X System and I think I can share some information that will make any Fuji user’s experience better!

Blessings,

the pilgrim

The glories of shooting the Fuji!

And one more!