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The joy of Acros on the Fuji X PRO 2<\/p>\n
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One of my\u00a0favorite shooters of all time and fellow Nikon Tech Rep was, and is, Sam Garcia. \u00a0Sam has a great eye, impeccable technical skills and \u00a0vast knowledge of the photo industry. \u00a0When Sam speaks, I listen. \u00a0I got this from Sam today and I wanted to share it and make my own additional comments. \u00a0Sam’s original post is in blue<\/span> my comments in red<\/span>!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The joy of Acros on the Fuji X PRO 2 One of my\u00a0favorite shooters of all time and fellow Nikon Tech Rep was, and is, Sam Garcia. \u00a0Sam has a great eye, impeccable technical skills and \u00a0vast knowledge of the photo industry. \u00a0When Sam speaks, I listen. \u00a0I got this from Sam […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19079"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19083,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19079\/revisions\/19083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}I simply love shooting mirrorless cameras. They’ve made photography a genuine delight again.<\/span> \u00a0Me too! \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\nFor those who have asked, no, I don’t consider using another company’s gear as\u00a0disloyal to Nikon<\/span>. \u00a0\u00a0Me either.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\nWhen and if they get a professional mirrorless on the market I will be the first to get on board if it measures up to their (currently) significant competition.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\nNikon’s seeming inability to recognize the sea-change aspect of this technology is especially frustrating since my personal involvement with mirrorless goes back over ten years\u00a0to the Coolpix cameras. Shooting such ‘pocket’ cameras seriously when most photographers considered them to be essentially toys taught me there was another way.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\nNikon assignments allowed me to start shooting–and liking–mirrorless cameras.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\nThe Nikon 1 showed me where might go. (The “1” series should have been APS sized sensor driven, at the least. That it was not doomed it before the first box was opened in the US.<\/span> \u00a0He is one of the best Coolpix shooters you will ever see!!!!<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\nThe company should have shot the whole series in the head by year two in the US, and moved along. The series was more successful in other parts of the World. It goes like that sometimes.)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\nCell phones showed the industry that customers were willing to accept ‘cameras’ in any number of different enclosures.<\/span> \u00a0So true!<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\nNikon CAN make a competitive answer to both Sony and Fuji. But they got scared, and fear has cost them a good five year lag getting into the game.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\nYes, their current models are good and sell well.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\nBut<\/i>…<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\nEastman Kodak, back in the 90’s: ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah…digital is interesting. But have you looked at the sales numbers?! You know, my friend, we sell one HELL of a lot of film…!<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\nAnd believe me, that market’s not going anywhere anytime soon.’<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\nJust my personal opinion<\/span>: the failure in the US market of the Nikon 1 system (sales nowhere near\u00a0what was originally desired) made the company gun-shy about introducing yet again, another system which would require years of support, and an entirely reconfigured lens line. The financial ‘bet’ would have been enormous.<\/span> I think that is an\u00a0excellent\u00a0analysis!<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\nOr rather,\u00a0will<\/u>\u00a0be, since, reluctant or not, everything I know about the industry says the company\u00a0must<\/u>\u00a0get on this track if it wishes to generate future success comparable to past success.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\nConventional dslr cameras aren’t going away in the immediate future,\u00a0<\/span>but their days are clearly numbered<\/u><\/span>.<\/span> \u00a0Most people do not want\u00a0to\u00a0hear this, but it’s true!!!<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\nAll quibbles about this or that being different on a mirrorless are simply distractions from a larger certainty:<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\nConventional dslr cameras are the, “dead man walking”, of photography.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\nA one eyed blind guy with a bag over his head can see that<\/i>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\nThe Sony and Fuji cameras I have been using have changed the way I shoot. And the cameras have been delightful to use.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n(Well, with the exception of the Sony menu system which was clearly laid out by a Sony engineer who suffers from dyslexia, and was coming down from an LSD high when he laid them out.<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\nUnquestionably all Sony A7 menu series meeting were held under the influence of\u00a0hallucinogens & saki<\/i><\/span>.)<\/span> \u00a0Both\u00a0hilarious\u00a0and true!!!!<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n[Oh, and what moron put the on-off switch on the Leica SL on the back, left hand side…?\u00a0Idiot.]<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\nBut I digress.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\nAll I really meant to say when getting this shot set up to go out was: mirrorless makes black and white fun again. <\/span>\u00a0Amen!!!<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\nIt makes experimenting fun again.<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Amen!!!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\nI’m guessing nobody at Nikon is having a great deal of fun lately and that saddens me more than you would believe.<\/span> \u00a0 Me too Sam!<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\nNow, I think that answers almost all the questions from the last 4 years.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\nActually I still have a few, but this was a wonderful article!<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\nSam<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nExcellent food for thought Sam!<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBlessings,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nthe pilgrim<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"