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One of the first duties of winter has been to organize, straigten up and clear out my Darkroom (now gun room and storage), projection room, (now storage and music room) and my office!!! \u00a0Mostly it means getting rid of everthing I don’t use, need or want, and turst me, it has been many, many leaf bags of junk!<\/p>\n
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In the process I’ve organized and stored all my shooting gear for the winter. I started to shoot Fujifilm in 2012 so this winter is 6 years of shooting this system and I am starting to settle on my most used and still owned stuff!<\/p>\n
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BODIES:<\/span> <\/strong>\u00a0I currently am shooting a Fujifilm X-H1, X-T2, X-PRO 2<\/strong> <\/span>nad still have a treasured Graphite X-T1<\/span><\/strong>. \u00a0An X-T3<\/span><\/strong> is on order. \u00a0My light travel camera is a Fujifilm X30<\/span><\/strong> \u00a0* (used to shoot this photo) \u00a0I still have my first Fujifilm camera the X10!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n LENSES:<\/span> <\/strong>\u00a08mm Rokinon Fisheye, Fujifilm; 14mm f 2.8, 10-24 f 4, 16mm f 1.4, 23mm f 1.4 7 23mm f 2, 27mm, 35mm f 2, 50mm f 2, 18-55 f 2.8-4, 18-135 f 3.5-5.6, \u00a056mm f 1.2, 60mm Macro f 2.4, 55-200 f 3.5-4.5, 90mm f 2, 100-400 f 4.5-5.6, 1.4 Teleconverter, 2X Teleconverter, and a old classic Nikkor 200mm f 4, manual focus, micro lens.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n * You may notice that the 16-55 and 50-140 are missing. \u00a0I had both and sold them because of their size and weight, I use the 100-400 as my long lens and found that even though the 50-140 is an incredible lens I wouldn’t carry both of them, one always stayed home and that one was the 50-140. \u00a0I love the little 18-55 and prefer it for it’s size and it has IS, \u00a0(Image Stabilization).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n BATTERIES:<\/span> <\/strong>\u00a0I currently have over 30 various batteries for my Fujifilm cameras.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n FILTERS:<\/span> <\/strong>\u00a0Polarizers to fit every lens, close up diopters and some additional ND filters.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 5 Tripods:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0Yhough the only one I use on a regular basis is a \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0TVC-3 X, \u00a0Really Right Stuff with the BH55-LR ballhead.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n DJI MAVIC PRO DRONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n CAMERA BAGS & BACKPACKS:<\/strong><\/span> \u00a0This is embarrassing especially considering I’ve reduced the number by 75% !!! \u00a026 \u00a0That’s wretched excess!!!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Things I’m considering buying in 2019.: \u00a0\u00a0An X-T3 for sure, the new 16mm f 2.8. the new 16-80 f 4. \u00a0Maybe the 80mm macro f 2.8. \u00a0I loved the 200 f 2 but it’s out of my comfort range on price and probably too big for me to tavel with. \u00a0 Still thinking about the 8-14?????? \u00a0Pretty big and it will be a bear to filter.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So don’t know if that helps with any of your decisions, but that’s how it is for now! \u00a0Hope you had a great Thanksgiving, we all have a lot to be thankful for. \u00a0You may have heard that Wes has had a re-accurance of his lymphoma, but we caught it early and he is going back into chemo treatments tomorrow, your prayers pulled him through last time, I would covet them again for him and Rhonda and the family. \u00a0God has it and we are confident it will be another victory!!! \u00a0Thanks for your love and support!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Blessings,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n the pilgrim<\/p>\n <\/p>\n P.S. \u00a0 I was asked recently how we were holding up with this news on Wesley’s lymphoma. It’s simple, \u00a0faith is believeing we serve a God that loves us more than we can understand, that He sacrificed His only Son for us. \u00a0He has promised He will never allow anything to happen that is not for our ULTIMATE good, and He will be with us step by step through every trial. \u00a0I’ve experienced that in my own life and seen it in others I love, and I refuse to not beleive it now! \u00a0This life is only a boot camp for eternity! \u00a0The best we can hope for is that we graduate having learned what we need to learn, and be prepared to spend eternity with Him. \u00a0I rest everyday in that knowledge!!!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the first duties of winter has been to organize, straigten up and clear out my Darkroom (now gun room and storage), projection room, (now storage and music room) and my office!!! \u00a0Mostly it means getting rid of everthing I don’t use, need or want, and turst me, it has been many, many […]<\/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-20140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20140","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=20140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20145,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20140\/revisions\/20145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}