The mysterious camera

I got back some money I had lent many years ago.
I knew I was going to get it back, so I never tried to accelerate the process, but I had no idea when that was going to happen.
It was finally given back to me last week, with no interests or anything else, but that’s all right, because it was never supposed to be a speculation.
At long last, I had this surplus of money coming from out of the blue, which is a situation that has happened very few times in my life, usually when I was changing jobs and got the severance package from the previous employer.
Every time this has happened, I used to celebrate buying a special camera, something I would never be able to afford or justify in regular conditions, but made sense in that particular moment, whilst the rest of the money was set apart for the obscure future.
With the money I got back now, I decided to do the same thing, after all, it was my money in the first place!

Fortunately I have a wife that is totally independent economically, and not only she approved my choice, but she pushed me to buy this camera because it represents the ultimate example of photographic snobbery, a middle finger in the face of common sense, a camera I have been talking to her about since the launch of the first model in 2012.

On Saturday I finally picked up this camera in a shop near Milan, used, the third generation of this camera (they are currently selling the fourth).
For the moment I will keep a secret about the name or brand of this camera, but I am going to use ti for Maria and Barbara in the upcoming August shootings, so you will know more about it soon enough…
Not sure if this purchase is going to be a good or bad news for you, I guess few will appreciate this change, but it is going to be a huge challenge for me and I’m sure it is going to improve my photography in subtle ways.

I wanted 2025 to be remembered as the Fujifilm and medium format year, and here comes another huge milestone in the project that is going to share the stage with the GFX camera.
What really matters is that my commitment to photography is still so great that even now that I could rely entirely on the contributions of my subscribers to fund the new gear, in special occasions I still use my own personal money to but some unique piece of kit only for pure passion, because I can’t help it, and because if you stop experimenting and being curious in photography, you’re stuck in your habits.
You can call these habits “stylistic signature” if you want, and it is reassuring for your audience to always know what to expect, but I prefer to challenge myself constantly, because my project is about an artistic research, not a commercial endeavor, so I refuse to rest on my laurels, and I always want to explore new ways to record the beauty of the best nude models available on the international scene.

Martina is a clear example of this effort, here in September 2019, at the swinger club, shot blindly in a pitch dark room on Nikon D810 with Flash bouncing from the walls, a traditional DSLR that has nothing mysterious about it, it just gets the job done!
2 more pictures from this sequence elsewhere today.

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