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Freedom with Klara and the X100VI.

Added 2025-02-18 08:30:01 +0000 UTC

Here is a second photo of Klara from our shooting on Sunday, and I will post 2 more photos today elsewhere, all made with the X100VI.

Working on the Fujifilm files in Lightroom Classic is going well, and I like the pictures, but this is telling me more about the capabilities of the doubly cropped sensor of the X100VI than about the medium format sensor in the GFX I'm planning to buy.

This small X100VI camera is really a great tool, with the autofocus and the image stabilization it is unbeatable.
I love the wider lens and the composition it is suggesting me (sometimes I can even afford to brake the square rule and venture in the forbidden areas of the frame because I know I will not find nasty surprises), and I love the colors and contrasts, so much so that I don't want to rise the shadows too much and, if the eyes are in the dark, I just leave them there, because the photo makes sense as it is.
I even like the forgiving and sometimes inaccurate focus of this small sensor, because it looks more like film.

But I know the bigger sister GFX is going to be a radically different experience, huge, heavy, slow in operating and intolerable towards manual focusing errors.
At the same time, I can imagine the rewards when everything clicks into place + the malleability of the 51 MP RAW files, and I'm prepared to put in the extra effort.

I guess tomorrow is going to be decision day...

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