Digital photography

This is great.

Vauxhall bus station this morning. The curb and the shadows were almost the same angle as the roof. Doesnt quite stand out as much as I imagined though.

^ very TWA

Thames, yesterday

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I like this.

Pop Up Bikes, Manchester.

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Wonky.

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TWA?

I should have said Eero Saarinen.

Cheers.
You see I want to stop taking pictures of these things, alas I can't.

They do seem to cry-out to be photographed though.

have you seen the excellent celebrities that look like mattresses in walthamstow?

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.318718888189184.73745.186803391380735&type=3

Oh I get you now. The TWA terminal is a few order of magnitudes nicer than Vauxhall bus station though!

Hahaha!
Very nice, thanks..
:'-)

I popped into John Lewis on my lunch break to examine the Sony RX100 IV with, frankly, the expectation that I was validating a decision to purchase it.

However, I also took the opportunity to take a good look at the Fujifilm X100t, which was conveniently right next to the RX100.

Some may recall that I set out my use case a few pages back – I wanted something small that I could take on trips to interesting places which would give me a better picture than my iPhone, and on the face of it the RX100 would do exactly that.

Having compared the RX100 with the X100 I have to say that the one that I want is the larger, heavier, arguably less flexible Fujifilm unit.

The RX100 is VERY slippery, and whilst it’s very small that means that the viewfinder and the flash both pop up and out of the body – I’m not confident that they’ll continue to pop out of the body in such a happy fashion in –say– five years.

The X100 is significantly larger, but that heft, and the textured surface of the body combine to make me much more confident that I can actually hold onto the thing, and the flash and viewfinder are both within the body.

I also preferred the greater number of physical controls that the Fuji had (all of which I am sure are duplicated within a menu somewhere on the Sony).

So, hive-mind, do I go for the high-tech, aluminum bar of soap that is the Sony, or the larger more agricultural Fuji?

Just to throw a spanner in the works, have you looked at the Sony A6000? It has issues, but it is cheap and the three Sigma prime lenses for it are excellent value.

It's entirely up to you, the RX100 does the jobs amazing well, enough for me to leave my X100 at home.

But having said that, I actually concur with your reasoning for getting the X100, once you get used to it, it felt like a proper camera to use, just shooting through the viewfinder and adjusting the apertures (with automatic shutter) felt right at home, althought that's mainly because I grew up with old SLR with similar setting.

RX100 is slippery, actually managed to drop it badly because my hand was so dry.

What I can tell you is whichever you decided, you won't be disappointed, just to be clear; the X100t does not do zoom, for me I liked that but for some they might want a proper zoom build in.

BTW, I've send you a message regarding the Rioch GRD.

X100 any day of the week. I use the OG X100 daily. It's super easy to carry around and when on holiday, you barely notice it slung over a shoulder all day. Viewfinder is great, images are great, controls are amaze.

Also, being able to shoot at f2 with flash and ND filter in mid-day sun is cool but its all about quality of the images. The jpegs are basically perfect.

The Sony is fantastic but the Fuji is quite frankly in another league.

As for grip, you can actually buy an extra grip for the RX100 to provide a better purchase on;

Sony's own is fine, someone else does custom grip too;

http://www.kleptography.com/rf/

And while looking for the grip above, I stumble upon this, which the owner made it look a thousand time better (and more rangefinderly) with blacken out logos too;

I use the OG X100 daily.

Ditto.

I occasionally wondered about getting an all-black X100t, but when using my OG X100, I no longer want another camera.

I'm a Fujifilm wanker convert and happy. Use the Xpro series (if anyone is bothered, short review of the xpro2 is...meh) and frikking love the system, but that's maybe because I'm an old fart in the camera world and started shooting when film was still the norm, so the less gadgetry a thing is, the more it appeals to me.
I don't give a shit about facial or nipple recognition, just let me take the shot I want.
If I didn't get the xpro and the 18mm. I'd have gone for the x100t hands down.

On another note, would anyone be interested in a wine soaked Fujinon 35mm 1.4 for cheapz? massive caveat is that it's had liquid damage to it. I've cleaned it with distilled water, but frankly, this fucker is sealed tight. Still takes pictures awesome.

Ok then

so well done isn't it? I need a project like that.