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I must confess I do more walking than cycling lately and I mostly want them to take some pictures in nature and document the life of my little one before she gets too old. What would you recommend?
I had a Fuji during my degree (ages ago but similar to the X100 in size and features, not image quality though) and I honestly loved it. It was an absolute tank too… My problem with phones is photos just sit there. So I thought a camera might force me to actually get back to having more of a process, maybe I am just getting old and sentimental 😪
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I still enjoy my Ricoh GR 2, very pocketable.
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There's a few things I really like about the Fuji-
- It's got a leaf shutter so will flash synch at high shutter speeds
- It has a line level in the viewfinder which is really useful
- The optical viewfinder is wider than the image frame which is useful for anything moving
- The normal controls are all marked knobs or dials on the camera rather than being jog wheels (it's got those if you want to use them)
- Manual focus (the distance markers are terrible though and it doesn't stop at infinity which isn't very useful for night photography or anywhere that the it might be too dark for the AF - I reassured this with Fuji and they said it was standard on that model)
- Probably worth mentioning that they do a fixed price repair for ~£150, where they will fix any issue you make them aware of. Say if your lens and screen are totally broken and it's not turning on...
- It's got a leaf shutter so will flash synch at high shutter speeds
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If you want a viewfinder - Fuji x100v (although I'd hang on as the new version is on the horizon) if you don't get the Ricoh.
IMO the Fuji isn't the most robust of cameras, I've had mine repaired a few times. Ricoh is definitely the one to take cycling.