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Exactly this!
Its also why I HUGELY support the latest iPhone camera.
My Fuji sits on my monitor as a webcam with 23mm f/2.
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Not totally related, but I came across this webcam from Razer that essentially has a smartphone sensor in it, and the results look great when it's tweaked a bit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-MYtU_8AQo
It's £300, but for the price and convenience vs a mirrorless + capture card + dummy battery, it seems not that unreasonable.
exteroceptive
I have an FM2 which I never really use any more. Because it isn’t covered with buttons I can accidentally press and I’m not using it with long lenses, it’s basically fine but equally if I’m shooting manual wind film I’m not shooting enough for the boxy shape to give me claw hands.
This experience has made me realise how much of modern photography has become fly-by-wire - point a computer with a lens on it at something and the computer makes most of the the focus and exposure decisions for you, and then load it up in Lightroom and adjust the colours to fit whatever weird tonal fad is dominating instagram at the moment.
At the same time, that level of automation can be tempting when I am carrying a camera out with non-photographers who don’t want to be sucked into an impromptu photo walk. There’s not the time to consider every shot.
I think my solution is going to be to use the focus limiter function to effectively do zone autofocus - overcome Fuji’s relatively weak AF algorithm by massively limiting its choices, but get things a bit sharper than by zone focusing in manual (which works fine on my wider lenses but not so much with the normals where the plane of focus is a bit too shallow for me to judge it right consistently).
Equally, I’ve also realised I never use AF-C and maybe the Fuji AF would actually be fine for my needs if I started using that properly.