I love my Fujifilm X-E1. But does it provide a good shooting experience 10 years after its release? Watch this quite frankly award winning video to find out. What do you mean I can't say award winning...
Have two of them! Been with me for ten years, mainly for street and landscape. Put a ttartisan 25mm f2 on one and it fits in my coat pocket. Used right, the results will blow you away! For anything that moves faster than me I haul out the X-T4.
Yes, this proves it's how you use your equipment (innuendo intended) that matters, not the camera itself. A great set of images Nick and that long exposure shot on the beach is a cracker.
My first Fujifilm X was an X-E2. It got less and less use as I acquired newer models. I then sent my X-E2 in to be converted to infrared. Now I have a camera that does best at the middle of the day, when the sun is bright and the foliage is out. I only use the 23mm f2, and it sounds and feels like pure joy.
thanks jay :-) I've got an IR filter that I play with from time to time. but I find the post processing to be a chore. maybe one day I'll go for the full on conversion.
I periodically return to my X-E1 with the original XF35mm f1.4 and the XF18mm f/2 pancake for those analog-like imagery. Great for hiking and street. I got my kit back in 2012 and since have acquired more advanced cameras over the years but something about my X-E1, X-E2S and X100T that are magical. Maybe it's the 16MP renderings with the right optic but they make, and have been my wilderness hiking trek companions and street kits for a decade now. As long as you can keep the ISO relatively low you'll have images that can compete with today's sensors... unless you want that grainy look which looks great out of these sensors.
As always it's good to see you and Dexter. I like the video, it's very useful and it makes me think about how we (or just me) are always on the lookout for the new gear that's going to be released, as if that is going to make my photography better. The photos that you just shared are great, regardless of how old the camera is, or how many megapixels on the sensor, I just enjoy the photographs. Questions: can you still get batteries for it, did you have to get a charger, can you charge in camera and how many shots (roughly) can you get out of a fully charged battery (I know that you limit yourself to 24). Regardless of how much I try I just can't keep my comments very short, it must be my big mouth. Be well, stay safe and I'm looking forward to Saturday's video.
One great thing about the Fuji X cameras is that most of them (before the X-T4) use the same battery so new ones are plentiful. According to the X-E1 manual a battery should give you about 350 shots per charge, probably more if you're using manual lenses. I certainly have no problems with mine.
@@kevinparkes417 Thank you for the prompt reply, I'm considering getting this camera as soon as I can get the XF27 f/2.8 R WR (currently out of stock in US), I don't always need (or want) to carry the X-T4.
thanks Enrique :-) I see Kevin has beat me to an answer. Instead of the Fuji 27, why not give a cheap 25mm lens a go. the 7artisans one I got is really rather fun.
@@duringthemeanwhilst I thought so. Have a D200 myself with the same purpose. Shutterblades failed so I removed the whole shutter mechanism. Weird thing is that the camera still works and produces images between certain shutterspeeds. Somehow the D200 has a electronic shutter or something😄
