It’s been a crazy few months here with a major project or two coming together so this weekend I’m off to a festival here in NZ as a little treat. I guess after settling back into the groove on my return I should talk about my new camera. 🙂
Did I just take a bag of random cameras to Burning Man 2012? Looking back at the images, from loads of different bodies, it seems so! Here’s one from the Olympus TG-1!
And this time a rare Pentax shot!
A rare Olympus E-PL1 shot for the blog from a dust storm at Burning Man 2012.
For those who haven’t picked up on the recent theme, I’m rounding up my camera journey across the last couple of decades before talking about what I’ve just purchased as my new main imaging device. Here’s another random one from along the way, something I had kicking about in my bag over a number of trips. The super compact, RX-100 series. I think I had two of them, the Mark 3 and the Mark 4. Fun little devices for when you can’t get your big camera into a situation, or don’t want to…
In the latest post about my journey through different camera bodies I mentioned yesterday that I buy my own kit, which has the benefit I don’t need to be concerned about the wants and needs (or restrictions) of brands. I do however sometime borrow some kit to try out and see if it suits me. One such occasion was with the Fuji X-T2 and it didn’t quite go as smoothly as I’d hoped… or more to the point as smoothly as Fuji might have wanted. I’d been out to Burning Man with the X-Pro2 the year before and it was good, and I wanted to see a little more from the range so decided in 2017 to try the X-T2 and take it to Burning Man as well. I felt I was pretty clear about the stress it would be under and the environment out there… but it would be fair to say that Fuji were not exactly enamoured with the dusty condition it returned in. On the plus side, the images were great, and it handled the extremes really well from a reliability point of view!
(Side note, not the worst camera mishap I’ve had… that probably goes to a Hasselblad. More about that in a few days!)
I’ve long said that I’ll always lean towards the tool that gets the job done in the way I want. I don’t get camera bodies from the various manufacturers, at least not to keep, and buy what I use. So along the way I’ve tested out a few things like the X-Pro2 which went to Burning Man with me in 2016.
The D70… that was a fun time and a significant milestone on the journey!
Next up in my camera reminiscing, the totally awesome D800. This is probably just about where DSLRs hit their peak in my opinion and just before the Sony would shake things up. Also, this is a rare shot of Cleveland for me. I think I’ve only ever published 2! I should go back and grab some more sometime. (This one was taken on a D800 i had borrowed to try, before buying.)
