{"id":300,"date":"2025-08-07T14:51:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T14:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guchiviews.nl\/?page_id=300"},"modified":"2025-09-04T08:57:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T08:57:19","slug":"gear","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/guchiviews.nl\/?page_id=300","title":{"rendered":"Gear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I\u00a0 mentioned on my <a href=\"https:\/\/guchiviews.nl\/?page_id=25\">Photography-page<\/a>, I&#8217;ve used loads of cameras and systems. It&#8217;s a hobby and part of the fun is trying out stuff. But in time I grew fond of the Fujifilm concept. Both the X-Pro series and the X-T series have a great hand-on feel and give the feeling of actual control through buttons and dials and not to much of a &#8216;digital&#8217; or clinical feeling. And in fact I (oddly) still have every camera I bought in this Fujifilm-set. Here is my current setup.<\/p>\n<p>APS-C Interchangeable lens cameras<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>X-T4: My main workhorse, I love it! Feels like it&#8217;s built like a tank. The flippy screen also rotates inwards to avoid chimping (the constant checking of the photos you just took).<\/li>\n<li>X-Pro1: Still a good backup camera. The &#8216;Leica-like&#8217; experience of a rangefinder (although it&#8217;s mostly only for the OVF\/EVF viewfinder style) lured me away from my Canon setup and I really like it still. The slower handling of the camera also is a good exercise in composition and taking your time.<\/li>\n<li>X-Pro2: I really loved this camera. It still works, but I used it so much and intensively during my time a s concert photographer that it&#8217;s not as reliable anymore. Also build quality feels less than the X-Pro1. The shooting experience with an X-Pro camera is still great, but not always practical and the direction that Fujifilm is going with the X-Pro line was not in line with my photography style, so I made the switch to the X-T4.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fixed lens cameras<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>X100: Still a good working camera, the OG of the Fujifilm line. Button layout not the best, autofocus has much improved since, but it works every time<\/li>\n<li>X100F: Better button layout and autofocus than the X100, but has problems with EVF. It&#8217;s a camera I often have in ma bag with me just in case, even if now I have to use the rear screen more than I like.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lensen for all and any of the interchangeable lens cameras:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fujinon XF 16mm f\/1.4 Great lens for a wide view and with a very small minimum focus distance does great work as a sort of macro-lens too.<\/li>\n<li>Fujinon XF 18mm f\/2.0 A fantastic basic lens. So small and light there&#8217;s always room in a bag for it and performs great for general photography.<\/li>\n<li>Fujinon xf 35mm f\/1.4 My very first lens I bought back in the day with the X-pro1 and it will never go away. It&#8217;s survived trips, vacations, concert photography and just about anything I threw at it and it works like a charm (even though it&#8217;s been handled rough as well).<\/li>\n<li>Fujinon XF 56mm f\/1.2 A super good lens in low light (which made it terrific at concerts). Now used a bit less, but still good to have around.<\/li>\n<li>Fujinon XF 90mm f\/2.0 Much like the 56mm this too is great at low light and that also makes it good as a (mini) tele-lens in the evenings.<\/li>\n<li>Fujinon XF 18-55mm f\/2.8-4 My basic all purpose lens, great for travel to have all basics covered except of longer distances. I sold it once and soon came to regret it. When I got the X-T4 in 2024, I also bought a news 18-55. With its metal housing it&#8217;s just a fantastic lens!<\/li>\n<li>Fujinon XF 70-300mm f\/4-5.6 My newest addition, looking forward to putting it to work.<\/li>\n<li>Samyang 12mm f\/2 NCS CS, a manual focus lens that I mainly bought for astro-photography.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bags. As with so meny other photographers I strugle with bags. Too small not everything fits. Too big and you&#8217;re likely to bring absolutely everything you have available and carry around a ton of weight. The best advice I&#8217;ve taken recently is to have the camera on my while walking around and have a small slingbag for one or two extra lenses. That takes care of the hiking part and with a good insert for my backpack I can pack most of my gear for travel in a normal backpack.<\/p>\n<p>Camera bags:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ona The Bowery &#8211; Small shoulderbag for a hike<\/li>\n<li>Bellroy Venture 6L Sling &#8211; Small slingbag for a camera and an extra lens<\/li>\n<li>Lowepro backpack &#8211; Backpack that carries the full gear<\/li>\n<li>Billingham Hadley Pro &#8211; Shoulderbag that fits mostly the full gear<\/li>\n<li>Brandless padded insert, fits into backpacks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tripods:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Smallrig VT-20 Aluminum Mini tripod, perfect for travel as it&#8217;s light and small<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Computer<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For editing I have a Mac Mini with a M2 processor<\/li>\n<li>I use Adobe Lightroom and occasionally Photoshop for editing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Future desires:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Slightly larger sling bag<\/li>\n<li>Maybe some studio lights?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I\u00a0 mentioned on my Photography-page, I&#8217;ve used loads of cameras and systems. It&#8217;s a hobby and part of the fun is trying out stuff. But in time I grew fond of the Fujifilm concept. Both the X-Pro series and the X-T series have a great hand-on feel and give the feeling of actual control [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-300","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guchiviews.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guchiviews.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guchiviews.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guchiviews.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guchiviews.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/guchiviews.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/guchiviews.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/300\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guchiviews.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}