Diogenes club5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() In fact, I’m arguably better off without it, because it’s one less choice to make when I’m out taking pictures. But in practice, I can get by without it. The hybrid viewfinder is a marvel of technology I still remember trying it for the first time in a London camera store, ten years ago, and it blew my mind. I can make do with one card slot, and I rarely shoot in rain or snow. The X-Pro3 boasts weather-sealing, dual card slot and a hybrid optical/digital viewfinder, all of which are missing in the X-E4.īut for my money, the X-E4 was a better choice. Let’s compare it with the Fujifilm X-Pro3 – another interchangeable-lens, rangefinder-style camera, and the latest of its line. As such, they lack various other features found on higher-end cameras. Of the bodies with the famous Fuji X-Trans sensor, the X-E models are typically the cheapest. The rangefinder-style cameras have a flat top, and the finder (as seen from behind) is offset to the left. The SLR-style cameras have a “hump,” and a centrally-positioned electronic viewfinder (EVF). X-E4, X-Pro3 and the fixed-lens X-100 series). If you want to get to grips with it all, this 2018 F-Stoppers article is still the best overview I’ve come across (it’s outdated, so you’ll need to supplement it with some independent research on the models which have been released or discontinued since then).įor present purposes, suffice to say that Fujifilm’s X-series cameras fall into two main camps: SLR-style (e.g. There is an almost overwhelming array of X-series cameras. When it comes to models and series, Fuji haven’t exactly embraced the less-is-more philosophy. “Well, less is more, Lucrezia: I am judged,” says the protagonist of Robert Browning’s 1855 poem, Andrea del Sarto.įast-forward to 2021, and Fujifilm launched the X-E4 with the tagline “Make more with less.” Is that marketing guff, or do they really mean it? Less of what? And can we really do more with it? To answer these questions, first we need to understand what the X-E series is all about. It sounds so catchy and contemporary – an Instagram caption par excellence. “Less is more” is the mantra of minimalists everywhere, practically a definition. ![]() All I’m saying is that this is not necessarily a conventional review.Ī paradox – a statement which seems contradictory but expresses a possible truth – lies at the very heart of minimalism. You might even learn a bit about the Fujifilm X-E4 along the way. And since this is a website about photography, not philosophy or aesthetics, I’ll link those ideas back to cameras. Instead, I’d like to reflect on minimalism and its paradoxes, using the Fujifilm X-E4 as a jumping-off point. Nor is it a proper camera review ( we already did that, too). This article, however, is not about the much-debated topic of DSLR versus mirrorless ( a debate which we’ve weighed in upon here). ![]() I’ve used a Nikon DSLR for the last ten years, but in December last year, I bought a Fujifilm X-E4 – a mirrorless digital camera with interchangeable lenses and an APS-C sensor. How many things I can do without! Indeed, how many things I’d be better off without! ![]() A third-century AD book about the lives of philosophers contains this anecdote about Socrates: “And often when he beheld the multitude of wares exposed for sale, he would say to himself, ‘How many things I can do without!’”Ĭlearly I’m no Socrates, but contemplating the many buttons, dials and sub-menus on digital cameras, I often feel the way he felt. ![]()
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