I mentioned new cameras in the last post. What we got is the Fujifilm X100T. We’re still learning how to set it up and use it, but first impression is that it is exactly what we (or at least I) was looking for. Which is to say that we’ve now got a “walking around” camera. Our Canon 6D is great and is the camera that we’ll carry to places like the Teotihuacan Pyramids, or that we’ll grab when we’re shooting around the bus, but I’ve been wanting something different to take along when I’m just running up to the store, or when we’re going to be in a crowded market. In those situations the DSLR just isn’t suitable, so too often we don’t bring it along or we don’t pull it out. I think this camera will fill that hole.
We got the kids the Nikon S33. Their cameras last about a year before becoming more or less worthless. These look to be a pretty good option for them. Easy to operate, big buttons, waterproof, and solid pictures and video.
Mornings around Grandma’s house include climbing trees barefoot and in pajamas.
Minnesota Twins baseball in a new outdoor stadium on an eighty-five degree day—sweet. Really couldn’t ask for a better place than this to eat six-dollar hot dogs and drink ten-dollar beers.
Shortly after we were married, Ali and I lived right down in the neighborhood that now houses the new stadium here in Minneapolis—the warehouse district. This was home right before our ill-fated attempt at suburban home ownership (that lasted nine months). I’ve always lamented the fact that we lived here—surrounded by good restaurants and bars—when we were too broke to go out and enjoy any of it.
Happy to see that SEXWORLD has survived the gentrification process.
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I think as a result of documenting everyday things around the world, you now have an eye for the same thing back home. Who would ever think to take a picture of the hot dog guy or the beer guy? But it’s very much a part of the culture here, just as the torta guy on the street is in Mexico. It tells a story.
Bravo to your incredibly expanded photojournalism skills! So cool to bring the Bum perspective to something so familiar.
Enjoy the road ahead, and as always can’t wait to follow along, especially while recuperating! 🙂
Thanks, Mark. To me the beer guy and the hot dog guy ARE the baseball game—they are the reason I go to games. I don’t know any of the players names. Anyway, hope you’re better soon. Enjoy coming along with us on the road trip soon.
Pat. I just love the new Fujifilm camera. Its so retro “Bum” looking. It suits my mental images of you lot right down to a T. I used to have a film one that looked exactly the same from front and top.
Yeah, they nailed it with the look. And when you pull it out in a crowd it just looks so familiar and “pedestrian” that people tend to ignore it a lot easier than they do a DSLR. Hopefully it’ll serve us well.
Enjoy the X100T – we has the X100 (and then the X100S) but changed for a Sony RX1 and now again for the Leica (when they eventually actually arrived in the southern hemisphere – cameras are our geek weakness). I know the focus speed on the ‘T’ is much improved, and the colours on those cameras are just lovely – perfect Fujifilm tone and contrast. Some of our big wall prints were from travels with the X100S.
I might look into the Nikons for kids – my little lady is using my old LX3 and as you said .. after a year in kids hands .. its not in such great shape!
My first camera was a Minolta 101 film camera – love the retro look on that Fuji! Sadly, the best camera we can afford right now is a basic Nikon DSLR with kit lens in the mid-$300s. But I have loved getting back into photography since we bought it.