Scenes Seen & A Lot Of Camera Gear Rambling: Fujifilm X100VI.

Subtitle: This is all nonsense.

I may have made sense of something that makes no sense.

My “main kit” is Sony. As laid out in recent posts, this was proved out. Had a headshot session for a successful local businessman last Saturday.

Code for, I need this shot. Sony all day.

I trust Sony. Yes. The person behind the camera matters most. But Sony is the most reliable camera system I have ever used.

Sony A7RV: My last A7III post.

It simply never misses. Add to that flexible, reliable lenses like the Tamron 35-150mm f/2-2.8…

Lens Review: Tamron 35-150mm f/2-2.8 Di III VXD

…and lighting by newbie overachiever Neewer,…

New Strobe, Who Is This?: Neewer Q4.

…and you have a rock-solid system that delivers every time with no muss and no fuss. But…

It does lack something.

Soul.

An early opinion of Sony remains…

An image-capturing computer in the rough shape of a camera.

So you know, this is not a ding.

Different tools for a different task. I will try to use my car situation to explain.

My everyday driver is a Honda Accord.

Waaaaay more fun to drive than the wonderful-looking but understeering when pushed gold/champagne colored ’90 Accord that I was relieved of by ne’er-do-wells when picking up my then girlfriend and now wife on an early date in The Bronx. I would even call it fun to drive. Much more so than the V6 Passat it replaced. On par with a MAZDA6 which is high praise, especially compared to the :please do not push me beyond 7/10 Accord mentioned above.

Very Sony.

Meets my Mom’s car shopping requirements.
- “Can I put gas in it, turn the key, and it reliably takes me where I want to go and back.”
No muss. No fuss. Just gets it done.
Loyalty driven by consistency, not passion.

But… My other driver is my dearly departed Dad’s truck.

He left it to me. I like the Honda. I love this truck. It is the most Dad vehicle ever. No ostentatious, but handsome. Classic.

And it is the vehicle that I enjoy owning for less “logical” reasoning.

Of course, because it is y Dad’s truck.
- Just sitting in it takes me back to the many days my Father and I hung out.
Takes me back.
- A big stonking V8 out front putting power to the wheels out back, just like all of the land yachts and trucks my parents owned in my youth.
No techno frippery.
- No backup camera like the much more petite Accord.
  - Dad chose to drive a tractor and trailer to fund his life, so he did not spec a backup camera.
  - Me? Not having such experience driving a house with a storage shed grafted onto the back proved daunting, so a backup camera was the one and only upgrade added when the original head unit packed it in.
- No hybrid or stop/start nonsense.
- No distance based cruise.
- No lane departure or other warnings.
Handing and ride one could call comical.
- Ideal? No.
- Oddly comforting? Yes.

Experience over consistency.

Fujifilm. All day.

Medium format film Fujifilm.
GFX Fujifilm.
X100 Fujifilm.
x Half Fujifilm.
But not X mount Fujifilm.

That last bullet is the part I only recently figured out.

When I started gathering varying Fujifilm gear, I had thought the “logical” thing to do was to move from the Sony FE interchangeable lens system to the Fujifilm X interchangeable lens system.

Considered it. But never came close to pulling the trigger.

Why?

I am glad I imagined that you asked.

Sidebar: Fujifilm X adherents do not come for my neck. I come in peace. It is a great system. What lies ahead is personal preference, not anything remotely resembling questioning others’ personal preferences. You do you.

Easy.