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IMAGE Chang chief, Nagaland, India. X-T3 with XF55-200mm f/3.5-4.8 R LM OIS at 135mm. Exposure 1/480sec at f/3.6, ISO 640
I CALL MYSELF a people and street photographer who enjoys travel, and when I am out photographing, this can mean that I end up carrying a camera and lenses around all day. I’ve been a Nikon owner for many years, but what got me thinking about moving away from that system was a trip to Ladakh in northern India, between and felt restricted just having a fixed 23mm f/2 lens. A year or so later I traded in the X100F for an X-Pro2. I liked the retro look of all the Fujifilm cameras, and the X-Pro2 is a bit like Leica M rangefinders, so after I tried it out, I thought it would work for me. I bought the X-Pro2, XF18-55mm f/2.8-4 R LM OIS standard zoom Make the Switch People, street and travel are Brian Houghton’s main photograph c interests. He made the big decision to change fromhis much-loved Nikon DSLR outfit to a FujifilmX Series mirrorless kit – and he’s very happy with the outcome ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE BRIANHOUGHTONARPS Pakistan and China and next to Kashmir. I took my Nikon D850 with some lenses that included the 24-70mm f/2.8 and 70-200mm f/2.8. You fly in and its 3500m above sea level and it’s hard to breathe. You get to 4500m and lugging that stuff around is really tough. Back home, my journey across to Fujifilm started when I bought a Fujifilm X100F compact, which I bought just so I could have a camera that I could put into my pocket, use for street work and use to take more photographs. I took it places where I wouldn’t have taken my Nikon with just a 35mm lens. Bit by bit, I realised how very good the resolution was with the X100F, but I wanted more flexibility Street, people and travel photographer & external competition secretary of Godalming Photographic Club
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