March 24th, 2014 … Fuji X-Pro1 … Tales From The Streets

I am at the point of no return. Well, of course there is always an escape clause but I choose to commit to the path that lay ahead and not deter from it. I go with open Eye, Heart and Mind and seek the images that reflect all three and my INTENT. What I’m talking about is the work that lay in front of me and being focused to follow the path. I plan on Andre’ the XP1 and the 23mm that acts like a 35mm to be the friends that walk hand in hand for the long haul.

So the photos I find and make and the stories that come about will be posted on this blog as a record of what I’m doing and how the camera and lens are working on a daily basis. I’m going into serious photography mode and my image rate will drop considerably. For the time being, it’s nice just to shoot and see how things are working.

03-14-0431-EditWhat interest me here was that this girl is against the wall, in more ways than one, and her parents are making pictures like for a fashion shoot. Maybe they want the memory of their daughter as they try to remember what they lost in the past. I’m not sure but I like to thinks about things like this after I make the photo. Sometimes, even before I make the photo. Maybe mom and dad’s little girl will grow up to be a famous model or a movie star. Maybe she’ll grow up to be a waitress in a diner or just maybe gat married and have 3 kids that she wants’s to be models and movie stars. I hope that regardless of what life throws at them, they can maintain LOVE for each other and just except each other for who they are.

I know one thing. They will have no recollection of me making a photo of them.

03-14-0437-EditI’m getting very used to the frame line parallax of the XP1. It doesn’t work the way my Leica’s do but then again I don’t need it to. The accuracy that I need from the camera is the accuracy I find the camera gives me.

I had a conversation with Andre’ the XP1. Of course this was right before I went to the VA Hospital. Anyway, Andre’ explained the XP1 law of OVF Physics. See, it works like this. If you look thru the OVE and see the frame lines move, that’s great but….remember that the frame lines always move the same way with the same lens attached ate any given focus distance.

So, there exist Parallax but there is 2 types of Parallax to deal with. First is the Parallax between the framelines and the lens. This means that you actually have a constant as a point of reference to work with. The framelines will move but never be exact as the lens sees. This is the single most important point tolook at between the Rangefinder vs the SLR cameras.

We all know this and those that decide to work either way, don’t miss the other system. Easy nuff! Now comes the second type of Parallax. This type is placing the blame on the shooter because the camera does things as a constant so the shooter must learn how to interact with the frameline Parallax. Luckily enough Fuji has made the learning chore much easier because they put the EVF in the camera also. So one could just flip the lever and see the difference between both finders and eventually learn to see what the camera is seeing, with more accuracy.

03-14-0468-Edit-EditI put this part of the post up because a few have asked why I use the XP1 over any other camera. For me it’s about the process that I wrote about the other day. The XP1 is the kind of camera that works with you regardless of the situation. It will get the image if you know what and how to do your end. That’s a big reason why I named the camera Andre’. See, Kertesz was not loved by many rich and famous types for decades. Even later, he was never as famous or loved as he wanted to be or DESERVED to be.

What’s most interesting is that most famous photographers are known for the 1930’s and later work. Andre’ made DROP DEAD KILLER IMAGES at the turn of the last century. 30 years or so before that famous French fella. So I named my XP1 after Andre’ because it’s my way of paying respect for the ART that he passed on to us all.

I’m getting off or maybe not……. More stuff coming and it’s always about my XP1 that’s named Andre; and sometimes from my unnamed Fuji X20.

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