After two years, my GF1 camera looks like it has been pulled backwards through a hedge of barbed wire and then given to teething children as a comforter. Please forget I just told you this because I may wish to sell it later in the year, at which point it will be advertised as being in “pristine condition with minor blemishes”.
The new toy is the Fuji X100 and, however it may function as a photographic device (it continues to delight and frustrate me in equal measure), it is undoubtedly a thing of beauty; and I have decided I want to keep it looking that way. And so:
When you first unpack the camera, the front of the lens just sits there like a jaunty, masochistic teenager, aching for a fight and pleading to be scratched. A filter and/or a lens hood is urgently required. This is a bit of a problem because Fuji do not supply a hood with the camera, nor is the any way of fitting a filter to the camera as supplied. The solution is to hand over an eye-watering amount of cash for the “Fuji filter adapter and lens hood kit” (a.k.a. “The things that should have been included with the camera but weren’t, so we could make more money out of you” kit); an amount that increases to kick you in the balls eye watering level as the kit is in short supply and dealers have ramped up the price.
To protect the body, you need a case. The Fuji case is expensive and cleverly designed not to work if you have foolishly purchased their filter adapter and lens hood kit; smart design there by Fuji. There is a man in Italy who will sell you a case made out of a whole cow, for the price of a small herd of cows; so that was out. Instead I went with a case from a man in China. It smells like something that is almost, but not exactly, leather and doesn’t fit very well, but at least the Fuji is now protected from scuffing.
And the red thing on top of the shutter? That’s called a soft release and is designed to look fucking cool make the shutter action smoother.
She who must be obeyed suggests what it needs next is a Little Kitty badge on the front. I would have preferred that to have been sarcasm rather than a serious suggestion.
Comments 🔗
2011-06-12| Ray saysAll it needs now is THE red dot
2011-06-12| Spike saysAlternatively, shred $10,000 in $100 notes and scatter the bits over the ocean.
2011-06-13| Dave saysThere’s an app for that (for android anyway, dont know about that icrap stuff)…
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.moonbeam.android.button&feature=search_result