A Trip That Proved My Point, Exactly! – Part 2
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This continues an earlier post where I recounted how well my Fuji X-T2 served me in my diverse photographic pursuits. Those being, landscape and street photography. Most recently, the X-T2 worked out quite well for me in Iceland where the environment there put its weather-sealing to the test…it passed with flying colors. But now we move on to the Continent, where my Fuji and I had to switch gears from wildness to artifice, from garden to city. As you may suspect, with this migration comes a ton of changes in the settings. To name a few: from low ISO to Auto, from stopping down to opening wide, and often, from auto focus to manual. Luckily these changes were not overlooked often, but they escaped my attention once, early in the first city, but it was minor and smooth sailing from there. And so let us turn our attention from the large volcanic island, to the polished and cultured cities of Europe.
Mainland Europe
The rest of the trip consisted of seven cities in France, Italy, and Switzerland. I know…so lucky! As mentioned here’s where I kicked into street mode. The primes came out, even the barely used 16mm, along with my sweet leather messenger camera bag, and some cigars. Locked and loaded! I think it worth mentioning a few aspects of my settings and how the Fuji X-T2 served me so well. There are several main kinds of street shooting that I do and when I’m in a thick crowd, shoulder to shoulder, the shutter has got to be blazing fast. This is because when people are so close, they cross the field of vision so quickly. So I had three Auto-ISO settings that I alternated between, all having a max ISO of 6400 and default ISO of 200:
- Min shutter = 1/60th
- Min shutter = 1/250th
- Min shutter = 1/500th
Catch that? 6400 baby…now that’s cookin’! That coupled with an f/1.4 lens and you have some serious low light love going.
The City of Lights. Paris was good to us, and yet it was at a breakneck pace. Fortunately we had been before, so it was not so much about seeing sites, but rather enjoying people watching and eating around the Latin Quarter…and there was lots of both! About as much as one can squeeze in to two days.
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