我對隨身相機完全沒有抗拒力

I'm a sucker for compact cameras.

不管是數碼相機還是膠片相機，隨身相機在我的器材庫中總有它們的一席之地。

我深愛著我最近兩個月每天塞口袋裏面的GR。但是我想也是時候在隨身家族裏加入新朋友了。

這臺Olympus XA是我的下一個收藏品。

雖然也不算是什麼稀有物，但是相信我應該會很珍惜它。我一直在找一個比我的Konica C35和Canon Canonet QL17 G-III更小的手動對焦隨身相機，而這臺XA正是我選擇的答案。

Olympus把35mm的小廣角鏡頭配合F2.8的光圈做到這麼小的機身裏面，實在很難得。據說這裡面的鏡片裏面還有一枚是螢石鏡片，不知道是不是真的。

ニコンとＧＲと共に、直感で撮る

ＧＲレンズは開放から独特の鮮鋭度があって、実に素晴らしいレンズです。

鮮鋭感ある写真を撮りたくて、クールに東京タワーの夜を撮ってみました。

万全を期すため、ニコンの一眼レフをＧＲと共に持って浜松町へ行きました。

Love for GR

It has been over 3 months since I bought the Ricoh GR and GR1S, and unlike most other cameras I have owned, it's really been a no-regret kind of relationship between me and the GR.

I don't think I need to elaborate more on the cameras themselves. They are the GR. What makes them special, I believe, are the innate simplicity and utilitarian design that's inherited all the way from film to the digial age.

The only gripe I have with the digital GR is not that it doesn't have a full-frame sensor, because I'm actually fine with it having an APS-C sized sensor if it means to limit the size and weight of the body. I find it funny, using my GR and GR1S alongside each other very often, that I can sometimes hit the OVF-less digital GR in my face because I thought I needed to look into the viewfinder like when I use the GR1S.

That's it. I have no other complaints.

「ＧＲを超えるものはＧＲしかない。」

夏 花火 北海道 *･゜ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･'(*ﾟ▽ﾟ*)'･*:.｡. .｡.:*･゜ﾟ･*

北陸旅行から帰りました。

*･゜ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･'(*ﾟ▽ﾟ*)'･*:.｡. .｡.:*･゜ﾟ･*

2年ぶりの旅に出て、昨日帰宅しました。以前は北海道へ行ったことがあるが、今回は初めて富良野と美瑛町へ行きました。美しい景色や場所を巡ってみました。

この夏は、去年より、幸せな思い出が心に残りましたね。

来年は関西へ行きたいです。ＵＳＪへ行きたいです　♪( ´▽｀)

北海道編

やっと、Xへ

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噂の5D Mark IVを待つ間に、夢の1D Xを購入しました。

第一印象はやっぱボディが重いこと。

さすがのフラッグシップ機。さすがの1Dシリーズ。

まだ公開していないが、5D Mark IVについて、予想の発売日は年末になるかもしれない。新時代の5Dシリーズに移行する前に、一度1D Xを試して欲しいと思ってカメラ屋で中古購入しました。

シャッター音は？5D Mark IIIの「パッ」、「パッ」、「パッ」じゃなくて、なんと、「カチン」、「カチン」って、これこそ一眼レフの真骨頂！

行って良かった

My First Canon "L" Prime

I don't usually buy into the "L" hype or the "G" crave that Canon and Nikon has to offer, especially nowadays that third party manufacturers like Sigma and Tamron have lenses that are up to the premium-level glass of the first party. I've purchased two of the holy trinities from Canon before, finding them great, albeit very expensive (and justifiably so). I never really needed these zooms but I bought them anyway just for safety in unexpected scenarios.

The Canon EF 135mm F2L is a different story, though.

I have been lusting over this lens for a long time now, and I think this is the right time to finally have it in my kit. This almost-20-years-old piece of glass is nothing short of sublime IMHO. Although it's a bit long in the tooth, I find it to have the best resolution in comparison to other 135mm lenses I have used. It's built like a tank (very worthy of being an "L" lens), and the performance is excellent considering it's only costing me 70,000 or so Yen. Contrast isn't the best at wide-open like the modern Sigma lenses, but I can easily correct this in Lightroom.

It's all personal opinion here, but I sometimes find the 85mm FOV a bit awkward in that I find myself gravitating to my 50mm lens most of the time for portraiture (I don't shoot headshots, BTW). It's just how I shoot. The 85mm just does not get enough work in my kit to justify its value, so I decided to finally make the jump from 85mm to 135mm to make an obvious difference in focal lengths, hoping that I'll actually make use of this short-telephoto lens in the future.

Right now I find the 135mm to be a refreshing focal length to use. Other than portraits, I can use this lens to shoot some trains and some landscapes where I might need some compression.

I'm eager to see how this will change my approach to shooting different things :D