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The Best Camera Is The One You Have With You
Unless You Forget The Other One In Your Back Pocket
I made this image a couple of days ago in the courtyard, at the Alvarez-Bravo Center. I used my Fujifilm X-Pro2 camera, Joni, with a T.T. Artisan manual 50mm lens, wide open at f1.2.
This combination is great for the photographs I love to make. I also made a number of photos of the courtyard that day. To tell the truth, this lens was too long for those shots. I could not get back far enough to include the whole scenes I would have preferred.
I really wished I had mounted the 35mm lens that morning before I left home. At that time I didn’t know I would need it. The visit to the Alvarez-Bravo Center was a spontaneous decision, as I was walking towards home.
It also never occurred to me at the time, that I could have used the iPhone in my back pocket to get the shots I would have preferred. I felt pretty silly when I thought about it at home later.
For the six years before I bought the X-Pro2, the camera in the iPhone was the only camera I owned. I used it for everything. I made thousands of pictures with it as I traveled half the world. I made landscapes, portraits, still life close ups, and a lot of self portraits with it. It never let me down. And it was an older model, the 6S!
