Fujifilm X100VI, Rome-Tokyo round trip
A reportage in... random order
On the occasion of the presentation of the Fujifilm X100VI, I had promised myself to create a reportage with a dual purpose: to describe the new camera and to thoroughly recount everything I was lucky enough to discover about the capital of Japan.
Well... actually, this reportage has nothing to do with my good intentions.
All this for two valid reasons.
The first is that it really takes very little to broadly describe the X100VI. Take all the electronics from the XT-5, put them in the body of the X100, and that's it. Yes, the base is a millimeter deeper, the two buttons to the right of the viewfinder are slightly closer together, and a red “I” has been added to the “V.” But fundamentally, the camera body remains perfectly faithful to the philosophy that has characterized all six generations of this iconic camera.
In short, the X100VI is the closing of the circle that began in 2010 with the first X100.
The second reason I didn't fulfill my good intentions is time. Time meant both as weather conditions and as time available. In fact, except for the 26 degrees the day after arrival, rain constantly accompanied our stay in the Japanese capital. The bad weather did not prevent us from completing our entire “cultural” program and once again confirmed the excellent weather resistance of the X100VI, but it certainly made it more complicated and exhausting to keep up with the entire schedule.
After all, we are talking about cameras and photography, and images, more often than not, have the power to tell more than endless words.
X100VI on, Across selected, let's start shooting.
Notes:
The photos, published in random order, were all taken with the “Across” film simulation. I applied my preset in Adobe Lightroom to all of them, both for images shot in Jpg and for those post-processed from Raw once Adobe released the update.
Many shots were taken with the Fujifilm WCL-X100 II, allowing me to use a wider angle of view (equivalent to 28mm) and complete weather sealing of the camera.
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Acknowledgements
A heartfelt thank you to all of Fujifilm Italia and in particular to Sara Valentina Venturelli and Maurizio Mori for the wonderful opportunity they offered me. A warm farewell to all my fellow travelers with whom I had the pleasure of sharing this long and fascinating journey in the Land of the Rising Sun.