Hey this is Scott of Photography Banzai. Today I'm here with the X-A7,
again, from Fujifilm. But in this case I have a 135 millimeter f/2.8 lens.
It is a Bushnell automatic. Used it on the EF-M stuff once or twice.
Uhh, let's see if we can find anything interesting. The camera did survive the last
use. There is quite a bit of lag on the screen when you zoom in...
That seems to be the case of pretty much every camera I've used so far.
Looks like people have been through here.
The challenge is finding something interesting to take a photo of.
This ring has so much tightness to it that it's loosening the mount,
because this is a screw mount. It's probably about where the minimum focus is on the setup.
It's about right there...
These are deer, deer tracks. Looks like piss, ha ha, oh boy.
So I try to position myself about where
the minimum is and I'm going to zoom in and shift a little bit more.
The working distance is quite a bit.
There's a good deal of texture.
Let's look around a little bit more...
These are definitely deer tracks.
A bunch of leaves, could do something with that! Nice thing here is that
my glasses are fogging up, but I'm using the screen so it's pretty easy.
This screen is nice. It has a ton of resolution.
I'm going to try to have my arm like this and then use this one to do stuff.
Not that I need to be too careful. The shutter speeds right now are okay. Although I should
probably drop the aperture make it smaller because this lens is not the most amazing.
This is interesting! How it changes,
so there must have been something wrapped around it at one point.
This combination is definitely front heavy. This is nice a little framing of
the branches. See some foot paths.. footsteps.. foot paths.. footsteps, a path! In the distance.
I'm actually too close to make that interesting, how I envisioned it.
Okay, going to f/8 here. Definitely bright enough.
Some interesting patterns in the snow from probably small animals.
This one might be a little bit bigger.
So once you're zoomed in on the camera you can move the joystick around. It's pretty cool!
Here I'm just slightly adjusting the.. focus...
I just realized I'm almost out of battery, it's down to one notch. I might switch to
like a red or something, but I'm going to change it out. I have two aftermarket
batteries that I picked up. Notice so far this hasn't been an issue it stays closed
as I've used it at the moment. With the X100F that I had, the door used to open pretty easily.
Of I use a strap that attaches to here then sometimes that can get hit, but I could easily
just cover it with the ones that I have. This tree's got some little leaf things on it still.
It's pretty quick to switch between photo and video. Hit this
drive button and then use this little joystick. Press up once
or down once to cycle between the two. You can set one of the buttons to record in whatever
mode you're in. But I currently switch that to ISO. Go all the way to minimum focus...
Gonna switch this back to video mode on this top button. Haven't been messing with the ISO.
I'm going to pre-focus with photography
and then switch to video with the one press, so I know that it's relatively in focus.
When the camera takes a photo it does pause a little bit, so if you're trying to do something
right after taking a photo, you're gonna have to wait.
This is one of those days I'm struggling a little bit to find interesting stuff to take photos of.
Maybe it's the focal length, but I think it's really just the
conditions of this place and all the snow really making a lot of white super prominent. But
people complain sometimes on my videos they're saying the photos aren't interesting.
Whatever, I enjoy it so that's how it's gonna be.
The screen is good enough that sometimes I'm tempted not to zoom in, but I do know better!
So far this combination is working nicely. Of course very front heavy. It's a metal lens. It's
got some weight to it. Focus.. smooth, and this back screen
has a good amount of resolution. It's a nice combination of trying to do manual focus
and the resolution. Of course, a viewfinder would be easier in some situations.
We're good, we're good! Okay.
The snow is melting so it's a little slick.
See, I got to put some effort into that focus ring.
At least to me going out and doing photography. It's the process of doing it more so than, you
know, you want to make the perfect picture. Which in my case.. don't make perfect pictures.. but
keep trying and enjoying the photography itself. So going out there, doesn't, oh sorry!
Getting the end result is nice. Getting the perfect picture.. I mean you can strive for that,
but I don't think it's super important. At least for me. It's up to you and what you
are most interested in, but for me I like it all!
That was a good photo outing with this combination. I think it worked
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Scott of Photography Banzai, thanks!