I’ll preface this by saying I’ve used many different brands of cameras since I started photography; I won’t list them because there have been many. In 2016, photography kinda lost its magic to me so I decided to buy a Fujifilm X-T10 just because. That camera, for whatever reason made photography fun again and I can’t explain why. However, that joy was short lived as I discovered Lightroom’s terrible rendering of the X-Trans filter, giving certain textures a watercolor effect. Lightroom was the only program I was using at the time and to me, the errors were distracting enough so I ended up going M43. Fast forward to today and I’ve switched to using ON1 and it renders my old Fuji files just fine, and now I’m longing for my little X-T10. All that being said, anyone else regret or long for a past camera you didn’t appreciate at the time?
You had me at Lightroom’s rendering of xTrans files. Amid my Canon history a few years ago, I bought into Fuji and loved it until I processed. I tried ON and CaptureOne and others, but I wanted Lightroom.
I’ve had a dozen systems since 1976, preferring Canon 1Ds and 5D series for digital since 2006… until a year ago. I tried almost all the L series lenses and settled on a set of 9 Zeiss primes. Some love was lost as the kits got heavier. I moved to R5s for focus peaking but more love was lost, this time in rendering.
I sold off or gave away all the Fuji gear in the last year and finally moved to Leica. The M10m is a wet dream, and all the great glass made me get a M10r.