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R, outstanding stuff.
Lovely photos, Rayyan! They transcend whatever equipment you were using.
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love them all.
esp the b/w portraits
Thank you, rayyan, for posting these lovely photos and your closing thoughts.I have no more postage stamps. Postcards yes, many.
How did the XT-1 do? And paired with nothing more than the Fujinon 35/1.4.
For me, it did what I wanted it to do. 95% of the time. The other 5%?
Really, no camera would have managed the 5% in one way or another.
It is a compromise..always. Chasing new gear is a game of want, not need..in the majority of cases. At least for me it is.
Take small size camera, and after a certain fl, the lenses are as big and heavy as any 135 ff.
For me, and me alone..a 50mm lens and a 90 or 135 is more than enough to travel the world. It has done portraitist, landscape, closeups, street, museums, food.
Also dark night clubs. I sent the postcards to you.
So the last postcard, till I buy some more stamps..the XT-1 and the 35/1.4
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Thank you for receiving my postcards.
I am surprised that the guide did not know. It is an ancient character for the Qin Dynasty. It took me sometime to Google it here:I asked my guide, what the English was for the following image..
He tried to say something..stopped. Thought for a while. With a sheepish grin, he told me, he didn't know.
' There is no word for it, in English, that I know ', he said.
Indeed there isn't. There are some two or three words in English used to convey what the above sign means.