My thoughts on the Fuji X-T4

Fujifilm just announced the X-T4, the successor to the X-T3, which was arguably one of their most popular crop sensor cameras. The X-T4 looks like a great camera, since it's the 4th iteration of basically the same camera. Judging by the DP Review Gallery, the camera takes fine pictures, but I can't really see much difference from the pictures taken with the X-T3. That's because it's exactly the same 26.1 mpxl sensor. Fuji doesn't innovate in sensor technology, they basically just buy 1 sensor from Sony and put it into nearly every X camera out there. Fuji customers don't seem to mind, but for me it's a big issue, because there's really not much innovation in terms of image quality when it comes to Fuji X cameras.

Why the Nikon D6 is better for stills than the Canon EOS-1D X Mark III

The online photography community has thrown another massive tantrum after the Nikon D6 turned out to be more of an iterative update instead of a major jump. Lead by airheads running Youtube clickbait farms like Fro Knowns Photo, Tony Northrup as well as self-proclaimed Fuji Ambassador and donations beggar Ken Wheeler, the camera was proclaimed an utter failure and the competing Canon EOS-1D X Mark III the clear winner. We live in a bipolar world where it's all about winning and losing based on arbitrary spec jumps. These channels are making their advertisement and sponsorship money by dividing photography hobbyists into tribes, and then stirring up controversy whenever there's a new major camera release by a large and important brand.

The Fuji X-Pro3 is a huge disaster!

The Fuji X-Pro3 is a crop-sensor camera Fujifilm launched 3 months ago (in December 2019) and ever since one issue after another has been reported with this camera. Here I want to break down all the problems this camera has had so far in order to warn you from potential waste of money.

I exposed Ted Forbes from 'The Art of Photography'

Ted Forbes is an American photography Youtuber, who used to become famous talking about the art and the history of photography and amassed quite a following among enthusiasts and hobbyists. The art and craft were the main topic of his channel, but in recent years he adopted the same model as most photography Youtubers, that is doing gear reviews and joining press events by brands. In one of his latest videos he reviewed the latest Canon RF 50mm f/1.2 L lens. It's of course a great lens, and a plenty of lens for most people. Ted did not respond to a lot of comments under the video, but he did to this guy who listed a number of complaints about Canon. While Ted agreed, I countered.

Fujifilm's disastrous year feat. Tatsuo Suzuki

Fujifilm has not had a great year last year, and their mishap-streak is continuing well into 2020s. The latest scandal surrounding the controversy-ridden brand is connected to Tatsuo Suzuki, an award-winning street photographer from Tokyo, who they hired to star in one of their promotional videos for their latest compact camera, the Fujifilm X100V. In the video (see below) Fujifilm introduces Tatsuo and follows him on the streets of Tokyo to show how he creates his art. His style of spray and pray directly into pedestrians' faces turned out to be very controversial in Japan, and a growing number of netizens started to complain about it. It reached a level where it was just bad press, so Fujifilm decided to pull the video. Here's a copy of the video which was uploaded by a Japanese netizen for posterity:

Living in Taipei during the novel coronavirus scare

I was never big on new year celebrations, so when the year 2019 finally turned to 2020, I was actually sleeping. As usual, the main fire works in Taiwan at Taipei 101 were splendid. I watched them on Youtube the next day. Unlike in other countries, Taiwan was looking into the future with a lot of concern and anxiety. The presidential elections were merely 11 days away, and once again people were torn between supporting the current ruling party which is pro-Taiwan, or give the pro-China opposition a chance to retake the power. Typically a change of party would be the norm at this point, as Taiwanese usually grow tired of the existing government very fast, but because of what was happening in Hong Kong for so many months prior to the election, Taiwanese grew suspicious and vary of opening up to China again, so they chose to support the current president, and keep the distance to China. Little did they know that this will pay off immensely so soon.