London-based photographer and visual artist shoots portraits and weddings and has recently expanded her repertoire into boudoir photography. As the owner of a she has also been looking at switching to a smaller, lighter mirrorless kit and has been eyeing up the camera and . We thought it would be a good idea to introduce LA Creativity to Damien Lovegrove: one of the UK’s most respected boudoir photography practitioners and teachers, he made the transition from to Fujifilm some years ago and is something of an X-system expert.
We set up a photo shoot in London for Damien and LA with a selection of models and lovely prime lenses. “I’ve used the full-frame mirrorless camera to shoot weddings, and it’s a great camera,’ explains LA. ‘It’s really fast, and the image quality is great, but I’m drawn to the look, feel and size of the Fujifilm system.
The fact that it’s APS-C is not an issue for me – for seven out of the ten years that I’ve been a photographer I’ve used a cropped-sensor Canon DSLR. For me it’s not so much about the sensor, it’s about the glass. If you’ve got good glass on the front then even on a cropped sensor you’re going to get quality images.
You may not be able to enlarge them quite so big, but I’m not making billboards.” We brought two very different cameras to the shoot for LA to try: a and a . At 465g the X-S10 is considerably smaller and lighter than the 607g X-T4 and also leaves a much smaller hole in the wallet.
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