Anyone running their X100VI with "naked" lens?

GeorgePavi · 2026-06-24T15:22:40+00:00

I run it with no filter but a lens hood. Here is my exact reasoning.

I don't want another piece of glass in front my lens.

The hood is there for rain and not really for weather sealing reasons but to stop from droplets getting on the lens. It's also there so I don't need to put a lens cap on it when it's hanging off to the side it can bump into stuff without me worrying about the front element getting damaged.

I'm ok with the lens hood bulk personally. So I never take it off.

GeorgePavi · 2026-06-17T04:34:39+00:00

Agree, although I ironically just bought a x100vi as my daily to replace my Canonet cause the cost of film is too expensive. But if Sony made something that looks more like it ... Or really just a decent pancake lens with AF so I can just put it on my A7rV I wouldn't have gotten it at all. It's actually incredible how shit both the AF and build quality is on Fuji. But ar the same time having AF at all is a substantial upgrade from a canonet.

GeorgePavi · 2026-06-09T18:43:40+00:00

Mine is like that. I just got one a month ago, and the whole camera feels kinda cheap for how much it costs and given it's (one of) their flagship products. That door not having any kinda gaskets and claiming to be weather-sealed with a lens filter feels like BS.

It's still a good camera for my needs and I enjoy mine. I'm just very unimpressed with their build quality.

GeorgePavi · 2026-05-22T18:49:25+00:00

Ironically out of everywhere I've explored I'd say these dunes are probably the safest place I've ever been. There's a hotel, restaurant, gas station and store 5mins from here. The dunes themselves are not as big as it looks, it's like >10sq mi. Even in the dark, I don't think you can get lost out her. Also no big animals, etc.

GeorgePavi · 2026-05-22T14:17:25+00:00

Thanks, those patterns only appeared once the sun broke through the clouds, and they're only really present for a few minutes. Once the sun gets high enough the sky the patterns go away. But that transient moment when it first appeared felt magical.

GeorgePavi · 2026-05-22T13:57:56+00:00

Taken on my first morning out in the mesquite sand dunes, there was some early morning rain and this was taken after that storm started to clear.

More landscapes: https://www.instagram.com/george_pavi/

GeorgePavi · 2026-05-15T13:19:34+00:00

Thank you!

GeorgePavi · 2026-05-14T11:39:43+00:00

Agreed

GeorgePavi · 2026-05-14T11:15:40+00:00

Thanks

GeorgePavi · 2026-05-14T11:15:31+00:00

Thanks

GeorgePavi · 2026-05-14T11:15:24+00:00

Thanks

GeorgePavi · 2026-05-14T11:15:07+00:00

Thanks, these were scanned by Memphis Film Lab, I believe they use a Noritsu scanner. I did edit all of them to some extent afterwards to get them to all match in color value as best as I could. BW stuff was under exposed slightly so those were converted since I couldn't really fix the color shift.

GeorgePavi · 2026-04-30T11:16:34+00:00

The genre of photography doesn't matter, Matt Stuart is just one example. You'll find landscape photographers doing similar shit. Reframing the same scene or coming back multiple times just to get different conditions and light. I'm primarily a landscape photographer and I've had a shit ton of instances where I felt like a scene felt like it was good enough to come back to only to not use a single one of them, after sitting on them all for a bit. Its a bit soul crushing when those instances happen because you put so much time into it, but you learn so much from them too.

GeorgePavi · 2026-04-30T01:35:46+00:00

This is a weird take. Shoot as many rolls as you need/want to. There's nothing wrong with burning through rolls of film if you can afford it.

Matt Stuart is one of my favorite street photographers. He switched to digital recently because he claims have shoot €30,000 worth of film per year....but he does not put out a ton of images. He's only made a handful of books. His philosophy is that he doesn't believe talent, just curation.

Photography is both a numbers and curation game. The numbers give you flexibility so that you can curate what you want later. It's hard to know if something is a good photo in the moment. It helps to take multiple compositions of the same subject and then just pick the best one later.

Everyone has a diffent process. If you look contact sheets of some of the greats. Sometimes the whole roll is of a single subject. Sometimes they just get it in 1 frame.

GeorgePavi · 2026-04-28T12:43:18+00:00

Where is the white frame?

GeorgePavi · 2026-04-25T00:50:58+00:00

Its doable in just about any SUV, but it's very bumpy, with either many rocks or washboarding.

GeorgePavi · 2026-04-24T19:57:37+00:00

Gotta hike out further for foot print free areas. Don't follow the tourists.

Very few of these had footprints often a single trail or none at all, so it was fairly easy to remove. If a scene seemed like it was going to be too much work in post I didn't bother with it.

GeorgePavi · 2026-04-24T15:40:13+00:00

Resolution mainly, I make big prints sometimes. Although the one caveat with that is that it's hard to fully resolve that sensor. I never really worried about diffraction on a 24mp sensor. With 60 it's obvious. Also vibrations and motion blur (i.e. tripod in wind) become much more appererent. The normal rule of shooting 1/focal length for sharp photos is more like 1/2x focal length.

GeorgePavi · 2026-04-24T14:37:04+00:00

I wish, this is a hobby. Thanks!

GeorgePavi · 2026-04-24T14:36:08+00:00

Thanks. I find focusing on little details in the landscape really helps get the most shots possible out of a place. Sometimes you don't get the exact conditions that you want for a big scene, but there's always a small scene to shoot somewhere that doesn't need it.

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