Such a sad way to start the day. Dropped in to catch up with Nanami before work this morning, who wanted me to shoot a couple of shots of her for an upcoming piece, and bam! Dead camera. It’s been playing up lately, ever since I dropped it last (has been dropped a couple of times). Initially I thought it might have been the battery, but chucking in a fresh battery confirms she’s finally gone.
It’s so sad to think of upgrading, and knowing that there will be many more years of new (and obviously very different) photos not taken on my GF1. It’s like life is forcing me to start a new life, can’t quite explain it… I’m upset!
I instantly started hunting down a second hand GF1 (again, that would make it my 3rd as I lost my first one on a bender one night!), but I started seeing advertisements for the GF6, which led me to google up on comarissons between the GF1 and the new GF6, and also very in depth reviews of the GF6. I absolutely HATE the way the new GF6 looks, it’s not designed for professionals, it looks to be a camera for the masses with WiFi, instagram style filters, a massive flippable touch screen etc. but the more I read into the specs the more I realise it’s going to produce MUCH better pictures than my trusty old GF1. It starts up way faster, it’s lighter, smaller and most importantly it’ll still take my 20mm pancake lens (which I love so much).
The stubborn fucker in me wants to stick with buying another GF1 and the hipster in me would love one of those new retro looking cameras, but I’ve just pulled the trigger on the new GF6 (I smashed that buy it now button!). I hope I, and my subjects can get over how ugly the new GF6 looks, only time will tell!