When good friend of mine allow me to use his XT3 Fujifilm Camera for my holiday in Singapore than I was super impressed to try this cool thing that become of his favourite lens by trying all Fujifilm collection. Dear my friend this is Bima and thank you for visiting my photography blog so I hope I could deliver great honest review for you who want to move to Fujifilm system for your hobby and business.
I was shooting in wedding photography industry since 2009 but since 2 years ago I try to open my mind by selling my photos online to get the royalty. I know that some friends looks me as a freak guy cause I want to sell my photos just for $0.25 in minimum in Shutterstock. I see this chance in another perspective by the way, here I still shooting wedding and sell thousand of dollars photo collection but I finally know that I got another benefit by taking thousand and more photos like travel, food, some detail shots that could send me money even the moment is done.
Since 2014 I was promoting my services to worldwide couple and this chance bring me to fly to Maldives, Hong Kong, Bali, and other wedding destination that truly blown my mind. I know here I spend up to 10 hours in wedding but following that day I got thousand of images from street, human interest, food, or local culture that I think could be my digital assets in the next future.
Taking my family to get holiday is a MUST THING that I will do for the entire life and since this journey will be my son’s first flight so I think it could be interesting if I go to somewhere that quite close from Indonesia and still come with great public facilities than finally our decision is goes to Singapore.
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This is my journey by taking XT3 Fujifilm Camera to shoot the Singapore Downtown!
Today me and my wife will fly for 2 hours from my hometown to Singapore and bring 3 kids, we will do light traveling so we don’t order any luggage from Airasia and only bring a cabin bag and when our clothes get dirty than we gonna wash it in our dorm.
Through this challenge I want to borrow XT3 Fujifilm Camera and one simple lens for all round needs till I finally decide to use Fujinon XF18-135mmF3.5-5.6. Taking my bag consist of mineral water bottle and some snacks for my kids and all ridiculous lens is a bad decision so by using this lens I will only bring simple lens that could cover EVERYTHING!
First Impression about XT3 Fujifilm Camera
When I hold XT3 Fujifilm Camera in my hand than I could telling you that this camera is use for professional work so it will be bigger than their entry level camera like X-A7 or similar and surely it comes with superb feature that will make your work easier.
When I woke up early in the quite morning I was stepping down from my dorm and try to challenge this camera for shooting in Singapore in a low light and the result was impressive. Even I set the ISO for 1600 or more than I got no noise at all and still can shoot properly even in a low speed and yes, its body that feels so heavy help me to hold it in a good way.
It was in Tanjung Katong, a nice area to stay with local ambiance. If you expecting to live with Singaporean and wanna find the most tasty food ever than Tanjung Katong is the best place to stay. There are so many nice Airbnb property that you could stay in and they are clean and compact no matter you travel alone, couple, or with your family.
My decision of using Fujinon XF18-135mmF3.5-5.6 is right because it is truly simple to work with one ‘all round’ lens for 4 days without changing any lens to get the moment. Everything look so sharp, camera and lens focus are extremely fast and you could play more with the feature is your a gadget freak person. If you love big camera or ever use some of them like 5D collection or Nikon high-end DSLR than this XT3 Fujifilm Camera is quite similar. It’s totally heavy by comparing with entry level camera for sure but it helps you to keep steady when shooting for moment.
Pushing This XT3 Fujifilm Camera to Shoot for Garden in Natural Way
I walk into the garden and some school park nearby my dorm and try to push this XT3 Fujifilm Camera to the max, my goals is want to know how is the censor when we shoot for natural sight like trees, garden, dry leaves, and etc.
It’s Amazing because I think only Nikon could afford it!
In fact I use Nikon gears on wedding shooting and I love it because it comes with sharp and contrast colour especially when I got insane landscape in my wedding resort or any cool venue like in my previous Lux* Resort in Maldives. This XT3 was insane till I got amazing pictures that beyond of my expectation and if you love super natural files or you hate photoshop or any ridiculous post production work than I could telling you that you don’t need it all or my Lightroom presets action!
So here I go,
It Ain’t Finish Here Because I also Want to Challenge This XT3 to Shoot My Food
As I said before that cool area to stay with the locals and when all Singaporean stay here that this are will definitely have tons recommended gourmet and tasty food that will fulfil your hunger. Here in this are you can find from the classic Hainan Chicken Rice and Wonton Noodle till the most busiest food cart called Nasi Lemak Punggol.
I surely think that you will eat 5x a day in this place!
Keng Bee Restaurant is one recommended classic food port in Tanjung Katong and when I eat for early dinner around 5pm than their Hainan Chicken Rice is almost sold out….I only get one portion. I simply take XT3 Fujifilm Camera and make a short food shooting with available light and this is the insane result.
Look at that, all the food colour captured in a superb way from the fresh tropical papaya, bread and cookies, till my favourite Hainan Chicken Rice and Seafood Fried rice. Everything comes with great saturation, contrast, and all the electronic part work so fast to work. It’s absolutely great choice if you love photography no matter for hobby or professional work for sure.
Other Recommended Lens from Fujifilm That You Could Consider
Today I work with simple all round lens Fujinon XF18-135mmF3.5-5.6 but I will also recommend you to some other cool lens that will work so great for you and this is some lists that I could show you:
Last, this is my end of XT3 Fujifilm Camera first impression hands on review. I hope this could be your good information and real shooting review of XT3 that you could consider. Keep working in photography because I know that living through capturing moment and great images is dream of million human being in this globe and as long as you love it than you could achieve something cool someday.