Venice is probably one of the most visited and photographed city in the world
It's my city and it's where I was born
She can be a mother, she can be a lover
she can cuddle you, and she can make love to you
this is the reason why we're here in this beautiful cafe
to talk about this project and this new Fujifilm camera
Venice is a continuos stimulus
you can find a place and a spot where to take a picture in probably every corner
every step you take in Venice is good for photographs
we will be in a boat, and boats are very friendly to Venetians
and this is the place where we most feel comfortable
and this is going to be the place where we're going to see the city
shooting from a boat can be a complex adventure: there's little room for anything
it's quite an unstable environment and,,, it's moving!
so, when I shoot from a boat, what I need is:
a very compact camera, a very easy to use tool and quick and reliable autofocus and continuous focus
I found these 3 things in the new Fujifilm X-E3
this is why I decided to use this camera for this project
Few people have the privilege to be in a boat every time they want
and every time of the day
taking picture of Venice from a very unusual and unique point of view
This is the soul of this project: "Venice as seen from the water"
And this tool has allowed me to bring this project to birth
in a very professional way
For my job I usually use a Fuji X-T2
so the X-E3 has almost everything I found in my X-T2:
a powerful sensor, a quick processor, a very quick autofocus
and Fujifilm has put amazingly all these technologies
into one compact, light, and pretty body
even though the X-E3 is the X-T2 little brother, it has every thing I need
every thing is at hand:
the speed shutter dial, the compensation dial, the aperture dial
and all the buttons are at the right place
the good thing is that I had the old X-E2 and it didn't have the focus joystick
so the focus joystick becomes your main control
with it you can control almost everything
and this, combined to the touchscreen, makes this camera very easy to use,
It's easy to use also in difficult situations
because you have different ways to do different things
or to do the same things if you want
so you can focus from the touchscreen or from the shutter button
you can change the focal point from the touchscreen or with the joystick
One of the features that I like best of this camera is probably the viewfinder
I'm used to the X-T2 viewfinder and finding it in this little camera make me very happy
I usually set all the information "ON" on my viewfinder
so that I have: the electronic level, the histogram
and I can control my exposure very precisely directly from the live view into the viewfinder
I find it useful to have a bluetooth connection combined with a wi-fi connection
The bluetooth connection keeps it connected continuously with the smartphone
which makes it quicker to operate the camera from the smartphone
I found myself using several times my smartphone as a remote control
because it was easier to use it from there
rather than going back to the position where the camera was
either on a tripod or on an arm, and it was much faster
My favourite configuration for the X-E3 was with a 23mm f/1,4
it's my favourite lens and I use it very often
I also used it with an 18mm f/2
...and sometimes with a long lens: the 50-140mm
With the 18mm I could maintain the compactness of the X-E3
While using the long lens (50-140mm), even though it could appear very heavy,
I didn't find that the configuration was unbalanced
The winning point for this camera is compactness
and we are used to associates compactness to compromise,
but for this camera it's not compromise, it's just smaller.
I'm Marco Tortato, I'm a professional photographer
and I shot "Venice as seen from the water" with a Fujifilm X-E3
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