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Well, it had happened, I have switched from the world of DSLR I've been playing into for the last 8 years to the wonderful world of hybrid cameras…

I must confess that when I bought the nice K-3 last year, I already felt I was missing something. While the K-3 is really a wonderful camera (and it did perform splendidly), I was already interested by the hybrid movement and the Fujifilm set of cameras. I did not felt confident enough to jump there, especially with most cameras being either rangefinders-like (X-Pro1, X-E2) or without a viewfinder at all (X-M1) and I'm still fond of that way of shooting.

The camera I just bought (slightly early Xmas self-gift) did not exist last year and so I thought that the reselling value of my previous K-5 was going down fast hence the K-3.

Having such a nice set of exceptional lenses did help of course, I was not ready to jump ship but even there, I saw that I was carrying and using them less and I shoot with the classic 18-135mm a lot, lighter and more versatile.

It has changed.

The X-T1 has been out for many months now, the lens lineup is getting better and better and they have really awesome lenses such as the XF56mm/ƒ1.2, more or less the equivalent of my previous FA* 85mm/ƒ1.4 but with ƒ1.2 (one half-stop faster!) and a better focal length (remember that in the APS-C world, you have to multiply by 1.5 to get the real one).

The X-T1 does satisfy my wish of keeping a viewfinder (and oh boy is that one gorgeous electronic viewfinder - EVF) while being a much lighter camera (not that smaller which is nice too).

The only thing I'm missing is a macro lens. The current XF60mm/ƒ2.4 is only 1:2 and not long enough for me so I'm skipping it, waiting the hopefully-in-2015 90mm which seem to have been announced (but it does not seem to be even remotely a macro lens so I'm probably going to skip it as well).

Oh right, no zoom this time for the moment. The only one I'm considering is the 55-200mm to shoot flying planes and other things. Everything else will be with the fixed lens trio. I'm also changing from my usual 31mm (eq. 47mm) to a wider 23mm (eq. 35mm), we will see how it goes, new perspective, new ways of shooting!.

Exciting times before me.

If you can read French, I also did a blog post about my migration.