FIXED
The best camera is the one already in the door pocket.
It began as a drive with no particular destination — a coast road, a camera on the passenger seat, and the vague intention of coming back with something. Three weeks later it was Phnom Penh.
One lens. One focal length. No zoom to hide behind and no second body to reach for. Every frame here is a decision about where to stand.
One frame. Nine decisions.
Wider than the lens has any right to be. The frame keeps going after the eye has stopped.
- 65:24 Panoramic
- 17:6 TX Panorama
- 16:9 Cinema
- 3:2 The Standard
- 4:3 Large Format
- 5:4 The Print
- 7:6 Semi-Format
- 1:1 Square
- 3:4 Vertical
Where the camera stops being equipment.
A fixed 35 mm makes you walk. You cannot crop your way out of a bad position, so you move — closer, lower, around the stall and back again — until the frame is the one you meant.
Markets are generous about this. Nobody minds a slow photographer. The children mind least of all.
Phsar Market · Sisowath Quay · Royal Palace
Colour
Monochrome
735 grams of milled aluminium.
Top plate, base plate, aperture ring, hot shoe cover, battery door — all cut from aluminium. It is cold when you pick it up and warm by the time you put it down.
- Sensor
- 43.8 × 32.9mm large format · 102 megapixels
- Lens
- 35 mm F428 mm equivalent · fixed
- Weight
- 735 gbody, battery and card included
- Viewfinder
- 5.76M dots0.5-inch OLED · 0.84× magnification
- Aspect Ratios
- 965:24 through 3:4, on a dedicated dial
- Body
- Milled aluminiumrangefinder-style, leaf shutter
Specifications as published by FUJIFILM for the GFX100RF.
35 mm, and the walking.
Nine ratios, one lens, and about four hundred kilometres of pavement. The camera went in the door pocket and came back with a diary.
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