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But frankly after the extreme portability of the X100, I was becoming somewhat less enamoured with the idea of buying another even chunkier DSLR. Also, I had been considering Nikon’s budget full-frame D600. But very quickly a remarkable thing happened.

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I also held to my dream of upgrading to a full frame camera, which seemed once to be the automatic goal of every amateur enthusiast. My D90 would remain as my project camera, dominating the bulk of my work. I even toyed with a Yashica Mat 124G, a gorgeous TLR camera that had the niggling drawback of feeling like you’d strapped a sack of sugar around your neck.Īt first I figured it would merely exist as a casual camera for lunch breaks at work and the odd trip down to London. I looked at the classic Nikon SLR cameras beloved of McCurry and McCullin and other awesome Scottish sounding types. I began to hunger for smaller, lighter machines that would allow me to work a crowd discretely. And with the waiting I found myself eyeing up other street-photography solutions. In fact, they seemed to scorn the world of compact crop-factor primes. There was an acceptable old Nikkor 24mm f/2.8d lens from the 80’s, but what I was really hoping for was an updated DX 35mm crop sensor equivalent, one that was silent, without the chromatic aberrations and faster focusing.īut infuriatingly Nikon didn’t seem interested in releasing one. Now at the time I was itching for a good street reportage lens. And it never jumped up pawing at my knees, begging to be taken out for a walk – so to speak. Yet it didn’t really inspire me to photograph anything out of my fairly predictable comfort zone. It was a wonderful workhorse of a camera that was rugged, pretty quick and had a great ability to work with legacy lenses. Looking back two years ago, to the days before picking up the X100, I thought I’d be wedded to trusty old Nikon forever.