A couple of weeks ago, we decided to try something different for date night. We joined in on the William Street Long Lunch event in Northbridge.
As I wanted a camera setup that was small and lightweight to carry for our walk around Northbridge for the William Street Long Lunch event, I decided to bring an oldie along. It’s been a long while since I picked up and photographed with my Fujifilm X-T10 and even longer since I shot with my Fujinon 27mm f2.8 lens. Ever since the Fujifilm X-T4 entered my life, the little Fujifilm X-T10 hasn’t been shown much love. The 27mm mark I is one of the first Fujinon lenses I owned, and since procuring other “optically better” and newer lens, I also haven’t gone back to the 27mm in a long while.
The original 27mm lens was first released in 2013, so the tech is almost a decade old. I expected imperfections of course. But boy did it still hold up well, especially for it’s size and weight! It reminded me why I loved that lens so much. I was really pleased with how some of the images turned out.
Sure it was a little slow to focus and my usable images were only around 50%. But the colour reproduction and the quality of the images were just right. I wanted a no frills approach to my photography for the day and decided to shoot JPEG in Fine quality with the following settings:
- Film Simulation: Classic Chrome
- ISO: Auto 1600
- White Balance: Sunlight
- Dynamic Range: 100
- NR: -2
- Highlights: -2
- Shadow: +1
- Colour: +2
- Sharpness: -2
These settings were based on Richie’s Fuji X Weekly’s Kodak Portra 160 but with some of my own tweaks. I had every intention of doing no editing and sharing the images straight out of camera. But I did end up cheating a little to fix up some images. Namely to add some clarity, texture and fixing up some exposure. I also use Lightroom to straight up and crop some images as well to better tell the story of the day.
Despite just being a f2.8 lens, it does still have it’s magical bokeh moments and provided just the right separation of background and subject. For a lens I brought for $99 all those years ago, it’s not a lens I would be parting ways with for a long while.
It was a fun (but super busy afternoon) of walking between 4 restaurants to have have our drink & dishes. Our meal started at Sauma. Red Chicken Tika and Spritz.
Followed by some rather small tacos at La Cholita. The pineapple cocktail made up for it though. The third eatery on the journey was No Mafia and they were by far the fastest to serve the food. Beef Ragu and a non-G&T or red wine were on the menu.
Last but not least was dessert at Double Rainbow in the Rechabite building to finish the 4-course journey. The dessert was a pretty yummy black sesame cheese cake. Would have liked it to have more of the roasty black sesame taste and aroma in the cake. The Asian inspired old fashion was pretty good though! The interior of Double Rainbow was doubly cool, moody while having plenty of pops of colour.
In between the walking and waiting for a seat at the restaurant, I took that time to capture some street scenes. It’s been such a long time since I’ve done any street or city photography. Given there were a lot of people out and about in the city that Saturday, it was great to photograph a more lively city as it tries to come out of it’s post-pandemic slumber.
On a more personal note, I’ve had a busy April and May which has meant not having as much time as I hoped to edit photos and share my images. I have in fact been taking quite a lot of photos since I’ve been away in Cairns and Margaret River. We’re also hoping to get back into organising more photo walks with Fuji X Aus Perth team in the coming months. So there should definitely be more photography to come.
Thanks for stopping by today, happy shooting.
J.
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