There is an almost overwhelming array of X-series cameras. When it comes to models and series, Fuji haven’t exactly embraced the less-is-more philosophy. “Well, less is more, Lucrezia: I am judged,” says the protagonist of Robert Browning’s 1855 poem, Andrea del Sarto.įast-forward to 2021, and Fujifilm launched the X-E4 with the tagline “Make more with less.” Is that marketing guff, or do they really mean it? Less of what? And can we really do more with it? To answer these questions, first we need to understand what the X-E series is all about. It sounds so catchy and contemporary – an Instagram caption par excellence. “Less is more” is the mantra of minimalists everywhere, practically a definition. All I’m saying is that this is not necessarily a conventional review.Ī paradox – a statement which seems contradictory but expresses a possible truth – lies at the very heart of minimalism. You might even learn a bit about the Fujifilm X-E4 along the way. And since this is a website about photography, not philosophy or aesthetics, I’ll link those ideas back to cameras. Instead, I’d like to reflect on minimalism and its paradoxes, using the Fujifilm X-E4 as a jumping-off point. Nor is it a proper camera review ( we already did that, too). This article, however, is not about the much-debated topic of DSLR versus mirrorless ( a debate which we’ve weighed in upon here). I’ve used a Nikon DSLR for the last ten years, but in December last year, I bought a Fujifilm X-E4 – a mirrorless digital camera with interchangeable lenses and an APS-C sensor. How many things I can do without! Indeed, how many things I’d be better off without! My brother was one of the founders, and I have myself found it a very soothing atmosphere.A third-century AD book about the lives of philosophers contains this anecdote about Socrates: “And often when he beheld the multitude of wares exposed for sale, he would say to himself, ‘How many things I can do without!’”Ĭlearly I’m no Socrates, but contemplating the many buttons, dials and sub-menus on digital cameras, I often feel the way he felt. Save in the Stranger's Room, no talking is, under any circumstances, allowed, and three offences, if brought to the notice of the committee, render the talker liable to expulsion. No member is permitted to take the least notice of any other one. It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubbable men in town. Yet they are not averse to comfortable chairs and the latest periodicals. There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of their fellows. The club as described by Sherlock Holmes in " The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter": Mycroft Holmes (right), co-founder of the Diogenes Club (depicted here in 221B Baker Street), illustrated by Sidney Paget It seems to have been named after Diogenes the Cynic (though this is never explained in the original stories) and was co-founded by Sherlock's indolent elder brother Mycroft Holmes. The Diogenes Club is a fictional gentlemen's club created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and featured in several Sherlock Holmes stories, such as 1893's " The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter".
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