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One Reader’s X1D Month-long Buy/Use/Sell Decision
Choosing a new camera system is fraught with all sorts of unexpected perils (of a sort). It is also a large investment should it be a high end system. This page captures a progression for one buyer of the X1D.
Michael has en extensive collection of lenses and does beautiful flower shots, see An Expert at Focus Stacking Comments on the Pentax K1 and Its Image Quality.
Michael Erlewine writes on April 17:
Michael bought, tried, and returned both the Fujifilm GFX and Hasselblad X1D systems. See also Reader comments on the Fujifilm GFX. Emphasis added.
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