I love my x100T

I really appreciate the general quality of my x100t's shots, but for sure there are limits as to what a fixed-lens camera can do.

So its DR and low light performance is about a stop lower than full frame. I can expose a bit more and maybe bracket couple more shots to merge later.

So it has a fixed 35mm equiv lens. I can pan a couple or even dozen shots and also merge them later on either Lr or Ps. It works.

I think I merged 30+ shots (HDR then pano) for this photo, and the final output has a long edge of 11k pixels. I tell you, it wasn't easy at all. After taking a number of sets of long-exposure shots–each set with about 30 different angles and exposure–for over an hour in the freezing cold wind, you'll probably want something like the sony a7r3 with a 12-24 lens just like I did.

But it works. After sorting out the shots so as to compose a perfect frame and a decent processing in Ps, I got that picture out. And I like it really much.

Maybe it doesn't make much of a sense, but I like this shot a lot more because I remember my hands freezing in the pocket of my jean, my nose running like crazy and the wind whistling in my ears.

If I had a somewhat perfect gear and completed this shot with just one or two clicks, I probably would not remember the scene and the experience as vividly.

That being said, maybe if I had those better gears, I'd probably spend more time into composing a perfect shot and get an even better result. But this is how I usually do my landscape photos. And I intend to continue doing things this way, because it really makes me enjoy photography with my whole heart.

I'm feeling so weird having written this some kind of confession