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X-E4 vs X-Pro3? If money is not the main factor. Street photography.

Started Feb 7, 2022 | Discussions thread
OP canonbcguy Contributing Member • Posts: 821
Re: X-E4 vs X-Pro3? If money is not the main factor. Street photography.

Joachim Gerstl wrote:

The intent is to use it for candid street photography. The smaller size of the X-E4 is attractive for stealth.

Funny! Do you really think that a small difference in camera size will make you invisible?

It's not that a small difference will make me invisible.  I long gave up on that dream.

But a smaller camera with a small lens is less noticeable.

And importantly, less intimidating.  Kind of like how--amazingly to me--people can walk around taking quick snaps of others with a cellphone and the subject either doesn't notice or care; yet when I point a real camera at them, suddenly alarm bells in their heads go off.

An X-E4 with an 18/2 or 27 could look like an old point and shoot, which again is less intimidating.

I'm not exactly shy.  I've pointed a 50-140 mounted on an X-H1 with a battery grip at people.  They notice immediately.  And for candid street, that changes everything.

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