My first true SLR camera was a Canon T90 which my dad gave me as a teenager in exchange for a computer motherboard. It was a tank of a camera. I later came to learn that I more or less stole that camera from my father, as it was worth much much more than the motherboard. He was aware of it of course but wanted to encourage my growing interest in photography so just went with it.

From there, I moved into the digital world, starting with the Canon EOS 10D, followed by the Canon EOS 5D, Canon EOS 5D Mk II, Canon EOS 5D Mk III and Canon EOS 7D.

When Fujifilm entered the mirrorless market with the X-Pro1, I dumped the big, heavy Canon bodies and lenses for the much smaller and lighter Fuji gear.

I started with the X-Pro1 followed by the X-E1 and the X-E2 which are all rangefinder style cameras. When the X-T1 was introduced, Fuji's first d-SLR type mirrorless camera, I switched to that line with the X-T1, X-T2 and finally the X-T5 of which I currently have 2.

I've also had a variety of Fujifilm X100 cameras starting with the Fujifilm Finepix X100 followed by the X100S, X100T and the X100F. I have a funny relationship with the X100 cameras. Truth be told, I have no business owning one, yet I still have the X100F. They're such a sexy camera, I get drawn to them and then don't use them enough to justify keeping them. I sell them and then ultimately buy another. It's so bad that I actually sold my first X100S only to replace it with another X100S. I think I've finally broken myself of that trend. I'm keeping the X100F but (so far) have not felt any strong urge to upgrade to the X100V or X100VI.

Finally, I also had a Hasselblad XPAN for a while, which is a panoramic film camera that uses standard 35mm film. It was a great camera, but kinda niche. It didn't get as much use as it deserved so I sold it to a student enrolled in the photography program at the local college. He assured me that it was going to get a lot of use so I gave him a good price. Every now and then, I regret selling that camera even though I know I would rarely if ever use it today.

My bag currently consists of:

• Fujifilm X-T5 (x2)
• Fujifilm X100F
• a stupid number of lenses, but the main workhorses are:
  • Fujinon XF 16mm f/1.4 R WR
  • Fujinon XF 35mm f/1.4 R
  • Fujinon XF 56mm f/1.2 R
  • Fujinon XF 16-55mm f/2.8 R LM WR
  • Fujinon XF 50-140mm f/2.8 R LM OIS WR
  • Fujinon XF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR