Shanghai

Peak Design Everyday Sling 3L

So I’ve been using this sling bag for a little while now and I’m quite happy with it. It’s big enough for my Fujifilm X100VI, extra batteries, SD cards, sunglasses or whatever smaller items one would want to bring and it’s perfect for that. I would not think of using it with a larger camera, but I guess it could be used with something like a smaller mirrorless camera with one lens.

I wanted a small bag for when I’m out only with the X100VI, like while travelling or doing street photography. I like how it’s easy to keep it on my back and just swing it around, grab the camera and swing it back on my back again and shoot. I believe it’s a safe enough bag since it’s not super easy to open, but with everything like this, you have to be smart about it and if you’re in really crowded places, swing it around to the front so you can keep an eye on it.

I don’t have any other Peak Design bags, so I can’t compare the quality to any of those, but I do have a couple of their camera straps and they are of good quality and so does this bag also seem to be. The outer fabric on the black one I have feels nice and quite water repellent, but haven’t use it in really heavy rain yet, but think it’ll hold up pretty good. The strap got an adjustment which makes it easy to get it to the right length, and it’s similar to the one Peak Design use on a couple of their camera straps. Inside there is a movable divider to separate your camera and lens, or in my case camera and spare batteries/sunglasses. There’s also a rather small zippered pocket where I keep an extra SD-card, but there’s room for some more small items. On the outside there’s a zippered pocket om the front where other small items can be fitted, though it’s rather tight.

So to sum it all up, this is the nearly perfect small bag to just keep a small camera and a few extra bits and pieces and I do recommend it for just that.

I started writing this on my first work trip to Shanghai in May/June 2025, took this photo in the lobby of the same hotel on my second work trip in October, 2025 and finished now in November, same year, at home.

RAW or JPEG

I wrote a post back in March about me getting the Fujifilm X100VI and about trying out shooting JPEG as a change. Well, I’ve tried that and it’s not for me.

While I don’t really enjoy post-processing photos that much, I still want to give my photos “my touch“ (whatever that is) with the different types of presets I have developed in Lightroom and that I usually always use. I tried shooting both JPEG’s and also some RAW, both using the in-camera Fujifilm film simulations and use them on RAW files in Fujifilm’s X RAW Studio, but they don’t do it for me. I don’t know, I’ve seen other photographers using them with some really nice results, but it doesn’t work for me.

One of the, or maybe it was the actual main reason for doing the whole “JPEG shooting thing“, was that my old iMac (and also this old MacBook Pro that I’m typing this on while in my hotel room in Shanghai) could not read the RAW files from my new Fujifilm X100VI because I couldn’t update Mac OSX to one that Lightroom/Camera RAW needed. I’d say that’s the only downside of owning an Apple computer so far. The M4 MAX Mac Studio that I’ve bought now is quite amazing, and I’m sure it will keep being amazing for years to come until it also will be too old. But that’s a problem for another time…

Anyways, I’m back to shooting all RAW and doing a little post-processing in Lightroom and while it’s not my favourite thing to spend time on, I still prefer the results that I get from doing that.

Shanghai pt.1

So I’ve been in Shanghai, China for two weeks now, doing technical support while the company I work for is moving an industrial site from one place to another. While it’s been mostly work, I’ve had a little bit of time to do some street photography. Shanghai is a very impressive and gigantic city but it’s been hard to get any good shots. I haven’t edited any of the shots (I only brought my Fujifilm X100VI), so the one down here from The Bund, is only taken with my iPhone. Will post more shots when I’m home and done with them.