So I bought a Fujifilm X100V. It’s not the latest and greatest - I wrote a blog post about that. It’s not even all that much smaller/pocketable/convenient than my Fujifilm X-T3. Yet, it does feel compelling to carry and shoot photos with. My fiancée asked me what it does that is different. Honestly - not much. It’s “experiential”, I replied to her, knowing very well how evasive this would sound.

Yet, that’s kind of the “big deal”. The camera doesn’t poop out magic photos, like the TikTok influencers would have you believe when they blew this camera up in 2022. It’s just a tool, like any camera. I can already tell it has strengths and a few weaknesses. But the most important part of any tool is that you want to pick it up and use it.

It’s only a couple of days now, but I can tell this camera and I are going to be great friends for a long time to come. I was a little trepidatious about the fixed 35mm equivalent focal length. I’ve always been a wide-angle or telephoto kinda of shooter. I even bought, and then sold, the 23mm f/2 Fujifilm lens a couple years ago. It just didn’t “vibe” with me and my shooting style. But having this fixed length on the X100V feels good. Constraints can inspire creativity, they say.

It’s also a camera that doesn’t make me take photography too seriously. It doesn’t require that I shoot “bangers” or that every walk with it should result in portfolio-worthy images. It’s just for fun. Shoot anything, kinda vibes.

So that’s what Daily is going to be. Just daily images, captured with whatever tool I have at my disposal, though likely the X100V. I’ll rely on the JPEGs and film simulations and try to do very little if any editing.