In bed with the X

London-based photographer and visual artist LA Creativity shoots portraits and weddings and has recently expanded her repertoire into boudoir photography. As the owner of a Canon EOS 5D Mark III, she has also been looking at switching to a smaller, lighter mirrorless kit and has been eyeing up the Fujifilm X system.

So we thought it would be a good idea to introduce her to Damien Lovegrove, who is not only one of the UK’s most respected masters in this genre but he also made the switch over from Canon DSLRs to Fujifilm some years ago and is something of an X-system expert. We set up a photo shoot in London for Damien and LA with two beautiful human models, two stunning Fujifilm models and a selection of lovely prime lenses.

‘I’ve used Canon’s full-frame EOS R6 mirrorless camera shooting weddings, and it’s a great camera,’ explains LA. ‘It’s really fast, and the image quality is great, but I’m drawn to the look, feel and size of the Fujifilm system. The fact that it’s APS-C is not an issue for me – for seven out of the ten years that I’ve been a photographer I’ve used a cropped-sensor Canon DSLR. For me it’s not so much about the sensor, it’s about the glass. If you’ve got good glass on the front then even on a cropped sensor you’re going