When I bought my first DSLR, I never looked back at my old compact camera – until, that is, I took a vacation years later and found myself shooting with a waterproof compact camera more than my mirrorless. The feeling of shooting with a smaller camera was liberating, so, as I planned a trip flying from Detroit, Michigan, to Los Angeles, California, I packed two cameras: an oversized compact camera and a tiny mirrorless.
I tucked the Fujifilm GFX100RF and the Fujifilm X-E5 with the 23mm f/2.8 R WR lens, which I had loaned out for the trip, into a camera backpack. At the last minute, my doubts got the best of me, and I tossed in my own X-T4 with a prime and a zoom, just in case, but neither one actually left the camera bag.
