RAILWAY MUSEUM IN LUZNA U RAKOVNIKA IN 2016 YEAR.

PHOTOGRAPHIC WANDERINGS.

September 14, 2025.

I certainly don't need to remind regular visitors to my site ►the first photographic reportage from the Railway Museum in Luzna u Rakovnika from September 9, 2017. It was the first to be published, but not the first to be photographed. It was created on April 2016 and should never have been published. It was an exterior test of the new Fujifilm camera X-Pro 1 and Fujifilm Fujinon XF 35 mm F 2.0 R WR lens. For more than nine years, the photographs rested peacefully in my archive. Until now.

Before I recently purchased the new Fujifilm GFX 100 II Medium-Format camera, I looked very precise at all the photographs, I had taken with various Fujifilm cameras. The reportage from that day of April 2016, created with the Fujifilm X-Pro 1 camera and the Fujifilm Fujinon 35 mm F 2.0 R WR lens, was also the dernier of this gear at my service. What's special is, that it contains some of the most impressive images, I've taken with the X-Pro 1.

This camera at first ►seemed excellent. But soon the first signs appeared, that something is wrong. And in the end, it was the ►unpleasant merging of distant small elements, that caused us to farewell for a longer time.

100 - 400 Mpx, 4.4 x 3.3 cm large, 16-bit Medium-Format sensor of the Fujifilm GFX 100 II camera does not use X-Trans mosaic, so these issues did not affect acquisition of this camera. But when I looked at this first photographs from the museum in Luzna, I suddenly felt sorry, that they would remain hidden from the public forever. Yes, those artifacts also appear here (and thus reduce the largest possible size of prints to approximately A3+ format), but at the same time it is clear, how well the sensor and the lens coped with closer photographs, where artifacts do not appear and, on the contrary, all the advantages of the unusual RGB mosaic, called X-Trans, stand out.

In A4 format (Sheets from the Archive), the photographs are technically completely perfect without any flaws. If Fujifilm had sold the X-Pro 1 with this warning at the time, it would have gained many more customers and would not have disappointed demanding creators, who were unexpectedly and very unpleasantly surprised by the ugly artifacts.

Photographies were edited using today's most advanced RAW photography processing techniques to make them as refined as possible and have become maximally intense. The composition and concept correspond to my perception at the time and I would create something a bit differently today, however they are a true testimony to the time of their creation and they have great inner strength, which ultimately decided to publish them.

Photographs taken with Fujifilm X technology with X-Trans image sensors were initially and under certain circumstances not exactly the benchmark for image quality. However, they never lacked the main thing, namely the great intensity and depth of the message.

PHOTOGRAPHIC GEAR.
	Camera:	Fujifilm X-Pro 1.
	Lens:	Fujifilm Fujinon XF 35 mm F 2.0 R WR.
	Filter:	Schneider Kreuznach B+W MRC Nano Käsemann Circular Polariser XS-Pro 43 mm.
	Tripod:	–

© Martin Mojzis, 2025.
Photographies: © Martin Mojzis, 2016.

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