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Fujifilm X-Pro2
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Where the Ground Meets the Sky at rileyjoseph

6 months with the X-Pro 2 at morethanwords / Fujifilm X-Pro 2 first impressions! at larsauthen / X-Pro2 Long Term Impressions at billfortney / Dubfire at the Belgrade Fortress at flemmingbojensen + Red Bull Music Academy @ Distortion 2016 at flemmingbojensen / A rainy day in the park with the Fuji X-Pro2 at aboutphotography-tomgrill / Rugby met de Fujifilm X-Pro2 at edwingoed / belwo Zero at bokeh-monster / The Lofoten Islands, A Road Trip at stevefullerphoto / Fuji X-Pro2 book at friedmanarchives / Review at digital-photography-school / 5 things I wish I’d known about the Fuji X-Pro2 before I bought it at takebetterphotos / Fujifilm X-Pro2 Mirrorless Camera Review at shutterbug / X-Pro2 Test at australianphotography / Review at sleeklens / X-Pro 2 Diary: Some of My Favourite Shots So Far at thomasfitzgeraldphotography / Going Into The Curve at olafphotoblog / Snap Photography Festival & Extreme Low Light Craziness at f16.click / X-Pro2… a brief evaluation at billgekas / Fuji Xpro2 – four month’s on at thefxworks / The Fujifilm X-Pro2: The Optical Viewfinder Documentary Hybrid Camera for the Rest of Us? at creativityinnovationsuccess / Fuji X-Pro2 – More Beauty, less Beast in German at peterpoete (translation) /

Other X-series cameras

X-T1 field test at eccentric99 /

X100/S/T + X70

Fuji X70 Review in Spanish at fuji-xperience (translation) / Fujifilm X100T at rousette / Fujifilm WCL-X70 samples at dpreview / My morning coffee routine: Rancilio Silvia v3 (video taken with X100T) at Ian Mackie – Architectural Photography youtube / Blog Post – for images check out ianjmackie / What is so great about the Fujifilm x100T? at photoventureboy / Without this little guy, I would have quit shooting for good – Fujifilm X100T at medium /

Lenses

X-mount lenses

Fujifilm XF100-400mm at leighmiller / 90mm Review at fstoppers / 100-400 at findingrange + 1.4 TC review at findingrange/ 100-400 review at lenstip / Review: Samyang 8mm Fish Eye Lens Test at macleancomms / Covering an international rugby match with just a kit-lens (18-55) at fujix-pectations / Fuji 35mm WR – First Time Out at ipcloud / 50-140 Review at philippowell / Fujifilm 56mm vs Samyang 50mm at mirrorlessons / XF16mmF1.4 quick review at mattmccordphotography /

Jpeg / RAW / Converters

My Reasons to Switch to Capture One at captureoneblog… However, Rico tells you here why Capture One is currently the worst option for X-shooters (fuji-x-forum)… and there are more X-shooter frustrated with Capture One. Read more here

Speed up Lightroom with Fuji Files (RAW Editing) at f16.click / Capture One 9.2 New Features Overview at captureoneblog / SILKYPIX Developer Studio 7.1.6 Now Available, Supports Fujifilm X-Pro2 Compressed RAW and More at silkypix /

Travel X / Switch (or not) to the X / Fuji X for Weddings
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My full switch to Fuji-X: resolution of a gear dilemma, and the X-Pro2 two month user report at eyesuncloudedphoto / Scotland with Fuji – Beautiful Glen Coe at miksmedia / A Month of Travel Photography in Myanmar With Fuji X at fstoppers / Hoi An, Vietnam at thomasdlh /

Free eBook – Rocky Nook’s Guide to Travel for Photographers at Rocky Nook.

Acessories / Flash / Bags

HOOD HOOD Hurray! at ivanjoshualoh

Flash and the Fujifilm X-system: dramatic lighting in India at morethanwords /

a bit of everything

What’s in My Bag Now (and Why) – Fujifilm Mirrorlesss Landscape and Travel Photography Kit at roycruz

Visiting the Dingle Peninsula at lensedbyoliver / The World’s First ‘Fully’ Digital Camera was Created by Fuji at petapixel / New Zealand landscape photographer of the year is X-shooter Thomas Busby. See his work at tb-photography /

“David Bowie Unseen” Exhibition (taken with Fuji Cameras) in Tokyo from 8 to 20 of July – Details here

the exhibit has also be extended in Paris troughout July 31 at gallery ArtCube

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The Stray Cats of Porto

Beautiful Stray

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guest post by Adam – adambonn.com website

A very great many ‘togs seem to protest at the idea of cat photos…

When the Fujifilm X-Pro2 finally landed, the internet wags quipped that the Fujifilm X-Pro1 was now only good for “cat shots and infrared conversion”

:) I did have to laugh

The thing is…

I love cats!

I realise that some find them aloof, greedy and self centred. But animals didn’t ask to be domesticated, they didn’t sign up to some mutually exclusive deal, you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours. Animals exist in our domesticated world because we have use for them, or because we tolerate them.

But many large urban areas have stray animals, perhaps once a pet, perhaps the offspring of a pet. Strays are NOT a Porto problem, they’re not a London problem or a Rome problem or a anywhere problem, they’re a humanistic problem.

Strays say something about our own species; and it’s not nice. Animals stuck in a neither world of not being part of human existence nor being free of it. They exist in this space because of the human world and despite the human world.

When we take a pet, we create a dependant. When we break that bond, we create a shadow.

These are not cutesy kitties, they could be… they have the capacity, but these are street creatures, discarded and dirty. Left to eek out an existence on whatever they can get.

I love cats.

And when I look into the eyes of these strays I see the struggle they’ve endured and their defiance in never giving up. This isn’t some sort of aloof detachment. This is the primordial square root of survival. Even the little indoors only kitty curled up on your bed has this ability.

These cats are not pets… To me, they’re as valid street subjects as anything else in the genre, after all, if we say that ‘street’ is the documentary of the humanistic world, then what tells our story more than the problems we create and the things we discard?

All these shot are taken with the X-Pro1 and X-T1.

Both bodies soon only to be suitable for infrared conversion, and cat shots. Perhaps even infrared cat shots :)

I realise that you may not enjoy cat shots… But hopefully you’ve seen a different side of the kitty, one which is perhaps a bit more engaging than a pampered fat cat chasing a toy or lapping up some milk…

If it’s of interest, you can see more of my work on the links below.

Warm regards
Adam

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Fuji X-Pro2: “First Comes The Feel, then the Specs… but that ISO-dial !” – Riflessifotografici Review & More

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I know, there is a lot of buzz around the imminent X-T2 launch… a buzz that is almost eclipsing the fact that just about 3 months ago, a camera called Fujifilm X-Pro2 hit the market.

So let’s get back to it, and honour the amazing X-Pro2 with a dedicated roundup.

1) Let’s start with a refreshing review at riflessifotografici here (English Version – Italian Version). But be aware: don’t expect the usual pixel peeping, 100% magnification, and too much tech talk. This review focusses more on the “philosophy” and “feel” of the X-Pro2 rather than just on the mere specs. A review, with more emphasis on the optical viewfinder experience rather than on the EVF refresh rate. And… a review without images of walls or bookshelves ;) . Make sure to check out “Fujifilm X-Pro2… Back to the Future” here at riflessifotografici.

2) Also located in Italy, the “Postcards From Rome – Photographing the Ponte Fabricio” by karenhutton. It’s a short video, where Karen shows you how she captured the Ponte Fabricio at sunset in Rome.

3) To see how the X-Pro2 (with 56mmF1.2) performed in Low Light at a Concert, check out “Live At Last – A new Fuji X-perience!” at littlebigtravelingcamera. Spoiler Alert: “The combo performed flawless”

4) “If you are considering the X-Pro2 just do it. Every once in a while a new digital camera comes along that sets a new benchmark and in my opinion this is one such camera“. Why? Just check out “Lily, in the studio, with the Fuji X-Pro2” at lloyd-roach

5) Fuji X-Pro2 – The difficult attempt of a first approach – Part 1 in German at peterpoete (translation) – Part 2 in German at peterpoete (translation)

6) Yep, I know, many of us don’t buy Fuji for shooting video. However, it’s good to hear that the X-Pro2 made some nice step forwards also in this compartment. Read “X-Pro 2 Diary: Some thoughts on Shooting Video” at thomasfitzgeraldphotography

7) X-Pro2 Review, substance over specs at Mirrorlessons.

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X-Pro2 Review Trinity at thistonybridge
Walking with the X-Pro2 for the fist time at thistonybridge / X-Pro2 is getting under my skin at thistonybridge / A jolly Good slapping thistonybridge

In the Field: Photographing Duke Riley’s ‘Fly By Night’ with the Fujifilm X-Pro2 at BHphoto / Eric Bouvet en Laponie (X-Pro2) on youtube / X-Pro2 Maximizing the image quality of Fuji’s X-Pro2 at aboutphotography-tomgrill / Fuji X-Pro2 Field Test Part II at imaging-resource / X-Pro2 + 100-400 Bull Roughing Up a Rodeo Bullfighter Video at Joe Ng youtube / French X-Pro2 review at jd-photos (translation) / Streets of Budapest with the X-Pro2 at gaborimages / The Three Worst Things and the Three Best Things about the Fuji X-Pro 2 at jlwilliams / The monochrome battle! – Fuji X-Pro2 vs. Olympus Pen F vs. Panasonic GX85 at mirrorlessons / A Quick and Dirty Fuji X-Pro2 Review at zanderwhite / Fuji X-Pro2 and X100T: Toy lens comparisons at macfilos / Six Months with the X-Pro2 at macleancomms / Long Term Impressions at billfortney / Going over to the dark side with the Fuji X-Pro2 at aboutphotography-tomgrill / Start to an Olympic Summer at tskrljphoto / Riding In The Rain at littlebigtravelingcamera / Fuji X-Pro2 real-world hands on review at Maarten Heilbron youtube / Fujifilm X-Pro 2 Field Test: Costa Rica at photographyconcentrate / Review & testing of Fuji X-Pro2 at Zed ProMedia youtube / Nightskies with the Fuji X-Pro2 at floriansphotographs /

Other X-series cameras

Meet Winston. The most unusual thing I ever photographed: Product photography with the Fuji X-T1 at tomleuntjensphotography / X-T1: London Underground at briansolomon / Underwater Test Shots with the X-T1 at macleancomms /

X100/S/T + X70

Going Wider with the Fujifilm X100T and WCL-X70 at brettsimison / Remote Control Street Photography with the Fuji X100T at strongfoto / X70 Review at anthonythurston / X-T1: Rural street photos, rapeseed fields and stormy skies at marccooper / Berlin in leisure time… at wolfgangmayrhofer / X100T Review at tigzrice / Fuji X100T: A Wedding Photographers Review at particlenews /

Lenses

X-mount lenses

Night Photos With The Fuji XF 100-400 at findingrange / Photographing Some Boats With The Fuji XF 100-400mm at findingrange / 100-400 Review at lenstip / The New Fujinon 2x Converter at macleancomms / The Fuji XF 2X TC at fujixphotoworkshops / Review: A day at the zoo with the Fujinon XF100-400mm super telephoto lens at photoxels / Fujifilm XF 35mm F2 R WR Review at fujix-pectations / Lens Review: Fujifilm FX 18-55mm F2.8-4 Zoom Lens – Not your average kit lens at fujix-pectations / 27mm review at johncaz / Which Fuji Normal Prime NSFW at ipcloud / A wider angle with the Fujinon XF16 at tomleuntjensphotography / 100-400 review at amateurphotographer / Fuji 35 f2 v. 18-55 at ipcloud /

other lenses / Adapter / Extension Tubes

XF 56mm & XF 90mm with Fujifilm MCEX-11/-16 Extension Tubes at markusrack / Ohh… The Helios! at rasve /

Jpeg / RAW / Converters

Capture1 9.1.2 released here… nothing Fujifilm specific / Fuji compressed raw support for the Fuji X-Pro2 in AccuRaw and PhotoRaw at chromasoft / Aurora HDR Update Brings X-Pro2 RAW Support & Performance Improvements at photohangout / Fuji X-E1 + Iridient Developer + Lightroom + QuickLux2 at thomasfitzgeraldphotography / X-Pro 2 Diary: Part 3 – The Current State of Raw Converters at thomasfitzgeraldphotography /

Travel X / Switch (or not) to the X / Fuji X for Weddings

The Sunrise Country with Fujifilm at sebastianboatca / Is the Fujifilm X-T1 Ready for Weddings? at cameraninjablog / Heading to Europe – What’s in my Bag? at misha.gallery / Bali High’s at thesoftsaddle / Wild Mustang at thesoftsaddle / Fuji cameras – 20+ weddings in… at gwls.photium / Fuji x100T, A Wedding Photographers Review at geneoh /

Acessories / Flash / Bags

Fuji X-T1 & Bowens Streamlite 530 Portraits at derekclarkphotography /

a bit of everything

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What camera should a beginner buy? at thedigitaltrekker

Night Photography – 12 Essential Techniques at sebastianboatca / Fujifilm X Cameras: Understanding the ‘ISOless’ Sensor at adambonn / Win A Think Tank Photo Mirrorless Mover 25 (Contest ends June 5) at cameraswithoutmirrors / Tutorial: Bath shot by Damien Lovegrove at Fujifilm youtube / Fuji X Passion Magazine at fujixpassion / Weekend Stock Trip to New York City at xshooters /

Fuji X-T1 The best cowboy camera? – (Guest Post by Mike Anfield)

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Guest Post by Mike Anfield – facebook.com/cowboyphotos / www.cowboyphotos.ca

On our community Facebook photography page new photographers are often asking the question, “What camera should I buy?” A deluge of replies usually follows extolling why Canon is better than Nikon or vice versus. Rarely does anyone ever ask , “what type of photography do you intend on doing?”

I think one would be hard pressed to buy a bad camera these days but clearly different makes or models are better suited for certain applications. I have been a Canon shooter for many years, primarily because when I started buying digital cameras their system was the best for bird and wildlife photography. I’m not sure they hold that advantage anymore but after you are heavily invested in lenses there seems little incentive to change.

A new photographic journey led me to having a pretty unique set of requirements for a camera. My family and I had moved from Vancouver to Kamloops in the interior of British Columbia Canada. This is an area of expansive grasslands most of the grasslands used for cattle ranching. Somewhat to my surprise I discovered that much of the work was still performed by cowboys on horseback. A chance encounter led to the taking of some photos of working cowboys; I was hooked and started getting to know some of the ranchers and photographing the cowboys as often as I could.

I was getting some good photos but I was pretty limited as to the activities and locations I could access. The only solution was to ride with the cowboys. It was a long progression taking a number of years but I now try to take most of my shots from horseback while working alongside the real cowboys.

This brings us back to our topic, is the Fuji XT-1 the best cowboy camera. One of the photo related businesses my wife and I operate includes camera and lens rentals so I had no shortage of options available to me. Nothing in our inventory was really working me while on horseback. I started researching the alternatives and, as size and weight was a major consideration, looking for the first time at mirrorless cameras. My requirements were:

  • Image Quality – this is not a get rich quick scheme by any stretch but I do sell images and prints so I could not sacrifice image quality for some of my other requirements.
  • Size and Weight – I am getting a little long in the tooth but still capable of carrying a full size body around, it is what happens to a larger camera when you are riding that is the problem. Sometimes we have to ride pretty hard in rough country; the bigger cameras were getting thrown around and smashing against the saddle at times.
  • Dust and Weather Resistant – We occasionally get rained or snowed on here but this is a pretty dry climate, moisture is not a huge concern, dust is!
  • Durability – I have been tossed off a horse (more than once) wearing my camera, roped a calf wearing the camera and generally treated it like no piece of photographic gear should ever be treated.

I’m not sure Fuji is going to find a huge market here but I have found the XT-1 to be just about the perfect cowboy camera. It has met all my requirements and continues (touch wood) to produce great images, even after all the abuse. In addition to all the banging and crashing I have been shooting in the branding and sorting pens where I have ended up with 6 or 7 millimeters of dust on my camera.

The image quality has really surprised me to the point that I use it, almost exclusively, for all my other photography. The exception being bird photography but I am excited about trying out the 100-400 as my 400 2.8 is really heavy and I have never come up with a suitable response to the inevitable, “boy that is a big lens!”

One of the other big plusses for me was the 18-135 lens. Carrying extra lenses and changing lenses just isn’t a viable option while working cattle on horseback. The 18-135 covers most of the focal lengths I require, performs extremely well and is a WR lens. It is a little slow for some of our, before sunrise starts, but I wouldn’t want the extra weight and size of a faster lens of this range.

My kit when riding includes the XT-1 with 18-135 and that is it. I seem to get just enough battery life to last most rides. The camera resides in a small binocular case strapped to my chest. The bag has a magnetic closure at the top and safety straps that attach to the camera. It just fits the XT-1 ,18-135 combo with the lens shade on.

There are a few small issues; the well documented flimsy card door is annoying and the diopter adjustment does not stay where I set it but overall I have been very pleased with the performance and the results I have been getting.

More of my work can be seen at https://www.facebook.com/cowboyphotos/ or www.cowboyphotos.ca