2020 Trend

These days everybody is making its list of the best and worst gear 2020, as well as best and worst trends of 2020.

And it’s on the latter one, the “trends”, that I would like to focus on today.

Because it is clear: one of the hot trends in the photography industry is putting selfie screens on cameras.

And guys, we have to talk about it!

I Am NOT a Selfie Screen Hater

To be clear: I do not hate selfie screens.

And in fact, during the various COVID-19 lockdowns, I often have to teach online and record my lessons, and the selfie screen is a true blessing!

A fully articulating screen is not the photography-evil of our times. It still works fine, it’s still flexible, and I have rather rapidly learned to accept it on my Fujifilm X-T4, sometimes even to love it (especially during my online lessons).

So, if you are one of those, who loves the fully articulating screen, I get it. Maybe I don’t love it as much as you do, but I could totally accept a selfie screen on cameras like the future Fujifilm X-H2 for example.

But….

But it’s getting a bit out of control, with selfie screens just popping up on so many cameras, that we have to talk about it.

And why is this happening?

Tony Northrup
“Selfie Screen? Pleasing Youtubers is Higher Priority than Pleasing Customers”
Vs.
Jonas Rask
“I have no count as to how many shots I missed becauseof the Selfie Screen”

A couple of days ago, Viktor contacted me with a hack he found about how to get all Fujifilm film simulation in Lightroom. Down below his description as well as his screenshots that I share with his permission.

If you want, you can also check out the video of Pal2Tech below, which he uploaded today.

WARNING: While this seems to work just fine and seems not to create any issues, to those who try it, it is still a “hack”. So as always with these things, make proper backups and copies, before you try it out.

by Viktor – check out his instagram

I found a way to apply official Adobe Classic NEG simulation to any X camera RAW files, works in Photoshop Camera Raw and Lightroom. If you are interested in the process, how to enable this simulation, I can send instructions (pretty simple hack, no exif digging).

Close Photoshop / Lightroom. Run Notepad as administrator, or the file can’t be saved. Start your Photoshop / Lightroom, open a Fujifilm RAW file, apply Classic NEG, enjoy 🙂 Tested with the latest Camera Raw and the latest Lightroom Classic.

by Thomas

I have created a script for Mac users to use, to complete the steps shown in the video. The script makes the process more easy and it also makes a backup of the files before doing anything. Te link is https://github.com/tl87/lrc-fuji-hack

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