Hey all!

In today’s “Behind the X-gear” episode we are going to meet Matteo Bastianelli, the Fujifilm X-shooter, whose work has been published also at National Geographic and CNN.

• (Using X100T) The poetry of Rio’s ‘Suppressed Favelas at cnn.com
• (Using X-Pro2) Inside a Flourishing—and Conflicted—Weed Industry at nationalgeographic

Interested to know more? Then check out the full interview below :-)

Tell us something about you

I am a freelance documentary photographer and filmmaker based in Rome, Italy. I am a member of Italy’s National Order of Journalists since 2009. Above all I work on long-term projects related to social, environmental and human rights issues, with a keen interest in consequences of wars and their effects on those who live through it, focusing on the theme of memory and identity.

I was a member of Reportage by Getty Images Emerging Talent till 2014. My images and videos have been published and commissioned by a number of media outlets, NGOs, national and international magazines, such as Al Jazeera, Burn, CNN, Der Spiegel, Discovery Channel Interactive, D- La Repubblica, El Pais, Il Corriere della Sera, International Committee of the Red Cross, Internazionale, International New York Times, Lens – The New York Times, L’Espresso, L’Europeo, L’Oeil de la Photographie, La Repubblica, La Stampa, MSNBC, National Geographic Photography (Australia, Netherlands, Usa), National Geographic Italia, Newsweek Japan, PDN, RTL News, Rhythms of Taipei, TIME Lightbox, Vanity Fair, among others.

My projects have been widely awarded and shown in Belgium, Brazil, Estonia, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, The Netherlands and USA.

Professional Photographer or Amateur or something in between?

Capture One has recently made some significant steps forward to what belongs Fujifilm support. For example, they added Fujifilm compressed RAW support, OpenCL is now also supported by X-trans files and more – Full list in this article

But frankly, there is still room for improvement.

For example, still no film simultion support (but you can find a great homebrew at the fuji-x-forum) and no Fujifilm GFX 50s support.

The news today?

There will be a dedicated Fujifilm Capture One webinar tomorrow, July 6, 2017, with Fujifilm X-photographer Eivind Røhne. So sign up here and tune in at 11 AM New York time (5 PM Berlin Time).

I’m currently a Iridient / Adobe user. But I have to admit that I’m thinking to switch to Capture One (from Adobe). But before switching, I want Capture One to finally offer full X-Trans support.

Now, since this summer I have no major trips plans (except my recent 1 week journey in wonderful South Italy) I will spend a lot of time hiking on my local mountains. So I have a little tour planed for tomorrow (with my trusty easy to use Camslinger Cosyspeed bag, as you can see in the video below). But if the weather will turn bad tomorrow, I’ll definitely tune into the Capture One webinar… maybe they can convince me to make the switch from Adobe.

And if weather is great, and I can’t see the Capture One webinar, well, then maybe some of you guys can drop a few comments to this post about the webinar… I’ll be happy to check them out when I’m back.

My Mountains: Image Result here – and also can’t decide between Classic Chrome and Velvia… HELP!!!

The Godox TT350 F (for Fujifilm) is now in stock at AmazonUS here and Adorama here.

Also the Flashpoint R2 TTL Transmitter (re-branded Godox X1T-F) is now available for pre-order at Adorama.

A recent Godox Firmware update added Fujifilm support for all 2.4GHz lights (TT685, V860II, TT350, AD200, AD360 , AD600) – download here.

Godox also updated their website with the X1T-F transmitter for Fuji.