The Samyang Summer Blockbuster Series continues. This Monday they announced the Samyang 20mmF1.8 and the 20mmT1.9 Cine Lens. They will be available also for Fuji X Mount and cost €549 (€599 for the Cine Lens).
Last week Samyang announced the 35mmF1.2 and Cine Lens 35mmT1.3, which will also be available for Fuji X Mount.
Capturing Puffins in Flight with the Fujifilm X-T2 at macleancomms + Testing the X-T2 Autofocus System on Bass Rock at macleancomms / Fujifilm X-T2 in South Africa at hmeye / Fuji X-T2 : Hands On First Look at photoinduced / X-T2 tested in Le Mans at the French site photogeek (translation) + X-T2 presentation at photogeek (translation) / Fuji X-T2 Video Features Review with Du Wayne Denton at OrmsTV youtube /
Full Test in Italian at tomshw (translation) / Fujifilm X-Pro2 Design Story: Decisive Usability at senzo / The story how I got married with Fujifilm X-Pro2 at timosoasepp / Photographing in colorful Times Square with the Fuji X-Pro2 at aboutphotography-tomgrill / Problem solving: How to deal with the Fujifilm X-Pro2 “grid” artefacts at mirrorlessons /
Other X-series cameras
Swimwear & fashion photoshoot with the Fujifilm X-T1 & X100T at ksgphotography /
X100/S/T + X70
Still loving the Fujifilm X100T at medium + Fujifilm X70 vs. X100T at medium / Vlogging With The Fujifilm X70 at KeenanRIVALS youtube / Using the Fujifilm x100s in the Dominican Republic at ibarionex /
Lenses
X-mount lenses
The Fuji Trinity: My 3 Favorite Fuji Lenses by Ted Vieira Youtube
Zuiko 50mm f/1.8 on Fuji X-T1 mirror-less at simonhawketts /
X-TRANS
X-Pro2 (X-Trans) Vs. Pentax K3 II, Sony A6300, Sony A7 II, Canon EOS 80D, Nikon D7200, Nikon D750 at the Dutch site gregtheulings (translation) / Adobe´s got the best RAW converter for Fuji X-Trans now, or what ? Part1 at hendriximages / SOOC Acros: A New Way? at adambonn /
Travel X / Switch (or not) to the X
– Why I sold all my Fujifilm kit –
Cactus V6II Remote Trigger High Speed Sync with Fujifilm X-Pro 2 at joengphotography / Fujifilm Instax Share Smartphone Printer SP-2 Finally Here at xavierlum / Fujifilm X Series Battery Life at matthewhartphotography / RoboShoot MX-20 – RX-20 TTL Flash Triggers for Fuji X at admiringlight /
a bit of everything
Kevin Mullins Street Photography Day at saywellhq / The Fujifilm Triad—Or Is It The Quadrad? at thewanderinglensman / Photo of the Month Competition at fiftythreemm / Better Shoot Primes at littlebigtravelingcamera / FREE DOWNLOAD: The Enthusiast’s Guide Series Snapshot: 15 Photographic Principles You Need to Know at enthusiastsguides /
Before I get to the point of this posting, I will give a little bit of background to add some perspective to my thoughts. I started my photographic journey way back in the film days. I shot for many years for a Stock Library in Sydney Australia. You know the deal – the generic girl with glossy white teeth eating a red shiney apple, or the squeaky clean couple with their 2.2 kids having a picnic under the perfect umbrella-shaped tree. All fairly boring stuff, bit it kept my artistic flair alive and helped to pay the bills. I still worked as a teacher (my main source of income), but I was able to make a healthy supplement to my earnings by selling ‘stock’. Back in those days the Nikon F3, then the F4 were the weapons of choice. Due to family reasons, I had a break from photography for about 10 years, and of course when I returned everything had gone digital.
For the last 6 years now I have travelled Asia extensively (usually for 3 months of the year), shooting Fine Art images for my website. My recent weapons of choice were the Nikon D700 and D3X. After thinking long and hard how I could lighten my burden from dragging these huge DSLR’s around in the tropical heat of Asia, I eventually threw caution to the wind and in 2012/13 I sold all of my Nikons and lenses and bought a Fuji X100, X-Pro1 and some lenses. On a good day, the X100 was just OK, but the X-Pro1 experiment was an unmitigated disaster. That trip to Asia in 2012 was highlighted with mutterings and expletives all aimed at the Version 1 Firmware of my X-Pro1 and its lack of focusing ability. I returned back home with not many useable photos and immediately (at great expense), sold all of the Fuji gear and bought another D3X with a selection of lenses.
