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Cupcake Burlesque: X-Pro 2 Shoot

Saturday night I was invited to shoot a Game of Thrones inspired burlesque show by Cupcake Burlesque at Respectable Street. Normally I would grab my M240 and Summilux, with my Q, to shoot a show like this but, since it was just fun, I decided to primarily use my Fujifilm X-Pro 2 and Fujinon XF56mm […]

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FUJINON XK6x20 Update and Videos

Fujifilm released a marketing video along with an image quality video sample, shortly after the announcement of the Fujinon XK6x20, which competes with the Canon CN7x17 KAS S Cine-Servo 17-120mm T2.95. The Fujinon XK6x20 will cost around half as much as its Canon competitor, and specialty shops like Duclos Lenses are taking $1,000 down for preorder. It is likely Fuji will sell every XK6x20 they […]

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Ben Cherry on The XF100-400mm F4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_TFzB30vI4 Fujifilm released a beautiful video of the XF100-400mmF4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR on a X-T1 being used in Scotland by Ben Cherry to photograph wild life that we reviewed a few weeks ago. In the video, he reports being impressed with the lens’ ability to perform in continues autofocus mode, which echoes our experience, and the video includes some impressive […]

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New 4K-compatible high zoom ratio cine lens “FUJINON XK6x20”

FUJIFILM Corporation (President: Shigehiro Nakajima) has announced that it will release the “FUJINON XK6x20” (hereinafter “XK6x20”) as a new addition to the lineup of 4K-compatible digital cinema camera zoom lenses in late June. Equipped with a PL mount**, the most common format for cinema cameras, the “XK6x20” is a standard zoom lens that delivers T3.5* brightness […]

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Massive Fujifilm Firmware Release

Recent Fujifilm Camera/Lens Firmwares Model Name Latest Version Description Link Updated Date X-A1 Ver.1.40 Supports focus limiter function for XF100-400mmF4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR. Firmware Download Mar 31 2016 X-A2 Ver.1.20 Supports focus limiter function for XF100-400mmF4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR. Firmware Download Mar 31 2016 X-E1 Ver.2.60 Supports focus limiter function for XF100-400mmF4.5-5.6 R […]

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Fujifilm XF 56mm f/1.2 R vs Leica 50mm f/1.4 Summilux M ASPH Video Results

Surprisingly everyone that ventured a guess on the site, in person and on Youtube, did so correctly. The Brielle Murch video is indeed the one filmed with a Leica 50mm f/1.4 Summilux M ASPH. Surprisingly, no one mentioned the different exposure as being the primary reason for picking one video over the other. Youtube introduced more compression […]

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