ACROS Explored

By Louis Ferreira | Published: March 25, 2016

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Mirrorlessons has a detailed analysis of everything ACROS has to offer and how it compares to Fuji’s original monochrome simulation. The author covers the built-in color filters, and when it is best to utilize them. He also provides many landscape, and portrait examples, with each simulated color filter in action so you can decide what you prefer.

I have not had time to dig deeply into tweaking ACROS yet, but it’s definitely improved my understanding of the film simulation. The author does a good job of explaining his perspective, and I agree with him when he makes definitive statements like preferring weak grain over strong grain due to it’s more organic look. This article is not to be missed if you are an ACROS fan.

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Fujifilm X-Pro 2, a Leica Killer?

By Louis Ferreira | Published: March 24, 2016

EOSHD

It seems I am not the only person impressed with Fuji’s ability to produce great video via film simulation. EOSHD calls the Fujifilm X-Pro 2 a Leica killer, which is quite a claim considering the effort Leica’s been putting into video with newer Leica cameras like the SL and S. The Fujifilm X-Pro 2 isn’t perfect, but it allows you to produce stunning images and video, when you put the time into understanding the system. Check out EOSHD’s video centric review if you’re interested in learning more.

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The Nik Collection is Now Free

By Louis Ferreira | Published: March 24, 2016

  
You can download a copy from Google here.

Press Release

“Today we’re making the Nik Collection available to everyone, for free.

Photo enthusiasts all over the world use the Nik Collection to get the best out of their images every day. As we continue to focus our long-term investments in building incredible photo editing tools for mobile, including Google Photos and Snapseed, we’ve decided to make the Nik Collection desktop suite available for free, so that now anyone can use it.

The Nik Collection is comprised of seven desktop plug-ins that provide a powerful range of photo editing capabilities — from filter applications that improve color correction, to retouching and creative effects, to image sharpening that brings out all the hidden details, to the ability to make adjustments to the color and tonality of images.

Starting March 24, 2016, the latest Nik Collection will be freely available to download: Analog Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, Silver Efex Pro, Viveza, HDR Efex Pro, Sharpener Pro and Dfine. If you purchased the Nik Collection in 2016, you will receive a full refund, which we’ll automatically issue back to you in the coming days.

We’re excited to bring the powerful photo editing tools once only used by professionals to even more people now. “

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FUJIFILM X-Pro2 Firmware Release Notification

By Louis Ferreira | Published: March 23, 2016

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Fuji just released their official notice that Firmware 1.01 (not 1.1) is available, which we reported when it went live earlier today. It installed issue free for me, but was a little slow, so be patient. Good luck and happy shooting.

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Fuji film X-Pro 2 Firmware 1.01: Now Available – Updated 3/23

By Louis Ferreira | Published: March 23, 2016

X-Pro 2

Today an administrator on the original fuji-forum updated their report on the upcoming Fujifilm X-Pro 2 Firmware. Firmware version 1.01 is now available here.

The Update Addresses
The reset issues
Long exposure image quality
Other minor bugs

Update Status
Just updated my camera and it went smoothly

Via Fujix-Forums

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

By Louis Ferreira | Published: March 22, 2016

Last night I was filming with the Fujifilm X-Pro 2 again to test manual video recording and I decided it would be interesting to do a comparison. I wanted to try something extreme, the FujiFilm XF 56mm f/1.2 R vs Leica 50mm f/1.4 Summilux M Aspherical. I moved the camera to try to match the field of view and I focused on the most stationary person before beginning recording. Read More »

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