FunLeader Caplens 18mm f8 Pro – Always ready to shoot
We all know the function and purpose of a camera body cap. It is to cover and protect the sensor when it is not in use. That’s simple. FunLeader Caplens 18mm f8 Pro Some of us might even be aware of some interesting body caps such as Fujifilm XM-FL 24mm,…
On the Tracks of the Krampus
“Like trying to hear snowflakesNo one can hear my callConsuming all the voicesDampened by the snowYou’d better not cheat and you’d better not cryAnd you’d better not lie, I’m telling you whySanta ain’t coming this yearSanta ain’t coming this year” If Santa Claus is a universal figure, in some alpine…
Lessons under the Tuscan sun
2022 has been a strange year. Not strange like the last two, where the pandemic took a toll on our lives, but strange for me. It is the first year when travelling has been possible again, and yet, up until the 26th of October, due to work, I had only…
I found my wonderland
Hello, Alice! Would you like to start by introducing yourself to our readers?Hello, I am Alice, 25 years old, and I’m from Macau. I am a freelancer and a huge fan of photography. Could you tell us about your hobbies and passions?I love plants, flowers, and walking around the streets.…
Fuji X Passion Photography Magazine – November 2022
Hello everyone!The November issue has arrived. This edition features four fantastic and talented photographers and highlights their beautiful imagery, from portraits to landscapes. As always, each piece of work, each photograph, was made with a Fuji X camera. It was a pleasure for us to make this truly inspiring number…
Photography and Life
Last year, when I was between jobs, I decided to try photography more. I started a small business and began looking for opportunities. I bought some gear for flash photography, I studied some courses, I looked for contacts and… I took plenty of photos. I photographed products, food, business offices,…
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I believe I can fly – Fuji X-T2 and Motocross
We photographers often stay to long in our comfort zone. In my case this means photographing landscapes and wildlife. But leaving the comfort zone and shooting something we normally don’t often has very positive effects on our overall photographic capabilities. I went out to a motocross race the other day…
Nicolas Vandeberg: Photo session with Fujinon 56mm f/1.2
Here is a preview of the photo shoot I did with Romane. This series was made at an abandoned site, in Verviers area! For this session, I tried to have a more natural approach. The photos were shot with the Fuji X-T1 and the Fujinon 56mm 1.2, made without flash…
DSLR V Mirrorless: The Switcher Debate – part II
This is not really a competition between DSLR v Mirrorless. As I said in a previous post I would not go out and sell all your DSLR to buy mirrorless. The cameras do different jobs in different way but they both do great jobs. There was some debate in the…
Travelling with the Fujifilm XF16-55mm F2.8
Hi Fuji X Passion, thank you for giving me the opportunity to share my passion and vision of photography. My name is Shinichi Kuroda. I’m Japanese and have been living in British Columbia, Canada, since 2006. I’m an amateur photographer, specializing in landscape and street photography. Fuji X-Pro2 . Fuji…
INSIDE YOU CAMERA BAG: Matthew McCord
“I am a full time graduate student at Jacksonville State University in North Alabama. I’m pursuing my masters in secondary education. I have a very awesome little girl who will be 3 this summer. I do weddings on the side. However, I take great pride in my wedding work, and…
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The astronaut within
I wanted to be an astronaut when I was younger. I was very much drawn to the sky – the possibilities, the amazingness of exploration and adventure. So when I was thinking about what our next story was going to be for our blog, I knew I wanted to find…
October issue
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When I switched from Canon to Fuji in 2016, the last thing I thought about was the battery life. I had more to think about, like file quality, construction, lenses, weight, features… After starting to use Fuji equipment, I actually noticed some difference in battery life to what I was…
Visual Stories
Two cups of coffee and natural light
I give thanks every day since, in this life of troubles and commitments, I can carry out many activities that I am passionate about. In these quarantine times, these things…
Memories of Thailand
Like many people I suppose, I had in my head a list of a few countries in which I wanted to travel. And Thailand was certainly not one of them.…
Friends, coffee and motorcycles in Buenos Aires
Friendships are often born out of common interests, such as motorcycles for example. And these interests are often the cement that unites friendships for a lifetime. And just a small…
Circus Madagascar during Covid-19
I live in Ascoli Piceno, a small town in central Italy. Here, too, the pandemic crisis’s effects were felt in all work sectors, blocking many activities, including mine. As a…
Joyfulness series: Me, my Fuji X camera and two people in love
Hello Tom! Could you tell us a little bit about you? Hey Guys, I’m a photographer based in Ghent, Belgium. Proud dad of two sons Bent & Gust and hubby to the witty & creative wentiti.be. As a family we love to travel. The first X camera I picked up…
Capturing Star Images with the Fuji X-T2
A couple of weeks ago I headed out to the west coast of Portugal to try and shoot a time-lapse of the Milky Way with the new Fujifilm X-T2. I really wanted to see how well the camera would deal with shooting at a high ISO and as I…
Black Lights and the Fuji X-T1
This is quite an old project but thought it deserved to be resurrected… One of the first concepts I did when I got the X-T1 is to try out some black light photography. I’ll tell you the story first… Then I’ll get technical. This was a collaboration between myself, Omar…
Is Photography About Money?
What’s in my bag? I don’t have a bag. Well, I do have, but it is the size of my laptop. I see this question in 95% of interviews with street/urban photographers. Usually all of ‘ordinary’ photographers out there hope to read that famous street photographer X or Y uses…
Creating memories and crafting legacy: An adventure with the Fujifilm X-T30
I’ve always considered photography to be a journey, and this post is about MY journey to visit a few places that I have wanted to see for a very long time. And it just so happens that I was accompanied by a new toy. A camera that performed in every…
Deconstructing my photos
When I switched from Sony to Fuji, I had no idea how much photography would actually grow on me. Of course, I wanted to get better and take nicer shots, but since that first trip in Marocco, I started getting more and more into photography and focused on learning as…
My “40mm” Point of View
In 2012, Canon announced the EF 40mm F2.8 STM. It was one of the most affordable and compact lenses in the whole EF lenses lineup. As this lens could allow…
16 mm, is it enough for portraits?
Hi, thank you for the opportunity to be part of this magazine again! This time we will focus on portrait photography with the Fujifilm XF 16mm f/2.8. In the past,…
The tools of my trade
For several years now, I have used laptops to process my RAW files. I started with a PC and moved on to a Macbook because many professionals were using it.…
My Camera Set-Up and Settings for Fuji X Cameras
Hi everyone, and welcome to this blog post on the camera settings I use with the Fuji X System. This is a question I have received several times and it…
Winter Holidays 2016: Barcelona and Stuttgart
Quick getaway towards the sun Two destinations for Christmas – Barcelona and Stuttgart! I started the Christmas season with a quick escape to Barcelona, for me, the best way to…
Quarantine Self-Portraits
March 11, 2020, with a speech to the nation, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte imposes a home quarantine on all Italians for reasons related to the spread of Covid19. Since that…
Wherever I show up it gets moody
Besides photography, I spend my time with my little son Max. We ride the bicycle, go to the skate park or have a blast with our dog and best buddy…
Artificial Paradise
The oldest vivid photography memory I can recall – is a shadowplay photo I took in Switzerland with my dad’s analog Canon Rebel. The guillotine shutter sound really hit me.…
Glass – Just another photo-sharing app, or is it?
Not long ago, Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, posted a video saying Instagram is no longer a photo-sharing app and that the company is looking to lean into entertainment…
Stories from Mexico City with Fuji X-Pro1 and 35mm
I’m Miguel Angel Cortes, 31 years old from Mexico city, a very croudy city. I started in photography about 10 years ago, even when I studied something different first, but…
Helios 44-4 Lens Review: A Swirly Bokeh Portrait Lens for $30
The Helios 44-4 58mm f/2 is a vintage Soviet-era lens with a cult following for it’s unique ‘swirly’ bokeh. For $30, it clocks in as one of the best portrait…
New York City Photo Walk
So we are at that time again. Mere weeks before a possible new Fujifilm X-Pro 3 announcement. What better way to pay homage than revisit the camera which paved the…
GRAIN Magazine stories
The First 23 Years
The First 23 Years Twenty-three years ago I was sitting under the stars near Idaho City during summer break when the photo editor for the local university’s student newspaper, full…
MASS MADE SOUL – Interview with Adam Richardson
MASS MADE SOUL – Interview with Adam Richardson Thank you, Adam! We really appreciate this opportunity to learn a little more about you and the fantastic work you have been…
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FUJI X WEEKLY Morning Mist – Buckeye, AZ – Fujifilm X100V – “Fujicolor 100 Gold I get asked frequently to create Film Simulation Recipes that mimic the aesthetic of a certain film stock or the look of a particular photographer.…
FUJI X WEEKLY Pilot – Cordes Lakes, AZ – Fujifilm X-T5 – “Kodachrome 64” This isn’t a new Film Simulation Recipe; it’s simply a slight modification of my Kodachrome 64 recipe for X-Trans IV cameras to make it compatible with…
FUJI X WEEKLY TTArtisan 27mm f/2.8 on a Fujifilm X-T5 The Fujinon XF 27mm f/2.8 R WR is my favorite lens for Fujifilm cameras. The problem is that it’s also my wife’s favorite lens, and between the two of us…
Fstoppers Fujifilm’s GFX line of medium format mirrorless cameras revolutionized the industry by including an array of modern features traditionally reserved for smaller-sensor bodies and putting them all together at extremely competitive prices. Perhaps the most intriguing option of the…
Fstoppers Laowa now has a total of six lenses with an aperture of f/0.95, so how useful is it to have this aperture, and what are the results? As a landscape photographer mainly, this maximum aperture is something I had…
Fuji Rumors Fujifilm has released firmware updates for X100V, X-Pro3, X-E4 and GFX50SII. Down below all details and download links. Firmware Details Fujifilm X100V ver.2.13 – download here Revised specification from Ver.2.12 to Ver.2.13 The firmware bug has been fixed,…
Fuji Rumors Fujifilm has just announced the Fujifilm TG-BT1 tripod grip. You can check out are dedicated article (with videos and press release) here. To support the grip, some of the compatible Fujifilm cameras need a firmware update, that has…
Fuji Rumors National Geographic tapped their photo engineering team for which compact cameras they recommend—and why. They design and build custom equipment for professional photographers and test consumer products for this annual guide. Here are their top picks for travel:…
Fuji Rumors Fujifilm X-T5: BHphoto / AmazonUS / Adorama / Moment I know when one only writes good things about something, people get suspicious. So feel free to mistrust me guys, but so far I really have only great things to…
