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gerenm.photographyWell-nighBlog Galleries Music Contact Menu 701 Franklin Avenue Westminster, MD 21157 (443) 691-2616 the images, words, and music of geren w mortensen jr Your Custom Text HereWell-nighBlog Galleries Music Contact Several Species at Baltimore's MECU Pavilion (Formerly Pier Six) September 30, 2018 Geren W. Mortensen, Jr. As much as I’ve been writing well-nigh music stuff, I haven’t been doing much, if any, photography whispered from lamina phone snaps at work. Last night, I went to see Several Species, a Pink Floyd tribute wreath based here in the Baltimore area. As always, the put on a unconfined show — better, in many ways, than an very Pink Floyd concert. Like many venues, MECU usually has restrictions on what kind of cameras that the unstipulated public can bring in. The unstipulated rule of thumb is that the lens can’t proffer increasingly than 3 inches. So, I took withal my Fujifilm X10 to use from my 12th row part-way seat.The X10 is quite a few years old now, and it’s 12MP, 2/3 inch sensor, while excellent, is challenged in unrepealable situations, like concerts. Still, I’m pretty happy with the images, despite the fact that some are pretty noisy, and that I missed/lost a few shots due to the slow wheels focus. What I’d really like is for Fujifilm to “grow up” the X10/X20/X30 series into a camera with a larger sensor — either 1” or APS-C — with an equivalent lens, for instance, an 18.5-75mm f/2.8-4.8 zoom for an APS-C sensor. Of course, that may make for a lens that extends greater than 3 inches… In galleries, photography, music Tags Several Species, concert, X10, Fujifilm X10, Fujifilm Comment Curl March 27, 2018 Geren W. Mortensen, Jr. Fujifilm X-T1, Fujifilm XF18-55mm, processing in Lightroom CC on Windows 10 PC. This is not a particularly special shot. I simply wanted to test the used X-T1 body, and there wasn't much misogynist to shoot. Hopefully, the weekend will provide some time for photography. In photography, galleries Tags Fujfilm X-T1, Fujifilm, X-T1, Lightroom CC Comment New In The Stable March 26, 2018 Geren W. Mortensen, Jr. I've said for quite a while that if I found an X-T1 soul in reasonable shape for under four hundred dollars, I'd be pretty likely to pull the trigger. One of the national camera rental houses was having a sale on used gear, and I stumbled wideness one in "good" condition that, without tax, tags, and local destination charges came up well under that $400 mark. I had the money, and now I have the camera.It is used, and therefore, it is blemished, but not as immensely as was described, at least in my opinion. There are a couple of areas where the woebegone paint has worn off, there's screw missing from the tripod mount, and a little bit of rubber is loose on one side. All are things I can live with. I've unquestionably removed the loose rubber, and I think I have an towardly screw in my parts bin. The camera looks otherwise new, and the important bit -- the sensor -- is pristine. I'm now left with a conundrum: do I sell one of my X-Es? And, if so, which one? I'd have increasingly full-length parity with the X-E2, but I've still a soft spot in my heart for my X-E1, which will be four years old on Saturday.And to think, it started with a dollar... In photography Tags Fujifilm, Fujfilm X-T1, X-T1 Comment 2017 Chesapeake Bay Buyboat Show July 30, 2017 Geren W. Mortensen, Jr. We spent a wonderful, if wet, day yesterday at the Chesapeake Bay Buyboat Show at Somers Cove Marina in Crisfield, on Maryland's Eastern Shore.  In wing to the wend show, which featured a dozen or so restored and/or working Chesapeake Bay boats, there's a really neat little museum in Crisfield with displays showing the history of the town and its importance in the history of America's seafood industry, the Bay, and the region. All photos taken with a Fujifilm X-E2 and XF18-55mm lens in JPEG mode with Astia mucosa simulation applied, and then edited in Snapseed on an iPad Air 2.We didn't take any pictures virtually town in Crisfield this visit -- I have in the past, and we'll probably go when down, but we were left wondering how much longer the "town" of Crisfield will survive. Many of the buildings on Main Street are vacant and dilapidated, as are a huge number of the residences. It's definitely not the quaint-if-smelly town I remember from when I was young, and you could still find huge piles of oyster shells around.On the way from Crisfield to Berlin, we came wideness a really neat old towers that we may want to go when and photograph. I did manage to grab a quick iPhone picture surpassing "traffic" forced us to move on. I didn't plane try to shoot that with the Fuji, considering I was increasingly interested in getting the geotag so we can go when -- the whole town there is begging to be photographed.  In galleries, photography Tags Buyboat, Crisfield, XF 18-55mm f/2-8-4 R LM OIS, Fujifilm XF18-55, Snapseed, Fujifilm X-E2, Fujifilm Comment Photo Plus Expo 2016 -WithoutShow Report October 23, 2016 Geren W. Mortensen, Jr. Yesterday, I made my yearly pilgrimage to NYC to shepherd at least a little bit of this year's Photo Plus Expo. As usual, there was much to see. Unfortunately, I only had well-nigh five hours to imbricate the unshortened show floor. I do think that I did pretty well. Honestly, it wasn't as much fun as it has been the past couple of years considering I was just there for the day, and wasn't worldly-wise to shepherd any of the workshops or classes. Although I took withal my Fujifilm X-E2 with the 18-55mm lens, I didn't take as many pictures as I usually do, largely considering I was rushing around, to and fro. Of course, I did visit the Fujifilm booth, which was crowded with people who wanted to get to see all the latest cameras and lenses. I spent some time playing with the X-T2, and have to say that it's an wondrous camera. As usual, I won't sink you with all the tech specs. You can find that at the Fujifilm digital camera web pages. What I will say is that the camera is lightening fast, and that for me, every tenancy and component falls into place exactly as it should, and that I veritably want one. Someday. Fujifilm GFX 50S with six new system lenses One thing I had really wanted to see was the new GFX medium format system. I was worldly-wise to see it. Under glass. It sure looked pretty. Unfortunately, there were none to play with.I think a lot of people were disappointed in not stuff of this camera, expressly without knowing that there have been a few people playing with them in the real world without Photokina. I guess us mere mortals will have to wait just a little bit longer...While I have no picture, I was worldly-wise to have a bit of play with Hasselblad's new X1d mirrorless medium format camera. And, while its firmware is definitely not ready for prime time yet, the camera is definitely something pretty special. It handles superbly, the touch-screen-based user interface is incredibly well thought out, and the image quality appears to be excellent. It's amazingly usable for a big camera, and often feels good in the hand. There will be three lenses specifically for the X1d at product launch (a 30mm f/3.5, a 45mm f/3.5, and a 90mm f/3.2), and an connector to indulge use of a select group of H-series lenses. For the price of a nice car, you too can be a Hasselblad shooter, once the system ships.A increasingly traditional (and increasingly affordable) digital medium format is still the Pentax 645Z. I'd never bothered to pick on up before, considering I've never really been interested in making any move to a larger system. But, I thought that since I had time, and I was there, I might as well take a look. Plus, I wanted to see what excited my friend Bill Wadman so much that he decided to sell off all is Canon gear and buy one. I have to say that for such a large camera, it was surprisingly agile, and the pricing is pretty competitive, expressly if you pick up a used on in good shape like Bill did. Firing the shutter causes the camera to make a really pleasing sound as it records what seems to be a stellar 50MP image. You can get a nice "comprehensive starter set" from B&H that includes three lenses for less than the price of a meaty car. If you go used, you can be well set for less than the price of a Canon 5Ds setup.I moreover made the rounds of all of the rest of the mirrorless camera manufacturers. That meant venturing into the Canon displays to see their new M5. Having had the little (tiny) yahoo in my hand, I can quite certainly say that there's veritably nothing for anyone to mutter well-nigh with this camera, except maybe the price. $980 for the soul is, in my opinion, a little steep. But, it does have a lot to offer -- wickedly fast and well-judged autofocus, 9fps splash shooting, a big tilting touch screen, 5-axis image stabilization in-camera, Canon's latest Digic 7 image processor, and a lot more. For a Canon user heavily invested in glass, it unquestionably looks like a pretty good way to move to mirrorless.While there are only a handful of "consumer-oriented" lenses misogynist now, Canon are probably planning some largest glass lanugo the line. In the midpoint time, an connector offers full compatibility with all Canon EF and EF-S mount lenses (and probably those of Tamron and Sigma as well). Canon, it seems, smartly chose to alimony the lens contacts and communications protocols the same when developing the new EF-M lenses.Over at Olympus, everything was pretty much status quo. And, the new Pen-F is a darling. The Olympus viewfinders are still the weightier in the world of mirrorless. The little tiny cameras have gotten a sensor uplift on some models, to 20MP. But, at higher ISOs, the recorded images still didn't stellar on the when of the camera. Maybe I was expecting too much, but my Fujis unchangingly squint better.Panasonic had some nice gear, too, most notably the DMC-GX8, which is the logical upgrade of their DMC-GX7 rangefinder-styled body. I had wanted to try out the DMC-G85, but I couldn't find it. It may have been there, but Panasonic's diner was horribly laid out, and it was nearly untellable to get tropical to anything.Sony was showing the new Alpha 6500, and it's a pretty spiffy little camera. It's the camera the 6300 should have been, with 5-axis image stabilization, a touch screen, yada, yada, yada. I moreover looked, briefly, at the new A99II, the A77II, and the A68 (which I wrote well-nigh when in January). I found them all to be pretty run-of-the-mill. Sony's unmistakably just well-nigh giving lip service to folks who want to remain in the A-mount camp. I'd unquestionably buy an A7II and the rather expensive A-to-FE-mount connector (the one with the AF motor to propel the autofocus on my old Minolta lenses) surpassing I'd by an A99II.Back to the world of Fujifilm ... the Rokinon/Samyang folks are now offering all of their transmission lenses in Fuji mount. If you don't mind transmission focus, and transmission or aperture-preferred metering, these lenses offer really nice, inexpensive options. And, they're whence to make autofocus lenses as well, though they're currently only misogynist for Sony FE-mount.In the wink world, Metz have quietly made Fuji-specific versions of nearly every wink they make, and they support high-speed-sync on some Fuji models. Nissin moreover offers several flashes for Fuji now, and most include a seated receiver for their new 2.4GHz wireless tenancy technology. Speaking of flash, my favorite item at the show was a new item from the folks at Sunbounce. They've got a very simple gizmo tabbed the Bounce-Wall, and it looks to be fantastic for event photographers who need to be worldly-wise to grab quick head-shot or upper-body portraits quickly.The purpose of the Bounce-Wall is to get the constructive light source up and yonder from the lens axis, and moreover to provide a larger, softer light. It often places the constructive light source at a 45 stratum wile whilom and abreast the camera. An wholesomeness to the diamond is that your wink stays on the camera hot shoe, which makes for much largest wastefulness than having the wink out a the end of the arm, like the old-fashioned Stroboframe. The fellow in the picture, an Italian/German wedding and event photographer (whose name has unfortunately escaped me) was in the Sunbounce booth, and showed me how easy it is to use. The result, depending on the reflector you have mounted (there are six variegated snap-in reflectors available), is not entirely unlike a eyeful dish. Unlike a lot of other solutions, switching from horizontal to vertical requires no adjustment. Just tilt the camera, and shoot.The Bounce-Wall subclass sells for under U$65, and the reflectors run between U$20-$25 each. Or, you can get a the "pro" set with the subclass and all six reflectors for well-nigh U$160 at B&H. It's a few dollars increasingly from Adorama. The sit-in was with a Yongnu0 YN560-IV on an Olympus OM-D EM-5 Mark II with the Panasonic Lumix G 25mm f/1.7 lens, and the setup just worked. Of course, stuff manual, vent or wink output needed to be adjusted slightly, depending on loftiness between the camera and the subject.Here's a really fun video from the Sunbounce web site. It's a time lapse video showing a photographer with one teammate shooting 88 portraits in just well-nigh nine-and-a-quarter minutes. The first couple minutes show how the photographs we made, and starting two minutes into the video are the resulting portraits.88 perfectly lit Portraits shot by LINDA KOEHLER-SANDRING in only 9 minutes and 16 seconds, made possible by THE BOUNCE WALL by SUNBOUNCE.http://www.sunbounce.com/speedshootingObviously, Ms. Koehler-Sandring has had some practice using the Bounce-Wall. But I was worldly-wise to get good results on a first try (once I got used to the very sensitive shutter sawed-off on the Olympus camera). The portable preliminaries the teammate was using is a Sun-Mover reflector with a Tight-Fit Screen, also from Sunbounce. Any portable preliminaries would work as well.Otherwise, I had wanted to squint at Tenba's new messenger bags, but I never did find their booth. In fact, the expo hall was a bit smaller than last year. Well, it was in the same space, but there seemed to be some exhibitors missing. Or, maybe I just missed them trying to get the whole show washed-up in just a few hours. I was moreover disappointed that, unlike past years, there were not a lot of smaller-yet-necessary traps for sale at the show. I specifically needed to buy a sensor cleaning kit to get some schmutz off the sensor in Donna's camera, but there was no place to buy it. Part of that may have been that this years show took place during Sukkos, but usually companies like Hunt's, Unique, and Samy's do have such items for sale.As I said at the top of this article, I only took a very few pictures at the show. All of them were at the Fujifilm booth. For what it's worth, here they are. All were taken with the X-E2 and the 18-55mm kit lens. All post processing was with On1 Photo 10.5. Click to view larger images. In photography Tags PPE2016, Photo Plus Expo, Fujifilm Comment What's This? Mirrorless Digital Medium Format? At a Reasonable Price? July 12, 2016 Geren W. Mortensen, Jr. The "big two" players in the digital camera space have got to be scrambling at this point, seeing their market stuff decimated by the likes of Fujifilm and Olympus and Sony and Panasonic. Fujifilm will soon be shipping their latest DSLR-killer, the X-T2, which I commented on Sunday evening. Yet, as enticing as the X-T2 is, I'm increasingly intrigued by the rumor of a Fujifilm mirrorless medium format camera. And Hasselblad have been quietly busy, and recently thrown lanugo the gauntlet in this space with their utterance of the X1D digital mirrorless medium format camera with a street price of just under $9,000 for the soul (one of the two bargains in the digital medium format market). Word on the street is that a Fuji product could be considerably less expensive than that. Fujifilm GSW-690iii medium format rangefinder camera with 90mm lens Hasselblad have started minutiae of a completely new lens lineup for the new camera, and will offer an connector to indulge use of their existing H-series lenses.I would suppose the Fujifilm would take a similar approach, although they have some considerable wits with making short-flange-distance medium format mucosa cameras that filled big frames -- 6x7cm, 6x8cm or 6x9cm, depending one the model. While these cameras had stock-still lenses (typically a 65mm wide wile or a 90mm normal lens) it's possible that they could squint when to those designs in a digital offering, though the resulting camera would be positively huge.In each case, these could be medium-format digital cameras that are both smaller than a high-end DSLR (the Hasselblad is smaller), and come in at similar price points -- or lower (Canon's 18MP 1D-C soul is $8,000 at B&H)! With these kinds of innovations in the mirrorless space, companies like Canon and Nikon really are going to need to get their joint heads out of their asses and get on the stick if they intend to survive, let withal protract to dominate the market. It's no secret that Nikon is struggling, and while Canon is a larger, increasingly diverse visitor than Nikon, they certainly can't be in a well-appointed place right now.I wouldn't count Ricoh/Pentax out in this arena, either. They're once the price leader in the increasingly "traditional" digital medium format scene with their spanking-new $7,000 645Z, which was the first digital medium format camera to employ a CMOS sensor. Similarly priced persons do not include a digital back, which add thousands to the price tag. Since Pentax moreover have a mature system in place, they could hands swoop in with a low-priced, mirrorless diamond and be up-and-running quickly, although I think it would take them longer to develop a lens line-up for such a camera.Of course, while much of this is out of the price range of most mere mortals, it's all interesting supplies for thought. In photography Tags digital cameras, medium format, digital medium format mirrorless camera, mirrorless, digital medium format, hasselblad, pentax, ricoh, Fujifilm, x1d, 645z Comment Fujifilm's X-T1 and 50-140mm f/2.8 - My Thoughts May 15, 2016 Geren W. Mortensen, Jr. I was hired to shoot a very major fundraising event last night, but since switching to Fuji, I had not had occasion to purchase an f/2.8 tele-zoom, and I knew that as versatile as the little XC 50-230mm lens is, it wouldn't be up to the task. I was moreover concerned that my X-E1 would let me lanugo auto-focusing in poor lighting (I had no such qualms well-nigh my X-E2 with version 4 firmware). So, I rented the 50-140 and an X-T1 soul for the shoot to work slantingly my the X-E2 and the XF 18-55mm f/2.8-4. Unfortunately, I won't be worldly-wise to share any example images from last night's event, as they're for a vendee and I don't have a release to do so. I had wanted to shoot a little bit of a local duo performing last Friday night, but I didn't have the energy when I got home from the day gig to go out for the evening. Fujifilm X-T1 with Fujifilm XF 50-140mm f/2.8 lens. This is some fancy kit, so I felt it deserved a posh, paisley background. Anyway .... The box of goodies arrived right on time from the rental house, and I proceeded to unpack the gear. The visitor sent the body, battery, charger, and "pop-up" wink in a small camera bag, and the lens in a snug-fitting lens pouch, all wedged into the box with foam and air-pouches. When I took the camera bag out of the box, it was so light, I thought at first that they'd forgotten to put anything inside it! In fact, the camera and lens combined weigh less than a Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS! Including the shipping box, camera bag, and pouch, the weight for the X-T1 package is 2.85 lbs. That Canon lens vacated weighs in at 3.28 lbs.Once I was over my initial "scare" that the box was empty, I set the X-T1 up to match, as closely as possible, the tenancy and custom settings I use on my other X-series bodies, without making sure that the latest firmware had been loaded (the rental house I use is very good well-nigh this kind of thing, but I unchangingly like to be sure).As usual with my "reviews" of products, this will not be a scientific vendible with loads of tests and numbers. It will be a very short unravelment of my wits with the gear. Take that for what it's worth.Fujifilm X-T1 Not a shot of my hands holding an X-T1, but it does illustrate the top-panel layout, and where all the controls fall. Of course, there are buttons and switches on the when and front of the soul as well. The X-T1 soul really feels good in my hand. As with the rest of the Fuji products I've used, everything pretty much falls under my fingers just the way an old fuddy-duddy like me expects it to. All of the controls operate with solid but smooth clicks or positive sawed-off presses. I didn't notice any of the issues others have mentioned with the weather-sealed buttons stuff nonflexible to printing or feeling spongy. The X-T1's electronic viewfinder is astounding. In fact, I'd rate it to be every bit as good as the EVF on the Sony A7-II-series cameras, which many consider to be the weightier EVFs on the market. With that said, considering of my glasses, I still can't see all of the corners of the frame all of the time. The only camera I've tried in the past few years that has a viewfinder I can see all of is the Olympus OM-D E-M5.I played virtually a bit with the X-T1 and my XF 18-55mm lens, and it's a fantastic walk-around combination.Well-nighthe only thing that might be largest for a walkabout might be the XF 18-135mm lens, except for 1-stop disadvantage that lens has over the 18-55. Of course, the "darling" philharmonic lens for the X-T1 might be the XF 16-50mm f/2.8. Anyway, X-T1 and 18-55 make a nice, light, easy-handling combo. Of course, so would the X-T10 and the 18-55, for good bit less money.Image quality from the X-T1 is identical to my X-E2, since the sensor and processor are exactly the same. And, in fact, the images are so good that although I shot raw and JPEG images, I didn't use any of the raw files when editing the pictures from the event.So, what didn't I like? Typical of all "hump in the middle" DSLR-style bodies, the LCD (which, BTW, is excellent) falls right under my big, greasy, nose, and that ways it gets smeary and slimy without shooting for a while. Once I get going and know I'm in the ballpark on a shoot, I don't chimp a lot, but when I do, I don't want to have to wipe the LCD to see clearly. With my "rangefinder-style" X-E1 and X-E2 bodies, my nose never touches the when of the camera, so that's never a worry.For the X-T1, Fuji have moved the SD vellum slot to the side of the body, and out of the shower compartment. While I like that they moved it, I don't like the cover. It's an odd "slide-and-fold" arrangement, and I'm not sure how sturdy it is. It feels like it might unravel easily.I moreover don't like that there's no "pop-up" flash. Believe it or not, I use the micro-flashes on the X-E1 and X-E2. They don't provide any serious illumination, but they are sufficient to fill in eye-socket shadows and put a catchlight in the vision if needed. The X-T1 ships with a little wink that slides into the hot shoe. It works just fine, but it's not as user-friendly as pushing the little wink sawed-off on the when when you need that little pop of fill-flash.Fujifilm XF 50-140mm f/2.8 R LM OIS WRMoving on to the lens, which is officially tabbed the XF 50-140mm f/2.8 R LM OIS WR. That's a serious bit of alphabet soup, but then, this a serious lens, people. It's Fuji's wordplay to using an image-stabilized, weather-sealed, pro-grade 70-200mm f/2.8 lens on a full-frame body. It ways business, and it feels like it. It moreover weighs like it. While, as I mentioned earlier, it's significantly lighter than a comparable lens for a Canon on Nikon, it's still heavy when compared to other Fuji lenses. I think the only heavier Fuji lens is the 100-400mm, which is their lens for serious wildlife photogs (it's theoretically moreover an spanking-new lens for motorsports).To say that the 50-140 is a sharp lens is an understatement. It's razor sharp, and focus is often quite zippy on both the X-T1 and the X-E2. I didn't try it on the X-E1, though I suspect it would fare reasonably well on that camera as well. With that said, it did, on occasion, get lost. In a few cases, it would venery surpassing locking in, and in a couple of instances, I simply couldn't attain focus automatically. This is where lenses with focusing motors driven by the focus ring can be a both a help and a hindrance. While I could grab the ring and override the auto-focus without having to turn the automation off, the focus ring is not uncontrived drive, and it's electronically "geared" such that it could take a lot of turning to get where I needed it to go. I subsequently missed a couple of shots. With all of that said, I don't think that the problem was any worse than any other system, and in most cases, the Fuji lens/camera combinations performed as well or largest than our Canons did with the 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS lenses when when we used them to shoot weddings.The 50-140 is an image-stabilized lens, and although I didn't perform any scientific tests, I did play a little bit to see how low I could go with the shutter and still get a sharp image. I was impressed, nay amazed, that I could hands hand-hold the 50-140 on the X-T1 lanugo to well-nigh 1/30th of a second at 140mm, and when I unquestionably unromantic myself, I could go lanugo as far as 1/8 second. If you use the standard 1/(focal length * yield factor) formula to determine a unscratched minimum shutter speed for a lens, that ways I should have to shoot at well-nigh 1/250. So, stuff worldly-wise to shoot hands at 1/30 ways I was getting 3-stops with ease, up to well-nigh 5 stops of image stabilization.I started to mention that the 50-140mm is a relatively heavy lens, expressly as compared to the body, and on occasion, I felt like the setup was a little nose-heavy, both on the X-T1 and the X-E2. It was never hateful, and it was never at all tiresome. But it sometimes felt just a little off-balance. And, any instability on my part was hands taken superintendency of by the OIS function.When am I going to buy one?So, you're all wondering what the marrow line is, aren't you? How soon will it be surpassing I run out and buy an X-T1? Honestly, unless I can find a barely-used one in near-mint condition for $500-600, I finger no particular need to own an X-T1 right now. I still often prefer the rangefinder-style of the X-E1 and X-E2, and unless they waif that line, that's probably what I'll alimony buying. I would, however, definitely rent the X-T1 then if the situation warrants.The same holds true for the 50-140mm lens. It's not something I regularly need. For the vast majority of what I do, I don't plane need the XF 55-200mm lens. The inexpensive XC 50-230mm still works just fine for me most of the time. I could wilt interested in the XF 100-400, were I to start shooting a lot of wildlife again. But again, for me, rental is my friend unless I find a really crazy good deal.I should moreover mention that Donna tried the camera/lens philharmonic for a few minutes and had to put it down. She was particularly impressed with the size and weight of the package, and she once knows well-nigh the image quality reachable with the Fuji cameras. She prefers the increasingly DSLR-like styling of the X-T1 over the rangefinderesque X-E or X-Pro models. I think she was fighting urges to leave her Canon behind, at least for a moment (she unquestionably started asking questions like, "how much does this cost?").So there you have it. My impression of the Fujifilm X-T1 and XF 50-140mm lens. Really nice kit. If I were still shooting weddings, I'd say that Fuji cameras are tropical unbearable to ready for prime-time for me to use, with one exception. So, let's talk well-nigh that for a moment surpassing I let you go.Pop goes the flash! Or not.Last night, I used my trusty, old, Nikon SB-800 wink on the X-T1, and the Fujifilm EF-20 on the X-E2. The SB-800 worked unconfined in combination with the X-T1 and 50-140 lens. Plenty of power, as it unchangingly had. And, since it has the worthiness to work like an old Vivitar 283 "auto" flash, so as long as I was paying sustentation to what I was doing I could plane get good results with will-less wink exposure. Unfortunately, I have to do this considering Fuji still has yet to ship a truly professional speedlight. I've held on to the SB-800 for all these years specifically considering it's relatively easy to use in scrutinizingly any situation, with scrutinizingly any camera.Fuji have elapsed their XF-500 wink (it's now slated for sometime this summer, instead of late this month), which is supposed to finally write the need for a professional wink system for select Fujifilm cameras. Nissin's i60 wink features upper power, TTL/wireless remote, and very simple controls, and works with Fuji's TTL flashes. There's moreover transmission control, when you want it. In the midpoint time, Nissin's i60 wink is expected in late June, and the price looks reasonable. If it works as promised, it could offer a largest volitional to Fuji's offering, if for no other reason than it will work with other Nissin flashes equipped with their "2.4GHz Air" wireless communications system. Really, working TTL wheels wink with an towardly value of power is good unbearable for me, and I'll very likely buy one in the late summer or early fall. I have other gear to use if I'm doing studio-type multi-flash setups.Of course, the little EF-20 worked perfectly on the X-E2 with the 18-55. Every exposure was spot-on, just like on the X-E1 and on the X10 surpassing that. I was really worldly-wise to let the camera and wink make their own decisions, freeing me to worry well-nigh composition, which is as it should be.Okay, with that out of the way, you're unliable to go read something else. Cheers! In photography Tags Fujifilm, X-E2, X-T1, XF 50-140, Nissin i60, Nissin, i60, review, initial impressions 2 Comments Older Posts → Featured Dec 28 Dec 28, 2018 – Dec 29, 2018 Phillips Pub & Grill 7Souls at Phillip's Pub & Grill Dec 28, 2018 – Dec 29, 2018 Phillips Pub & Grill Dec 28, 2018 – Dec 29, 2018 Phillips Pub & Grill Subscribe Sign up with your email write to receive news and updates. First Name Last Name EmailWriteSign Up We respect your privacy. Thank you! Powered by Squarespace