“In December 2015, at the Boston Public Library, I photographed my last wedding with DSLRS. Every shot I’ve taken since has been on Fujifilm Mirrorless Cameras.” WHY SWITCH? WEIGHT. The Fujifilm X gear weighs ~ 1/2 of what the Canon & Nikon gear does. This matters when carrying two cameras plus extra lenses for […]
I’ve been using Canon cameras since my husband bought me my first DSLR a number of years ago. Over the course of the years I’ve upgraded my Canon cameras to newer models, my latest being the Canon 6D full frame. Two years ago I was interested in looking into mirrorless cameras so I purchased a […]
First off, this isn’t really a review, it’s more an overview of how I feel about the camera after using it since it arrived in November. After about 5 months I feel I’ve got to know the camera pretty well, but like my blogs about the X-T1 and X-T10 when I first switched to Fuji […]
The Algarve Cycling Tour (‘Volta ao Algarve em Bicicleta’) is the highest level road cycling race held annually in Portugal. Every February it brings to the region a good number of professional cyclists listed in the UCI top 100 individual ranking, thousands and thousands of fans from several countries and, of course, many portuguese and […]
Cuba is the largest island in the Caribbean and one of the last countries where socialist regime rules the country. Is it the regime or the poverty sticking to the people, that makes Cubans so extraordinary? I have been thinking about it for some time. Whenever I looked Cubans in their eyes, I saw a […]
I first got hooked on photography in the mid 1970s when I was about and my first SLR camera was a Pentax Spotmatic. At this time in my life I was training to become a teacher of Design and Technology and I used up nearly a whole terms grant to buy it. The Pentax was […]
“Do you trust me”, Jody said, as I was setting up my Fuji X-T2 for a series of action shots. I said “sure”, and turned around just as Jody was speeding towards my camera bag, and with a quick upward flick, executes a perfect “bunny hop” over the top of my unsuspecting, and fully loaded […]
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 was shooting a time-lapse I […]