Viernes Santo en Guanajuato, México | Charlene Winfred
Flemming and I found ourselves inadvertently attending Good Friday mass at the plaza of Templo de San Roque. This loosely triangular plaza in front of the crumbling church, has permanent seats and theatre lights in place for outdoor performances. It Read more …
Fujifilm X-Pro 2: She’s got it where it counts, kid | Charlene Winfred
It was exquisite. I spent a whole day in late October last year, doing nothing but hitting “refresh” on DHL’s tracking site, willing the courier to make it to my door in under 12 parsecs. So lifting the pre-production model of the new X-Pro 2 out Read more …
The Fujinon XF 35mm F2 | A Lens With A Certain Flare | Charlene Winfred
I’ve had the new XF 35mm F2 lens from Fujifilm on loan for the last month, while Flemming and I were in Colombo, Sri Lanka. There’s nothing quite like taking new gear (to say nothing of the mind) for a spin in Read more …
The form factor | Charlene Winfred
Mum had taken a serious shine to my X-T1. Uh oh. When I got back to Singapore at the beginning of October, my mother’s point and shoot had expired, and she was on a mission to get a new camera. “Get Read more …
In Penang | Flemming Bo Jensen
We spent the first three weeks of July on the island of Penang in Malaysia. Charlene and I may fly a fair bit, but these three weeks were really the first time in all of 2015 that we traveled somewhere Read more …
Shooting the XF16-55mm F2.8 promo movie:
the Fuji X-T1 filming experience | Charlene Winfred
Have you watched the new Fujinon XF 16-55mm f2.8 promotional movie? No? What are you waiting for? I love the delicious hedonism of car commercials, slivers of light slipping over sinuous metal curves, evoking speed, performance, beauty, divine luxury. I’ve always wondered what it’d Read more …
Italy: A weekend, a wedding and the Fuji X-E2 | Charlene Winfred
At the start of September, I headed to the Puglia region in Italy to shoot Mali and Bram’s wedding. Mali is my niece (although we are the same age; the family tree is complicated), and living continents apart as we Read more …
A camera build to endure klutzes: the Fuji X-Pro 1 |
Charlene Winfred
I bought the X-Pro 1 with the 35mm f1.4 lens in July 2012. Earlier that year I’d sustained a neck injury that meant DSLR gear was too heavy to lug around. I wanted something smaller and lighter, which still delivered Read more …