Review: Cactus V6 Mark II | Piet Van den Eynde
I am joking obviously, at least with regards to the contents of the image. This is by all accounts a crappy, ill-composed flash-lit picture of a toy bulldozer. Yet, it’s the fact that it was obviously lit by flash that Read more …
Flash and the Fujifilm X-system: dramatic lighting in India | Piet Van den Eynde
After my blog post about my first six months with the X-Pro 2 went online, a number of people asked me how I lit my Varanasi portraits. So I thought this would make an excellent subject for a blog post. One Read more …
6 months with the X-Pro 2 | Piet Van den Eynde
I have been using the X-Pro 2 for half a year now and that calls for a celebration. Because I could not find half-year birthday candles, I decided to print a book with some of my favorite images. And then Read more …
Review: Cactus V6 Transceiver and the Fujifilm X system | Piet Van den Eynde
Earlier, I reviewed the excellent Godox Ving V850 manual flash. It still is one of my favorite flashes for off-camera flash photography in general and on my Fuji system in particular. However, recently, I’ve also been working a lot with Read more …
2 months with the X-Pro 2: my 10 favourite features (part 2) | Piet Van den Eynde
Read about features 1 to 5 in this post In a month, I’ll be off to India again to teach a travel photography workshop together with fellow X-Photographer Matt Brandon and I hope to take the X-Pro 2 with me. Read more …
Honoured, humbled, frightened and excited: 2 months with the X-Pro 2 | Piet Van den Eynde
When a while back, Fujifilm offered me the opportunity to test a pre-production sample of the upcoming X-Pro 2, I felt honoured, humbled, frightened and excited all at the same time. Honoured, because I was one of a limited number Read more …
5 Reasons the RoboSHOOT X flash triggers for Fuji are a game changer | Piet Van den Eynde
In a week or so, Fujifilm will be celebrating their fifth anniversary of the X-system. I know very few camera companies that have created such a fantastic camera eco-system in such a short time. My switch from a fullframe DSLR Read more …
10 reasons why I love my Fujifilm X100T | Piet Van den Eynde
In this blog post, I want to examine some of the reasons why I like Fujifilm’s X100T so much, even though its fixed focal length of 23 mm (35 mm Fullframe Equivalent) is not what I normally like to shoot at. Read more …
Review: Godox V850 manual Li-ion flash: a perfect manual flash for
my Fujifilm X-cameras | Piet Van den Eynde
As mentioned in my Lighting Gear page, I currently use three types of hotshoe flashes with my Fuji X series cameras: for on-camera work where I like to have TTL support, I use Fuji’s own EF-42 flash. It’s relatively powerful, and especially Read more …
Review: Eyefi Mobi Pro 32 GB wireless SD card | Piet Van den Eynde
Eyefi kindly sent me a Mobi Pro 32 GB wireless SD card to review. The timing was right, because I had been looking for a way to create a tethered workflow in which I can send images I take with Read more …