Depth of Field: Guest Piet Van den Eynde & Rene Debar

Every year after our workshop in India, Piet Van den Eynde and I spend an hour or so talking about this years new Fujifilm gear. Because we do it in the field it sometimes becomes difficult to find a good location to record these discussions. It is India after all, things are noisy. One year we even made a tent out of blankets and recorded the show under it. Not to worry, this years was a breeze. Piet and I only had to deal with noisy bellhops and stray dogs, all of this served as a background to an amazing hour of looking at the latest gear from Fujifilm. For this episode we invited camera geek and photographer Rene Debar, host of the Fuji Xtras blog to help us with our yearly overview.

One of the first topics we discuses is our workshop in India and what we did during the 10 days traveling India. The last couple of years we have been doing more and more off camera flash work. This year, we hosted an exclusive group of alumni workshop participants and we did even more flash work. We brought with us two Jinbei HD600 studio strobe (Available in the USA as the Flashpoint Rovelight RL600 - $399!), three or four Cactus RF60 Wireless Flash with Built-in Wireless Commander and Receiver and even the small Nissin I40FJ Flash for Fuji. So as you can see were were ready to light up India! All this light needed modifying, so we brought the light weight and compact Lastolite 36-Inch Trifold Umbrella and what became our favorite, the SMDV Speedbox Professional 28-inch (70cm) and A110B - Professional 44 inch (110 cm).

In this episode we also spoke about the difference between the detail you get with using off camera flash verses available light. I said I would post an example of one image shot with both flash and available light. view it HERE.

For the complete show notes and photos illustrating the use of off-camera flash visit: http://thedigitaltrekker.com/2016/03/podcast-look-fujifilm-x-pro2/

 

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Lights:

Cactus RF60 Wireless Flash with Built-in Wireless Commander and Receiver Jinbei HD600 studio strobe (Available in the USA as the Flashpoint Rovelight RL600 - $399!) Nissin I40FJ Flash for Fuji

Modifiers:

SMDV Speedbox Professional 28-inch (70cm)  SMDV Speedbox A110B - Professional 44 inch (110 cm) Lastolite 36-Inch Trifold Umbrella

Lenses:

Fujinon XF 10-24mm F4 R OIS FUJINON XF 16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR Fujinon XF 16mmF1.4 R WR

Cameras:

Fujifilm X-Pro2 Body Fujifilm X-T1 Body

Websites:

Piet Van den Eynde morethanwords.be Rene Debar Fuji Xtras