PhotoActive - Episodes Tagged with “Fujifilm”

Episode 183: Fujifilm GFX100RF, A Medium Format Walking Around Camera

Jeff Carlson & Kirk McElhearn — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 02:00:00 -0700

With the bonkers success of the Fujifilm X100VI, it seemed only a matter of time before Fuji made a compact camera based around its GFX medium format line. That’s the recently-announced GFX100RF, a new compact-ish, 100 megapixel, fixed-lens, $5,000 camera. We look at the inventions and the tradeoffs incorporated into this high-res entrant into the compact field.

(Image: Fujifilm)

Hosts:

Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass, Jeff on Mastodon, Jeff on Bluesky
Kirk McElhearn: website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram, Kirk on Glass, Kirk on Mastodon, Kirk on Bluesky

Show Notes:

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Episode 159: Fuji X100VI and the Appeal of Small Fixed-Lens Cameras

Jeff Carlson & Kirk McElhearn — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0800

The entire Internet - yes, the whole thing, trust us - is going crazy for the new Fujifilm X100VI compact fixed-lens camera. What’s the appeal of this not-inexpensive camera? Its predecessor was in such demand that Fujifilm just stopped manufacturing it because it couldn’t keep up...for more than a year. And now the X100VI is backordered until summer. Is it all just influencer hype?

[Main photo credit: Fujifilm]

Hosts:

Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass, Jeff on Mastodon
Kirk McElhearn: website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram, Kirk on Glass, Kirk on Mastodon

Show Notes:

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Snapshots:

Jeff’s snapshot: - The Dog Sitter Detective, by Antony Johnston
Kirk’s snapshot:
Hokusai's Fuji
Lego Great Wave
Original Soundtrack: The Great Wave – LEGO Art

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Episode 141: You Say You Want a Resolution

Jeff Carlson & Kirk McElhearn — Fri, 12 May 2023 00:00:00 -0700

Camera resolution is easy, right? More pixels, more quality, more options, more better! But as soon as you start digging into it, from the iPhone 14 Pro’s 48 megapixels to Sony sensors with 60 megapixels, all sorts of considerations make themselves known. Do you need that much resolution? How did we survive with less than 20 MP in the recent past? We pixel-peep and also look at the big picture.

Hosts:

Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass
Kirk McElhearn: website, Kirk on Instagram, Kirk on Glass

Show Notes:

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Our Snapshots:

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Episode 131: Buying a New Camera

Jeff Carlson & Kirk McElhearn — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0800

October and November bring a deluge of new camera announcements, which gets our minds to thinking, “Do we need new cameras?” But buying a camera today is different than it was just a few years ago, with factors such as AI-based autofocus systems and much higher megapixel sensors that affect everything from memory cards to computer storage.

Hosts:

Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass
Kirk McElhearn: website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram, Kirk on Glass

Show Notes:

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Our Snapshots:

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Episode 129: Visualizing the Edit

Jeff Carlson & Kirk McElhearn — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 01:00:00 -0800

When you look through the viewfinder of your camera, what do you see? Just the scene in front of the lens, or the version you know is possible when you edit the shot later in software? This week Jeff and Kirk talk about visualizing the edit while you’re shooting to get photos that look the way you remember or how you’d prefer them to be.

Hosts:

Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass
Kirk McElhearn: website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram, Kirk on Glass

Show Notes:

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Episode 123: Learn Your Camera
Theme Time Radio Hour, Bob Dylan

Our Snapshots:

Jeff: Wireless Flash Trigger 2.4 GHz with Transmitter and Receiver
Kirk: The Philosophy of Modern Song, by Bob Dylan

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Episode 89: Buttons and Knobs

Jeff Carlson & Kirk McElhearn — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0700

The experience of using a camera is just as important as what you put in front of the lens. If the controls are complicated — or too minimal — you wind up focusing on the camera, not the images. In this episode, we count buttons and deliberate whether today's cameras are helping or hindering photographers.

Hosts:

Jeff's website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram
Kirk's website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram
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Show Notes:

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Our Snapshots:

Jeff: Elgato Cam Link 4K
Kirk: Fujinon 27mm f/2.8

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Episode 87: Apple Photos Workflow on Mac

Jeff Carlson & Kirk McElhearn — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 01:00:00 -0800

Apple’s Photos app is the photo-editor-for-the-rest-of-us, but there are still complications that can trip up any photographer, from deciding where to import images to making sure you don’t max out your iCloud storage. In this episode, Kirk and Jeff look at Kirk’s unusual workflow for getting his photos into Apple’s Photos and editing them on macOS.

Hosts:

Jeff's website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram
Kirk's website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram
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Our Snapshots:

Jeff: Clean your tripod
Kirk: Stonehenge Stone Circle Experience | English Heritage

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Episode 85: Film Camera Love with Dan Bracaglia

Jeff Carlson & Kirk McElhearn — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 01:00:00 -0800

Dan Bracaglia of DPReview joins us to talk about his love of film cameras, how to get started with film in this day and age, and the enduring appeal of analog photography.

Guest:

Dan Bracaglia: Instagram, website
DPReview Page

Hosts:

Show Notes:

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Episode 54: Product Photography with Dan Bracaglia
Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Film Photography: Part 1 Getting Started, DPReview
Michael Kenna: Holga
The Absolute beginner’s guide to film photography: What you need to know - B&W film, DPReview
Panda Labs
Moon Photo Lab
Retro Cameras: The Collector's Guide to Vintage Film Photography
Konica Big Mini: fun but fragile, Matt Loves Cameras
Olympus XA
Throwback Thursday: The Olympus Stylus Epic and my love for sliding lens covers, DPReview
Leica M6, Wikipedia
Nikon FM2, Wikipedia
Camera Manual Library
No 2A Folding Pocket Brownie
We’ve come full rectangle: Polaroid is reborn out of The Impossible Project, TechCrunch
Polaroid
FujiFilm Instax
Best Instax Cameras in 2020, DPReview

Our Snapshots:

Jeff: Why iPhone Is Today’s Kodak Brownie, Om Malik
Kirk: 10 Steps to Improve Your Computer Ergonomics

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Episode 48: Adventures with Dan Bailey

Jeff Carlson & Kirk McElhearn — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 12:45:00 -0700

Photographer Dan Bailey is our guest this week to talk about his book FUJIFILM X Series Unlimited: Mastering Techniques and Maximizing Creativity with Your FUJIFILM Camera—though we’re not focusing on Fujifilm cameras. We’re more interested in questions such as how many of your camera’s features you should understand, whether technical details really matter, and how Dan became a pro photographer and expert in the first place.

Guest:

Giveaway:

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Show Notes:

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Glazer’s Camera in Seattle

Far Side: Devil cartoon

Fuji X-Forum
Galen Rowell, Mountain Light Photography
Michael Kenna Rouge gallery
Joseph O. Holmes “Custom Machinery”
Joel Meyerowitz Empire State photos

Our Snapshots:

Jeff: Replacement lens caps: 39mm, 67mm
Kirk: Rouge, by Michael Kenna

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