The FujiCast: Photography Podcast

Kev is back from Spain and has already planned two months away for next year! Questions include how focused a website should be, Lightroom flavours, new colour profiles within the X-H2s, focusing on X100 cameras, trying to find an X100V; are there any left and which lenses would you like to see new versions of? The award winning documentary wedding and portrait photographer Ben Chrisman is our gue...

As Kev jets out to Spain for the month to escape the school Photo Booth, the boys decide to take a leaf out of X-Photographer guest Emily Endean's life-book and consider vanlifing for a month together as we lament the loss of a showbiz legend who is now Wombling Free forever more. Photographically we talk about jpegs versus providing prints in social photography, online galleries, the seemingly ra...

We're BACK ON THE ROAD at Fujifilm's House of Photography in London's Covent Garden with a live studio audience and special guest Andreas Georghiades, Group Marketing Manager. We also hear from two FujiCast listeners with a short excerpt from their talks prior to the show as part of FujiCast's Got Talent. Today we talk about new cameras and lenses and look ahead to future announcements too includi...

It turns out that Kev had the X-H2 in his hands all along and… wait for it… he LOVES it, well, nearly all of it. The London meet up is nigh and the boys announce the finishing touches, we talk PASM dials and their place on Fujifilm cameras, new lenses, photographic cancellation policies, going above and beyond for clients, the laws of street work, thoughts on wide angle lens choices, Photofilms an...

This week Kev tries to remain very tight-lipped on the shiny new things Fujifilm has coming, the show is back on the road with an announcement for a London recording in June at the House of Photography - and you can claim your ticket. X-T4 or X-T2, what do I choose? Why Kev hasn't been on YouTube so much of late, why you could/should consider shooting P mode, the pitfalls of shooting too much when...

Kev is trapped in Malmesbury, no petrol, no heating, no oven even! Send pizzas now! We talk about seeing in black and white, what clients think of our 'smaller cameras', the new miracle sound box from Tascam, having your camera converted for infrared and camera system looks; is there such a thing? BIG show news for an event coming up we'd love you to join us at, Kev sorts out some exposure lock pr...

Today Kev gives wedding advice, but not necessarily the photographic kind. The last of the current weekly editions before the show reverts to a monthly from April. We talk about the monotony of some business tasks that sap the joy from creativity, forgetting clients' names and raise the 'Should you belong to an organisation or society' question cautiously. We talk about settings for making video s...

There's news to announce today about the show's future! We also talk about the march of technology and ask; "Does it, de-skill photographers?" AI culling software - it's here! How should I behave when I'm at a wedding with a camera? What films inspire us? Designing a new website, how multi-genre should it be? We talk perfect laptops for editing and choose a camera combo for working in environmenta...

A mysterious box shows up for Kev, is it, could it be the… (all will be revealed). One of the regular favourite discussions; we talk X-H2, add a video camera to the wish list and look ahead to a new sensor. We also answer questions on insurance for photographers, where to self-publish, what life experiences or courses have added value to our creative lives or outlook. Our guest is the remarkably t...

Neale is still considering whether to douse a Fujifilm camera in a bucket of water to test its water resistance, whilst Kev is keen to put anything with an Apple logo into that same bucket. We talk about Fujifilm making a film camera; is there a market? We discuss the possibility of the public now hiding from street photographers, favourite photographer documentaries and BEST value camera bags; it...

This week, are some photographers less 'relevant' with time? Showing respect on the street, Kev shares why he upgraded to the X-T4 when he thought he wouldn't and is the updated 10-24 lens worth the additional investment? We talk camera apps on phones, why Kev no longer watches photography YouTube channels and the humanitarian projects we'd like to work on. Our guest is Lucy Hamidzadeh.

Kev plays Mystic Meg with the rugby scores from the weekend just gone, but did he fortune tell correctly? This week, the IBIS debate continues; just how useful is it? Making zoom decisions, EVF colour shifts, setting up a portrait business, we enthuse over the magical musical instrument photographs of Charles Brooks, choosing lenses for a personal project, Insta v Flickr, learning to shoot wedding...

Where do photographers find their ideas for projects, what is the best Fujifilm lens/body combo for wedding work, should I hang my own work on the walls of my house, how do you measure your own improvement, surely not by social media? Also we have advice if you're thinking of starting a workshop and our guest is the Canadian photographer Simon Blakesley who photographs jets in the beautiful Yukon.

If you're a cricket fan, this show comes with a health warning! Today we talk 365s, choosing film simulations according to light, website copywriting, choosing between the X-T3 and X-T4 and we ponder over IBIS in an X-Pro4? Also, is the X-H1 a capable sports camera, will a photographic ban on mothers nursing their babies bring us ever closer to 'street' censorship, what is percussion testing withi...

Are professional European photography gigs over for the Brits? Kev's gotten rid of his bed bugs, we're still guessing what an X-H2 may bring, we talk camera ergonomics including our feelings about the X100V, the 'right time' for using flash, embracing street photography in your own town, the kit you bought you wished you hadn't and celebrate not having to calibrate lenses. The book of the week is...

Kev's reboot has begun for '22. We talk 'must have' shots at weddings, creative ruts, X-Trans sensor magic, back button focussing on the X100V, advice for new street photographers, left eye shooters, using exposure compensation and ask; "What is  the difference in light gathering when considering lenses on a full frame camera versus APSC sensor camera?" Casey Orr returns for the concluding part of...

The last one of the year as we take a short break over the holiday period. We're musing over cameras for left eyed shooters, revisiting focusing techniques, pricing a 'day in the life' photo business, Kev shares his plans for '22 and we ask, "Could you shoot a wedding just with zooms?" We talk about photography start-ups, stolen library owned photobooks, have some jpeg editing tips, Covid passes a...

Who ate all the mince pies and why is Kev favouring the new 50mm f1 lens for his wedding work? We talk about working with videographers in a documentary setting and dancing whilst making your pictures! We discuss providing pictures to bereaved families, stepping back to manual focus times, making stories locally and ask, are you proud of what you shoot? Book of the week is Asim Khan's Scenes from...

This week we talk about photofilms and the various different versions that Kev and Neale present to clients, how to wrangle with back button focus, there's a Twitterstorm brewing, X-Pro v X-T and camera choice dilemmas, combining footage from drones and an X-H1 in a video edit, the wonderful new 18mm lens and what to do when your mails just seem to go to peoples' spam boxes! Polly Rusyn is back to...

Kev is under the weather but the test came back clean so he's fit to fly on the podcast and Neale has unleashed (can you see what we did there) his own studio dog. We muse over photographers that can't or won't embrace innovation, talk cropping, discuss the amount of images returned to clients from an edit, how we send images to clients, whether it's time to finally drop the full frame lens equiva...

This week we pay our respects to a giant of photojournalism, Tom Stoddart who passed away last week. On the show, Kev is off to a wedding with the Archbishop! We talk about firmware and Instax printers, the X-M1 and X-E range, solve some X100F metering issues, dream AGAIN about a monochrome sensor, discuss personal versus work cameras and ask; "Are you SOOC?" Book of the week this week is Marilyn...

Do they have Polar Bears in Argentina, how much is Kev's vet's bill, what is a shutterless camera lifespan, should you have a 'scaffold in pictures' contract clause, can you future proof a photo business for another pandemic and why do people humble brag? We imagine a world without film, talk about travel and backups, dream of a BW sensor and discuss how the new larger sensor size may affect lens...

Neale and Kev ponder whether to believe in Father Christmas over the politicians, we discuss the new lens roadmap and Viltrox lenses, the value of signed photography books, we tip our hats to Salgado's latest exhibition, discuss the charges made to videographers in UK churches, lightroom rescues, drones and X100 cameras; are they the perfect all round travel companions? Book of the Week is Jim Mar...

The boys shelve their plans for space exploration but they do get scientific about how they store their precious pictures in the cloud. Also, they share their commercial day rates, muse over retouching demands, an X-H1 filming issue, whether there is a safe lock to protect camera kit, using smart phones for pro photo work and discuss the 'genre that got away.' Tickety Boo by Charles Traub is book...

Kev decides there's more money in laundry than photographs, we talk the new 23mm - is it time to swap? We talk about the draw of Fujifilm, ask if IBIS is the X-T4 game changer and discuss best lens combos for talking heads interviews in video mode, plus is mobile tech going to replace the pro photographer's camera skills? Book of the week is Tanya Nagar's New Street Photographers Manifesto: Any Ca...