Ep. 39: New Fujifilm Bodies and Leica Lenses - and more
Lens Shark Photography Podcast
Sharky James
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2016
⏱️ 22 minutes
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In This Episode
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All About the Gear host Doug Kaye opens the show. Thanks Doug!
Fujifilm releases its new flagship body, the X-Pro2. (#)
Sports Illustrated drops the other shoe, releases key photo editors. (#)
Fujifilm announces its Fujinon XF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR. (#)
A French politician sues Madonna's ex-boyfriend over a photo of him sleeping on a plane. (#)
Leica announces 3 new wide-angle lenses (a 28mm f/2, 28mm f/2.8 and 35mm f/2) (#)
Fujifilm announces its X70, a cheaper alternative to the great X100. (#)
Reporters Without Borders rallies support for war photographers with a new video. (#)
VSCO announces yet another milestone reached. (#)
Legendary photographer Albert Watson shoots his own real estate photos and nails it. (#)
Action cam maker GoPro lays off 7% of its workforce as sales and its stock price slide. (#)
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| 0:00.0 | This is Doug Kay, co-host of All About the Gear on the Trip Network, and you're listening to the |
| 0:04.6 | Petapixil Photography Podcast with Sharky James. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome to the Petapixil Photography Podcast, Episode 39. New Fuji Film bodies and Lika lenses. |
| 0:17.0 | In this episode Fuji film releases new bodies, LICA releases new lenses, |
| 0:26.2 | Sports Illustrated releases its photo editors, |
| 0:29.3 | GoPro releases 7% of its employees, a French politician thinks a photo tanked an election, and Visco reaches |
| 0:37.2 | new heights. |
| 0:38.5 | All that and more in episode 39 of the Petapixil Photography Podcast. Thank you so much Doug for opening the |
| 0:49.3 | show. I greatly appreciate it. Doug Kay is the host of one of my favorite photography |
| 0:54.2 | podcast all about the gear and he's also a very talented photographer of course. |
| 0:58.8 | I really enjoy a street photography especially those that he did in Cuba, and I think you will too. |
| 1:04.8 | To see everything he's up to, check him out at Doug K.com, that's DoougkA-Y-E dot com. |
| 1:13.0 | And I'd like to thank you all for joining us here in episode 39 of the Petapixil Photography |
| 1:17.3 | podcast. |
| 1:18.3 | We appreciate you all so much and thank you for subscribing, rating and reviewing us in iTunes or wherever else you |
| 1:24.6 | listen to us and as always we appreciate you telling your friends as well. |
| 1:28.8 | Okay with that I'm your host Sharky James. Let's hit it. |
| 1:33.0 | Fuji film like Sony's been doing some pretty amazing things in the Mirrorless |
| 1:38.0 | Arena the past few years and their new X Pro 2 seems to be no exception. The company's new flagship mirrorless |
| 1:44.8 | cameras the world's first with Fuji's advanced hybrid multi viewfinder, a |
| 1:48.9 | viewfinder which is capable of |
| 1:53.7 | Instantly switching between optical and electronic modes. That's pretty cool. Now while we saw a hybrid viewfinder on their X100 camera a little over five years ago |
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