X-Pro2 Video for First WEC Press Conference of 2016




On Sunday the FIA World Endurance Championship held its first race of the 2016 season, the 6 Hours of Silverstone, in the UK.  It was my first opportunity to shoot a press conference video on the new Fujifilm X-Pro2 as I normally shoot these videos on the X-T1.

As usual there were two post race press conferences, the first for the top three overall finishers and the second for the class winners.  The top 3 press conference featured the winning no7 Audi crew of Andre Lotterer, Marcel Fassler and Benoit Treluyer, the second placed crew from Porsche and the third placed crew from Toyota. 

Here is a LINK to the video on the official FIAWEC YouTube channel

However four hours after the press conference took place the no7 Audi was excluded for failing to pass the post race technical checks.

The second press conference featured the winning LMGTE Manufacturer Ferrari and the winning crew of Sam Bird and Davide Rigon, the winning LMP1 Privateer crew, the LMP2 winners - Bruno Senna, Filipe Albuquerque and Ricardo Gonzalez - and the LMGTE Am winners.




I shot the videos in 720P rather than 1080P due to the time constraints built into the X-Pro2.  A 1080P video can be up to 14 minutes long whereas a 720P video can be 27 minutes long and the press conferences can sometimes exceed 15 minutes.  So to be on the safe side, and because the video will be streamed online, I always shoot in 720P.

The X-Pro2 video mode seems to be a lot cleaner than the ones shot on the X-T1 and my first impressions are very positive.




The still images were shot on a Fujifilm X-T1 with the XF90mm f2 lens.

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