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Brendon Hartley - Fujifilm GFX  + GF120mm f4 - 1/250s  @ f4 ISO400 There has been a lot of feedback from photographers using the new Fujifilm GFX50S for landscape, fashion, portraiture and weddings but not a lot from the world of sport.  Fellow X-Photographer John Rourke has been an early adopter of the new medium format system and I have one of the GFX cameras and the three lenses on test for three weeks. Today I gave it a first run in the pitlane ahead of this weekend's FIA World Endurance Championship event in Belgium at the wonderful Spa-Francorchamps circuit in the Ardennes forest.  I wandered down to the Porsche pit for the pitstop practice session which saw the drivers ready to play their part.  It gave me the opportunity to capture some portraits on the GF120mm f4 macro lens using the GFX's pinpoint focus to highlight the eyes through the helmet visor.   Setting the GFX's AF system to single point with the smallest setting for the AF I was ...

Born on New Years Day in 1951 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Hans Joachim Stuck is a former racing driver who is one of the sports 'greats'.    The son of legendary Hans "King of the Mountains' Stuck, Hans Joachim competed in Formula One between 1974 and 1979 and then went on to greater success by winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans twice overall in 1986 and 1987 and also took a GT1 class win in 1996, all driving for Porsche.   Since 2012 he has been the president of the German Motorsport Association (DMSB). At Spa-Francorchamps I was asked to photograph Herr Stuck for an interview, which I had five minutes to get the shots required.  I did this with the Fujifilm X-T1 fitted with the XF56mm f1.2 and the X-Pro2 fitted with the XF16-55mm f2.8. Here are the results of this five minute portrait. For more information on Hans Joachim Stuck CLICK HERE --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...