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In December I posted on this blog that I had been selected by Fujifilm to be part of the X-Photographers exhibition in Tokyo to celebrate 5 years of the X-Series cameras. Last week I travelled to Tokyo to take part in the press conference on Friday 15th January (more on this later) and I also had the opportunity to see the image that Fujifilm had selected to be part of the exhibition of 100 images by photographers from all around the world. The image Fujifilm chose was a long exposure pre dawn shot of the lighthouse at Barns Ness that I took on the 27th November using the brand new Fujifilm X-Pro2 camera that I was secretly testing for the Japanese manufacturer.  The image was captured using a Fujinon 10-24mm f4 lens with an exposure of 300 seconds at f8. Because this camera was so new I didn't have a suitable solution to access the RAW file so this image is almost straight out of the camera, with just a few tweaks to the brightness and contrast in Photoshop. The fi...

While we were in Japan for the FIA World Endurance Championship four Fujifilm X-Photographers met up at Fujifilm HQ in Tokyo for a meeting about a video shoot that the company wanted to take during the event at Fuji Speedway on how we photographers use our X-Series equipment.  The four photographers were Dirk Bogaerts from Belgium, Andrew Hall from Australia, John Rourke and myself from the UK. Dirk and Andrew did their interviews at the circuit as they had to fly back home early the day after the race, however John and I travelled back to Tokyo on Monday to complete our videos in the studio before heading to the airport. We each took it in turns to face the cameras, with me going first to answer questions about me as a photographer, why I chose to use Fujifilm and my work in general.   Once John took the 'hot seat' I was able to shoot some behind the scenes shots using the X-T1 and the 16-55mm f2.8 with the camera set to electronic shutter so there would be no...

Leading Japanese camera manufacturer Fujifilm has appointed Dunbar based sport, landscape and travel photographer Jeff Carter as an ambassador for the global photographic brand. He now joins the elite Fujifilm X Photographer line up which includes some of the world’s leading fashion, portrait, street and wildlife photographers.   As well as using the latest professional photographic equipment manufactured by Fujifilm for his work for his agency MacLean Photographic, Carter will test new cameras, lenses and software, writing about his experiences, giving his professional feedback and advising the company on the direction of future products for both professional and enthusiast photographers. Jeff Carter’s first assignment for Fujifilm was to test a new telephoto lens and camera software prior to the two products world wide introduction at last month's 24 Hours of Le Mans sportscar race in France.  The software he was testing included improvements to the flagship ...