[UPDATE: the event is already sold out, but Rico will organize more workshops if there is enough interest. Order now and you’ll be added to the waiting list. Check out the dedicated websites: www.fuji-x-secrets.com or www.fuji-x-secrets.de.
We don’t always need new and better cameras, the latest stuff and the hottest gear. No, what we need is to know how to make the best use of what we already own. And that’s exactly what you’ll learn at the workshop of X-series guru Rico Pfirstinger.
On June 7th, in Schwabach (next to Nürnberg, GER), you’ll have the chance to shoot, learn and work with Rico Pfirstinger. Take your X-series camera with you (or Rico will lend you one) and learn how to enjoy the full potential of your X-series camera.
But act fast, as just about 7 persons will be included in the workshop. A small group and a lot to learn. If you want to know more, check out the details here.
You can be sure to learn a lot… and anyone, who has ever read one of his great books, knows what I’m talking about.
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I’ll go if he sends me airfare 😉
Host a seminar in the States, preferably the Western US, and I’m in!
I might do one this December in Santa Barbara.
I’m in!
I will stay in the house of my U.S. publisher for a few week before Christmas, so there’s a good chance that I can make one or more workshops, depending on demand. Interest in Germany is pretty good, the waitlist is already big enough to fill a second date.
already sold out? 🙁
Don’t we see here a kind of play conducted by Fujifilm, promote X-photographers to let them sell their X-system to a whole wave of people that start believing this is a professional system? Let them propagate the hype across the globe! While I’m pretty sure many of those so-called X-photographers hold a lot more serious stuff in their bags for the real work – I can’t believe that any true professional would risk his career and client portfolio using this – let me put it carefully – idiosyncratic system that has quite a few technical challenges. Or maybe Mr. Pfirstinger can reveal some real tips how to get along with the slow and imprecise AF, in particular with some lenses like the XF60 and 55-200 in low light conditions, shutter lag, poor flash support, the terrible color bleeding RAW-conversion issues,… I’d be curious to hear some remedies, maybe I’ll finally ditch my Pro-DSLR after hearing them.
Sure, I can help you with most of that.
And sure, X -Photographers is a marketing vehicle. What else would it supposed to be?
Being a wave one X-series adopter, the biggest secret I found out was that the X-series have an AF, FW, user interface and sensor that are about halfway where they should be. I left the camp of the plain ‘believers’ and am a bit in a waiting mode for Fotokina. If the X-Pro2 release there disappoints Fuji is gone for me. I don’t want to hassle around with all kinds of shortcuts and work-arounds to end up with conversions full of artifacts. Fuji’s toys for boys just don’t have the same speed and competences than real professional stuff. The IQ is a bit of a discussion. The ideas are there and there is a bit of progress from camera to camera: that is already good news. But competition is very sharp, that is the very bad news for a manufacturer that is commercially far behind the numbers of all MLIC competition, that is only having an old Sony 16MP-sensor and due to this extremely complex CFA a lot of issues to get the pictures well developed, so they need quite a bit of a ‘marketing vehicle’.
Where’s that XE2 book?
Just finished the German version. Starting work in the English version next week.
Hi Rico,
– I am waiting for the X-E2 book too. (German could be OK.)
– Do you have a secret tip for shooting sharp pictures with a moving target and wide aperture? (X-E2 + XF55-200 / Example: Small depth of field Portraits shooting from a carnival fasching parade.)
Yes, the new book contains several strategies for shooting moving targets. It’s a popular topic. It’s also something that can be practiced at a workshop. I have just received note that my publisher would love to support a workshop in Santa Barbara, so I guess I’ll try to offer one there in early December.