OSP Magazine December

The December edition of OSP Magazine consists of 8 pages this time (this included) and many links to external pages, hopefully there’s something for you!

In the last two months and so after switching to magazines I have learned two things:

• OSP Photography apparently shows up very well in search results for Recipes, Luts and everything related to it.
  Undoubtedly, my good friend Mark Adams certainly contributed to that.
  Thank you Mark ! (https://onecameraonelens.com/)
• Adding PictureFX to FreshLuts was also a good thing.
  And that actually makes sense, what I write myself is currently a drop in the ocean – there are a huge number of photography sites.
  But the search for Recipes and Luts and everything related to it has never been greater, and it continues to grow.

In case you didn’t already know this, I recently added a new Lut on Fresh LUTs : PictureFX Kodachrome 1961 25 ASA XPRD
Writing here and links to downloads on Fresh LUTs and on Google Drive for the special formats.

There is another thing that is well visited on OSP, and that is lens tests or lens reviews.
To make them more accessible I’ve added them to the Tech menu, all lenses tested so far are listed in order of focal length, primes first then zooms.

Talking about lenses, In the November magazine I wrote about purchasing the new Tamron 18-300mm for Fuji X and writing down my findings in a review. However, it has not been delivered yet. Is this due to the Covid, or a small boat that got stuck in the Suez Canal, who will know?
Yet there are those who have been luckier than me,
Ivan Joshua Loh already has it, and writes his review about it here.
Darren Miles has also received his lens and has written down his findings about it here. And from what I’ve read of it, it’s a keeper ! – unfortunately, I’ll have to get it first.

Recipes, recipes and more recipes…
For those who thought my stream of new recipes was exhausted,
think again…

1. The spotlight Recipe for December : Luís Costa of Life Unintended, with 7 (yes, you read correctly) seven custom Fujifilm recipes.
But that’s not all, also a link to Luís favorite Fujifilm recipes and a very interesting article about analog film simulation.
Click here for the article.

2. Further, Alik Griffin with his version of the Eterna Film Simulator Recipe.
Alik from alikgriffin.com may already be known by many for his memory card comparisons and camera gear reviews, but probably not his recipes.
Click here for more.

3. And last but not least, Andrew and Dani Livelsberger from Best Light Photographic, bringing you two great B&W recipes, Kodak Panatomic and Ilford Delta 3200.
Click here to go to my article.

How To Setup your Fujifilm X-T1, X-T20, X-H1… for Video.
After my switch from Pentax to Fujifilm, I also explored the field of filmmaking.
It was something I’ve always wanted to do, but the Pentax camera wasn’t very suitable for this, but now that I have two Fujifilm X-H1 cameras, it was really the time to delve into it, and that’s exactly what I ‘ve done.
Click here to visit the article.

Next, something new for OSP : a special recipe update, a Recipe for Video by Palle Schultz.
Palle Schultz is a Copenhagen based, Fujifilm X Photographer, Filmmaker and Musician,
and in his video he teaches us how to set up our Fujifilm X-H1 for, as he says “some bad ass video, straight out of camera” . Now, technically it’s a “how to setup your camera” however, part of that setup is about tweaking to make Eterna look better – straight out of camera – and that makes it a : Recipe!
Click here for my article.

If you want to make films, you need an editor, just like with photography.
We found a great Open Source alternative for that to : Shotcut.
People sometimes worry about the difficult learning curve of image editing software, but while Shotcut is capable of producing very professional results, it is not that difficult to use.
Follow the 15min video for Shotcut for beginners, and I guarantee you can make decent clips within the hour. Click here for more.