X-Pro 2 Does Pro Rugby

[thedwp]

Pro Rugby is launching a league here in the U.S. I was hired to shoot some initial shots and decided to give my Xpro2 a go. Overall I was happy with the performance and especially the quality of the images. I mainly used the 56 and it worked like a charm. Focus was fast and accurate. Dumped all my Canon camera gear and have never looked back. 

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[Aswald]

Okay....tough getting in the field with these guys.

 

Looks great! XPro2 does the job! Well done!

[Patrick FR]

awesome series!

[quincy]

But... but that's impossible, the X-Pro2 isn't capable of taking pictures... how did you? It's not even Full Frame! And everyone knows the 56 can't focus!

Very well done!

Edited April 16, 2016 by quincy

[nathan.mardin]

These are great! I love the lighting too. Really well done

 

May I ask your setup for these? Lights, triggers, and what not?

 

 

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[thedwp]

These are great! I love the lighting too. Really well done

 

May I ask your setup for these? Lights, triggers, and what not?

 

 

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Thanks. I used a simple 3 light setup. I had a 1'x3' strip box with a grid (vertical) on either side of the players and a small octabox (with grid) to fill their face. The lights I used on this were the Baja b4's from dynalite. I used the dynalite trigger as well. We were on the road for 9 days and the whole setup worked well.

 

I did rent a backup xpro2 just in case anything went wrong. But my personal cam worked like a champ.

[nathan.mardin]

Thanks. I used a simple 3 light setup. I had a 1'x3' strip box with a grid (vertical) on either side of the players and a small octabox (with grid) to fill their face. The lights I used on this were the Baja b4's from dynalite. I used the dynalite trigger as well. We were on the road for 9 days and the whole setup worked well.

 

I did rent a backup xpro2 just in case anything went wrong. But my personal cam worked like a champ.

Thanks for the response .

[rlewis]

There is no way to tell if these were shot with an X-Pro2 or a "full frame" DSLR.  Excellent!  Very well done!!

[jonathan7007]

OK, then the next items to jump to the front of the lens "roadmap" have to be 11mm and 16mm tilt and shift optics to replace the Canon equivalents (17 and 24). I do use the 45 sometimes, so throw in a 23 TS, too. (Canon should have made that a 35.)

 

Looks like I lug big iron for a while at least to those shoots.

 

I, too, love these rugby portraits. Great lighting. Wish more clients asked for this.

 

No "on-off" errors during the sessions? I returned mine (bummed) and am waiting to see what Fuji figures out. Or what the % error rate is in real shooting.

Edited April 17, 2016 by jonathan7007

[Steve S]

Great work!