Welcome to our new host Yūdansha, AKA ‘Black Belt Kev’ - he only went and did it! This week on the show, could the new X-H2 replace a desire to buy a GFX system, which GFX is right for me, high end Photo Booth interests, should I use a lens hood and where can I buy a kit bag like Mullins? Writing photo tuition books, and what is at the top of our wish list of kit right now? Our guest is the founder behind Mabel & Møøse, Ally Stuart-Ross, whose successful brand of newborn photography is surprising all those who suggested she open a different kind of photography company; proof that self belief is an important asset and book of the week is Café Lehmitz by Anders Petersen.

Neale is getting dewy eyed over Chris Killip’s nostalgic photography, meanwhile Kev is sidetracked by his black belt grading and banned rugby anthems! By the way, if you’re a rugby fan as our Kev is, steady and ready yourself for some hopeless score predictions! Meanwhile in photography world, transitioning from portraits, finding street photography, editing larger raw files, smaller lens sizes and can we have a percentage symbol for battery strength instead of bars? Also, giving feedback to Fujifilm, bring back your mojo, X-E2 focus features and Lightroom sharing. John Dolan is our special guest returning for part two of his chat with Kev

'Black belt in waiting Kev' ponders fight club in East London and Neale is wrestling too, but with a loan camera of a flavour he’s never tried before. We celebrate a special birthday for a much loved Fujifilm camera, talk about all weather shooting, white balance 101, Torsten’s X-Pro3 has returned home, questions of sharpness in the Fujifilm range, print options for our hero sponsor pic-time, the best FF camera for vlogging with a FujiGimbal and auto ISO issues. Also, an appreciation for darts, though it’s not a sport! Our guest is John Dolan, documentary and celebrated wedding photographer.

Kev moves into plumbing services it seems and Neale’s left wondering where the years seem be disappearing to. Meanwhile is it time to drop DSLR from our language, is the X-Pro 3 the last of the lineage, if the brand was Fuji-Mullins - what would the next camera release be?

It’s Boxing Day 2022, there’s no let up for ya from the boys, as they meet for St. Stephen’s Day in the Podcastsphere. Today Kev receives preset orders from unlikely places, reveals his top movie of all time, we discuss the magical X100V ‘zoom’, new critiques for ’23, more on delete and sharpening-gate, street photographers with attitude, X-H2s or the H2 and Kev delves into Eric Luke’s Changing Faces of Ireland book.

Neale laments another England footie exit, though gets over it within 15.7 seconds, whilst Mullins is too full of cold to even know the result. This week, assigning buttons, even more shortcuts and why Kev is selling gear! We muse over which design elements of the cameras and lenses we use today could be the result of Mullins’ contributions to the suggestions box at Fujifilm HQ’s design floor in Japan, we discuss which sensors have more of a filmic feel in the Fujifilm range and photo processing to achieve that look, original X100 values, first and preferred lens choices, IBIS and another case of ’The Worms!’ Beware sharpening levels. Our guest is Chris Orange on food photography and his special assignment!

Kev attempts an unboxing, camera short-cut secrets, how to clean your cameras, using Affinity Photo and we talk about grain; what’s the best way to apply it and is it really necessary? We find out that Kev has a new ‘not so secret now’ Instagram page for lovers of black and white photography, what do you say to famous folk you meet in the bathroom, syncing your camera clocks part 2, copying settings between camera bodies, why you shouldn’t delete in camera and more. Also, this week Kev and Andreas get behind the scenes in Japan at ‘the factory’.

Kev refuses to start the show until the rugby final whistle blows, but once underway we talk about getting insured (not as dull as it sounds), should you buy an X100F if you can’t get hold of the V?

Kev is back from Japan with news about new cameras and lenses and he’s pondering a clear-out of his camera bag - quick it’s a Mullins everything must go sale!

Where in the World is Kev as this episode goes out? Somewhere it seems on an airliner. Today, having your pictures cropped by a third party, is it a problem? Also knowing your camera, editing processes, digital workflow, charging and contracting for charity commissions, memory card housekeeping notes, X100V focusing advice, your everyday carry cameras, what is digital art and what is photography, and can they be one of the same? Robin Morgan is back as our guest from Iconic Images for part 2 of a conversation that today tries to unpick the NFT market.

Kev tries to educate Neale on National Lampoon, we talk contracts and compassion in the face of cancellation, digital marketing and the dos and don’ts of optimising your website for more traffic, Pinterest, why you need to keep up to date with your website security, X100V troubleshooting, wedding etiquette, image stabilisation, EVF problems, exposing for varying skin types in the same group, the most important Fujifilm camera produced and other stories. The founder of Iconic Images, Robin Morgan is our guest.

A Tuesday edition following a day of observation and reflection yesterday upon the funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II. In today’s edition, we’re happy to welcome back for the second part of his conversation with Kevin, Ben Chrisman.

Kev is back from Spain and has already planned two months away for next year! Questions include how focused a website should be, Lightroom flavours, new colour profiles within the X-H2s, focusing on X100 cameras, trying to find an X100V

As Kev jets out to Spain for the month to escape the school Photo Booth, the boys decide to take a leaf out of X-Photographer guest Emily Endean’s life-book and consider vanlifing for a month together as we lament the loss of a showbiz legend who is now Wombling Free forever more.

We're BACK ON THE ROAD at Fujifilm's House of Photography in London's Covent Garden with a live studio audience and special guest Andreas Georghiades, Group Marketing Manager.

It turns out that Kev had the X-H2 in his hands all along and… wait for it… he LOVES it, well, nearly all of it. The London meet up is nigh and the boys announce the finishing touches, we talk PASM dials and their place on Fujifilm cameras, new lenses, photographic cancellation policies, going above and beyond for clients, the laws of street work, thoughts on wide angle lens choices, Photofilms and is a wed-apocalypse on the cards? Our guest is the photographer and post processing expert/legend Glyn Dewis and the book of the month comes from Sandra Cattaneo Adorno, called Scarti Di Tempo.

This week Kev tries to remain very tight lipped on the shiny new things Fujifilm has coming, the show is back on the road with an announcement for a London recording in June at the House of Photography - and you can claim your ticket. X-T4 or X-T2, what do I choose? Why Kev hasn’t been on YouTube so much of late, why you could/should consider shooting P mode, the pitfalls of shooting too much when it comes to the edit, how the magical Tascam audio gizmo works that we’ve been discussing and more. This month’s guest is Fujifilm X-Photographer Kirth Bobb talking about social and street work and the book of the month is Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s Byker Revisited.

Kev is trapped in Malmesbury, no petrol, no heating, no oven even! Send pizzas now! We talk about seeing in black and white, what clients think of our ’smaller cameras’, the new miracle sound box from Tascam, having your camera converted for infrared and camera system looks.

Today Kev gives wedding advice, but not necessarily the photographic kind. The last of the current weekly editions before the show reverts to a monthly from April. We talk about the monotony of some business tasks that sap the joy from creativity, forgetting clients’ names and raising the ‘Should you belong to an organisation or society’ question cautiously.

There’s news to announce today about the show’s future! We also talk about the march of technology and ask; "Does it de-skill photographers?" AI culling software - it’s here! How should I behave when I’m at a wedding with a camera? What films inspire us? Designing a new website, how multi genre should it be? We talk perfect laptops for editing and choose a camera combo for working in environmental portraiture, plus ask if Facebook is a better place for your new blog. Our guest is Charles Brooks, back for part 2 of our discussion about making the most extraordinary pictures inside musical instruments.