Sam Bendall has been a professional and passionate enthusiast photographer for the majority of his life along with being an unofficial Fujifilm X-Photographer for the last 12 years. For the past decade he has primarily worked in the motorcycle and automotive industries in marketing and content production. He lives with his wife and cadre of cats in Austin, TX.
Equipment
Let me be upfront about something: bringing a large-format camera to a MotoGP weekend is, on paper, a fool’s errand. The GFX system was never designed for high-speed action photography, even though Fujifilm says it can hang in that kind of environment. It is a camera built for maximum image fidelity, not maximum frames per […]
Equipment
Over the past four years, my work has leaned increasingly toward motorsport photography. With that shift came a growing need for specialty long lenses that could keep pace with speed, distance, and rapidly changing light. My most practical early solution was the Fujifilm XF100–400mm f/4.5–5.6, a lens I still consider indispensable. It remains my default […]
