Fujifilm

Fujifilm Create With Us Goes on Tour With Free Hands-On Days in Dallas and Miami

Fujifilm North America is taking Create With Us on the road. The creator event has run once a year in a single city since 2023, starting in Seattle with 540 attendees, then Austin in 2024 and Minneapolis in 2025. This season it becomes a tour, running from late 2026 into 2027, with each stop built around a local camera dealer. Entry is free.

Confirmed stops

  • Dallas, Texas: December 5, 2026, at Deep Ellum Art Co., with Competitive Cameras.
  • Miami, Florida: mid-January 2027, with AVC Photo Video Store.

More cities will follow. Walk-ins are welcome, but if you want to borrow gear, register with the hosting dealer first.

What you actually get

Each stop has hands-on demo stations for Fujifilm cameras and lenses, guided photo walks, sponsor demos, workshops led by working pros, and a networking meetup at the end. Bring your own body or try theirs. The loaner angle is the useful part. Renting an X-H2S or a GFX body for a weekend costs real money, and a photo walk is a far better test than ten minutes at a store counter.

Godox is the lead partner, so expect lighting classes, lighting photo walks and live demos of its flashes and LED panels. Brent Eysler, whose work spans portraits, photojournalism and cinematography, teaches the classes.

Who should go

Anyone weighing a move to Fujifilm should put a stop in the diary. Hours with a body and two or three lenses will tell you more about the handling, the dials and the film simulations than any spec sheet. If you are choosing between models, our reviews of the Fujifilm X-H2S and the X-E5 cover the two ends of the line most people are torn between.

Current owners get something too. Off-camera flash is where a lot of X shooters stall, and a free afternoon with Godox kit and someone who knows it is a cheap way past that. For filmmakers, the event is open to video shooters as well, and Fujifilm’s hybrid bodies are a big part of its pitch now.

Bring a fast card and a charged spare battery. Photo walks eat both.