Voigtländer NOKTON 70mm f/1.2 Patent Spotted

Back in 2023, Cosina released the Voigtländer 50mm f/1.2, a manual focus lens but with electronic contacts.

Now the patent for that lens has been spotted, and along with that, also the patent for the Voigtländer Nokton 70mm F1.2 for APS-C appeared, as reported by the Japanese website asobinet.

  • Focal length: 72.8
  • F value: 1.23
  • Half-angle of view: 10.89

Voigtländer X Mount Lenses with electronic contacts:

Meet the Fujifilm X-Half – Fujifilm’s Upcoming Digital Half Frame Camera

When I first shared rumors about a 1″ inch sensor Fujifilm half frame camera coming, plenty of readers attacked me saying I mislead people by calling it a half frame camera.

The logic: it’s just a regular 1″ sensor, so it is not a proper half frame camera.

But…

… if the fact that it has a vertical LCD

… and the fact that it is intended to mainly create diptych images

… is not enough

… then here is another hint…

… the name of the camera will be Fujifilm X-Half.

I guess Fujifilm won’t call it “X-Half” because it is half as big as a Fujifilm GFX100RF.

My humble guess is that it will carry the name “X-Half” because Fujifilm will market it as a half frame camera. And if we look at how it works, then this might even make sense.

LEAKED: First Image of Fujifilm Half Frame Camera

What you see above is the first image of the Fujifilm Half Frame camera. I have received it via email a few hours ago.

We can see an exposure compensation dial, an optical viewfinder and f/2.4 maximum aperture.

The look resembles the one of the Leica M cameras.

The specs so far:

Wouldn’t it be nice if this was a proper Fujifilm X30 successor called Fujifilm X40 or Fujifilm X50, with a 1″ X-Trans sensor?

Fujifilm Half Frame Camera Mock-ups and Addressing Skepticism

Afters months of remaining unnoticed, FR-reader Mistral spotted the patent for a new Fujifilm digital camera that has to be the long rumored half frame camera.

We reported here.

I have also received emails asking me if mock-ups circulating are real. But I am sad to report they are all fake.

And fake are also all the Fujifilm X-T6, Fujifilm X-Pro4, Fujifilm X-H3, Fujifilm X-H3S, Fujifilm X-T60 rumors and what not.

And just to show you how easy it is to make up realistic looking fake stuff, I have created fake Fujifilm Half Frame images using ChatGPT based on the data provided in the public registration.

Anyway, this gives me the opportunity to address some of the skepticism shared after our previous article.

Seems to big for a 1″sensor

We confirm it has a 1″ sensor. And keep in mind, it is still smaller than the Fujifilm X-M5. And that camera is really small.

There comes a point in which shrinking a camera further probably makes no sense, as it would make it very uncomfortable to handle. I mean, you can shrink cameras, but you can’t shrink human hands. Could Fujifilm have made it smaller? Probably yes. Would it make sense? Maybe not, if you want to still retain some decent ergnomics.

Half Frame is Misleading

Don’t shoot the messenger guys. I just tell you how Fujifilm will market it.

But the fact that it has a vertical LCD is a strong indication that it is indeed intended to work as a half frame camera, especially considering that we have also shared details on how it will work.

If it works as we described, then “half frame” could indeed be a proper term to me.

That’s it from my side… and I wish you an absolutely fantastic day.

Fujifilm Half Frame Camera Registration Shows Sketches with Vertical LCD and Dimensions (FF240003)

For months this new camera registration has remained undetected by everybody.

Undiscovered, until fellow FR-reader Mistral stumbled on it and passed us this info (THANKS).

So what it is about?

On the 26th of February 2025, the camera registration FF240003 was published.

And looking at the details and sketches of the camera, it has to be the long rumored Fujifilm half frame camera, which we first rumored in October 2024.

Here is what we can see:

Overall we can now say it will look closer to the digital version of the Pentax 17 half frame rather than the Yashica Samurai X3.0.

So now we have two unreleased camera registrations:

  • FF250001 – Fujifilm X-E5 or Fujifilm GFX Eterna
  • FF240003 – Fujifilm Half Frame Camera

All of these cameras will still come in 2025.

But will there be even more? We investigated this question here.

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Fujifilm Gear Coming 2025 – Updated List and What’s Missing!

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