PhotoKina 2018: The Year DSLRs Died. What to Expect from Fujifilm and will FujiRumors be There?
The Year of Mirrorless
This years’ photokina will probably the most exciting of the last 20 years.
We will assist to the death of DSLR’s (that’s it my friends, just accept it), and open the new era of mirrorless.
Paraphrasing the famous sentence from the movie Deadline we could say “that’s technology, baby, there is nothing you can do about it, nothing“.
Sure, the transition from DSLR to mirrorless won’t happen overnight. But that’s the trend. And that’s why Canon and Nikon are starting to get serious about mirrorless, too.
On this years photokina we will see the following new mirrorless cameras from Fujifilm:
- Fujifilm GFX 50R (NO FAKE: 100% accurate sketches front/back and 100% accurate size comparison)
- Fujifilm GFX 100S (development announcement)
- Fujifilm X-T3
Not a rumor, but regarding Fujifilm lenses, I’d not be surprised to see:
- Fujinon GF 100-200mm F4.5-5.6
- Fujinon GF 35mm F2.8
- Fujinon GF 20-36mm F3.5-4.5
- GF pancake lens is not confirmed
- and of course the XF200mmF2 and XF8-16mmF2.8
Mock-ups:
- Fujinon XF16-80mmF4
- Fujinon XF16mmF2.8
- Fujinon XF33mmF1.0 (not sure)
FujiRumors @ Photokina
I am 80% sure I will be there, but if I go, I sadly I can’t be there for more than 1 or (best case) 2 days.
I was at photokina in 2016, also just for one 1 day.
In 2016, the by far busiest booth was the one of Fujifilm, but, between me and you, the most beautiful one was without a doubt the one of Leica (don’t tell Fuji, but I’ve spend hours (!!!) there).
This year, Fujifilm won’t have such an easy game to play like in 2016. The competition is strong, and that’s good for us customers.
The biggest problem?
Well, on the same Photokina days, there is also worlds largest beer festival, the Oktoberfest in Munich (I’ve never been there). So I stand in front of tough decisions: Oktoberfest or Photokina? Life can be so cruel!!!
Let me know in the poll, where I should go ;)
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