IBELUX 40mm f/0.85: Worlds fastest lens for mirrorless cameras mounted on a X-E1

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Officially announced back in December here, now the first images of the IBELUX f/0.85 mounted on a Fuji X-camera (X-E1) surfaced the web. They were sent to mirrorlessrumors by their reader Zetton (click here).

The lens should come next month and cost $2000.

Much cheaper at the moment, the XF lenses in the USA (and I hear of Europeans purchasing them in the States, too.)

XF deals

XF 14mm: $200 off (price $700) at BHphoto / Adorama / AmazonUS / Pictureline
XF 18mm: $200 off (price $400) at BHphoto / Adorama / AmazonUS / Pictureline
XF 23mm: $150 off (price $750) at BHphoto / Adorama / AmazonUS / Pictureline
XF 27mm: $250 off (price $200) at BHphoto / Adorama / AmazonUS / Pictureline
XF 35mm: $150 off (price $450) at BHphoto / Adorama / AmazonUS / Pictureline
XF 60mm: $250 off (price $400) at BHphoto / Adorama / AmazonUS / Pictureline
XF 55-200: $200 off (price $500) at BHphoto / Adorama / AmazonUS / Pictureline

via mirrorlessrumors via canonwatch.

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Multiple wins for Fuji at the iF product design awards: X-M1, XQ1, X100S, X20 + instax mini 90

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Five Fuji cameras won one of the worlds most important design awards, the “iF product design awards”. (Fuji Press release).

“Since its launch in March 2011, Fujifilm has rapidly grown its X series which successfully combines traditional styling with the highest image quality and mobility. Almost all FUJIFILM X series cameras have won an iF product design award, confirming that the design philosophy of X Series is highly regarded.”

And the winners are:

Fuji X100S: [shopcountry 12883] – Fuji X-M1: Save $200 (price $599) on the kit and $200 on the body (price $499) at AmazonUS, BHphoto (+4%reward) and Adorama.
Fuji X20: get it for $499 (save $100) at AmazonUS, BHphoto and Adorama (+4% reward)
Fuji XQ1: get tit for $399 (save $100) at AmazonUS, BHphoto and Adorama.
Fuji Instax Mini 90: [shopcountry 17593]

VOTE: the ultimate Kaizen firmware poll!

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Kaizen, continuous improvement philosophy. Japanese for “improvement” or “change for the best”, refers to philosophy or practices that focus upon continuous improvement of processes in manufacturing, engineering, and business management.” src-wikipedia

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Do you remember Marco Ricci’s (website) firmware wish list the article “because we love Kaizenhere? Well, there where 163 comments with further suggestions for firmware improvements. I promised myself to look into it and sum them up in March, when I have a week of holidays and finally a bit more time to launch a new, updated firmware poll.

But I don’t have to, because, sometimes, it happens that FR-readers decides to surprise me and to help me.

So it happens that FR-reader DIS took a look at all firmware suggestions and summed them up into one big super-firmware-poll (divided in 3 blocks).

Everything is in there, even those firmware suggestions FR-reader DIS strongly disagrees with. So he said that, “the block “Other updates” has some strange or impossible to be realized things. It should be distinguished a lot from the main list. Otherwise it won’t be taken seriously by Fuji.

Now all you have to do, is to vote the top 3 firmware updates you’d like to see in each poll (and add in the comments the one you miss).

Thanks a lot for your time DIS!

And also thanks a lot to Fuji for keeping this Kaizen spirit and improving even discounted Fuji cameras (even though it means sacrificing sales earnings for customer loyalty as a Fuji manager told us here). This is how you treat your customers base.

And here are the polls: 3 blocks, each one with a maximum of 3 selections.

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Bug reports

1. RAW/JPEG switch in Fn works only for the first shot. After the shot it’s back again.
2. Hot shoe instability: “So many times it is not working: getting frozen, not seeing the flash unit,… Both the X100 & X-Pro1 have very similar behavior. With third party stuff – transceivers – it gets even more wrong, sometimes working, sometimes not. I even had to perform a complete reset of the camera a few times, because the flash-shoe refused any operation. And Fuji, while you’re busy with this, make also the IR pilot light of the EF-42 work with the X-series to assist the AF in low light.”
3. Transfer of GPS coordinate from phones to X-E2 doesn’t work.
4. When your frame count reach the limit the only way to continue of making photo is to format card! Even if card is not full

X-shooter facebook zone: top liked images!

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Carlo Milani

The importance of having good fortune and the [shoplink 12892]XF 55-200[/shoplink]!

XF 55-200: $200 off (price $500) at BHphoto / Adorama / AmazonUS / Pictureline

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Here are some of the top liked images on the Fujirumors facebook wall. Feel free to share your very best shots too.

enjoy your day,
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Christina Davison

Beach pre wed image from X-pro1 at the weekend.

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Stefan Wössner

Mountains of Color

X100S @ 25s f2.0

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Robin Schimko

Street Shooting Berlin

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Frederic Beudot

Cold Day in Ontario. XP1 + [shoplink 13645]Zeiss 12/2.8[/shoplink]

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Nir Leshem

X-Pro1 with Lee’s seven5 big stopper (mounted on an XF 14mm). ISO 200, f4.0, 20sec

XF 14mm: $200 off (price $700) at BHphoto / Adorama / AmazonUS / Pictureline

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Mark Leong

Got lucky with the helicopter moving across the sunset w/ Fuji X-E1 & 35mm f.14

XF 35mm: $150 off (price $450) at BHphoto / Adorama / AmazonUS / Pictureline

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XF deals

XF 14mm: $200 off (price $700) at BHphoto / Adorama / AmazonUS / Pictureline
XF 18mm: $200 off (price $400) at BHphoto / Adorama / AmazonUS / Pictureline
XF 23mm: $150 off (price $750) at BHphoto / Adorama / AmazonUS / Pictureline
XF 27mm: $250 off (price $200) at BHphoto / Adorama / AmazonUS / Pictureline
XF 35mm: $150 off (price $450) at BHphoto / Adorama / AmazonUS / Pictureline
XF 60mm: $250 off (price $400) at BHphoto / Adorama / AmazonUS / Pictureline
XF 55-200: $200 off (price $500) at BHphoto / Adorama / AmazonUS / Pictureline