According to Reuters, Sony will have one less competitor in future, since they are about to purchase Toshiba’s sensor business for $165 million! Currently Toshiba manufactures the 2/3 sensors of the X30 and XQ2 for Fujifilm.

Obviously, less competition is not a good thing for us customers.

Regarding camera sensors, Sony’s main two competitors left are Canon and Samsung. The first is developing a 250MP APS-H sensor (source – CanonWatch), the latter will kill the NX camera line (Samsung NX1), which, in my opinion, was the most exciting product shown at the last photokina , and not only because of its great 28MP sensor (source – mirrorlessrumors).

The growing sensor hegemony of Sony (who recently split up its sensor division into a separate company) is one more reason to hope that the almost mythological Organic Sensor developed by Panasonic & Fuji (partnership announcement back on June 2013) will see the light of the day as soon as possible. However, if we can trust latest rumors shared at 43rumors here, it will still take 2 or 3 years before it will be ready. As rumored here, too much battery drain and heat generation could be one of the problems Fuji and Panasonic have to sort out.

have a GREAT weekend,
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The more, the merrier!

Lensbaby just announced their Composer® Pro II with Edge™ 50 Optic. Samples, Specs & Price at BHphoto.

XF35mmF2 WR: USA: AmazonUS / BHphoto / Adorama / EU: PCHstore
1.4x TeleConverter: USA: AmazonUS / BHphoto / Adorama / EU: PCHstore

XF35mmF2 WR:  X-Pert Corner First Look
1.4x TeleConverter:  X-Pert Corner First Look

Pre-order Options
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You can now pre-order the newly announced XF35mmF2 WR and 1.4x Teleconverter also at BHphoto & Adorama.

XF35mmF2 WR: USA: AmazonUS / BHphoto / Adorama / EU: PCHstore
1.4x TeleConverter: USA: AmazonUS / BHphoto / Adorama / EU: PCHstore

XF35mmF2 WR:  X-Pert Corner First Look
1.4x TeleConverter:  X-Pert Corner First Look

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XF35mmF2 WR: USA: AmazonUS / BHphoto / Adorama / EU: PCHstore / AmazonUK / AmazonITA /
1.4x TeleConverter: USA: AmazonUS / BHphoto / Adorama / EU: PCHstore / AmazonITA /

FIRST LOOKS
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XF35mmF2 WR: – – – X-Pert Corner First Look – – – / jonasraskphotography / bigheadtaco – youtube video / ideasandimages / Michael Cruz / brandonremler / ivanjoshualoh / PCHstore / bjornmoerman / FUJIFILM Corporation Video /
1.4x TeleConverter: – – – X-Pert Corner First Look – – – /  Michael Cruz / ivanjoshualoh / FUJIFILM Corporation Video / ilfotografointrasferta (translation) /

OFFICIAL PRODUCT PAGE / PRESS RELEASE

XF35mmF2 WR: Official Press Release / Product Page with samples /
1.4x TeleConverter: Official Press Release / Product Page with samples /

 FULL PRESS RELEASE

Fuji X-guru Rico just told me that he will have First Looks ready for tomorrow. I have no more details (and I guess he will, as usual, start typing it somewhere deep in the night).

But if the rumors shared in the past weeks are correct, it could be about the XF35mmF2 WR and the 1.4x Teleconverter. But who knows… maybe it will be about a new Kaizen Firmware, or why not, about the Fuji X-PRO2, which has just been officially registered at the Chinese Ministry here! :)

THE TIME: According to FR-sources, the embargo ends at 07:00 Berlin Time (01:00 in New York)

You can (and should) look for every information about the new Fuji gear on the web (I’ll do appositely a live blogging session for you here on FR), but you will hardly find a better report than Rico’s one… here, on FujiRumors!

stay tuned…
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