This will be a rather huge Fujifilm GFX 50S (and lenses) roundup… so let’s start.
Drew wrote me: “I was commissioned by the Daily Telegraph to shoot this Gigapixel image of Trooping the colour to celebrate the queens birthday. I thought It might be of interest. It was was shot on the Fujifilm GFX 50S with the 250mm lens. It is a truly amazing combination – perfectly suited to gigapixel imagery”. You can see the 2.3 gigapixel image made up of more than 100 50MP files at www.telegraph.co.uk
After our recent XF 8-16mm F2 coverage, here is a roundup for the other lens, that Fujifilm announced along with the new wide angle “monster lens”, the Fujinon XF200mm F2.
williamchua – XF200mm first look with samples (also using the new 1.4x TC)
williamchua – Fujinon XF 200mm F2 R LM OIS WR part 2
williamchua – Fujinon XF 200mm F2 R LM OIS WR part 3
The Fuji Guys just published their Fujifilm X-E3 Vs. X100F comparison, and try to give an answer to the question which one suits you better.
I personally struggled with the same question, and at the end decided to go for the X-E3, because I own plenty of Fujinon lenses already, and because the X-E3 had bluetooth (I like to geo-tag my images in travels).
I do not care much about the touch screen, and use it only for the 4 swipe FN functions.
But of course the X100F has its strenghts too, such as the hybrid viewfinder and a feature strangely not mentioned by the Fuji Guys, but that I’d love to have on my X-E3: the combined ISO/Shutter dial.
Other than that, the X100F shines due to the leaf shutter and due to… let’s say… it’s philosophy: carry less (fixed lens), keep it simple, do not stress, go out and shoot.
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During this years SUSE Hackweek Marcus Meissner, the maintainer of libgphoto2, worked on tethered shooting support for Fujifilm cameras on Linux.
The community provided him with a X-E2, X-T2 and X-Pro2. On top of that the developers of Timelapse+ (www.timelapseplus.com), which internally uses libgphoto2 to communicate with the camera, provided code for adding basic support.
As the X-E2 doesn’t support the necessary protocol for tethered shooting Marcus couldn’t add it for this camera. But for the X-T2 and X-Pro2 a lot of stuff now works:
white balance mode
image format (quality and size)
exposure metering mode
exposure program
focus metering mode
capture delay (self-timer)
focus mode
shutter release
Here you can see Entangle, a graphical frontend for libgphoto2, together with a X-Pro2 in action:
Live view support doesn’t seem to work as of now and many other features that the Fujifilm protocol might support as well. A tremendous help for further development would be an open specification for the connection protocol by Fujifilm. As we know Fujifilm follows Fujirumors. The addition of some of the highest voted lenses of the Fujirumor survey in the new Fuji lens roadmap is prove of that. Maybe this will get their attention and get them into contact with the developer.
To test this on your own machine you have to use a master branch build of libgphoto2 or if you use openSUSE Leap 15/Tumbleweed use the graphics repository to receive a newer build:
