CANCELED: No More Fujifilm X Summit in April – Trusted Source

Back in January Fujifilm officially announced the next Fujifilm X Summit for April.

But today a trusted source reached out to us and told us that Fujifilm has now decided to cancel the April X summit event.

I have no idea if Fujifilm will make an official announcement about the event being deleted, or if they’ll just let April pass and hope we simply forgot about it.

But what I am sure is this: there is no X summit in April. That’s Trusted Stuff.

Evidently something did not go according to plan.

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Fujifilm Spain Displays Camera Roadmap with New “Disruptive” Models Coming in May and September

During the presentation of the Instax Mini 12, Fujifilm Spain displayed a slide showing the Fujifilm camera roadmap, with new models to come in May and September. The Spanish website Fujistas reports:

The presentation […] had an unexpected surprise: a slide that unveiled the camera roadmap in 2023. The graph contrasts the last two new cameras in both Instax and the X Series:

His conclusion: there will be two X series cameras and two Instax cameras coming in the next 7 months.

Since Fujifilm has announced the Fujifilm X Summit for April, Fujistas speculates that the X summit could take place in the final days of April and hence the release of the first camera on the roadmap could be in May.

Fujifilm Spain has described these four novelties as “disruptive”

UPDATE – NOT FOR X MOUNTLaowa Argus 28mm f/1.2 Coming Next Week – First Product Image and Samples

UPDATE: it won’t come for X mount. The cause of the error has been explained here.

Venus Optics is going to announce the Laowa Argus 28mm f/1.2 lens for Fujifilm X mount next week.

Above you can see a product image and below some some samples in low resolution. For even more and higher resolution images you can access my dropbox here.

It will be the third Argus lens for X mount they offer.

Samples

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VOTE :: The Ultimate Fujifilm GF Lens Poll – Let Fuji know What You Want!

The Future of GFX in 30 Lenses

Back in January I asked you to tell us in the comments what you wish in terms of future GF lenses.

You answered by dropping lots of lens suggestions in the comments.

It was not easy, but I’ve condensed your wishes into 30 lenses.

Some lenses might sound a bit unconventional, but they are merger of several wishes.

be Careful what you Wish for (f/2.8 zooms?)

The list includes three zoom lenses with an f/2.8 aperture.

I am not sure if everybody is fully aware of what f/2.8 means on GFX. So let me clarify.

I get it, the typical high end workhorse full frame zoom lenses are f/2.8.

But in order to get the shallow depth of field of an f/2.8 full frame lens on the GFX system, you actually need “only” f/3.5 on GFX. In fact, current f/4 GF lenses are already quite close to those full frame f/2.8 lenses (f/4 on GFX gives f/3.16 DOF on FF).

So what you ask for, if you vote for f/2.8 GFX zooms, are zoom lenses with a full frame equivalent f/2.2 DOF. And to get an idea what that means in terms of size and price check out the Canon RF 28-70mm f/2 L, one of the very rare mirrorless zoom lenses (if not the only one?) that is faster than f/2.8.

I personally don’t want such lenses. As an f/4 GF zoom lens owner myself, I can say f/4 is more than enough for my needs. It’s close enough to f/2.8 full frame zooms, and if you want something faster, then for my needs it’s better to go the prime lens path.

But it’s your survey, your recommendations, so the list will include f/2.8 lenses.

But my Dream Lens is…

Maybe your dream lens might not be in the list, but you might find something similar to it. Drop the vote on the lens that is closest to your wish.

VOTE NOW – The Ultimate GF Lens Wish Survey

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Fujinon GF28-100mm F4 and XF18-120mm F4 Patents Found

Two more patents have been spotted by asobinet.

One is the patent for the already release Fujinon XF18-120mm f/4 LM PZ WR and the other is for a Fujinon GF28-100mm f/4.

We remind fellow FR-readers that 100% of the patents ever shared on FujiRumors in 11+ years of blogging never saw the light of the day.

The only patents that were accurate were the ones spotted after something has already been released.

Patent Details

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