Fujifilm 2017 Rewound: Top Highlights Month by Month
Fujifilm 2017 Rewinded
2017 was another exciting Fuji X year, and in order to cover it properly, I have shared almost 1,000 blog posts.
A lot of things happened, and maybe some of you might have missed something. So I have checked back all articles and selected some highlights for you. No FujiRumors rumors are included in this list.
It was not easy to pick out a few highlights… but below you can find the list month by month. Let us know what you consider the highlight of 2017.
But before we start, 2 honorable mentions:
2017 was the year of Fuji X and GFX smart adapters launched or announced this year by Techart Canon EF-GFX, Steelsring Canon EF-Fuji X, Canon EF-GFX, Nikon F-GFX, Nikon F-Fuji X. Fringer Contax 645-GFX, Canon EF-Fuji X and Kipon Canon EF-GFX, Contax 645-GFX).
2017 was the year of massive flash support for Fujifilm. Most major players have added support or announced support.
And thanks to all FR-reader, who helped me to spot all these news. Your help means everything to me.
JANUARY
FUJIFILM GFX, X100F, X-T20, XF50 and GF lens Announcements: The Fuji year 2017 started strong with the announcement of the graphite Fujifilm X-Pro2, X-T2 and XF23mmF2. A few days later, Fujifilm launched the Fujifilm GFX 50S with 3 lenses (63, 32-64, 120) as well as the X-T20, X100F and XF50mmF2. We covered everything in this live blogging. Especially the X100F sold much better than expected. Fujifilm UK said the X100F sold far more than X100/S/T.
PHASE ONE Vs. GFX 50S: Phase One made a bit of hope for Fujifilm GFX 50S support, when a manager said “Fujifilm GFX support? We have not yet decided. It depends on the GFX market impact”. However, so far there are not many reasons to be optimistic. In fact I just had a chat with a Phase One manager, who told me that the official line is that competing medium format cameras won’t be supported.
IRIDIENT: After a long wait, finally also Windows user could enjoy Iridient for their X-Trans demosaicing. Iridient developer Brian launched Iridient X-Transformer 1.0 Beta 1 for Windows.
FEBRUARY
SUPER LENS POLL: I asked you which lenses you’d like to see from Fujifilm, and you responded greatly, with almost 1,000 comments and lens suggestions! I tell you, it was a super-hard and long work to sum them all up into 30 lenses. And once again, your answer was overwhelming, with 11,000 votes in less than 48 hours. We are now almost at 15,000 votes. You can keep up voting here. So which were the TOP 3 PRIMES and ZOOMS? You can see the results here.
NEW X MOUNT ROADMAP: Fujifilm updated its lens roadmap, finally including lenses that here on FujiRumors since years. Report here.
Fujifilm Teases X-H1 and Grows Strong: A Fujifilm manager announced a more “video capable camera” (which turns out to be the X-H1) and also says that Fujifilm has almost 20% mirrorless market share. The whole story here.
Fujinon MK Cine Lenses: Fujifilm Launches the “MK lens” for Sony E-mount, but X-mount will follow in 2018. Read the announcement here.
X-TRANS FUTURE: A Fujifilm Managers confirms that the next generation of APS-C cameras will still be X-Trans. And he also says that the next generation sensor/processor in mirrorless cameras will allow mirrorless to beat DSLR’s in every aspect. Read the story here.
Fujifilm X-Acquire: Fujifilm announced their free tethering software X-Acquire. A great workaround for photographers, especially for those using Capture One. It was made available for download on February 28 here.
“RAW Power” App: A new and welcome addition to the X-Trans RAW processing software options. But keep in mind it uses Apples engine, so no compressed RAF support.
NISSIN: Nissin Announced the Air 10s advanced wireless TTL strobe commander also for Fujifilm. Check it out here. A few months later, in May, the Nissin i60 and Nissin i40 got high speed sync firmware update for Fujifilm cameras, as reported here.
ORGANIC SENSOR DEVELOPMENT: Fujifilm announced the development of world’s fastest organic CMOS circuit For multi-bit flexible temperature sensor. Read more here.
FOTODIOX: Fotodiox launches Several G-Mount Adapters. Read more here. They added a few more in March here.
World Press Photo Awards: Only the Fujifilm X-System Breaks the DSLR Hegemony at this years World Press Photo Awards. Read more here.
MARCH
KAIZEN LOVE: First major Kaizen Update for X-T2 and X-Pro2. 33 improvements in total. Read them all here.
Fujifilm Professional Service: Fujifilm Professional GFX Service launched in USA. It is also available in EU.
KIPON GFX ADAPTER: Kipon officially launches many Fujifilm GFX adapters. Read more here.
CACTUS CROSS BRAND TTL: Cactus announces cross-brand wireless TTL support for Fujifilm via free firmware update. Read here. The final firmware has been made available in June here.
POLL: You voted the most underestimated Fujifilm product. See the results here.
USEFUL PLUG-IN: This Lightroom Plug-in reads Fujifilm’s Film Simulation from your RAW file and automatically applies corresponding profile in Lightroom. Check it out. The final version has been released here.
IF Design Awards: Record: 14 Fujifilm Products win the “iF Design Award” 2017. Read it here.
DPReview Says You Should NOT buy the Fujifilm GFX: A lot of buzz has been created by DPReview, when they said you should not buy the Fujifilm GFX and they recommend 3 Full Frame cameras combined over 1 Fujifilm GFX. Full story here.
INSTAX MINI 9: Instax keeps up selling like hot cakes. So new models keep up coming. In March, Fujifilm launched the Fujifilm INSTAX MINI 9.
APRIL
FUJIRUMORS CHARITY AUCTION: Thanks to your support, the FujiRumors chartiy auction was a big success. In total, FR has raised $5,000 for free education in Cambodia. Thank you so much.
Fujifilm GFX 50s Gold Award: DPReview gives the Gold Award to the Fujifilm GFX 50s because it has “The best image quality we’ve seen to date”. Full review here.
100 Megapixel Sensor for Fujifilm GFX 100S: Sony Presents New BSI 100MP Medium Format Sensor for Fujifilm GFX. Read here. Additional details about the sensor here.
NEW GF LENSES: Fujifilm announces GF23mm F4 and GF 110mmF2 + New G-mount roadmap.
CREATIVE USE OF FILM SIMULATIONS: This guy fine tuned his Fujifilm Film Simulation settings inspired by the work of great Film Photographers. See “Chrome Eggleston” & More
FUJI LOOKS GOOD: Record: 17 Fujifilm products win the “Red Dot Design Award” 2017. Check it out.
PICKTORIAL FUJIFILM SUPPORT: Picktorial 3.0 Released, with Proprietary Fujifilm X-Trans RAW Support. Read here.
CAPTURE ONE IMPROVES FUJI SUPPORT: Capture One Pro 10.1 BETA finally added support for X-Trans Compressed RAW & much more. More here. For the final release version click here.
GODOX STARTS FUJIFILM SUPPORT: The Godox TT350 for fujifilm is finally available for pre-order. In the following months, Godox will strengthen his Fujifilm support and become one of the best flash options for the Fujifilm system.
NOVOFLEX GFX ADAPTERS: Novoflex adapters for Fujifilm GFX 50s soon to be released. More here.
INSTAX SQUARE SQ10: the hybrid film/digital Instax Square SQ10 has been announced.
MAY
ACCOUNTING IRREGULARITIES: Fujifilm delays earnings release due to accounting irregularities. More here. The final report has been shared here. In short: no big deal. Fujifilm is healthy and strong.
NEW FIRMWARE: FUJIFILM releases firmware updates for X-T2, X-Pro2, GFX 50S, X-T20, X100F and X-T1 + Fuji Software Updates. Full report here.
JUNE
Fujifilm helps Nikon: No secret, Nikon is struggling. And the Japanese magazine Sentaku reports that the Japanese government is trying to convince Fujifilm to invest into Nikon in order to help them. The story has been broken by the Japanese magazine Sentaku, which is on the market since 42 years and targets high-level readers (business men, politicians etc). The translation of the article made by a FR-reader can be found here.
JULY
LUMINAR for WINDOWS: Skylum (former “MacPhun”) launches the first windows beta version of their software. Report here.
Godox Cross Brand TTL: After Cactus, now also Godox announces Cross Brand TTL and HSS. News here.
Fujifilm X-T1 and X-T10 Discontinued: It’s official, Fujifilm discontinues the X-T1 and X-T10. Read the news any my emotional farewell here.
AUGUST
GLOBAL SHUTTER / ORGANIC SENSOR: Panasonic announces the development of wide dynamic range and global shutter technology for organic photoconductive film Image. The whole recap about the eternal organic sensor drama here in this article.
ROBOSHOOT STOPS PRODUCTION: Serene Automation announced the “temporary suspension” fo their roboshoot triggers. All details here.
BOLD STATEMENTS: Fujifilm declares in their “Vision 2019” plan, that they want to become Nr.1 premium mirrorless camera manufacturer within March 2010. Read it here.
SEPTEMBER
Fujifilm Goes Hollywood: No joke guys, Hollywoods’ Dunkirk movie official photos have been taken with the Fujifilm X-Pro2 and XF 18-135! See by yourself here.
Fujifilm X-E3 Annouced: It finally happened, Fujifilm just announced the Fujifilm X-E3. See here.
Fujinon GF 45mm Announced: Lens Love also for GFX owners, with the launch of the long awaited GF45mm. See here.
Fujinon XF80mm Macro Announced: Yes, finally a true 1:1 Macro Fujinon lens, the XF80mmF2.8. Check it out here.
New Fuji X and G mount Roadmaps: Fujifilm unveils their new G and X Mount Lens Roadmap! All as rumored :) . Check it out here.
Profoto Fujifilm Support: Profoto TTL and HSS for Fujifilm announced. Read more here.
First Images of XF8-16, XF200mmF2 and GF 250mm: See them here.
Elinchrom Fujifilm Support 2018: Many major brands already offer Fujifilm support, but Elinchrom needs a bit more time. They announced Fujifilm support for 2018 only.
Nikon Says Fujifilm is not for Pro photographers: Nikon Manager Says: “Professional Photographers don’t use Fujifilm”. The whole story can be found here.
OCTOBER
Good Bye Lightroom Standalone: Game over for LR standalone version. The bad news here.
Fujifilm X-T1 Top Wildlife Image: The Fujifilm X-T1 snaps the world wildlife photography image of the year. The news (and iamge) we are all proud of can be read here…. take that Nikon managers!!!! ;)
Fujifilm Goes Star Wars: Ron Howard shoots new star wars movie… and also the Fujifilm X100F. More here.
Fujinon Boom: Fujinon Lens Rentals skyrocketed showing 96% increase in 2017 at lensrentals. Story here.
X-E3 Gold Award: The Fujifilm X-E3 gets the GOLD AWARD at DPReview. Read it here.
Instax Monochrome Wide: Fujifilm launches the Instax Wide Monochrome Film. More here.
Fujifilm SP-3 Square Printer: Fujifilm Instax Share SP-3 printer announced. More here.
Fuji Boom: Fujifilm keeps on booming: Fiscal Year 2018/3 2nd Quarter report shows that the revenue is up 13.3%. Full report here.
NOVEMBER
Enough of X-Trans Myths: Debunking Fujifilm X-Trans myths: Purple Flare, Wormy Artifacts, High ISO Cheating, Waxy Skin Tones & More. Read it here.
Mr. Leica Buys a Fuji: “Mr. Leica” Thorsten Overgaard Buys a Fujifilm X-Pro2… and likes it a lot. His first impressions here.
No 1″ sensor from Fujifilm anymore: No 1″ Sensor Cameras for Fujifilm, market is overcrowded, says Fuji Guy Billy here.
Fujifilm GFX 100S 100MP sensor will Shoot 8K: Sony officially shows additional details about their 100 Megapixel 44×33 Medium Format sensor. It will shoot 4K and 8K and be ready in 2018. More here.
Fujifilm X-T2 Top Travel Camera: National Geographic declares the Fujifilm X-T2 the best overall compact travel camera 2017. More here.
Top Fuji Product 2017: So which one was the top Fujifilm product of 2017. Vote it here.
X RAW STUDIO: FUJIFILM announces the launch of the new Fujiiflm X RAW STUDIO system. News here.
KAIZEN LOVE: FUJIFILM released firmware updates for X-T2, X-T20, GFX 50S. See them here.
DECEMBER
BRONCOLOR: Broncolor RFS 2.2 F with HS Support for Fujifilm announced. Check it out here.
Godox X-Pro F Fujifilm Trigger: Godox X-Pro F Fujifilm Trigger pre-order available. More here.
I Bought the X-E3: Why I Bought Fujifilm X-E3 (and not X-T20, X100F, X-H1)… and Why All this Hate for XF27mm? – First Impressions here.
Jinbei/Orlit Fujifilm Support: Jinbei/Orlit Fujifilm TR-Q6 F Trigger announced here.
KAIZEN LOVE: FUJIFILM Releases X-Pro2 Kaizen Firmware Update ver. 4.00 here.