Fujifilm X-M5 Sales Suspended in Japan
The sales of Fujifilm X-M5 cameras has been suspended in Japan, as reported by asobinet.
This is now a recurrent theme in the Fujifilm world: new gear gets announced and it sells just way better than Fujifilm can keep up with in terms of production.
The X-M5 stock situation isn’t much better elsewhere as you can see in the stores listed below.
I don’t think this has anything to do with a general revival of entry level cameras, but more with the exploding popularity of the Fujifilm system.
As of today, Fujifilm might well be the one system that keeps its value best over time. So it’s also easier to buy into a system that you know won’t lose value quickly (and if, then only by a small margin). Just recently I chatted with a FR-reader, who told me he recently sold the X100V for the same price he bought it many years ago. That’s not a bad deal.