Fujifilm X-T5 Stock Struggles and New Bundle X-T5 with XF16-50mmF2.8-4.8 to be Launched May 16

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The Fujifilm X-T5 has had a very troubled shipping record especially in Asian countries, but also in other countries the situation seems to have gotten worse instead of better.

  • Amazon USA: currently sold only overpriced by third parties
  • BHphoto: out of stock and expected to be in stock again in 7-14 days
  • Adorama: Expected stock in July
  • Moment: backordered
  • Nuzira: only 1 black sample left and a few kits

Same goes for Asian countries, which now start to mark the X-T5 as out of stock again and it is even no longer available for order at some stores, as reported by the Japanese website asobinet.

Now, I don’t know if this is only because Fujifilm struggles to manufacture enough units.

In fact, on May 16 Fujifilm will launch a new Fujifilm X-T5 plus Fujinon XF16-50mmF2.8-4.8 bundle, so maybe a good number of Fujifilm X-T5 units is now being withhold from the market so that it will be ready to ship on May 16 bundled with the new kit lens.

And btw… the image above is not a real BHphoto page, but just a rendering I made. :)

Anyway, the list of gear that Fujifilm has announced but struggles to ship is very long. And the mother of all the struggles definitely goes to the Fujifilm X100VI. But Fujifilm is actively working on increasing its production and I believe that by the summer the situation will be much improved, which would be very bad news for all those who are still trying to sell overpriced second hand X100VI cameras.

Anyway, the Fujifilm X-T5 struggles, lots of other Fujifilm does not ship smoothly either, and yet Fujifilm keeps announcing new gear non stop.

I hope they know what they do and don’t just worsen the delivery struggles by adding more gear to build and ship into an already precarious situation.

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