Fujifilm Fixed Its Biggest Pre-2024 Mistake: The Beauty of an Open X-Mount Lens Roundup
When I wrote the FujiRumors 14-year anniversary article, I mentioned that our journey wasn’t without difficult moments—and that Fujifilm, at times, made some serious mistakes.
The biggest one in recent memory was the 2024 firmware debacle, which severely degraded autofocus performance. It then took Fujifilm several months just to restore AF behavior to pre-bug levels. While things have improved significantly since then, Fujifilm still has some catching up to do compared to the top brands. And since FujiRumors is independent, free, and fully at the service of this amazing community, we won’t hesitate to remind Fujifilm of that from time to time 😉.
But if we look further back, I’d argue that the biggest mistake before 2024 was Fujifilm’s decision to keep the X mount closed, preventing third parties from offering autofocus lenses.
What’s interesting is that, while some companies still actively block third-party access to their mounts (Canon RF full frame) or even take legal action against lens makers (as Nikon did with Viltrox), Fujifilm eventually recognized that this kind of protectionism was a mistake. Opening the mount was the right call—and ultimately a move that benefited the entire system.
So, luckily, here we are today, able to share a major lens roundup covering a wide range of third-party autofocus lenses. And let’s hope autofocus G mount lenses will follow soon ;).
And that’s not all.
Manual focus lenses also play an important role in the overall lens ecosystem, so we’ll be including those in this roundup as well.
