Fujifilm X-E5 with IBIS and 40 Megapixel – The Most Powerful X-E Ever… But at What Cost?

So, we have shared two crucial rumors regards the upcoming Fujifilm X-E5:

Now, every Fujifilm X-E camera launched so far had a price tag below 1K USD.

But this time it seems that Fujifilm has really packed all they can into the X-E5. And because of that, I think (not rumor) that we can forget it to cost 1K USD or less.

I know, I had 40MP and IBIS on my nice-to-have X-E5 wishlist. And I was aware that all this goodness would come at a price.

So personally I was be ready to pay more than 1K for the X-E5 with these features.

But what about you?

Would you consider buying the X-E5 only if it costs 1K or less?

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RUMOR: Fujifilm X-E5 IBIS Yes or No? – The Truth Revealed!

→ IBIS: Yes or No? This says it all :)

This is probably the question I have received most about the upcoming Fujifilm X-E5.

Will the Fujifilm X-E5 have IBIS?

And trust me, I feel the pressure to be absolutely right with this one.

So, while nothing is 100% sure in the rumor world, I’d say that I can now give you the answer with a 99% confidence.

Ready?

Some will be happy about it, others not. As always. But here is the answer.

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Fujifilm GFX100RF Lack of IBIS Explained – The Problem is NOT the Bigger Camera Body

One of the biggest critiques to the Fujifilm GFX100RF is the lack of IBIS, especially considering that it has a 100 megapixel medium format sensor.

So why has the Fujifilm GFX100RF no IBIS?

Well, that’s exactly what Thomas and Andreas asked the Japanese product managers of Fujifilm when they met them in Prague, who passed them the chart you can see above (video below).

Let’s take a look:

The important lines in the chart are the black diagonal lines. In that chart you can see that in order to get sharp images with for example a 250mm lens, you need to shoot at about 250th of a second.

On the very top (over the red line) we have the telephoto lenses that need OIS.

The purple on the left is the range where you need a tripod.

The yellow part shows where IBIS works best.

On the right we see the range that does not need IBIS and can be shot handheld without IBIS and yet get sharp images, and they marked the 35mmF4 in that range.

So, looking at the chart, I’d say that if you shoot at 1/40th of a second or higher, then IBIS would be of little use anyway.

And maybe in real world, you might be able to squeeze a bit more out of it. Test samples shared at the German fuji-x-forum.de look still sharp at 1/20th. So probably I personally would feel confident to go down to 1/30th, unless I am on my 7th coffee and my hands shake like crazy ;).

Also the leaf shutter helps to get sharper images, because it does not introduce as many vibrations as the mechanical shutter does.

One more tidbit about IBIS discussed in the video:

implementing IBIS would have made the camera bigger, but not that much.

Apparently the increase in body size would still be acceptable for Fujifilm. The problem would have been the lens, as in order to cover the entire sensor plus the area in which the sensor can move due to IBIS, the lens would have become significantly bigger. And since compactness was paramount for Fujifilm when developing the GFX100RF, they decided not to go with IBIS. The body size increase would have still been acceptable, but not the lens size.

And always keep in mind: whatever moves in your frame at very slow shutter speeds will get blurry anyway, as IBIS only compensate for camera shakes.

BREAKING: Fujifilm GFX100RF First Specs: No IBIS, GF35mmF4 Lens and Coming March 2025

As we told you yesterday, an anonymous source contacted us with the details about the upcoming fixed lens Fujifilm GFX camera.

First off: THANKS for the help!!! And second: it’s all very accurate according to my trusted sources, except for one thing (and at this point you know what). If you want, we can chat 100% anonymously via Signal to talk about it.

So these are the first specs of the Fujifilm GFX RF.

  • Name: Fujifilm GFX100RF
  • 100 Megapixel
  • No IBIS
  • GF35mmF4 Lens
  • Coming March 2025 (it’s unclear if this is the date for the announcement of for the shipping… or maybe even both? I will let you know if I figure that out).

No IBIS makes sense, considering that it will be very compact for a medium format camera. In fact, we told you it will be “about the size of the Fujifilm X-Pro3“.

Also 35mm was to expect, as we always told you it will be a 28mm equivalent lens (hence 35mm on GFX). We also told you it will be an f/3.2 lens, but we were not sure if it was f/3.2 on GFX or f/3.2 Full Frame equivalent. Well, we can now say it will be f/3.2 FF DOF equivalent (hence f/4 of GFX)

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BREAKING: Fujifilm X-T50 – This is the Sensor (Surprised?) and it Will Have IBIS

Ready for a fun rumor journey?

Then let’s start with the Fujifilm X-T50, which will have:

  • IBIS
  • 40 Megapixel X-Trans V sensor

Guys, this is just the very beginning. Because I am working on a lot more. And I am working on A LOT of stuff that goes way beyond the near future. You will want to know about it as soon as it goes online, so definitely follow us.

 

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Fujifilm X100VI Cut in Half (vs X100V) and IBIS Unit Size Compared

I thought it could be a nice curiosity to share a side by side inside look at the Fujifilm X100VI vs X100V, as you can see from the image shared in this article and spotted at the Japanese website dc.watch.

It’s interesting to see how Fujifilm was able to squeeze a completely newly designed IBIS unit into the small camera body of the Fujifilm X100VI.

And now you can also see why the tripod mount had to move a little bit forwards: it had to make space for the IBIS unit.

Speaking of IBIS unit, you can she size of it compared to older IBIS unit here, which was shared as a part of the summary for the X100VI development story by the Japanese website dclife.

Fujifilm X100VI (with IBIS) basically Same Size of X100V (without IBIS)

When we told you that the Fujifilm X100VI will have IBIS, the concern was that this might make the camera bigger than the current X100V.

But I am glad to report that according to our trusted and new sources, the Fujifilm X100VI will be pretty much identical in size to the X100V.

Now, for the sake of being 100% accurate with the rumor, I must add that there is a size difference on the specs sheet. But it’s really an extremely marginal difference and only visible if you look at the specs sheet.

In real life handling, you won’t notice any size difference between the two cameras.

NOTE: the image above does not show the real Fujifilm X100VI. It’s just a rendering I made for the purpose to give a visual illustration of the point I want to make with this article

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Fujifilm X100VI with IBIS? Here is the Answer!

The most asked question I got in regards to Fujifilm X100VI rumors was: will it have IBIS?

And frankly, being a photography first camera, I was a bit surprised to see that the IBIS question was the most urgent one.

Anyway, today you’ll get the answer.

And it’s an accurate one, because it is checked with multiple trusted sources (and also new and anonymous ones have told us the same).

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Fujifilm GFX100 II IBIS Performance with GF Lenses (vs GFX100S)

Thanks to a new smart system that relies not only on the gyro sensor to stabilise the sensor, but also uses data from the image sensor itself to fine tune stabilisation (more about it in our X summit summary), the Fujifilm GFX100II is capable of achieving 8 stops IBIS.

But this peak 8 stops performance is achieved not with all lenses.

In the chart above shared by Ken L Photo (in text format below) you can see how many stops of IBIS you get on the GFX100II with each GF lens. Also, you get the IBIS performance comparison with the Fujifilm GFX100S.

Full Chart

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