Fujifilm X-T2S

UPDATE: Fujifilm changed the name from X-T2s to X-H1. All rumored specs remain the same

Here is a little Fujifilm X-T2S update… and I guess it comes not really surprising for most of you guys.

You know that the Fujifilm X-T2S will be Fuji’s first (actually second) camera with in body image stabilization. I assume it will keep the design philosophy of the X-T line, but of course there will be some changes, in order to accommodate the IBIS mechanism and also to improve usability when shooting videos.

I hear that one of these changes will be a better/bigger hand grip on the Fujifilm X-T2S compared to the (soon to be discounted) Fujifilm X-T2.

Considering that the Fujifilm X-T2S IBIS camera will probably also be the first choice for X-shooters interested in the huge “OIS-less” Fujinon MK18-55mm F2.9 and MK50-130mm T2.9 lenses, a bigger hand grip just makes sense… although one could also simply attach an optional grip, as Alessandro noted in the comments.

Fujifilm said the MK18-55mm F2.9 and MK50-130mm T2.9 cine lenses will hit the market in 2018 (originally planed for the end of 2017). What a coincidence that at the same time according to this rumor, a Fuji camera with IBIS, the X-T2S, will hit the market, too ;).

That’s it for now, but don’t miss the future news and rumors and…

Fujifilm X-T2S… No Sensor Shift Multishot

UPDATE: Fujifilm changed the name from X-T2s to X-H1. All rumored specs remain the same

Hey folks,

I have a quick update regarding the Fujifilm X-T2S, Fujifilm first camera with IBIS (in body image stabilization).

I hear it will not have the “Sensor Shift Multishot” feature, present in cameras like the Olympus OM-D E-M5 II.

What is it?

You basically press the shutter 1 time, but the camera takes multiple images by slightly moving the sensor and combining those exposures to create one high-resolution image.

With this technology, the Olympus EM-5 can take 40MP images with its 16MP sensor. Keep in mind that it works properly only if your subject stands perfectly still.

• Fujifilm X-T2S (IBIS camera) Group

Fujifilm’s First Steps into IBIS

Recently, thanks to this interesting video by Demos Soupashis, we wondered: do we need already an X-T2S with IBIS? Wouldn’t it be better to wait a bit longer, and offer IBIS on the X-T3, which should be overall a much more upgraded product (new sensor etc)?

Well, I have to agree with some of you guys, like azbest and Didiergm, when you say here:

“Engineers need time to learn & try; The first IBIS implementation might not be perfect or might not push the technology to it’s limits as these things take time“

The X-T2S will be Fuji’s first step into the world of IBIS (well, actually it’s this Fujifilm camera already), and if we want a mature and top notch IBIS system on the Fujifilm X-T3, then Fujifilm has to launch it now on the X-T2S and gather experience from it, improve it, learn.

And one thing Fujifilm can not offer, at least for the start, is the sensor shift multishot technology.

Will sensor shift maybe come one day via firmware update to the X-T2S? Will it come with the X-T3? Or it simply can’t be done with (current?) X-Trans sensors? Questions, I’ll try to answer you as soon as possible.

stay tuned… more is coming :)
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X-T2S Rumor Overview

That’s it already… down below, the links to the previous Fujifilm X-T2S rumors.

• Fujifilm X-T2S IBIS Will NOT Have Sensor Shift Multishot Feature – rumor here
• Fujifilm X-T2S (IBIS camera) Will Ship First Half of 2018… and When Will it Be Announced? – rumor here
• Fujifilm Registered TWO Cameras with Bluetooth to Come Soon… Fujifilm X-E3 and… X80 or X-T2S? – rumor here
• Fujifilm Scrapped the Ultimate X Series Camera… Focus on Fujifilm X-T2S (IBIS Camera) – rumor here
• Don’t Worry, Fujifilm X-T2S In Body Image Stabilization (IBIS) will Work with ALL Fujinon X-Mount Lenses – rumor here
• Fujifilm X-T2S will have IBIS (In Body Image Stabilization) – rumor here
• Fujifilm X-T2 Successor to be Called Fujifilm X-T2S  – rumor here

and just for fun… :)

Fujifilm X-T2S

The Fujifilm X-T2S, Fuji’s first camera with in body image stabilization, will ship in the first half of 2018.

When will it be announced? Well… I don’t know it.

But since I know that you will not accept an “I don’t know” as answer, I will make some pure speculations…and you know, when I make pure specualtions, I’m generally wrong ;).

• Fujifilm could announce the X-T2S on September 7 (along with X-E3 & Co) and start taking pre-orders
• Fujifilm could announce the development of the X-T2S on September 7, but make an official announcement with full specs later on, just like they did with the Fujifilm GFX 50S
• Fujifilm could wait late 2017/early 2018 for the announcement with full specs and pre-orders

I anyone out there can help me to get some clarity regarding the X-T2S announcement, feel free to contact me via rumor box or via email at fujirumor@gmail.com. Any help is highly appreciated.

Read all our previous rumors on the Fujifilm X-T2S simply by searching for X-T2S on FujiRumors.

*** Fujifilm X-T2S facebook Group ***

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Ok folks, time for a specs update on the Fujifilm X-E3

We already leaked the images of the Fujifilm X-E3 a few weeks ago. However, the images were very low resolution, so not everything was clear to see… and we started to make our speculations.

Now it’s time to confirm (or not) what we saw (or thought to see) in the low resolution images.

• No pop-up flash (Confirms what all of us thought to see in the low-res leaked images)
• Full auto switch (Confirms what we some of us thought to see in the low-res leaked images)
• No shutter/ISO combo dial (Does not confirm what many of us – but not all – thought to see in the low-res leaked images)

So it seems that those of you, who said the leaked X-E3 image is too low resolution to judge if that’s really a shutter/ISO combo dial, were right. I guess I was just hoping for it too much, and my desire brought me to see what was not really there.

Oh yes, that’s an outing! In fact I belong to the Schultzology-sect, a small group of people, who follow the word of Palle Schultz (see his video here) and actually like the combined Shutter/ISO dial. :)

Now let’s move on and give you more updates :)

• The D-pad is gone
• max shutter speed 1/4000
• No IBIS

*** UPDATE: Will Have a NEW Touch Screen ***

With that said, below is the full updated list of rumored X-E3 specs:

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Obvious Fujifilm X-E3 specs

• 24MP X-Trans III sensor
• X-Processor Pro
• Acros film simulation

Rumored Fujifilm X-E3 specs

• Fujifilm X-E3 Will Have a New Touch Screen (Better than X-T20) – rumor here
• no D-pad – rumor here
• no Combined Shutter/ISO dial – rumor here
• Max Shutter Speed 1/4000 – rumor here
• full AUTO switch – rumor here
• no IBIS – rumor here
• more expensive than X-T20 – rumor here
• 4K video – rumor here
• first leaked images – rumor here
• Combined Shutter/ISO dial? – leaked low resolution image here
• No tilt screen – rumor here
• Bluetooth – rumor here
• Maybe, besides Bluetooth, there could be also some more new technologies on the X-E3 that all other X-series cameras don’t have – rumor here
• Focus Jostick – rumor here
• smaller than X-E2 – rumor here
• announcement this year – rumor here, probably fall this year – rumor here
• no pop up flash – leaked low resolution image here + rumor here
• even faster AF-tracking X-T2 – rumor here

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Good Bye Ultimate X

Back in spring 2017, we started hearing the first rumors about the ultimate Fujifilm X, an APS-C X-Trans camera based on X-T design, the best Fuji X for videos, and that could cost around $,3,000 (rumors of March 3, March 14 and April 14)

But suddenly, a few months later, in summer 2017, we also started hearing of the Fujifilm X-T2S, the successor if the X-T2, which will have IBIS (rumors of July 12, July 17 and July 24)

The big question I got from the community was: is the Fujifilm X-T2S the ultimate X-series camera we rumored back in spring, or is Fujifilm working on both, the X-T2S and the ultimate X?

The answer: the X-T2S is not the rumored ultimate X.

So what about the ultimate X-series camera?

The answer: it has been scrapped!

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Is the X-T2s a “light” version of the Ultimate X?

Now, to avoid FR-haters’ shitstorms, I could simply tell you guys a lie and say “Yes, the X-T2S with IBIS is exactly the ultimate X-series camera I told you back in spring“.

But I’m not that kind of person.

Hence I will now tell you, that the ultimate X-series camera was a different project of Fujifilm.

Fujifilm worked on the ultimate X, discussed about the features and at a certain stage they were confident to make it (so I shared the rumors)… but at the end the scratched it, and they are now focussing on a different project, the Fujifilm X-T2S.

Some of you might consider the X-T2S a “light” version of the ultimate X, and you might not be too far off with that. But at the end I think that the differences are too big, to consider the X-T2S an “ultimate X light”.

X-T2S or Ultimate X?

When I’ve shared the very first ultimate X rumors, I noticed that the FR-community reacted sceptical to it, especially due to the high rumored price of $3,000.

And since we know that Fujifilm not only reads us, but that sometimes we can influence their decisions*, I can’t exclude, that the initial very sceptic reaction many of you guys manifested here on FujiRumors, might have discouraged Fujifilm to continue with this project.

On the other hand, it seems to me that your initial feedback to the Fujifilm X-T2S with IBIS, was much more positive. But that’s just my impression… feel free to discuss about it in the comments.

Welcome to the Fuji World

I know that after years of following the fantastic world of Fujifilm, 99,9% you guys know better than me that Fujifilm changes plans very often.

For example, Fujifilm was developing the X-Pro1s, and I shared rumors about it. But they dropped plans, even though they already had working prototypes of it (and Fujifilm even displayed the X-Pro1s at the X-Pro2 announcement)

And since with Fujifilm nothing is impossible, even products they scratched can find their way back later on. For example, I remind you how I shared the first X70 rumors in September 2013, but Fujifilm dropped plans on it shortly after. They waited a couple of years and decided to revive plans and launch the X70 on January 2016 (with exactly the same specs we rumored 3 years earlier).

So I personally wouldn’t be surprised if one day, the ultimate X will be again in development. But to be clear, right now, Fujifilm plans no longer to make it.

that’s it from my side for now… have a GREAT day, :)
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* It was your feedback and negative poll results, that killed the monochrome X-Pro1 and your positive pressure that revived the X-E3 plans and made Fujifilm say here “we are aware of the many X-E3 request”.  The feedback you give in polls makes it to internal Fujifilm meetings with the Press and even Fujifilm top manager Toshihisa Iida “Loves” FujiRumors. Fujifilm simply can’t ignore a community that is able to drop 11,000 votes in a single poll within 2 days…. and more

Fujifilm X-T2s

UPDATE: Fujifilm changed the name from X-T2s to X-H1. All rumored specs remain the same

Hey all :)

If you have followed Fujirumors recently, you might have read about the Fujifilm X-T2 successor, the Fujifilm X-T2s.

The big question now is: what will changed compared to the Fujifilm X-T2?

Well, I feel confident to announce, that the Fujifilm X-T2s is currently planed to feature IBIS (In Body Image Stabilization).

PLEASE NOTE that I have not shared ANY release date for the Fujifilm X-T2s until now on Fujirumors. And keep in mind that here on FujiRumors you often get also long term rumors. So just the fact that I share Fujifilm X-T2s rumors now, does not necessarily mean that it is just around the corner. This is something I’m working on right now and I will update you as soon as I can.

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