The Laowa 8-16mm f/3.5-5.0 CF has now been officially announced. It’s available also for Fujifilm X mount.
You can get it now at BHphoto here as well as other stores listed below. Also, some reviews can be found below.
More Laowa lenses for Fujifilm X and GFX are available at VenusOptics, BHphoto, Amazon US and Adorama.
Fujifilm has released new firmware updates for the following cameras:
It’s mainly about adding support for the new GF tilt shift lenses.
All the details and download links below.
A few months ago we wrote a dedicated article about “Fujifilm patents”, where we dig deep into every single patent ever registered since the existence of the Fujifilm X series.
And we saw: out of 67 patents, not a single one became a real product until now.
I made this huge effort to go through 10+ years of articles on FujiRumors and find every single patent ever shared, because I noticed the tendency by many in the X shooter community to take such patents as rocksolid indication of what is Fujifilm will launch in future.
My goal is to Invite you to take these patents for what they are: products that in 99,9999% of the cases will exist only on paper.
With that said, today we have three more patents to add to the list as they have been spotted by the Japanese website asobinet.
Given the lovely Tamron 18-300mm f/3.5-6.3, I see no urgency for the Fujinon XF 18-300mm f/3.5-6.5 OIS.
The Fujinon XF 16-150mm f/4-6.5 OIS might be a bit too close to the Fujinon XF18-120mm f/4 LM PZ WR and one of my favorite X mount lenses, the XF18-135mmF3.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR
Fujinon XF 16-200mm f/3.5-6.5 OIS could be the only that could make sense to me as a meaningful addition to the X series lineup.
But forget patents, follow the rumors.
And the rumors say, that the next XF lens we will get is the replacement of this lens here.
We just told you that there will be no more Fujifilm announcements in 2023.
And since in terms of new gear we are done for this year, lots of people started asking me what is coming in 2024.
Now, I am working on it, and we have shared already something.
For example we told you that the next XF lens to come is the replacement of this lens here.
More rumors will follow.
But as you know, on FujiRumors we will not make up a single rumor just to make traffic, nor share anonymous rumors we receive in which I don’t trust.
We prefer to share less rumors, generate less traffic, make less money, and value your time with less, but accurate rumors.
But until more rumors drop, I thought we could also make one single article where we talk about the current state of the rumors and also make speculation on what could or we would like to come in 2024.
FR-reader Malcom was going through the book Dune Part 1 – The Photography, and he told me he noticed that lots of images in that book were taken by Chiabella James using Fujifilm X Series cameras.
Chiabella James was also part of the Depth of Field podcast at BHphoto, and in the video (video below starts at 9:54) she talks about the gear she uses.
