Capture One just announced that starting January 30, 2024, Capture One Express will be discontinued and no longer be available.
The reason they give in the press release below is obviously just marketing talk nonsense.
Let me translate it for you in more direct words: “we want to make more money and therefore force happy Capture One Express users to upgrade“.
Capture One is really taking the wrong path lately.
Express is coming to an end
Long I have thought how to give you this information.
I thought: maybe I should give you some behind the scenes. Explain. Give you some context. So you would understand why I wrote what I wrote a few months ago.
But at the end of the day it all does not matter.
What matters is that what I told you from a beautiful spot in the Dolomites a few months ago, is now no longer accurate, hence wrong.
All I need to do now is to:
My apology is offered to you. Now I owe you the rumor correction:
We confirm that the Fujifilm X100V successor will come in early 2024. That’s rocksolid and I will never correct or change that rumor.
But, unlike we told you here, it will not come with a new lens. And that’s not a bad thing at all, considering that that lens has just been updated with the X100V, so it’s definitely a modern lens.
That’s it. I’ve done it.
Oh…
one more thing.
In the recently “leaked” list of Fujifilm gear (that contains many errors), one of the specs listed was that the X100V successor would also have OIS (optical image stabilization). Since the X100V successor will have the same lens of the X100V, this means that it won’t have OIS.
There are still many more corrections to be done to that list. Here are the ones done so far.
Don’t forget to…
I FEEL LUCKY AND WILL CLICK THE LINKS BELOW TRUSTING I WILL FIND THE X100V IN STOCK
The new TTArtisan 56mm f/1.8 has just been launched.
It should be available shortly at the official TTArtisan Amazon Storefront here.
In the meantime, you can enjoy the images.
A long list of “rumored” Fujifilm gear “leaked” on the web and we reported here.
I instantly warned you about a lot of inaccuracies in that list. Wrong stuff that we started to correct.
The first one to be unveiled as wrong is the Fujifilm GFX25.
Anyway, there was another piece of gear on that list, that intrigued people: the Fujinon GF14-20mm.
So let me put it this way:
The best I can say about it for now, is that none of our sources is aware of such a lens.
I don’t call it a “wrong rumor” simply because there is a difference between our sources saying something is fake (GFX25) and our sources saying they are not aware of certain gear.
But the fact that already the GFX25 rumor is wrong (and more on that list will be proven wrong), could be an indication that pretty much anything “leaked” on that list has to be taken with a grain of salt and it’s probably just a compilation of guesses and speculations wrapped into a more tasty rumor package to give it more credibility. I am NOT saying E8M made it up, it is likely that somebody else made it up and passed it to E8M, who then shared it. That’s the way guys try to convince you to publish wrong info.
Anyway, I have to be accurate when I report what our sources say. And they tell me they have no information about such a lens.
For me, this means that I have zero hopes for an eventual GF14-20 to come in 2024 and I am also not overly optimistic to see one in 2025. And if it never comes, I would not be surprised either.
If you need to go wide, your best option for a long time will be the Fujinon GF20-35mm f/4.
What will come for sure though, is what is on the roadmap: the Fujinon GF500mmF5.6 and the GF Power Zoom lens.
GF Lens Patents
The Future of Fujifilm in Patents (X and GFX gear). Filtered below you find the GFX gear related patents.
On the Chinese Weibo (linked below), the patent for a third unregistered Fujifilm camera has surfaced, the FF240001.
So we are now at a total of three registered cameras that have yet to be released.
From here all possible speculations start and you can read them down below.
How do I know these are just made up speculations and not rumors?
Well, because there are so many errors I will have to correct ;). In short here are the “rumors”.
But hey, it’s online. Let’s have fun even if it’s just made up stuff :).
