Laowa 19mm f/2.8 Zero-D for Fujifilm GFX Announced

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Venus Optics announced the Laowa 19mm f/2.8 Zero-D for Fujifilm GFX.

You find many sample images at the dedicated Laowa 19mm f/2.8 page here.

More Laowa lenses for Fujifilm X and GFX are available at VenusOptics, BHphoto, AmazonUS and Adorama.

  • Focal Length: 19mm
  • Angle of View 110°
  • Aperture Range f/2.8-22
  • Format Medium Format
  • Lens Structure 12 elements in 10 groups (2 Aspherical Lens, 3 ED glass, 1 UHR glass)
  • Aperture Blades 5
  • Min. Focusing Distance 18cm (7”)
  • Max. Magnification 0.185X
  • Filter Thread Ø 77mm
  • Dimensions Ø 82.6 x 80mm (3.27” x 3.15”)
  • Weight 546g (~19.2 oz)
  • Mounts Fujifilm G

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New Firmware for Viltrox 23mmF1.4, 33mmF1.4, 56mmF1.4 and 85mmF1.8II – Fujifilm X-T5, X-H2, X-H2s Support and AF-C Improvement

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Viltrox has released firmware updates for their 23mmF1.4, 33mmF1.4 and 56mmF1.4.

The firmware adds support for the Fujifilm X-T5, Fujifilm X-H2s and Fujifilm X-H2 and it improves AF-C speed.

You can find all details and download links below.

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These are Your Top X and GFX Camera Wishes for 2023 – and They are Quite Clear on What You Want!

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I’ve looked at the results of your future X camera wish and future GFX camera wish.

Here they are… and what they tell us.

X series

  1. X-Pro4 with 40MP
  2. X100V with 40MP
  3. X-Pro4 with 26MP stacked

GFX gear

  1. GFX100R with 102 MP BSI stacked sensor
  2. GFX100T with 102 MP BSI stacked sensor (the X-T styled GFX concept)
  3. GFX100S with 102 MP BSI stacked sensor

Conclusion for X series

There is a tendency to prefer more megapixel over more speed. And as a Fujifilm X-T5 owner myself, I can understand why: the X-T5 is plenty of fast enough for most of us thanks to the brand new processor. Plus, the 40MP sensor gives us the best dynamic range on any X series camera.

But most importantly, the list is dominated by rangefinder cameras.

So, after a year full of DSLR styled cameras (X-T5, X-H2 and X-H2s), people are hungry to see something happening on the rangefinder front… and I am totally with you guys!

Conclusion for GFX series

Stacked sensor makes the top of the list. Which means that contrary to the X series, for the GFX series people desire more speed rather than more resolution.

List of Fujifilm Related Gear launched in 2022

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AstrHori 12mm F2.8 Fisheye Lens for GFX

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Just announced, the AstrHori 12mm F2.8 Fisheye Lens for Full Frame. It is available also for Fujifilm GFX G Mount here.

Key features:

  1. Featuring a 185° Ultra-wide Angle of View
  2. The bright f/2.8 aperture is designed to suit work in a variety of lighting conditions and also for controlling depth of field and isolating subject matter.
  3. 0.2m Minimum Focusing Distance

Available here:

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Dear FUJIFILM, We Decided: Make These 6 X-Mount Lenses Next!

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It’s pure sadness.

I mean, if you look at the current X mount lens roadmap, it is just sadness, with only one X mount lens stoically standing all alone trying to keep up excited about the future.

So we decided to help Fujifilm in gathering some ideas, and you guys dropped hundreds of lens suggestions for the future here, which I then summed up in 40 options to vote on here.

Well, here are the results:

TOP 6 LENSES OVERALL:

  1. XF 23mm f/2 Pancake (fan made rendering here)
  2. XF 16-55mm f/2.8 MK II
  3. XF 18mm f/2 MK II
  4. XF 12mm f/1.4
  5. XF 16-35mm f/2
  6. XF 11-30mm f/2.8

There were really a lot of suggestions in the wide angle zoom range. So many, that I decided to give 2 options to vote on, the XF16-35mm f/2 and the XF 11-30mm f/2.8.

But if we were to merger even those two lenses into one single lens, we could get something like the XF 14-30mm f/2.0. In that case, we would have the following result.

  1. XF 14-30mm f/2.0
  2. XF 23mm f/2 Pancake (fan made rendering here)
  3. XF 16-55mm f/2.8 MK II
  4. XF 18mm f/2 MK II
  5. XF 12mm f/1.4
  6. XF 70mm f/2 (fan made rendering here)

TOP 6 PRIMES:

  1. XF 23mm f/2 Pancake
  2. XF 18mm f/2 MK II
  3. XF 12mm f/1.4
  4. XF 70mm f/2
  5. XF 10mm f/2
  6. XF 35mm f/1.2

TOP 6 ZOOMS:

  1. XF 16-55mm f/2.8 MK II
  2. XF 16-35mm f/2
  3. XF 11-30mm f/2.8
  4. XF 16-70mm f/2.8-4
  5. XF 16-135mm f/4
  6. XF 18-55mm f/2.8-4 MK II

And if we were to merge the two lenses as we did above, we would get:

  1. XF 14-30mm f/2.0
  2. XF 16-55mm f/2.8 MK II
  3. XF 16-70mm f/2.8-4
  4. XF 16-135mm f/4
  5. XF 18-55mm f/2.8-4 MK II
  6. XF 23-55mm f/2

CONCLUSIONS
Wide Angle Reality vs Telephoto Dreams

When you go around in forums, you’ll often see people complaining about Fujifilm not offering enough long lenses.

And to a certain degree I agree with you: long primes especially are needed!

But then there is the reality.

And the reality is that the vast majority of Fujifilm shooters simply do not see long lenses as a priority. What they really want is the total opposite: more wide angle zooms and primes.

We have to be clear about this: any of the lenses that made it to the top of the list in our survey would outsell by a large margin any long prime or zoom lens Fuji would launch.

That’s something Fujifilm knows (and has openly declared here).

And yet, there is at least one lens I feel Fujifilm must give us: the (already patented) Fujinon XF 400mm f/4, which made it in the top 15 of our list and fellow FR-readers already made mock-ups of and it is consistently your top wished telephoto lens.

So, even though it did not make the list, I strongly advice Fujifilm to give us a long prime lens.

Fujifilm X-T5

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