Fujinon GF80mmF1.7: Fuji Guys, Focus Issues with GFX50S and More Reviews
The Fuji guys published another of their “spill the beans” episodes, this time covering the brand new Fujinon GF80mmF1.7.
Down below the video and a written summary of it.
The Fuji guys published another of their “spill the beans” episodes, this time covering the brand new Fujinon GF80mmF1.7.
Down below the video and a written summary of it.
Fujifilm India (and ONLY Fujifilm India) is teasing a big announcement soon here.
Don’t worry, it 100% won’t be the upcoming Fujifilm GFX we just told you about.
Keep in mind that India often annouced gear weeks or even a few months after it was announced in the rest of the world, like it was with the GFX100, which got a dedicated announcement launch event a few months after it was discolsed in the rest of the world.
Trust me guys… ;)
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The BCN ranking for the year 2020 has been published. BCN collects data of about 40% of the Japanese electronics and online stores.
Every camera company lost sales compared to 2019, however, Fujifilm did best, getting very close to 2019 in terms of sales thanks to the excellent sales of the Fujifilm X-T4, the Fujifilm X-S10 and the Fujifilm X100V. The only flop of 2020 was the Fujifilm X-T200, which is in my opinion the single best entry level camera you can get, but sadly it did not get the success it deserved.
This confirms what a Fujifilm managers already hinted here: Fujifilm did better in 2020 than other brands.
Now let’s look at the data.
Smallrig has just launched the Smallrig cage for Fujifilm X-E4 cameras. At the moment it is available with $10 discount.
You can pre-order now directly at Smallrig here.
We remind they also launched the following two products recently:
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The Fujifilm X-E4 is now in stock at BHphoto. You can get the silver body only version here and the black body only version here.
Not available, but I guess to follow in the next few days, at Adorama here and AmazonUS here.
If you want to get it with the lovely XF27mmF2.8 R WR, then you’ll have to wait a little bit longer.
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DPReview conducted an interview with several Fujifilm managers.
A summary as well as the link to the full interview below:
Guys, I told you to wait and pre-order the new XF27mmF2.8 R WR only AFTER I got my copy. But apparently you didn’t listen to me, tons of you pre-ordered it, and now I have to wait even longer for my Fujinon XF27mmF2.8 R WR!
In fact, Fujifilm has just announced that the demand for Fuji’s little gem, the Fujinon XF27mmF2.8 R WR is higher than they expected causing delivery delays all over the globe.
I mean, I can patiently wait for the Fujifilm GFX100S I just pre-ordered, but I can’t wait for the XF27mmF2.8 R WR and my plan was to grab one as soon as stores open again and I can leave my locked down village. But now I am afraid my local store won’t have any XF27mmF2.8 R WR for a while.
What a bad way to start the day. Well, at least I got the COVID vaccine today.
Down below the google translated Fujifilm statement.
So guys, February was the first month that I had to run FujiRumors as a daddy (he was born January 26).
You might therefore have noticed that sometimes I reply to tweets at 3AM, or a dramatic rise of typos in my articles. Sorry for that. ;) But I think my wife and me slowly get the hang of it.
The good thing is, FujiRumors just kept running as usual, and here are the top 10 articles for February.
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Fujifilm General Manager Takashi Ueno said at the virtual CP+ convention 2021 that Fujifilm will release “many mirrorless X and GFX lenses this year“.
Well, the start in 2021 was fantastic, with the following three lenses launched:
But that is apparently not enough for 2021.
FujiRumors already told you to forget about the XF35mmF1.4MKII. That’s rocksolid multiple confirmed from several trusted sources.
What will still come for sure are:
We also know Fujifilm is also working on a Fujinon XF150-600mm, but that one should come in 2022. Of course FujiRumors is investigating and making constant progress on the rumor front, so expect updates soon.
In the meantime, down below is a summary of Fujifilm’s CP+ online talk.
A few days ago, DPReview has added the Phase One XF IQ4 150 Megapixel camera to their studio test scene database.
So how does this $50,000 monster compare to our humble Fujifilm GFX100 (and hence also to the brand new $6,000 Fujifilm GFX100S)?
Well, I don’t know you, but I frankly can’t see any noticeable difference, in some cases I even think the GFX100 looks better.
At high ISO on the other hand, the GFX100 clearly performs better than the Phase One XF IQ4, even though the sensor is the same (just cut bigger on the Phase One).
This might be in part merit of the excellent Fujinon GF lenses, which have no issue to take advantage of all 100 megapixels offered by the GFX100(S). On the other hand, it might also be that both cameras just resolve basically everything possible out of the DPR studio scene.
I did also add the two current highest resolution mirrorless full frame cameras to the comparison, the 61MP Sony A7RIV and the 47MP Panasonic S1R to the chart.
Where both medium format cameras simply have no issues to resolve everything out of the chart, we can see that the full frame cameras definitely show up with more false colors, moiré and artifacts in the fine details.
Just for fun I added one comparison with the Fujifilm X-T4 vs Sony A7RIV and Panasonic S1R.
Of course the Sony and Panasonic have more resolution power, but when details become really fine, and hence when all those megapixel would be really needed, in some areas the Sony A7rIV as well as the Panasonic S1R have the tendency to show more moiré, partially ruining the megapixel advantage they have, where the X-T4 shows no moiré.
As an X-Trans lover, I do hope Fujifilm will stick with it in their APS-C cameras and offer us something around 32+MP or so in the future, maybe with the Fujifilm X-H2. I am sure it would give great results.
Down below you can see some of the screenshots I took. You can head over to the DRP studio comparison tool and make your own comparisons.
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