FUJIFILM Announces First Quarter Fujifilm Masterpiece Award Winners
Back in July 2017, Fujifilm announced the re-launch of the long standing Fujifilm Masterpiece award program. Now we have the first winners :)
Press Release
Fujifilm X-H1 Vs. Sony A7III Vs. Sony A6500 Comparisons
Sony A7III Vs Fujifilm X-H1
This is probably one of the hottest camera comparisons currently on the web: Sony A7III Vs. Fujifilm X-H1.
Now also mirrorlesscomparison compares the two cameras, and it’s as usual a very in depth comparison, so make sure to check it out all.
From the conclusions:
The A7 III ticks all the boxes: great image and video quality, stunning autofocus performance, excellent speed and buffer, lots of customisation, superior battery life, a dual SD card slot and more.
Is it perfect? No camera is, and this one is no exception. For example, the choice to keep the design compact means that the camera isn’t as comfortable with large lenses, and the image stabilisation – while useful with non-stabilised lenses – is the only thing that hasn’t really improved in over three years.
The X-H1 is a different product in many ways, last but not least because it has been designed for a different audience. […]
The X-H1 may sound less exciting than the Sony, but it would be wrong to undermine it. It got some basic yet very important things right, like the comfortable grip, the user-friendly interface and a better implementation of touch screen capabilities. It also shows that Fujifilm is capable of delivering on the video side, not only in terms of quality but also with its clever features and settings.
The X-H1 is also the camera debuts 5-axis stabilisation on the X series, which […] in many ways, is already better than the Sony’s stabilisation system.
The reason the X-H1 doesn’t impress me as much as it should – despite being the most advanced and complete product from Fujifilm to date – has to do with the things that haven’t changed. [FujiRumors: same “old” X-Trans3 sensor, same eye and face detection of X-T2, that is not in par of Sony’s, same battery of X-T2]
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Fujifilm X-H1 Vs. Sony A6500
Fujifilm X-T2 Kaizen Firmware – The Day After the Big Party – Bug Reports Anyone?
Josh Lewis Youtube – Fujifilm X-T2 Firmware 4.00 Major Flaw. Basically when shooting F-log with an external monitor plugged in via HDMI, the X-T2 shows it is recording onto the SD-card, but in fact it is not. Can anyone duplicate the issue or maybe there is some camera setting to change?
Fujifilm X-T2 Firmware – The Day After
Yesterday it was another huge Kaizen firmware day, this time for Fujifilm X-T2 owners, who basically could download a complete new camera for free.
If you haven’t seen it already, then make sure to go back to the original post, which got massive comments.
The upgrade for the Fujifilm X-T2 was so big, that some Fujifilm X-H1 owners were even a bit annoyed by it, since Fujifilm now brought the X-T2 almost on par with the brand new X-H1 (besides IBIS, 200 mbps and other minor things). But overall the feedback was mostly very enthusiastic.
I bought the H1 for the better focus through ibis as well as the improved video and am more than a little unhappy that all these features have found their way into the xt2… I sold my mine.
— Jaco van Rensburg (@jacojvr) May 8, 2018
Firmware Bugs Report
However, the FR-community asked me to launch a “bugs report” article… and here it is.
This feedback will be good for Fujifilm, who, as you know, reads us with greatest care, but also for us mere mortal X-shooters, because we can see if firmware 4.00 has introduced some bugs.
Also, maybe some out there, who are not yet familiar with the new features, could consider bugs some things that are actually wrong settings in the camera, and you guys can eventually help those of us, who are setting the camera wrong.
Fujifilm Reads You
As you know, FujiRumors is Fujifilm’s reference website for Fuji X and GFX online customer feedback (I mean, even Fujifilm’s top manager Toshihisa Iida “loves” FujiRumors, not to talk that Fujifilm also uses our polls in private meetings ;) ).
This is no surprise, since here on FR, for example, we can collect 10,000 poll votes in just 3 days and in 2017 we had a total of 45,261 comments (124 comments a day).
Your massive feedback simply can’t be ignored by Fujifilm.
So first of all thanks to every single one of you, who reads FR, votes the polls and comments.
Feel free to keep it up :)
Fujifilm Announces Partnership with Taylor Swift on its Instax Series’ Promotion
Fujifilm announces global partnership agreement with Taylor Swift on its instax series’ promotion
May 9, 2018 (JST)
Fujifilm X-T2 Firmware 4.00 First Looks, What SONY Thinks About Firmware Updates and Kaizen Makes LOTS of Sense
Fujifilm X-T2 FW 4.00 is Out
If you follow FujiRumors also on Facebook, RSS-feed and Twitter (and also allowed browser push notifications!!!), you will have received notification about the new firmware 4.00 for Fujifilm X-T2 about half a second after Fujifilm made it officially available for donwload.
You can download the new firmware here.
Does it Make Sense? – Part 2 :)
In case you missed it, make sure to check out our previous post about it and the huge discussion we are having there.
- Fujifilm X-T2 Kaizen Firmware 4.00 Officially Available… and This Makes NO Sense, FUJI! :)
Of course the “it makes no sense” in my previous article is in part a provocation and surely ironic… but it’s also a bit of a reminder, that we should not take for granted what Fujifilm is doing. These updates cost money and upgrading old cameras means current customers are less likely to buy the latest and greatest Fujifilm gear.
But of course there is also the other side of the medal.
Fujifilm Kaizen firmware updates create brand loyalty and might even attract customers from other brands, who don’t get nearly as much firmware love as Fujifilm X and GFX shooters.