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Here is my Fuji gear minus one lens that is in for repair because it fell apart in my hands. This is just the major gear. I’ve also got all kinds of accessories, batteries, 3rd party flash units, and filters all purchased just for my Fuji system. Read on to find out why, as a full time professional, I’m not feeling confident in this system for professional use.
I admit to being a bit of a Fuji fanboy. I have to be in order to put up with all the quirks and inconveniences of the Fuji X system. I believe it is this unconventional approach by Fuji that results in their growth and dedicated following.
But there is more to meeting my needs as a professional photographer than just having cameras with the right features and an array of lenses. So here’s why I question Fujifilm’s X-System as meeting my professional needs:
Before I bought my first X-Pro2 or made any commitment to the Fuji system, I called the Fuji service center and asked if they had a professional service program like the excellent ones from Sony and Canon. They said they have had a big demand for it and expect to have it in the next few months. This was 2 ½ years ago and so far there isn’t one, except for the GFX system (even Fuji told me that only a small fraction of pros using Fuji cameras use the GFX system.)
At that time I thought to myself that the X-Pro2 appeared well made and the lenses had a good feel to them and I could probably live without the pro service for a few months. I ultimately bought another X-Pro2 so I could always have two different lenses ready and also to have a backup. In my 33 years of professional shooting I never had a lens fail from normal use so I didn’t worry about that part of it.
Recently Fujifilm is introducing to various markets the brown Fujifilm X100F (it’s available in North America, Europe, Asia already – last update here).
Now Fujifilm is about to do the same thing with the Fujifilm X-E3. You can see the first image above (thanks for sending it to me myanmarphotoartist.com). It comes with the XC15-45 kit lens.
The brown color is also already listed at the Turkish Fujifilm Shop, however still without images.
UPDATE: The news of the software updates has been published at Fujifilm’s global site and was dated “June 21”. Now the news has been removed as well as the update, so I guess somebody at Fujifilm just published it 1 day too early. Expect the update tomorrow. However, here on FujiRumors, we have copied and pasted the details of the update. :)
Adobe Lightroom Classic CC 7.4 and Camera RAW 10.4 just added Fujifilm X-T100 support as well as some very welcome new features and improvement, such as the cross-platform presets synch.