Merry X mas

First and foremost, merry Christmas to the entire Fujifilm family out there and to every single one of you reading this blog. Make the best out of your holidays and enjoy every moment.

And now the part almost nobody will read, but for me personally it’s very important…

THANK YOU TO….

• ALL SOURCES who helped me also this year with the rumors. Your support was once again incredible. You help us to make being part of the Fuji X community so much more fun :). I hope to hear very often from you again also in 2018.
• ALL READERS who decided to support FujiRumors by commenting the articles, by dropping me a link to interesting content, news, deals and by sharing our content on social media and forums. You allow this blog to be always the very first to break the news and also to be the by far most active Fujifilm community on the web.
• ALL SUPPORTERS who decided to purchase products using our affiliate links, who donated a few bucks and who clicked on the banners on our website. I do put heart and soul into this blog, but without your support to cover the costs of this site, I could close FujiRumors tomorrow morning.
• ALL CONTRIBUTORS who decided to write a guest post for FujiRumors. You do enrich the FR-experience with your great content
• ALL PEOPLE AT FUJIFILM who worked hard to keep up designing, developing and crafting wonderful cameras and lenses and for covering us also in 2017 with Kaizen love

have great holidays… all of you,
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Support for Homeless People

As you might have noticed, here on FujiRumors we are convinced supporters of charity initiatives. In fact, over the last two years, thanks to your support, we collected $5,000 for free education to Cambodian kids, and as you can see above, the kids wanted to say “Thank you” to all of you guys :)

This time, I’d like to bring to your attention a charity initiative launched by our friends at Cosyspeed camera bags.

They have launched a special edition bag, the CAMSLINGER Streetomatic Valerie Jardin bag (Valerie shoots Fuji ;) ), and $25 of each sold bag go to the project #dosomethingfornothing, a project of London based stylist Joshua Coombes who gives free haircuts to homeless people.

Joshs project has grown quickly to 180 thousand followers on Instagram and he was featured in Morgan Freemans show on National Geographic and The Washington Post.

Full details after the video.

Future Kaizen Love

First off: Thank you Fujifilm ♡

Especially the recent X-Pro2 firmware update was simply amazing, and it delivered even more than what you promised us back in September.

Your firmware support is one of the reasons why I’m really happy and proud to own your products and be part of the Fujifilm world.

So please don’t think I’m not grateful for all the huge Kaizen love you delivered to us Fuji shooters over all these years, when today I invite the FR-community to throw in some ideas for future updates.

But fact is, that always, right after major firmware updates, I get many emails from the FujiRumors community, who share with me their ideas regarding future updates. And I like it that the community is so active and constructive, and keeps up thinking at ways to improve your cameras.

Some asked me for highlight priority metering mode, some others would like the ability to adjust ISO via command dial on X-Pro2 or more peaking colors for old X-E1/Pro1 cameras. Personally, owning the Fujifilm X-E3, I can’t wait to see a proper geotagging via bluetooth.

But I won’t extend the list further… I’ll leave it to the FujiRumors community to add their wishes in the comments.

So now it’s your turn guys, go ahead and let us know which firmware update you would like for which camera model.

And knowing that Fujifilm reads us, feel free to share also your personal “thank you” to Fujifilm… I’m sure they like it if we don’t take firmware updates for granted and show them our appreciation.

In fact, a trusted sources told me, that Fujifilm is looking extremely closely to this community and that you guys are absolutely and by very far Fujifilm’s Nr.1 source for online feedback.

I don’t know if our trusted source is right, but what I know is that:

• Fujifilm Top Manager Toshihisa Iida Reads and “Loves” FujiRumors
• Fujifilm displays our polls in internal meetings
• Fujifilm can’t ignore a community that is able to drop 11,000 votes in a single poll within 2 days
• It was your negative feedback and poll result, that killed the monochrome X-Pro1
• It was your positive pressure that revived the X-E3 plans and made Fujifilm say here “we are aware of the many X-E3 request”
  
• and more…

So guys, now it’s your turn again to let Fujifilm know :)

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X-Pro2 Bug Report

I have received several reports, including some shared at our Fujifilm X-Pro facebook group, about lock-ups on the X-Pro2 with the new firmware version 4.00.

The good news: the lock up seems to occur only when using advanced filters, definitely not a core feature of the X-Pro2. And it only occurs when shooting Compressed RAW+JPEG.

But anyway, it should work, no matter how important or not this feature is.

Speaking of advanced filters…

Personally I never use those filters. Oh well, actually I tried them one time on my X-E2 back in 2014, as you can see here. But I know most X shooters prefer to create their own effects in post production.

However, I also sometimes stumble on Fuji X images taken with the miniature effect. So the filters are something fun to use now and then for some fellow X shooters out there.

And wherever there is a Fuji X or GFX shooter, who can’t have fun with his/her camera, because of some issue, FujiRumors will be the first to support them.

So, dear Fujifilm, the FujiRumors community lets you know about this issue and would like you to come up with a fix as soon as possible.

With that said… huge thanks for all the Kaizen love the X-Pro2 just got :)

Any other bugs you noticed on the X-Pro2?

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I have been contacted by Kipon, who passed me the press-release below.

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“KIPON start to deliver 10 models pro tilt&shift adapters designed for GFX50s & X1D medium format mirrorless cameras from FUJIFILM and HASSELBLAD.

TILT&SHIFT Mamiya645-GFX
TILT&SHIFT Mamiya645-X1D
TILT&SHIFT PENTAX645-GFX
TILT&SHIFT PENTAX645-X1D
TILT&SHIFT PENTAX67-GFX
TILT&SHIFT PENTAX67-X1D
TILT&SHIFT HASSELBLAD V-GFX
TILT&SHIFT HASSELBLAD V-X1D
TILT&SHIFT PENTACON 6-GFX
TILT&SHIFT PENTACON 6-X1D

This lineup adopted completely new design, double-layer rotary design can realize moving of tilt &shift on the same axis, also designed tripod support to guaranty stable stitching-photo shootin .

This lineup adapters will be available from Tmall, Amazon, Ebay and some dealers in different countries since Jan 2018 , the suggested retailer price is 628USD.”