this is just a mock up by Fujirumors – original image is a graphite X-T2
Fujifilm X-T3
Some of you guys asked me in the comments if the Fujifilm X-T3 will come in black only or also in silver version, hence for the same price of the classic black version.
Well, according to our sources, there will be also a silver version coming (not graphite).
That’s good news… gives to the camera an even more retro touch ;)
I have been informed (thanks) that the Fujifilm X-T3 will have the same button layout of the Fujifilm X-T2. Also the form factor will remain the same, with just some minor changes. Hence, once it will be announced, you won’t really notice any difference over the X-T2.
For me this is a good news, since the X-T design is loved by many just as it is now. Fujifilm did create the X-H line appositely to have more design freedom and craft a more DSLR-like camera. But the X-T should mantain it’s current form factor.
Here on FujiRumors, we value your time and we want it to be time well spent, which is why we don’t like to regurgitate old news, since we are full of fresh news and rumors every day :)
However, today I woke up and found a few emails in my inbox from readers, asking me if I ever heard about the Steelsring Nikon F to Fujifilm X smart adapter.
So I figured out that in this case, it might be useful to share a reminder, since you might have missed it…. repetita juvant, as they say.
We reported back in May, that the Nikon F to Fuji X (as well as Nikon F to Fuji GFX) smart adapter is in development. Then, last month here, we showed you a first video demo of the GFX to Nikon F smart adapter version.
If this adapter works well, then this could help to keep up the migration from Nikon to Fujifilm, which Nikon is trying to stop with the Nikon Z6 and Nikon Z7 (about time, Nikon!).
Nikon users could continue to switch to Fujifilm and keep some of the Nikkor lenses they grow fond to. But I am pretty sure that once they enter and meet the Fujinon XF lens system quality, selling their Nikkor glass will become much easier than they would think ;).
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And I am warming up my fingers right now for a very exciting X-T3 live blogging. :)
It’s been very busy with rumors over here in the last weeks and months, so I coudn’t share as many miXed zones as I want. But today I will try to catch up and share a major camera roundup.
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The Fujifilm community is simply the best, and I will do my little part in this community, by sharing your work for as long as FujiRumors will run :) .
Just as with the XF 8-16 and XF 200 annoncement on Friday, July 20, there are chances that also this time on FujiRumors we can’t share the Fujifilm X-T3 announcement date.
What I can promise, though, is that the X-T3 live blogging on FujiRumors will start the very same second the X-T3 will be announced.
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Tilt shift lenses are arguably one of the top 3 lacks in the Fujifilm X mount line-up. The only other native X mount option I know for the X system is the Samyang T-S 24mm F3.5. I will let you decide if the lensbaby is an option for you. Check out the first look reviews down below:
There won’t be a tilt-shift lack in the GF medium format lineup. We already leaked the complete “secret” Fujifilm GF roadmap in April 2017, and we have updated it since then, including the upcoming tilt-shift lens. The latest rumor here.
Anyway, Nikon is confident, and promises “a leap into a new dimension that will last for the next 100 years“.
We know very little about the upcoming Nikon mirrorless camera. So let’s wait until August 23 before we discuss the camera more in-depth.
But what we can discuss now, is what Nikon’s and Canon’s move into the mirrorless world means for Fujifilm X and GFX lovers.
… FUJIFILM IS HAPPY…
Fujifilm managers said here that they welcome CaNikon Full Frame mirrorless cameras, because…
“[…] having those strong brands in the mirrorless marketplace increases general awareness of mirrorless, and that’s a good thing for the whole industry.”
Many people, who currently still think that DSLRs are the only real professional tool, might start to think differently, once they see that even Canon and Nikon start to cannibalize their own high-end DSLR market in favor of their new mirrorless offering.
And this is where Fujifilm (and other mirrorless manufacturers) have their opportunity.
If the message finally passes that “mirrorless is the future” (and it is the future), plenty of DSLR users (who are mainly APS-C shooters, as Fuji Guy Billy correctly said in his X-T100 first look here) will start to migrate to Mirrorless.
Maybe many will just go to CaNikon mirrorless, but at least Fujifilm has the chance to finally attract some of those mirroless-migrants to their X or GFX systems by offering already today:
28 APS-C Fujinon lenses
2 APS-C MK video lenses
3 APS-C flagships (X-T, X-Pro and X-H line)
Plenty of APS-C mid range and entry-level cameras
2 Medium Format Cameras (GFX 50s and very soon an affordable GFX 50R)
6 Medium Format Lenses (more to be announced soon)
It remains to see if the mirrorless-migrants will be patient and wait years for Canon and Nikon to build up a complete new system, or if, since they have to change system and change lenses anyway (unless they use adapters), they will directly switch to more established and experienced mirrorless brands like Fujifilm (APS-C or MF) or Sony (FF),
… AND X/GFX SHOOTERS ARE HAPPY TOO!
What would Fujifilm be today, without the pressure they got from Sony, Panasonic and Olympus? Probably a much worst system than it is today. So, competition is a good thing.
That’s why I hope that the Nikon mirrorless camera will be a top performing camera and very rich in features, a real flagship!
It will motivate Fujifilm (and other companies) to work even harder and to invest even more money into their camera system, and hence improve and expand the Fujifilm system even faster.
So thank you Nikon… thank you Canon… for finally joining seriously the mirrorless side of life… just please, let it be awesome mirrorless cameras ;) .
After our recent XF 8-16mm F2 coverage, here is a roundup for the other lens, that Fujifilm announced along with the new wide angle “monster lens”, the Fujinon XF200mm F2.
williamchua – XF200mm first look with samples (also using the new 1.4x TC)
williamchua – Fujinon XF 200mm F2 R LM OIS WR part 2
williamchua – Fujinon XF 200mm F2 R LM OIS WR part 3
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