Reggie Ballesteros switched from full frame to Fujiiflm APS-C, and after one year of work, he sums up his experience in a 34 minutes long video (see below).
His camera of choice is the Fujifilm X-T3 (now with big savings)
Down below a summary:
As a free and independent space, here on FujiRumors we report just everything, the good and the not so good, not matter if Fujifilm likes it or not, as my only boss are FR-readers, and I owe you the best service I can deliver.
Hence, today, in this Fujinon XF 16-80mm f/4 roundup I chose to highlight some aspects of the lens, that are not really that good.
And yet, despite not being a perfect lens, those who review the Fujinon XF 16-80mm f/4 still end up recommending it, as a great all rounder lens.
At the end, it’s all about finding the right balance, keeping in mind what’s the target group of a certain lens. And I guess in order ot keep size, weight and price down, Fujifilm had to rely more on digital correction in the case of this lens.
There are lots of adapters for the Fujifilm X system, including focal reducers, which work like this: you take a Full Frame lens, puts them on Fuji APS-C sensor, and the speedbooster transmutes that focal length back to full frame. It totally negates the crop factor. And the way the adapter works, we actually also double our light, translating 1 stop faster in exposure time.
Andrew compares four focal reducers or speed boosters:
Here are Andrew’s thoughts (video below):
FujiRumors has exposed the naked truth about (some) award business here. I invite you to read this article to be illuminated ;).
A total of 940 companies and 1,420 products won the “Good Design Award” in 2019.
The probably most interesting part of Fujifilm winning 32 design awards this year, is that the list shows only 27 products, and 5 more have yet to be announced.
Will one of them be the mysterious registered X or GFX camera here?
Here is the list of photography related winning products.
At the most recent Fujifilm X summit, Fujifilm announced “Fujifest“, a series of events all over the world to give customers the chance to play around with the Fujifilm X-Pro3 and other latest and greatest Fujifilm gear.
Now Fujifilm published the full list of countries and dates of the Fujifest 2019. You can see the full list down below.
Fujifilm Manager Toshihisa Iida has released an interview to the Japanese website newswitch, which you can read summed up and translated in its main points below.
But before we go ahead, I want to highlight one thing Toshihisa Iida said:
The roadmap is updated once a year
Fujifilm sort of changed the roadmap yesterday, at the Fujifilm X Summit, by scraping the Fujinon XF 33mm f/1.0 from the roadmap and replacing it with the Fujinon XF 50mm f/1.0.
But if we look at the official Fujifilm website, we see that the latest uploaded roadmaps are:
This means that Fujifilm plans to release an updated roadmap within this year, which fits with what we rumored a few days ago here.
But how many lenses can we expect to be announced in 2020? Toshihisa Iida said:
To date, we have announced an average of 5 or 6 new products each year. […] We are not going to slow that pace”
Also in this case, this fits with what we already told you back in 2017, when our sources told us that Fuji’s schedule is to release 2/3 GF lenses and 2/3 X lenses a year.
Now let’s just hope Fujifilm will listen and give us what you guys voted the most wanted X and G mount lenses here.
The Fujifilm X Summit live stream starts now (video above).
In case you are late, don’t worry, down below I will provide written live summary on what has been said and shown, so you don’t miss out anything.
Sony finally did it and released very nice APS-C cameras, the Sony A6600 and the Sony A6100 – full introduction here.
Personally I am very happy about the new Sony cameras, because in the high-end APS-C world, Fujifilm is basically without competition, and Sony is a terrific competitor, that I guess we all very much welcome.
But more than the two new camera bodies, I am particularly happy to see they also announced some interested lenses:
The first one is definitely a Pro lens, and goes right after Fujifilm’s XF16-55mm f/2.8.
The second one is a lens, Fujifilm officially considers to make, and in our huge future lens poll, it makes it into the top 10 of your lens wishes.
With Sony now treating with some fine camera bodies and lenses their APS-C system again, I can only hope that Fujifilm will step on the gas again, too.
In fact, this year, we got only 2 lenses for the X system (and one in the current roadmap for 2020):
Now this 100% confirms what we told you back in 2017, that Fujifilm will release 2/3 lenses for each system (X and GFX) a year.
But now look at the APS-C cameras, Fujifilm released (or will soon release) in 2019:
Now that’s just my opinion, but releasing more cameras than lenses in one year is just wrong.
Fujifilm should focus again on giving us more lenses! And as our recent mega-lens-survey showed, Fuji X shooters definitely have lots of unfulfilled needs there.
So it’s nice to see Sony coming out with some fine APS-C lenses. This might push Fuji to speed up their lens development.
The Viltrox 85mm f/1.8 autofocus lens is the new favorite third party lens amongst Fujifilm X shooters.
It is the 4th third party autofocus lens for Fujifilm X mount (the other three are the Zeiss 12mm f/2.8, 32mm f/1.8 and 50mm f/2.8 1:1 Macro), but the Viltrox 85mm f/1.8 is the first reverse-engineered one, meaning they got no help from Fujifilm at all.
A brave move by Viltrox, that seens to pay off well for the company. At least amongst FujiRumors readers, the Viltrox 85mm f/1.8 is a best seller.
Well done Viltrox, and we look forward to the next three Fujifilm X mount AF lenses in the pipeline.
