Well the same thing is happening at Kakaku, which is a pretty popular shopping aggregator in Japan.
At Kakaku, the Fujifilm X-T5 has climbed the ranking up to the second spot, beaten only by the Nikon Zf.
I own the Fujifilm X-T5 myself and it is a camera I can blindly recommend to everyone. It’s Fujifilm at the next level and a huge upgrade over my Fujifilm X-T4 (which I have sold)!
And quite frankly in my opinion the X-T5 is still vastly the better pick over the Nikon Zf for the reasons I’ve explained here.
The success of the Nikon Zf and Fujifilm X-T5 shows that it pays off for companies to make vintage-styled high performing modern cameras.
Which is why I don’t understand why Fujifilm is no longer offering a retro-styled GFX camera. I am sure such a camera would become an instant best seller.
Oh well, let’s hope in the Fujifilm GFX100SII, which should come pretty soon according to our sources.
Cosina has just announced the Voigtlander COLOR-SKOPAR 18mm F2.8 Aspherical lens, which will be released in February exclusively for Fujifilm X mount. It comes with electronic contacts (but no AF). Full product page below.
Fujifilm colors are loved by many. And it looks like they can be useful also when you try to apply a certain look to your AI created images. Andrea, from SonyAlphaRumors, used Film Simulation names for his AI images and you can see the results in the video above (and also here).
Blog Posts & Info
keithwee – Luminar Neo review – my baby steps in embracing AI-enabled editing software.
petapixel – Photomator and Pixelmator Now Support Fujifilm Compressed RAW
FR-Readers that use the focus bracket feature for focus bracketing may be interested that Helicon version 8. A FR-reader has used it with GFX 50r files and Capture One. The transfer of file from C1 to Helicon still takes a while but the stacking process in Helicon appears to run a bit quicker.
RAW Power
RAW Power added support for Fujifilm GFX100 II.RAW Power is an App that brings Aperture style interface and functions to Mac Photos (it can also run as standalone). Above you can see an image I took and that I tweaked using RAW Power directly in my Photos App. You can open RAW power and edit within the Photos App by clicking “edit” in the Photos App, then click the three little dots and select RAW Power (image instruction here)
Maybe money can help you to get rid of some of the stress and worries in life. Unless you have to stress yourself to make that money in the first place and worry to accumulate and guard it later on. In which case money would turn from being your (good) servant to being your (bad) master, as Michel de Montaigne would say.
But what I can tell you is who are the most happy people I’ve met in my life.
The most happy people I have met in my life were not those with the most money, but those who simply and genuinely enjoyed their relationships.
Kids are superior beings. Superior, but also particularly fragile and sometimes at the mercy of unfavorable conditions they carry no responsibility for.
But luckily there are some, who made it their mission to take care of exactly those kids. I’ve met a few of them in my life, and one of them is Saveth from KNGO*.
Now, I am no longer able to travel nearly as much as I did in the past. Life got me. I have a family, jobs and responsibilities that simply don’t give me the freedom to continue that type of life (but they give me many other joys). And I guess many of you are also, like me, busy to make sure we get our own stuff sorted out day by day.
But there is still something we can do for people like Saveth and the kids they take care of: make a small donation.
Because money can’t buy happiness. But it can buy school books, pencils, pay teachers, build classrooms and more. Because what’s just a few bucks for us, can make a whole of difference to them.
This is why, if you haven’t done yet any donation this year so far, I can warmly recommend you to donate to our friends at KNGO.
KNGO donation page (select between sponsorships or one-time general donation)
Here is an indication on what can be done with your money.
20 Euro – one student is provided with a one-year supply of school books, folders, and pencils
50 Euro covers all costs for one student for 6 months
100 Euro gives a one-year scholarship to one student (the option I picked also this year myself)
Thanks to anyone of you, who decides to make a small donation to KNGO.
*How do I know KNGO? I was in Cambodia to make fair trade T-shirts made by the amazing guys at Tonle. During my travel I stumbled on KNGO and I loved their work so much that I decided right there to donate all profits from the T-shirt sales to them. We ended up raising $5,000 for them.
Note: in the video below I silence the moment when I say “Italia”, because it was a time when I still did not want people (aka Fujifilm ;)) to know where I am located. The kids were at the Los Quinchos project in Nicaragua.
It’s Christmas time. Time for wishlists and dreams.
And here on FujiRumors this means wishing and dreaming of gear that, if not this year, Santa Claus will hopefully make find us under the Christmas tree for 2024.
So here is a selection of wishes that I have received from FujiRumors community and that I now I am happy to share with all of you. Feel free to let us know if there is something among it that you’d really love to get.
After I have shared my Fujifilm 2024 – What’s Coming article, lots of you dropped me comments and emails, indicating that there should be also a Fujifilm X-T6 in 2024.
The reason why so many of you believe 2024 will be the year of Fujifilm X-T6, is because the X-T line got refreshed every two years:
2014 = X-T1
2016 = X-T2
2018 = X-T3
2020 = X-T4
2022 = X-T5
2024 = X-T6?
So an X-T6 has to come in 2024, right?
Well, it could be.
I have no rumors telling me it won’t come in 2024. So it’s possible.
But the list above does not really tell the whole story.
In November we have shared quite some rumors (as you can see here). And not only that! In our previous 2024 outlook, we forgot to add gear that Fujifilm has already pre-announced to come in 2024 as well as give you a look into rumored third party AF lenses.
That’s why we need to update our view into the Fujifilm year 2024.
All the X/GFX rumors come from our sources, whereas the speculations are often based on hints and comments that managers gave in interviews.
