Fujifilm UK manger Andreas Georghiades returns to the Fujicast postcast.
It’s an almost 1 hour podcast, and if you are in a hurry and can’t listen it all, I provide a summary of everything the manager says, so you can get it all in under 5 minutes.
Fringer has released firmware 1.60 for the Fringer EF-FX Pro II and Fringer EF-FX II smart autofocus adapters.
As requested by many users, Fringer finally found a Sigma 500mm F4 OS Sports lens and optimized it. Fringer says it performs very well on X-Trans IV cameras. A good choice for wild life!
The main improvements of firmware v1.70 include:
Version 1.70
You may download new firmware and its release notes from the Fringer website. Read the release notes or user manual to understand how to upgrade.
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The Fujifilm GFX100 won the Camera GP Japan 2020 Editors Award, said to be the most prestigious camera award in Japan.
Now, I don’t know much about this specific award, but overall I wrote an article in the past about the dubious meaningfulness of such awards. But hey, better to win something than not to win.
It is totally subjective, but personally I rejoice much more when other awards are won, for example when photographers using Fujifilm cameras win hands down at the 2020 Word Press Photo awards.
Think at this:
None of the Fujifilm X shooters creaming off all the top awards at the World Press Photo 2020 used the most powerful camera on the market: an X-Pro2, an X100F, an X-H1 and others. But each of these cameras has its character, its peculiar look and feel, build ergonomically around the different needs of different photographers, and hence the tool many chose, to go out and grab award winning images.
Personally I also prefer to use a camera that fits my shooting style, rather than one with the power of a playstation, as I know I will get better results out of the first one.
This is also the reason, why the Fujifilm GFX100 made me salivate on specs level, but personally (as a guy, who does not make a penny out of his photography) I would not buy one, at least not until it looks like this Fujifilm GFX concept.
When I picked up the Fujifilm GFX100 and tested it, it was the first Fujifilm camera I ever hold in my hands, that I had to spend time just to figure out how to operate it.
You know what I mean?
I mean, give me an X-Pro2, X100V or X-T4, and thanks to their intuitive layout and manual controls, I can shoot right away, without any need of a manual or even setting up anything at the menu.
Specs are nice and good. But esthetics, ergonomics, feel and usability are more inspiring for me than mere specs, and therefore help me to keep my passion, fun and inspiration for photography high and fresh.
With that said, here you get it: the list of Camera JP Japan 2020 winners.
The big winner is Sony.
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A little break from the gear talk we had, and the one that will come, by sharing images from our facebook groups.
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Damian Brown got his hands on the Viltrox 23mm f/1.4 already. Here is what he thinks about the lens:
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You get 10 editions of the Fujifilm X Magazine for free. Check out all details here. [UPDATE: I just noticed that the link leads to an empty page now. I contacted the guys at the Fuji X Passion magazine and asked if they can put the offer up again. I hope to get reply soon and will let you know UPDATE 2: Deal activated again for a limited time]
Also, Ken has published his 3rd edition of the Fujifilm Tips and Tricks ebook, which you can download for free here.
Pre-order Rico’s book The Fujifilm X-T4: 150 X-Pert Tips to Get the Most Out of Your Camera.
With the Fujifilm X-T4 about to hit the market (and actually already shipping in some), Fujifilm managers all over the globe are giving tons of interviews to make the world ready for the best camera it has ever seen to date: the Fujifilm X-T4 :).
Of course, I pre-ordered it, too :)
Now, for your convenience, I always provide a practical summary of all manager statements in my various article, and yet, with so many interviews, there might be some statements you might have missed anyway.
So I thought I filter out those statements, that I consider most relevant, and put them all into this article.
However, there is so much more interesting stuff to read, and so I strongly recommend you to check out all the original articles. I will provide all links below.
Here on FujiRumors I get many, really many thousands of emails and personal messages a year.
There is no team behind FujiRumors. It’s me, Patrick, that’s it. And I try to reply to every single one of you, in my spare time from my day job.
I feel very privileged that such a large community comes together here on FujiRumors… but with huge fellowship, comes also huge responsibility and work.
Hence, for as much as I try, sometimes I am not really able to answer you all in a super-comprehensive way.
But I think everybody gets a reply, and surely I read ever single message I receive.
Among those messages, there are many, who express lens wishes, firmware wishes, improvement ideas and all possible things.
Today I decided to collect many of those messages I get, and put them all in one big FujiRumors readers wishlist roundup.
I would like to honor your participation as good as I can, and this little wishlist roundup, is a little sign, that whatever you tell me, I listen…. and I share :).
Have a wonderful Sunday,
Patrick
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Fujifilm has updated RAW File Converter EX and Tether Plugin PRO for GFX.
RAW FILE CONVERTER EX powered by SILKYPIX – download here
The software update Ver.8.1.5.0 incorporates the following issues:
FUJIFILM Tether Plugin PRO for GFX” for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic CC / 6 – download here
The software update Ver.1.16.0 incorporates the following issues:
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Let me first say things how they are.
Fujifilm NEVER announced any major firmware update for Fujifilm X-T3. The rumor of a Kaizen X-T3 update has been published here on FujiRumors a few months ago. And it was only a rumor.
Pressed by questions, Fujifilm managers later on just vaguely answered that such a firmware is “under consideration“.
Another thing is the huge update for Fujifilm GFX100. That firmware has been promised by Fujifilm back in February here. The main course of the meal: pixel shift multishot for 400 megapixel images.
Anyone salivating? ;)
Now back to the rumors.
According to our sources, both, the Fujifilm X-T3 as well as the Fujifilm GFX100 firmware updates should be released in the first half of 2020 (which May/June).
I asked if it could come out already in April, but my sources are sure it won’t be April.
And now a mandatory warning!
While I am 100% sure Fujifilm’s current plans are the ones I said above, after almost a decade of my life dedicated to Fujifilm blogging, I can tell you that if there is one thing, that can experience sudden plan changes at any time, then it’s firmware updates.
Fujifilm has a deadline, but especially with firmware updates, those can change quickly. The firmware will be released, only when ready.
And yet, the plan is to come out with both, X-T3 and GFX100 firmware within the first half of the year.
That’s it for now.
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