I am a Fujifilm dinosaur, and as such, I have good memory of the Fuji past.
So for those of you, who didn’t read FujiRumors over the past 8 years, or joined the Fuji X system just recently, you must know that the Fujifilm X-E line faced complicated times.
It’s summer, which means 2 full months of holidays from my teaching job!
I have already passed 2 weeks with that annoying SonyAlphaRumors guy in beautiful Croatia. :)
However, I have no other travels planed, given that I married in May and must a little bit recover financially now (*).
So, together with my wife we decided to spend most of our summer just hiking on the mountains around my home. And frankly, I do not desire nor need more than this right now.
Sometimes we sleep on a mountain hut and enjoy the sunrises at high altitude (and with a bit of luck also meeting fellow Fujifilm shooters up there).
We might, though, make one short honeymoon city trip, maybe to Paris?
Ok, I hear you, come to the point! Camera comparison, NOW!
Well, since I bought the Fujifilm X-E3, I have basically never touched my trusty Fujifilm X-T1 anymore (which still holds the sceptre for taking my all time favorite image).
My wife kindly invited me to sell it, but the answer I could give her was no other than this one :).
So, to justify the fact that I still own the X-T1, I took it out for a recent mountain hike, put it into my Camslinger bag, and shot again a whole day with it.
It was like rediscovering the Fujifilm X-T1, and here are 3 things I loved and hated about shooting with it again.
Loves:
It’s high time to update our older Fujifilm 2019/2020 camera and lens release timeline.
This is just an approximate timeline and expect to see updates to this list over the next few weeks and months.
For now, this is mainly just an update to the list we shared back in January.
All rumors are as always exclusive FujiRumors.com information. When I just make some guess, I will highlight that for you in the notes.
How Many Lenses a Year?
Fall 2019
Coming 2020
Expect 1 or 2 more X as well as GF lenses. My guess:
Probably NOT Coming 2019/2020
* our sources say it will not be released in 2019, and probably not even in 2020. But Fujifilm managers confirmed here, that the X-H line will continue
Top Possible Bonus Gear in 2020
* based on this old rumor rumor
** wishful thinking based on XF10 disappointment
*** no rumors. but please, FUJI, PLEASE!!!
**** no rumor, just a mere wild guess
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The third episode of the Fujilove podcast with Fuji Guy Billy just went online (episode 1, episode 2). You can listed to it all at sticher and Fujilove.
As to expect it is centered on the Fujifilm GFX100.
Here some excerpts, skipping most of the stuff you have already heard all too often :).
May was an extremely busy month, with 79 articles written in 31 days, the GFX100 live blogging and… my marriage (no, can’t buy any new gear for a while with what that cost ;).)
In May, FujiRumors has also delivered several breaking rumors about the following Fujifilm cameras:
I consider all rumors 100% accurate.
It’s not our style to mislead and clickbait people with fake made up rumors, sadly a practice that is going strong these days. FR is well fueld with reliable rumors, we do not need to go down the desperate fake rumor road.
And I tell you more…
I now slow down a few days to recover, but then I’ll be back with rumors, especially with one that might surprise you positively. You can dream now and I’ll tell you later, once I have green light from the source :).
Back to us, and to the very busy month of May.
So many things happened, that I thought to list the top 15 read articles for May down below, so you can catch up in case you missed them.
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When I shared the rumor about the Fujifilm X100V (or X200) having a new lens, many of you wondered if Fujifilm would change the focal length.
Would Fujifilm go with an 18mm lens like on the Fujifilm X70 / XF10? Or maybe even a 35mm lens (50 FF equiv.)?
According to our sources, the lens will be new, but keep the 23mm focal length.
I remind you that the Fujifilm X100V (or X200) will be released in 2020 only.
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We already told you that the Fujifilm X100F successor (X100V/X200) will come in 2020.
I am still working on the details, but I can now safely say, that the Fujifilm X100V (or X200) will come with a new lens (and of course we can expect the latest X-Trans IV sensor in it).
As an anonymous source also told me, “the old lens is already struggling to make use of the current sensor”.
I know you guys have questions about the new lens. And I am working on this. But for now I do not feel confident enough to give a final answer on this. But the work is in progress, so expect updates on this hopefully soon.
Thanks to the anonymous source, who contacted me yesterday confirming me it will have a new lens. I read also the rest of your message. I will make a routine checks, and share later on. Thanks a ton!
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Looking at the Fujifilm X series camera release timeline we shared last year, and comparing it with the current rumors, we can say that it turns out to be pretty accurate… except for one camera: the Fujifilm X100F successor (may it be called X100V or X200 or whatever)
The X100 line had a refresh cycle of about 2 years, and given that the X100F was launched in January 2017, everybody speculates it will come very soon, at least within 2019.
But trusted sources now informed us, that the Fujifilm X100V (or X200) will be launched in 2020 only!
This time Fujifilm decided to wait longer than ever to give us a successor.
And by the way, if you want to know which is the Fujifilm facebook group with less gear talk, less gear shots, less gear discussions and mostly focussed on the art of photography and images, than this is definitely our Fujifilm X100 facebook group.
I think this is representative for the people, who buy this camera: never think about gear again. Get the camera, one lens only, and go out and shoot. It’s all about being focused on taking pictures.
The liberation of limitation!
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BHphoto published an article about which Fujifilm X and GFX lenses are best for wedding photography.
You can read the aricle here.
I am happy they mention also the Fujinon XF 18-135 as an option. A lens good enough to snap the offcial images for the Dunkirk blockbuster should also be good enough for other professional use.
I thought to grab this opportunity to ask the Fujifilm wedding photographers out there, what you consider the best lenses for wedding photography. Feel free to vote the poll down below.
Note that basically all Fujinon X/GFX lenses (except for XF 16mm f/2.8) are now on sale. You’ll find the full list here and for single lenses check out the list below.
Every now and then I get emails from fellow Fujifilm X Shooters, complaining that their camera settings get completely deteleted. There are several reasons this can happen:
So the first thing you can do, is to avoid the errors we mentioned above.
And yet, sometimes it’s not a user error (see firmware update), so you better have a Plan B in case all your settings get lost, and in our case, our Plan B is called Fuji X Acquire.
And since just right after the Fujifilm X-T3 firmware update, some FR-readers couldn’t find the back-up feature, I thought I share a quick guide on how to save & restore your Fujifilm camera settings using Fujifilm X Acquire.
