DPReview met up with Yuji Igarashi, Professional Imaging Group Manager, and Makoto Oishi, Head of Product Planning in Stockholm for the launch of the Fujifilm GFX100 II.
Here is a recap and below the link to the full interview.
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We already told you that the Fujifilm X100V successor will be launched in early 2024 (and ship in late 2028 probably :) ).
Well, today trusted sources have informed us that the Fujifilm X100V replacement will come with a “new lens”.
No further details for now but I am working on it and update you as soon as I can.
But I want to be clear:
“New lens” for now is a vague hint and could mean just anything: from a minor redesign that would make the lens weather sealed without the need to apply a filter (which is currently needed to seal the X100V lens) or also a redesign with different focal length/aperture [for example the patented 20mmF2 lens for X100 cameras]. Just everything is possible at this point.
So, for now “new” just means that there will be differences over the X100V lens, but how strong this difference will be I can’t tell right now.
A minor change? A substantial redesigned? I’ll make sure you’ll get the answer here on FujiRumors.
Certainly this comes surprising, as in 5 generation of the X100 line (X100, X100S, X100T, X100F, X100V), Fujifilm has refreshed the lens only once, on the last generation, the X100V. So personally I would not have expected another refresh to come that soon again. But it’s happening. Word of trusted sources.
Now that I have told your that the Fujifilm X100V successor will come in early 2024, I am sure that many of you have lots of questions about it.
Questions, that you are free to share down below in the comments and I promise I will work on them and hopefully be able to answer soon.
One of the questions I have not yet the answer to is the name of the X100V successor.
And since I am tired to share rumors calling it the “X100V successor” I thought I’ll do it like this. I will now share a couple of naming options and you vote on the one you like most. The winning name will be used by me for all further rumors (at least until I find out the real name).
And let’s start with a feedback coming from a FR-reader via the revived rumor box.
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Amazon AUSWe told you yesterday that you should not expect the Fujifilm X100V replacement to come in 2023, hence it is not one of the two registered Fujifilm cameras (FF230001and FF230002).
Today we confirm it and we have received permission from sources to tell you this:
The Fujifilm X100V replacement will be announced in early 2024!
FujiRumors broke the rumors:
But we also know one more thing. Fujifilm two registrations filed so far: the Fujifilm FF230001 and FF230002.
Now, assuming that one of the two will be the Fujifilm GFX100 replacement, this leaves all possible options open for the second one.
Well, not really all options. I mean, I simply can’t see a Fujifilm X-H3 or Fujifilm X-H3s coming in September, as those cameras are hardly 1 year old (or less). And also not the Fujifilm X-T6 or Fujifilm X-S30.
But other than that, we can hope for:
And in fact, I asked you to vote on which camera you’d like to get on September 12 and you can see the results here.
At this point you’ve noticed something: there is no Fujifilm X100V successor (X200, X100VI, X100 whatever it will be called) in the list.
Why?
Well, because despite being one of your top wished cameras (second only to another camera), and despite fake rumors already being shared about the X100V to come on September 12, I can now tell you with 110% certainty that there will not be any Fujifilm X100V replacement coming in 2023.
Trust me on this guys. No X100V successor in 2023.
I guess Fujifilm has no hurry at all to come out with a successor, given the fact, explained by Fujifilm managers, that if the world would stop to order X100V today, it would still take them 3 months to be able to ship all X100V orders placed until yesterday.
Seen from this perspective, the biggest problem of the Fujifilm X100VI (or whatever) is the terrific success of the X100V.
“I feel lucky and will click the links to see if the X100V is in stock” :)
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