Fujinon XF500mmF5.6 Firmware Update Released

There is a new firmware update for the Fujinon XF 500mm f/5.6 R LM OIS WR. All details below

XF500mmF5.6 ver. 1.01 – download here
The firmware update Ver.1.01 from Ver.1.00 incorporates the following issue:

  1. A firmware bug is fixed that AF focusing is not stable when the focus area setting is not centered at shooting with a teleconverter lens (XF2X TC WR, XF1.4X TC WR and XF1.4X TC F2 WR)

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Fujinon XF500mmF5.6 Size Comparison vs Other XF and GF Lenses (Based on Speculations)

FR-reader Hiergeist made a rendering of the Fujinon XF 500mm f/5.6 R LM OIS WR and compared its size to the Fujinon XF200mmF2, XF150-600mm and also the GF500mmF5.6.

There is a difference in flange distance between G-mount and X-mount of 9 mm – so the lens has to be 9 mm longer at the mount (assuming the optics will be almost identical between GFX 500 and XF 500). Hiergeist aligned the picture along the lens mount.

To be clear:

  1. this is not the real lens, just a rendering
  2. the size of the XF500mmF5.6 is based on the speculation that because it has the same filter size of the GF500mmF5.6, Fujifilm might simply have made and XF version by changing the mount

If that was the case then that is what that lens would look like mounted on an X-H2.