REPORT: Fujifilm Price Increase Coming Soon (also on X-E5): Order Now to Lock the Price! – UPDATED
UPDATE: here is the list of price increases – X-E5 might be safe
FR-reader Alejandro has received the message you can see above from the Moment customer service:
Fujifilm just let us know they’ll be increasing the prices of some of their products soon, so l’m reaching out to assure you your order will be unaffected by the increase. Since you placed this order with us before the increase was announced, we’re be honoring your purchase price and eating the cost of the increase
I guess this was to expect. In fact, we’ve already seen hints of this: the X half launched at $850 instead of the planned $700, and the Fujifilm X-E5 is priced like the X-T5 in the U.S., unlike elsewhere where it is priced like the X-T50.
Older gear stayed stable thanks to pre-tariff stock, but that’s running out. Now, with higher import costs kicking in, Fujifilm appears to be officially adjusting prices.
But here is the thing:
When I asked Alejandro for which gear he got this notice, he told me:
this is for the silver X-E5 with kit lens
Now, we told you a few weeks ago that price adjustments on Fujifilm X-E5 can’t be ruled, since it’s now subject to a higher tariff rate than when it first launched.
Maybe that’s also why Amazon US de-listed the X-E5 from their website. They could be waiting for the price increase to become official and then list it again with the new price.
Anyway, if Alejandro’s report to FujiRumors is accurate, then we could be just days away from a price increase.
Also at risk of price increase might be all that gear announced before the tariffs and that is now running low on stock at the US warehouses, so we are talking of Fujifilm GFX100RF, Fujifilm X-T50, X-M5, X-T5, X-H2, X-H2S and more.
And I guess also plenty of GF and XF lenses will get a price increase.
To be clear: there is no official Fujifilm statement as of yet. It’s just an information that has been passed from a store to a FR-reader, who then passed it to me.
However, at this point my advice is: if you’re planning to buy and Fujifilm gear, (pre)order it now to give yourself the best chance of avoiding the potential imminent price hike.
If I get any updates I will let you know.
- X-E5
BHphoto / Amazon US (black body/kit – silver body/kit) / Adorama / Moment / Nuzira / BestBuy / Paul’s Photo - List of XF lenses
BHphoto / Amazon / Adorama / Moment - List of GF lenses
BHphoto / Amazon / Adorama / Moment - GFX100RF
BHphoto / AmazonUS (silver – black) / Adorama / Moment / Nuzira / BestBuy - X-T50
BHphoto / Amazon / Adorama / Nuzira / Moment - X-H2
BHphoto / AmazonUS / Adorama - X-H2S
BHphoto / AmazonUS / Adorama - XF 23mmF2.8 R WR
BHphoto / Amazon US (black – silver) / Adorama / Moment / Nuzira / BestBuy/ Paul’s Photo - X-T5
BHphoto (black – silver / Amazon / Adorama - X100VI
BHphoto (black – silver) / Amazon (black – silver) / Adorama / Moment / Nuzira - X-M5
BHphoto (black – silver) / AmazonUS (silver – black) / Adorama / Moment / Nuzira - X Half
BHphoto / Amazon US (black – charcoal – silver) / Adorama / Moment / Nuzira/ BestBuy / Paul’s Photo