Fujifilm has released a new firmware update for the Fujifilm X-H2S.

It is not the bug fix firmware we are waiting for, but it might be a very important update for those who love to take selfies with their X-H2S. :)

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Firmware Update Details

Fujifilm X-H2S ver. 6.01 – download here
The firmware update Ver.6.01 from Ver.6.00 incorporates the following issue:

1. The firmware bug is fixed that the AF frame for tracking moves in the opposite direction when taking a selfie.

I am obliged by contract with Fujifilm to report about such meaningless news. So I’ll do it. But you know what I think about it :D.

Press Release

• Fujifilm X-T5: BHphoto / AmazonUS / Adorama / Moment
• Fujifilm X-H2: BHphoto / AmazonUS / Adorama / Moment
• Fujifilm X-H2s: BHphoto / AmazonUS / Adorama / Moment

Only the best paying brands can let their products go through the brutally tough testing of the EISA team and cream off an award.

Luckily Fujifilm survived the brutal selection and got an award for the Fujifilm X-H2 as best APS-C camera.

Despite never touching the camera, the illuminated EISA team declared this:

The Fujifilm X-H2 is a true hybrid camera with extensive video capabilities that offers the highest resolution available in the APS-C sensor format. Its 40-million-pixel X-Trans CMOS 5 HR sensor produces still images full of detail, and it can create 160MP files using its Pixel Shift Multi Shot Mode. It can also record 8K/30p video in 4:2:2 10-bit colour and supports both Apple ProRes and BlackMagic Raw output over HDMI. The X-Processor 5 enables subject-detection autofocus which recognises and tracks a broad range of subjects, while the 5-axis in-body image-stabilisation system offers up to 7 stops of compensation.

This excellent summary proves that the EISA team can read the specs sheets. A specs sheet so beautiful, that EISA decided to create a category to award this camera.

Fujifilm will now pay lots of money for the right of using the EISA-bragging logo on their various photography fairs, which shows how healthy of a company Fujifilm is since they can waste money on such things.

Sadly no award for Pentax. They are either too broke to pay for it, or they are just smarter than any other company. And given that they’ve launched this very successful camera, I’d lean towards the second option (that’s the only non sarcastic sentence in this article btw).

You can check out the full list of winners at EISA here.

• Fujifilm X-T5: BHphoto / AmazonUS / Adorama / Moment
• Fujifilm X-H2: BHphoto / AmazonUS / Adorama / Moment
• Fujifilm X-H2s: BHphoto / AmazonUS / Adorama / Moment
• Fujifilm X-S20: BHphoto / AmazonUS / Adorama / Moment

Fellow FR-reader Sven is specialized in IR and Astro conversions, and he recently did a fullspectrum conversion on his Fujifilm X-H2.

Here some excerpts regarding the teardown:

• After a deep look under the hood, the design of this camera can be summarized as follows: Heat Management and Dissipation.
• mainboard of the X-H2 reveals countless SMD components. With the amount of features packed into such a small camera, this is hardly surprising
• the processor is covered with a heat conduction pad
• The entire shutter mechanism is supported by small springs all around and has no direct contact with the body
• this also explains why the camera’s shutter is relatively quiet and has this very special muted sound
• The heat of the X-Trans V sensor is tapped directly on the back of the sensor via a delicate heat sink and conducted to a copper plate on the stainless steel chassis

As for the IR performance, they write:

• Some modern sensors can show fine, mostly horizontal lines in the images. This is probably caused by PDAF pixels (“AF pixels”) on the sensor. These occur more often with strong IR filters and with very high-contrast processing. How does the X-H2 perform with an 830 nm infrared filter? With overly high-contrast processing, no lines or other artifacts are visible at 100% view (aside from noise, of course, induced by the high-contrast processing). The new sensor is a clear recommendation and can be used without restrictions.

As well as a firmware request:

• Unfortunately, the X-H2 shares the same handicap as all X-Trans cameras. The manual white balance is always set without any problems, but the available range is not quite sufficient. […] Unfortunately, a warm magenta color cast remains in the camera and has to be corrected on the PC.
• Fujifilm can actually do that, with their Bayer sensor cameras (X-A series and X-Txxx) it works without any problems
• The X-H2 seems to work a bit better than the X-T3, but you can’t get rid of the color cast completely
• In the unlikely event that a Fujifilm firmware designer reads this: Please expand the limits in both color axes in which manual white balance can be set. A little bit wider and the cameras internal white balance will work for infrared as well. Such a change can be distributed in a future firmware update in my eyes and should neither harm anyone nor cause too much work in programming.

Read the full article and see all the images at irrecams here.

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