3 Legged Thing Gracy L Bracket for Fujifilm GFX 100S/50S II

3 Legged Thing has announced their Gracy L-Bracket for the Fujifilm GFX100S and GFX50SII. Down below the press release.

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Fujifilm GFX 100 vs Salt Water Teardown: Weather Sealing Could be Better Around the Dials, but IBIS Unit Could Stabilize a Small Child

Fujifilm GFX100 Teardown

Lensrentals made a teardown of a water damaged Fujifilm GFX100 (it was used in an underwater housing for GFX100 and some water went in).

The main criticism:

The outside part of the camera could be better weather sealed. They write:

Did you notice all those weather resisting barriers and gaskets in the teardown? Yeah, me neither. I did notice some wide-open areas around the command dials you could shine a light through, and pour water in if water happened to be around.

That’s interesting, as Fujifilm managers clearly said that one tricky point to weather seal are the areas around the dials, which is why Fujifilm said here they removed some dials on the Fujifilm GFX100, so it’s better weather sealed. Looks like the dials, that remained, could need an additional sealing.

A $10,000 camera should be better weather sealed, period.

But other than that, the construction is top overall notch. Lensrentals writes:

A medium format camera has a big-ass shutter and shutter slap happens. Fuji has advertised a shock-absorbing shutter, but I hadn’t realized they mounted the entire shutter assembly on springs, it’s not mechanically attached to the body at all.

everything in here was as well supported and robust as you could ever hope. The IBIS unit looks like it could stabilize a small child, and certainly is strong enough to support this big sensor.

Make sure to read the full story and check out all images at lensrentals here.

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ALPA XO Exoskeleton for Fujifilm GFX 100 Launched on Kickstarter

Shortly after the launch of the Fujifilm GFX100, ALPA unveiled the ALPA XO Exoskeleton. We reported here.

Now ALPA launched the ALPA XO Exoskeleton for Fujifilm GFX 100 on kickstarter here.

Full details as well as pre-order discount options at the ALPA XO kickstarter page.

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Fujifilm GFX 100 Cartoon Published: Fuji’s Counterattack to Sony’s Marketing Consisting in Flying Influencers to Events Around the World

Fujifilm just decided to use its social media platform, in this case Weibo, to promote the Fujifilm GFX100 with a mini cartoon you can see here.

I guess the message is about preserving memories with the Fujifilm GFX100, print those pictures and to show why we love photography.

“Maybe you forgot, but the photos are still there!”

Ok Fuji, nice, really.

But besides that, do it also like Sony and just fly every charismatic youtube influencer around the world to nice events. I have the feeling that this would work as good marketing, too.

Sure, it’s not as romantic and nice as a cartoon about the love to photography, but I have the feeling it would be very efficient marketing.

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This $10 Accessory Improves and Protects the Vertical Grip of $10,000 Fujifilm GFX 100

 

The Fujifilm GFX100 has so far earned an incredible amount of great reviews.

But if there is one aspect, where most reviewers agree, is that the vertical grip isn’t optimally designed.

They particularly complain about the lack of texture, that makes the vertical grip more slippery than the regular grip.

Well, if after buying a $10,000 camera you don’t mind spending an additional $10, the solution proposed by a member of our great Fujifilm GFX group is to get a Dragon non slip textured rubber grip.

Not only it improves the overall grip, but, as R.G said in our GFX group:

It’s not the lack of grip that concerned me as much as wanting a barrier between the body and the Custom Bracket rotating head I use in the studio to minimize the risk of “wear signs” appearing over time.

The solution is used by Fuji X Photographer Matt Brandon for his laptop, who, when asked by the community if it wouldn’t be cheaper just to use gaffer tape, answered:

I find gaffer tape doesn’t work well in the tropic regions. I have it all over my cameras to protect them (to save them for possible resale). But within a year it starts sliding and gets sticky.

You can read more details, see customer reviews and if you want buy the Dragon non slop textured rubber grip here.

  • Grip tape for phones laptops remotes and more
  • Easy to apply peel and stick grip stickers
  • Great for your iPhone grip Samsung grip tape and more
  • Grips to most phones and cases and is easy to clean
  • Grippy enough to get a good hold but is not sticky

Down below the images of the Fujifilm GFX100 with the rubber grip.

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Fujifilm GFX 100 Reviews and Change Your Factory Default Menu Settings

Nick Schreger has published a video, showing a couple of Fujifilm GFX100 factory settings that, according to him, don’t always make much sense, and he recommends you to change them.

The video is in German, so down below his setting advices in English.

  • change FINE to RAW+SUPER FINE
  • change UNCOMPRESSED RAW to COMPRESSED RAW
  • change sRGB to Adobe RGB
  • enable FOCUS PEAKING
  • set INSTANT AF SETTING to AF-C (so you have AF-S with single press and AF-C if you keep pressed)
  • set shutter type to MECHANICAL SHUTTER only
  • If you work with flash in dark studio, deactivate Preview exp/wb in manual mode
  • set NATURAL LIVE VIEW to ON
  • Activate histogram and live view highlight alert
  • Set Shoot without Card to OFF
  • set AUTO POWER OFF to 5 minutes (default is 2 minutes)
  • set high performance mode ON

Do you agree with this list? And which changes did you make to your Fujifilm default menu settings?

Down below more Fujifilm GFX100 reviews.

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Iridient Developer 3.3.7 and Silkypix 9.12 add Fujifilm GFX 100 Support

Fujifilm GFX100 Support

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The Iridient Developer 3.3.7 update for macOS has been released. In case you missed it, Iridient X Transformer added Fujifilm GFX100 support a few days ago.

This release includes:

  • Support for the GFX 100
  • All new “Iridient Standard v2” camera profiles matching the DCP (DNG camera profiles) now the default in X-Transformer. These are now the defaults for most all cameras though Iridient Developer specific ICC camera profiles remain available as well.
  • Support added for new license file based registration system for Iridient’s new web store provider (Paddle.com). Iridient’s prior e-commerce provider (eSellerate) shut down as of June, 2019.
  • Iridient Developer is now notarized by Apple for their Gatekeeper security enhancements introduced in macOS 10.14.5 and upcoming 10.15 (Catalina).

This new update can be downloaded from the Iridient web site here. Full release notes available here.

SILKYPIX Developer Studio Pro9

SILKYPIX Developer Studio Pro9 Ver.9.0.12 added Fujifilm GFX100 support.

Improvements and New Camera Support:

  • [Fixed] [Windows] Application is forced to quit at the start of batch development when hiding the “Batch development status” button on the toolbar
  • [Fixed] Other small fixes
  • [NEW] Fujifilm GFX100 (*1)
  • [NEW] Sony DSC-RX0M2
    *1 “FILM SIMULATION” is supported and an available film simulation can be selected

Download link at silkypix.us

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Top 3 Selling Cameras and Lenses for June on Fujirumors: Fujifilm GFX 100 beats X-T3

Fujifilm Top Sellers

These are the top selling cameras and lenses for June 2019 here on FujiRumors, and there is a quite a surprise!

Of course, the rankings below are representative only for the FujiRumors community and not for overall sales.

Most of the items listed below are discounted until July 6. Check out all Fujifilm deals here.

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Top Cameras

Only by a hair, but it was enough: the Fujifilm GFX100 sold better (pre-orders included) than the Fujifilm X-T3.

We wrote here, that the request for the GFX100 is higher than Fujifilm expected, and some say even triples Fujifilm’s forecast. Keep in mind that the GFX100 is brand new, whereas the X-T3 is on the market since 10 months already.

The Fujifilm X100F will not get a successor in 2019, hence it continues to fall into the hands of more and more photographers.

Out of the list are cameras like the Fujifilm X-T30 and Fujifilm X-H1, as well as the Fujifilm X-Pro2, which will get successor, the Fujifilm X-Pro3, this year.

Top XF Lenses

The deals on these lenses are running out. You have time until July 6 to get them discounted. Check out all Fujifilm deals here.

Top X Mount Third Party Lenses

Native Fujinon lenses are still selling stronger, but these third party lenses are coming terribly close to them. There is a market amongst the Fuji X community for third party glass. And especially the Viltrox 85mm f/1.8 autofocus lens is stable at the top positions since its launch.

The Kamlan 50mm f/1.1 and  7Artisans 60mm f/2.8 Macro kicked out of the ranking the Samyang 12mm f/2 and the Meike Neewer 35mm f/1.2.

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Top Software

  1. Capture One Pro 12 (save 50%)
  2. Adobe Creative Cloud
  3. Luminar

Iridient X Transformer 1.6 adds Fujifilm GFX 100 Support

Iridient X-Transformer 1.6 is now available for macOS and Windows.

1.6 – June 27, 2019 (Maintenance Release)

New Features:

  • Support added for RAW images from the GFX 100.
  • New “Iridient Standard v2” is now the default camera profile.
  • Support added for registration using license files generated from new e-commerce providers. The eSellerate e-commerce service that was previously used for sales and license generation is being shut down in June, 2019

Improvements:

  • Updated to the latest version of the LibreSSL library (2.9.2).

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed an issue with the File Naming panel’s sequence increment not properly incrementing the sequence number.

This new update can be downloaded from Iridient website here. Full release notes here.

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