Fujifilm Designer Talks about GFX: “I would Love to Evolve the GFX50R Rangefinder Series” and More on GFX Series Development

Fujifilm design manager Mr. Masazumi Imai (the guy we are all very grateful to because he designed the original X100 – read the story of his inspiration here) gave an interview in Japanese to MapCamera.

As usual youtube struggles with live video translations, but down below you can find a summary in English of both videos as well as the videos themselves.

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ON1 Photo RAW 2023 Coming October 10 – Most Significant Upgrade Ever!

The new ON1 Photo RAW 2023 will be officially released on October 10th. This is the most significant upgrade to ON1 Photo RAW ever!

For price, full features and demos check out this page (with the image they show being from the Dolomits in Italy, South Tyrol… which is my home).

New technologies in Photo RAW 2023 will change how people edit their photos. There are so many time-saving tools in this release! No more tedious methods of masking, layering, brushing, or adjusting when working on specific areas of photos.

The introduction of AI-powered semantic masking to the ON1 Photo RAW workflow will change your approach to editing photos. New tools like Super Select AI, Mask AI, and AI Adaptive Presets will save you an enormous amount of time and put the joy back into editing your photos. Using AI models removes many of the difficulties of traditional editing without taking away the creative flexibility photographers want. These new tools will enhance the creative eye we all have, and it’s going to be so much fun to edit photos and achieve the results you envision in a fraction of the time it used to take. I couldn’t be more excited about getting this version into your hands,” says Craig Keudell, ON1 President.

Here are the key features in version 2023:

  • Super Select AI Tool
  • Mask AI
  • AI-Powered Adaptive Presets
  • Quick Mask AI
  • Tack Sharp AI
  • Keyword AI
  • Content-Aware Crop
  • Full-Screen Preview of Presets
  • Enhanced Sky Swap AI
  • Auto Color Fringe Reduction
  • New Cameras and Lenses

You can pre-order ON1 Photo RAW 2023 here.

Video Demos

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Iridient Developer 3.8 and X-Transformer 2.6 Updates Released with Fujifilm X-H2 Support and More

Iridient Developer 3.8 and X-Transformer 2.6 updates have been released with RAW support for the new Fujifilm X-H2. These updates also include updated Iridient camera profiles for the X-H2S/X-H2 and the latest default color/white balance calibration metadata from Adobe’s latest DNG Converter 14.5 release.

Fujifilm X-H2 pixel shift multi-shot mode merging is not yet supported by either application. These RAF images can be opened individually, but they will not be combined into a extra high resolution image.

X-Transformer 2.6 for macOS 10.10-13 and Windows 7-11 can be downloaded here.

Iridient Developer 3.8 for macOS 10.10-13 can be downloaded here.