Fujifilm Instax Mini Link 2 Printer Announced

My wishes as far as Instax printer goes ended when Fujfiilm announced the Instax Mini Link Wide, which I bought and now use with great joy.

But the Mini format is nice, too. In fact, I have printed in mini format plenty of images, and still today my mom carries images of my son in her wallet which were printed in Mini. Because that’s the huge advantage of this format: it fits in any wallet.

On the other hand, my apartment is now paved with Instax Wide prints, which stick on my fridge, on the wall and thanks to an amazing “hack” I have even framed nicely. If you want to know the “hack”, let me know. Once back from holiday I’ll make a video about it if you are interested.

Anyway, we are here to talk about the new Instax Mini Link 2, which has just been announced. You can find all details in the Fuji Guys video down below and check out specs and price here.

Instax Mini Link 2

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Amazon USA Takes Fujifilm X-H2S Pre-Orders (Again)

In the few hours the Fujifilm X-H2S was up for pre-order at AmazonUS, it jumped on the top position of the new mirroless camera releases and was 8th in the overall digital camera ranking. So definitely pre-orders were strong.

But for reasons I do not know, Amazon stopped taking pre-orders just hours after the Fujifilm X-H2S launch.

Well, if you are used to buy your gear at Amazon, then I am glad to report that the Fujifilm X-H2S pre-orders are open again at AmazonUS.

Do NOT Use These AngelBird CFexpress Cards on Fujifilm X-H2S

We recently shared the official Fujifilm recommended CFexpress Type B card list here.

We saw that not all CFexpress TypeB card are made equal and that only these 4 card models can do it all and can do it best (among the ones tested by Fujifilm).

Other cards work well too, but maybe don’t give you as long bursts as others, or can’t record ProRes and so forth (full details here).

For your convenience, here are the cards recommended

In the comments to that article many were surprised that the AngelBird CFexpress Type B cards were not included in the list.

In order to try to get clarification, I fired off a few emails to sources asking if Fujifilm simply did not test those cards on the Fujifilm X-H2S or maybe if they did test them, and saw they performed so bad that they excluded it from the recommended CFexpress Card list.

Well, today a source wrote me back and told me that the Fujifilm did test them, and they did not perform well, so they did not include them in the list.

More precisely, the source mentioned the following card models as not working properly:

So these are the AngelBird card models you should definitely avoid to use on your Fujifilm X-H2S.

I am aware about the brand new AngelBird MKII CFexpress Type B cards. I don’t have info on those ones, but I think we can be cautiously optimistic that they will work fine. However, I still don’t recommend to buy any CFexpress Card except for the ones officially recommended by Fujifilm.

Once Fujifilm updates its recommended CFexpress card list, I will inform you.

For now, you are best off with these four cards:

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Top Gun Maverick: How Fujinon Lenses Helped to Film it without “Green Screen Nonsense”

We know that Hollywood loves Fujifilm.

Today we have a new entry on the list.

The latest Top Gun movie used a range of Fujinon cine lenses to capture acrobatic as well as low flying jets.

Claudio Miranda, ASC, the award-winning cinematographer behind “Top Gun: Maverick“, shares behind the scenes footage, stories from the set, and all the ins and outs of selecting and working with the gear used to create this history-making film.

GEAR LIST:

Camera

FUJINON Lenses:

Among the others, Claudio says.

This is not green screen nonsense. The whole point of the movie was “how much can we capture?” Top Gun is a movie about getting it in-camera. […] Some of the cameras were rigged in really impossible places. And all these things needed different kind of lens qualities.

I made a list of what can fit and have great range and still be IMAX-worthy.

Top Gun was more about long lenses, so we used the Premier 75-400mm T2.8-3.8 all over the place. […]

During the middle of the movie we actually had a chance to get a hold of the Premista 28-100mm T2.9. It was amazing. I wish we could have kept it but unfortunately it was only one in the world at the time. We loved the full frame aspect of it, it was sharp, it was straight, it was like you went to the wide end of the lens and there was no bowing, there was no barreling. One of the only full frame zooms I know that’s acutally decent enough to shoot with.

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What I do love about the Fuji zooms, all of them, from the Premista to the Premiers, there is no oddball barrel distortion when you’re zooming, or there is no vignetting, there is no softening towards the edges, it’s all straight. .We just like how the Fujinon lens maintains its field of view througout  the zoom range. If you get a flare in the zoom, it does not fog the lens. It’s a beautiful zoom, the coatings are great.