The brand “Schacht” (a brand attribuibile to “net SE group” which also has Meyer Optik Görlitz, Oprema Jena Biotar) has now been revived and the Travegon 50mm f/2.5 lens for Leica, Fujifilm and Sony mirrorless cameras has been launched on Kickstarter. – via mirrorlessrumors
X-Photographer Yukio Uchida meets FUJIFILM X RAW STUDIO at Fujifilm Global youtube
Fujifilm has postponed the release of X RAW STUDIO for Windows from late January to “end of February 2018“, as you can see here.
Thanks to the FR-reader for the information. It’s guys like you, who help me to systematically break all the news first here on FujiRumors… keep it up! :)
What is X RAW STUDIO?
X RAW STUDIO is a free software, that allows you to make basic adjustments to your image on your computer using the in-camera processing software (the internal RAW Converter).
Do I use X RAW STUDIO?
I have the software, but I don’t use it, because once I am on my computer, I directly load my images into Lightroom/Iridient. However, if you are looking for a free solution to slightly edit your images on the bigger computer screen instead of in the camera, then the X RAW STUDIO could make sense for you.
Where X RAW STUDIO beats the In-Camera Conversion
To be clear, the results using the camera or the computer are the same. You always use the very same Fujifilm processing algorithm.
But there is one thing, that X RAW STUDIO makes better than the internal RAW converter, and that strangely nobody mentioned until now: you see all the adjustments you make in real time!
If you convert your images in camera, then you must blindly adjust all your settings, then process the image by clicking the Q button, and only at the end you can see how your changes affect the image. With X RAW STUDIO, every single time you make an adjustment, you see the change immediately on your computer screen.
I would like the possibility to see my changes in real time also if I convert my images using the camera.
Where the In-Camera Conversion beats X RAW STUDIO
For me, the internal RAW Conversion is all about “on field” use. I take an image, slightly adjust it in camera, and then maybe load it on my phone and upload it on social media.
Or I’m back in the train from a day of shooting, and while getting home I play around with my images using the internal RAW converter.
Once home and on my computer, I don’t see any use of the internal RAW converter anymore. I have Lightroom, Iridient, Luminar, Picktorial and enough RAW converters to take my time to work more seriously on my files.
ApolloOne, a very popular photo viewer for Mac just got an update to version 2.0.4.
It adds support for the Fujifilm X-Acquire plug-in. This means you can use ApolloOne to see the captured image instantly as you can shoot tethered. You can download at the App Store here.
Bert Stephani is a well known Fujifilm X photographer, that over all these years has delighted the Fuji Lovers community with great images and has been a valuable member by sharing his Fujifilm X and GFX gear reviews, his Fujifilm camera settings, giving tips for street photography and more.
Sadly, thieves broke into his house and stole his gear, and on facebook here he asked for help to find it back.
So I ask the FujiRumors community to watch out for suspect sales online. Let’s try to help a fellow X-shooter to find back his gear.
All the details, including the list of gear with serial number below from Bert’s facebook post.
Fringer is getting closer to the release of its EF-FX Pro Smart Adapter, and keeps up publishing videos to demonstrate the capabilities of his adapter.
Today he uploaded a video here showing how quickly the Sigma 85/1.4 Art lens focusses on the Fujifilm X-T2 using the Fringer EF-FX Pro Smart Adapter.
The adapter should be available within 2 months for less than $300.
To see how the Canon EF 70-300L performs on the same adapter in AF-C, check out this article.
Regarding smart adapters, here is a little overview of available or soon to come adapters:
Back in October, I told you that Fujifilm will release a new firmware update for real-time geotagging within 2017. Well I was wrong… it came 15 days later ;) . And just as we rumored here, the X-E3 firmware is twice as big as the X-T20 firmware.
1. Auto Geotagging and Date/Time synchronization by Bluetooth pairing
When connecting to Bluetooth, Geotagging and Date/Time information of a camera can be synchronized with the information of a smartphone. “SMARTPHONE SYNC. SETTING” is added in Bluetooth SETTING. *To use this function, the application software “FUJIFILM Camera Remote” needs to be upgrade to the latest version Ver.3.1.0.
2. The phenomenon is fixed that live view blinks on LCD and EVF with face detection and dynamic range 400% setting.
In order to make the X-E3 auto geotagging work properly, you also have to update your remote camera app. The latest version 3.1.0 has been released yesterday here. I have made a super quick intial test and it works. Here is my (ACROS+R) cat geotagged. :)
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Fujifilm has released the bug fix firmware for the issue we reported about here on FujiRumors.
You can download X-Pro2 firmware ver. 4.01 here.
1. A phenomenon of freeze is fixed. It will occur in case you try to shoot pictures when all the three settings below are set at the same time after the firmware has been upgraded to version 4.00.
1. IMAGE QUALITY : FINE+RAW or NORMAL + RAW
2. RAW RECORDING : LOSSLESS COMPRESSED
3. DRIVE : any of ADVANCED FILTER
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