Fujifilm X Design

Fujifilm designer Masazumi Imai participated to the Brainstorm Design conference in Singapore, where he explained what inspired him to design the X-series. You can read the full article at Fortune (thanks Olaf). Here an excerpt:

For Fujifilm design manager Masazumi Imai, cameras are just as much about expressing the spirit of the photographer behind the lens as they are capturing what’s in front of it.

[…] “The X-Series design completely embodies the true essence of the camera,” says Imai. “A design that preserves the good should not be changed.”

[…] The line is iconic because of the way it couples a vintage design feel with cutting edge camera functions.

When designing the X-series, Imai wanted to tap into a childhood memory ubiquitous among photographers: discovering their father’s camera.

“Father used to keep very good camera in his room. He would say, ‘Don’t touch that camera!’” Imai recounts. “That’s the camera I saw when I was a child.”

Imai wanted to capture that wistful longing and translate it into the device’s blueprint. He also wanted to design the camera in a way that appealed to all five senses. The manual dials, the synthetic leather, and the sound the camera makes when taking a photo are all designed in a sensuous way.

And which one is according to you the best looking Fujifilm camera?

Note that I split some camera lines, since I think they introduced significant design changes. For example, the X-E1/2 and the X-E3 are different options in the poll.

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Iridient Digital

Brian just released Iridient X-Transformer 1.0.1. It adds support for Fujifilm X-H1, X-A5 and X-A20. Iridient Developer 3.2.2 will be out shortly.

New Features:

• Support added for the Fujifilm X-H1.
• Support added for the Fujifilm X-A5.
• Support added for the Fujifilm X-A20.
• New option added to override the camera make metadata in addition to the model. Can allow for better support of DNG files in software that may unnecessarily prevent loading or may omit features based on the DNG make and model information.

Improvements:

• Updated camera calibration and profile information for models newly supported in Adobe’s latest DNG Converter 10.2 update (X-H1, X-A5, X-A20).
• Options to turn off Lightroom color and luminance noise reduction should less agressive in there impact on Lightroom adjustments, particularly with both of these options disabled.
• Updated to the latest version of Intel’s IPP library (2018u1).
• Updated to the latest version of the libjpeg-turbo library (1.5.3).
• Updated to the latest version of the LibreSSL library (2.6.4).

Bug Fixes:

• Made further attempts to address macOS specific issues specific to the Lightroom plug-in where loading images located on some NAS drives using non-Mac native file systems (NTFS, ext4, etc) may fail.
• Fixed issue where baseline noise and baseline sharpness metadata was being included even with these options set to “Do Not Include”.

On1 + Comparison

ON1 Photo RAW 2018.1 is out. The new ON1 compared to Luminar, Topaz and Lightroom at joelwolfson.

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