The Charity Idea

I decided to launch an auction so you can win:

• personalized wooden bamboo hand grips for X-T1
• premium leather straps
• wooden “FujiRumors” hot shoe covers
• leather INSTAX album

I thought it’s much better to donate the money of the auction to KNGO, an NGO that gives access to free education to Cambodian kids and we collected money for here on FR in the past, by selling fair trade T-shirts made by Tonlé and donating all the earnings ($3,500) to KNGO. More details below and also here.

The Auction

All items listed for sale are brand new and never used. I just took them out of the box to take the pictures, and then put them right back into the box. The regular price for wooden hand grip (for Fujifilm X-T1) + leather wrist strap and hot shoe cover is of $110, and this is also where our auctions starts from.

You can join the auction as a guest (so you do NOT need to register), but if you already have an account on FujiRumors, you must log in to your existing account here first (if you have any problems to log-in, just contact me at fujirumor@gmail.com)

Here is what will happen, if you win the auction:

1. You will get an email with the link to the KNGO paypal account
2. Pay KNGO the equivalent amount of money you won the auction with
3. Contact me at fujirumor@gmail.com and send me your mailing adress
4. KNGO will contact me as soon as the payment has been done and the money arrived to their account
5. As soon as KNGO gets the money and I’m notified by them, I will ship the wooden “FujiRumors” hand grip for X-T1, the leather strap and the wooden “FujiRumors” hot shoe cover to you (I’ll pay for the worldwide shipping)

I hope you like the idea, and don’t be scared to place your bet. You will love the look and quality of the J.B cameradesigns products and at the same time all your money will support free eduaction in Cambodia. That’s what I call I real win-win :)

The auction starts today and ends on April 17 (my birthday) at 11:59 PM New York time.

RULES: Once you won the auction, you have to pay KNGO within 7 days. If no payment has been done, I will move on and contact the person, who placed the second highest bet.

My Personal Motivation for all this
or…
the super-boring part you couldn’t care less ;)

Fuji X Forum member Jano just invited us to vote on his X-E3 poll at the forum.

“With our hopes high that Fuji is actually working on an X-E3 now, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I would want the X-E3 to be like and for which features I am actually willing (and able) to pay.

Since I’ve read all sorts of things about what people want ranging from “as cheap as possible” to “make it an X-T2 in rangefinder format” I decided to make a poll to collect all those opinions in a meaningful way.

I am hoping that many people here (and from FR) participate so that I can generate some interesting statistics from the data. Patrick has done some polls but without a bit of background information I believe the value of those polls is quite low (sorry, Patrick ;-)

I am planning to leave it open for about a week and then do an analysis which I will of course publish here in the forum or maybe as a guest post on FR.”

I liked the poll and I already did my homework (it took me not longer than 2 minutes). Can’t wait for the results next week :)

You can go to the forum to get the link and discuss the poll with Jano, or here is the direct google docs link.

The Fujifilm X-E3 will come this year, maybe this fall.

enjoy your Sunday…
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Michael Schnabl: image was made on one of my “Fine Art Portrait” workshops …
shot with Fuji X-T2 and XF 56mm
ISO 200 / f/2.8 / 1/200
Photo: Michael Schnabl photography
Model: Federica Martinazzi — at Fotopraxis-Fotoworkshops

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NOTE :: HOW TO SEE THE IMAGES
To see, add and vote images click on “Photos” and then “See All“

Here are the most liked images of the Fujirumors facebook page… and keep it up, share and vote your absolute favorite X or G shot… and here is how to do it:

1) SHARE & DESCRIBE: go to the Fujirumors facebook timeline and submit your favorite X-shot (and a short description) in the timeline by selecting “Photo/Video” .
2) VOTE & COMMENT: All the images will be displayed at the Fujirumors facebook photo page (click “See All”). You can vote, share & comment the images there.

NOTE: The next selection will start from those images shared starting from April 3!

Enjoy the X and G shots

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