Earlier in May I told you how the creators of RAW digger & FastRAW Viewer needed the feedback of X-shooters to optimize the compressed Fuji RAW support. Well, it’s done now.

I remind you that many Raw Converters, including open source ones like RawTherapee, Darktable and UFRaw, use this algorithm to decode FujiFilm compressed raw files.

Here is the press release:

Youtube Video Here – NSFW

Weekend curiosity – spotted by FXF member Goran (thanks):

The festival of Cannes is running right now, with, as usual, a great selection of movies. One of them is “The Neon Demon” by the Nicolas Winding Refn, a visionary director, who already won the prize as best director in Cannes 2011 with the amazing movie “Drive“.

This movie takes place in Los Angeles, in a world of young and aspiring models obsessed by beauty and success. And of course also a world with lots of photographers!

Well, Nicolas Winding Refn decided to make his movie even cooler, by equipping one of the photographers with a stylish Fujifilm X-Pro1 + 35mmF1.4! You can see it in the trailer here.

It’s nothing new, that Hollywood loves Fujifilm cameras. The X100S was the travel camera of Hector, in the Movie ““Hector’s Search for Happiness” (which I saw in the airplane, when flying back from Cambodia). X-series cameras are also used in TV series like Parenthood TV, The Last Ship and by lots of celebrities.

Full Overview of X-series cameras spotted in Movies or used by celebrities here.

Sony issued a new press release to inform that the Kumamoto facility damaged during the recent earthquake will resume the wafer sensor production on May 21.

Of course not just the Sony factory has been hit by the earthquake, but also third-party suppliers, who are also very important to keep the sensor production running. In this regard, the press release says:

Although there was a delay in the supply of components to Sony from certain third-party suppliers that also have manufacturing facilities in the Kumamoto region, inventory adjustments have been made and a timeframe for regaining supply levels is now in place, so no material impact is anticipated on Sony’s business operations.

Does this mean there won’t be any delay on future products? I don’t think so :(

Push READ MORE to read the full press text (via SonyAlphaRumors)

Starting from today, FujiRumors offers everyone of you the possibility to write articles directly on FujiRumors and reach a veeery (!!!) large audience of fellow X-shooters… and of course Fujifilm itself – (they do read us).

Your articles are a great opportunity to inspire us all, interact with the largest Fuji X shooter community on the web… and also to give your own blog, portfolio, facebook etc Massive Exposure ;-) .

Think about it…

How to write a Guest Post
BETA VERSION

Step 1: Go to the FujiRumors Guest Post Page.
Step 2: Log-in to your Account. If you don’t have an account, register here.

You have to be logged in to be able to write guest posts!

Step 3: Now you can see the “Submit-Form”. Enter your article there. You can also upload images.
Step 4: You can save your article by clicking “Save Draft”.
Step 5: All your saved articles will be visible at fujirumors.com/article-list. From there, you can access all your articles and edit them anytime you want.
Step 6: When you are done with the article, click on “Submit”.

Don’t worry, also after klicking on “Submit” or once the article is online on FujiRumors, you can still edit it.

Step 7: Just wait… only me (Patrick) can publish your article

The fujirumors.com/article-list
Here you can edit all your saved, submitted, or published articles anytime.

Notes:

– Only me (Patrick the admin) can publish your article. I need to review the text to avoid misuse or any other kind of possible issue.
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– This is a BETA-Version, so if you stumble on any kind of bug, just let me know at fujirumor [at] gmail [dot] com and I’ll work to sort it out.

cheers
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Fuji did a major redesign to their X-photographer site. Check it out at fujifilm-x.com/en/photographers.

This version loads faster and is much easier to navigate through. Finally it’s no more a pain to go thourgh the amazing images of Zack Arias & Co.

Some reaaaaly great stuff over there. Check it out.

VIDEO: How to become a Fuji X Photographer… and are X-Photographers paid by Fujifilm? (by Nathan Elson) – UPDATED