News Flash: Adobe released Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 8.6 RC at adobe labs here. Nothing Fujifilm specific this time

Maybe stores are a little bit too optimistic about the shipping of the small and powerful Nissin i40 flash for Fujifilm. But fact is that wexphotographic has marked the TIPA awarded flash available in July/August. The German branch wexcameras instead just says “July”.

As you may remember, I’ve told you it will come in September. In fact, Nissin gave the following answer to a FR-reader, who asked them when the flash will be available for Fuji-X cameras:

“Nissin i40 for Fujifilm system will be available around the early of September. Due to the order and shipment status, the actual available date will be various between countries. You may consider to contact to our local distributor around September, to check for the detail and which authorized dealer will have the 1st lot of stock..”

Is Nissin too careful with the release date (September), or are stores too optimistic (July)? I don’t know, so I’ll follow Aristotle’s theory of the golden mean and expect it to come in August.

More options, like the Nissin i40, are definitely good. But Fuji, on the flash-front, X-shooters need more than the Nissin i40 to achieve eudaimonia.

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The 5th interactive Fujfilm X magazine is available here.. A description of the XF 18-135, some ideas for great shots in the summer months, an interesting interview and amazing images by Eric Bouvet and more.

You can also enter a competition and send in you best wide shots… one of you could win the XF 10-24!

Pre-orders: USA: BHphoto / AmazonUS / Adorama / – EUROPE: wexUK / wexDE / PCHstore

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The Shipping begins… but for now just in Japan. Retailers like winktokyo (ebay) have received the first batch of lenses.

The lens is expected to be available at the end of July in USA & Europe.

image taken with iPhone 5 and quickly processed with SnapSeed (great App!)

X-E2 price drop in USA expires tomorrow: save up to $200 at BHphoto, AmazonUS, Adorama and Pictureline

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Finally, it’s done, the dice have been cast! It’s time to be on the road for Fujirumors, along with 2 good friends, a Nikon and an Olympus shooter. Two weeks of holidays (starting from tomorrow) with Fujirumors should be enough to convert them to the X-world. ;-)

Now, I’ve listened to your feedback, and the travel-lens poll (see bottom of this post) was pretty clear. The first three positions went to the 18-55mm (1st), the 35mm (2nd) and the 23mm (3rd). Thanks to all for your suggestions and your help. If I get some decent shots, I’ll share them at the  FR-facebook photostream.

I therefore opted for the flexibility of the 18-55 as you recommended (and as Trenton said, if drinking is involved, better to take the 18-55, as it has OIS :-D ), and for the 35mm. And, as I already have the fast 35 prime in my camslinger, I will not take also the 23 as my third lens.

So the decision was between the XF 10-24 and the XF 55-200 (4th and 5th in the ranking). I decided to take the 55-200 because: 1) I still don’t own the 10-24 – 2) I need the 55-200 to photograph wildlife. But it hurts a bit to leave the 14mm at home for that extra wide dramatic landscape photography. However, the 18-55, 35, and 55-200 trinity covers pretty much everything.

And do not worry. I have all I need to run Fujirumors also during this trip. I have the 11″ MacBook Air with (claimed) 9 hours of battery and my iPhone5 is equipped with the Mophie Juice 100% Battery-Cover. That should give me enough battery power to keep you posted in any moment of the day (I’ve just to find a WiFi somewhere).

Therefore, stay tuned on Fujirumors

Oh, and I’ll store my X-E2 (which is $200 off until tomorrow in USA) with the 35 and 18-55 in my Camslinger bag. It’s an amazing bag, and I can’t think of any other bag that gives me faster access to my safely stored camera than this one. I adjusted a bit the size of the bag, and, as you can see, the X-E2 with 35mm and 18-55 fits perfectly in the Camslinger 160 (sorry, I noticed that in the first image I didn’t push the X-E2 all the way down into the camslinger 160, therefore it looks a bit out of the bag… just my fault. So I shared another image at the bottom where you can see that it really fits perfectly). The 55-200 will remain in my rucksack.

I wish you all a great weekend,
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Cosyspeed’s camslinger at BHphoto / Cosyspeed website

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