Fujifilm Manager and Kevin Raber talk GFX100: “No Dials Improve Weather Sealing”

Kevin Raber, former publisher of Luminous-Landscape, is now back with his old team and they have started photoPXL.

In this episode, you can see Fujifilm manager Mike Bolbenko giving an overview on the Fujifilm GFX100.

I’ll skip things (specs) that I believe you all know already, and sum up below a few other points:

  • the term “medium format” is a film concept
  • in digital terms the current GFX sensor is better called “large format”
  • Fujifilm removed all the dials on the Fujifilm GFX100 because:
    – main reason for dial removal is that it improves weather sealing
    – about 50% of the users are going to shoot tethered
  • 16 bit makes files allows for more push/pull or color shifts
  • with flash, use mechanical shutter
  • electronic shutter for shooting fast and shallow DOF on brights sunny day
  • electronic shutter is silent. The company that made sound blimps, went bankrupt last year
  • electronic front curtain minimizes the shutter shake
  • max IBIS is 5.5 stops. With third party lenses you get up to 5
  • Kevin Raber recommends to keep IBIS on even when working on a tripod
  • Kevin Raber says Fuji stands behind customers, when it comes to repair (shutter lock on GFX100) and also firmware updates
  • Fujifilm can’t give film simulations color science to third parties. So, for people who want perfect match, they can use the free Fujifilm X RAW Studio software

Over at the blog, you can also read articles like the “Using The Fuji 50R To Shoot Steam Engines In The Cold Of Winter“. Check it out at photopxl.

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DJI Ronin S adds Fujifilm X-T3 and X-T2 Support

After promising it for a long time (as we reported here), DJI finally added Fujifilm X-T3 and X-T2 support for the DJI Ronin S.

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Vote Your Top Value for Money Fujifilm X MILC Cameras

Top Value for Money Fuji X?

I get lots, really lots of emails every month, from people asking me which Fujifilm camera they should buy.

This is a hard question for me to answer, since it is such a very subjective matter.

It’s not only a matter of price and specs, but, especially in the Fujifilm world, also of ergonomics, since Fuji offers so many different styled cameras, that from one side we are blessed with ergonomic choices, but on the other side it makes the choice more difficult as for example in the Sony world, where you get one camera body, that’s it, take it or leave it.

So what I do, is that I can give a general answer on what I consider the best value for money option in the Fujifilm world.

At the time of this post, I usually recommend the Fujifilm X-H1, especially now, where it can be purchased for $999 only with vertical grip and two spare batteries, and you even save more if bundled with the lenses below:

But I wanted to hear what you guys think is the best value for money camera.

In future, when somebody asks me about, I will just link to this article, and say “this is what thousands of Fujifilm shooters think is the best value for money Fuji camera“.

I will keep the fixed lens cameras out of the competition, and I will only list the most modern camera of each camera line.

REMEMBER: it’s NOT a survey about your favorite camera, but a survey about the best value for money camera.

Ready?

Then vote down below.

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Help Request: Anyone with Contacts within Twitter?

As you know, my almost 20,000 members strong Twitter account has been suspended.

It seems to be a permanent suspension, apparently I was misleading you all the time. Whatever this means.

Talking to Twitter is impossible. You get just some automatic messages you can’t reply to. So no way to figure out what’s really going on.

So I bother you one last time, just to ask if anyone of you reading this lines either works on Twitter or knows somebody working there, who could eventually help me out.

If so, feel free to contact me at:

  • fujirumor@gmail.com

It might seem not so important for many of you, but for me it’s 8 years of hard work to build up a community, that goes lost overnight.

If you can’t help with Twitter contacts, then you can do another thing:

*NEW FujiRumors Twitter – The old One has been BANNED for NO REASON!

This Hurts: Twitter Kicked me Out for No Reason! Can You Help Me and Follow my NEW Twitter Account?

Twitter – A New Start

God knows why, but Twitter decided to suspend my account (no motivation given).

Of course I filed an appeal, but almost 2 weeks later, Twitter still ignores me.

The suspension makes no sense.

It is frustrating that overnight some random algorithm kicks you out. It is frustrating to lose a 20,000 members strong community build over 8+ years of blogging. It is frustrating not to be able to talk to Twitter directly. It is frustrating to have lost contact with friends I have made on Twitter in all these years.

But I have never been that kind of guy, who let’s himself down. So let’s start again, from zero, just like 8 years ago.

And only you, can make it an amazing new start. How?

And What If…

And what if the old account gets unblocked again at some point?

In that case, I will again use my old account and do not use the new one any longer, to avoid you get the same news twice in your feed.

Make Me Dream

I have always felt to be part of a special community here on FujiRumors, and I felt honored to be able to offer you all a space to share our Fuji Love here on FujiRumors.

And today the day has come, where I need your help more than any other day.

I hope you can show me once again how amazing this community can be, by giving my new Twitter account a rocket-start :).

Thanks guys… for everything!
Patrick

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