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[UPDATE: with samples] Hands-on Photos of the Mitakon 42.5mm f/1.2 + 24mm f/1.7 + 50mm f/0.95

September 19, 2014
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Fujirumors’ window to Photokina: DAY 4
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Mitakon recently announced two more X-mount lenses: after the Mitakon 35mm f/0.95 (the fastest lens for Fuji X-cameras after the Ibelux 0.85 (read my humble Ibelux review here), they now offer also the 42.5mm f/1.2 (price $359), the 24mm f/1.7 (price $289) and 50mm f/0.95 (price $899)… and updated the 35mm as well!

Now photozine published the first hands-on photos.

[UPDATE] Sample photos (on a Sony A7) taken with the 24mmF1.7 at zyoptics here. Sample photos (on a GH4) taken with the 42.5mmF1.2 at zyoptics here.

24mmF1.7 / image courtesy photozine

42.5mmF1.2 / image courtesy photozine

50mm f/0.95 / image courtesy photozine

Updated 35mmF0.95 / image courtesy photozine

Fujifilm X-PRO2, 16-55 without OIS, specialized lenses and more! Interview with Fujifilm’s Torben Hondong (admiringlight)

September 18, 2014
News, Rumors
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Fujirumors’ window to Photokina: DAY 3
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Jordan is making an excellent work in these days at photokina. This time he had an interview with Torben Hondong of Fujifilm, You can check it out here at admiringlight.

In short:

– 16-55 without OIS: Fuji wants to contain size & weight
– 90mm and 16mm mock-up: the final lenses could be the same size, or they could be smaller as the mock-ups
– future lenses: If the 56mm APD sells well, then they will expand the specialized lens line-up
– 35mm MKII: no plans for now, possible in future

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– Fujifilm X-PRO2: The discussion was about the Viewfinder. Basically Fuji is considering to put the best of the two worlds (EVF like the X-T1 & OVF of the X100T) into the X-PRO2 body. But Fuji “would see how the response to the X100T [viewfinder] was to consider the options for any potential X-Pro replacement.” The challange for Fuji is also to put an X-T1 alike EVF into an X-PRO2 that fits into a body that people expect.

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X100T: USA: BHphoto / AmazonUS / Adorama / EUROPE: WexUK / WexDE / PCHstore / AUSTRALIA: CameraPro
Graphite Silver X-T1: USA: BHphoto / AmazonUS / Adorama / EUROPE: WexUK / WexDE / PCHstore / AUSTRALIA: CameraPro
XF 56mm f/1.2 APD: USA: BHphoto / AmazonUS / Adorama / EUROPE: WexUK / WexDE / PCHstore / AUSTRALIA: CameraPro
XF 50-140 f/2.8 WR: USA: BHphoto / AmazonUS / Adorama / EUROPE: WexUK / WexDE / PCHstore / AUSTRALIA: CameraPro

FR window to Photokina: the naked Fuji X-gear, Russian Fuji-X manager interview [translation needed ;-)] and more

September 18, 2014
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Fujirumors’ window to Photokina: DAY 3
for all the mere mortals (like me), who can’t go to photokina
non-stop Photokina news coverage at Fujirumors: facebook, google+, RSS-feed and twitter

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In case you missed it, check out again Admiringlights Fuji X-stand report here.

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The Spanish site DSLRmagazine field report with images here (translation). Lot’s of “nacked” Fuji X-images, showing the inside of the new XF 56mm f/1.2 APD lens and the X100T HVF.

DSLRmagazine: APD filter

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If I’m not wrong, that’s a Russian interview with a Fuji manager (+ press conference). I don’t understand a single word, so maybe there is some FR-reader who could listen to it and hear if he drops something worth to be shared here on Fujirumors. Here is the interview.

[UPDATE] FR-reader DIS listened the interview and points out two interesting things:

1. Fuji has no plans on powerzooms (electronical zoom mechanism) yet but the don’t exclude the possibility of these products in future.

2. Fuji doesn’t plan to support third party lens officially (except Zeiss). So all third party optics will work only using reverse engineering.

At the same press-conference, Fuji showed the list of features that will be introduced with the December firmware for the X-T1. The list is officially known since the 10th of September 01:00 AM New York time (and who follows FR-regulary, will have read about some of this features already in earlier rumors ;-) ), but apparently some missed these news/rumors. So here is a screenshot from the press-conference. Number 1 to 4 are available from the shipment on the silver X-T1, the rest of the features will come via firmware update.

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Hands-on and thoughts at the new Fuji Photokina gear can be found also at mirrorlessons.

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HamburgCam (Flickr) shared the following image on Twitter

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Ralph presents the new Fuji-X gear at photokina (youtube)

KAIZEN: Camera Remote control (and 3rd party flash support) coming for Fujifilm X-E2? + New feature coming soon

September 17, 2014
News, Rumors
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Fujirumors’ window to Photokina: DAY 2
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Second update today about the upcoming Fuji firmware. This time it’s about the Fujifilm X-E2 ( btw, $50 price drop on the X-E2 at the moment).

A FR-reader just came back from photokina with the following information… and he kindly shares it with all of us:

Firmware X-E2:
Fuji is looking and testing what the hardware supports and what not. Remote Control is one of those features! But they’ve to rewrite the driver cause the X-E2 uses a different WLAN module, but it’s on the list. What seems to be not on the list would be the Instax printer support.

Nissin i40 Flash:
In theory, the Nissin i40 flash is ready, but Nissin has to wait for the Fuji Firmware to actual support 3rd party flashes.

For now I have no confirmation about the details of the update from tursted sources.

New feature coming soon – control up to three X series cameras at the same time (fujfiilm)

[UDPATE: Admiringlight Report] FIRST IMAGES of the XF 16mm f/1.4 & 90mm f/2 (LIVE: Fujirumors Window to Photokina)

September 16, 2014
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XF 16mm f/1.4

The Fujirumors Window to Photokina just started. So, if you can’t go to Photokina (like me), but don’t want to miss anything, stay tuned on Fujiumors also via facebook, google+, RSS-feed and twitter.

[UDPATE: Admiringlight posted a report with some more images of the upcoming lenses. In short: X100T: the new HVF rocks / Graphite X-T1: beautiful / X-T1 firmware: coming in November / 50-140mm: fast focus, marked aperture ring, very pleasant bokeh, zero chromatic abberation “even when shooting sparkling silver jewelry” / 56mm f/1.2 APD: softer out of focus renderings and a bit more wide open contrast. / 140-400mm: 86mm front filter, Very fat, but somewhat short for the focal length / 90mmF2: larger than any of the 85mm f/1.8 lenses for SLRs / 16-55: “When I inquired about the lack of stabilization, I was told that the 16-55 had the stabilizer removed in order to improve the image quality further“.]

After the 140-400 (click here) more images surface on the web, showing upcoming Fujinon glass:

– the 16mm f/1.4 with focus clutch mechanism, DOF & Focus scale – filter size 67
– the 90mm f/2 – filter size 72

via ephotozine

Fujinon XF 90mm f/2