Mr. Toshihisa Iida

Dpreview published an interview with Mr. Toshihisa Iida, Senior Manager of Sales & Marketing in Fujifilm. And he gave us some glimpse into the future:

1) High res sensor coming in 2015? In terms of resolution, the lenses are so sharp, there’s scope for higher resolution to maximize the capabilities of the lenses. There’s some room for improvement on the High-ISO and speed aspects too.

2) Video on Fuji cameras: Video is getting more and more important.

3) No Full Frame: A full-frame camera would be bigger, more expensive and maybe slower too.

4) Fujifilm is Confident: Mr. Toshihisa Iida said: “Over the past few months I’ve been getting more confident“.

And Fuji seems to have no doubts about what to do: “To be honest we’re pretty clear about what we need to do, and I think we’re moving in the right direction.”

More at dpreview

image courtesy: grittymonkey

When the [shoplink 21553]Fujifilm X-T1[/shoplink] hit the market, back in February, the first batch of cameras had two problems: the light leak and the fiddly d-pad buttons. Fuji rapidly fixed the light leak, but not the buttons. To be clear: Fujifilm improved the buttons later on and now you have that nice “click” when you press them. But those who grabbed one of the very first cameras on the market, are still struggling with the fiddly buttons.

But back in May I told you that Fuji was working on a paid button upgrade for early production X-T1’s. Well, the rumor seems to be correct, at least in Japan. X-shooter Balbo42 got his X-T1 buttons fixed for about 8000¥ ~ 75$.

Read his experience at his blog grittymonkey.

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

PART 2 of Luminous Landscape interview

Luminous Landscape interviewed Billy & Greg (the Fuji Guys) and Fuji Manager Toshihisa Iida at photokina. It’s a nice chat you should check out, with Greg confirming that the Fujifilm X-PRO2 won’t be Full Frame, but “worth the wait“.

See part 1 of the interview here and part 2 here.

Part 1 of the interview

FujiFilm Interview at Photokina 2014 from The Luminous Landscape on Vimeo.

You can purchase gear, but you have to study in order to get most out of it!

Lucky German residents can go to one of Rico’s workshops (but he probably will offer some in California later this year, too). Also, do not forget the latest 30% price drop on all his books at Rocky Nook here.

And now it’s time for Italians to study a bit and improve their skills… with talented photographes such as Max Angeloni & Donato Chirulli. Part of the event will be dedicated also to the Fuji eXperience. Maybe this time you won’t be so lucky to stumble also on Al Pacino, as on the last event (see here), but you could nevertheless have a really profitable time at the workshop, with portait, flash, street, landscape photography and a Photo Jam Session.

Italians FR-reader can check out the details of the upcoming workshop (SEP27 / SEP28) at riflessifotografici here. Along with the Workshop, they also launched a new Facebook-Group called “Semplicemente Fotografare“, where you can talk about photographry, share tips & images, and learn from each other. Check it out here.

image courtesy: quesabesde

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Not only X-series at Photokina. Fujifilm unveiled a prototype of a little camera: the SWING CAM. A mechanism moves this camera vertically & horizontally and allows it to track people.

There are no plans to produce it for the mass market for now. But, in a promotional video, Fuji shows its potential as a sort of “action cam”. Quesabesde compares is with the curious “party-shot” device of Sony.

via quesabesde