Fujifilm GFX25: High-Speed 25.44MP, 12fps, Oversampled DCI 4K/60p (no Crop) and the Return of a Wrong Rumor
Fujifilm GFX25
Yesterday a long list of rumored Fujifilm products for 2024 “leaked” on the internet.
It’s a long list packed with inaccurate speculations and random guesses.
And because the internet tends to believe and spread just anything that is written anywhere, I see myself forced to report about it, even thought I would prefer to ignore it.
Hence, even though it feels like Don Quixote fighting the windmills, I’ll keep up fighting wrong information, well knowing that it won’t stop the spread of it anyway.
Aware of that, let’s start with probably the most attention grabbing rumor of all: the Fujifilm GFX25.
The Chinese Weibo account claims:
Several sources claim that GFX 25 exists and believe that it is the main video shooting. I have received this kind of enchantment for more and more 7 times.
Now let me share with you a rumor I got in October 2020, and that I have never shared on FujiRumors:
GFX25 is coming in Q1 of next year. It’s a 25.44MP 12fps continuous shooting “High-Speed Super Full Frame” camera which using the same body of GFX100. GFX25 records oversampled DCI4K/60p with no crop, less jello effect and the same codec of X-T4. 16-bit-ADC and big-pixel makes it a great camera in low light / high ISO shooting.
Here we are, 3+ years later after that rumor, and still no Fujifilm GFX25 appeared.
It was either a fake, or somebody got a wrong information. In any case, I did not report about it, because I’ve checked it with my trusted sources, who all said it was wrong.
And I also got another GFX25 rumor back in October 2023:
Fujifilm is planning their truly high-speed GFX camera for video worker use, which is expected to be only 25-megapixel class. While it doesn’t use a stacked sensor to reduce manufacturing costs, it has video specs very close to the X-H2S and GFX100 II.
These include Open Gate 5.8K at 30fps, GF full-width 5.8K/60fps at 16:9/17:9/2.35:1, Premista 5.4K/60fps at 17:9, and 4.8K/60fps at 35mm 3:2 or 4.6K/60fps at 35mm 1.38:1 Anamorphic. Oversampling in GF full-width / Premista / 35mm format for DCI 4K / UHD 4K at 60fps.
There is also point-to-point readout DCI 4K / UHD 4K at 120fps recording and 35mm Full Height 8:9 anamorphic mode to recording UHD 4K 120fps by vertical pixel binning. Also, the dynamic range is better than both the GFX100 II and the X-H2S.
I guess given the fact that he was not successful in fooling FujiRumors, he is looking elsewhere for his glory ;).
And yet, on forums and websites this “rumor” is now spreading as if it was reliable stuff.
And some even report that FujiRumors said that the GFX25 will come based on our sources, as for example the German website slashcam here. Well, I actually said the opposite in my original article. I said it “leaked” in China and it was just a “made up speculation”. Please, don’t put rumors in the mouth of our sources that I know are wrong.
And just to be clear, the image above does not show the GFX25, but it shows GFX Omega mock-up shared at DPreview a few years ago and we reported here. And the specs leaked are wrong.
So, let me move on to the next windmill and keep up my lonely fight.
And yes, I know it would bring more traffic and more money if I’d just share all the fake rumors I get or even make up rumors. But I respect you guys too much to fool you for personal profit.
I prefer to have less traffic and make less money, but you can be sure I don’t mislead you with fakes or spam you with tons of anonymous rumors I know are wrong.
Your time and trust is worth more than any money.
IMPORTANT ADDITION: The original GFX25 “rumor” shared by E8M in Chinese said that the information was coming from multiple sources. After we said it was wrong, he told us in the comments that it was a translation error and he never said the GFX25 will come. Then readers, who speak Chinese, pointed out that it’s not a translation error, and E8M clarified that he was just tired and not accurate when he posted it. You can read the discussion here. To be fair, I wanted to report about his correction. More corrections will follow.