There are many fellow camera friends out there, who are still waiting for their X100F to come and/or have a hard time to find it in stock.
Till then, you can enjoy the great images photographers all around the world are sharing at the X100F facebook group and also check out the links below, for more images and reviews.
There is also a little bit of pixel peeping, although I know that X100 lovers are usually not really hard core pixel peepers.
Fuji X100F First Shots: 4th-gen fixed-lens street-shooter gets our lab treatment at imaging-resource
1,000 Frames with my Fuji X100F at Kevin Mullins f16.click
btw… at Photokina 2016, I found Waldo at the Fujifilm Booth. And no… I had no meeting with the Fujifilm Guys. I was 100% anonymous, and it was perfect this way :)
Let’s start the week with a rumor, but take this one with an extra grain of salt, because it’s not only a quite long term rumor, but also a firmware rumor.
With that said, here is what I’ve just heard.
According to a source, right in the past, Fujifilm is planing a firmware update for Fujifilm X100F and Fujifilm X-T20 in autumn 2017.
I have no indication about what it will bring. I doubt it will be huge firmware update, like the one the X-T2 recently got, but it could definitely be a “Kaizen light” firmware update.
I’ll investiagte this, and update you guys as soon as I hear something new. So stay tuned on FujiRumors via Facebook, RSS-feed and Twitter.
And I remind you that Fujifilm announced firmware updates for Fujifilm GFX, X-T2 and X-Pro2 in late May.
Happens to all of us, right? I mean, you just go out for an icecream, and you come back home with new gear :)
No? Well, then let me tell you this little weekend story…
Jon Olsson is a former Swedish ski athlete (and camera nerd :) ), who is now making a respectable career as a Vlogger (700k subscribers).
In his latest video, he takes you with him during a day in Stockholm. His plans for the day?
modelling for a photo shoot
meeting some Dell guys and comparing Mac Vs. PC
buy a skateboard
On the photo shoot, the photographer used a Hasselblad (H6D?) MF camera…. and it seems that seeing that Medium Format beast at work, triggered Jon’s desire for a MF camera.
In fact, his original day-plan then changed to:
modelling for a photo shoot
meeting some Dell guys and comparing Mac Vs. PC
buy a skateboard Check out some “seriously unnecessary” stuff (min.8:45)
So, in the afternoon, Jon leaves his hotel room to buy a skateboard, but once near to a photography store, he stops there to test for 3 hours the Fujifilm GFX 50s and the Hasselblad X1D.
Finally, since the Hasselblad was “really slow and weird“, he ends up buying the Fujifilm GFX (min. 12:35).
He decided to get the Fujinon GF 63mmF2.8 lens, because, after checking the files on a computer in the camera store and seeing how much detail they have, he concludes that “you just need one lens, then you can zoom in 4,000%“.
True, the GFX is not as cheap as the skateboard he planed to buy, but he says “what’s the point in working hard and making money if you don’t use the money. Now, you have to be a little smart, but you also have to enjoy“.
Don’t expect a professional in-depth review. Jon says “I don’t know the technical details. I just shoot stuff, and when I like it, I like it.“
At min. 14:10 he offers his Canon 5D MK 4 for sale, and after charging the batteries, they start playing around with their new camera (min. 14:51). I guess there will be more coming about the GFX on his channel, but he seems to be very happy with it, since he says:
“Life goal checked: I own a Medium Format camera” :)
It is a rainy Sunday here (of course, always at weekend!), and since I stuck at home, what better thing to do, then to check out winners at this years’ “Oasis Photocontest“, which some consider the “Oscar” for nature and wildlife photography?
The name, Simone Raso, sounded familiar to me. I checked FujiRumors and saw I featured his video, where he photographed Cristiano Ronaldo & Co during a Champions League soccer game standing on the sideline with his X-Pro2 and XF100-400.
So I checked the EXIF data of this image, and well, it’s an X-shot, Fujifilm X-T2 with Fujinon XF100-400 to be more precise.
This image got the “honorary mention” at the Oasis Photocontest. Congratulations, Simone. Keep up delighting us with you X-shots :)
It’s definitely worth to head over at oasisphotocontest website and check out all the images. There is so much truly inspiring work over there. Don’t miss it.
2017 National Geographic & PDN Photo Annual Contests
Also National Geographic has its “Travel Photographer of the Year (2017)” running now. Entries are open. So feel free to join with your X-shot :). Check out travel.nationalgeographic.com
2017 PDN Photo Annual have been assigned too. Check out the winners at shutterloveonline.
Fujifilm Awards & Curiosity Recap
Fujifilm cameras aren’t new to important recognitions, such as photography awards or cover images for important newspapers.
Sure, it’s the photographer and his vision that creates the image. But hey, at least we can say that Fujifilm cameras are no limitation for real PRO work. Here is a short overview:
Fujifilm X-T2 distracted a French presidential candidate during his interview (story here)
Only the Fujifilm X-System Breaks the DSLR Hegemony World Press Photo Awards (story here)
Fujifilm cameras already made the cover of the TIME magazine (story here)
Fujifilm cameras snapped the image that won the World Photography Arts&Culture Award 2015 (story here)
Fujifilm cameras are good enough for God’s work (story here)
Fujifilm cameras captured America’s most hated man (story here)
Fujifilm cameras made the front page of the Wall Street Journal (story here)
The X-VIRUS is spreading: Rock Star Brandon Boyd (Incubus) takes Selfie with his X-PRO1! – (storyl here)
Sony A7sii vs Fujifilm X-T2 for video review at Maru Films youtube. Yep, the Sony has IBIS, but the reviewer is considering to go for Fuji anyway. The colors, the overall size and more convince him that Fujifilm X-T2 is the better choice.
Lens Stars are “Weaksouce” on Sony f/2.8 90 Macro and G Master f/2.8 24-70 compared to the beautiful lens stars on the Fujinon XF16-55. Check out min. 1:00 of The Hunter Report youtube video.
Fujifilm X-T2, X-T20 & More
Freemod Design X-Cap2 for Fujinon Lenses at jekuarce
The Struggle to Survive … Fuji X-Pro2 at streetshooter
Followup To The Post Entitled, post entitled “The Fuji X-Camera System Has Evolved Into The (Almost) Perfect System For Me Or An Open Letter Of Thanks To Fujifilm.” at thewanderinglensman
Kevin Mullins: Dunkenhalgh Hotel Wedding at f16.click
