Fujinon XC15-45mmF3.5-5.6 ver.1.11 – download here The firmware update Ver.1.11 from Ver.1.10 incorporates the following issue
A software issue is improved that the lens Improved the phenomenon of the lens automatically sinking and ejecting unintentionally when used with X-M5 or X-T50.
Earlier today Fujifilm announced its first dedicated camera for filmmakers, the Fujinon GFX Eterna.
What passed a little but unnoticed is that Fujifilm also unveiled additional specs regarding the “G mount power zoom” that Fujifilm added to G mount roadmap in 2023.
The lens will be:
Fujinon GF 32-90mm Power Zoom
Let’s see how the new Fujifilm GFX Eterna cinema camera will be received by the market.
There will also be a mount adapter from G to PL mount lenses,
We noticed that once again the growth for the imaging division was very strong.
And it was very strong despite Fujifilm having had major supply problems since at least 2+ more years.
But things are slowly going better, at least according to the Fujifilm CEO, who in a Q&A for shareholders said this [google translated]:
The supply and demand issue that has been bothering us has been resolved, and we have increased production, so we are no longer in a situation where we don’t know when we will be able to get our hands on it.
We have now reached a point where we can roughly estimate when we will be able to deliver the product to our customers.
Let me say it is debatable whether the supply issue has been really “resolved”, considering that customers are still facing long wait times, like early X100VI buyers, who are still waiting months for their orders. But maybe there is a google translation issue with it. Maybe the CEO wanted to say they are “moving towards a solution”.
It’s still not easy to find proper autofocus test regarding the Fujifilm X-M5.
So all we have for now are little tidbits here and there, mainly coming from Asian countries, which are traditionally the main market for the X-M (or perviously the X-A) line.
I will share two videos below.
The first is (I think) a Chinese video. Click the play button below to start the video right at the AF section. Here is what we can notice and what the guy said:
cat tracking seems to work fine also when the cat moves in a busy space and behind some obstacles
the guy runs towards the camera and says (if the translation is accurate), that the accuracy is 80-90%, with most of the images out of focus only when the subject was very close to the camera
it seems that the entire episode is filmed on X-M5
The second video comes from Brazil. I share it because the reviewer covers half of his face with the hand, but the X-M5 does not get distracted and keeps focus on the eye. In fact, you can see the eye box jump to the left eye as soon as the right eye is covered by the hand. So at least this issue seems to be solved.
In a third video below we see the AF tracking in video, which does not look very convincing. Or, as the autor of the video, Matt, said: “Personally think [autofocus] it’s not as bad as some people were worried about, but definitely still not perfect.”
First conclusion: it’s better in tracking cats than humans :)
Of course I am kidding. We really do not have many elements in our hands to make a proper judgement. But the Fujifilm X-M5 should ship in about 10 days (November 21 according to stores), so I guess soon enough we will have a much better understanding of its AF performance.
And maybe we will get the promised autofocus firmware update before that, so that we can judge the new AF on our own 5th generation cameras.
