Ok guys, I think you will love this one… the Fujifilm X-E3 will have the joystick !!!
According to our huge X-E3 poll results here, the joystick is one of the most wanted features for the upcoming Fujifilm X-E3 (it beats IBIS, weather sealing, touch screen and more).
And also for me personally, the lack of a Joystick would have been a 100% dealbreaker. So great to know the Fujifilm X-E3 will have one.
UPDATE: Fujifilm changed the name from X-T2s to X-H1. All rumored specs remain the same
Hey all :)
If you have followed Fujirumors recently, you might have read about the Fujifilm X-T2 successor, the Fujifilm X-T2s.
The big question now is: what will changed compared to the Fujifilm X-T2?
Well, I feel confident to announce, that the Fujifilm X-T2s is currently planed to feature IBIS (In Body Image Stabilization).
PLEASE NOTE that I have not shared ANY release date for the Fujifilm X-T2s until now on Fujirumors. And keep in mind that here on FujiRumors you often get also long term rumors. So just the fact that I share Fujifilm X-T2s rumors now, does not necessarily mean that it is just around the corner. This is something I’m working on right now and I will update you as soon as I can.
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Fujifilm Instax Square SQ10: USA BHphoto, Adorama, AmazonUS Europe: WexUK, PCHstore
DPReview
Fujifilm Instax Square SQ10 Review
A couple of months ago, Fujifilm launched its first square instax camera, the Fujifilm Instax SQ10, a hybrid instax/digital camera. So is it as fun to use like all other “traditional” Fujifilm Instant cameras?
DPReview tested it… and didn’t really like it. The image quality is not good in low light. This, and some other Cons, make it “less fun than it should be” according to DPReview.
The good thing: they think the square format is “lovely”, and thanks to the fact that you can review the images before printing, you safe a lot of money on the expensive Instant sheets.
They end up recommending to take your pictures with a smartphone and use the Instax SP-2 printer to print your images (but it’s not square format).
Read the full review at DPReview.
I’d really have loved Fuji to implement WiFi to the Instax SQ10, so that I could connect my camera/smartphone to it and print some nice square images.
Lauren
Instax SQ10 Review + Ultimate Instax 2017 comparison
There is another Instax Square SQ10 review by Lauren on youtube. She says:
See the full review at Photography Concentrate with Lauren & Rob Youtube
They also published the ultimate Fuji Instax Camera Comparison 2017, always at Photography Concentrate with Lauren & Rob Youtube
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Time for a little deals overview
USA
The US deals will expire on July 22. Great deal on X-T2, X-Pro2 and XF100-400.
I got also some emails of X-shooters, who were able to get the Fujifilm X-Pro2 with XF 23mmF2, XF 35mmF2 and XF50mm F2 with a total of $900 discount at Adorama ($300 discount for each lens!!!).
I think this was a temporary problem with the Adorama system, since you should only get one lens with $300 discount, not all of them. I’ve tried to put the X-Pro2 and the three lenses in the cart, and now it gives me only $300 discount. But if somebody of you manages again to get the $900 discount on these three lenses, then you have the deal of the year :) .
Let us know in the comments if you were successful.
Fujifilm X-T2 body + grip (save $230): BHphoto, Adorama, AmazonUS
Fujifilm X-T2 body + 35/2 + grip (save $330): BHphoto, Adorama, AmazonUS
Fujifilm X-T2 graphite body + grip (save $230): BHphoto, Adorama, AmazonUS
Fujifilm X-T2 + 18-55 + grip (save $230): BHphoto, Adorama, AmazonUS
Fujifilm X-Pro2 + 23/2 or 35/2 or 50/2 (save $300): BHphoto, Adorama, AmazonUS
Fujinon XF 100-400 + 1.4 Teleconverter (save $450): BHphoto, Adorama, AmazonUS
Fujinon XF 100-400 + 2.0 Teleconverter (save $450): BHphoto, Adorama, AmazonUS
UK & More
There is a great deal in UK and other EU countries*!
Buy the Fujifilm X-Pro2 (black) body only plus either the XF23mmF2 or XF35mmF2 or buy the Fujifilm X-Pro2 (graphite) with XF23mmF2 kit plus XF35mmF2, and you will get a FREE Fujinon XF 50mmF2!
You have to purchase at at qualified retailers, such as AmazonUK* and WexUK.
* Amazon Marketplace purchases do not qualify unless made from a retailer on this list.
After your purchase, complete the claim form here and get your free 50/2. If you are located in one of the other countries, where the deal is available, go to this site, select your country, and check out all the details.
* The promotion is open to residents of Mainland UK, Republic of Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic only. Any claims for qualifying products purchased outside Mainland UK, Republic of Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic will be ineligible to participate in this promotion. Your qualifying purchase must be made from a qualifying retailer located within your country of residence. Only genuine qualifying NEW FUJIFILM products detailed on the Qualifying Products page are valid to participate in this promotion.
I know, we got the first hint already back in September 2016 here, when Fujifilm wrote on the official X-T1 page “production ended“. However, after the FujiRumors post, Fujifilm quickly removed the “production ended” note (as they also did with the X-T10 here). But now it’s 100% official, as the X-T1 (and also the X-T10) is listed at Fujifilm’s Japanese discontinued model page here.
So we have to say goodbye, to one of Fujifilm’s most legendary and important digital cameras, the Fujifilm X-T1…. and I warn you, I tend to get rather emotional in these things, so prepare the tissues :)
In the first two years of blogging here on FujiRumors, I had to report many times how bad X-series camera sales were (only 700,000 cameras sold in the first 2 years, as The New York Times reported here), and how much money Fuji’s imaging solution was losing.
I admit: I was afraid Fujifilm could step out of the high end digital camera market anytime (just as it happened to Samsung a few years later).
But I wanted so badly Fujifilm to be successful, because from the very first moment I saw and used an X-series camera, I felt like they had something special and unique over all other digital cameras I’ve ever used…. and judging from the emails I was receiving at that time from fellow Fuji shooters out there (and I still receive today), I was not alone.
For many of us Fujifilm X-gear was not only a tool that gets the job done. Nope, it was also passion, freedom, fun, inspiration, lightness. It was technology designed around our passion. Many of us re-discovered the fun in photography thanks to the X-series.
But despite Fujifilm was doing so much to revive our passion for photography, the risk that Fujifilm would shut down their X-series camera business was realistic…
… until …
… the Fujifilm X-T1 came along in January 2014, which was the first big success for Fujifilm.
The X-T1 success was so big, that Top Fujifilm Manager Toshihisa Iida (who is also a Fujirumors reader and “lover”) said in September 2014 about the future of the X-series: “Over the past few months I’ve been getting more confident“
It was the Fujifilm X-T1, that finally changed the fate of the X-series for the better and kept Fujifilm hoping that they can go mainstream with their cameras.
And now that the Fujifilm X-T1 is officially discontinued, I just wanted to give it a worthy farewell by dedicating this post to the “legendary” Fujifilm X-T1.
Full list of discontinued Fujifilm cameras and lenses
