Luminar 4.3 has just been released.
It adds support for Fujifilm X-T4, X100V and X-T200 cameras.
It also adds new features, introduces a fake sky marketplace and improves performance overall.
You read more at the Luminar 4.3 page here and the press release can be found down below.
BHphoto video – Introducing the X100V in 3:31 minutes
High time to dedicate a roundup to Fujifilm’s sexiest camera ever: the Fujifilm X100V.
You can find a couple of videos below.
Feel free to:
Fujifilm has now published its fiscal report for the fiscal year 2020 (1 April 2019 – 31 March 2020).
Fellow FR-reader Mistral has summarized it in French over at the French forum chassimages. In short:
Fujifilm as a whole is still doing well even if it has not reached the expected goals given the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic on its last quarter.
Imaging Solutions is the division with the lowest performance.
Fujifilm records a loss in the last quarter. The decline in sales of digital cameras and their lenses has accelerated throughout the year.
The only positive note: the Fujifilm GFX100 keeps up selling strong, as well as the Fujifilm X100V and Fujifilm X-Pro3 are mentioned positively in the various reports.
As reported by FujiRumors earlier today, Fujifilm released a firmware update for the Fujifilm X100V and Fujifilm X-A7.
Now Fujifilm also updated its original statement about the Fujifilm X100V overheating. You can read it down below.
Fujifilm has released firmware updates for Fujifilm X100V and X-A7.
The big one is the AUTO POWER OFF TEMP. Fujifilm writes:
If its temperature rises beyond a certain point, the camera will first display a message and then, if the temperature rise continues, automatically end shooting and power down. Choose the temperature at which the camera turns off automatically.
More details and download link below:
With the Fujifilm X-T4 about to hit the market (and actually already shipping in some), Fujifilm managers all over the globe are giving tons of interviews to make the world ready for the best camera it has ever seen to date: the Fujifilm X-T4 :).
Of course, I pre-ordered it, too :)
Now, for your convenience, I always provide a practical summary of all manager statements in my various article, and yet, with so many interviews, there might be some statements you might have missed anyway.
So I thought I filter out those statements, that I consider most relevant, and put them all into this article.
However, there is so much more interesting stuff to read, and so I strongly recommend you to check out all the original articles. I will provide all links below.
Fantastic achievement for Fujifilm!
The TIPA Award is an extremely tough competition, where products are brutally tested by the best experts on the planet. Companies are eager to win the TIPA award, and sometimes they want to pay to get it, but the incorruptible and visionary team of TIPA experts, guided by the one and only goal to deliver the most unbiased and professional feedback to customers, does not bend to the will of multimillion dollar companies. They award only the most prestigious products ever!
Ok, now let’s get serious.
Lots of companies payed again lots of money to win a totally meaningless award. TIPA created as many categories as needed to make everybody happy (who paid). Hence you will find frankly ridiculous category differentiations, such as “best professional APS-C camera” (Fujifilm X-Pro3), “best expert APS-C camera” (Sony A6600) and “best advanced APS-C camera” (Nikon Z50). The whole point of these award commissions is to make money by selling award licenses, meaning the right for companies to use the award logo to promote their products.
All the truth, and how exactly these awards work, in this article.
What a pity… all that money Fujifilm could have spent in firmware updates!
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Just yesterday here we reported how, according to BCN ranking, Fujifilm saw, in March, a huge 115% increase in sales in Japan, while all other camera manufacturers dropped up to 50%.
Now Japanese store MapCameras published their top selling camera rankings.
Keep in mind, though, that this is not representative for overall sales.
The most reliable data we probably have about the worldwide success of various camera brands, is this report from a Techno System Reports, a major marketing research company located in Japan that sells this data at a very high price, but somehow it went public at the Japanese site toyokeizai, and FujiRumors spotted it for you and shared it here.
The data of Techno System Reports reflects the mirrorless camera sales, and it shows that Fujifilm is on the third position, just a tiny margin behind Canon, and substantially behind Sony.
With that said, if big retailers share their sales data, it might not be representative for the overall market, but it can still give an approximate indication of what the market wants.
With that said, here are the top sellers at MapCameras for March 2020.
DPReview has just published their Fujifilm X100V review, and it gets the gold award with a 86% rating.
In their conclusions they write:
The Fujifilm X100V is the most ambitious X100-series model yet, and arguably the most important, second only to the original. With the X100V comes a new (and much improved) lens, the addition of touchscreen control, and a tilting rear LCD. Meanwhile, a suite of powerful video features brings it into line with models in Fujifilm’s XT-series. The end result is a better and more powerful camera, more suited for use alongside a modern ILC than its (understandably highly popular) predecessors. It’s the priciest of the X100 series to date, but in my opinion the extra cost is justified
You can read the full review at dpreview.
→ Top X100 Community: Fujifilm X100 facebook group
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