Cyber Monday Deals Drop – Best Deals Expire Today

The Cyber Monday Deals now dropped all over the web.

It’s the last day for many of the deals listed below, including the software related deals. What is still running for a while, are the official Fujifilm X and GFX deals.

Selected New Entries

General Cyber Monday Pages

Deals by Brand

Deals by Category

Software & Learning Material Deals

Lenses with Autofocus & AF Adapters

Selected Storage Media Deals

Other Deals (Flash, Grips, Instax)

Customized “X” Hot Shoe Cover (save 40%)

X Hot Shoe Cover for USA

X Hot Shoe Cover for EUROPE:

Official Fujifilm X/GFX Deals for USA, CA, Europe

USA DEALS

CANADIAN DEALS

EUROPE

Viltrox 75mm f/1.2 PRO AF XF: First Stores Take Pre-orders (at a Fantastic Price) and Sample Images – UPDATED

UPDATE: I have been informed that the price of the Viltrox 75mm f/1.2 AF XF will be of $549 – read full article here

The Viltrox 75mm f/1.2 AF XF lens is coming soon. And today we have three updates for you:

  • the Vietnamese store Giang Duy Dat is taking pre-orders on the lens for 10,500,000 Vietnamese Dong (equivalent of $423/€405)
  • Viltrox is officially teasing their Viltrox 75mm f/1.2 Pro AF XF lens on their Chinese social media and says it is “coming soon”
  • first sample images are also shared at Weibo (see below for all images in lower resolution – click here do see and download six images in higher resolution)

We have already shared some hands on images of this lens in this article.

via Fujistas via giangduydat via Viltrox at Weibo via 摄影师李白兔子 Weibo 

Sample Image Gallery

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Amazon Starts Cyber Monday Deals: Discounts on Original and Third Party NP-W235 Batteries and Much More

Amazon has started the Cyber Monday deals.

A special mention goes to NP-W235 batteries (as well as the Fujifilm NP-W126S battery). We have the original ones in offer as well as some third party ones.

In my “top 5 accessories I recommend for Fujifilm X-T5” article, I have explained why from now on I will stick with original batteries. But certainly there are also a lot of nice third party battery options.

Other Deals

Lots of the deals available during Black Friday are still available now.

Deals Overview

Latest Additions

Official Fujifilm Recommended UHS-II SD-Cards (Various Savings)

Customized “X” Hot Shoe Cover (save 40%)

X Hot Shoe Cover for USA

X Hot Shoe Cover for EUROPE:

Software & Learning Material Deals

Storage deals (SD cards and hard disks):

Third Party AF Deals

Godox, Viltrox, CFExpress Type B and More

Pergear is offering lots of deals at gear they sell via Amazon.

They also offer deals on their dedicated Pergear store website. If you purchase from their store directly, the CFexpress card savings are 15%.

Mixed Deals

Other Lenses

The New Stuff

Official Fujifilm X/GFX Deals for USA, CA, Europe

USA DEALS

CANADIAN DEALS

EUROPE

Black Friday Reloaded: Save Big on X Hot Shoe Covers, Officially Recommended UHS-II SD-Cards and Much More

Many stores pulled the trigger already yesterday, and today even more deals can be found online.

Dedicated Black Friday Pages

Black Friday Sales

Latest Additions

Official Fujifilm Recommended UHS-II SD-Cards (Various Savings)

Customized “X” Hot Shoe Cover (save 40%)

X Hot Shoe Cover for USA

X Hot Shoe Cover for EUROPE:

Software & Learning Material Deals

Storage deals (SD cards and hard disks):

Third Party AF Deals

Godox, Viltrox, CFExpress Type B and More

Pergear is offering lots of deals at gear they sell via Amazon.

They also offer deals on their dedicated Pergear store website. If you purchase from their store directly, the CFexpress card savings are 15%.

Mixed Deals

Other Lenses

The New Stuff

Official Fujifilm X/GFX Deals for USA, CA, Europe

USA DEALS

CANADIAN DEALS

EUROPE

Black Friday Deals – The Complete List – Viltrox 13mmF1.4 (save 10%), Apple, DJI, Capture One, Tamron, DxO and Much More

Black Friday is Here

The Black Friday Deals have just dropped in many places. Down below is the full list

Fujifilm X and GFX Deals

Check out the full list of Fujifilm X and GFX deals in USA, Canada and Europe.

Dedicated Black Friday Pages

USA

Europe

Worldwide

Third Party AF Deals

Godox, Viltrox, CFExpress Type B and More

Pergear is offering lots of deals at gear they sell via Amazon.

They also offer deals on their dedicated Pergear store website. If you purchase from their store directly, the CFexpress card savings are 15%.

More

Capture One

Capture One Black Friday Savings – save $110

Viltrox

Viltrox Black Friday Savings – save up to 30%

Pergear

Pergear Black Friday Deals are launched. Among the others you can find:

Peak Design

Peak Design launched their Peak Design Black Friday deals.

Capture One Learning Material

Save big on the Capture One learning material by Alexander Svet. Moreover, use code FUJIRUMORS to get an additional 10% discount on top of every Black Friday offer. Check out all details here

DxO

Today DxO launched an up to 50% discount on all their software (Click here)

Topaz Deal

Topaz has just launched a massive Black Friday sale, the biggest they ever offered. For example, you can get The Everything Bundle for just $279 (save $478. Retail value $757.97. Owners of existing products will be offered pro-rated bundles.).

Luminar Deal

Skylum has launched huge Black Friday rebates. Check out all the offers here.

Smallrig

Smallrig is running Black Friday sales with up to 50% savings. You can check out if there is something for you at their website here.

Moment Deals

Moment Black Friday Deals

Think Tank

Think Tank Black Friday

Laowa Lenses

Laowa Black Friday Deals with up to 40% Savings

7Artisans

7artisans Black Friday: save up to 30%

USA DEALS

CANADIAN DEALS

EUROPE

Which Fujifilm X Mount Lens Should Fujifilm Give us in 2023? Your Suggestions to Fujifilm Here!

I actually promised myself never to do that again.

Why?

Because it was a hell of a work.

But you know what?

Screw it… You guys deserve it.

This place is what it is, because you are who you are: a passionate group of photographers who keep FujiRumors alive and interesting for all us with your comments, your votes on surveys and your participation overall.

So let me give you back something, by committing to invest countless hours into a single article.

Last time in 2017 we had 888 comments with thousands of suggestions, I collected and condensed them in a survey of 30 lenses and the final result can be seen here.

And you know what?

That survey helped Fujifilm immensely, as they took most of our top voted lenses and gave them to us exactly as we wished, as we reported here.

So let’s help the Fujifilm management again, and tell them what we need.

*** THE THREE (3) IMPORTANT RULES ***

  • Please give a maximum of 1 or 2 suggestions
    I know it is hard, but you have to tell us only your really most wanted and needed lens. So, 1 or 2 lenses. Not more.
  • Only X mount lenses
    We will make a separate article for GFX lenses. Otherwise it gets too confusing to have it all in one post
  • Not What’s on Roadmap
    Of course, do not put lenses on your wishlist that are already on the official X mount roadmap (the Fujinon XF 8mm f/3.5)

This restriction is important, as it is a first filter to really make sure we come out with a list of high priority lenses. And it also helps my work later on.

And be careful what you wish for. Put lenses on your list, that you are willing to pay for and to carry around for your needs.

Understanding Fujinon XF30mm F2.8 R LM WR Macro

Fujifilm USA runs over the several 30ish-ranged Fujinon lenses, highlighting their differences and making a final recommendation.

Lots of choice in that range, but which one is best?

Fujifilm USA (video below) says the XF30mmF2.8 Macro is probably the best prime lens you should consider getting if you are new to the X system and you are looking to purchase your first prime lens.

Because it’s kind of the jack of all trades: it can do macro (the others can’t), it has extremely fast autofocus even at close distances (some of the other lenses have not that fast AF), it is very sharp, has low to no chromatic aberration, it’s ideal for high resolution X cameras (X-T5 and X-H2), and with $600 pricing it is still affordable for many people.

My take?

Well, I personally would still recommend the XF35mmF1.4 as first prime lens. It can’t do Macro, but it is still affordable and much faster with its 1.4 aperture. Plus it’s one of those character lenses that will give you magic results.

But certainly the XF30mm f/2.8 is also a wonderful and versatile option for a first prime lens.

You can watch the full video below.

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Fujinon XF35mm f/1.4 R: The Magical One (for me)

The Fujinon XF35mm f/1.4 R

There is place in the South of Laos where the mighty Mekong river gets over 6 miles large, spreading its brown tentacles in an intricated and slow flowing tangle of streams creating what are called the 4,000 islands: thousands of small hills of sand and shrubs captured in a massive labyrinth of turbid water.

Mislead by the deceptive peace of that enchanting landscape, I grabbed an old wooden Kayak of dubious reliability and sailed out to explore the area all alone.

But the more I reached the border to Cambodia, the more the Mekong was getting stronger, culimating in the furious Li Phi waterfalls.

Long story short: the flow got stronger, I could no longer paddle my way back, the waterfalls were approaching and I had no other choice than to jump into the water with my gear and find my way back by swimming in the Mekong, holding myself on branches of submerged trees and walking on the countless little sandy island.

During this adventure, my gear broke. All of it. Except for my Fujifilm XF35mm f/1.4, which survived the long swim as if nothing ever happened.

Now this alone would be enough for me to call the XF35mmF1.4 “magical” (and also the beer I drunk after this experience tasted “magical” ;))

But for most of us the true magic of this lens does not lie in its underwater capabilities, but in its images.

The Magic

Why talk about Fujifilm’s oldest lens in 2022?

Well, because according to our recent sruvey it is still the most owned prime lens among you guys.

And also because no matter how many similar lenses Fujifilm will launch, from the stellar sharp XF33mmF1.4 to the compact and fast focusing XF35mmF2 and even to the patented XF33mmF1.2 (if that ever comes), I will never sell my XF35mmF1.4 and probably not even buy any other 35-ish lens ever, because the Fujinon XF35mmF1.4 is magical!

So how does this magic come to be?

From a technical point of view, Fujifilm did try to explain it us in a dedicated article, where they talk about the design philosophy of this lens. Fujifilm basically didn’t care about specs and MTF charts, but designed the lens thinking at the real life use. You can read more here.

Also Fuji Guy Billy once said here, that Fujifilm did not want to create a clinically perfect lens, but a lens with character. We could call it a “perfectly imperfect” lens, a unique lens, or, in other words, a lens with a “magic touch“.

And as the Sigma CEO once said here, creating a lens with character is much more difficult than creating a perfect lens.

But technicalities aside, what I’ve experienced over all these years is that for me it seems easier to snap images I truly love with the XF35mmF1.4 rather than with many other of my lenses.

A few examples:

So, despite having a decent amount of lenses, some of them I use even more than my XF35mmF1.4, for some reason I can’t really explain, it’s often the Fujinon XF35mmF1.4 R that snaps the images I love most.

This alone (and the fact that it went with me through the Mekong adventure) makes this lens special to me.

And many others think so too, as you can see in the video below, where a fellow X shooter tries to capture in words the magic of the lens.

XF35mmF1.4 R

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SURPRISE: TTArtisan Autofocus Lens for Fujifilm X Mount Coming Soon, but it’s Not the TTArtisan 32mmF2.8

TTArtisan has long announced that they are working on releasing the TTArtisan 32mm f/2.8 autofocus lens for Fujifilm X mount, which is already available for Nikon Z mount.

Well, we have been informed that TTArtisan is going to announce an autofocus lens for Fujifilm X mount soon. But here is the thing: it is not the TTArtisan 32mm f/2.8.

Full List of AF lenses for Fujifilm X Mount

Available Now or for Pre-Order:

Announced / to Come for Sure:

Rumored to Come Next:

We Don’t Forget:

Electronic contacts for software correction support, EXIF, etc, but no Autofocus

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Laowa Argus 25mm f/0.95 APS-C APO Officially Announced

The Laowa Argus 25mm f/0.95 for Fujifilm X mount has been officially announced.

You can check out price, specs and all the details at the dedicated page of Venus Optics here and get your copy at BHphoto here, Amazon here, Adorama here, and Venus Optics here.

The Argus Line-up