In November we have shared quite some rumors (as you can see here). And not only that! In our previous 2024 outlook, we forgot to add gear that Fujifilm has already pre-announced to come in 2024 as well as give you a look into rumored third party AF lenses.
That’s why we need to update our view into the Fujifilm year 2024.
All the X/GFX rumors come from our sources, whereas the speculations are often based on hints and comments that managers gave in interviews.
Long I have thought how to give you this information.
I thought: maybe I should give you some behind the scenes. Explain. Give you some context. So you would understand why I wrote what I wrote a few months ago.
offer you my apology (which I hope you’ll be gracious enough to accept)
share a rumor correction
My apology is offered to you. Now I owe you the rumor correction:
We confirm that the Fujifilm X100V successor will come in early 2024. That’s rocksolid and I will never correct or change that rumor.
But, unlike we told you here, it will not come with a new lens. And that’s not a bad thing at all, considering that that lens has just been updated with the X100V, so it’s definitely a modern lens.
That’s it. I’ve done it.
Oh…
one more thing.
In the recently “leaked” list of Fujifilm gear (that contains many errors), one of the specs listed was that the X100V successor would also have OIS (optical image stabilization). Since the X100V successor will have the same lens of the X100V, this means that it won’t have OIS.
There are still many more corrections to be done to that list. Here are the ones done so far.
Anyway, there was another piece of gear on that list, that intrigued people: the Fujinon GF14-20mm.
So let me put it this way:
The best I can say about it for now, is that none of our sources is aware of such a lens.
I don’t call it a “wrong rumor” simply because there is a difference between our sources saying something is fake (GFX25) and our sources saying they are not aware of certain gear.
But the fact that already the GFX25 rumor is wrong (and more on that list will be proven wrong), could be an indication that pretty much anything “leaked” on that list has to be taken with a grain of salt and it’s probably just a compilation of guesses and speculations wrapped into a more tasty rumor package to give it more credibility. I am NOT saying E8M made it up, it is likely that somebody else made it up and passed it to E8M, who then shared it. That’s the way guys try to convince you to publish wrong info.
Anyway, I have to be accurate when I report what our sources say. And they tell me they have no information about such a lens.
For me, this means that I have zero hopes for an eventual GF14-20 to come in 2024 and I am also not overly optimistic to see one in 2025. And if it never comes, I would not be surprised either.
If you need to go wide, your best option for a long time will be the Fujinon GF20-35mm f/4.
Yesterday a long list of rumored Fujifilm products for 2024 “leaked” on the internet.
It’s a long list packed with inaccurate speculations and random guesses.
And because the internet tends to believe and spread just anything that is written anywhere, I see myself forced to report about it, even thought I would prefer to ignore it.
Hence, even though it feels like Don Quixote fighting the windmills, I’ll keep up fighting wrong information, well knowing that it won’t stop the spread of it anyway.
Aware of that, let’s start with probably the most attention grabbing rumor of all: the Fujifilm GFX25.
The Chinese Weibo account claims:
Several sources claim that GFX 25 exists and believe that it is the main video shooting. I have received this kind of enchantment for more and more 7 times.
GFX25 is coming in Q1 of next year. It’s a 25.44MP 12fps continuous shooting “High-Speed Super Full Frame” camera which using the same body of GFX100. GFX25 records oversampled DCI4K/60p with no crop, less jello effect and the same codec of X-T4. 16-bit-ADC and big-pixel makes it a great camera in low light / high ISO shooting.
Here we are, 3+ years later after that rumor, and still no Fujifilm GFX25 appeared.
It was either a fake, or somebody got a wrong information. In any case, I did not report about it, because I’ve checked it with my trusted sources, who all said it was wrong.
Fujifilm is planning their truly high-speed GFX camera for video worker use, which is expected to be only 25-megapixel class. While it doesn’t use a stacked sensor to reduce manufacturing costs, it has video specs very close to the X-H2S and GFX100 II.
These include Open Gate 5.8K at 30fps, GF full-width 5.8K/60fps at 16:9/17:9/2.35:1, Premista 5.4K/60fps at 17:9, and 4.8K/60fps at 35mm 3:2 or 4.6K/60fps at 35mm 1.38:1 Anamorphic. Oversampling in GF full-width / Premista / 35mm format for DCI 4K / UHD 4K at 60fps.
There is also point-to-point readout DCI 4K / UHD 4K at 120fps recording and 35mm Full Height 8:9 anamorphic mode to recording UHD 4K 120fps by vertical pixel binning. Also, the dynamic range is better than both the GFX100 II and the X-H2S.
I guess given the fact that he was not successful in fooling FujiRumors, he is looking elsewhere for his glory ;).
And yet, on forums and websites this “rumor” is now spreading as if it was reliable stuff.
And some even report that FujiRumors said that the GFX25 will come based on our sources, as for example the German website slashcam here. Well, I actually said the opposite in my original article. I said it “leaked” in China and it was just a “made up speculation”. Please, don’t put rumors in the mouth of our sources that I know are wrong.
And just to be clear, the image above does not show the GFX25, but it shows GFX Omega mock-up shared at DPreview a few years ago and we reported here. And the specs leaked are wrong.
So, let me move on to the next windmill and keep up my lonely fight.
And yes, I know it would bring more traffic and more money if I’d just share all the fake rumors I get or even make up rumors. But I respect you guys too much to fool you for personal profit.
I prefer to have less traffic and make less money, but you can be sure I don’t mislead you with fakes or spam you with tons of anonymous rumors I know are wrong.
IMPORTANT ADDITION: The original GFX25 “rumor” shared by E8M in Chinese said that the information was coming from multiple sources. After we said it was wrong, he told us in the comments that it was a translation error and he never said the GFX25 will come. Then readers, who speak Chinese, pointed out that it’s not a translation error, and E8M clarified that he was just tired and not accurate when he posted it. You can read the discussion here. To be fair, I wanted to report about his correction. More corrections will follow.
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