A highly trusted source contacted me in the hours following the rumor we shared coming from a new source, who told us that the Fujifilm X-T5 will come in 2022.
The trusted source confirmed it to me: yes, the Fujifilm X-T5 announcement will happen still in 2022!
So now there is no doubt anymore: it’s coming, not long after the Fujifilm X-H2S and shortly after the Fujifilm X-H2.
Today we have another information, coming from a new source (thanks).
In my chat with the source I evaluated the information good enough to be shared today (I am rumor site at the end of the day), but I will work on getting it confirmed by trusted sources.
According to the new source, the Fujifilm X-T5 will be announced in 2022.
This comes unexpected for 84% of us (as this survey shows), and, if confirmed, congratulations to the 16% of you who got it right!
Now I will work on:
get the rumor confirmed by trusted sources
if confirmed, find out the announcement date (or at least the month)
When time has come, you’ll learn a lot more about the Fujifilm X-T5!
And if anyone out there has something to share about the Fujifilm X-T5 and wants to put the Fujifilm community on fire like never before, feel free to contact me at fujirumor@gmail.com or via PM on any of our social media.
image credit – Dave Etchells at imaging-resource.com
Dave Etchells from Imaging Resource met five Japanese Fujifilm managers: Yujiro Igarashi, Makoto Oishi, Jun Watanabe, Kuniko Åo and Shu Amano.
And when 5 managers are needed to answer the questions of 1 single person, you know it’s going to be a very in depth and technical talk.
In fact, it ends up in a 8,000 words interview that I have summed up down below in 1,470 words.
Some notes and considerations ahead of it:
Fujifilm says they are working on updating the camera remote App, especially to make it work better with older cameras. They did NOT say they are working on an all new App. But FujiRumors has already shared a rumor that there will be an all new App!
Fujifilm aimed to make the GFX system smaller, and the GFX50R served that purpose. Now the GFX100S is perceived as small enough, and so they see “less need for something even more compact“. But they also add “we always look at the market to see if there’s a need to introduce something“. My impression based on this interview is that they currently have no plans for a GFX100R, but they don’t entirely want to rule out this possibility. And in fact, given how well the GFX100S is selling, Fujifilm has no hurry at all to take decisions right now.
These are just two personal notes on what you’ll read below. But there is really a lot more interesting stuff… like how Fujifilm did work to train the new AF and much more.
Well, the reason I mostly instinctively grab my X series gear is because, in addition to offering a great image quality, compared to my GFX gear it is simply lighter and more compact, plus there are some lenses I truly love in that system, like the XF35mmF1.4 R (which never stops to stun me), the Fujifilm X-E3 with XF27mmF2.8MKII (my go to combo to document my everyday family life) and the XF18-135mmF3.5-5-6.
But the lightness and sheer perfect balance of the APS-C X system made me forget one thing: how portable and flexible actually also Fujifilm’s medium format system is!
As you can see, this is how I hiked for several hours a day: a medium format camera and lens on my hip, the tripod most of the time in my camera bag as IBIS took care to compensate for my tired and shaking hands… and in my heart the certainty that no matter how tricky the light will be, no matter how challenging the conditions, no camera will be able to handle it better than my Fujifilm GFX100S does (unless you use one of those monstrous digital MF cameras, but good luck hiking with those… if you can afford it!)
So we can only be grateful to Fujifilm for making medium format so accessible in terms of size and price.
A Japanese Fujifilm manager recently said that they are working on developing “WOW” products.
So I’d like to hear from you guys what would make you say “WOW”. I’ll start the list with three products that I have the feeling would make quite some of you happy.
Japanese Fujifilm manager Jun Watanabe gave an interview in Japanese to Map Camera.
The whole video is in Japanese, but luckily dclife shared a summary of the main points, which you can read in original Japanese here.
Here is the version in Google translated English, with a special note to the headline of the article that reads:
We are working on WOW product development
Does Fujifilm plan to release a Cinema Camera?
I don’t have any plans so far, but this time “X-H2S” has improved considerably including video performance and functions, so first of all, I would like to see the evaluation and reaction using “X-H2S”.
[…] I feel that videos and still images are fusion quite a bit, so this kind of “X-H2” I feel that hybrid cameras like “S” will be the future trend, and hybrid cameras, not cinema-only cameras, will also be mainstream.
Fujifilm is developing commercial lenses and cine lenses for PL mounts and E-mounts for the broadcasting and film industries. Are you thinking of developing lenses for other companies’ mounts?
At the moment, there are no plans to develop other companies’ mount lenses, and we will focus on our own mount lenses. […] there are still places where the lineup of lenses is not enough and there are still places where we have to improve the lens performance, so I would like to focus on our lineup first.
Message from Mr. Watanabe on the 10th anniversary of X-mount
Thank you very much for your continued patronage of our X series. I would like to continue to pay attention to everyone’s expectations and so that everyone, including me, would like to work on offering “WOW” products so that they can say, “I really want to buy this.” I would appreciate it if you could. I look forward to working with you again.
Well, that reference about the WOW products definitely sounds intriguing.
But it won’t be an X-H2 event only, nor an exclusive X series event.
Nope, also Fujifilm GFX shooters will have something to look forward to.
In fact, according to our trusted sources, Fujifilm will announce the Fujinon GF20-35mmF4 on September 8, too.
As an owner of the incredible Fujinon GF32-64mmF4 myself, having a zoom that starts more or less where my current lens ends and goes all the way down to 20mm (15.8mm FF equiv.) making it the widest GF lens available, is something that is really tempting to add to my G mount lens arsenal.
Because even if I currently can’t go beyond 64mm with my GF32-64, thanks to the 100 megapixel on my Fujifilm GFX100S I can crop the heck out of my files and get closer while retaining sharp and crisp images. But I can’t capture things that are outside what my lens can see, so a wider option could definitely come in handy for my landscape photography.
After Fujifilm disclosed the date of the next Fujifilm X summit and announced it September 8 at 2PM New York time, people started emailing me but also expressing their hopes on our social media channels, that we will get the Fujifilm X-T5 on September 8.
Sorry guys, but what we can tell you with 100% certainty that there won’t be any Fujifilm X-T5 announcement in September.
The main course of the meal on September 8th will be the Fujifilm X-H2. And of course there can be more, as Fujfiilm has already officially announced the following gear to come in 2022:
