Understanding Fujifilm Firmware Updates, FujiRumors Top 3 Firmware Wishes and Share Your Firmware Wishes with Fujifilm

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Fujifilm USA uploaded a video called “Understanding Fujifilm Firmware Updates” (video below).

Before going on and showing you, how to update your firmware, Fujifilm manager Michael Bulbenko says:

  • sometimes cameras and lenses can have minor bugs in it that can be solved via firmware
  • sometimes it is not about fixing bugs, but about making your camera better, faster, new features, etc.
  • Fujifilm is well known for providing firmware updates to products that are end of life and discontinued, in order to still improve their performance
  • those updates are free of charge

Wait, is this it some sort of subliminal and hidden message?

I mean, a video, where a manager reminds us that Fujifilm does update older gear with new features, and the Fujifilm manager holds a nice Fujifilm X-T3 in his hands. Is he trying to tell us, that the rumored Fujifilm X-T3 Kaizen update is about to come?

Anyway, this post is a good opportunity to let Fujifilm know your firmware wishes in the comments.

A simple wish from my side? Well, I expressed them in this old post already, but I will repreat them here, in case Fujifilm did not hear me the first time:

  1. Keep Self-Timer Enabled
  2. Ability to change color of the focus frame
  3. Addition of RAW files to Auto Mode

If you want to read more in depth what I mean, and why I picked these 3, check out this post.

And what about you?

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VOTE NOW the TAMRON Lens You Want for Fujifilm X

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Now that Fujifilm officially opened their X mount, we recently launched this mega-survey, on which Sigma lenses you would like for Fujifilm X.

If you want to see which are the top Sigma lens wishes of the Fujifilm X mount community, check out this post.

Now it’s time to see which one of all the lenses listed at the Tamron website you’d like also for Fujifilm X mount.

First the full list of lenses you can click to check price and specs, and down below the survey.

  1. Tamron 20mm F/2.8 Di III OSD M1:2
  2. Tamron 24mm F/2.8 Di III OSD M1:2
  3. Tamron SP 35mm F/1.4 Di USD
  4. Tamron SP 35mm F/1.8 Di VC USD
  5. Tamron 35mm F/2.8 Di III OSD M1:2
  6. Tamron SP 45mm F/1.8 Di VC USD
  7. Tamron SP AF 60mm F/2.0 Di II LD [IF] Macro 1:1
  8. Tamron SP 85mm F/1.8 Di VC USD
  9. Tamron SP 90mm F/2.8 Di MACRO 1:1 VC USD
  10. Tamron SP AF 180mm F/3.5 Di LD[IF] MACRO 1:1
  11. Tamron 10-24mm F/3.5-4.5 Di II VC HLD
  12. Tamron SP 15-30mm F/2.8 Di VC USD / G2
  13. Tamron 17-28mm F/2.8 Di III RXD
  14. Tamron 17-35mm F/2.8-4 Di OSD
  15. Tamron SP AF 17-50mm F/2.8 XR Di II VC (LD) Aspherical [IF]
  16. Tamron SP 24-70mm F/2.8 Di VC USD / G2
  17. Tamron 28-75mm F/2.8 Di III RXD
  18. Tamron SP AF 28-75mm F/2.8 XR Di LD Aspherical [IF] MACRO
  19. Tamron 35-150mm F/2.8-4 Di VC OSD
  20. Tamron 14-150mm F/3.5-5.8 Di III
  21. Tamron 18-200mm F/3.5-6.3 Di III VC
  22. Tamron AF 18-270mm F/3.5 -6.3 Di II VC PZD
  23. Tamron 16-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD MACRO
  24. Tamron 18-400mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II VC HLD
  25. Tamron 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD
  26. Tamron SP 70-200mm F/2.8 Di VC USD / G2
  27. Tamron 70-210mm F/4 Di VC USD
  28. Tamron SP AF 70-300 F/4-5.6 Di VC USD
  29. Tamron AF 70-300mm F/4-5.6 Di LD MACRO 1:2
  30. Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD / G2
  31. Tamron 100-400mm F/4.5-6.3 Di VC USD

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Top 10 April Articles: Fujinon X Roadmap Rumors, X-H2 Confirmed, Firmware Updates, X Mount is Open (Sigma?), Tokina for Fuji X

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Here are the Top 10 most read articles in April, that, in case you missed, you should definitely go back and check out!

  1. Fujifilm Releases Several New Firmware Updates
  2. Fujifilm Manager Toshihisa Iida: “We Open X Mount to Third Parties. X-H Line Continues. No GFX Fixed Lens Camera & More”
  3. VOTE NOW the SIGMA Lens You Want for Fujifilm X
  4. Viltrox 33mm f/1.4 Pre-Sale Started and Shipping April 21
  5. Top 20 Fujifilm Manager Statments about Fujifilm X-H2, X100V/X-T3 Firmware, Monochrome, Open X Mount, Fixed Lens GFX and More
  6. Major Fujifilm X-T3 and GFX100 Firmware Update Coming May/June
  7. Hooray! Fujifilm X-E4 Shows Up in Internal Fujifilm Roadmap Again!
  8. Fujifilm Issues Official Statement Regarding Fujifilm X100V Overheating Reports
  9. Tokina to Launch Three Fujifilm X Mount Lenses in 2020
  10. Fujifilm X Lens Roadmap: Two Fujinon MK II Lenses Coming Between Now and March 2021 plus XF50mmF1.0 and XF70-300mmF4-5.6 [now we know all 4 lenses on the roadmap. Only to determinate which exactly the 2 mark II lenses will be].

Top 3 Runner Ups

  1. It’s a Triumph: FUJIFILM Wins Top 2 World Press Photo Awards and Even More… Despite not Being Full Frame ;)
  2. Fujifilm Manager: X100V/X-T3 Firmware, Fujifilm X-H2 will Come, Zero Monochrome Chances, 32 Megapixel Limit for Current XF Lenses & More
  3. FR-readers Wishlist Corner: Fujifilm X-TSony, Firmware Upgrade Suggestions, Lens Wishes and Much More

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Review of the Steelsring Nikon F to Fujifilm GFX Smart Autofocus Adapter

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After a long wait, the Steelsring Nikon F to Fujifilm GFX Smart Autofocus Adapter started to be available towards the end of 2019.

You can find it here on AmazonUS.

No Dylan published his review, which you can see below. Here are the main points:

  • it’s not the cheapest adapter
  • allows you to autofocus with the more modern Nikon G and E type lenses
  • good build quality
  • mounting on GFX mount does not sound quite as smooth as mounting a GFX lens on the body or a Laowa lens. On the other side, the Nikon mount part feels good
  • ability to control aperture
  • you have an aperture ring on the adapter for G type lenses, and you can set it to AUTO for E type lenses
  • E type lenses with magnetic aperture can be controlled electronically via the GFX body
  • G type lenses are not really fully supported. Aperture control is purely mechanical and the adapter doesn’t actually know which position it is in. Aperture value is not send to the camera. The lens can only communicate to the body what its widest aperture is, but if you stop down, it is unable to tell you who much it stopped down
  • loose aperture ring
  • aperture stops are very close together, hence not easy to be accurate
  • autofocus speed depends a lot on the lens.
  • you will see wobbeling of the contast AF detect system
  • GFX100 phase detection system is not supported
  • You won’t get Nikon level focus speed, because the GFX system is not capable of that
  • if you accept an autofocus speed a bit slower than native GFX lenses, then it can work for you
  • there is more or less strong vignetting depending on the lens
  • wide open, sharpness is not quite as high as on Nikon cameras, as the Nikon lenses where not designed to resolve over such a large sensor. If you stop down, things get much better
  • for more sharpness better use GFX lenses

This is the summary of the video below. But Dylan posted an article about it also on fstoppers, that you can read here.

  • Steelsring NK-F/GFX smart autofocus adapter: AmazonUS / eBay

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