Merry X mas

First and foremost, merry Christmas to the entire Fujifilm family out there and to every single one of you reading this blog. Make the best out of your holidays and enjoy every moment.

And now the part almost nobody will read, but for me personally it’s very important…

THANK YOU TO….

• ALL SOURCES who helped me also this year with the rumors. Your support was once again incredible. You help us to make being part of the Fuji X community so much more fun :). I hope to hear very often from you again also in 2018.
• ALL READERS who decided to support FujiRumors by commenting the articles, by dropping me a link to interesting content, news, deals and by sharing our content on social media and forums. You allow this blog to be always the very first to break the news and also to be the by far most active Fujifilm community on the web.
• ALL SUPPORTERS who decided to purchase products using our affiliate links, who donated a few bucks and who clicked on the banners on our website. I do put heart and soul into this blog, but without your support to cover the costs of this site, I could close FujiRumors tomorrow morning.
• ALL CONTRIBUTORS who decided to write a guest post for FujiRumors. You do enrich the FR-experience with your great content
• ALL PEOPLE AT FUJIFILM who worked hard to keep up designing, developing and crafting wonderful cameras and lenses and for covering us also in 2017 with Kaizen love

have great holidays… all of you,
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Support for Homeless People

As you might have noticed, here on FujiRumors we are convinced supporters of charity initiatives. In fact, over the last two years, thanks to your support, we collected $5,000 for free education to Cambodian kids, and as you can see above, the kids wanted to say “Thank you” to all of you guys :)

This time, I’d like to bring to your attention a charity initiative launched by our friends at Cosyspeed camera bags.

They have launched a special edition bag, the CAMSLINGER Streetomatic Valerie Jardin bag (Valerie shoots Fuji ;) ), and $25 of each sold bag go to the project #dosomethingfornothing, a project of London based stylist Joshua Coombes who gives free haircuts to homeless people.

Joshs project has grown quickly to 180 thousand followers on Instagram and he was featured in Morgan Freemans show on National Geographic and The Washington Post.

Full details after the video.

Future Kaizen Love

First off: Thank you Fujifilm ♡

Especially the recent X-Pro2 firmware update was simply amazing, and it delivered even more than what you promised us back in September.

Your firmware support is one of the reasons why I’m really happy and proud to own your products and be part of the Fujifilm world.

So please don’t think I’m not grateful for all the huge Kaizen love you delivered to us Fuji shooters over all these years, when today I invite the FR-community to throw in some ideas for future updates.

But fact is, that always, right after major firmware updates, I get many emails from the FujiRumors community, who share with me their ideas regarding future updates. And I like it that the community is so active and constructive, and keeps up thinking at ways to improve your cameras.

Some asked me for highlight priority metering mode, some others would like the ability to adjust ISO via command dial on X-Pro2 or more peaking colors for old X-E1/Pro1 cameras. Personally, owning the Fujifilm X-E3, I can’t wait to see a proper geotagging via bluetooth.

But I won’t extend the list further… I’ll leave it to the FujiRumors community to add their wishes in the comments.

So now it’s your turn guys, go ahead and let us know which firmware update you would like for which camera model.

And knowing that Fujifilm reads us, feel free to share also your personal “thank you” to Fujifilm… I’m sure they like it if we don’t take firmware updates for granted and show them our appreciation.

In fact, a trusted sources told me, that Fujifilm is looking extremely closely to this community and that you guys are absolutely and by very far Fujifilm’s Nr.1 source for online feedback.

I don’t know if our trusted source is right, but what I know is that:

• Fujifilm Top Manager Toshihisa Iida Reads and “Loves” FujiRumors
• Fujifilm displays our polls in internal meetings
• Fujifilm can’t ignore a community that is able to drop 11,000 votes in a single poll within 2 days
• It was your negative feedback and poll result, that killed the monochrome X-Pro1
• It was your positive pressure that revived the X-E3 plans and made Fujifilm say here “we are aware of the many X-E3 request”
  
• and more…

So guys, now it’s your turn again to let Fujifilm know :)

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Fringer just uploaded a video demo of the Canon EF to Fuji X smart adapter.

You can see how the Sigma 30/1.4 performs on the Fujiflm X-T2 in this youtube video.

Here is a list of smart adapters available or to come soon.

• Techart (Canon EF-GFX)
• Steelsring (Canon EF-Fuji X, Canon EF-GFX, Nikon F-GFX, Nikon F-Fuji X)
• Fringer (Contax 645-GFX, Canon EF-Fuji X)
• Kipon (Canon EF-GFX, Contax 645-GFX)

Fringer writes at fringerdev.strikingly.com

After almost a month’s research and development, Fringer EF-FX smart adapter prototype’s PDAF performance has been further improved.

Unlike Sony E mount cameras, Fujifilm X mount is quite complex in PDAF support. More than two years ago, when A7r2 introduced phase detection AF (PDAF) for adapted lenses for the first time, I spent a night to find out the key mechanism and in very short time let my Contax N-E adapter become world’s first third party smart adapter supporting PDAF on mirrorless. Now I finally find the way to make X cameras do the same when adapting EF lenses. All the PDAF points on CMOS, not only the central one, but also the others around it, are all working properly, whatever the lens is wide or tele, zoom or prime and whatever the aperture is set wide open or stopping down.

Although the firmware of smart adapter for GFX50s can be easily modified to support X mount as what some other smart adapter manufacturer probably is doing , it doesn’t support PDAF. Compared with CDAF (contrast detection AF), PDAF is a performance leap. Thus, I developed the new version specifically for X mount. I made a short video to demo the AF-C zone focusing performance when PDAF is enabled. The lens is Sigma 30/1.4 art (for EF mount) and the camera is X-T2. Remember that S30/1.4A has a bad reputation for its slow AF speed.

In addition to that, I also did some real field tests. Using a EFs 55-250/4.0-5.6 IS STM lens and X-T2 camera, I tried continuous shooting on a moving vehicle towards the camera. I set the AF mode to zone and AF-C, continuous shooting mode to CH, and shutter mode to electronic only. The lens was at 250mm/F5.6.

I shot 34 photos in less than 4 seconds with a rough speed of 10 frames per second.

I know, after the Fuji Xerox scandals in New Zeland, some sites tried to create alarmistic clickbait headlines, saying that the issue might be so serious to really endanger Fujifilm’s existence. But here on FujiRumors we like to be a tiny bit more factual and to look at the real numbers when they are so easily available… and those numbers are, once again, positive.

Hence, no panic… as we always said here on FujiRumors, Fujifilm is healthy, and especially its imaging division is growing and growing, quarter after quarter… or as Fujifilm writes: “revenue up 13.3% from the same period of the previous fiscal year“.

We already reported that things seem to go quite well for Fujifilm. Some managers even dream of 50% market share, and Fujifilm’s declared goal is to become Nr.1 mirrorless premium camera manufacturer within 2019. Moreoever, at lensrentals, the rental of Fujifilm lenses saw a 96% increse in 2017.

One more interesting little quote to highlight is that Fujifilm says they are “leading the mirrorless digital camera market“.

Down below I have copied all passages that talk about Fuji’s imaging division. Enjoy :)