Fujifilm has released firmware updates for plenty of lenses that will make the autofocus more silent, the aperture operate smoother and also give better tracking performance while zooming.
That’s a very nice upgrade especially for video shooters.
Not all lenses will get all these three updates. You can find the full detailed list below.
Stalman+ hosted Chris and Jordan on his YouTube channel. They talk about DRP shutting down, the Sony ZV-E1 and starting from minute 38:24 they also talk about all camera brands in a section called “Battle of the Camera Brands”.
Regarding Fujifilm, this is what Chris, Jordan and Stalman+ have to say (starts 57:05):
So lots of great things are said about Fujifilm, and only two significant points of criticism: improve autofocus even more and keep delivering Kaizen firmware updates.
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The story starts like many other stories: a full frame camera, in this case the high resolution Canon EOS R5 gets compared with a Fujifilm APS-C camera, in this case the high res Fujifilm X-H2.
I hear many of you say now “no, not again!”
But hear me out.
This time it’s a bit different.
This time, the magic of DxO Pure RAW comes into play.
Here is what happened.
Ian Worth used the following gear side by side with the goal to compare the details on large prints:
But he went an extra step. He did not simply load the files into Lightroom to process the RAW files (with Lightroom standard settings) and then print the images.
Nope, he wanted to “help” Lightroom to deal with X-Trans files, and hence used DxO Pure RAW to transform the files into a DNG and only then processed them in Lightroom.
Unfair?
Well, he did the same with Canon files, but DxO did not bring any benefits in terms of sharpness to the Canon files, as opposed to Fujifilm X-Trans files, which definitely saw an improvement if passed through the DxO engine.
The result: the Fujifilm X-H2 and the Canon R5 both delivered very comparable results. Sometimes in certain areas he preferred the details on the X-H2, sometimes on the R5. But overall, both delivered absolutely excellent results.
Not bad for the Fujifilm combo, which costs about half as much as the Canon combo.
Look, RAW files are intended to be processed. And it’s up to everyone to decide how to do that.
But if you own X-Trans cameras and use Lightroom, then using DxO as a plug-in is definitely a recommended step to take into your post processing workflow.
Not mentioned by Ian in the video is the new DxO “DeepPRIME XD” support for X-Trans files, which is clearly superior to the more basic “DeepPRIME”. Now it really handles noise especially in dark areas much better.
The Gear
Fujifilm has released the long awaited firmware that adds Frame.io Camera to Cloud support for the Fujifilm X-H2 and Fujifilm X-H2s (and also fixes a few bugs).
You can check out all the details in this article.
Now Fujifilm USA has published a video where they guide you through this new feature and you can see the video above.
After a couple of mojito’s on a Carribian island, the guys who had the brilliant idea to make tons of money by giving away meaningless awards, came up with enough categories to assign prizes to all companies who were so generous to buy the brag-rights to their past awards.
And if you think I am kidding, of course I am. I mean, to come up with categories that differentiate between “expert” and “professional” you have to take harder stuff than just mojitos :D.
After a brutally hard selection and extensive tests, TIPA has selected the winners of their 2023 awards.
Here are the Fujifilm products that won:
Also RedDot asked ChatGPT to make an extensive list of random products they can award to make money has tested tons of gear on their design and usability and came up with a list of winners.
Fujifilm was able to gain the humble amount of 23 RedDot Award. The photography related gear is this one:
Well done Fujifilm. This means you are a very healthy company if you have money to throw away for these awards.
Still today, the official position of Fujifilm is that there will be an X summit in April.
But if you follow FujiRumors, you’ll know that the X Summit in April has been canceled and that there will be an X summit in May.
I have no idea why Fujifilm is not correcting the date, but you have to trust me on this.
Today we can also tell you the exact date of the announcement: the next Fujifilm X Summit will take place on May 24.
This comes from trusted sources, so I have no doubts that the date is accurate. Unless Fujifilm decides to cancel it again.
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In the third category, only those articles will by linked, that were not already in the first list.
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The Fujifilm X-E4 was launched in January 2021 and the last time I’ve noticed the X-E4 in stock was back in October 2021.
Not even the Fujifilm X100V has such a bad shipping record as the X-E4.
And now, after 2 years only, stores are already starting to mark it as discontinued, as for example BHphoto here (in all its combinations) and the Australian store Camerapro.
It’s a pity that such a beautiful little camera hardly ever shipped and now it even seems to be over for it.
At this point, the Fujifilm X-E5 can’t come soon enough.
DPReview has interviewed four Japanese Fujifilm managers at CP+.
Down below you can get the summary of what has been said.
Back in January Fujifilm officially announced the next Fujifilm X Summit for April.
But today a trusted source reached out to us and told us that Fujifilm has now decided to cancel the April X summit event.
I have no idea if Fujifilm will make an official announcement about the event being deleted, or if they’ll just let April pass and hope we simply forgot about it.
But what I am sure is this: there is no X summit in April. That’s Trusted Stuff.
Evidently something did not go according to plan.
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