Fujifilm was the most busy camera brand of all in 2022.
They have released three higher end cameras, four XF lenses and one GF lens. Plus some accessories, such as the legendary cooling fan and the TG-BT1 Tripod Grip.
Now the question is: can the Fujifilm year 2023 match the year 2022 in terms of product launches?
Well, let’s look at it.
Pre-orders for the Fujifilm X-T5 were stellar. So much so that the most wanted option, the body only, is very hard to find in stock and Fujifilm is busy trying to ship all pre-orders as quickly as possible.
At the time of this post, the silver and black Fujifilm X-T5 are ranked in the top 3 of the new releases at Amazon, beaten only by this camera. But it’s easy to imagine that both, the silver and black body together will beat the current Nr.1 (which comes only in 1 color).
Also in Japan things are going very well. The Japanese site digicame-info collected the various rankings here.
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Fujifilm X-T5
Fujifilm has published a series of video tutorials about the Fujifilm File Transmitter Grip FT-XH. You can see the four videos below.
DPRTV teamed up with Ted Forbes to predict the future of the Fujifilm system for 2023.
They predict two cameras:
I won’t make any comment on anything at the moment, because as you can imagine, I am looking deep into 2023 already, and when the time has come and all the checks are done, I will drop 100% accurate rumors for you.
So for now take their predictions as what they are: fun speculations and wishes.
The FujiRumors community has a clear idea on what they want for 2023.
For the X series the most wished camera is indeed the Fujifilm X-Pro4 followed by the Fujifilm X100VI (or X100Vs or X200 or however Fujifilm is going to call the Fujifilm X100V successor).
For the GFX series, the top wish could be summed up with one word: speed!
It’s pure sadness.
I mean, if you look at the current X mount lens roadmap, it is just sadness, with only one X mount lens stoically standing all alone trying to keep up excited about the future.
So we decided to help Fujifilm in gathering some ideas, and you guys dropped hundreds of lens suggestions for the future here, which I then summed up in 40 options to vote on here.
Well, here are the results:
TOP 6 LENSES OVERALL:
There were really a lot of suggestions in the wide angle zoom range. So many, that I decided to give 2 options to vote on, the XF16-35mm f/2 and the XF 11-30mm f/2.8.
But if we were to merger even those two lenses into one single lens, we could get something like the XF 14-30mm f/2.0. In that case, we would have the following result.
TOP 6 PRIMES:
TOP 6 ZOOMS:
And if we were to merge the two lenses as we did above, we would get:
CONCLUSIONS
Wide Angle Reality vs Telephoto Dreams
When you go around in forums, you’ll often see people complaining about Fujifilm not offering enough long lenses.
And to a certain degree I agree with you: long primes especially are needed!
But then there is the reality.
And the reality is that the vast majority of Fujifilm shooters simply do not see long lenses as a priority. What they really want is the total opposite: more wide angle zooms and primes.
We have to be clear about this: any of the lenses that made it to the top of the list in our survey would outsell by a large margin any long prime or zoom lens Fuji would launch.
That’s something Fujifilm knows (and has openly declared here).
And yet, there is at least one lens I feel Fujifilm must give us: the (already patented) Fujinon XF 400mm f/4, which made it in the top 15 of our list and fellow FR-readers already made mock-ups of and it is consistently your top wished telephoto lens.
So, even though it did not make the list, I strongly advice Fujifilm to give us a long prime lens.
Fujifilm X-T5
I know when one only writes good things about something, people get suspicious.
So feel free to mistrust me guys, but so far I really have only great things to say about the Fujifilm X-T5.
But give me time, I will find something to moan about. I just need to actually have time to shoot with it.
Because even if I have the Fujifilm X-T5 since a few days already, in these weeks I was so overloaded with work, that I had zero time to go out and take picture.
And yet, holidays are coming and soon my X-T5 will be extensively tested. I might let you know in the next few days. Can’t wait for it.
So what are my impressions so far?
Well, I wanted to make a youtube video about it, but some readers told me they prefer written stuff. So I went hybrid this time, with text to read and just short video clips of 10 seconds in those cases I feel they are useful.
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Fujifilm has officially announced the Fujifilm TG-BT1 Tripod Grip.
The TG-BT1 allows you to record movies, take photographs, or adjust zoom on compatible power zoom lenses (XF18-120mmF4 LM PZ WR and XC15-45mmF3.5-5.6 OIS PZ) while holding this Bluetooth tripod grip.
National Geographic tapped their photo engineering team for which cameras they recommend for travel—and why. They design and build custom equipment for professional photographers and test consumer products for this annual guide.
Here are their top picks for travel:
DPRTV published a video about the Good and the Bad of Fujifilm.
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