Fujifilm Financial Results for FY2019/3 1st Quarter
Fujifilm just published the 1st quarter results for the Financial Year 2019. Fujifilm confirms to be a healthy company, but the overall operating income in the imaging solutions segment went down 2.2%…
“due to such factors as upfront R&D investment for next generation processor and sensor for digital cameras and others.”
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During this years SUSE Hackweek Marcus Meissner, the maintainer of libgphoto2, worked on tethered shooting support for Fujifilm cameras on Linux.
The community provided him with a X-E2, X-T2 and X-Pro2. On top of that the developers of Timelapse+ (www.timelapseplus.com), which internally uses libgphoto2 to communicate with the camera, provided code for adding basic support.
As the X-E2 doesn’t support the necessary protocol for tethered shooting Marcus couldn’t add it for this camera. But for the X-T2 and X-Pro2 a lot of stuff now works:
white balance mode
image format (quality and size)
exposure metering mode
exposure program
focus metering mode
capture delay (self-timer)
focus mode
shutter release
Here you can see Entangle, a graphical frontend for libgphoto2, together with a X-Pro2 in action:
Live view support doesn’t seem to work as of now and many other features that the Fujifilm protocol might support as well. A tremendous help for further development would be an open specification for the connection protocol by Fujifilm. As we know Fujifilm follows Fujirumors. The addition of some of the highest voted lenses of the Fujirumor survey in the new Fuji lens roadmap is prove of that. Maybe this will get their attention and get them into contact with the developer.
To test this on your own machine you have to use a master branch build of libgphoto2 or if you use openSUSE Leap 15/Tumbleweed use the graphics repository to receive a newer build:
Announcement at or before photokina 2018 (end of September)
26MP X-Trans sensor
maybe stacked sensor (still do be confirmed by trusted sources, so grain of salt)
new processor
no IBIS
shipping October/November
touch screen
better battery performance (probably by keeping same battery, since Fujifilm registered a new battery charger for NP-W126s batteries, as reported here)
The Fujifilm X-T3 has now been registered online under the name “FF180003” (spotted via nokishita)
It will be Fujifilm’s first flagship camera made in China.
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The Rumored Specs
Rumored Fujifilm X-T3 Specs so far
Announcement at or before photokina 2018 (end of September)
26MP X-Trans sensor
maybe stacked sensor (still do be confirmed by trusted sources, so grain of salt)
new processor
no IBIS
shipping October/November
touch screen
better battery performance (probably by keeping same battery, since Fujifilm registered a new battery charger for NP-W126s batteries, as reported here)
this is the Fujifilm X-H1 IBIS unit placed into the Fujifilm X-T2
Fujifilm’s Current IBIS
Some FujiRumors readers have a hard time to believe our rumor, that the Fujifilm X-T3 won’t have IBIS. And you always do good to doubt, since there are undoubtedly lots of fake and wrong rumors surfacing on the web all the time… but not here on FujiRumors ;) .
And yet, despite sharing about 100 rumors a year with a statistic accuracy of 95%+, you should always take also what we write with a grain of salt.
Hence, in order to give some substance to the rumor the X-T3 won’t have IBIS, I decided to give you 2 facts.
Fujifilm is getting ready for the next wave of big deals.
In fact the Polish Fujifilm page here already uploaded the list of gear that will get a huge discount from July 1 to September 30, 2018.
According to the Polish Fujifilm page, you will save between €200 and €300 on the following items:
Fujifilm X-H1 body only or with vertical grip
Fujifilm X-T2 body only or with XF18-55
Fujifilm X-E3 with XF23/2, XF35/2 or XF50/2
Fujifilm X-Pro2 with XF23/2, XF35/2 or XF50/2
Of course if Fujifilm Poland launches these deals, we can expect the same deals to be available in many other European countries, too.
And since this is evidently the big sell-out before the arrival of the Fujifilm X-T3 in September, I would not be surprised to see this sale offered also by Fujifilm North America.
But keep in mind one thing: the Fujifilm X-T3 will not have IBIS, so if you want all your (Fujinon or third party) lenses stabilized, then you have to go for the Fujifilm X-H1.
DON’T BE AFRAID to miss the deals. Just follow FR and you can rest assured that I will notify you the very same second that the deals go live via Facebook, RSS-feed and Twitter.
SAR ADMIN updated the article with the following 2 notes: UPDATE: A chinese source just sent me these specs sheets of a rumored new Sony CMOS sensor found on Weibo. I am not sure if they are real but it certainly looks like that.
UPDATED: I edited this post and removed the note about the possibility that this might be used by the future A6700. What we learned now is that this is an APS-C sensor with an aspect ratio of 4:3.
FR ADMIN NOTE: As pointed out by readers, it’s been developed for FA and ITS applications. This is (expensive) BtoB stuff. Not BtoC photographic equipment.
New Sensor
SonyAlphaRumors just received specs about what seems to be the future APS-C sensor made by Sony.
This is of interest for Fujifilm lovers, since Fujifilm buys its sensor from Sony.
However, as we reported here on FujiRumors, the Fujifilm X-T3 will have 26 Megapixel and still be X-Trans. So, if the rumor below is correct, I wouldn’t expect it to be featured on Fujifilm cameras before 2020/2021, maybe something for the Fujifilm X-H2 or Fujifilm X-T4.
Here is what SAR writes:
“A chinese source just sent me these specs sheets of a rumored new Sony CMOS sensor. I don’t know if this is a real deal or some fake specs. So please take it with a grain of salt. But if it’s true this is going to be an AMAZING sensor that might find it’s way into the new A6700!
Key info:
– APS-C size 4:3 aspect ratio – 31.5 megapixel – FSI (Front Side illuminated) – global shutter
This would be the first Front Side illuminated Global Shutter APS-C sensor. Surely enough to make the A6700 super exciting! Here are the spec sheets:
Fujifilm just registered one more camera, the FF 180004, that has the same radio parts of the Fujifilm X-H1 and X-E3 (registration here – via nokishita)
So we now have three unreleased cameras registered, that should be announced by the end of this summer:
FF 180002: Camera similar in size to Fujifilm X70. Very likely the Fujifilm XF10. To be announced July 5.
FF 180003: Camera with bluetooth version 4.2. We reported here.
FF 180004: Camera with radio parts like Fujifilm X-H1 and X-E3.
The two registered cameras could be Fujifilm GFX 50R and Fujifilm X-T3.
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