We have already reported about Dom Varney’s articles “Powering the Fujifilm X-T3” and “Fujifilm NP-W126S Battery Counterfeits – A Visual Guide to Spotting the Fakes“.
He now also published the most comprehensive guide to Fujifilm original and third party batteries I have ever seen on the web so far.
The tested batteries are:
It’s a massive write-up, impossible to sum up quickly. So I’ll just share a short excerpt:
We already told you that the Fujifilm X100F successor (X100V/X200) will come in 2020.
I am still working on the details, but I can now safely say, that the Fujifilm X100V (or X200) will come with a new lens (and of course we can expect the latest X-Trans IV sensor in it).
As an anonymous source also told me, “the old lens is already struggling to make use of the current sensor”.
I know you guys have questions about the new lens. And I am working on this. But for now I do not feel confident enough to give a final answer on this. But the work is in progress, so expect updates on this hopefully soon.
Thanks to the anonymous source, who contacted me yesterday confirming me it will have a new lens. I read also the rest of your message. I will make a routine checks, and share later on. Thanks a ton!
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Looking at the Fujifilm X series camera release timeline we shared last year, and comparing it with the current rumors, we can say that it turns out to be pretty accurate… except for one camera: the Fujifilm X100F successor (may it be called X100V or X200 or whatever)
The X100 line had a refresh cycle of about 2 years, and given that the X100F was launched in January 2017, everybody speculates it will come very soon, at least within 2019.
But trusted sources now informed us, that the Fujifilm X100V (or X200) will be launched in 2020 only!
This time Fujifilm decided to wait longer than ever to give us a successor.
And by the way, if you want to know which is the Fujifilm facebook group with less gear talk, less gear shots, less gear discussions and mostly focussed on the art of photography and images, than this is definitely our Fujifilm X100 facebook group.
I think this is representative for the people, who buy this camera: never think about gear again. Get the camera, one lens only, and go out and shoot. It’s all about being focused on taking pictures.
The liberation of limitation!
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World Press Photo is world’s most prestigious photojournalism contest.
In 2017, Fujifilm was the only brand to break the DSLR hegemony and also in the 2016, the X-Pro1 was the only MILC to snap a winning price.
In 2019, it is still DSLR that dominates, by taking 71% of the winning photos, but it’s less than in the past:
2019 has been Fuji’s best year so far, since Fuji X shooters snapped 4 winning images.
Interesting to note that Fuji’s rangefinder styled cameras win over the DSLR-styled ones, as opposed to real life, where the X-T line far outsells them all, the X-Pro, X100 and X-E line.
But at the end of the day, what matters is that we can see lots of great images at the worldpressphoto page here, and I am pretty sure you won’t care which image has been taken with which camera, but simply be captured by the stories they tell.
via photolari (original source) – petapixel – fujistas
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Fringer just released the Fringer EF-FX Pro II autofocus smart adapter for pre-order.
Main improvements of the 2nd generation of EF-FX Pro include
The price is $299 + $25 (worldwide expedited shipping included. tax/duty not included). Fringer will begin to ship it before May 11.
The functions and performance of gen1 and gen2 are the same.
So far only the Fringer EF-FX Pro II is released. The non-Pro version is still available only in its first generation. In future, the functional firmware update for gen1 and gen2 will be released at the same time as long as the resources of gen1 are enough to support that.
For more details about the Fringer EF-FX Pro II check out Fringer website here.
The Fringer EF-FX Pro II is open for pre-order now at Fringer store.
You can read customer reviews for the Fringer EF-FX Pro version 1 at AmazonUS here and Amazon US here.
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Every now and then I get emails from fellow Fujifilm X Shooters, complaining that their camera settings get completely deteleted. There are several reasons this can happen:
So the first thing you can do, is to avoid the errors we mentioned above.
And yet, sometimes it’s not a user error (see firmware update), so you better have a Plan B in case all your settings get lost, and in our case, our Plan B is called Fuji X Acquire.
And since just right after the Fujifilm X-T3 firmware update, some FR-readers couldn’t find the back-up feature, I thought I share a quick guide on how to save & restore your Fujifilm camera settings using Fujifilm X Acquire.
Fujifilm Camera Remote 4.0.1 update has been released.
You can download the iOS version at the AppStore.
The Android version has not yet been updated. The next update is scheduled for May 2019.
Nokishita just leaked the Fujifilm Instax Mini LiPlay Owners Manual. You can download it here.
Main features:
The Fujifilm Instax Mini LiPlay will be available very soon at AmazonUS here, BHphoto here and Adorama here.
The Instax market is Fuji’s goldmine. Instax products are all over the very top positions of the AmazonUS best selling overall photo ranking.
INSTAX SP-WIDE PRINTER PLEASE FUJI!
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The Viltrox 85mm f/1.8 autofocus lens for Fujifilm X mount is now available for pre-order at AmazonUS (shipping April 19) and BHphoto here (available May 6).
We have covered the latest reviews and compared it also to the Fujinon XF 90mm f/2 in a dedicated Viltrox 85mm roundup here.
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In their wonderful X Summit event, Fujifilm said they have released over 250 firmware updates since the first X series has been launched 8 years ago.
That’s a hefty number, so knowing how to properly update your camera is very important.
In fact, every time an update is released, I get contacted by X shooters having issues with it. In 99,9% of the cases it helps them to read:
But today I’d like to focus on how to update your camera using the Fujifilm camera remote app.
In fact, a Fujifilm manager revealed here that way fewer people than expected (and hoped) update their camera using the App.
And since the manager looked pretty sad about it, I thought I jump in and help a bit by sharing a “How To” guide on FujiRumors.
The update via camera remote is honestly pretty intuitive and straightforward, but the main goal of this article is simply to create a bit of awareness for the in-App-firmware-update-method.
So, if your camera has bluetooth, give it a try, next time your camera gets some Kaizen love.
Oh, and dear Fujifilm X-T3 owners, your camera will be updated in April as Fujifilm said… so you are next :).
So, down below is the guide.
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