Nope, there is No Fujinon XF300mmF4 and XF500mmF5.6 Coming in 2021

Do you know those automatic tennis ball machine launchers that constantly fire off balls at you, so fast that at some point you just can’t catch them all anymore?

Well, it’s not much different with fake rumors ;).

Sometimes the fake rumors are thrown out in the world with a pace, that here on FujiRumors we just can’t debunk them all fast enough.

But I try to catch up, and here is one that passed the FujiRumors firewall so far but will now be set right.

Back in March 2020 we reported about two Fujifilm patents showing a Fujinon XF300mmF4 and Fujinon XF500mmF5.6.

Now, I keep getting emails of people firmly believing that the Fujinon XF300mmF4 and Fujinon XF500mmF5.6 will come out for the summer Olympics 2021 in Tokyo.

And guys, I hate to be the one that brings the bad news, but whoever told you that, it is not going to happen.

As a matter of fact, those lenses won’t even come in 2021.

Will they come in 2022? Or in 2023? Or maybe never? I have no idea at this point.

But I tell you this: I blog on FR since 9 years now, and I have reported about countless of patents. And if I have understood something about patents in all these years, then it’s that there is a long way between a patent and a final product. And often patents never even materialize into a final product.

So, take patents with a grain of salt, always.

With that said, I do hope those lenses will come. Maybe Sigma will do them?

Stay tuned on FujiRumors, and I will give you updates as soon as I have them.

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Laowa Argus 33mm f/0.95 Specifications

Here are the specs for the Laowa Argus 33mm f/0.95. Courtesy of the Chinese Weibo at 评者N大 and Camerabeta

  • Argus 33mm F0.95 (APS-C)
  • low breathing effect
  • low dispersion
  • infinite aperture design
  • minimum focusing distance 35CM
  • filter size 62mm
  • size 71.5 x 83mm
  • weighing 590g
  • Sony E, Fuji X, Nikon Z and Canon RF and EF-M mount versions will be launched
  • price is said to be less than 3500 CNY ($540)

Laowa Lenses for Fujifilm X and GFX can be found at VenusOptics, BHphoto and AmazonUS.

Which Fujifilm Camera do you Hope to Get in 2021?

Recently we checked out how many cameras Fujifilm usually released in the last few years, and we saw that in the last 3 years Fujifilm released 3 cameras. So, assuming that Fujifilm keeps the same pace, we can hope to get 3 cameras also in 2021. But obviously this is just a reference: there could be more or even less than that.

So let’s go crazy with our wishes and make a list of our top dream cameras in the comments.

Everything goes, everything is allowed, all your secret wishes, your forbidden dreams, you biggest desires… as long as you are also willing to pay for them :).

P.S.: yes, we rumored the Fujiflm GFX100S and the X-E4 already. Both will be announced on January 27…. along with so much other stuff! But until now they are “just” rumors that have exclusively shared on FujiRumors.

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BREAKING: Fujinon XF27mm f/2.8 MKII will be Weather Sealed and Have Aperture Ring

We already told you back in July 2020, that Fujifilm would launch the Fujinon XF27mm f/2.8 MKII.

Recently we also told you that this lens (among lots of other stuff) will be announced on January 27.

And today we have more :).

The Fujinon XF27mm f/2.8 MK II will have:

  • weather sealing
  • aperture ring

I’ll buy it… and I won’t tell my wife about it ;).

I’ll just sell my old 27mm first and she hopefully won’t notice that the new one has an aperture ring. Smart, huh? And if she ever asks, you guys nicely back me up and say in the comments the XF27mm always had an aperture ring ;).

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DON’T PANIC, the Fujifilm X-E4 has an EVF!

Yesterday I reported that the Fujifilm X-E4 will have a flip up screen, similar to the one you see on the Fujifilm X70 and Sony A6400.

When I shared that rumor, I also shared an image with an X-E4 mock-up I made (not the real camera) and two images of an X70 with tilted screen, so that you guys can see immediately how the X70 screen works.

The image I shared was the one you see above. The two smaller cameras on the right show the X70 (and you can read it also printed on the top of the camera).

But for some reason, especially over on facebook, lots of people thought that this means the X-E4 won’t have a viewfinder. But what you see on the left, are two images of the X70 (it’s acutally also written on top of the camera). But probably, scrolling fast and giving just a rapid look at it, people misudnerstood it for a leaked X-E4 image.

And since 24 hours after that rumor, some people still say “oh, X-E4 has no viewfinder“, I feel I need to address this in a dedicated article. I mean, I don’t want anyone to go around in forums and spread the word that FuiRumors said the X-E4 has no EVF.

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Fringer NF-FX AF-C Tracking Test with Nikon AF-S 500mmF4G VR on Fujifilm X-S10

Fringer has just tested and optimized the performance of the Nikon AF-S 500mmF4 G VR using the new Nikon NF-FX smart AF adapter on a Fujifilm X-S10.

Fringer has also optimized Nikon AF-S 600/4G VR. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work as stable as 500/4G on X mount due to the power supply limitation. The next firmware release, i.e. v1.10, will include supports for these lenses as well as some of the other big primes.

You can see the AF demo video as well as the full list of supported lenses below.

VIDEO DEMO + Full List of Supported Lenses

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Fujifilm Aims to Become Japan’s Top Medical Device Maker and What About the Future of their Camera Division?

Fujifilm largest and most promising branch is the medical business.

As a consequence, that’s where Fujifilm puts lots of R&D.

How active Fujifilm currently is in the medical segment and how much money they are investing and making, can be read in an interesting article at Nikkei.

Fujifilm is seeing a massive growth, but it’s still not the Nr.1.

Despite its advances, Fujifilm will still not be the biggest medical equipment maker in terms of profit. […] the company foresees an operating profit ratio of 8.3% to sales in the medical-related business in fiscal 2020, lower than Terumo’s 15% and Olympus’ 18.6%.

However, one of the biggest advantages Fujifilm has, is that:

Fujifilm produces its own software while other medical equipment makers often outsource the work

That’s all fantastic news for Fujifilm, especially considering that the other two main branches they work in are struggling:

The group’s medical business has become a powerhouse for earnings, offsetting declines in sales of office equipment and cameras.

But is this good or bad news?

Well, it’s a mixed bag I think.

It’s surely good that Fujifilm is a healthy company. That’s the conditio sine qua non to keep the company running.

However, with the medical division becoming so dominant for Fujifilm, other branches lose importance and will have to justify their existence by making profits, too.

Because don’t think that the money the medical solution makes is pumped into the imaging division. That’s not how it works. The money BMW makes with motorbikes is also not pumped into their cars business or vice versa. Every segment uses the profits it makes, to reinvest in its own branch again.

For many years, the product that really kept the imaging division afloat was Instax. In the meantime, though, also the X and GFX series saw a certain growth and were finally able to walk on its own feet.

However, overall the situation of the imaging division is much more complicated than the one in the booming medical industry, and hence the future, for every camera brand, is relatively uncertain.

But I’d not be all that pessimistic overall… for these 3 reasons:

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LEAKED: First Image of NiSi Wide Angle lens for Fujifilm X

NiSi is going to launch its first camera lens. It will be a wide angle lens and it will be availbale also for Fujifilm X.

From the higher resolution version image below, it looks like an f/4 lens

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Laowa Argus 33mm f/0.95 Coming 2021

image shows the Laowa Argus 35mm f/0.95 for Full Frame
image shows the Laowa Argus 35mm f/0.95 for Full Frame

A few days ago I made the big 2020 rumor check, and among the not yet verified rumors there was the one talking about the fact that Venus optics would release the widest f/0.95 lens for Fujifilm X Mount.

Some people wondered if that is the 35mmF0.95 lens for Full Frame recently announced.

But it’s not.

According to information I have received, it will be a 33mm f/0.95 lens and it is scheduled for release in 2021.

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Fujifilm 2021: Is This Really All? Or How Much New Gear We Could Get in 2021 Looking at Fujifilm’s Past Camera & Lens Releases

Fujifilm 2021 – Is This Really All?

Every week I get many emails from fellow FR-readers, asking me if this is really all.

They look at the current X mount roadmap and the latest G mount roadmap, and they see only 3 lenses in total. That’s meager.

Then they look at our rumors, see that we rumored only two cameras, the Fujifilm GFX100S and the Fujifilm X-E4 and wonder if that’s all for 2021.

I diligently reply to all of them, but it has become quite time consuming. So let me address this question one final time here on FujiRumors, so that in future I can just copy and paste the link to this article and send it to those, who inevitably will make me the same question again.

How Many Cameras Could we Get?

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