FUJIFILM House of Photography to open Tuesday 3rd December
Fujifilm confirms central London experiential concept store will open at 11am on Tuesday 3 December, with a host of camera and photo giveaways on offer to members of the public.
The Japanese site toyokeizai displayed a chart with the mirrorless market share in 2018.
The data itself comes from Techno System Research, a major marketing research company located in Japan.
It shows the following market share:
Enabling video shooting control from Gimbal / Drone and offering other feature enhancements
FUJIFILM Corporation (President: Kenji Sukeno) plans to release a series of firmware updates for the FUJIFILM X-T3 (hereinafter “X-T3”), starting in mid-December 2019. The updates reflect requests of additional features and operability improvement, received from users of the X Series of mirrorless digital cameras.
The upcoming update will enable controls for video recording from Gimbal / Drone via USB communications. You can combine the X-T3 with a Gimbal / Drone that supports this function to significantly broaden your shooting options. FUJIFILM is in communication with SZ DJI Technology Col, Ltd.* and ZHIYUN** (listed in the alphabetical order) about their plan to release compatible products. Fujifilm also plans to deploy this function to the FUJIFILM X-T30 and other models. Further firmware updates in the future will bring autofocus enhancement and other improvements to the X-T3.
■ Firmware update for the X-T3, due to be released in December 2019
Firmware version: FUJIFILM X-T3（Ver. 3.10）
Gimbal / Drone support***
This firmware adds the following function to complement the current support for still image shooting via USB communications:
■ Firmware update for the X-T3, due to be released in January 2020
Firmware version: FUJIFILM X-T3（Ver. 3.20）
1. Enhanced autofocus
2. Capability to save up to 9,999 pictures in each folder
Until now, the number of pictures that can be saved in a folder on an SD card was limited to 999. This update will raise the limit by ten times to 9,999 pictures.
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* SZ DJI Technology Co., Ltd.
** ZHIYUN
*** USB-based communications
Recently we shared a dedicated XF16-80 flaws roundup.
Now I am happy to see that the new firmware updates for XF16-80mm f/4 have apparently fixed some of the issues.
In fact, the latest firmware 1.02 for Fujinon XF16-80mm f/4 promised 3 things:
So what it is about and does it work? Let’s see!
Fujifilm has just released firmware 1.02 for Fujinon XF16-80mm F4 OIS WR.
The firmware update Ver.1.02 from Ver.1.01 incorporates the following issue:
You can download firmare 1.02 here.
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Even before the official Fujifilm X-A7 announcement, FujiRumors told you here there will be also a dark blue version of the Fujifilm X-A7, and we showed you first images months ago here.
Since then, I have received a few request from readers, asking me about the dark blue version.
It might have been passed unnoticed, as I already said it here, so I thought I might say it again: the dark blue Fujifilm X-A7 is already selling, but not in all countries (as reported also by pcmag).
For example, you can find the Navy Blue Fujifilm X-A7 at the Russian store interfoto here.
So far, it is not available in North America or many EU countries, but it might come, if that color turns out to be particularly loved in the markets where it’s sold. Just as it happened with the brown Fujifilm X100F, which originally was sold only in selected countries, and then found its way also in the US market, although it is now again discontinued.
What you can find in stock everywhere, are all other Fujifilm X-A7 colors.
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Fujifilm China has apparently given a warm welcome to the 100 megapixel Xiaomi CC9 Pro (or Xiaomi Mi Note 10), which features a 108 megapixel camera.
[google translated] 100 million pixels: Welcome new members!
And in the comments Fujifilm China say:
Encourage Xiaomi’s innovation for mobile phones
The image shared at the official Fujifilm China weibo page, shows a little box inside the massive Fujifilm GFX100 sensor, which has the size of the Xiaomi Mi Note 10 sensor.
Now why should Fujifilm do this? Here a few options:
I think we can agree that there is nothing more fun than a conspiracy theory, so I will focus on that one :).
A FR-reader shared with FujiRumors some flyers about the upcoming Viltrox lenses:
→ Viltrox 23, 33 and 56 hands on images!
The flyers give a few more details to the ones already shared in this article as well as some correction (for example a slight weight increase in some cases and lens elements design changes for the 23mm f/1.4).
In the meantime, the Viltrox 85mm f/1.8 autofocus lens for Fujifilm X is a best seller and so far the feedback is definitely very positive. It’s not a Fujinon, but it’s also so much cheaper, that you definitely get great performance for little price.
Down below all the new details about the upcoming lenses.
And…
Viltrox 23mm f/1.4 specs
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I hope you enjoyed reading FujiRumors in October, and I will give my best to give you an interesting Fuji-November ;).
And…
Hardly any other company puts that much effort in creating really beautiful and useful color profiles like Fujifilm.
Fujifilm calls them “film simulations”: inspired by the look of old film stock, they try to bring some of that magic into the digital era.
In fact, Minami-San, the Fujifilm employee responsible for colors back in the film days, is still today working at Fujifilm and in charge of the digital film simulation development. You can see his story here.
One more nice thing: Fujifilm film simulation can be fine tuned ad libitum:
And now we come to the Fujifilm X-Pro3.
Of course we all demand for this firmware update, which should give us Classic Negative and other X-Pro3 goodness also these Fuji X/GFX cameras.
But some can’t manage their impatience, and tried to emulate the Classic Negative film simulation look, as it’s the case of Jean-Pascal Remon.
How to get the Fuji Classic Negative Look to your X-Pro2/X-T2
And save yourself to buy a new camera.
by Jean-Pascal Remon – website – instagram – blog
From what I’ve seen, the new Fuji Classic Negative film simulation is generous on the blue and green level, while remaining somewhat warm and keeping a low contrast.
Here is how to achieve this look.
