As you know, the Fujifilm X-H1 and X-T2 have the headphone jack built-in only into the vertical battery grip, hence you need to get the grip in order to be able to monitor your audio.

But there is a (very cheap) workaround.

Fujifilm X-H1 facebook group member S. has reported to us a little “hack”, that some of you might find useful, too.

“I have just make with success the hack for the audio out monitoring with a micro-HDMI to VGA adaptor. Very lightweight. It works perfectly just plugging the headphone. The adaptor works without external power supply. No audio lag in headphones during filming”.

Just one lack:

“In PLAY mode, the X-H1 shows the film only by the HDMI output, not on its display. I hope that a future firmware can give the possibility to play the videos on the display even when a micro-HDMI is plugged.”

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In the last years, Fujifilm often won quite some of awards at the TIPA awards.

• 2017: Fujifilm wins 5 awards
• 2016: Fujifilm wins 3 awards
• 2015: Fujifilm wins 3 awards
• 2014: Fujifilm wins 2 awards
• 2013: Fujfiilm wins 3 awards

Well, this year is the worst for Fujifilm, since the “X-series era“. They won 1 award only, and it goes to the Instax Square SQ10 for the “Best Design“.

So the Fujfiilm X-H1 and Fujifilm X-E3 were not good enought to make it into the TIPA ranking. Let’s hope the upcoming Fujifilm X-T3 and Fujifilm GFX 50R will change it next year.

I am surprised, though, that not even one of the astonishing Fujinon lenses has made it into the list. For example, while the winner of the best mirrorless prime lens, the Samyang AF 35mm F2.8 FE, is surely a fine lens, I can’t see it being superior to the equivalent Fujinon GF 45mm F2.8.

So despite TIPA creating overall 40 categories, there is not much love for Fujifilm this year.

Here are all the winners:

CAMERAS

• BEST DSLR PROFESSIONAL: Nikon D850
• BEST MIRRORLESS CSC PROFESSIONAL HIGH RES: Sony α7R III
• BEST MIRRORLESS CSC PROFESSIONAL HIGH SPEED: Sony α9
• BEST PROFESSIONAL PHOTO/VIDEO CAMERA: Panasonic LUMIX DC-GH5S
• BEST MIRRORLESS CSC EXPERT FULL FRAME: Sony α7 III
• BEST APS-C DSLR EXPERT: Nikon D7500
• BEST MIRRORLESS CSC EXPERT: Panasonic LUMIX DC-G9
• BEST FULL-FRAME DSLR EXPERT: Canon EOS 6D Mark II
• BEST EXPERT COMPACT CAMERA: Panasonic LUMIX DMC-ZS200/TZ200/TZ220
• BEST MIRRORLESS CSC ENTHUSIAST: Canon EOS M50
• BEST DSLR ENTHUSIAST: Canon EOS 200D
• BEST SUPERZOOM CAMERA: Sony RX10 IV
• BEST PROFESSIONAL COMPACT CAMERA: Canon PowerShot G1X Mark III
• BEST RUGGED CAMERA: Nikon COOLPIX W300

LENSES

• BEST PROFESSIONAL LENS: Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 180-400mm f/4E TC1.4FL ED VR
• BEST DSLR PRIME LENS: Canon EF 85mm f/1.4L IS USM
• BEST CSC PRIME LENS: Samyang AF 35mm F2.8 FE
• BEST CSC STANDARD ZOOM LENS: Sony FE 24–105 mm F4 G OSS
• BEST CSC TELEPHOTO ZOOM LENS: Sony FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• BEST DSLR WIDE ANGLE ZOOM LENS: SIGMA 14-24mm F2.8 DG HSM Art
• BEST DSLR STANDARD ZOOM LENS: SIGMA 24-70mm F2.8 DG OS HSM Art
• BEST DSLR TELEPHOTO ZOOM LENS: Tamron 70-210mm F/4 Di VC USD (Model A034)
• BEST DSLR SUPERZOOM LENS: Tamron 18-400mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II VC HLD (Model B028)

CAMERA ACCESSORIES (Bags, Tripods, Flash etc.)

• BEST PHOTO BAG: Vanguard Alta Fly 55T
• BEST TRIPOD: Vanguard Alta Pro 2+ 263CGHT
• BEST CAMERA ACCESSORY: Manfrotto Camera Cage
• BEST PROFESSIONAL FLASH SYSTEM: Elinchrom ELB 500 TTL
• BEST TRIPOD HEAD: Manfrotto 494 Center Ball Head
• BEST PORTABLE FLASH: Nissin MG10

& More

• BEST CAMERA DRONE: DJI Mavic Air
• BEST PHOTO SMARTPHONE: Huawei P20 Pro
• BEST DESIGN: Fujifilm instax SQUARE SQ10 System
• BEST 360° CAMERA: Samsung 360 Round
• BEST PHOTO INNOVATION: Canon Speedlite 470EX-AI
• BEST PHOTO PRINTER: Epson Expression Photo HD XP-15000
• BEST INKJET PHOTO PAPER: Hahnemühle Photo Gloss Baryta 320
• BEST IMAGING SOFTWARE: DxO PhotoLab
• BEST IMAGING STORAGE SOLUTION: WD G-DRIVE mobile SSD R-Series
• BEST PHOTO MONITOR: LG 34WK95U-W 34″ 5K UltraWide® Nano IPS LED Monitor
• BEST PHOTO PRINT SERVICE: CEWE PHOTOBOOK Cover with Enhancement

See the full list with awards descriptions at tipa.com here

via dc.watch

Many Fujifilm X and GFX shooters earn their bread and butter with Fujifilm cameras, and many of those are also extremely successful in their specific genre.

For example, there are Fujifilm shooters, who won prestigeous awards, such as…

• some won the world wildlife photography award (story here)
• some made the cover of the TIME magazine (story here)
• some won the World Photography Arts&Culture Award 2015 (story here)
• some won the First Prize of the World Press Photo Category “Stories (stroy here)
• some made the front page of the Wall Street Journal (story here)
• Fuji X was good enough for God’s work (story here)
• some captured America’s most hated man (story here)
• some distracted a French presidential candidate during his interview (story here)
• and more…

You also probably know Kevin Mullins, one of the top wedding photographers globally speaking, who shoots exclusively with Fujifilm X series camera.

The list could go on and on (and I apologize for all those I didn’t mention here), but today it’s about Markus Klinko, a photographer, who saw his work displayed at Times Square in New York, who photographed top celebrities like Beyoncé (btw, Beyoncé shoots Fujifilm X100s, as you can see her here) and David Bowie.

Markus is also a good friend of FujiRumors, and he has also contributed with several articles on Fujirumors.com.

Today we have the pleasure to dedicate our “Behind the X gear” episode to our friend Markus Klinko. Enjoy :)

Meet Markus Klinko

Finally also AmazonUS is taking pre-orders on the Fujinon GF 250mm F4.

The GF 250mmF4 has been announced along with the 18mm and 45mm Macro extension tubes and the 1.4x Teleconverter.

Make sure to check out Rico’s First Look Review about all these new Fujinon goodness and to check back our Fujinon GF 250mm Live Blog

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Polaroid Vs. Fujifilm

Fujifilm and Polaroid are right now battling hard.

As we reported here, Polaroid wants Fujifilm to pay millions of dollars in annual royalty, because they claim Fuji’s Instant Square Film borders are copied from the iconic Polaroid film.

We will keep you updated with the evolution of this battle, but in the meantime, Polaroid Originals (that’s how Polaroid is called after it has been bought by the Impossible Project) gave an interview to the French site focus-numerique, where they talk, amongst the others, about Fujifilm.

Polaroid says (google translated from French):

“We are growing, but in terms of the analog instant film market as a whole, Fujifilm is the dominant player. It controls 99% of the market.”

They do seem confident though, that they will take some of the market share away from Fujiflm:

“Q: What strategy do you adopt to face Fujifilm’s competition? Are you planning to produce smaller films?”

A: We have very interesting projects on the side of our equipment, but nothing we can reveal for the moment.”

I must say, I do like (and was considering to buy) the Polaroid Zip. And IMHO it is never good, if a company has a monopoly. So I do hope that Polaroid will release some awesome products in near future, that will finally put some pressure on Fujifilm… maybe to motivate Fujifilm to make the long awaited Instax SP-Wide printer!!!!!

Also Leica tried to enter the Instax market, with the Leica Sofort back in 2016. It uses uses Fujifilm’s Instax film, so it contributes to the 99% market share of Fujifilm.

Overall, Instax is an absolut winner for Fujifilm. It’s half a decade now that Instax products dominate the OVERALL camera sales ranking at AmazonUS, and at times, where the X-series was massively losing money, the earnings made with Instax products where used to fuel the R&D for the X-series.

In case you missed it… in the documentary “How Fujifilm survived the digital age” that we shared here, a Fujifilm Instax employee says they simply can’t keep production up with the high demand.