Why Fujifilm Retro Dials are Superior to PSAM Dials

There is this notion that cameras with a PSAM dial are faster to operate than cameras with dedicated retro dials, which slow you down.

And you know what? I get your point!

Imagine you are at a wedding, lots of things happening, tons of pictures to take, your eye glued on the viewfinder capturing all the precious moments.

And having photographed a wedding myself, I can say that conditions change all the time: indoors and outdoor, fast moving and static subjects, group shots and portraits, natural light and artificial light, low light and bright daylight…

In short: whoever is a wedding photographer out there, must be a very skilled allrounder and constantly master all possible photographic conditions.

And from this point of view, being able to quickly adjust all your settings by just turning the front and rear command dial while keeping your eye glued on the viewfinder can be extremely convenient.

So case closed, right? PSAM is for Pros, and Retro is for less demanding photography.

Well, not really.

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Fujifilm Managers Interviews: About Competition and Alliances, Dreams of Modular and Fixed Lens GFX and More

image courtesy - phototrend
image courtesy – phototrend

There have been two interviews with Fujifilm managers, one in French (the more comprehensive one) and one in Japanese (short).

I will sum up both of them, but the Japanese one only because it involves Koji Matsumoto, the president of Fujifilm Imaging. It does not say much at all, but if we hear from his mouth that X-H2 and X-H2S are selling better than Fujifilm thought, than it has its value.

The French manager was definitely much more talkative and if you don’t speak French, our summary below will cover it all.

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So What, Did FujiRumors Fall in Love with Fully Articulating Screens? Would a Fujifilm X-T5 with Selfie Screen be a Dealbreaker for You? POLL

3 Times I Loved the Selfie Screen

I lately shared a couple of posts on my Instagram page, showing images of myself making good use of the Selfie Screen on my Fujifilm X-T4.

So what, did I join the “dark side” and fell in love with fully articulating screens as some have suggested?

Well, not really.

The whole point of these posts was just to show that, in rare cases, a fully articulating screen really simplifies the composition of an image.

So here are 3 times I loved the fully articulating screen on my X-T4 as it allowed me to take a picture that would have been much more complicated and cumbersome to take with any other screen.

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Fujifilm Designer Talks about GFX: “I would Love to Evolve the GFX50R Rangefinder Series” and More on GFX Series Development

Fujifilm design manager Mr. Masazumi Imai (the guy we are all very grateful to because he designed the original X100 – read the story of his inspiration here) gave an interview in Japanese to MapCamera.

As usual youtube struggles with live video translations, but down below you can find a summary in English of both videos as well as the videos themselves.

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AstrHori to Launch a Tilt Shift Lens for Fujifilm GFX in 2022/2023

I have been informed that AstrHori will launch a tilt-shift lens for Fujifilm GFX. The timing could be (if all goes well) within 2022, but also 2023 is a possibility.

Fujifilm has already announced two tilt-shift lenses for 2023, the Fujinon GF110mmF5.6 Tilt Shift Macro  and the Fujinon GF30mmF5.6 Tilt Shift. In fact, B&H Photo has them already listed at their website:

We have shared hands on images of the Fujinon tilt-shift lenses here.

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Kipon Medium Format Focal Reducer for Fujifilm GFX Available Now

Announced a few months ago, it is now finally available: the Kipon medium format 0.8x focal reducer for Fujifilm GFX.

The version available are:

GFX Gear

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B&H Photo Lists Fujinon GF30mmF5.6 Tilt Shift and Fujinon GF110mmF5.6 Tilt Shift

B&H Photo has listed the Fujinon GF110mmF5.6 Tilt Shift Macro and Fujinon GF30mmF5.6 Tilt Shift at their page.

We have shared hands on images here.

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AstrHori Teases More Fujifilm GFX Lenses Coming September 23

The AstrHori 75mm f/4 for Fujifilm GFX has been officially announced recently and is available atAmazonUS here.

But that’s not going to stop here.

AstrHori is teasing more GFX lenses coming on September 23.

You can see the two teased lenses in the image above.

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Fringer NF-GFX Smart Adapter Almost Ready and Video Demo

The development of Fringer NF-GFX smart autofocus adapter is almost complete. Now it’s in the beta stage and will be released soon.

Fringer also shared a video showing the Finger NF-GFX at work.

Here are the key features:

  1. Built-in aperture motor. Support electronic aperture control for both mechanical and magnetoelectric aperture lenses (AF, D, G, E lenses).
  2. Autofocus (AF-S & AF-P lenses only). Support phase detection AF (on GFX100/100S and optimized lenses only).
  3. Build-in lens profiles. Support LaCA correction (optimized lenses only). Support vignetting and distortion correction (selected lenses only).
  4. Support lens VR or IBIS (not at the same time). User selectable.

Fringer adapters can be ordered at B&H Photo, AmazonUS and Adorama.

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