You might remember how back in November 2019, we shared the worldwide mirrorless camera market share data for 2018 here (for the DSLR+mirrorless data check out this article).
Now a year has passed, and Techno System Research, a major marketing research company located in Japan, has published the data for 2019.
So what changed between 2018 and 2019? Let’s compare:
These days I am catching up with all the content you guys shared me over the last few weeks and months, and I promised to share at some point.
So, after a big camera roundup and a big lens roundup, here is a X-Trans Raw Coversion film simulation roundup.
Why all this in such a short time?
Well, because soon Fujifilm will unleash a product-strom, with the announcement of:
And all this goodness will come on January 27.
Ahead of January 27 there will be lots of rumors, and after that, FujiRumors will cover everything you need to know about the new products.
So I am using this weekend of realitive quiteness to catch up. And I know there is still content you guys sent me that has not yet been shared. I have it all saved. And at some point I’ll share that one too.
I really do my best, but it’s a huge amount of content you send me and that I have to check out. And no matter how hard and how much I work, it’s not easy to keep up sometimes.
Down below you can check out today’s roundup.
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.
One or two times a year, I like to look back on the rumors we shared here on FujiRumors, and see if I delivered accurate content or not.
Plus, I will share the remaining rumors that should materialize in 2021 with reliability ranking.
Let’s check it out:
The Fringer NF-FX smart autofoucs adapter has been officially released.
It’s world’s first smart adapter that support Nikon F mount lenses working on Fujifilm X cameras while keeping all the auto functions.
Close to 100 lenses or lens & TC combinations have been tested and optimized. They all support fast and accurate phase detection AF on latest X cameras. Please see this list for detailed models. More lenses would be added to the list in the future through adapter firmware updates.
You can see an autofocus tracking demo video in this article.
You can pre-order the Fringer NF-FX smart adapter at AmazonUS here, the Fringer Store as well as eBay here and soon also at AmazonUS here, BHphoto here and Adorama here.
Supported lenses
Supported cameras
None X-Trans & X-Trans I CMOS (PDAF not working, Poor performance)
X-Trans II CMOS (PDAF enabled)
X-Trans III CMOS (PDAF, Good performance)
X-Trans IV CMOS (full sensor covered PDAF. Better performance)
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These days everybody is making its list of the best and worst gear 2020, as well as best and worst trends of 2020.
And it’s on the latter one, the “trends”, that I would like to focus on today.
Because it is clear: one of the hot trends in the photography industry is putting selfie screens on cameras.
And guys, we have to talk about it!
To be clear: I do not hate selfie screens.
And in fact, during the various COVID-19 lockdowns, I often have to teach online and record my lessons, and the selfie screen is a true blessing!
A fully articulating screen is not the photography-evil of our times. It still works fine, it’s still flexible, and I have rather rapidly learned to accept it on my Fujifilm X-T4, sometimes even to love it (especially during my online lessons).
So, if you are one of those, who loves the fully articulating screen, I get it. Maybe I don’t love it as much as you do, but I could totally accept a selfie screen on cameras like the future Fujifilm X-H2 for example.
But….
But it’s getting a bit out of control, with selfie screens just popping up on so many cameras, that we have to talk about it.
And why is this happening?
Tony Northrup
“Selfie Screen? Pleasing Youtubers is Higher Priority than Pleasing Customers”
Vs.
Jonas Rask
“I have no count as to how many shots I missed becauseof the Selfie Screen”
The Japanese site dc.watch interviewed Fujifilm manager Kosuke Irie and Shinya Fujiwara.
They talk about film simulations in a lengthy, very detailed and technical way.
All in Japanese, which means we are in the hands of google translate. And sadly this does not always work out well.
I will share a summary for you down below, often just taken as google delivered it.
It will get nerdy… happy reading down below :)
Here is another roundup of wishlist shared by the FR-community to me via email at fujirumor@gmail.com.
Previous Wishlist Episodes:
As opposed to the last episode, this time we focus on camera wishes instead of lens wishes.
In this roundup, one particular and recurrent wish finds me totally agreeing with: the need for a Fujifilm X80!
I do hope Fujifilm will understand that the Fujifilm XF10 was not the X70 successor we were waiting for and that they will finally give us an X80.
I mean, Fujifilm should have been able to overcome these X80 issues by now!!!
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It had to happen this way!
According to our trusted sources, Fujifilm decided to launch the Fujinon XF27mmF2.8 MK II along with the Fujifilm X-E4. Both will be announced in early 2021.
This makes a lot of sense, as the XF27mm pancake prime is the perfect fit for a camera so small and portable as the X-E series.
I own both, the X-E3 and XF27mmF2.8, and I am looking forward to both, the X-E4 and XF27mmF2.8 MK II.
Will I buy both?
I don’t know yet.
I am so happy with my X-E3, that the X-E4 needs to have a couple of new nice features in order to convince me to get rid of my X-E3 for the X-E4. A simple tilt screen (please no selfie-stuff), a combined ISO/shutter dial as on X100V and X-Pro3, all the latest film simulations and autofocus algorithm… give me all that, and it will be hard for me to resist to it.
The new XF27mmF2.8 MK II instead needs just one thing: an aperture ring! Give me that, and I am all-in!
And even though I have no additional rumors about the XF27mmF2.8 MK II for now, I will probably sell my current 27mm just before the new one hits the market and the old one inevitably loses value.
It’s an act of faith: Fujifilm originally planned the XF27mmF2.8 to come with an aperture ring (as you can see in images we share in the past), and I have faith (no information, just faith) that Fujifilm will put the aperture ring back in the new 27mm.
Yes, I know, when Fujifilm released the latest X mount roadmap, the XF27mmF2.8 II was not included in the list of new lenses.
But you might have missed it, how, ahead of the new X mount roadmap, I warned you here: the XF27mmF2.8 MK II is coming, but won’t be on the new roadmap.
You don’t have to, but I strongly invite you to trust me: the XF27mmF2.8 MK II is coming, and today we know it will come along with the X-E4.
Trust me, guys ;)
Black Friday officially starts on November 27, but it looks like Amazon was rather impatient, and already put its Black Friday pages live.
I don’t know you, but when I look at an image, the first thing I notice is not how sharp it is at 400% magnification or how grainy it is at 12800 ISO.
Nope!
What first grabs my attention are subject/composition and colors. Those are the main “WOW” factors for me.
And while for the first one (subject/composition) no Fujifilm camera can help you and it’s totally up to the photographer to compose a pleasing image, when it comes to colors, Fujifilm cameras can be quite a good support for us photographers, and certainly they are for me.
Since I switched to Fujifilm (after a long journey searching for “my” system), I have quite radically changed (and speed-up) my editing-workflow thanks to Fuji’s film simulations.
I still shoot RAW+JPEG, I still adjust exposure, add sharpening here and there and make some other tweaks. But the more film simulations Fujifilm was releasing over the years, the less I found myself in the need to laboriously edit the color part of my images in order to set the right mood.
Not to talk of all those times, when the JPEG is just right out of the box, and I don’t adjust anything at all.
So yes, for me, Fujifilm film simulation make a whole lot of difference and are one of the main reasons why I love Fujifilm.
In order to celebrate Fujifilm colors, I recently launched the Fujifilm Film Simulation group, which has reached 10+K members in a very short time.
In this group, images can be edited in all their parts (sharpening, shadow/highlight recovery etc), except for colors. The colors must come purely out of your Fujifilm camera (or be applied in post in Capture One / Lightroom).
It is also allowed to share images that use custom presets, which means take a film simulation and fine tune its settings in-camera (increase contrast, add grain etc), creating your own receipts to store as custom profile inside your Fujifilm camera. Those are very fun to try out!
Now, since I am in total lockdown again (see me here chilling with my dog and cat at home), I have a bit more time this weekend and I decided to use it to go though the images at our Fujifilm Film Simulation group and pick out some of the most liked shots for you.
You’ll see images taken with all kind of film simulations, but you’ll notice that Classic Chrome and Classic Negative turn out to be the most shared and liked ones (or receipts derived from those film simulations).
But also ACROS, Velvia, Provia and one of my favorites, Astia, are also present down below.
Feel free to check out the images below and to join the group if you want.
NOTE: if you join the group and share images, do not forget to tell us which film simulation you used in the description of the image.
I wish you a fantastic weekend,
Patrick
