BHphoto and Adorama Launch Their Own 2 Days Only Deals

At FujiRumors, we always emphasize that competition is a positive force. The stronger Fujifilm’s competitors become, the more it drives Fujifilm to innovate and improve.

This concept also applies to major online retailers, who strive to outdo each other by offering better deals to attract customers.

And so it happens that exactly on the days when Amazon launched their massive Prime Deal days, also BHphoto here and Adorama here strike back with their own 2 days only deals.

So we do recommend you to compare prices among several stores to see who is offering the best deal on gear you might be interested in (including your local stores).

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Amazon Prime Deals – 2 Days Only

BHphoto Fall Deals – 2 Days Only

Adorama Flash Franzy Sale – 2 Days Only

Selected Amazon Deals

Amazon Prime Deals Live Now

 

The Amazon Prime Deals are now live.

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Selected Deals

FR-Reader Wishlist Corner: The One Thing Where Leica Q3 Beats Fujifilm X100VI and More Firmware Wishes

FR-reader Wishlist Corner

Recently we published a bunch of gear/hardware related wishes we have received from the Fujifilm community.

Now it is time to share a bunch of firmware wishes.

by Oli

Here is a link to my blog post about my experiences with the X100Vi and the WCL as a “poor man’s Leica Q”.
I guess you might be able to read German: shashindo.de/fuqi/ (google translated).

There is actually ONE reason why the Leica Q3 is “better” than the Fujifilm X100VI: The handling of the metadata!

Leica writes the crop focal length and crop pixel size in the metadata!
It’s too bad that Fujifilm doesn’t also set the crop focal length in the metadata!
It would also be nice to find the name of the custom setting (aka film simulation) here in the EXIF data. Well, you can still have wishes…

Thought you might be interested ;-)
Or in case you do have access to Fuji Development department somehow, maybe you can drop this there… :-D

by Keith

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Get Fujifilm X-T5 Alike Sized Viewfinder on Smaller X Series Cameras with This 3D Printed Accessory

Usually when Fujifilm launches a new compact camera, there are always people who wish it had a larger EVF.

Of course that’s not possible, if the concept of the camera is to be compact and small. You have to make tradeoffs.

Personally I am fine with this choice. The EVF on my X-E3 is certainly not big, but big enough for my type of shooting. I am certainly not wishing of a larger EVF on my compact X-E3, but rather for a tilt screen to avoid to shoot like this ;).

And yet, there are plenty of people desiring a larger EVF and if you are among them, then this could be a solution.

Fellow Fujifilm X Shooter Yukosteel has designed a 3D printed solution to use DSLR magnifiers adapted to X-T30 and alike cameras, to make EVF 0.76x – 0.84x magnified, larger than X-T series.

Yukosteel has published article which you can read here and after more testing he also published 3D printable adapter models.

Yukosteel also plans to design an adapter for X-E and X100 series in nearest future, which is a bit more complex task but doable.

Read the full story at yukosteel here.

B&H Strikes Back at Amazon: Huge Deals Including 15% Rebate on Viltrox X Mount Lenses

If you need one more proof about how competition is a good thing for us customers, then check out this.

Amazon has just launched its huge Amazon Prime deals.

But B&H Photo does not want to leave the deal show to Amazon alone, and has launched its own huge 2 days deals.

Worth a special mention, there is a 15% rebate on pretty much all Viltrox X mount lenses. I’ll list a few below

More BHphoto Deals

Amazon Prime Selected Deals

Refurbished Deals – save 20%

Amazon US is now offering a 20% discount on selected Fujifilm Open Box gear, as you can see from the screenshots above. As far as I could find, the items on offer are:

Storage Media

Batteries & Chargers for Fujifilm

SmallRig Deals in USA

General Deal Pages

Amazon Prime is in FULL SWING with TONS of GREAT DEALS now also in USA

 

Now the Amazon Prime deals are running also in North America.

I will share below a couple of deals that are potentially interesting for photographers and especially for us Fujifilm photographers.

I did get myself the SAMSUNG T9 Portable SSD 4TB. It’s my first Samsung External SSD, but from what I have read it is a very good one.

Amazon Prime General Deal Pages

Selected USA Deals

Storage Media

Batteries & Chargers for Fujifilm

Third Party Autofocus Lens Deals

Note: You have to use the general discount code PRIMEDAY24 to access the rebate.

SmallRig Deals in USA

Amazon GERMANY

Amazon UK

Amazon IT

Amazon FR

Amazon ES

New Fujifilm Tether App Launched and X RAW Studio Updated

It’s Update Day

Fujifilm just released major firmware updates for several cameras and also for a lens.

But that’s not all.

There are updates also for Fujifilm X RAW Studio and also a brand new software has been launched, the Fujifilm Tether App.

So let’s look at what happened.

Fujifilm X RAW Studio

Fujifilm has released an update for the Fujifilm X RAW Studio software.

Fujifilm X RAW Studio Ver.1.24.0 – download here
The software update Ver.1.24.0 incorporates the following issues:

  1. “REALA ACE” RAW development is now supported.
  2. A software bug is fixed that the “COLOR TEMPERATURE” of “WHITE BALANCE” set in “Profile” is not reflected to the preview and recorded image correctly with macOS 14.

Fujifilm Tether App

We told you something new would happen also on the software front, and here it is: the brand new “Fujifilm Tether App”.

”FUJIFILM TETHER APP” provides functions to utilize digital cameras (GFX/X series) by connecting them to a computer. Even if your camera does not support the tethered shooting function, you can use the function to save/load camera settings.

You can read all the details below and download it here.

Compatibility Chart

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A Glimpse Into the Fujifilm Future: X-Pro4, X-E5, Digital XPan, Future XF Lenses (and More) plus 2024 Rumor Check so Far

After the Rumor Storm (and Before the Next One)

So we had 2 X summits so far in 2024 and lots of gear has been announced.

This means we also had lots of rumors about every single one of these items.

But…

A lot more rumors dropped also about gear coming well beyond that.

So, time for the great mid-2024 rumor recap and to rank for you all rumors according to their reliability.

1 millimetre and 3 hours to perfection ;)

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Is the Fujifilm X-T50 the Best Looking Fujifilm Camera? – VOTE NOW

Somewhere in the comments somebody claimed: the Fujifilm X-T50 is now the best looking camera among X series cameras.

And while I totally agree that Fujifilm X-T50 has gained in sexiness with its new rounded design over the more boxy design of its predecessors, I am not sure if I’d call it the best looking one.

It would certainly be very high in the ranking for my taste, but I believe the Fujifilm X100VI still holds the throne as best looking Fujifilm camera.

Is this essential to know which X series camera is the best looking one?

Nope

Does it change the fate of the photography universe?

I don’t think so.

But it adds a bit of uplifting lightness into a discussion that is often way to heated in the photography forums, where we battle about the curve quality of the bokeh balls in the top right corner of the image and where we count the number of false color pixels after a 27 stops shadow recovery.

So, feel free to add lightness to this world by telling us in the survey and in the comments which camera you consider the most beautiful one.

The cameras you can vote on are:

The Best Looking Fujifilm X Series Camera is...

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Size Comparison: Fujifilm X-T50 vs X-T5, XF16-50 vs XF18-55, GFX100S vs GFX100SII

Camerasize has added the latest Fujifilm gear to their database (although they call it the XT-50 there, so use that term to make your own comparisons).

I will share three comparisons in this article. You can see them below.

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