These are mail-in rebates (except for GFX50R). So buy your gear now, submit your claim and then you’ll receive your money back in form of a pre-paid MasterCard (for the GF lens deals) or get your freebie (for XF/XC lens deals).
BHphoto has all the instruction on how to submit your claim next to each item in offer: just click “rebate available” and then “view details“.
GFX Trade in Deal: Trade in selceted Full Frame / Medium Format cameras and get €300 on top of your trade-in value if you purchase a GFX50SII or €500 top top of your trade-in value if you get the GFX100S. Deal available at official retailers like Calumet Germany here. List of qualified full frame trade in gear here.
20% off your first year of an Annual Subscription
– To qualify for this offer you must not have had a previous subscription with Capture One.
– This CAN be used by customers who want to switch from a perpetual license to a subscription, those users who wish to switch from a perpetual license to a subscription should simply purchase a new subscription via the regular store, not via the upgrade store.
50% off Styles
Styles work best for versions of Capture One 20 and newer.
Fujifilm has released firmware updates for lots of Fujifilm X and GFX series cameras. A highlight is definitely the Blackmagic RAW support for Fujifilm GFX100 and Fujifilm GFX100S.
2021 was a definitely a GFX year, mainly thanks to the launch of the Fujifilm GFX100S and the Fujifilm GFX50SII. So let’s give this wonderful system a dedicated and major roundup.
newsshooter – Large format cinematography in a small package: Tokina Vista lenses on Fujifilm GFX100
blog.kasson – Copying watercolors with the GFX 100
TT Artisan 11mm Fisheye on the GFX100s
by FR-reader Neil
I have attached some images taken with the TT Artisan 11mm Fisheye on the GFX100s so that people can see what to expect. Images are reduced to 2048 pixels on the long side for ease of email. (full size can be sent by WeTransfer if required.)
Image 1. Straight Out Of Camera converted to jpeg – No Editing. You can see the dark corners and blue fringing in the top corners.
Image 2. Edited in Capture One Pro 21. Lens Correction >Distortion set to Maximum sorts out the corners but keeps the Barrel Distortion look.
Image 3. Affinity Photo – Lens Distortion (Go Pro Hero 3-Black) applied and it gives a good rectilinear fisheye look. (Thanks YouTuber for the Go Pro settings for this lens body combination.)
The rest of the Blacksmith in action shots using the 30mm and 45-100 are better looking images, these are to show the different stages of editing you can get with the TT Fisheye. It is a cheap, well built lens that is up there with the top brand names for image quality (but all Manual – no electronics.)
And this happened, despite talented “internet reviewers” showing us with their stunningly artistic test shots that only full frame can produce professional results.
And honestly, I totally agree for example with Sir. Jared, who delivered this very in depth and elaborated answer to a guy, who wanted to switch to Fujifilm: “Fuji, LOL?”
I mean, how can you argue with that?
And yet, despite all the effort reviewers put into telling us that only full frame can deliver professional results, it keeps happening!!!
It keeps happening that Fujifilm X shooters out there win prestigious photography awards.
In fact, the The Royal Observatory Greenwich assigned the Astronomy Photo Award2021 to Shuchang Dong, who took this wonderful image with his Fujifilm X-T4 in Tibet during a total solar eclipse in mid-2020. Here is what the Royal Greenwich Observatory had to say about the image:
This image demonstrates both the beauty and simplicity of an eclipse, but also the science behind this astronomical event. Our sun can still be seen as a ring circling the Moon as it passes in front of the Sun, and mountains on the lunar surface can be seen hiding some of this light on the lower righthand portion of the image. This is a stunning achievement!”
For a moment I had a doubt, that maybe it’s more important to spend time to go out and take pictures, trying to be in the right moment at the right spot. But no, definitely not. All that matters is the gear you use ;).
Anyway, if are like Shuchang, if you also do astrophotography with your Fujifilm gear, then check out our astrophotography facebook group.
P.S.: X-Trans cameras are fantastic for Astrophotography ;)