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Hey folks,
This morning I woke up, with a message from one of my best friends, who marries in June.
The message said:
Hey Pat. Would you mind take your camera gear at the wedding? We do have an official photographer, but it would be nice if you can take some images, too. Also, the photographer will stay only until dinner. So if you could grab images of the late night dance party…
And you bet, I accepted, because isn’t there a better excuse to buy new gear, than to help to photograph the wedding of your best friend? :D
Now, I want to do things right for one of the most important days in the life of my friend.
So here are a couple of things I need to do:
Never be in the way of the photographer. I don’t want to be one of those annoying guest jumping into his frame to get an image. We pay those guys, so that we can enjoy the moment, and later have some cool shots to remember forever.
But the photographer can’t be everywhere at all time, so I will try to be there, where he is not, and maybe I’ll get some nice shots ;).
But overall my philosphoy:
Whatever the official Photographer does, he will do it much better than me. So stay out of his way. My focus is on the night shots, when he is gone.
I am a man on a mission: convert people to Fujifilm. So you can bet I’ll grab the photographer in one of his rare moments of rest, and try to convert him to the Fuji side of life!
And now comes the gear part. And for that, I will make shameless use of FujiRumors for private reasons, and ask all of you guys, what you recommend me to do.
Maybe I could go along with what I own already, but I believe I need a gear upgrade.
Here is what I am considering to do.
I could need a low light autofocus boost over my X-E3, hence I am either considering the Fujifilm X-T3, Fujifilm X-Pro3 or even the Fujifilm X-T4.
At the moment I am tending towards getting the Fujifilm X-T4.
My current fastest lens options with autofocus are the Fujinon XF 23mm f/1.4 and XF 35mm f/1.4. But I believe I need more.
I am considering to get two more lenses: the Fujinon XF16mm f/1.4 for some wide shots on the dancing floor, and the XF56mmf/1.2.
These four fast primes should cover my needs properly.
What do you think, am I good to go, or do I need something else? Maybe one of those nice f/2.8 zooms?
Once I have the new gear, I will go out and practice to shoot in similar low light dancing scenarios. I need to see what works and what not, as I am not very familiar with those kinds of shots, as you can see from my instagram.
But I know many of you are so much more experienced than me, so if somebody of you can give me tips on settings, feel free to drop them down below in the comments.
To get all this new goodness, something probably has go.
Hence I could soon put my X-T1 on sale, the camera that took my favorite image, and which story I told you here (I got it after I destroyed my X-E2).
As far as lenses go, I think I’ll have to let go the Fujinon XF 18-55 and XF 55-200, and stay with my XF 18-135 only. Letting those lenses go isn’t easy. Selling that gear will help to mitigate internal discussions with my wife when I get the new one ;).
And if you want, and have the possibility, you are always free to make a micro-donation on Patreon. Even just $1 or $2 a month can help a lot, if many do it. Mostly it will allow me to cover the costs of the site… but if the support is big, well, then maybe also to get new gear ;).
Down below are a couple of surveys, where you can offer your camera and lens suggestions also in form of a vote.
Also, I will try to get permission from my friend to share some images on my instagram, so that I can share the results .´
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FujiRumors already told you about the “improved battery life” on the Fujifilm X-T4.
Some might think that’s an “obvious” rumor, but if you think so, you are evidently not familiar at all with the Fujifilm X system.
You need to know:
Enough of Fujifilm battery culture… let’s go to the fun part now! :)
Some FR readers kindly asked me if I can be more precise and define “improved battery life” better.
Well, let me try… how about this:
Finally, 8 years after the X-Pro1 and 6 years after the original Fujifilm X-T1, we finally get a serious major battery life boost.
And to all avid FujiRumors addicts out there: just relax, there will be lots more breaking rumors coming ;).
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Ok guys,
First off I want you take this information with a grain of salt, as it comes from an anonymous source with nickname (thanks for sharing).
If I will be able to confirm any of the information, I will let you know.
Here is what the new source told us:
Except for IBIS, I can’t confirm anything for now.
Now, on FR we are proud to share about 60 rumors a year with a 90+% accuracy.
But a significant part of this community also asked me to be less conservative, take more risks, and share more anonymous/new source rumors I get, even if that would mean maybe falling back to a 70% accuracy.
I am still rather reluctant to do so, but today I try to follow your advice, and share this rumor, even if it’s unconfirmed until now. But this will be more of an exception, as I want to keep my hit rate very high.
And who knows, even our long time trusted sources started as new sources. So let’s hope that todays’ source will be generous with the FR community, and share further details in future.
To the source: thanks a TON for the nickname! Makes things easier. Regarding X100V, I am working on that rumor, and will post an update soon.
And just out of curiosity, I thought I let you vote on what you believe will be the name of the Fujifilm X-T3 successor.
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Match Technical EP-2F Thumbs Up Grip for Fujifilm X100F
Here on FujiRumors we have always reserved a special place to what you guys voted the by far most sexy camera in the entire Fujifilm world, the Fujifilm X100 line.
In fact, the Fujifilm X100 lives in a world of its own… a world where specs do not really seem to mean a lot.
Just see our massive Fujifilm X100 group, which, among all our Fujifilm X/GFX groups, is the one with less gear talk of all.
This is a natural consequence of the philosophy behind this camera: keep it simple, focus on creating images.
One camera, one lens. Now go out and shoot.
And yet…
there is a rare time, when even X100 shooters focus a tiny bit more on gear. And that’s when a successor is about to come out. And that’s fully understandable.
FujiRumors already shared a couple of X100V rumors, but that’s not what we talk about today.
Today, just before the X100V hits the market, we dedicated an own article to the beautiful Fujifilm X100F, an extremely successful camera that sold far more than X100/S/T.
X100F (save $200): BHphoto, Adorama, AmazonUS, Focuscamera
Let’s start:
Fujifilm built a reputation for bringing continuous improvements to its products, a process frequently referred to as ‘Kaizen’.
In 2019, however, we saw major firmware updates from almost every camera company except Fujifilm.
So now Chris and Jordan ask, “What happened to Kaizen?”
Especially now, that the Fujifilm X-Pro3 is out with many major improvements (and the same sensor/processor of X-T3), many hoped for a big firmware update that will bring the X-Pro3 goodness also to other cameras.
But Chris remembers, that delaying the firmware love for the Fujifilm X-T3 and X-T30, is also a way to protect Fujifilm X-Pro3 sales for a little bit longer.
And guys, honestly, Fujifilm is a company that at the end of the day has limited resources and has to make profits.
So I understand if they delay their firmware, and I am fine to wait a little bit longer to get my firmware love. It’s a compromise: Fuji makes more money, and I still get what I want, just a bit later.
And as a long time Fujifilm lover (and blogger), I remember this discussion popping up so many times already.
In fact, back in 2015 I wrote this article, where we discuss the future of Kaizen already, as already back then, people were worried that Fujifilm abonded their Kaizen philosophy. Of course all discussions ended, once Fujifilm released again several huge updates.
The point is, there can’t be updates all the time and non stop. Sometimes, it just takes a bit longer.
Sure, it was not a great 2019 Fujifilm Kaizen year, but I am confident that in 2020, we will be able to “download a new camera” again ;).
I mean, Fujifilm also publicly asked us Fujifilm users, which firmware we would like next, and 14,000+ of you voted on their new favorite firmware features.
This alone shows that they do care, and that improving their cameras via firmware is always a goal Fuji has in mind, but they can that only do when:
So, be patient, and Kaizen love will be back :).
FujiRumors is (as usual) the first and only website, who told you about the surprising Fujifilm X-T3 successor announcement (usually Fujifilm waits 2 years to refresh it, but this time they waited only 1.5 years)
Now it’s time to continue the leaks :).
I did wait to get it tripled checked, and it’s done now, so here it is: the soon to come Fujifilm X-T4 (or whatever Fuji is going to call it), will have IBIS!
This does not come surprising, though, as Fujifilm managers repeatedly said, that they are working on making the IBIS unit smaller, so that they can fit it into other (not X-H) X series cameras.
The mission has been accomplished. IBIS is now going to be part of more Fujifilm X series camera lines!
And now one more thing.
Do you remember when a member of our massive Fujifilm X-T group shared the Fujifilm X-T4 rumor with the following specs? The member claimed:
Note that he rumored it for “end of 2020”, but this is definitely wrong. Now, I don’t want to say that also the 6K video and all other specs are wrong, but the one I can verify now, is 100% wrong.
So, take that rumored specs list with a grain of salt for now.
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Today we can finally unveil what hides behind the mysterious FF190003 camera.
It’s the Fujifilm X-T200!
As we reported earlier, Fujifilm plans an announcement for February 4 (postponed from the original date in late January).
Not sure if everything will come on February 4, or if Fujifilm will split the announcements, though.
What’s sure, though, is that these are weeks, where you should not miss to read FujiRumors! :)
Don’t forget also…
Just yesterday I told you to watch out, as nokishita will soon spot a new camera registered at the radio agency, the FF190004.
Well, now it happened, as just one hour ago, nokishita made this tweet here (images below), saying
Of course FujiRumors is the only website, who knows (and already told you), what is hiding behind these code names. So everybody talking about X-T4 and X100V, knows it via FujiRumors.
Only the FF190003 is still a mystery (for you), that I hope to be allowed to unveiled soon ;).
We are talking of:
Chances are, that Fujifilm decided to take it all together, and launch everything on February 4. But that’s not said, Fujifilm could also decide to make separate announcements.
And stay tuned… as more is coming soon on FujiRumors only, of course.
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