Let’s start the week with a rumor, but take this one with an extra grain of salt, because it’s not only a quite long term rumor, but also a firmware rumor.
With that said, here is what I’ve just heard.
According to a source, right in the past, Fujifilm is planing a firmware update for Fujifilm X100F and Fujifilm X-T20 in autumn 2017.
I have no indication about what it will bring. I doubt it will be huge firmware update, like the one the X-T2 recently got, but it could definitely be a “Kaizen light” firmware update.
I’ll investiagte this, and update you guys as soon as I hear something new. So stay tuned on FujiRumors via Facebook, RSS-feed and Twitter.
And I remind you that Fujifilm announced firmware updates for Fujifilm GFX, X-T2 and X-Pro2 in late May.
It is a rainy Sunday here (of course, always at weekend!), and since I stuck at home, what better thing to do, then to check out winners at this years’ “Oasis Photocontest“, which some consider the “Oscar” for nature and wildlife photography?
The name, Simone Raso, sounded familiar to me. I checked FujiRumors and saw I featured his video, where he photographed Cristiano Ronaldo & Co during a Champions League soccer game standing on the sideline with his X-Pro2 and XF100-400.
So I checked the EXIF data of this image, and well, it’s an X-shot, Fujifilm X-T2 with Fujinon XF100-400 to be more precise.
This image got the “honorary mention” at the Oasis Photocontest. Congratulations, Simone. Keep up delighting us with you X-shots :)
It’s definitely worth to head over at oasisphotocontest website and check out all the images. There is so much truly inspiring work over there. Don’t miss it.
2017 National Geographic & PDN Photo Annual Contests
Also National Geographic has its “Travel Photographer of the Year (2017)” running now. Entries are open. So feel free to join with your X-shot :). Check out travel.nationalgeographic.com
2017 PDN Photo Annual have been assigned too. Check out the winners at shutterloveonline.
Fujifilm Awards & Curiosity Recap
Fujifilm cameras aren’t new to important recognitions, such as photography awards or cover images for important newspapers.
Sure, it’s the photographer and his vision that creates the image. But hey, at least we can say that Fujifilm cameras are no limitation for real PRO work. Here is a short overview:
Fujifilm X-T2 distracted a French presidential candidate during his interview (story here)
Only the Fujifilm X-System Breaks the DSLR Hegemony World Press Photo Awards (story here)
Fujifilm cameras already made the cover of the TIME magazine (story here)
Fujifilm cameras snapped the image that won the World Photography Arts&Culture Award 2015 (story here)
Fujifilm cameras are good enough for God’s work (story here)
Fujifilm cameras captured America’s most hated man (story here)
Fujifilm cameras made the front page of the Wall Street Journal (story here)
The X-VIRUS is spreading: Rock Star Brandon Boyd (Incubus) takes Selfie with his X-PRO1! – (storyl here)
Sony A7sii vs Fujifilm X-T2 for video review at Maru Films youtube. Yep, the Sony has IBIS, but the reviewer is considering to go for Fuji anyway. The colors, the overall size and more convince him that Fujifilm X-T2 is the better choice.
Lens Stars are “Weaksouce” on Sony f/2.8 90 Macro and G Master f/2.8 24-70 compared to the beautiful lens stars on the Fujinon XF16-55. Check out min. 1:00 of The Hunter Report youtube video.
Fujifilm X-T2, X-T20 & More
Freemod Design X-Cap2 for Fujinon Lenses at jekuarce
The Struggle to Survive … Fuji X-Pro2 at streetshooter
Followup To The Post Entitled, post entitled “The Fuji X-Camera System Has Evolved Into The (Almost) Perfect System For Me Or An Open Letter Of Thanks To Fujifilm.” at thewanderinglensman
Kevin Mullins: Dunkenhalgh Hotel Wedding at f16.click
As many of us, also Pete loves the Fujifilm film simulations. And as some of us, also he likes it to fine tune the in camera film simulations settings to taste.
But as an avid reader of photography books and inspired by the work of great photographers of the past and present, Pete tried to adjust the film simulation settings in a way that they resemble the main characteristics of their images.
So Classic Chrome becomes “Chrome Eggleston“, Provia becomes “Provia Sternfeld“, Acros becomes “Acros Ellen Mark” or “Acros Moriyama” (depending on the settings) and so forth.
Pete writes:
“It may seem a little arrogant, invoking these names. Honestly, I don’t think I’m anywhere near their level.
But what it does provide is an idea as to what to shoot for. For example, it’s a rainy summer’s Saturday night in the city. I’m working a project on nightlife on the streets. I reckon Daido Moriyama has the right idea – inky blacks and clipped highlights. And I stick with that look, for the duration of the project.
These custom titles are little messages to myself, when I raise the camera and scroll through them, wondering… what if I shot the nightlife like John Bulmer shot gritty Northern industrial landscapes? What if I shoot the beauty of the Gower Coastline like Daido Moriyama shoots the city streets of Tokyo? It becomes an exciting question, one as equally valid as wondering what lens to screw on the front of the camera. “
So how exactly are his film simulation settings? And how do the images look like? To discover that, read “Film & Vision – Making Fuji-X Simulations Work For You” at petetakespictures.
Get inspired. Check out the photography books of the masters mentioned in Pete’s article at Amazon:
thanks a lot for your participation in the poll that I created! Thank you also for all the encouraging comments I got. Thank you Patrick for publishing it on FujiRumors and thereby allowing the poll to reach 2,000 people who took the time to participate. I’m sorry that it took so long to publish the results. The idiotic way that Google Forms formats the data cost me a lot of time and my sons were sick a lot lately so I got way less time to work on it than I had hoped. And when I was almost done my computer broke and it took me even more time to get it back up and running. Great…
To begin let me address some criticism I received.
The Fujifilm XF10-24 is one lens I always lusted after. I also almost bought it, but at the end went for the smaller and much cheaper Samyang 12mmF2.
Regarding the XF10-24, I remember how it was launched just a two months before Fuji’s first weather sealed camera, the Fujifilm X-T1. At that time, here on FujiRumors I already told you that a the WR X-T1 would come in January 2014. So, when Fujifilm decided to launch the XF10-24 in November, we all hoped it would be weather sealed… but it wasn’t.
Now, I know that there are tons of X-shooters out there enjoying this lens day after day. But if you are like Jim, and bring it out into some really tough conditions, then you might be interested to read to rest of the story :)
Why That Fujinon XF 8-16mm WR Can’t Come Soon Enough
Now, Jim is completely in love with the X-system. He loves the image quality, the form factor, the size, the usability, the dials… just everything. He says it “fits my style of photography”
But he also says that “photography is adventure” and that it is “completely unaccetable” that the only wide angle zoom lens in the Fuji system is not weather sealed.
In fact, after a while shooting in the very wet and humid waterfall envoriment, he couldn’t take pictures anymore, because “the lens gets wet and causes a lens communication error“. He says this is not the first time it happens to him. That’s why he owns two of these lenses and changes them, when one stops working. And once at home, he has to dry the lenses.
Jim apparently reads FujiRumors, since he knows about the XF 8-16mm F2.8 WR lens, which will come in early 2018 (I’ve shared the first rumor back in May 2016 (!) here). But he said he’s not sure he can wait that long for the XF 8-16. Hence, despite him loving Fujifilm’s image quality and usability, he is considering to switch to another brand.
At our immense future APS-C lens poll, with over 11,000+ voters, the XF 8-16mm F2.8 WR is the most wanted out of the 30 lenses in the voting-list.
Just a curiosity, on the way back, he uses a Beta version of an App, called “The Really Good Photo Spots“, which I think he’s developing right now. Based on your location, it shows you the best spots to photograph in your area.
Of course, Jim is using the XF 10-24 in an enviroment it is not planned to be used (rainy/wet conditions). But if he wants to get the shot he wants with a Fuji camera, then he currently has no other choice than to go with the XF10-24. The next widest weather sealed lens in the Fuji line-up is the XF 16mmF1.4…. and evidently not wide enough for certain landscape photography.
So, Jim might do well to switch, because Fujifilm currently does not offer the lens he needs the most… unless he is willing to dry his two XF 10-24 for a few more months, until the XF 8-16 will be out.
Or, maybe, just use a plastic bag around your lens in the meantime ;)
And What About You?
So what about you? Do you own the Fujinon XF 10-24mm F4 OIS? Did you have the same experience as Jim? Are you also waiting for the weather sealed XF 8-16mm F2.8 WR or are you just fine with the Fujinon XF 10-24?
Feel free to drop you thoughts and considerations in the comments :)
Review: Samyang 35mm f/1.2 ED AS UMC CS For FX Mount at FujiLove
Flash Without Limits
We already reported on Fujirumors, that Cactus announced Cross-Brand wireless TTL Support (X-TTL) for Fujifilm & Co via Free Firmware update. Beta testers out there are already testing it. And the first reports are now on the web, although still not for Fujifilm.
Flash without Limits: A review of the new Cactus X-TTL cross platform flash trigger firmware with HSS and TTL (on Sigma camera) at spark.adobe.
A Bit of Everything
Peak Design Field Pouch for Fujifilm X-T2 at jekuarce
Supermodel and photographer Helena Christensen appointed as Global Ambassador for the new Instax SQUARE SQ10. Promotional video “a creative awakening” now available to view online at Fujifilm UK
If you were lucky enough to attend the Photokina 2016 (like me), you will have noticed that the by very far busiest booth was the one of Fujifilm. So it was clear to me, that Fujifilm must have done many things right over the last year, in order to attract all these people.
So it’s not really a surprise, that the latest Fujifilm products are highly awarded. I’ve already reported how:
the Fujifilm X-T2 got the Gold Award at DPReview (story here)
14 Fujifilm products won the IF Design awards (story here)
the Fujifilm GFX got the DPReview Gold Award (story here)
the Fujifilm X100F earned the DPReview Gold Award (story here)
17 Fujifilm products won the red dot design award (story here)
the Fujifilm X-T20 got the DPReview silver award (story here)
Only the Fujifilm X-System broke the DSLR Hegemony at World Press Photo Awards (story here)
at the DPReview Awards 2016, DPReview declared the Fujifilm X-T2 and Nikon D500 “Way in Front of the Rest” (story here)
the Fujifilm X-Pro2 Best Professional CSC and XF100-400 Best CSC Zoom Lens won the EISA Awards (story here)
Well, Fujifilm now sets another record. At this years’ TIPA Awards (2017), it is the most awarded camera company out there, with a total of 5 awards for:
As usual, at such competitions, there is an award for basically every brand out there. But it might be still significant, that Fujifilm is the most awarded brand.
Just Another Fuji Convert, From Trying Every Other System – Read here
Hello!
My name is Serge and I’ve written a guest feature before, about adopting the fuji system, in particular using the Fuji X-Pro2 my personal life, street photography, as well as concert photography.
This time I’ve had the chance to put it through an intensive, 1 week photo trip to Havana, Cuba. I paired my x-pro 2 with a fuji 23mm f2, creating a fast focusing, light, reliable, comfortable and even weather sealed combo.
What it created is really that feeling when youre not even thinking about the camera, when you can just be immersed into whats happening around you, which in turn appears to lead to better images. Gear annoyances can take you out of that zone, and fuji x-pro 2 with 23mm f2 allowed for an immersive experience. What is also interesting, is that i ended up using mostly SOOC jpegs or built in profiles for editing. Throughout the whole trip, I’ve only wished for a tilt screen for the x-pro 2. Now that I’ve purchased a fuji X100F, i still feel like the x-pro 2 combo was just a little more responsive and robust.
Although it sounds a little hokey, i really enjoyed walking around Havana with the x-pro 2 and 23mm f2, feeling as much of a bond as one can have with a piece of equipment :).
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