In the lastest Fujicast episode, Kevin and Neale have, among the others, a talk with Fujifilm UK manager Andreas Georghiades recoded live at the House of Photography in London.
Down below you find a summary as well as the full 1+ hour podcast to listen.
Here is a little roundup to catch up with the latest first look reviewers about Fuji’s newest gear trinity.
It includes a Nikon Z9 shooter going hands on with the Fujifilm X-H2S and explaining us why 40fps do matter. It’s the first video in the “video section” down below, and it is also summarized for you in case you don’t have time to watch it right now.
And of course we got also the XF18-120mmF4 and XF150-600mF5.6-8 covered.
So, I guess you have now something to read and watch… I’ll jump in the Mediterranean water while you get through this all ;).
Overshadowed by the Fujifilm X-H2S…
smashed by the Fujinon XF150-600mmF5.6-8…
obscured by the latest Fujinon X mount roadmap…
the Fujinon XF18-120mmF4 entered the Fuji world with little fanfare.
But here on FujiRumors we treat all lenses with the same dignity, so we will start the roundup with this lens. More precisely, the with the coverage of Taylor Jackson, who says:
As we know since the Fujifilm X Summit, Fujifilm introduces the 5th generation cameras with two sensors:
The first model to come was the “HS” version, hence the Fujifilm X-H2S.
In order to mark this specific model, Fujifilm printed the letter “S” on the front of the camera.
All this considered, there was a wide-spread belief out there that the “HR” model would therefore have an “R” printed in front of the camera.
However, as we can see from the first leaked image of the Fujifilm X-H2, there is nothing at all on the front. Where the X-H2S has the “S”, the X-H2 will have nothing.
But hey, don’t blame me guys!
I already told you that leaked images of the Fujifilm X-H2 will be the most boring ever as it will use exactly the same body of the Fujifilm X-H2S.
On a positive note, having the same body means you’ll be able to use all your X-H2S accessories on the X-H2, including the world famous modular optional cooling fan ;).
We recently shared the official Fujifilm recommended CFexpress Type B card list here.
We saw that not all CFexpress TypeB card are made equal and that only these 4 card models can do it all and can do it best (among the ones tested by Fujifilm).
Other cards work well too, but maybe don’t give you as long bursts as others, or can’t record ProRes and so forth (full details here).
For your convenience, here are the cards recommended
In the comments to that article many were surprised that the AngelBird CFexpress Type B cards were not included in the list.
In order to try to get clarification, I fired off a few emails to sources asking if Fujifilm simply did not test those cards on the Fujifilm X-H2S or maybe if they did test them, and saw they performed so bad that they excluded it from the recommended CFexpress Card list.
Well, today a source wrote me back and told me that the Fujifilm did test them, and they did not perform well, so they did not include them in the list.
More precisely, the source mentioned the following card models as not working properly:
So these are the AngelBird card models you should definitely avoid to use on your Fujifilm X-H2S.
I am aware about the brand new AngelBird MKII CFexpress Type B cards. I don’t have info on those ones, but I think we can be cautiously optimistic that they will work fine. However, I still don’t recommend to buy any CFexpress Card except for the ones officially recommended by Fujifilm.
Once Fujifilm updates its recommended CFexpress card list, I will inform you.
For now, you are best off with these four cards:
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Maybe it’s just because I haven’t had a decent sleep for weeks. Maybe I am just overthinking it all (but don’t worry, I am recovering greatly now)
But when I re-watched the X Summit, I was confused by the statement the Japanese Fujifilm manager made in regards to the 5th generation 26MP stacked and 40MP non-stacked sensor.
His statement:
there is no other camera platform more suitable to have them both than the ‘X-H” Series
I wondered what he meant by that, and I concluded it could be either one of the 2 options mentioned below:
I’ve asked you guys in a survey what you think the manager meant, and here is the result of the survey.
SPECULATION (NOT RUMOR): In my eyes, it would make sense to put both sensor options in at least all of Fuji’s higher end models, as ordering the same Sony sensor in larger numbers, helps to push down the cost for each sensor.
But what Fujifilm will decide to do is unknown at this point. And maybe it is even unknown to Fujifilm itself.
And yet…
let’s assume for a moment that the interpretation the majority of you guys gave is correct. So let’s assume that only the X-H line will get both sensor options.
This would mean that in regards to all other lines, Fujifilm would have to make a decision on which sensor to pick for each camera.
And if that would be the case, I can already see lots of head scratching at the Fujifilm HQ trying to figure out which sensor is best for which line.
If that’s really the case, then I thought that the generous FujiRumors community will gladly invest a bit of its time to give Fujifilm its opinion on this matter by commenting on this article and by voting the surveys down below.
