DPReview Fujifilm X-Pro3 Review: Silver Award and Living the Moment

Fujifilm X-Pro3

DPReview just published their Fujifilm X-Pro3 review.

The X-Pro3 gets the silver award, but I doubt those, who got an X-Pro3 care anything about it. It is all about getting a different shooting experience that DPR sums up with the sentence “living the moment“. And in this case, the reviewer says:

Personally, although I can recognize the X-Pro3’s appeal, I don’t find that I feel it enough to give it a Gold award.

No review will ever be able to tell you if the Fujifilm X-Pro3 is the camera for you. All you can do, is to get your hands on one, shoot with it for a while, and you will just feel it.

Pros and Cons

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New Fujifilm Financial Results: Instax Declines, Mirrorless Suffers, Revenue Down 12.4% but Fujifilm GFX100 Sells Strong!

Fujifilm Fiscal Year Report

Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Sony and others have already reported their financial results.

Most of them are devastating bad. Sony is doing best, even though even Sony has to record a -3,4% sale decrease.

And Fujifilm?

Well, Fujifilm now published their financial results for the this quarter (ends September 30, 2019) and the numbers are not good either*.

Fujifilm’s cashcow Instax keeps slowing down, and digital camera sales suffer strong. All this results in a revenue decrease for the imaging division of 12.4%.

But Fujifilm remains optimistic and says:

we will further enhance the sales by providing products with competitive advantages utilizing our unique technologies, and by running effective promotions to achieve a performance target.

The only camera Fujifilm mentions clearly positively, is the Fujifilm GFX100, which enjoyed “strong sales“. And that must be right, since 6 months after announcement, the camera is still hard to find on the market.

FujiRumors recommends:

Dear Fujifilm, do you know that plan not to release any Fujifilm X-H2 not even in 2020? Forget that! Give us the Fujifilm X-H2 now with Samsung/Fujifilm ISOCELL+ sensor technology, and you’ll see the numbers go positive again. And a Fujifilm X-T4 with IBIS could help, too! Hurry up!

Fujifilm GFX 100: B&H Photo, AmazonUS, Adorama, Focuscamera

* As it always leads to confusion, we remind fellow readers that the Japanese fiscal year 2020 is divided as follows:
   – 1st quarter: April to June 2019 (revenue down 15%)
   – 2nd quarter: July to September 2019 (revenue down 12.4%)
   – 3rd quarter: October to December 2019 (to be determined)
   – 4rd quarter: January to March 2020 (to be determined)

REPORTS SUMMARY

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Fujifilm X-T3 with XF16-80mm f/4 Kit for Sale – Save $500 until Nov. 17

Back in early September, we told you the Fujinon XF 16-80mm f/4 will be sold as kit lens with X-T3 towards the end of the year.

Well, turns out it’s yet another of our spot on accurate rumors :).

In fact, you can now find the X-T3 with XF16-80 kit all over the world, and of course also on BHphoto, Adorama, AmazonUS and Focuscamera. Shipping will start November 25.

The regular price for the whole bundle is of $2,000, which means $300 less than if purchased separately ($1500 for X-T3 and $800 for 16-80)

Add to this that the X-T3 is now $200 off until Nov.17, this means you are now going to save $500 compared to if purchased separately after Nov. 17.

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FIRST TESTS of Firmware 1.02 for Fujinon XF 16-80mm f/4: Sharper Images, Shutter Shock Fixed, Video Focus Wobble Gone

original image: Nansen – via fuji-x-forum.de

XF16-80mm f/4 firmware 1.02

Recently we shared a dedicated XF16-80 flaws roundup.

Now I am happy to see that the new firmware updates for XF16-80mm f/4 have apparently fixed some of the issues.

In fact, the latest firmware 1.02 for Fujinon XF16-80mm f/4 promised 3 things:

  1. Improvement of OIS function
  2. Improvement of AF accuracy
  3. Fix of slight defects

So what it is about and does it work? Let’s see!

Quick Tests

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Fujinon XF 16-80mmF4 R OIS WR Firmware 1.02 Released

Fujifilm has just released firmware 1.02 for Fujinon XF16-80mm F4 OIS WR.

The firmware update Ver.1.02 from Ver.1.01 incorporates the following issue:

  1. Improvement of OIS function
  2. Improvement of AF accuracy
  3. Fix of slight defects.

You can download firmare 1.02 here.

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