The Little Camera That Can: Pocketing the Fuji X70
I bought a used Fujifilm X70 online last year during the UK lockdown. For quite a while I’d been wanting a camera that I could pocket. No case, no fluff, just pocket.
I bought a used Fujifilm X70 online last year during the UK lockdown. For quite a while I’d been wanting a camera that I could pocket. No case, no fluff, just pocket.
New startup Indisposable is offering a unique proposition to photographers by acting as a film developing service that understands the importance of digital. The company says it is blending film photography seamlessly into digital.
The creator of the Fuji X Weekly blog has published his giant library of film simulation recipes to an easy-to-use app. The Fuji X Weekly app has over 100 recipes and more will be added regularly.
Announced earlier this month, Fujifilm has released a firmware update for the X-T3 camera that should dramatically improve the autofocus performance of the camera.
Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo-features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy!
In-body image stabilization, or IBIS, has become a staple of high-end mirrorless cameras, and companies are iterating at a rapid pace. We learned a little bit about this evolution in a recent BTS video filmed at Olympus R&D headquarters, and now, Fuji is giving us a peek at how its IBIS units have evolved since the X-H1.
Alongside the new Fuji X-S10 camera and the updated Fujinon XF10-24mm f/4 R OIS WR lens, Fujifilm also quietly announced something else today: a firmware update for the Fuji X-T3 that will improve the camera's AF performance "to the same level as the Fujifilm X-T4."
Fujifilm is considered by many to be the champion of the APS-C sensor space. Heavyweights like the X-T4 and the X-Pro3 dominate the ring with first-class features – for an equally heavyweight price. So, what is available to someone with a more modest budget who still wants to get in the ring?
Several reports indicate that Fujifilm is preparing to release a new mid-range X-series camera called the Fuji X-S10, which will boast a 26MP X-Trans sensor, 5-axis in-body image stabilization and 4K video capability, all in a smaller and more compact body than the popular Fuji X-T4.
Fujifilm has just revealed a new addition to its lineup of square format instant film cameras: the Instax Square SQ1. Essentially a square version of the popular Instax Mini, the Square SQ1 gives users 1.5x the print size as well as some handy new automatic features.
In a pseudo Part III to their sensor size comparison series, Jay P Morgan and Kenneth Merrill over at The Slanted Lens decided to answer a question that popped up several times in the comments of a previous video: can the pixel shifting on a Micro Four Thirds or full-frame camera match the output of a 100MP medium format sensor?
After months of teasers and weeks of leaks and rumors, it's finally here. Fujifilm has unveiled the Fujinon XF 50mm f/1.0 WR—the fastest lens Fuji has ever made and the world's first f/1.0 autofocus lens for mirrorless cameras.
The folks over at Lomography have just unveiled the LomoGraflok 4x5 Instant Back: the world’s first Instant Back for 4×5 cameras that's designed to use Fujifilm Instax Wide film. As Lomo puts it, "large format photography just got a whole lot easier, less expensive, and more accessible!"
Braedon Flynn and the folks at Film Supply Club have put together a "shootout" between two of the most popular color negative film stocks out there: Fujifilm Pro 400H and Kodak Portra 400. If you've ever wanted to compare these two side-by-side on the same scenes without going out and shooting them yourself, this film photography shootout video fits the bill.
The Fujifilm X-Pro3 is Fuji’s flagship stills-orientated body aimed at street and documentary photographers. And while it mostly follows the rangefinder style body of the previous bodies, the X-Pro3 features some significant design changes that will affect the way you use it.
The Nikkei Asian Review's data gathering arm has published 2019 worldwide market share numbers on 74 different industries, including digital cameras. The new data point shows how each of the big three is faring in the first full year after Canon and Nikon released their full-frame mirrorless systems.
Fujifilm has just released a new promo video for a very old lens. The video, published last week on the FUJIFILM X Series YouTube channel, features the much-beloved 8-year-old XF 35mm f/1.4R and seems to imply that Fuji doesn't plan to update this lens any time soon.
While everyone was paying attention to Sony, Fujifilm decided to announce a couple of new products of its own early this morning: the very first radio-controlled Fujifilm speedlight a 'wireless commander' for Fuji X and GFX system cameras.
Fujifilm US has just announced the launch of Fujifilm Professional Services. Just like Canon's CPS and Nikon's NPS, Fujifilm's FPS is a service and repair program for qualifying professionals that gives them access to expedited repairs, loaner equipment and more.
Accessory maker Fotodiox is known for creating some unique (if occasionally problematic) lens adapters, and they've just done it again. Their new MY7 - GFX pro fusion adapter lets you use Mamiya 7 rangefinder lenses on Fuji's medium format GFX cameras, including electronic control where possible.
Following in Canon's footsteps, Fujifilm has just released a Mac version of its Fujifilm X Webcam software. The original version of the software—which allows you to use various X-Series and GFX cameras as webcams for streaming and video conferencing over USB, without the need for a capture card—was only available for Windows 10.
In the interest of creating a more diverse and inclusive brand, Fujifilm has announced some changes to its "X-Photographer" ambassador program. These include the creation of a new "Creator Website," plans to add 10 diverse new photographers to the roster, and the creation of a transparent process by which photographers can "get on the path" to becoming an ambassador.
Leaps in storage capacity are pretty common these days. However, the biggest jump in archival media storage won't come from spinning disks or solid state drives—Fujifilm is currently working on cramming an incredible 400TB worth of of capacity onto a single magnetic tape drive.
Fuji has just dropped "the biggest firmware upgrade in the history of the Fujifilm GFX system," complete with several major photo and video improvements for all of Fuji's medium format mirrorless cameras: the GFX 100, GFX 50S, and GFX 50R.
Over the weekend, Fujifilm added a special "Webcam Mode" to two of its most popular entry-level mirrorless cameras: the X-A7 and the X-T200. Both cameras can now be used as a webcam on both Mac and PC, with no additional software required.
During a recent Fujifilm India livestream, a member of the product team revealed that the company is actively developing a firmware update that would allow you to use your Fuji X camera as a 'plug and play' webcam, ostensibly over USB.
Earlier today, Viltrox released an official statement that "reminds" users of the Fuji X-Pro3 that three of Viltrox' X-Mount lenses can actually cause damage to your camera body, and should be avoided.
If you're a Fuji user looking for an equivalent to the "nifty fifty" lenses available for Nikon and Canon DSLRs, you've probably considered picking up Fuji's old XF 35mm f/1.4 or the XF 35mm f/2. But what if there was a more affordable, faster option out there? The Viltrox 33mm f/1.4 wants to be that lens.
Fujifilm has released an interesting update for the fixed-lens X100V. After users complained that the new camera was unexpectedly shutting off due to overheating issues, the company has added an "Auto Power Off Temp" option in the menu that actually lets you set the temperature level at which your camera will overheat and turn off.
Photographer Kim Farrelly has had a hard time getting a capture card to use with his Fuji X-T3. They're all either sold out, or being re-sold at an insane markup. So he figured out a hack that allows him to get a high-def feed from his camera using just a USB cable.
Every time Fuji releases a new camera I feel like this is the generation that will let me leave Canon behind. I had the same hopes and eventual disappointments with the XT2 and the XT3. Inevitably, I would realize full frame always beats out crop frame, that high ISOs and battery life can’t be matched, that Fuji was just not good enough to beat my Canons.
It was early 2000, and the world looked on towards a new and exciting millennium, thankful that their worst fears surrounding Y2K never surfaced. At the time, I was getting ready to launch my portrait photography business using a completely digital capture and workflow, and was intent on investing in the Nikon D1 as my primary camera.
Fuji's Instax film is typically thought of as a "snapshot" product, not something you'd use in a studio, but Brooklyn-based photographer Anthony Tripoli hasn't let that stop him. He's figured out a way to shoot studio portraits on Instax film, strobes and all.
Fujifilm has just announced the beginning of its "Students of Storytelling" competition, a twist on the traditional photo/video contest where students submit proposals, and Fuji gives them the gear they need to bring their vision to life. When they're done, they get to keep the gear!
NiSi has unveiled a tiny new filter system for the fixed lens Fujifilm X100V, allowing X100 shooters to benefit from high-quality graduated ND filters, NDs, polarizers, the company's "Natural Night" filter, and more.
Fujifilm's stock soared on Tuesday after Chinese health officials declared that an antiviral drug the company developed in 2014 is safe and "clearly effective" in fighting COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
Most unfair camera comparisons these days pit smartphones against APS-C or full-frame digital cameras. But for their latest video, Sonder Creative took it a big step further: they're comparing an 8x10 large format film camera against three digital cameras that, let's be honest, never stood a chance.
The recent release of the Fujifilm XPro3 camera coincided with me getting some recently re-released Fujifilm ACROS 100II film. Given my love of Fujifilm digital cameras, film photography, and ACROS film, I desperately wanted to shoot and compare the new XPro3 alongside a rangefinder film camera.
Analog photography company escura wants to "take instant photography to a new level," so they've taken to Kickstarter to fund something called the Hasselblad Portrait: "the first fully compatible instant film back for your Hasselblad V-System camera."
YouTuber Max Yuryev recently went out on the streets of New York with the Sony a7 III, Nikon Z6, and the brand new Fuji X-T4 to compare the video quality and—of particular interest to stills shooters—the IBIS performance of all three cameras side-by-side.