As you might have already read here on Fujirumors, a trusted source told me that a new firmware for the X-T1 will come.
Now, also a new source told me about it and shared some details. Keep in mind that also this source just told me about an X-T1 update… but personally I hope this doesn’t exclude the possibility that other X-cameras will be updated, too.
Here the rumored features:
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shutter speed will increase from 1/4000 to 1/32000
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better movie capabilities
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faster/better AF (including phase detection on instant AF)
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some other minor improvements (like new film simulation modes)
- firmware updates will be released in October and December
Is an electronic shutter coming via firmware update? Now that would be an update worth of the word “KAIZEN” :-).
It’s a rumor, from a brand new source, so take it…. CUM GRANO SALIS.
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i don’t get that part of the shutter speed increase… thats an odd shutter speed… Tho the part about video sounds really good, hopefully it will be useful! come on fuji don’t make me buy gh4 🙂
Do not assume video capabilities would be like GH4. For dedicated videos you have to have Panasonic GH4 camera, no substitute yet for GH4.
It doesn’t need to be GH4 quality video, there’s a lot of room to grow when you are basically at the bottom of video capability. If you get it half way, many people will be happy. People like me won’t really care because we only do stills.
1/4000 x 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/2 = 1/32,000
1/32000? THAT. WOULD. BE. AWESOME. That could be great answer to HSS need – electronic shutter… I hope it is true!
Would be awesome but it seems too good to be true.
Sonds certainly credible if you recall Rico’s comment about a month ago:
“(…) If you think 1/32000s is silly, you don’t have to use it. I am looking
forward to it, especially in concert with the XF56mm. Hopefully, there
won’t be any practical rolling shutter issues. Electronic shutter is the
future (just look at Olympus and Panasonic). (…)”
But is it really possible to implement it via firmware? (on a camera with mechanical shutter)
Not in hardware, I suppose. But maybe they can do a hybrid shutter with electronic first curtain or something. Or purely electronic.
No, on second thought I am quite sure it will be an electronic first curtain.
For sure not in hardware! 😉
Hm… having done my homework I must say: maybe even in hardware.
Go on…
Well… for 1/32000 mechanically you have to start the second curtain 1/3200 seconds after the first. I guess the crucial point is the proper timing and that the difference in speed of the two curtains is within a reasonable limit to ensure uniform exposure. The shorter the exposure, the lower this limit has to be.
I won’t belive this until it comes true. It sounds too great.
Any reason for the date split on the updates? Does that mean the updates won’t come in one bundle?
The shutter speed sounds insane and a game changer for me. I’d be able to use my 35/1.4 wide open in far more situations, and it would be a good substitute for ISO 100 and even ISO 50! Yes, electronic/software-based?
I think I can imagine what the improved movie features would be, if true… This camera desperately needs better focus control during recording.
Faster shutter speed via firmware would be exellent. 32000 is not odd, 1/4000, 1/8000, 1/16000, 1/32000 – 1 stop difference at each step.
Not sure how firmware will modify the dial on my X-T1 though?
It would be with either another dial or for aperture-priority mode.
It would make sense if you shoot at ISO 800 (for DR 400%) and f/1.2
New dialplate for the knob you can glue on ? 🙂
One could probably set lower shutter speed by setting 4000 and using command dial to get down. I can’t imagine a situation I would need to set speed lower than 500 manually. I always go to aperture priority for fast speeds.
Dammit! Didn’t think about the dial… 🙂
That would be SO SICK! My 56mm wide open in sunlight without ANY need for ND filter. A dream come true!!
well.. electronic shutter on my nikon 1 brings down dynamic range a bit and color resolution drops down a little. So not really a full substitution for mechanical shutter. just yet
justintime, I can imagine that you can go to 1/4000 and tune it using the front dial which controls 1/3 stop shutter speed
Meanwhile… the X-E2 firmware collects dust… I think they’ve begun to leave this philosophy behind for any camera that’s not the top of the line…
Are you serious? X-E2 got a major update 4 months ago and a minor one 2 months ago. How often do you expect updates???!!!
Real updates he means !
They did not fix many problems since the x-e1/x-pro1 ( auto iso not convincing, exposure compensation not working when you set shutter speed and exposure…
Wake up Fuji !!!
It’s not about the quantity, but rather the quality. So far it’s been mostly small QoL changes. We were told we were to get new features, by Fuji, themselves. Such as the wifi remote… still nothing. It makes sense, considering that much of the internals between the X-T1 and the X-E2 are the same, and they don’t want the X-E2 to hurt more profitable X-T1 sales, but it also kinda sucks at the same time.
I still plan on getting the X-Pro2 when it comes out, so I’m not complaining too much. 😛
The X-E2 is doing just fine for updates. The X-E1 and X-Pro1 have been left much further behind.
Dear FujiFilm, please do not forget the X-E2!
Some “basic” features like “View Mode Switching” are still missing after the last firmware updates:
X-E2 Firmware Update – Feature request:
1) Please add the possibility to assign a “SWITCH view mode” to any function button. (SWITCH without the need to look at a menu!)
2) Please retain 3 different “view mode” settings for the 3 different operating modes:
– Shooting mode –> EVF Only + Eye sensor to turn EVF on/off.
– Playback mode –> Eye sensor: Automatic display selection using the eye sensor.
– Change Settings mode –> Eye sensor: Automatic display selection using the eye sensor.
By giving this possibility, the photographer should be very rarely in the need to change View Mode settings.
3) Faster (more acurate) AF with moving subjects and wide apertures.
4) Auto ISO: Minimum shutter speed: Dynamic 1/focal lenght.
5) Wireless: Remote release / Full remote control.
6) Wireless: Tethering
Most of what I would ask for is
1) Improve AF speed (its almost there for shooting pics of the kid, but not quite)
2) Stop exiting focus peaking when I half-press the shutter
Would be nice to have add:
1) High Sync Speed for the EF-42
same for x-e1 unfortunatelly, I’ love more color choices for focus peaking, 1/32000 shutter speed and better video quality…
Wasn’t it discontinued?
The X-E1 I mean.
They could meanwhile update the E1 firmware to include EVF only + eye detector.
It still doesn’t make any sense that they included it on the E2 and not on the E1.
oh ! I wonder why it’s not possible in X-E1 but i had no idea it was possible with X-E2. Battery saved efficiently ?
For what I’ve seen that helps a lot with battery. Mainly with people like me who barely use the LCD. I would love to use the EVF for shooting and the LCD for reviewing.
I also think that 30s to sleep is too much. The screen should go off after 5s or so. But just the screen.
i’m skeptical over the 1/32000th shutter speed.. no manufacturer ever got over the 1/8000th with mechanical curtain systems. maybe it does involve some sort of digital ND filter? i.e. lowering ISO sensitivity?
Lowering ISO would mean they will go to ISO 50 – by using electronic shutter instead of the physical one I believe you can easily get to the point where 1/32000 is possible. Only question is if the buffer is fast enough to collect data from whole sensor?
I am not sure if it is possible but hey… it would be nice, right?
so why neither canon nor nikon have reached such a high speed? i understand that someone has to be first soon or later, but frankly i don’t see fuji being the leader in this.
That’s what I’m saying – most probably buffer speed is the limitation here. Because of that you can have rolling shutter artefacts – looks pretty weird in certain situations. If the Fuji buffer fast enough to minimize it? I don’t think so but let’s see what will future bring!
Rolling shutter is an issue in video recording because you have slow shutter speeds there. There has to be very fast movement in the scene or of the camera to get artifacts at 1/32000. If they are indeed using a non-global electronic shutter (that’s what it sounds like) they can still limit the rolling shutter effects to 1/4000 or maybe less with the physical shutter.
It would not really be 1/32000 shutter speed though, but some hybrid mode…
To me it seems more likely that they implement an electronic first curtain that is synced to the shutter, but that is me speculating without real knowledge of the technology…
That wouldn’t enable HSS… too bad
Fuji probably can implement faster shutter speed using lower resolution.
I don’t see what resolution would have to do with it. It is not the same as a faster burst mode.
less resolution – less lines to read from the sensor with less pixels in each line – faster readout
Granted, I have no idea how the sensor is actually read out. But on the other hand I don’t see how you can easily skip lines with x-trans. You will get serious aliasing.
Also I think the readout time is not really important for the exposure time. The sensor just has to be “deactivated” fast enough.
well, I actually meant crop mode, without line-skipping.
During normal mechanical shutter operation sensor is exposed and charge builds up in each pixel until the shutter is closed and then each pixel is read out one by one.
Electronic shutter means discharging the sensor (like opening the first curtain) and then reading out the sensor (second curtain). I don’t know however how they deal with exposure difference between first and last read pixel.
May be someone knows better and can comment
I don’t think crop mode will get up speed seriously. 1.5 times? 2 times? Not big deal. I wonder what’s the true shutter speed of electronic shutter. 1/60 probably.
Well, unless you can add some facts, it’s pure speculation. What is known for sure is that physically smaller sensors are read out faster than larger ones. I’m not talking crop mode will be faster because of smaller resolution, but because of smaller sensor area. Will it be 2 times or 10 times faster? – We need an ingineers opinion.
Why electronic shutter will be different in terms of speed to mechanical? I thought 1/32000 is 1/32000 no matter what.
As I understand every line is read for 1/32000 but all the lines are not being read simultaneously. Modern electronic CMOS (not CCD!) shutters spend about 1/60 sec to read all the lines. That means one can take static pictures in 3 stops more light, but he needs to use mechanical shutter to stop motion or having highest possible flash sync speed. This is why all olympus cameras shut down flashes when electronic shutter is activated. I belive first CMOS electronic shutter panasonic G3 had 1/10 electronic shutter that is enormously long. I’d like to have at least 1/125. On the other hand CCD electonic shutters could read all the lines simultaneously so Nikon D70/D70s (and probably some D3 modification) had 1/500 sync speed. Unfortunatelly CCDs are worse than CMOS for photography.
Thanks a lot, I had no idea it takes so much time to read all the lines. I thought it would be 1/32000 to complete the read-out. But in this case it makes no sense to use electronic shutter, or at least the options are very limited – only static objects.
Another marketing gimmick.
Well I can’t agree with you here. I have to use ND filter to shoot full height portraiture in daylight using 56/1.2. This is always still portraiture so 3 stop faster shutter is welcome for me. For example my Nikon with ISO100, 1/8000 and one stop smaller aperture (same DOF, and I had 1.8 lens anyway) was OK without ND. The only problem is that I’d like to use fill flash but with electronic shutter I’m stuck with reflectors.
Canon and Nikon are defending morror superiority. Therefore electronic shutter is not in their native territory. It comes from camcorders and is developed primarily for the cameras with live view. Such as all mirrorless, but It can be implemented in dslr live view modes.
Electronic shutter. It has its own plusses and minuses. Also there is no such thing as lowering ISO sensitivity. All sensors have one sensitivity. Everything else is just math to estimate a different ISO.
That’s not true in the way you are stating it. There is the base ISO which captures a certain amount of photons in a period of time, and that doesn’t change (what you might be referring to), but to a point, the gain can be turned up as well for many of the higher ISOs. This is an actual electronic gain control for the signal out of the well….an amplification of the signal itself. This isn’t math based. Once you max the gain out, then the ‘extended ISOs’ are just mathematical manipulation a of the data.
The gain is still a form of math. It’s amplifying the information. And gain is still used in a very narrow range of ISOs.
http://www.clarkvision.com/articles/iso/
http://www.clarkvision.com/articles/digital.sensor.performance.summary/#unity_gain
Not sure if gain is maths, isn’t it the amplification of analog signal before digitizing?
Anyway, maths or not, it doesn’t mean that you can shoot everything at base iso and then correct in post. You still have to choose appropriate ISO for the shot. And this is the important part about it for most photographers.
I’ve read the article quite a while ago, and I think it was some of your older posts, where I first encountered it, thanks.
Wouldn’t an electronic shutter imply that there would be an increase in maximum flash sync speed as well?
Nope in fact cameras that have electronic shutter (Panasonic and Nikon 1) flash turns itself off if u engage electronic shutter so no flash operation is possible
Flash sync is related to the focal plane shutter.
Some electronic shutter are like this, say Nikon D70 could sync at any speed (though firmware offered 1/500s, but there were workarounds). But this was in 6MP CCD era.
With CMOS sensors, full electronic shutters are not offered yet. Surely engineers work on it so that mechanical shutter that has to be very precise (which costs money) can be eventually omitted or be less precise (cheaper) and they know they would lift sync speed issues.
So is 1/32000s possible? That kind of shutter speed will be available only with significant rolling shutter effect so it will not work well with flash. Like in video modes. If video is possible at exposure parameters that for still would imply lowest ISO and 1/4000 shutter, than electronic shutter used for video surely could be used for stills at that shutter speed. But video is read row by row with full scan taking perhaps 1/60s. Good enough for f/1.2 static, no flash portraits in full sunlight, but unusable for flash use and also unusable for freezing motion.
Thanks, that makes sense.
nwcs, can you talk more about the minuses of electronic shutter? I’ve never paid any attention to this concept beyond a few posts by David Hobby a while back.
The cons are mostly with how fast the sensor reads and the fact it reads in lines. In ultra fast scenes you can get some cool effects but unusable if you’re not looking for them: http://people.rit.edu/andpph/text-focal-plane-artifacts-in-digital-cameras.html
It’s an electronic shutter. Nikon and panasonic already have cameras with 1/16000 speeds – e.g. nikon 1
I’d rather hear of some X100s “Kaizen” firmware with
faster AF. But besides adding the tele converter functionality, there was no real improvement over the almost 1,5 years since release. It’s a nice camera, that’s for sure – but it’s hard to believe that there was no potential for improvements since then (like some software optimisations for the AF).
It will surely come.
Sorry, this is my fault. Once I buy a camera the firmware updates stop.
Haha you must have a lot of Nikon and Canon cameras lol
Fuji, we want EXTENDED AUTO-BRACKETING!!
That would be so basic, that still don’t understand why it hasn’t been there since it was first released the X-T1 (or fixed on first firmware update), at least +-2 EV it’s the industry standard for bracketing.
Not really. Nikon’s bracketing is forced at 1 stop each way. You have to do 7 shots to get +/- 2 EV.
Thants on new (or pro) Nikons? On D7000, D5100 and D600 which I’ve used you can set (max) 3 brackets with +/- 2 EV or 3 EV even if I recall.
Kind of. You still have to take the pictures 1 stop apart. Nikon people have complained about that for years. I had Nikons for 8 years and it was annoying if I wanted to bracket more than 1 stop and minimize number of captures.
Some Nikon cameras have limitation of 1 EV steps. D800 is one of them, but at least it allows more than 3 pictures (also there is a workaround http://photo.net/nikon-camera-forum/00bgLP ), but most Nikon consumer DSLRs are limited to 2 or 3 pictures with up to 2 EV steps. My D90 was like this. My D610 has up to 3 EV steps and 2 or 3 pictures.
Don’t you mean 5? Or are my math skills in the crapper today?
You’re right. I was mixing up my EVs. 7 pics for +/- 3EV and 5 for 2. Annoying either way. lol
Try using wifi control. I love it. You can make any amount of stops at any step. The only problem it’s seconds, not 8fps.
Yeah right 1/32000 sec shutter time?
Highly unlikely 1/8000th would already be something that would amaze me, because there is no dial I could turn it to.
You do know that you can set shutter speeds not on the dial today, right? Or have you never used a Fuji X camera?
You can change shutter speeds with the command wheel, but only up to +/- two-thirds of a stop from the speed set on the marked dial. If you want to change more, you have to stop and change your grip so you can turn the frickin’ marked dial and then turn the command dial AGAIN. This is one of my biggest pet peeves with Fuji. I would love it if they would change the firmware so that you could vary shutter speeds continuously by turning the command dial (the way you can on Olympus and Panasonic cameras) but they won’t because you could end up with your actual shutter speed set to, say, 1/2000 while the knob is still set to 1/125 or whatever, and that would confuse all the nostalgists who like these cameras because they gots knobs wit numbers on dem just like Grandpa’s Exakta…
And they could easily change that with firmware. I don’t see them wanting to break the connection with the dial, though, so I’d see them add more button presses above 4000 than do what you’re looking for. It’s the price you pay for having a shutter speed dial. It’s inconvenient sometimes but then I’ll pick up my Motorola X570 and remember how easy it is now.
So true JL Williams!
Why not just implement it, and for those that only use the knob, will never even notice you have that flexibility. But for Kaisen flexibility and options maybe are wrong (too much bracketing can be “confusion” also? :P)
It would be only a little more confusing than having the shutter 2/3 stops off, and whenever you turn the knob it could reset to knob settings… would be a great improvement in usability allowing not to change grip/take eye from the viewfinder, allowing to take photos and change settings faster, and stop being a “Fuji knob chimper”
They can reprogram the software for the T-dial, but now with all shutterspeeds available. So when you set the shutterspeeddial to T you can select every shutterspeed by turning the command wheel.
With T-dial I meant the T-position of the shutterspeed dial of course 🙂
All you would need to do is turn the SS dial to 1/4000 and then use then use the control wheel to reach all speeds faster than 1/4000.
Very easy with electronic shutter like Panasonic and Nixon 1. Panasonic gm1 has 1/16000 electronic shutter speed so it is easy. However when u engage electronic shutter up flash shuts off. FYI.
I would kill for faster Xsync rate than 1/180 on the other hand
Well, I wouldn’t call it “very easy”, panasonic and especially nikon have smaller sensors. when it comes to electronic shutter the sensor size counts
Improved video capabilities !! I keep my fingers crossed !!!!!!
Full manual controls , improved codec , better bitrate , no aliasing and moire and i’m sold !
I’d also be interested in an option to increase the focus throw on electronically coupled lenses when in video mode for increased precision when used with a follow focus. Or even a digital follow focus app for iPhone that allows for live remote focusing via a WiFi connection. Now that would be amazing!
True, these are two great ideaas, that sound doable
The first EOS-1D had fastest shutter speed of 1/16000 and it was over 10 years ago. 1/32000 doesn’t seem that impossible. (thou two totally different cameras, but still)
eos 1d had 1/16000 machanical shutter. I believe this 1/32000 fujifilm shutter upgrade is electronic, thus via firmware. I seriously doubt that they’ve put such an outstanding mechanical shutter that nobody else ever had (as I recall), and then limited it just to 1/4000 for a year to fix some firmware compatibility.
If this is true, it would be marvelous!!
So I’m currently trying to decide whether or not to leave the fuji system and sell my whole kit. Then I read this,lol. Can anyone tell me if this would also relate to a crazy increase in sync speed as well if true!? Reason for possibly leaving fuji is mostly do to lightroom handling of files. I’m often a bit disappointed with skin textures and foilage and have no intention of using other editors. Though this would be a game changer for me if true! Thanks for any answers!
You’re willing to take a huge financial hit instead of spending $150 on Capture One Pro 7 right now…..okay makes total sense.
I agree, Capture One’s image quality is vastly superior to Lightroom, and that’s with pretty much any camera system I know (though I haven’t tried either program with X-Trans raw files yet since all my current cameras have Bayer sensors). Not to mention that Lightroom is extremely slow. I waited for Adobe’s (unfortunately disappointing) iPad workflow solution, but I’ll likely be switching over my entire workflow to C1 soon.
Besides, if you are unhappy with the quality your raw converter produces, it’s kind of a strange decision to replace your camera system and not the raw converter.
Capture One software is the best for handling Fujifilm raw files, they offer a two months for free to see if it works for your needs.
Exactly, although PhotoNinja is not bad, too. But Capture One and (and to a lesser degree Irident) offer better functionality and support Retina displays. I like the noise reduction in PhotoNinja.
I’ll admit, I can get much better results with capture one, just really not a fan of the interface. And I am on the fence about leaving the fuji system, it’s just that when I enjoy my x100 files for landscape shots over my xt1 it makes me reconsider the xtrans sensor. With the catalogue and ui system of lightroom it’s hard for me to leave LR. And of course I wouldn’t sell if the loss financially was too great. And don’t know if it’s just technique or not, but flash shots are hit or miss, sometimes drop dead beautiful and others very “waxy skin”. I just started with flash so I know it could just be technique.
I’ve heard they are hard at work betatesting for Capture One 8.
there was a thing i always wondered about: when you are out in bright sunlight, and you have fast glass and run into the 1/4000s sec barrier…you still get a perfectly fine preview picture on the display ot the EVF…so the camera, even today, is able to read out the sensor faster than that 1/4000. i would love to have that possibillity in everyday shooting. even on overcast days you sometimes cant use the 1.2 and 1.4 glasses wide open.
It closes down the aperture, look into the lens when and switch between sunlight and shade(with hand)
I believe the source meant 1/32000*4
(1/32000)*4 or 1/(32000*4) ?
Does this means that the E1 is soon to be discontinued?
the X-E1 is already discontinued: https://translate.google.com/translate?depth=1&hl=de&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=ja&tl=en&u=http://fujifilm.jp/personal/digitalcamera/oldproducts.html
Fuji,
Please fix the video frame rate in X-M1, X-E2, X-T1. Your video is out of sync with every other camera and recorder in this world.
amen!
Where the hell will they put the 1/32000 setting? There’s no space on the shutter dial. Much like the ISO dial, they didn’t think before they finalized the design.. What’s the point of having 3 High ISO settings and only space to assign 2 only? Should have thought about it and had space for all 3 high ISO settings instead of wasted time to think which of them you want to use or leave out..
Granted, the highest ISO settings will probably rarely, if ever, be used anyways, but a higher shutter speed is way more useful.. unfortunately, where will they put it?.. go through menu system? that would defeat the purpose of what so many people praise the Fuji cameras for having, the exposure dials to fiddle with.. if not, then the only way I can see a higher ISO setting being available is to sacrifice at least 1 space or two on the existing dial.. make you choose whether you want 1/4000 (as marked on the dial) or reassign to go higher to 1/8000, 1/16000 or 1/32000? Kinda stupid there’s no way to smartly integrate this supposed increase in shutter speed performance, if that is really going to be the case.
Maybe a recall (courtesy service) to send the X-T1 back in (again?) to have them retrofit the shutter dial with a new one that goes all the way up to 1/32000?
Will see whenever and whatever happens with this soon, I guess…
They can put it on the T mode on the dial and just use the front wheel to scroll through all shutter speeds as someone pointed out below
Haha… I had a late re-think about it, and you pretty much said it… you can use the command dial to fine tune the shutter speed, so I guess from 1/4000, you may be able to scroll higher, possibly?.. I guess that might work, it would have been better had they put out such capability and had it originally part of the design and on the dial….I definitely welcome any performance gains out of the X-T1(or many other X cameras) especially in the shutter speed department, it’s definitely one of Fuji’s few short comings not being able to go up to at least 1/8000 like a lot of high end models (not fuji) can do… let alone their antiquated flash sync system which is related and needs serious updating to get higher flash sync.. really HSS (or FP, whatever you want to call it) flash sync capability where the 1/180 (or 1/250, even) can be very limiting.
I think in T mode on the shutter, in theory you could have all shutter speeds on there, and the front scroll wheel would function like on a dslr going from 30 seconds all the way up to 1/32000 and you could just change back to the wheel on top if you wanted to. This could be a neat fix. IF this happens you may see the sync speed change dramatically too.
I dont really see the issue with this, it would probably work the same way as T-Mode and the incremental 1/3 stop shutter speeds, simply turn the dial to the highest shutter speed and then turn the control wheel on the back for an even higher shutter speed. A bit more unpractical than having it on the physical dial but to me that would still be a good solution and definitely a feauture worth adding. Somebody correct me if this is not how the T-Mode works on the X-T1, I only have an X100s..
This will give the faster flash sink speed a lot wanted.
Lol indeed those flashes don’t sink fast enough. Safe hour Sols!
Indeed if you want 1/250th + you have to have a faster stutter
It seems you still don’t realize flashes sync, they don’t sink (but probably would if you tried).
I did misspell that didn’t I or spell check got it?
Spell-check doesn’t correct real words in the wrong context, the cause of lots of funny errors in texts and the internets.
Wow!!! Bombshell language on Fuji’s Photokina page:
“…at this year’s Photokina. At the Touch and Try Corner of the Fujifilm booth, visitors will be able to experience the outstandingly high image quality with a full size sensor and high resolution images taken with the new lineup of cameras that feature FUJINON XF interchangeable lenses.”
“Full size sensor?!?”
Is that sloppy copywriting, bad translation, deceptive marketing, or a leak that Fuji is going full frame?
I’m guessing that it is a mistake, but wow!
http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=19445X767313&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fujifilm.com%2Fphotokina2014%2Findex.html
Technically every sensor size can be called full size. It’s definitely not reserved for 35mm. What is full size anyway? Large format? One of the medium formats? APS?
I think it’s clever marketing to get rumor sites to pay attention.
“Full frame” has a specific meaning. “Full size” seems synonymous. What you’re calling “clever marketing” then is that this is full APSC size? That doesn’t seem clever. It seems confusing.
It seems to be getting people talking about it. It’s clever. All the companies are desperately looking for ways to hype. I think it’s just another way.
The old adage “There’s no such thing as bad publicity” is one approach. I don’t subscribe. 🙂
I do believe that Fuji will bring good stuff to market this year. It sounds like Panasonic will also bring their A game. Panasonic and Fuji could be the stars of the show.
But Fuji has created a brand that many are calling “the new Leica.” It is associated with quality. Publicity stunts aren’t necessary or appropriate for premium brands like Fuji.
I bet they tweak the copy of that release. 🙂
1.5 is full frame to a XF lens
Full size sensor? Wait, what?
Man, 1/32000 would be boss. I wouldn’t have to carry around ND filters for the fast primes… 🙂
What about X-E2 improvements? No trusted source has nothing to share with? X-T1 is cool camera but there are many X users and like X-E2 more, hope Fuji brings to X-E2 some improvement too, especially better AF, High Iso performance, and at least 1/18000 shutter speeds.
Do people really need 1/18,000 shutter speeds? I do think 1/4000 is not enough (especially with the fantastic fast primes), but believe 1/8000 would be good enough
I hope this is correct but I it seems a bit too good to be true. Are there any other cameras with 1/32000 shutter speed?
I have been expecting the firmware to be improved for video at some stage because it is an obvious limitation of the x series cameras which is really just a firmware issue i.e. I suspect fuji has prioritised video functionality lower than still photography (I agree with this focus of their programmers effort but it is about time they fixed the video weakness of the x series – stills are my focus but video is growing in importance these days.) don’t forget It took canon over 2 years to upgrade the video functionality for the 5d mark II after all. I really hope the x series takes the lead in video.
i only asked Fuji for one stop in shutter speed. but 1/32,000??? wow! electronic first-curtain shutter would be real nice though. i miss that from my alphas. less shake, too.
as for video, i can understand needing licensing for such codecs, and this isn’t meant to be a video tool. in fact, i hate breaking down a rig or reconfiguring settings to go back-and-forth between photo and video. absolutely annoying. that’s why i have a separate blackmagic camera. but, i at least hope they allow manual for video. i doubt we’ll get a codec that’s decently gradeable. too bad it can’t be hacked for raw video. i love those 14-bit raw files. it may be possible on the x-t1 with its uhs-ii card.
I just hope the Fuji X-E2 doesn’t become the forgotten fuji child. Considering it has the same internals as the X-T1 it should be able to support the same features.
Me two as its not a year old yet best they be thinking of upgrading it too.
It’s almost a year old and the X-E series are on a yearly upgrade cycle. I am sure fuji will still provide updates though
I dunno…if it were REALLY a kaizen thing, then throw us X-Pro owners a bone too…please. 🙂
Electronic shutter is no big deal. If a camera has video (or even just live view), it has electronic shutter already. 🙂
The question is will it be useful – compatible with flashes, not introducing rolling shutter and not lowering DR?
Considering this rumour in the light of the X30 launch I think X-T1 owners are in for a treat. Video manual focus (only before starting recording though…what’s up with that?) and 24p/25p/50p is what I have wanted for a looooong time. I have doubts about that shutter time though…sounds unlikely. Focus point selection directly with the (mushy) buttons – yess! AutoISO bracketing, better AF and a better JPG engine (is it possible?) also sounds delicious. Classic chrome…well, whatever. All in all, I would be very surprised if not all of the X30 features at least reach the X-T1 and X-E2 (not so sure about X-E1 although the interface changes should be technically possible).
Can someone give me a good example of where they would use 1/32000 shutter speed. I am just interested to know what other people would be using this for.
Personally I would love to see the Flash Sync speed increased to something better but not sure if this could be done in firmware.
If you want to shoot the 56mm f1.2 wide open in a sunny condition at native ISO 200, you need 1/32000 shutter speed to keep the exposure “right”.
One can put a 3 stop ND but purists will want to shoot w/o these filters as some times it can cause colouration and internal flare and other things filter related.