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Check out the google cached Fuji USA page! The long rumored firmware update (rumored back on August 3) for the Fuji X-T1 is going to be announced today (and will be released on Dec.17)
Also correct: the rumor we shared here, about the Video Button becoming a function button. This is interesting, because it’s the same source, who told us: “there is an internal fujifilm lens roadmap that includes a 8mm, a 200mm and the 33mm.”
At this point, thanks a lot to the source for sharing the rumors… and well, allow me say this to some folks (once again)… “I told you” 😉
It’s a nice Kaizen update… or as Fujfilm says: “for longer camera lifespan” 🙂
stay tuned,
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FUJIFILM ANNOUNCES NEW FIRMWARE UPDATE FOR THE X-T1
New firmware V.4.20 delivers updated Auto Focus system features, along with several other key upgrades for longer camera lifespan
Valhalla, N.Y., December 11, 2015 – FUJIFILM North America Corporation announced a new Firmware Update V.4.20 for the FUJIFILM X-T1 and X-T1 Graphite Silver Edition X-Series digital cameras that includes updated auto focus system features. Users will also experience instant auto focus that can now be locked when using manual focus for still images and video, Optional Flashgun in Bracketing/Continuous shooting, Focus Zoom, additional Custom Display options, and the movie-record button now doubles as an FN button – all for enhanced visibility and image composition, and longer camera lifespan. The new firmware will be available for free on December 17.
Firmware update coming December 2015 (X-T1 Graphite Silver and X-T1 Black)
The free, comprehensive firmware update coming on December 17 is specially designed for the FUJIFILM X-T1 and FUJIFILM X-T1 Graphite Silver Edition, and will give users thrilling new features and controls to dramatically enhance their X-T1 shooting experience, including:
1. Instant AF Setting in manual focus – Focus and exposure can now be locked when the AF-L button is used in manual focus mode. You can shoot after locking AF and AE with your thumb.
2. AF+MF operation with AF-L button – The AF-L button can be used to lock focus in AF+MF mode and you can adjust the focus more accurately using the lens’s focusing ring.
3. Focus zoom in AF+MF – The FOCUS ASSIST button can be used for focus zoom and fine tuning focus using the lens’s focusing ring with focus zoom activated.
4. Flashgun in Bracketing/Continuous Shooting – Optional flashguns can now be used for bracketing and burst photography. When using the EF-X8, which is bundled with the X-T1, the flash fires in ISO, FILM SIMULATION and WHITE BALANCE BKT modes.
5. Additional Custom Display Options – Functions have been added to the DISPLAY CUSTOM SETTING option in the setup menu. Users can choose what they want, then concentrate on shooting. Additional options include: Focus frame/Shooting mode / Information background /Focus mode/Shutter Type/Continuous mode/Dual IS mode/Movie mode /Blur warning
6. Fn7 Button – The movie-record button now doubles as an Fn button (Fn7). Press and hold DISP/BACK to select what it controls.
The FUJIFILM X-T1 firmware will be available on December 17.
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If they listen to their customers, they would’ve added Exposure Auto-bracketing at least +/- 2 stops instead of limiting it to +/- 1
French fries, you are wrong as can be.
Please enlighten. Given the DR of today’s sensors and what can be recovered from RAW editing, it seems anything less than one stop exposure bracketing is pointless.
But Rico said it!
Oh I’m waiting for that +- 2 EAB, but Much better 5 frames Bracketing with +- 1.
Thank you!
Where the **** is +/-3 auto bracketing???????
you can say fuck.
AND WHAT ABOUT THE X-E2 :(((((((((((((
keep calm and read this: http://www.fujirumors.com/fujifilm-hong-kongs-says-fuji-x-e2-firmware-4-coming-mid-january/
🙂
I totally forgot it! Thank’s Patrick 😀
By the way, I love your website, it’s addictive!
Dear FujiFilm, please do not forget the X-E2!
– X-T1 auto-focus for X-E2!!
– Some “basic” features like “View Mode Switching” are still missing after the latest firmware updates:
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.
– More than +-1EV for AE Bracketing.
– …
Thanks a lot,
Bob
YES. Once again, the E2’s younger sibling gets the firmware love while the capable and in many ways superior X-E2 is left out in the cold. We’re 2 firmwares back now. YES I know one’s on the way, but you’d think they could update the E2 to firmware 4.0 before lavishing a 4.2 on the T1.
I guess I am being thick… But didn’t it do most of those things already? BB focus, focus zoom, AF+MF, Exp lock? Another Fn button is cool though 🙂
EDIT: I guess these things are improvement tweaks to existent functionality?!
Looks like Rico will be needing to add another chapter to his ever helpful book!
writing books about Fuji cameras must terrible… every couple of months you have to change, re-write, correct, add chapters…
Why is XT10 not included in the updates? it basically shares firmware with XT1.
‘im sure its coming in january if not sooner
Some of these options already exist with the XT10. I think this is mostly getting the XT1 firmware up to date with the XT10.
I used to own XT1 for a while. XT10 suits me better and I like its smaller size.
Fn7 is fine, as I do not use the video function. But I wish they would allow accessing the Manual Lens Menu through function buttons. Furthermore they should add a Delete-on-review-function (deleting the image I just took needs too much steps)
Again no wider auto bracketing options…… only feature I am actually interested in personally……
all I’m asking for is 1 more stop on each end in aeb…..
HDR…
Yes, Olympus offers 3 EV bracketing and you can combine it with even 5 or 7 frames in series. So you get with single release 7x 2EV = 14 stop or 5x 3EV = 15 EV. Use the RAW and you can even extend the last and first frame by 5-6 stops. So you can even take then 3x 3EV that gives you 9 stops + 5-6 stops totalling 14-15 stops.
No X-Pro1 love any more
It’s just too old tech to handle these updates (IMO) & besides Fuji cannot have limited resources… why would they (for example) divert resource away from the XP/XT2 in order to give free stuff to the oldest X-Trans camera? Makes no sense…
Besides the XP1 got a bucket load of FW updates already, just not recently!
Although if XT1 is getting so much software love, I’m guessing it’ll be a long time before we see and XT-2. Same treatment as the XPro1 had.
And IMHO it makes sense, not issuing a new body every year allows to spend cash in lens or elsewhere
I think the Pro got as many updates as the XT. People just haven’t noticed because many (myself included) weren’t early adopters of the Pro. If you go to the Fuji FW page for the Pro and look through the FW history, then in the first year or so of it’s release it got a LOT of cool updates.
I would GUESS that the XP2 and XT2 will share a lot of internal components, so will probably both receive the usual Fuji love of updates in the first 2 years of their lives
There are 15 update firmware versions for the XPro1 versus 5 for the XT-1. Might be more useful to count the number of added features, but either way, the XPro1 did get a lot of love. Be interesting to see whether the pair up the release of the XT2 and XPro2 or continue to stagger them.
I know. Loved that camera, but sold it. Little budget for the new X-T1, back then.
They just released an update for the X-Pro1 45 days ago. Obviously they can’t add features the hardware isn’t capable of, however.
Yes but it was only for small compatibility issues. No real improvement. They could for example add classic chrome.
Well like some said, it’s more of an issue of hardware limitations than lack of software support. There’s a limit to how much you can change without interfering with hardware. That being said Fuji does still provides firmware updates for X-Pro1 which means they can afford to keep a team of developers dedicated to provide support for their older platforms. X-T1 is their flagship camera for the moment and that’s why it gets most of the updates. There will be a point in time when we’ll see less of ground breaking updates for it.
So there seems to be no major FW upgrade for the X-E2 on the horizon, like was rumoured months ago…disappointed.
Whoopsy! I just remembered that the X-E2 FW upgrade is supposed to be coming mid-January (about the same time the X-Pro2 is rumoured to arrive) not December…I am now at peace with the world once more (sort of)…until mid January anyway, if it still hasn’t arrived by then…slight anxiety will ensue.
A little off topic here…
But y’all realise that once the XP/XT2 lands, the FW updates for the XT1/10 range are going to slow down and stop right?
And people are going to be complaining about this!
People will always complain no matter what. Some complain so much, you wonder why they bought the damn camera in the first place.
No biggie. I’m happy with where the XT-10 is now. In addition to the great lens selection, I went with the XT-10 as it had, for me, the fewest usability issues of any mirrorless camera out there.
Amen to that Jeff, I don’t doubt Patrick when he says Fuji read this page, but with the poor attitude of the FEW, I think it’s lucky that we get given anything… “Kaizen” started off with Fuji to fix issues, now the user base demands new things. Shameful.
I bought the X100s the first day it became available because it looked at that time that Fuji would deliver new awesome firmwares after a while.
Whoever complains after receiving all those awesome firmware updates for the X-T1 will be considered a moron by me.
Still sitting here with my X100S with all it’s terrible UI shortcomings. It could have been such a love affair between us two since I love the lens and sensor and handling. Often I just held the camera in my hand because it is so beautiful. Still the most tasteful camera-line Fuji builds. But all those dreadful usability shortcomings were just too annoying so I am now selling it and going for the 27 on my X-E2. I’ll cry for the stop of light I loose and the beautiful looks and silent shutter but it’s just not worth all the annoyances.
You’ll get your stop back if you go with the 18 or just get the 18 and the 27 and enjoy being able to change lenses..
The 18 is too wide for my day-to-day use. Thought about getting both but I think I’ll just save up for the 23 f1.4 or hope Fuji finally comes out with a sharp and affordable 23 f2.
I’d LOVE a 23 f2 of similar price and spec to the new 35 f2
Of course I’d love a 23 f1.4 as per the spec and price of the 35 f1.4 more, but that isn’t going to happen!
I don’t have the X100x because with my eyesight I can’t use it’s viewfinder; but you’ll also loose the high speed synch; internal ND filter both things I have been drooling on ; that said I use the X-E1+27mm and I am very happy with it: almost silent, very fast AF….
Hope you find what you are after
Yeah, but I don’t really need either. Plus the internal ND is rather annoying without an automatic mode since it’s easy to forget it’s turned on. And since there’s only one Fn button for ISO and ND it’s awfully slow to use and not much faster than screwing in a lens filter.
So far I’m liking the 27 and the focus speed is a great benefit with children, especially if we get the updated AF in January. On the X-T1(0) the 27 really screams.
Yup, nailed it guys.
Kaizen is actually Japnese for “whining customer with unrealistically high expectation”
I’d really love a 200/2.8. I used to use the extremely awesome Minolta G HS 200mm f/2.8 with adapter on a NEX-7 and that was a beautiful combo, effectively a 300/4 which is a ridiculously versatile and under-appreciated lens. 200/2.8 with support for the 1.4x TC, of course, makes it an excellent lens for fashion portraiture, close range wildlife, and telephoto landscape. Plus, even with added motors, the Minolta proves it doesn’t have to be an enormous lens. A really useful option in a compact package.
Fingers crossed for that, and of course, the 33/1.0. Yes, please.
Every time Fuji tweaks the AF controls it serves as a reminder that, for me, Fuji got things fundamentally wrong to begin with. A modern system should have full time manual focus built into the design: You press a button, whether on the back or front of the camera, and the camera focuses. If you want to tweak focus, you reach over and turn the focus ring. No switches or modes. Perfectly simple. Perfectly intuitive.
Even if Fuji moves toward this ideal (which, again, should have been where they started) many of their best prime lenses have the ridiculous clutch which would seem to prevent them from ever functioning in this intuitive way. I know there are folks who love the clutch but in my years of using them I have yet to see the benefit of this design.
The clutch mechanism is for zone focusing with the distance scales etched onto the lenses and hard infinity/close focus stops. Focus is still ultimately done “by wire” so there’s no reason you couldn’t do AF with MF override without activating the clutch.
Appreciate your response, Raz. Don’t have my camera and lenses with me but I was thinking the focus ring was mechanically locked unless the clutch was dis/engaged.
I can definitely understand the benefit of both the distance scale and the hard stops but I don’t see why they couldn’t be engineered into the design without using a clutch. The only inherent benefit of the clutch seems to be preventing one from inadvertently turning the focus ring and thereby initiating a focusing aid when you don’t want or need it. I’m willing to be wrong but I’m still not convinced that the clutch is at all necessary.
The real kicker is that engaging the clutch actually resets the focus. Maddening! The Sony EX-1 video cameras that I work with have Fujinon lenses with clutches. In this case they have an obvious function. Engaging them locks the focus (w/o resetting it). With a video camera that is continuously focusing I can see the benefit of the clutch.
Yes of course you’re right, it does lock when in AF mode.
I think you got it kinda backwards. The image sensor is evolving faster than the lens. For example, look at the Adaptive Optics systems . The CMOS sensor is evolving. Thayer professor Eric Fossum and Jiaju Ma have pushed the CMOS sensor to another level. The sensors and the algorithms are evolving. Fuji has it right. I know it goes a little deeper than your basic discussion.
Hi Jam005. It may just be me missing your point but I don’t see what the evolution of sensors has to do with what should be a simple implementation of full time manual focus that has been around on other brands forever.
Bad no full ISO control with finger dial, shutter speed on T, for real full control without taking the camera of your face
Continuous shooting with strobes was my most wanted feature. (I hope it works well).
Nice, looks like Fuji is taking a page from Olympus philosophy to improve the cameras in time. In this time Fuji is catching what Olympus has been doing to E-M1.
xe2 firmware?
Indeed. Basically the same internals as the X-T1, but we’re missing so many firmware/software level features at this point.
Don’t get me wrong but Sony would have released a new camera for all the upgrades Fuji did on the X-T1, and eventhough Fuji doesn’t have full frame shizzle camera’s the X-T1 is still cometitive with the newest mirrorless camera’s so.. Best buy ever until know and saved me a lot of money already (money otherwise spend on looking for a better body all the time)
deeply disappointed with promise unkept.
Chill, dude, there was never an official announcement and so there wasn’t any promise they could break.
We’re all waiting and according to Patrick’s sources it will be late, like everything Fuji. But it should arrive on January 15th.
Guys, I am about to buy the XT 1 and would like to ask you some simple questions if I may. (1) Given the existing hardware on the XT1, is it at least reasonable to expect that the video quality might be improved some day through a firmware upgrade or is it more than just a question of software? (2) When people in past reviews mention things like the battery door not closing firmly and so on, would Fuji have fixed this by now or is that something in the design that cannot be changed even after so much time has passed? I am asking because I don’t have access to the actual camera so need to depend on what others say. (3) I was about to order it with the 18-135mm but then read some bad reviews and even that this is a huge lens (which sort of defeats the purpose), so was thinking of going for the 18-55mm kit lens instead. Is this weatherproof like the body (note: I am more concerned about dust than water)? (4) I would like to use my old Pentax 50mm lens (from an old ME Super film camera) with it. Would I find an adapter and should it work ok (in manual focus mode of course)? Would I need to do any adjustments? By the way in case anyone out there is in Europe and is interested I am thinking of buying the camera from Purnima Digital (a French online company which provides a 2 year warranty and seems reputable enough) Thanks. John
Fotodiox has a pentax k mount that works wonderfully! I use it to adapt my 100mm macro. You have to enable shoot without lens and set the focal length in the menu.
Battery door is only a small nuisance, just be gentle with it.
Also, i ordered the xt-1 with the 18-135 a few months ago, it is a fantastic travel kit, allowing enough range to travel super light: hang camera over shoulder, put a few batteries in your pocket and you are readu for anything!! No regrets here. I just picked up the 10-24 for my upcoming trip to cover the ultrawide range for architecture and landscapes.
Great to hear about the K mount! That will surely save me some money. You are the second person who has praised the 18-135 here, so maybe the review I read was biased. I still think it might be worth getting the kit lens and then moving on from there as my skills evolve (or I give up). Thanks for your help.
Hey John, the video quality will only improve with the X-T2. The X-T1’s processor is not capable of fast video readouts to eliminate the moire. It’s nice for shooting your kids and stuff but not for the video enthousiast. However, the X-T1 is a really nice camera and I’m still amazed each time a photo comes out of this camera. Everything is just right.
As for the 18-135, that is a great travel lens. All the 18-1xx are debatable because they will have compromised designs. It you want top noch quality in a zoom buy the 16-55F2.8. I still use the 18-55 together with some primes. The 35mm F1.4 is still my favorite. There is a new 35 F2, weather resistant, for 399 euros… That can be an awesome combination as well.
Regards
Thanks for replying. I have to admit the pull of the D5500 is large considering the price but I am now set on the Xt -1; the only thing is I will wait till January or February for the price to maybe drop a little.
As for the lens I will probably go with the kit lens for three reasons; (1) it is the right size to keep it all compact (2) I don’t think I will actually need a larger zoom for what I want to do (3) I want to move into primes to do faces and explore “depth of field” photography.
So – I’m curious – has anyone created a matrix showing when (i.e., at what pace) most camera manufacturers release firmware updates? I’ve noticed that others do, and they seem to be full of new features, so I’m wondering if for all the talk of kaisen in this forum, Fuji is simply doing what the others do. Love my fuji – not a hater, but my skepticism on this issue grows.
Prior to Fuji starting this, almost all the manufacturers firmware updates were small changes that primarily fixed bugs. Very, very rarely did they add any new functionality. Fuji has added a simply mind-boggling number of features to the X-T1 over the years….silent shutter, a new AF system, customizable Q menu, EVF options, film simulations AF+MF capability, and dozens more.
Only this past year have Sony and the Micro 4/3 manufacturers started jumping on the bandwagon: Sony with a big firmware update to add PDAF for adapted lenses and uncompressed RAW to the A7 II, Olympus with an update to add several features from the E-M10 II to the E-M1 and E-M5 II., etc.
Thanks. My guess is that this coincides with the camera companies realizing they’re selling electronic devices / computers and not simply digital versions of their old film cameras.