1) Also BHphoto is now taking pre-orders on the XF 56mm here, on the all black X100S here and FinePix S1. AmazonUS has all the new Fuji gear listed here.
XF 56mm f/1.2 ($999): USA AmazonUS / BHphoto / Adorama – EUROPE: wexUK / PCHstore / DigitalRev
X100S black ($1299): USA AmazonUS / BHphoto / Adorama – EUROPE: wexUK / PCHstore
FinePix S1 ($499): USA: AmazonUS / BHphoto / Adorama – EUROPE:
2) Nathan Elson is the first who published on his blog an image shot with the 56 f/1.2 lens. Check it out here. He promises more in the next days, so stay tuned! (thx for the link Tjeerd)
image courtesy: Nathan Elson
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I just pre-ordered the black X100S on amazon. Thanks for your hard work!
Great time to be a Fuji X shooter!! Can’t wait to get my hands on the 56/1.2!!
Throw in a session with a glamour model or two, and I’ll add the 56mm f/1.2 to my *must have* list. 😉
I want one, too.
Glamour model, or 56mm f/1.2? 😉
Rico, you didnt have one for tests?
I hope they include this lens in the next Fuji deals.
I second that!
ordered via your site, this will make it possible to leave my dslr at home on the next assignment — unless i need something like the canon 135 f2, a magical lens.
cheers
thanks a lot for your support guys!
Nathan does a great job with that lens. Will be fun to follow his instagram for the following posts.
Personally it will be some serious saving to afford the 56mm.
Looks like very high QUALITY bokeh!
Love the prize… 999usd = 999gbp :F anyway, can’t wait to get it in my hands
April 6th for Amazon… February for B&H…
Apparently I jumped the gun in preordering with Amazon.
Bah
I had a few bad experiences with B&H, especially when preordering the X100S.
Amazon came through for the X100S (+ they gave me a $100 credit for waiting so long), so I will trust Amazon again!
Regarding the X100S, I think everyone had problems with their order last year. The waiting time was terrific (over 6 months for some if I remember well), and it was Fuji’s fault.
Yes, everybody seemed to have issues with the X100S.
But B&H had one of the earliest ship dates listed on their website, and when that came and past, I called B&H. Their customer service rep told me that it would be ready to ship by X date.
When that new date came and past, I called again, and another B&H rep told me, there was no way for the previous rep to know when Fuji would send out cameras, so basicly the previous rep lied to me.
& now that I’m living in NY, I understand the “New Yorker attitude”, but instead of appolizing for the delay + having a customer service rep lie to a customer, this customer service rep told me, I either wait like everybody else, or cancel the order. So I canceled the order.
Amazon on the other hand, appolized several times with missing their estimated ship date, and gave me $100 credit and allowed me to apply it directly to the X100S
I believe that all this could have been avoided, if only Fuji would have kept its promise and shipped punctually. But it was all so chaotic, with stores fighting to get even just one or two X100S’ to slowly fulfil preorders. In such a confusion, errors and imprecisions can easily occur. However, very kind from Amazon to give a $100 credit! Great service.
Well, it seems that Fuji has learned the lesson. At least, the X-E2 was shipped as planed (even earlier!).
My understanding was there was a huge shipment to the US that was damaged in transit. This ended up screwing everyone as Fuji scrambled to grab stock from all over to resupply that shipment.
Yeah, I tend to stick with Amazon, as they’ve always been reliable for me. B&H has been hit and miss.
Hopefully Amazon ships in February 😉
I shop from both Amazon and B&H with no issues from either. I make most of my large photo purchases through B&H with the thought that if I have a question I can speak with a rep who knows photography, not a CSR whose prior call may have been to sell someone a pack of Fruit of the Loom underwear.
Ya, I ordered from Amazon within an hour of announcement. Hoping I don’t have to wait till April. Either way I’ll have it before wedding season starts.
Amazon has become more and more conservative on their shipping estimates in the last year or so when it comes to camera gear as so many camera companies completely drop the ball on making deliveries according to their claimed schedule.
It’s entirely possible that Amazon will ship sooner than this stated date, that they may update the date in the coming weeks, or that BH and others will get a handful of lenses in February and no more until April.
Personally, I can’t stand to pre-order from a company like BH who insists on authorizing the full amount to my card well before they are shipping the item.
Yup, Amazon shipped my 55-200 lens a week before the estimated date that was originally listed!
& yes, love that they don’t charge your card till the product actually leaves their facility!
Hopefully, we’ll start seeing more image samples show up online (glances at Rico).
Even though i just bought an x100s in silver i’m very excited about these current and new lenses.
I’m slowly moving from FF Nikon and x100 was my first and within an hour i absolutely love the thing.
I’m most likely going to sell my Nikon bodies and i may wait until the possible future x pro 2, hopefully weather sealed. And once i get an interchangeable body i’m really looking forward to the proposed 16mm, the 35mm and the 56mm posted here.
F1.2 for about £800, thats pretty reasonable price for what i reckon is a great portrait lens.
Good job Fuji, thanks for listening to us and putting out some great kit. I’m ready to park the dSLR for good now.
I don’t even want FF Fuji bodies, these sensors are great.
$999 is a steal, comparing to Pana Nocticron 42.5 ($1599) !!!!!!
Ha, I laughed at the price of the panasonic lens!
That announced $1599 price for m43 Panasonic 42.5/1.2 that actually weighs more than Fuji 56/1.2, makes the $999 I am paying for the 56/1.2 sound like a bargain
since x100s black will have same price as the original version, does that mean the silver version will not have a price drop when the black comes out?
why would that happen. good lord….
Panasonic just sold a bunch of lenses for Fuji.
I am surprised by lack of images from this lens, 24 hours after the announcement, including on the official Fuji page. Typically, by this time, there are many images from different people that had been testing the preproduction samples, plus a video from the Fuji Guys. This time, looks like delayed reaction. Rico on this forum should have assembled a bunch of images already! What’s the deal here?
I found one. It looks pretty good.
http://www.laroquephoto.com/blog/2014/1/6/the-razors-edge-fujinon-xf-56mm-f12r
Thank you so much for finding that one. At least some reading from someone who had used one!
this has to do with Fuji providing plenty of samples, and that hasn’t happened yet. Rico already mentioned in the post below that he doesn’t yet have one.
Jon, thank you!
Would like to see a roadmap of the X camera bodies too…
I’ve just checked out the price of the XF 56mm lens on WexUK website and I am appalled to see that it’s the same price in GB pounds, £999.00, as the price in dollars, $999.00, on B&H website!!! I do understand that state tax of 8.875% has to be applied to the B&H price but surely the old chestnut of “economy of scale” cannot account for the discrepancy in price between the US and UK? This to me smacks of a monumental rip-off on the part of WexUK!!!
Wex have got sweet FA to do with the UK pricing. It’s the Fuji UK MRRP. Take it up with them
Wex will sell at that price until competition / lack of demand / stage of product life cycle force a drop
That’s only a nominal pre-order price. It doesn’t necessarily mean the final price that you’ll pay. Once the lens is available, the price gets posted properly.
Other sites have it at £899. Please don’t knock Wex for this – they are one of the best retailers and certainly not rip-off merchants.
Fuji UK have it at RRP £899!!!
Wex have it at £899 now.
Am I missing something, or is there not a lens hood included? I wonder how it looks though.
All my Fuji lenses came with lens hoods, so I’m assuming this one will too!
Yeah I just read on the Fuji site that this one will have a hood. I just wonder why it’s not visible anywhere. Probably they burned their fingers a bit with the 23mm
XF 56/1,2 recomended price in sweden: $ 1500 🙁
at least you have excellent health care and top notch public schools in Sweden 😉
I like that !!!
LOL Patrick 😉
Does anyone know if the x100s black will come in a box set like the x100 black did?…in any event, thanks Patrick for this website – – I am now totally addicted to checking into almost every day!!!…pre ordered the x100s from Amazon via your website. After tons of reading, although I already have the xpro, the x100s is an amazing camera, worth every penny, worth the wait!!!