Our Fuji correspondent Stephen Scharf updates us:
• Firmware updates for Fuji X-T2, X-T20.
• Capture One Pro 11 was released two days ago. This is a completely new interface with significant enhancements including Layers throughout the application. Version 11 is a major upgrade in functionality. Why is this a big deal? Because Capture One, like MacPhun’s Luminar, sees a major opportunity taking on the Adobe Photoshop/Lightroom market. Still one of the best Fuji X-trans RAW convertors, and unmatched for skin tones.
• The new Fujifilm "X-T2S" with IBIS (in-body image stabilization) has been re-named the X-H1; probably for "hybrid"—as in hybrid stills/video camera. Apparently Fuji leaked it by mistake in the XML code for the new update of X-Raw Studio. This camera will be designed to work specifically with the new Cine lenses that Fuji is making. Release appears to be slated for the first half of 2018.
Mike
(Thanks to Stephen)
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Phase One just announced Capture One 11. It has layers.
Several commenters have, in the past, complained about the move toward subscription software such as Adobe Creative Cloud and Microsoft Office 365. Phase One releases upgrades once a year or so which amounts to about the same cost as a subscription but is completely optional.
Posted by: Speed | Saturday, 02 December 2017 at 06:17 AM
Some more info on the forthcoming Fujifilm X1H: It will have a top LCD display like the GFX, and internal f-log recording. I would also expect it to be a big bigger, to dissipate heat more effectively, and possibly accomodate a larger battery. It may also include a film preset for the Fujifilm cinema filmstock, Eterna. I would also not be surprised if Fuji did not beef up the stiffness of the lens mount to accomodate the longer and heavier X-mount "MK" cine lenses to maintain the proper lens flange to sensor tolerances. These are the sorts of details that Fujifilm thinks through that most folks never even think about (read their white paper about the lens mount for the GFX, for example)
Expected to ship February 2018 and will likely be priced around $2K (which is the price for its main competition, the Oly E-M1 MkII and Panasonic GH5. Info from FujiRumors, which has had
>95% accuracy in predicting forthcoming Fujifilm products for the last few years.
Posted by: Stephen Scharf | Saturday, 02 December 2017 at 01:44 PM
$2K for a crop camera... where is this leading to.
I'm sure it won't be crap but it's still a crop.
Posted by: Matt | Monday, 04 December 2017 at 05:05 AM
"The new Fujifilm "X-T2S" with IBIS (in-body image stabilization) has been re-named the X-H1..."
Well, I guess that should end your search for a new camera body.
Posted by: Andre | Monday, 04 December 2017 at 12:52 PM