Fuji X-T3 Due in September

It's now the last week in August. My only complaint with the Finger Lakes area of Upstate New York, my adopted home, is that the Summers are so short. They reportedly last the same amount of time that Summers do in other similar latitudes, but when "perception-adjusted" they whizz by in about 35 days.

It's now the last week in August, as I was saying, and Fuji rumors is reporting that the Fuji X-T3 will be announced in September. So if you're thinking of buying an X-T2, hold off a bit. You might want to either a.) buy an X-T3, or b.) buy an X-T2 for less once there is an X-T3.

Oh, and can I just highlight a recent reader comment from Stan B. a veteran photographer with a lot of great work to his credit:

"Those still pining for a digital version of a [Nikon] FM3A (what I was using before this) missed the boat; this [Fuji X-T(1/2/etc.)] is as close as it gets. Compact, not minuscule, and all the dials and retro feel-good controls to make one feel at home. Looks great, feels great, delivers the goods at a price ya can't beat."

Anyway. X-T3 in Sept.: just a public service announcement FYI. Yr. Hmbl. Ed. has neither bone to pick nor dog in this fight*.

Did I mention it's the last week in August? That's appalling. It was just June less than three weeks ago, perception-adjusted.

Mike

* Total lie. Please have IBIS please have IBIS please have IBIS please have IBIS please have IBIS please have IBIS please have IBIS please have IBIS please have IBIS please have IBIS please have IBIS please have IBIS please have IBIS please have IBIS please have IBIS please have IBIS please have IBIS please have IBIS please have IBIS please have IBIS please have IBIS please have IBIS please have IBIS please have IBIS please have IBIS please have IBIS please have IBIS please have IBIS please have IBIS please have IBIS please have IBIS etc. ad. inf.

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Featured Comments from:

John Yuda: "It looks like the Fuji X-T2 is $500 off at B&H right now. Perhaps it’s already marked down to clear out stock?"

Sumanta Mukherjee: "Hello Mike, I've been an everyday reader of your posts for many many years. Today, I cross the line to write you back. Looking back my 27 years with photography, I am still at the same place. From less than five SLRs to chose from in the available market back in 1991, now to hundreds of cameras to choose from, I still am not happy. Will X-T3 be the right one? I am pretty sure it will not be. Because I never care for the output, rather I look for what I do not have. Using a A7RII and a NEX-3 now, sold off all other Fuji/Pentax/Canons lately. Let's see if I can concentrate on photography from now on."

Adam Lanigan: "That's odd, my intermittent eye twitch has returned."

Mike replies: Is that you, Commissioner Dreyfus? It is I, Clouseau.

beuler: "I took at look at Stan B.'s work and loved it. In addition to being very pleasing images, to my eye they have the '3D look' that I thought was only possible with medium format or full frame with Zeiss glass."

Comments

[PWL]

I’m more interested in an XPro3–one with IBIS and an articulating back viewscreen....I like the XPro2, but those two things would be an improvement.

Saw some comments on a Petapixel article which stated that Fuji photographers are Angry Photographers. Is that the perception? Me, I’m a Happy Photographer when I’m blazing away with my XPro2....

[Greg Wostrel]

The X-T2 has ALREADY been on a big price cut ($500) for weeks now. How much lower can it go? Im just trying to scare up the cash since I think its a sweet camera with (almost) all the right things in all the right places. Except for that IBIS... ;-)

[Peter Wright]

The value of IBIS to me is not that it counteracts my shakes at what are ‘edge of the envelope’ shutter speeds using non-IBIS cameras, (say 1/15 sec with a 35mm lens on a FF camera) but that it now allows pictures I could not have got any other way. I like to photograph in churches and other interiors where tripods are either banned outright, or very definitely discouraged. Now I find I can get excellent (sharp!) results hand holding my Olympus EM1mkII for exposures of 2 seconds or so. Moving people of course are blurs, but I find that I rather like the effect this produces.

[Stephen Scharf]

Sorry, Mike, no IBIS in the X-T3.

[c.d.embrey]

Most years I'd say that here in Huntington Beach, we were looking at another 365 days of summer. However NOAA is predicting a 70% chance of an El Niño for January, February and March 2019, Maybe we will have a gully-washer or two next year, to interrupt our endless summer 8-0

Although #cameradoesntmatter I loathe faux retro 8-(

[Jim Arthur]

Factoid of the day: In Egypt, the ibis (bird) was sacred and associated with Toth, the God of wisdom and writing. Toth was also the patron of educated scribes.

[fred]

The 3 in XT-3 signifies 3 card slots.Also a new 56 mm lens mount and a new lens roadmap with unheard of image quality will be introdused .The rear LCD will be removable and can control the camera via bluetooth.7 axis IBIS will be able to withstand an earthquake.An all new sensor will combine X-trans tech. with Foveon magic sauce to give unprecedented ISO performance,native 25 ISO,and a blistering 50 fps capability utilizing one of the SD cards for a buffer.I know all of this 'cause I read it on the Internet.

[Nico]

And many more product announcements in zee paiplain: the Photokina (Köln, Germania) takes place on September 26 - 29.
From Mai next year onwards it’ll be an annual event, instead of every other year.

[Jack Stivers]

I don't care what other updates Fuji adds to the X-T3, but if it has IBIS, I'll be looking for a good used one in about a year after they hit the market.

The X-T2 is good enough that I'm likely to hang on to it too, which is rare for me. I'm so indecisive that if I own multiple bodies (and lenses), then I'll pack the whole shebang along--just in case.

I end up looking like the photographer in the "Heart of Darkness" movie.

Results in sore shoulders and busted filters-- when lenses collide.

Cheers

[David Maxwell]

Well when you adjust for perception it has been August for approximately 577 days here in Middle Tennessee. I can't wait to leave this cursed month behind.

[Jim Meeks]

Regarding your summer comment, I live in OK and I wish our summers felt like 35 days long.

[John Seidel]

Hi, Mike,

You have probably seen this. If not, it is interesting.
https://youtu.be/LxT17A40d50
It is a Nikon engineer talking about the flange-back distance and lens mount inside diameter of the Z-mount.

[Yonatan K]

I am afraid that the internet gods are saying ixnay on the ibisway for the XT3...

:(

[Michael Perini]

Are you not happy with the Panasonic you bought ? or did I miss a chapter in that story.??

[c.d.embrey]

Petapixel that paragon of punditry said today: the latest murmuring is that Canon may be unveiling its first of two full-frame mirrorless cameras in about a week, on September 5th, 2018.

Canon Rumors writes that although its trusted sources aren’t aware of any impending mirrorless camera announcement ... https://bit.ly/2BY9SXs

Mike what is your take on this? Should I cancel my Nikon Z6 order? 8-)

[Robert Roaldi]

I haven't been paying much attention to the Fujifilm cameras but your recent posts made me curious to go look them up. The model line-up is confusing to me at first. It seems that some bodies use an X-Trans sensor, which is what made them different from the Bayer world, but I see that they also have lower priced Bayer-equipped models, but their model naming system doesn't make that explicit. It's doubly confusing because their lens mount is also named X.

Anyhow, I expected their lenses to be really expensive, I don't know why I thought that, but looking at online prices, they're not out of line with other manufacturers.

[Helcio J. Tagliolatto]

Man, this is not for ordinary people like me.
I respect!

"I have been a Special Education teacher of adolescents officially classified as "Extremely Emotionally Disturbed & Socially Maladjusted" for close to twenty years, and currently work with adults with developmental disabilities."

[hugh crawford]

I’m visiting in nyc and it’s ludicrously hot here.

[c.d.embrey]

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[LARRY JOHNSON]

On the strength of Stan B's endorsement of the Fuji X-T~ as a modern parallel to the venerable Nikon FM3A, I might have to give it a look. Nikon's FM3A was my favorite SLR. I thought it was almost a perfect 35-mm camera.

[Martin Cockett]

It won't (have IBIS that is) but paired with the mooted upcoming 16-80 mm f4, which has OIS, you may still be able to have and eat your cake (accepting of course that a 16-80 zoom is not a 23mm pancake).

[Greg Mironchuk]

Maybe (likely) it's me... but... I have a difficult time getting past the Faux Pentaprism hump on Fuji/Olympus/Panasonic/Sony/and now Nikon mirrorless cameras. It doesn't N*E*E*D to be there. It is plainly a M*A*R*K*E*T*I*N*G ploy, to get people who bought SLRs in the 80's and 90's to want to "Digi Up" with a familiar form factor. Fuji T boxes don't make better pictures than the EX-1/2/3 or Pro 1/2 boxes. Same with all the others. Give me back my "Leica Foot", please. The Fake Prism is just... just... dumb.