Category Archives: Press releases

Fiscal Year 2020/3 (April 1, 2019 – March 31, 2020) – COVID-19 Impact and Strong GFX100/X100V Sales

Imaging Solutions In the Imaging Solutions segment, consolidated revenue amounted to ¥332.6 billion (down 14.0% from the previous fiscal year). Launching new products was partly postponed until the fiscal year ending March 2021 due to the spread of COVID-19 epidemic, causing our group factories in China to postpone the restart of operations by extending the […]

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Meet Up With Luca Locatelli 2020 World Press Photo Awards Winner

Fujifilm cameras were used by many winners of the 2020 World Press Photo Awards in addition to Luca Locatelli winning overall. Above Makoto Oishi from Fujifilm interviewed Luca Locatelli about the win and below you can see a summary of the discussion: Luca Locatelli got into photography around 30 Previously he worked in technology He […]

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Fujifilm to Develop AI-based Technology to Aid COVID-19-Induced Pneumonia Diagnosis and Assess The Effectiveness of Treatments

Fujifilm to Develop AI-based Technology to Aid COVID-19-Induced Pneumonia Diagnosis and Assess The Effectiveness of Treatments Company commences joint research study with leading medical institutions in Japan, applying lesion quantification technology for pneumonia TOKYO, May 19, 2020 — FUJIFILM Corporation (President: Kenji Sukeno) is commencing a research study to develop Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based technology to […]

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Camera Grand Prix 2020: Fujifilm GFX100 Receives Editors Choice Award

Camera Grand Prix is held by Camera Journal Press Club (CJPC, Japan), a group of representatives from magazines or websites specializing in photos and cameras. CJPC, established in September 1963, has 10 members from the media as of May 2020. The selection committee, organized under CJPC’s Camera Grand Prix Executive Committee, deliberates and selects the […]

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Japan Sent Fujifilm’s Favipiravir (Avigan) to 43 Countries For COVID-19 Trials

We have been following Fujifilm Avigan (Favipiravir) and COVID-19 involvement for a while ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. 11, 12, 13) and trials keep coming up with positive results. It is now being reported that Fujifilm is sharing their “wonder drug” via the Japanese Government with 43 countries for approval in the treatments of COVID-19 via the United Nations Office for […]

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Fujifilm Develops New PCR COVID-19 Quick Test

Translated Notification of application of public medical insurance to the new gene detection kit “SARS-CoV-2 RT-qPCR Detection kit” for coronavirus that greatly shortens PCR test time (Fujifilm Wako Pure Chemical) FUJIFILM Wako Pure Chemical Industries, Ltd. (Head office: Chuo-ku, Osaka, President: Kazuo Shiraki) has announced that the research reagent “SARS-CoV-2 RT-qPCR Detection kit” released on April 15 […]

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