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Fujifilm Instax Mini 11 Price Increase Announced

By Louis Ferreira | Published: May 17, 2022

Instax Mini 11: B&H Photo / Amazon / Adorama

Inkjet paper “Gaisai”, instant camera “Cheki” “instax mini 11” price revision notice

Thank you for your continued patronage of FUJIFILM products.

Fujifilm Imaging Systems Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, President: Koji Matsumoto) absorbs costs by improving production efficiency and reducing costs in response to soaring prices of various materials and raw materials and rising transportation costs. However, since it is difficult to absorb it only by corporate efforts, we will implement price revisions with the following contents.

We kindly ask for your kind understanding and forgiveness.

We look forward to your continued patronage of Fujifilm products.

1. Target product and price revision (price increase) details

Price revision date	Products	Details of the revision
May 20, 2022	Inkjet paper “painting”	12-22%
May 20, 2022	Instant camera “Cheki” “instax mini 11”	About 15%

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More Fujifilm Price Increases On The Way?

By Louis Ferreira | Published: May 16, 2022

Fujifilm recently announced a substantial film price increase and now Amature Photographer has contacted Fujifilm UK to see if there would be camera price increases coming. Fujifilm UK replied:

It has been well documented that there have been issues facing the entire consumer electronics industry since the pandemic began in 2020. The cost of raw materials increasing, availability of parts due to manufacturing constraints caused by factories being locked down, increases in fuel costs resulting in higher logistics are just some of the challenges everyone has faced in the past two years. Any changes in prices are always communicated to the network of authorised Fujifilm retailers first. It is worth reminding people that UK law allows retailers to set whatever price they wish. Unfortunately we are unable to give any further information at this time about future prices changing.’

The statement is an interesting one and it could indicate that some price increases might be on the way, but Fujifilm might be trying to figure out how bad they will need to be or we could just see price increases integrated into new announcements since Fujifilm’s current lineup of cameras has been around for quite a while now. The Fujifilm X-H2 and Fujifilm X-H2S could give us some incite into X-camera pricing when they are announced later this month.

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Savings Sunday Continues

By Louis Ferreira | Published: May 15, 2022

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Laowa Nanomorph Anamorphic 27mm, 35mm, and 50mm Coming May 17th, 2022 at 10 am EDT

By Louis Ferreira | Published: May 14, 2022

Venus Optics launched an indiegogo for its latest Super35 compact anamorphic cine lenses. The launch date will be May 17th, 2022 at 10 am EDT and they have some attractive early bird specials that you can see below.

1/ Patented anamorphic design
2/ Revolutionarily tiny and compact
3/1.5x constant squeeze ratio
4/ Gorgeous amber and blue flare version
5/ Artistic oval bokeh
6/ Short closest focusing distance
7/ Various mounts available
8/ Professional cine housing

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TCSTV: Fujifilm GFX100 Studio Photography Interview with Jason Eng

By Louis Ferreira | Published: May 13, 2022

I’m a day one adopter of the GFX system and I can verify that once you shoot a GFX camera it is impossible to not compare it to others because it really is a cut above the rest. That being said GFX is not necessary, but it does provide you with many additional creative opportunities that can help you make shots and recover shots that might otherwise be impossible. There is nothing quite like GFX and when I use cameras other than my GFX100 I always find myself wondering how much better it might have looked if I just shot it with my GFX, to begin with. Below is a summary of the above video interview:

Jason’s assistant wanted to get a new camera system so they looked at Canon and the GFX was the same price so they compared it to the Sony they were using and it blew them away even at laptop screen size
GFX Camera details and gradation are unmatched
The compression and distortion on the GFX are useful to work with
The Fujifilm GFX100 calls back to classic professional cameras that had fixed vertical grip
GFX100 has a fully usable AF system that doesn’t miss.
The GFX100 vertical grip is great for him
The Sony was great because it was a small half body that you can just throw in your bag and go which reaches a larger target audience.
Today things are compact so you can go either way
The Fujifilm classic film presets come right in to capture one without doing a destructive edit
Color has been hard in the digital world and Canon was king until Fujifilm came along
Fujifilm was the only company to match Canon’s color, but he couldn’t see himself shooting APS-C, but now there is GFX
GFX has great skin tones and reds that are rich and deep
GFX has a lot of great lenses, but adapting legacy lenses to the GFX is fantastic
Adapting lenses for artistic portraits or just yourself gives you some of the softness that film had and it helps the simulations
Pro-level cameras are around 5k and dropping the GFX to just under that is a game-changer because traditionally you would spend 30k for what GFX gives you
Once you see the color and shadow tonality range that the GFX is capable of is impossible to unsee
100MP doesn’t have to be about giant print ads it is about all the extra information

Fujifilm GFX100S:
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Fujifilm GFX100:
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Fujifilm GFX50R:
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Sigma’s Road to X-Mount Was Nine Years in The Making

By Louis Ferreira | Published: May 12, 2022

Fujifilm posted an X Talk #27 with Sigma’s general manager Mr. Ozone and Fujifilm Manager Ueno. Thankfully I do not have to rely on Google translate for this summary because DC.Life posted a summary of interesting points in Japanese that are much easier to translate accurately. I also watched the video and added some more myself. Below is a summary of the key points.

Fujifilm visited Sigma 9 years ago to talk X-Mount, but Sigma wanted Fujifilm to release mount information which they only released recently.
Fujifilm Manager Ueno is happy he was able to expand the number of companies making lenses for X-mount and happy he was able to release protocols.
Mr. Ozone sees a variety of lenses like there are a variety of colored pencils because they each have their own look, which Fujifilm Manager Ueno follows up with that even when f stop and focal length are equal each lense has its own character.
Sigma could adopt an aperture ring design at great expense, but since Sigma will do mount swaps they chose to pursue increased compatibility over specializing lenses for X-mount
Sigma figured there wouldn’t be much excitement from them joining X-mount since the designs weren’t new ones and Fujifilm had similar lenses, but they were wrong.

It sounds like Sigma is going to be more forward-thinking with X-mount and the next lens we should see from them is the Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 DC DN Contemporary which is expected December of 2022

Sigma 16mm f/1.4 DC DN Contemporary
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Sigma 30mm f/1.4 DC DN Contemporary
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Sigma 56mm f/1.4 DC DN Contemporary
B&H Photo / Amazon / Adorama

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Sigma’s Road to X-Mount Was Nine Years in The Making

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