24 December Christmas Special

Merry Christmas

First off, I’d like to wish all my readers a Merry Christmas ! maybe not under optimal circumstances for everyone, but we can only make the best of it, and in the end it’s the people closest to us that matter the most.
Meanwhile, the clock ticks away the minutes, and a new year approaches.
Hopefully a better year for everyone !

To start with, I have selected one Fujifilm recipe for this Christmas Special, a recipe that is close to the Christmas atmosphere, the daily weather and the colors outside in nature.
The maker of the recipe is not unknown, and he has made a video about it, in the video you can already find his recipe, but I also wrote it out in my article.
The music and how the video is made is just beautiful.
But who is it and what is its recipe ?
Check It Out Here!
Highly Recommended!

And what will Fujifilm bring us in the new year ?

Well, in September Fujifilm announced the updates yet to come with the X Summit PRIME 2021/ FUJIFILM

One of those novelties where the XF 33mm f1.4 WR and XF 23mm f1.4 WR – that already have been released. I would like to say something about this, although these are very high quality light-sensitive and professional lenses, they are also quite expensive. And while an f1.4 lens has its advantages, for most of us an f2.0 or f2.8 lens will also suffice – the advantages of the latter are weight, size and most importantly price.

A lens for Video and Photo – the XF 18-120mm

I think most people would have seen this coming, nowadays I see more and more people combining photo and video to show their work on Youtube for example. I have also become very interested. And yes, with an 18-120mm you can film and photograph just about the anything.
A lot will depend on the price, because I currently use my XF 18-135mm WR lens for this, and that works very well.

The Big Guns

Not much to say about this lens, bigger yes, but this was also to be expected I think.

Expectations ?

Well, both expected sometime in 2022 – apparently also the year that the X series will be 10 years old – so maybe they also have other surprises in store at Fujifilm, lets hope they have !

New Flagship Camera – the X-H2

Especially in the GFX series there are many innovations on the way, but also in the X series a new camera is expected – rather: flagship.
And it would be not one but two – possibly not at the same time.
The camera I’m talking about here is the X-H2
I am excited and very interested in what it will be eventually. According to Fuji Rumors it would be a version with a 26MP and another with a 40MP, and something vague about stacked layer sensor on the Summit ?
We’ll have to wait and see.

Enjoy your Christmas and your loved ones,

and I’ll see you all in a new year !

P.S.
The pictures of Christmas decorations on the header card and in the article were shot with a Fuji X-H1 and 7Artisans 35mm f0.95 FX.
A review will follow early next year, but I can already tell you that it is one hell of a lens! Recipe enthusiasts will not be left on their hunger either, as new found recipes are currently being noted and will be posted as soon as possible.
I can also say that I have a new camera in my stable : an Olympus OM D E M5 Mark II, this particular camera has a few features that makes it even better than its successor the Mark III in my opinion, maybe even better than some Fujifilm cameras, and for me it might be the ultimate camera, who knows ? I will definitely start using it with manual lenses. What to do with the Fujifilm X-T1 and my other Fujifilm cameras then ? time will tell.
You can expect a “why buy this camera in…”, and my decisions where I will go with Fujifilm and Olympus in the next year, as well as a review of my new Venus Optics Laowa 10mm Zero D MFT lens, in the first issue of OSP Photography 2022 !