Fuji GFX Lens Road Map

OK so we have seen this years Fuji Summit and nothing. Have they gone cold on GFX lens development or are they trying to sell off the last of the old stuff before playing their card.

GFX 100-200 down from £2000 ish to £1300 new from Fuji and mint used as low as £900, is this just segment realignment because the 250mm f4 seems to be holding its price well.

Good point. I think with the introduction of the 100RF, hopefully it's time they start developing smaller and slower (pancake) lenses.

kciuk aka Ken60 said:

OK so we have seen this years Fuji Summit and nothing. Have they gone cold on GFX lens development or are they trying to sell off the last of the old stuff before playing their card.

GFX 100-200 down from £2000 ish to £1300 new from Fuji and mint used as low as £900, is this just segment realignment because the 250mm f4 seems to be holding its price well.

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Is this not just one of their periodic sales? A while back I picked up the 20-35 & 100-200 at these prices

For me that gap between 100mm and 250mm needs some excitement .

kciuk aka Ken60 said:

For me that gap between 100mm and 250mm needs some excitement .

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Like a 150-180mm prime?

Perhaps a new zoom.

What else is there to develop that GFX shooters will buy? It seems the entire lineup is already complete. Some lenses already cannibalize their own range. (Like the 20-35 f/4 which is the same size and weight as the 23mm f/4 and is more flexible) They already have the 250 f/4 and 500 f/5.6. Not sure if anyone's even interested in a GFX version of the 150-600 since GFX doesn't really specialize in wildlife or sports, and that lens will be: A. SLOW, and B. HUGE.

They can try producing even slower versions of their primes and make them even lighter, but seeing how the 23mm f/4 is STILL a huge lens, I don't know how small can a 28mm 5.6 be. They can start making 30mm 5.6, 50mm 5.6, and 100mm 5.6 but will people even bother since they're so slow?

If I can have 1 wish lens for GFX, it would be a GFX 200 f/2. Yeah it's gonna be expensive, but so much bokeh.

Each to their own, but for me the weakness is in the tele range.

A 120 macro that can't get to 1:1 so many posts on here asking about Mamiya, Pentax macro lenses because the native offering is not exciting them.

100mm -200 mm 5.6 is the most traded lens on ebay ! There has to be a reason they are not being kept, and fallen in price by almost half new.

Sadly for me the 110 f2 is a beautiful lens but its lack of closer focusing means it is a "distant" portrait lens and not close enough focusing to work in a broader arena. At that price I don't want that limit.

The standard zoom is not an easy choice... I have a 32 - 64 f4 and learning to like it even though it end soon as you zoom in ... so the answer is the 45 - 100 f4 , except for the fact that Canon makes a 70 - 210 that is shorter and weight way less yet runs to double the focal length. So I feel a bit to much of a jousting item for a general walkaround . Again we have the 35 - 70 but it is slow.

I think to hold the audience of enthusiasts converting up from full frame to these amazing cameras , they have a lot of hiccups in the mid long end of their range.

So I ask for a mid range live on the camera zoom. Perhaps even 28mm ( 35) to 100 ish (120) perhaps not as compact as the 35 - 70 but f4 and not too much longer.

Secondly a revamp of the 110 that can focus closer , and a revamp of the 100 - 200 again faster and a tad better at the long end.

Oh, and my hen wants some new teeth !

A native 1:1 macro would definitely be nice.

While I'm fantasizing, it should have fantastic optic stabilization that would work seamlessly with the IBIS in Fuji's new 50 MPix stacked sensor camera for high frame rate handheld focus stacking.

Not so inconceivable, really? Maybe in a few years.

xtm said:

What else is there to develop that GFX shooters will buy? It seems the entire lineup is already complete. Some lenses already cannibalize their own range. (Like the 20-35 f/4 which is the same size and weight as the 23mm f/4 and is more flexible) They already have the 250 f/4 and 500 f/5.6. Not sure if anyone's even interested in a GFX version of the 150-600 since GFX doesn't really specialize in wildlife or sports, and that lens will be: A. SLOW, and B. HUGE.

They can try producing even slower versions of their primes and make them even lighter, but seeing how the 23mm f/4 is STILL a huge lens, I don't know how small can a 28mm 5.6 be. They can start making 30mm 5.6, 50mm 5.6, and 100mm 5.6 but will people even bother since they're so slow?

If I can have 1 wish lens for GFX, it would be a GFX 200 f/2. Yeah it's gonna be expensive, but so much bokeh.

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Fujifilm needs to make a 90mm f/2 2:1 macro lens.

That would be amazing.

The lineup is far from complete:

* lightweight primes like Hasselblad V and P lenses

* 100-200 range: maybe 135 and 180 primes,

* 1:1 macro

And, lightweight travel body to go with the small primes, XT5 or XPro style with retro dials

kciuk aka Ken60 said:

OK so we have seen this years Fuji Summit and nothing. Have they gone cold on GFX lens development or are they trying to sell off the last of the old stuff before playing their card.

GFX 100-200 down from £2000 ish to £1300 new from Fuji and mint used as low as £900, is this just segment realignment because the 250mm f4 seems to be holding its price well.

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It has been asked: what else does the GFX system really need? IMO, an obvious need or at least notable gap is a classic headshot lens, the equivalent of a FF 135mm f/2 or thereabouts.* So that would be roughly a GFX 175 or 180mm f/2.8. As it stands, the only way to get even near that focal length / field of view with a native lens is the 100-200mm f/5.6.

*FWIW, Canon, Sony, and Nikon all sell for their MILCs 135mm f/1.8s, and Fuji sells for its APS-C MILCs a 90mm f/2.

kciuk aka Ken60 said:

For me that gap between 100mm and 250mm needs some excitement .

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I would agree, but I would want smaller so maybe something in the f3.5 to f4 range

kciuk aka Ken60 said:

100mm -200 mm 5.6 is the most traded lens on ebay ! There has to be a reason they are not being kept, and fallen in price by almost half new.

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The 100-200 has not dropped in price, Fujifilm just has their usual sales or rebates. The MSRP is $2000 and that is still what It costs.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1454226-REG/fujifilm_600020702_gf_100_200mm_f_5_6_r.html

I also think people might have the wrong expectation of the 100-200, so that's my guess why people sell it if that is the case. It is an F5.6 lens after all, which limits the use a bit since you don't get the traditional 70-200 F2.8 use and look from it.

I love my 100-200 but I almost only use it for landscapes.

As I said , you may recon the MRSP as 2000 however Fuji in the UK have it for £1299 new and Camera World in Stevenage have a " mint like new" for sale at £759 !

Just counted and there are 11 for sale used on Ebay in the UK, each around £1000 and I guess this means there are a lot of folk losing hundreds of pounds over this confusion. I have by the way had one on loan for 3 to 4 week in the past, and decided not to pursue the purchase.

Other than the issues with that particular copy which were marked, the resolution and evenness of focus at 200mm was not up to the price of a 5000 camera and a 2000 lens combo..... afraid at that price I am a 5 card trick and pontoons only sort of player.

Ap0ll0n said:

Good point. I think with the introduction of the 100RF, hopefully it's time they start developing smaller and slower (pancake) lenses.

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that is what i pray for! some fast af, small pancake. there is huge gap between lm prime lenses 50 - 110, and there is 50mm eqv between them.

also agree with 110mm being distant portrait lens. closer focus for portraits is what i would like.

GF 45mm TS

and GF 20mm TS

to complete the shift lens setup

that would be great

kciuk aka Ken60 said:

As I said , you may recon the MRSP as 2000 however Fuji in the UK have it for £1299 new and Camera World in Stevenage have a " mint like new" for sale at £759 !

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Regular sales/rebate price. Just how Fujifilm always have done it. Coupons, cashbacks and rebates. So some are not noted in the charts.

That's how I bought all my GFX/XF-lenses except for the 20-35 and 55.

marc aurel said:

GF 45mm TS

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I didn't bother asking for this because I assumed no one else wanted one.

Now we can promise Fuji that they'll sell at least two.

I might even prefer 40mm. Not holding breath.

marc aurel said:

and GF 20mm TS

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THIS I'm sure they'll see demand for. But not from me, not at the moment.

marc aurel said:

to complete the shift lens setup

that would be great

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