Fujifilm Considers Stopping Orders of X100V As a result of Reputation

Fujifilm is contemplating the ironic step of ceasing manufacturing of its X100V digicam as a result of it’s just too common.

Typically it occurs that sure particular digicam fashions turn out to be unusually common amongst aficionados and photographers, even to the purpose of now not being simple to acquire.

That is what has occurred to Fujifilm’s X100V regardless of the unprepossessing little digicam having been launched again in 2020 and regardless of it not having many distinctive options.

Whereas a lot of Fuji’s cameras, such because the X-H2 and X-H25 are extraordinarily common amongst photographers of every kind, the X100 collection has really gone by the roof in its reputation, a lot in order that its worth has risen enormously too.

Not solely is the little digicam getting pricier regardless of being 2 years outdated, it’s additionally turning into more and more unobtainable to the purpose that the backlog of orders for it with Fujifilm is making the corporate take into account now not accepting new orders.

One of many causes for this uncommon leap in demand is, curiously, because of the social media platform TikTok.

Given Fujifilm’s identified status for delivering wonderful JPEG picture high quality and shade proper from the digicam with no need for enhancing, creators on TikTok who need a fast however excessive.-quality technique of posting picture and video content material on-line have fallen in love with the X100 digicam and its successors.

This has already led to a state of affairs during which the unique X100 and its successors, the X100S, X100T, X100F and most lately, the X100V have all gone again up in worth, generally enormously.

At the moment, the unique X100, which upon launch retailed for $1,199 and later went right down to just some hundred {dollars}, is now once more in some circumstances creeping again in direction of a $1000 price ticket (although we’ve discovered copies on Amazon retailing for simply $598.) The extremely compact digicam gives comparatively easy specs and solely gives a 12.5MP sensor.

The X100V alternatively now retails for a whopping $2,400, which is way over its authentic post-release retail worth of simply $1,399.

If the skyrocketing costs weren’t sufficient of a headache for all 4 X100 variants, their availability can be lowering.

Many on-line retailers nonetheless have used copies of the X100 and its S, T and F variants accessible on the market (at elevated costs), however for the X100V, some sellers and even Fujifilm itself are working out of inventory.

For anybody questioning why an organization as rich and enormous as Fujifilm can’t merely manufacture extra copies of the X100V, the reply is that there’s additionally a components scarcity hitting the market.

We’ve already coated how this has affected different main digicam releases from different manufacturers, and now right here we will see it apparently taking place to Fujifilm.

In line with the corporate and others, a mix of shockwaves from the impression of the COVID-19 pandemic, provide chain disruptions (particularly from China), and a world chip scarcity for all kinds of electronics have all come along with rising X100V reputation to make Fuji unable to meet new manufacturing demand.

Nikon, Canon, Leica, and even Sony have all needed to delay releases of their very own deliberate digicam fashions and have in some circumstances additionally suffered manufacturing delays of present digicam fashions. Two latest examples are Nikon’s rumored delay into 2023 for releasing its Z8 and Canon’s delay in releasing its EOS R50 digicam.

Relating to the scarcity of X100V editions, Fujifilm has launched a press release claiming:

“Thanks on your continued patronage of Fujifilm merchandise.

Relating to the high-end compact digital digicam “FUJIFILM X100V”, we have now acquired orders which have drastically exceeded our preliminary plan, and we’re unable to maintain up with the provision of merchandise, so we are going to briefly cease accepting orders from right this moment. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience triggered to our prospects.

As well as, we are going to inform you once more from our web site in regards to the resumption of orders.

We’ll do our greatest to ship it as quickly as attainable, so we respect your understanding.”

In case you’d like your personal Fujifilm X100V digicam, it’s nonetheless attainable to search out copies, or alternatively, you may accept its additionally nice predecessors within the X100 lineup, that are extra obtainable (and positively cheaper).

Alternatively, you possibly can simply ignore a social media craze for a selected digicam mannequin and go for any variety of different wonderful mirrorless gadget choices from Fujifilm itself or its opponents like Sony and Canon.