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The reports around the web are saying that the new Fujifilm X-Half is going to be a brand new camera made for the TikTok and creator crowd. While we hope that it’s not designed to be just a point and shoot meant to shoot video footage, but there’s a big chance that Fujifilm might really do that indeed. But if Fujifilm were to make a half-frame style camera mean for and designed for photographers, here’s what we’d want from it.
A Four-Thirds Sensor Placed Vertically
First, did you know that Micro Four Thirds cameras are essentially half-frame cameras? In fact, the Four Thirds sensor is half the size of a full-frame sensor, which is why there’s already a 2x crop factor. One of the most famous of these styles of camera is the old-school Olympus Pen F. That camera is now nearly a decade old, and making a fixed-lens Four Thirds camera could be something truly exciting. Of course, this already exists with the Leica D-LUX 8 — so why can’t we have something with a nice prime lens instead?
Taking a Four Thirds sensor and flipping it to be vertical would be one of the best things the brand does. There’s also a chance that they might not use a shutter at all and instead make it electronic — otherwise they’d need a special type of shutter to make the camera work.
Diptych Mode is Cool
The reports around the web are talking about the diptych mode. This is something that takes two images and puts them together. To understand that more, you can think of it almost like a panoramic mode. A while back, we interviewed a photographer who made an 8×20 large format camera that sort of worked like a diptych, except that the camera shot the entire frame at once. Maria Kappatou even made a triptch– which is three photos instead of two.
I think that this is a fun way to make photography intriguing again, as it will pretty much be a special type of panoramic mode.
We’re happy that Fujifilm will be doing that as it will help those of us who shoot landscape format a lot.
Weather-Resistance
Of course, we’d want to bring a camera like this with us everywhere. So we’d want weather resistance to be built into the camera. Hopefully, Fujifilm decides to add it fully to the lens and not require a filter attachment at all.
Rangefinder-Style Camera Body
Stay away from the SLR-style bodies, please. Give this a rangefinder-style body. The world has enough SLRs and I’ve been so incredible sick of them for years.
A Super-Fast Aperture Lens
Because this camera will have a very small sensor, it would need a very fast lens to give us nicer bokeh. A 25mm lens would render a 50mm field of view in full-frame terms. At the same time, an f1.4 lens would render an f2.8 depth of field in full-frame terms. So ideally, we’d need something pretty shallow.
I just wonder if Fujifilm would actually make it.
