I will start with mg first impressions and use of the lens and will add lots of pictures.
The build quality is very solid and reassuring. It's weighty but not heavy at 390 grams. It's made with metal on the mount and lower body and plastic on the middle section, the rings and the front of the lens. The focus ring is rubberised but the iFunction ring is plastic. Both rings turn with the same resistances but the focus ring will change it's resistance even when the camera is turned off which makes me believe there is a mechanical change whe you do turn the ring.
The front of the lens is devoid of markings and writing except for the dots for the lens hood (which I don't have). The front element is flat and is just a tiny bit recessed but...
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https://petapixel.com/2025/04/22/fujifilm-teases-new-camera-promising-half-the-size-twice-the-story/
It does appear that the rumors are true. I must admit to being interested, mainly as it's another small camera body. We can't see anything about the lens (fixed? Not fixed?) yet, but the back appears to be vertically oriented with a viewfinder in the RF position.
What exactly does digital half-frame mean, though? Are we talking a different overall sensor size than the established ones? A crop of an APS-C sensor inside the camera (kind of like what the Leica D-Lux 8/Panasonic LX100 does)? Micro 4/3? 1-inch? If it's a smaller sensor size, the lens could be smaller (assuming it's another fixed-lens body). I doubt it's just APS-C, since...
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