No, the FUJIFILM X-T6 is NOT coming in 2024
There are a lot of videos and rumors online that indicate that the Fujifilm X-T6 might be coming in 2026. Also many of you started to ask me recently if they should buy an X-T5 or wait for the X-T6. Here is why I don’t think we will see the FUJIFILM X-T6 this year.
A lot of wrong information
If you actually watch the videos that describe the release of FUJIFILM X-T6 coming in 2024, well it is obvious than most of them have been written and are read by AI, meaning that there are just here to milk views and have pretty much no information about the camera but just list a bunch of specs, while comparing the potential X-T6 to an X-T4… ChatGPT spotted. So don’t believe too much what you see online.
X-T release period
The X-T line from Fujifilm has been refreshed around every 27-30 months. Now, this was not the case between the X-T3 and X-T4 but this was a special case, as FUJIFILM tried to find a solution to answer the low sales of their X-H1 camera, which is why the X-T4 was born. As the FUJIFILM X-T5 was released in November 2022, that would give us a release date for the X-T6 around mid 2025. So an X-T6 coming this year is quite unlikely, if FUJIFILM sticks to their release schedule.
Current AF Issue
In my opinion, with the current issues that the FUJIFILM cameras have, it is quite unlikely that they release another camera before they at least make the AF capabilities of the camera as good as how they used to. As the FUJIFILM firmwares have been getting worse, if FUJIFILM releases a new camera and ask people to buy the new model to get the fix, that would be a big PR issue… I can only speak for myself but I don’t think that I would buy the new camera to get the fix and I would also think about another system if that is the case. So I do not think that FUJIFILM will take the risk to release a new camera with the current issues that they have, as they are too big to ignore at this point. I hope that they will first fix this issue, make sure that they learn from their mistakes and that once they are confident that they can integrate the AF technology that they have in future model, then and only then will they think about future models.
So should you wait?
Whether you want to wait for about a year is up to you. But if you are debating between buying a camera now or waiting for next model, you might have to wait quite a long time.
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