LIVE: Watch the Fujifilm X-Summit Shanghai 2025 as X-E5 camera announced
Fujifilm's second X-Summit of 2025 is coming live from China
Update: The Shanghai X-Summit is now over - and we got two new products. First is the Fujifilm X-E5 - a revival of the X-E mirrorless range, which has a rangefinder style viewfinder.
And also we got a new pancake lens - a super slim XF23mm f/2.8.
Read our full news story on the camera:
Fujifilm X-E5 is an interchangeable lens X100VI
Read all the XF23mm f/2.8 R WR news
Our reviews editor Gareth Bevan has been using the news lens and camera for the last few days – and we will be bringing his review and sample gallery of images shortly.
The countdown has begun to the second Fujfilm X-Summit of 2025 – and thanks to the the official teasers we know we will be getting a new camera.
This time the Fujifilm X-Summit is being held in Shanghai – the first time the X-Summit has been held in China.
The Fujifilm top brass, journalists and brand ambassadors will already have arrived in Prague for the main event - which takes place on Thursday, June 12 from 5am ET / 10am GMT.
But don't worry, you don't have to miss out on all the latest news, roadmaps and development announcements that we have come to expect from these regular Fujifilm photographic events – as you can follow along right here as it happens.
We'll be following the whole presentation as it happens – and then bring you reports from our team as we analyze the news. And furthermore, you can even watch along too - via the YouTube link below…
Chris has been writing about digital cameras since they first went on sale. He has reported on Fujifilm X-mount and GF-mount cameras since the systems were first launched, and has had the privilege of attending three X-Summits in person – in London, Tokyo and New York.
Now for pricing:
The X-E5 will cost $1,699 / £1,249 for the body and will come in silver or black.
A kit with the new XF23mm lens will $1,899 / £1,549 will also available. These will go on sale from August.
The lens will be available separately - but you'll have to wait until December for that - with a cost of $499.95/£399.
The new XF23mm uses 8 elements in 6 groups and two aspherical lens elements. It will be the third 23mm lens in the Fujfilm XF lens range.
The new XF23mm f/2.8 R WR weights just 90g, making it a pancake lens. It is weather sealed, and has a 39mm filter ring. It is the same size and weight as the existing XF27mm f/2.8 lens - despite its wider angle of view.
And now for the second new product of the day - and its a lens. And will be the 45th in the range - its a 23mm f/2.8 - and designed to be a great match for the X-E5 due to its size and its 35mm equivelent focal length.
A new option is called Classic Display - that essentially gives you a simplified viewfinder display, that just gives you the basic settings - just like you used to get with DSLR cameras.
And the X-E5 now gets a special on-body control for Film Simulations - but as well as the usual emulsion options, you get your own custom setting fo your personal Film Recipes.
Here we can see the positioning of the eyelevel rangefinder-style viewfinder - up above the top left side of the LCD screen
Heres' a full view of the top plate with its rounded corners…
The new X-E5 gets the 40-megapixel sensor that we have seen in all of Fujifilm's recent APS-C cameras. But this will be the first model ever in the X-E range that will have built-in image stabilization. That's thanks to Fujifilm now being able to make the IBIS small enough.
For those who didn't know the X-E4 and its predecessors, this is designed to be a small mirrorless camera with interchangeable lenses. The electronic eyelevel viewfinder is at the side - hence hot having a bumpn on the top, unlike, say the X-T5. This makes it look very much like the X100VI compact.
Here is our first look…
So now for our new "rangefinder style" camera... and we see the discontinued X-E4. And we find out that the range is coming back with the launch of the X-E5.
We are now in X-Space - Fujifim's largest showroom in the world, located in the heart of Shanghai.
Yuji Igarashi, Divisional Manager of Fujifilm's Professional Imaging Group, introduces us to Shanghai, showing us some of its sites... and tells us that we are getting a camera and a lens... But that we need to watch to the end (so does that mean a "One more thing" moment"? I really hope so!
Just 3 minutes to go - and already 1,700 people on the YouTube page waiting for the presentation to begin.
As I type this the countdown clock has appeared...
I have never been but Shanghai, but it look like is an architectural photographer's dream with its juxtaposition of its futuristic waterfront skyline, and the Bund's historic, European-style buildings. Maze-like lanes, leafy avenues, neon lights, and steamy street stalls - and more - something to photograph at every corner. We are bound to be given a taste of this in the X-Summit video, going by the format of recent launches.
Fujifilm X-Summits are often the time we get development announcements, and updates on the company's two lens roadmaps – so we may hear about more than just a new camera.
I always enjoy looking at the YouTube comments for those, who like me, are waiting for the show to begin - and see what they are hoping for. Here are some of the things on Fujifilm fans' wishlists:
taroko 3 pleads: "praying for x-pro"
fadercurle asks "anyone else hoping for a 50-140 mark ii ?"
Jens Haldas comments "a X-T5 user I am actually hoping for an X-E5 - would gladly swap to a smaller body - but I am also no pro".
WalkingHeadProx challenges: "pro 4 or xh3s. if not, Zzzzzz"
The Fujifilm X-Summit has become something of a fixture in the camera calendar - but this industry event only started back in 2019, so in the 200-year history of photography is still relatively new.
The Shanghai July 2025 X-Summit will be the 16th so far, with X-Summits typically take place two or three times a year.
Here is a list of all the dates and venues of the X-Summits to date:
1: Dubai - February 2019
2: Shibuya - September 2019
3: London - February 2020
4: Omiya - October 2020
5: Global (virtual) - January 2021
6: Global (virtual) - September 2021
7: Omiya - May 2022
8: New York - September 2022
9: Tokyo - November 2022
10: Bangkok - May 2023
11: Stockholm - September 2023
12: Tokyo - February 2024
13: Sydney - May 2024
14: Tokyo - October 2024
15: Prague - March 2025
So we know we are getting a rangefinder-style camera according to the first teaser - following in the lines of the Fujifilm X100VI and the X-Pro3.
This year it has been harder to guess what Fujifilm has been launching, as the two new cameras for 2025 this year have been rather unusual for the Japanese brand.
First, they have both been compact cameras. And second, they have been usual compact cameras; the GFX100RF was the world's first medium-format digital compact, and then the X-Half used a unique half-frame-sized vertical sensor.
The second teaser clearly shows a camera with a physical dial for film simulations, and shows again that the camera has a flat top - without the pentaprism-like bulge, say of the Fujfilm X-T5.
We also get a glimpse of a new pancake lens - other than it it is slim, and probably a prime, the only thing given away is that it has an f/2.8 maximum aperture.
Just a couple of hours to go until the X-Summit begins. So what do we know so far... We have had two short teaser videos for us to go on which show us the new camera. You can rewatch them here:
