Thank you for this - very helpful, honest and detailed feedback on the eye autofocus with the latest GFX cameras, rather than excitable hype, over-promising and vagueness that you get with a lot of RUclips reviews. People skim over the eye autofocus behaviour too much but it's critical to the camera's functionality for portrait shooting, and you did a great job of explaining the situations where it does and doesn't work flawlessly. I have been wondering what version of GFX to aim towards owning one day, and I think based on information like this I probably couldn't settle for the original GFX 100 (mark 1) or other earlier options but would need this mark-2 generation (or any future releases) as a minimum. Thank you for clearing that up for me.
One tip for FujiFilm cameras is instead of having it on the eye setting pick one eye what this does is it stops it jumping to the other one if the model is side and obviously would pick the eye that is closest to you but this is a huge difference. I have the GFX 100S ii which is essentially the same
@@nevvanclarke9225 so you're saying that the camera accomplishes eye autofocus more quickly, and more accurately/reliably, if you tell it to prioritise left or right eye (rather than not specifying which eye)? That's interesting. Of course, most of the time you would want it to pick the nearest eye, and you would want to make that decision quickly. So... If you have to tell it which eye yourself... How quickly and effortlessly can you do that? I read that the GFX has lots of buttons and that what they do is very customisable/programmable. Can you, with a single button press, switch to Left Eye Autofocus, and with a different single button press, switch over directly to Right Eye Autofocus? Because that's the kind of immediate responsiveness that would be needed, in order for this "tell it which eye to use" workaround, to the slow/flaky eye autofocus behaviour, to be truly practical and not in itself yet another stumbling block. I need to be able to react immediately to the model turning their head to pick a new pose etc, without it then focusing on the old/wrong eye just because I have to spend too much time futzing around with camera menu toggles to switch over.
@@GH-gn6vu what it does is that it stops looking for the other eye - to stop it bouncing around as much. It definitely improves the hit percentage unless your photographing models walking down our catwalk which is kind of unnatural anyway just someone standing there in a Portrait photo you should be able to lock on picking one eye or the other. I find this method works as I do Family photos and some portraits as well.
@@GH-gn6vu I know that Fujifilm are working on the autofocus. I actually spoke to someone from Fujifilm Australia my Photography reasonably well known in Australia and I have good contacts with the Australian branch of Fujifilm. One of my friends actually works for Fujifilm Australia and I've just been subtly having chats with him about the autofocus and giving him feedback and so forth I know they are working on it and the new little MX5 camera actually has better auto focus so if they can get the algorithm right in that camera they can change the algorithm of the other cameras. I have a GFX 100s II and a XT5
Image quality for sure. Can be edited to get any look without disintegrating. And with a 100 mp sensor one picture is multiple pictures if you crop. It also affords the luxury to crop in any aspect ratio without compromising quality and great for printing. It's pretty big to hold in hand and slightly heavy but that's expected and you get used to it.
Thank you for this - very helpful, honest and detailed feedback on the eye autofocus with the latest GFX cameras, rather than excitable hype, over-promising and vagueness that you get with a lot of RUclips reviews. People skim over the eye autofocus behaviour too much but it's critical to the camera's functionality for portrait shooting, and you did a great job of explaining the situations where it does and doesn't work flawlessly. I have been wondering what version of GFX to aim towards owning one day, and I think based on information like this I probably couldn't settle for the original GFX 100 (mark 1) or other earlier options but would need this mark-2 generation (or any future releases) as a minimum. Thank you for clearing that up for me.
One tip for FujiFilm cameras is instead of having it on the eye setting pick one eye what this does is it stops it jumping to the other one if the model is side and obviously would pick the eye that is closest to you but this is a huge difference. I have the GFX 100S ii which is essentially the same
@@nevvanclarke9225 so you're saying that the camera accomplishes eye autofocus more quickly, and more accurately/reliably, if you tell it to prioritise left or right eye (rather than not specifying which eye)?
That's interesting. Of course, most of the time you would want it to pick the nearest eye, and you would want to make that decision quickly. So... If you have to tell it which eye yourself... How quickly and effortlessly can you do that? I read that the GFX has lots of buttons and that what they do is very customisable/programmable. Can you, with a single button press, switch to Left Eye Autofocus, and with a different single button press, switch over directly to Right Eye Autofocus? Because that's the kind of immediate responsiveness that would be needed, in order for this "tell it which eye to use" workaround, to the slow/flaky eye autofocus behaviour, to be truly practical and not in itself yet another stumbling block. I need to be able to react immediately to the model turning their head to pick a new pose etc, without it then focusing on the old/wrong eye just because I have to spend too much time futzing around with camera menu toggles to switch over.
@@GH-gn6vu what it does is that it stops looking for the other eye - to stop it bouncing around as much. It definitely improves the hit percentage unless your photographing models walking down our catwalk which is kind of unnatural anyway just someone standing there in a Portrait photo you should be able to lock on picking one eye or the other. I find this method works as I do Family photos and some portraits as well.
@@GH-gn6vu I know that Fujifilm are working on the autofocus. I actually spoke to someone from Fujifilm Australia my Photography reasonably well known in Australia and I have good contacts with the Australian branch of Fujifilm. One of my friends actually works for Fujifilm Australia and I've just been subtly having chats with him about the autofocus and giving him feedback and so forth I know they are working on it and the new little MX5 camera actually has better auto focus so if they can get the algorithm right in that camera they can change the algorithm of the other cameras. I have a GFX 100s II and a XT5
Love honest reviews. Thank you
What is the one reason that makes you switch to GFX ? It has to be image quality and feel. What exactly was it PV?
Image quality for sure. Can be edited to get any look without disintegrating. And with a 100 mp sensor one picture is multiple pictures if you crop. It also affords the luxury to crop in any aspect ratio without compromising quality and great for printing. It's pretty big to hold in hand and slightly heavy but that's expected and you get used to it.
The 4k video mode not only gives the medium format look but it outputs 12 bit raw video with 14 stops of dynamic range which is bonkers
Amazing ❤
You sold 55 1.7 and bought 110. Why ?
I have both