FUJiFILM GFX 100S Medium Format Camera Definitive Review
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2024
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Table of Contents:
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0:00 - Intro
3:00 - Build and Features
8:00 - Autofocus
13:45 - Sensor Performance
28:30 - Conclusion and Pricing
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Just switched from Sony to this camera and it’s been amazing experience. Slowing down has put joy back into shooting again and it’s something that was missing. I agree , it’s not for everyone but if you shoot landscapes or portraits, you will not be disappointed… ooh and the files ❤
How to slow down when you have a family? When I see a motive and stop the car, my girls have a patient span of maximum 2-3 minutes. If I sometimes have time to go to a photo location, it's always a fight with the clock before I must drive my girls to another errand. And neither of them has a driving license, and here is no public transport.
That sounds like a fair synopsis of the strengths of this camera.
How big are the file sizes?
@@bioliv1 use your phone camera
@@bioliv1 You poor thing! 🤣
Thanks again for your coverage of the GFX ecosystem Dustin!
You're welcome. There isn't as much interest, but it's also an underserved segment in terms of reviews.
Thanks so much for this great review! I'm about to buy a GFX 100S.
I took my GFXS 100 on a 3 week intense expedition to western Mongolia. -25c and no problem! The images mind blowing!
That's fantastic.
i wanna see some!
@@rjacques100 sure no problem
something about the sensor and Nostalgic Negative really makes me love the pics coming out of this camera. I'm really impressed with the 100S
This is definitely a camera for someone who has a more vintage view of how photography should be.
Thanx for this thorough review 🙏one comment Dustin: I would recommend a Dustoff air spray in order to get rid of the dust particles in your close up sequences😉….
Great review Dustin!
Thank you
Beautiful B&W at 29:54 ! .......and great tutorial as always .
I'm just glad you were still watching at 29:54 :)
Fantastic review as always, best in the business! Thank you very much, Abbott. I have one quick question I dont seem to find answer for. I understand perfectly well how the DR200/400 function work. But, does that affect JPG output only, or it actually also gets baked into the RAW files as well? Thanks again and keep it up with your great work and knowledge :)
Good news - for RAW files as well.
Thank you for this Review. I often listen to you before getting a lens. I'm stuck in the Nikon F-system and will not buy any Zed lenses except a 50mmF1.8. I'm waiting for the Z8 release before getting a used D850. I use D700 and D800E today, also Fuji X-Pro 1 and X-T1. My Goal is to get a Fuji GFX camera in the future with few zoom lenses for landscape and woodland. I also look forward to use my old Mamiya 7 and HB 503CW MF lenses with adapters. I was aiming for a used GFX 50S/Sii but you made me rethink but first I will finish my upgrade of Nikon with a 400mmF2.8 G VR and then there may hopefully be used GFX100s on the market.
Glad to help out.
Great review. Have been using the camera for 1 year now, but still watched the review. Would be great to hear your opinion on the 18mm macro extension tube for the GF system, if you can get your hands on it.
I'll keep that in mind.
Thanks for that!!
I’m thinking to make a movie that uses the GFX100s or at least in a big chunk together with FX9/6 and put Leitz Thalia which is converted medium format to cinema lenses (could be fun to see how this lens will do for stills - probably great though )
What I’m not really sure right now is if the video compression from 102MP into 4k is done in a way that might be noticeable on a cinema screen in terms of artifacts .
In terms of photography it seems extremely amazing
That's interesting. Best of luck.
The one thing I've not seen from anyone online, is what an HDR image looks like on the GFX100S. On my X-Pro3, I can bracket 9 images (I go from +3 to -3 at 2/3 stops) and do that at ISO 160 at f8 and I really love what I can get from LR with that. I can't help wonder how the GFX100S would do with that.
I personally do very little HDR these days due to the dynamic range on cameras being so much better. I'm sure you could get some impressive images under the right conditions, though.
Oh ! My goodness !
Get out of HDR - it’s just photopopcorn !!
Don’t use a camera such as the GFX to generate synthetic images !
Revel in quality & image reproduction - with a dynamic range as these cameras offer - why even consider artificial enhancement
No - keep away from image multiplication to achieve over saturated bilge !
@@cb9831 you wouldn't get it
@@cb9831 If you do HDR properly, you won't get overcooked results.
Bad HDR is often a result of bad tone-mapping techniques. The whole point of HDR is to have more dynamic range in an image so that as much tones in highlights and shadows are retained as possible. It's necessary for applications like professional real-estate photography, where the contrast from light coming in from the windows can clip the highlights in a single shot of even the widest DR sensors.
If you want HDR, you’re not the right kind of photographer for this camera
Thank you!
You're welcome.
That cropping ability is probably the most alluring feature for me. The Fuji sensor seems like a great tool for a particular kind of shooter.
It’s an expensive way to go compared to getting a longer lens. Small crops I can understand but why buy 100mp to throw 70mp away.
That's definitely an advantage. You can get all kinds of different framings out of one shot.
It’s amazing to have a digital medium format camera at $6k or $4500 used. It images are amazing and is better than my Z9. Sure auto focus is not as fast as mainstream popular 35mm full frame but it wasn’t design for action/sport photo.
When viewed in that way, it's definitely a good value.
Great. Do you have any reviews of the Fuji XF 16mm 1.4, 23mm XF 1.4, 56mm XF 1.4 and 100-400mm XF 4.5-5.6?
I'm working on a review of the last one right now.
Great landscape, portrait, or architecture camera. I don't expect the auto focus to capture action. I guess the best way would be to employ trap focus techniques like in the days of film
That's basically it.
Trap focus technique.. hmmm.. is that going manual anr5 moving your body to get the focus?
How do you rate it compared to Sony A7R V? If you mount A7R V with 50mm f1.2 would you get better picture than comparable setup with the Fuji100S and available lens?
I haven't yet tested the a7RV (hopefully soon), but I will say that the 50 GM is a better lens than most that I've seen on GFX, so that does help close the gap.
@@DustinAbbottTWIany update on this ? I’m at a cross roads between the gfx 100sii and the Sony a7r5 sir. Would really mean a lot if you can guide me here. Not looking at large prints. Just overall “look”
Sensor that able to capture an unbelievable amount of crisp details, even at high ISO settings provides otherworldly performance, technologically 10 years ahead of customer segment in that regard.
I definitely love the detail of this sensor.
Waiting for your A7RV definitive review. Because I want to hear from the best YT reviewer. Is that video in the pipeline?
I've got a request in for the beginning of 2023 - here's hoping Sony Canada can hook me up.
How are the pictures from this camera compared to a Mamiya 6x7 range finder with film?
I haven't shot with the Mamiya, so I can't really comment.
I like what fuji is doing with the GFX system but until they can find a way to get better AF tracking, which would take a new motor tech probably, it really can't be a one camera set up if you ever need AF tracking on anything moving much at all. If you need 1 camera to do it all FF is still where it's at. And with cameras like the Z9 having such good video features too you really end up with a body that can be all you need for any commercial work you'd likely be doing until you are on the level of using cinema cameras. Well maybe add in a Gopro or two for some cool b-roll stuff.
Fujifilm has brought medium format a long way, but in some ways they are victims of their own success. They've made the technology good enough that people actually compare to smaller sensors, but not good enough that the comparison is favorable.
I noticed that the pros photos on RUclips all seem to have less dynamic range than some of the amateurs ---
Do you think that color grading on an HDR monitor is causing this effect?? Everyone else watching in a basic 750- 1000nit monitor doesn't see it maybe??
I'm sure those expensive monitors show off the shadows much better when viewing the photo ...
That could be possible. When you are dealing with a nuanced optical performance you can definitely see things better on a high quality display.
I may be in a minority saying this but I'm not always thrilled with the way HDR images look. Perhaps the pros are limiting dynamic range for stylistic reasons.
But you also remind that this is why, when editing photos, it isn't a terrible idea to view the image on more than one display. Cripes even in-camera the back display is/can be very different than the EVF to my eye, particularly in contrast. If I only viewed photos this way, I'd never edit them correctly - because the displays aren't telling the whole story.
Once in post, all sorts of things matter in your displays, least of which HDR since most monitors do not have sort of zone technology/control of the HDR TVs: Size, matte/glossy, resolution, color gamut (sRGB? Adobe? DPI-P3?), color accuracy, contrast, brightness, brightness uniformity etc. etc. etc. Displays are another area to drive yourself mad. So are photo printers (whether your own or a professional service) - they all can impose their own distortions.
I've viewed the same photos on IPS/VA displays, iPads, iPhones and so on, and have realized I've messed up white balance or color a bit because of their differences and lack of "true" accuracy. Usually I am satisfied when the photo looks about the same on each of them or when the prints don't deviate substantially from what I thought I had produced (especially in the shadows, I'm noticing). Calibrated IPS displays are great for color, but low contrast (shadows and highlights basically crushed - so you boost and cut too much). VA displays have great contrast, but are somewhat less color accurate/narrower viewing angles (shadows and highlights presented better, but images may look a bit dull so you oversaturate). My personal IPS display has a slight green push, the VA has a red push, my iPhone is kinda yellow/crushes blacks, leaving the iPad as my favorite overall - it lacks contrast but seemingly is the most "accurate" color and white balance overall to my eyes. It is my favorite screen to function as my "digital picture frame" - but I wish it were larger.
I also use my TV from time to time, because it is a 4K OLED, and it looks great, but I don't consider it necessarily color accurate, either (which effects the overall balance of the image).
I'm sure this is TMI / over generalized, but if you've not been told this before, you've been told now! At some point, save up for the highest quality display you can reasonably afford - it is important if you want to take your edits seriously, and a great display is something you can continue to use far longer than any other computer component.
Great video and I agree. The image quality is state of the art and at that price point it is affordable enough for even non professional enthusiasts.
9:51 That might not be the camera but the lens. The GF 20-35 is a non LM lens and what I found so far is that with those lenses there is a pretty substantial shutter delay. I think in another video you talked about the 110mm as your favourite lens, maybe that would do a better job.
I've found that shutter lag to be very common across the system. It just isn't quite as responsive as what I'm personally used to on my (primarily) full frame options.
One thing most people get wrong is they compare pixel density and say it is same as a Sony A7R4. Yes, and no.
Unless one is cropping, it is the total sensor area that receives the total light (getting hit by zillions(?) of photons) which will dictate noise and dynamic range at photo level (we all learned that pixel level does not mean much in terms of real world results). Having more or less total pixels does not alter the fact that this sensor is larger than full frame and will gather more light at same ISO. Between generations of sensors there may be differences in quantum efficiency (meaning the total surface are that can actually gather light on the sensor), but it is not a huge difference and more to do with design of each pixel.
Technology is at a point where any size pixel will not have a meaningful border/padding that will add up to really affect light gathering ability (unless doing deep space photography where quantum efficiency will be your number one priority possibly).
With this in mind, as long as you are not cropping, compared to an A7R4, you will always have more light at same ISO gathered in the image even though pixel density is the same. As a result, the PHOTO will have more dynamic range and less noise always.
This is only valid for similar real ISOs (and you can dictate exposure time so not taking apeture into account), and a Nikon Z7II at 64 ISO will gather more light than a medium format Fuji at 100 ISO despite sensor size difference (thus making it also a top choice for landscape photography)
This is accurate, I believe.
The best camera 🎉
It is a nice one.
I am still in discussion with myself, about selling my Mamiya 7 and 6MF cameras. Then I can suddenly afford this one, but a film is still a film. I hope one day I can have everything, digi medium format and film. My 4x5 system is not yet for sale.
It's a tough thing to let go of something you enjoy.
@@DustinAbbottTWI By the way, if you had, as I have, both the Mamiya 7 and 6MF cameras. Which one to choose, a brand new Fuji GFX 100S, or?
It might be an old 50R as a compliment.
Hi
You dismiss the 50mp cameras early in your video - but you don’t ascribe to their ergonomics, their usability & their functionality - which - are ‘excellent’.
Bit sad really as the GFX 50R is a wonderful camera & the images are above & beyond any full frame !
I don’t own a Fuji - but I really appreciate their worth !
I actually don't love the ergonomics. It is short at least one control wheel and I would like a more robust touchscreen.
Agreed the 50 is better than Full Frame. The look does more .
This medium format 1002megapixel Fuji GFX 100s or any medium format was never designed to be compared with any full frame or micro 4/3 digital camera.That’s why Fuji Japan skipped full frame and went straight to MF to instead compile with or MF Hasselblad phase one.
And they have beat them.
Price,better focus and faster, IBS with 6 stop .EVF is the only thing that Fuji kept back to not tick off those photographers who 10k on the GFX 100.
Hi Jean-Michel, I just can’t agree with your first statement when Fuji repeatedly markets in comparison to full frame. They are the ones that invite the comparison, which must then also include the weaknesses of their MF cameras vs full frame and not just the strengths. They are amazing sensors, however.
@@DustinAbbottTWI Dustin, I truly respect your reviews about everything you text.
I guest what I was trying to say is why not compare the Fuji GFX 100s to the Hasselblad X2D or phase one so I can see if the Fuji GFX 100s a better choice as I’m looking to move into the medium format.
Other than that everything you review about the GFX 100s was very helpful.
Thank you for responding back to me.
@@jean-michelargentin5465I agree with you.
You need a rich and generous uncle to afford this stuff.
You’re not wrong.
05:20. Ok, this is why we are burdened with these damn side hinged pull out rear screens. You say that you’d prefer one but you don’t tell us why and then you tell us that’s the way the industry is going, do you know why? Mainly because of RUclipsrs crying and moaning for this screen, so they can see themselves.
The side hinged screen that you want is slow, conspicuous and obtrusive…reach, pull out, twist, re-align, then look away from the lens axis to the left. Then either leave it sticking out or go through all that rigmarole again 🙄
The screen here on the 100s is PERFECT. It’s quick, very quick, inconspicuous and apart from self filming it does everything the damn side hinged does.
Please tell us why you prefer it….. or is it just because you’re a RUclipsr?
I've preferred articulating screens ever since the Canon 60D (10+ years ago). It is much better if you are using a camera on a gimbal (you get get it out to the side of the gimbal and can angle up or down), I like it better for shooting down low or high, and articulating works better for those things when shooting in portrait orientation than just a tilting screen does. And yes, front monitoring is very helpful for seeing framing and making sure nothing goes wrong during video recording.
The pixel size on this is actually quite small. Same size as the A7R4
You may be confusing quantity of pixels with the size of pixels. By nature the pixels are a little larger on the larger sensor.
@@DustinAbbottTWI Actually that does check out. When shooting the GFX100S in 35mm mode you end up with images that are about 60 megapixels. They are still 16 bit each though. So the quality of those Fuji pixels remains higher than the Sony pixels.
Destroys fullframe on IQ!
Destroys is maybe a strong word, but I can definitely say that it is superior.
FYI, it’s not a medium format camera. The sensor size is smaller than smallest medium format film - 645. Fujifilm calls these cameras “larger than full frame” cameras.
That's technically true, though there are multiple sensor sizes that fall within the range of "medium format", and there really isn't a different classification for this sensor size.
@@DustinAbbottTWI Actually Fujifilm themselves call these sensor based cameras “Larger than full frame”. They don’t use “medium format” anymore. I like that they are very clear about this. I am actually in the process of trading a lot of Sony gear to buy the GFX100S.
This was only possible for me after Fujifilm released the excellent stacked sensor camera, the X-H2S. The combo of the X-H2S with the GFX100S really makes replacing my Sony system possible. I love the colors of Fujifilm film simulations. In addition the Fujifilm bodies are thoroughly weather sealed which is what I most missed using my Sony bodies.
It's the MF equivalent of APSC sensor.
Why you always refer to other format cameras when you speak about bigger sensor cameras?
OBVIOUSLY it's a slower camera .
Who cares about AF speed and "responsiveness"?
This is a fine art camera . Just as every camera of THIS segment.
Get over it .
If you read through the comments, then you'll know that your opinion certainly doesn't represent the majority. People do care about AF speed and responsiveness, and Fuji creates that expectation through their marketing. This camera is marketed as an alternative to a 35mm sensor, so I do and will continue to reference smaller sensors as part of my coverage.