Fujifilm GFX 100 review - the best medium format camera ever?
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Fuji has just unleashed the Fujifilm GFX 100 - a 100MP medium format mirrorless monster with 5-axis in-body image stabilization and crazy reliable autofocus.
Just how good IS this camera? How does it stack up against the Phase One IQ4, the Hasselblad X1D II 50C, and the Fuji GFX 50R and 50S? Pretty bloody well, I'd say.
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Your voice over work is phenomenal! Top level stuff, my man! Great review!
Thanks so much, dude! I really appreciate it :-)
Probably the best description of the camera and its technology I've seen. Nice job!
Cheers Steve! :-D
Super review! Most balanced, thorough, thoughtful review I have seen of the GFX 100. Thank you!
Thanks Dwight! I do my best to be fair and balanced, though it's hard not to gush when a camera does so much right!
@@Artaius A point that is important to me: I rarely use flash. Natural light shooting means high ISO IQ is important. The GFX100 just keeps going. AT ISO 6400 the quality is usable: comparable to the XT3 at 800. The PhaseOne is a magnificent camera and does many things well, but drops quality very quickly at higher ISOs.
Your reviews are stellar. And you’ve got a golden voice.
Yes I agree , to me 100 mp in medium format with stabilization inside with many more + inside is just revolutionary !!!
New to this channel and now I can't stop watching your excellent videos. Definitely subscribing!
Thank you so much, that's made my morning! :-)
Good review. Got mine today. I'm in London at the moment, let me know if you plan to do any photo walk.
Amazing! Hope you have a blast with it :-) I'll shout next time I'm in town!
amazing work on your GFX promotion Lol makes me wanna buy it like a thousand time more. I was also thinking of getting the IQ4.. but this one's definitely better in terms of versatility
Haha, thank! The IQ4 is an amazing machine, no doubt, and its images are still on another level, but it's a more limited camera for sure.
Love the delivery.
Thank you kindly!
4:40 The clarity of the smoking sign says it all. I can almost read his name tag (is his name "Seth" maybe?).
I know right, it's just crazy! His name is Seb :-)
On a 4k TV, you can read his name easily.
Been a fan of yours since the Digital Rev days.
As you can see, I haven't had a haircut since I left!
Really well done review
Thanks a lot! :-D
Good review. I'm definitely excited by all the tech going into medium format. Hope those larger sensors from phaseone trickle down, soon.
Except for this:
"Medium format used to mean being nailed down to a tripod"
Yeah, besides Kodak Brownies, Holga, various rangefinding medium formats, and more. Plus all those rangefinders can shoot on the street just fine.
hoping to move to this system next year,.
Great camera, great review, but watching you I got the same nervous vibes I get when one of my children walk too close to a cliff edge - that gem of a camera and you're holding it one handed with no wrist strap. That's just naughty. :)
Thanks Pinky… and yeah, I'm definitely that guy who lives dangerously with no strap! One day it's going to bite me in the bum…
I hope i've this camera in next years🤤
Hehe, I know the feeling!
nice video
love to see the detail review :D
Thanks! There's sooooooo much detail in these images :-)
nice thx 4 sharing. would have loved to see some video footage.
Thanks! And I know - I shot some test footage indoors to try out the video, but it wasn't really usable, so I planned to record some proper stuff outside… then I got carried away taking stills! Will do better for my next one.
Incredible review - maybe even better than the camera which I am now seriously considering. How is the AF and eye detect compared to the more recent Sony cameras? I have the A7RIII, A7III, and 6400 - and on all three it is fantastic.
Thank you so much, Charles! :-) Fuji's eye detect is really, really good - I've been impressed with it ever since the latest firmware came out on the X-T3 and X-T30. But I think the Sony bodies are still the ones to beat - the animal eye AF can be a bit flaky, but for human subjects Sony is pretty rock solid.
im subscribing !!!! amazing video man !
You're a rockstar, thank you!
great video man
Thanks a lot, Marco!
I wish the day of gfx 50s 2 comes faster, with this processor and this ibis.
That's the dream! This IBIS is absolutely killer!
This is a terrific video thank you!
Nice job buddy xx
Thank you kindly, mon frère! :-D
AF speed of GFX50 was literally as fast as AF of X-PRO1, meaning "yes, there is AF... sort of ... but, you may forget about dynamic scenes"! How come Fuji has gine a speed of AF in GFX-100 to the one that matches AF of XT3????
Yeah, this definitely isn't a camera for speed and dynamism - especially with that max 5fps burst rate!
... there are also not too many places on the globe you can go with a $10K+ camera + lenses to do street photography and feel ... SAFE! I don't feel safe on the street even with Canon 5d3.. That's why I do have my Fuji XE2 for this and daily use.
@@sergeyusik9934 Too true! Maybe Fuji should do a special street photography package where you get a bodyguard thrown into the deal!
))) it would be too expensive. To stop stating that GFX does perfectly fit for this genre of photography would be a good starting point. I guess Fuji won't ever do it) $10K is A LOT of money and they want you to move it from your pocket to their one.
Just stay away from Muslim neighborhoods.
Thanks for the video. How about lenses for the particular camera.? I will most likely never get this one as I am heavily invested in Hasselblad and Sony.
By far my favourite Fuji lens is the GF 110mm f/2 (used in the video), which is about an 88mm equivalent in 35mm terms - just a gorgeous portrait lens. The GF 120mm f/4 Macro (95mm) is great as well, though like most macro lenses its rendering is probably too sharp for most portraits. Then there's the GF 32-64mm f/4 (25-51mm), which is the most popular lens with a nice focal range. Fuji does a great line of lenses!
GReat reView !By the end of the year you will have 8000 subscribers ! from the 349 you have right now !
That's so awesome, thanks so much - that put some pep in my step today!
@@Artaius Once the buffer is saturated with Raw files, how fast does it clear the buffer?
@@starlight7830 Eek, I didn't actually keep track of that! It wasn't noticeable, so I think the meaty processor keeps it pretty reined in… but I didn't give that a proper test :-(
The physically smallest medium format available.
100mb sensor is far from the most pixels
Still a nice camera. still no tilt shift for product photogs.
A removable back would be nice.
This camera would be great for landscapes...
It's interesting - Fuji did some development work on a modular GFX with backs, but ultimately went for an all-body design.
You're making the same error I did, conflating MB and MPix. It's capacity is 102 MPX, which will create a file of about 50 MB.
The Fuji does offer some cool features. But when I look at the images, I still felt the Hassy X1D II has a nicer look to me. 100MP is awesome. But I'd trade that for 50MP and nicer image quality. The Fuji images looked a bit flat to me. Probably due to the lenses. They definitely went the economy route there going with focal-plane shutter instead of leaf as in the Hassy. I understand the tradeoff.
Excellent work!
The Hassy DEFINITELY has glorious glass, that's one of its major strengths! Lovely dimensionality.
11:11 hey man... it is not really accurate to say you cannot afford one. we all have body parts, assets, and stuff we can sell just so we can buy one. The big concern isn't affording it, it is the price that we have to pay to afford it, and how will we deal with the disappointment when a 150MP version comes along with better IBIS sometime in 2026... :D
Haha, you're totally right! I'm sure I only need one kidney… which I'll probably sell when the GFX 150 comes out!
If I heard correctly you said "ten thousand pound price tag". That would be $12,501. I ordered mine June 18 from an American store for $10,000 (minus five cents, I think it was). Hasn't been delivered, but credit card not charged. So you really pay a mark-up of 25% to get it in England? I recall when Brits would fly to the US to pick up cameras because the trip would in effect be free (don't know if they had to fool UK Customs).
Same in Sweden the 25% is tax.
@@joakimsundberg7622 Sorry, forgot about New York State and New York City sales tax, which added $887. The tax (including a small Transportation District tax) is 8.875%. I can't picture getting used to a 25% tax on all on my toys.
(Sorry for slow reply, I've been moving house!) Yeah, the pricing situation has gotten a little more shaky with all the uncertainty over Brexit recently as well. I remember the good old days when the exchange rate on the dollar to the pound was 2:1 - I was about 11 at the time, and I remember coming back with two suitcases full of as many GI Joe figures as I could stuff in them!
@@Artaius I forgot to say sales tax (New York State and New York City) amounted to another 8.875%.
Fantastic camera and I want one! But why such a super utilitarian design? I think 50% of the buyers will be rich non pro´s and a little soul alá Hasselblad would be great.. ( Maybe I can pimp mine a little with some snake skinn on the grip :) Thanks for a great review!
Thanks for the kind words! :-) I know, it would have been cool if they'd gone for a little more style (especially given how cool the X series bodies are), but I guess maybe they wanted to be more "pro" for this camera. I'm with you on blinging it with some snakeskin, though!
Idk but the images do not stack up for a 100MP camera.
It probably helps to view them 100% - I did my best to demonstrate the detail captured by zooming all the way on a couple of the pics, but it's definitely easier to see when it's on a monitor right in front of you!
That Bruce Lee T-shirt
WAZAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! Shout out to Roots Of Fight - they make epic shirts!
They need to get the medium format digital sensor sizes up to at least 6x4.5.... the difference is just way too marginal. And the 100mp is nothing compared to drumscans if you do prints. You still end up upscaling for even moderate sized prints.
Its a start, but just needs much bigger sensors to be interesting.
Aye, the sensor size is still a sticking point compared to true medium format. Come on Fuji and Hasselblad!
i want one but i will have to sell my organs for one
It is not medium format. Gfx100 is large format full-frame camera, and it is optimal for street photo, wedding, reportage, outdoor and so on. But fuji gf lenses are crap. Bad iq, clumsy, heavy, slow autofocus, over-priced. Real medium format lenses are better, lighter and not expensive. And any of them can be used on gfx with Tilt-shift adapter.
I wish this camera was called "The Leica GFX 100" !!!!!
Haha, I hear you! I had a quick play with a prototype Leica S3, a 63MP medium format camera, so I'm looking forward to getting my hands on it again for a proper test!
Best MF camera? Hysterical 😂😂😂
Bazooka to a knife fight?? Please do no use these expressions, have absolutely NOTHING to do with this very violent, analogy. Whats wrong with the universally used, "Taking a sledge hammer, to crack a nut"?
not 100mp but 102 thats two million pixels discount and it has ugly colors and a bad vertical grip and not good high iso performance
Enjoy the video but I must admit when I first decided to watch this video because I thought it was a woman doing the video On the video cover they had a picture of you from the real with the long hair I thought it was a woman because we don’t see a women doing preview of a Fuji camera.
HEY . ITS NOT MEDIUM FORMAT ......JEEZ!!!!
Tell that to Fuji and Hasselblad! I'm just the messenger!
@@Artaius YOU are the reviewer mate not Fuji and Hasselblad......!!!!.