"High-end" photography (for MF) has a very small market size, most for high end commerical fashion/portrait. And these users I can safely say are already using Phrase One cameras. It will be great for landscape photographer too, but most working photographers probably don't need this resolution especially at this cost, lens lineup matters a lot more.
"APS-C for a quality compact cam"? IMHO, using the techniques I mentioned above, I can produce pretty near "high end photography" with my "APS-C compact" Fuji X-T3 camera.
@@michaelklawitter5366 so what though. You'll do that for a landscape. I mean. For the best 3 pictures you ended up with at that one beach or whatever, yeah. Worth it.
The 100 mp is great but that's not the main reason to get this camera. The REAL thing to get excited about is the ibis and phase detect AF, both never done before in the MF world.
Being used to shooting 6x7 medium format (on film), all the digital medium formats seem more like slightly enhanced full-frame or 35mm+, rather than true medium format. For most (medium format loving) people, I think it makes sense to stay with full-frame until real medium format digital cameras come out.
element4element4 - What is “real” digital medium-format to you? A sensor physically 6x7” or larger? Isn’t 100Mp files big enough for you? It has more detail and probably dynamic range than your film 6x7 film camera as it is. For fashion and landscape photographers, that’s plenty big. I suspect you think digital medium-format has to have a sensor the exact same size as medium-format film in order to call itself medium-format, which is missing the point and not understanding where digital is at. I appreciate film and people who love it, but for commercial purposes it is antiquated and superseded by digital in every way.
@@msandersen I was making two different (slightly unrelated) points. I was not comparing quality of digital sensors to medium format film. I don't shoot film for commercial purposes. I just happen to enjoy the process of shooting film and printing in the dark room, not so much due to resolution/dynamic range/etc. 1) My first point was that it's strange to call these sensors "medium format", as for more than a century medium-format (afaik) has meant shooting on 120/220 film. The smallest medium format has been (I believe) 6x4.5, but there are also other standards like 6x6, 6x7, 6x9 and (rare) 6x12 formats. I just find it confusing that these digital cameras are called medium-format as that seems to imply (to me) they are at-least 6x4.5 and therefore gather way more light than 35mm. However that's not the case, they are just slightly larger than 35mm and their advantages over 35mm sensors are thus minor. I think it's less misleading to call anything between 35mm (full-frame) and 6x4.5 for "35mm+" or something like that. 2) Besides gathering more light, there are many nice things about "real" medium format film/sensor sizes. For example you can take fairly wide-angle shots with a very shallow depth of field or take wide-angle shot with a lot less distortion (because it will be at a longer focal length). However modern lenses are much faster and more optically corrected than they used to be, and this point might become less and less relevant over time.
I cannot think of how I could use that much resolution. Larger prints are generally viewed farther back unless you are making wall paper murals, then you could just merge photos. Tony did a nice video on that. If you use the right lens you do not have to crop a lot. Even prints off my 54" wide format printer look great at just 16 megs with my Df, again because the angle of comfortable viewing forces you to step back,,,,unless you are the kind of person who loves the front row in a movie theater. Taking about large prints, billboard prints are viewed from afar. Many billboard printers do not print super high res and I never sent one out over 10 megs, yet they look crisp from 50 ft or more. Med format I used to use, was made for film since 35 mm lacked detail and had too much grain for larger prints, but today's digital has solved that. Some marketing of med format is riding on a nostalgia factor in my opinion, not out of the need it once had.
Tony you say at 6:49 there are no analog dials and that you have to use "the touch screen and the LCD screen on top and then pushing buttons" but that seems slightly misleading... my understanding is that you still have physical front and rear control wheels that control virtual rotating dials on the top screen. That seems like a pretty cool feature.
The Phase One 100mpx digital back has been around for a while. You can even use it on the old Mamiya AF camera. Stupidly expensive, but very usable. So it's not a new thing, but I'd definitely still like to own one!
I bet this would be a load of fun for astrophotography! Although, with a 102MP MF sensor, it might over sample seeing conditions even at short focal lengths. Does anyone know the pixel pitch/size in microns for this camera so I can work it out?
@@fedevento Wow that's impressive! That's around 2 "/pixel at 400mm focal length. Typical seeing conditions allow for 2"/pixel! This would rule for astro with either long lenses or short apochromatic refractors :)
My phone went crazy last night when the embargo lifted and many CZcams videos landed. I got up and watched most of the videos and was stunned by what Fuji appears to have accomplished. This seems more feature rich than what Fuji hinted at last fall. If you already have the GFX lenses, this is the missing link. The IBIS is especially important, in my opinion, and that viewfinder must be incredible (as is the one on the GFS 50S, but this is a step beyond). I can't wait for your full review!
I bet you will eventually be able to get it for $279 in 2079. That's if you are still around by then and remember what you said today when there will be 1000 MP cameras by then.
In film days there had been medium and large format cameras for which the fuji gfx100 is a dwarf - no blame on the GFX but all the photographers did focusing only manually with that big machines!
And this camera would smoke any film camera every made including 8x10 and Velvia, in all aspects other than shallow depth of field which as a landscape person I have no need for.
This camera sets a new price point in the MF space. It also shows, what can be done with an off the shelf sensor from Sony. Many of the key features directly relate to the IMX461 sensor.
At iconic landmarks f.e. like the Charles bridge at sunset, there always is at least one GFX shooter and the color of the previews look so much better than my A7RIII preview. For some strange reason they talk to their camera, it looks like the GFX has a voice activated trigger.
I haven't used any medium format cameras but as far as I have researched sensor sizes and properties bigger sensor size gives richer colours. One more thing to mention why medium format image quality is better.
Just for comparison, a sheet of 4x5 inch film scanned at a mere 2400ppi (as in a high end flatbed scanner) generates 115 megapixels. Cost of camera, lens and scanner easily under $3000. How many of those giant prints can anyone make? At this scale I would think film is actually competitive at least for landscape.
I will purchase Fujifilm GFX100 camera along with the panasonic varicam LT and 35 to make my Indie movies.
Před 5 lety+5
I want it, I really do... 5 FPS is all I need, I believe AF will be ok enough for what I mostly need... and I believe IQ will be perfect... but man, I feel poor af when I look at that price
Hey Tony, you and I have one thing in common and one difference...We both love superb detail in our landscape images, and you can afford this GFX100 (with lenses)!! :-) Actually, I find that the "meager" Fuji X-T3 can produce 24" x 36" poster prints with quite amazing detail and sharpness (using a solid tripod, good technique and post processing)...and that's without "pixel shift"! Although, for my product photography, I employ "focus merge", in which I take a few dozen images of the product at different focus points, combine the images in Affinity Photo, and do final processing in Photoshop. In this way, I can create the sharpest possible images (especially with the ultra-sharp Fujinon 80mm f/2.8 Macro!), that IMHO, rival any FF camera system, and may even approach this medium format camera, in terms of detail and image sharpness....sort of a "poor man's" approach to medium format image quality. Thanks, and I look forward to your full review of this awesome system!
I am a recordist and the rode nt1a that you are using has its capsule at 90 degree with respect to your mouth. Also at that angle you don't need a pop filter. Found this amusing. Sound is good though
You guys really need to have live/interactive stuff going on at 6 or 7p ET, so those of us in Central or further west an catch the live productions and interact appropriately after we get outta work for the day.
Hi Tony desperately waiting for Chelsea's Sony a7riii vs Nikon d850 for wildlife episode.I had sent you an email regarding but didnt get the reply.I am considering Nikon d850 +200-500 f5.6 or Sony a7riii+100-400gm for wildlife photography...which one you think would be a better choice and why.Please reply...regards Vivek Hura.
I mean the GFX 100 has been pretty much confirmed for a 1 year+, but with 6 lenses you're all ready to skip the GFX100 and get the Fuji GFX 150 or whatever the next one is in 2-3 years.
Fuji ISO 100 is probably already better than Nikon 64 due to the different scale they are using (some call it cheating but it's just following a different standard)
My only experience with Fuji, was an early humble Fujica AX3 film camera, wich gave me some beautiful pictures. great color saturation and tones. I have no idea what I would do with the GFX100, other than going crazy, just to be able to buy it.
Put that camera on the MIA robot arm and you have an extreme product photography setup with proper 4k support and unrivaled stills. I cant imagine large companies not bullrushing to get this with their RED cameras as a part of their high end work.
Wait a minute Tony - at 2:10 you complain about the ISO level not being able to go a low as ISO 50, yet in previous videos you clearly state that camera ISO is non-standard across all the brands. So what baseline exactly are you basing your complaint upon?
@@fotomats8651 It's got nothing to do with the type of sensor. Digital camera ISO sensitivity is not an absolute scale. There are different methods and Fuji use one that's different to most others.
Considering the prices here in NZ for the (body only) GFX-50R (NZ$8000.00) and the GFX-50S (NZ$9500.00) the GFX-100 will be in the range of NZ$12,000 to $15,000 I reckon. Don't even ask about the cost of lens'. Certainly a professional's tool, unless you're a wealthy amateur. For price comparisons, the Sony A7R mk3 is NZ$4,600 body only, whilst the Hassleblad X1D-50C is NZ$15,000 body only.
If your goal is to create landscape images printed to very large dimensions with superb detail like Ansell Adams, wouldn't it be best to use a film camera like he did? When it comes to image detail, won't any digital camera be something of a compromise over analog film?
i dont get the large print, high res thing. bigger your print size, further people will be from it. i use a d3s for a3 and a2, sometimes even a1 prints and that 12 megapixels never bothered me or my clients. i started the job with a kodak dcs 560 with 6 megapixels, made a3 prints and everyone thought they were gorgeous.
This would be the best wedding and events photography camera. You can get 5 different images with one press of shutter, crop crop. I will need 100 terrabite SSD drive for it's files.
No, as Fuji have stated, this is the first large sensor camera that is meant for all kinds of photography, and video. Fuji themselves are demonstrating fast action photography with this.
I've watched 3 blind men and the elephant hands-on, and it seems that the AF on the GFX100 is capable of tracking people running straight towards the camera. According to the Fujifilm representative, they don't want the camera to be "a slave to the studio".
STVO 5 frames a second is NOT enough for sports photography. Files would also be too huge to edit several dozen photos. Not worth it. And no sane person will walk around taking street photography with $15-20k (camera+lens). Family travel photography? Lol. Ummm no. Sorry. This is a specialized camera.
@@ronyedin (of course this is just my opinion)-I would like to know just how modern day digital photographers would have survived taking sports photos “back in the day” when you had to make each frame count. I used to do a lot of photography-sports and wildlife included- with just 1 frame at a time. Did I miss perfect shots? Sure, but as skills and experience increased, hit rates increased. I relate it to firearms and marksmanship. Before the military went to full auto weapons, a soldier had to make each shot count. Marksmanship was an important skill. Full auto came along and marksmanship faded and the rounds fired to get a hit increased dramatically. Film cameras require a photographer to have a lot of patience and practice to be really good. Digital photography has made it too easy to just “spray and pray”. I’m not saying we should go back to giving our military muzzle loading flintlocks, likewise, I am not saying that we should eliminate a fast frame rate on a digital camera. What I am saying is that five frames per second may not be the fastest, but it is not as slow as some people seem to think. Do I wish it was faster? I wouldn’t turn down an opportunity to have it be faster, but I wouldn’t turn down an opportunity to use it at 5fps either. Happy “shooting”😎😎😎
Tony, you made mention of depth-of-field considerations with the larger sensor. Please understand and make it clear that depth of field is a function of aperture and image size on the sensor. Focal length DOES NOT affect depth-of-field! It is true that image compression and rendering of perspective will be affected by focal length but NOT depth-of-field. This is physics and laws of optics.
At its simplest, DoF is a function of two properties: aperture and image magnification. Anything that impacts the image magnification thus also impacts DoF, including sensor size, focal length, etc.
@@TonyAndChelsea Tony, while it's true that focal length can affect image magnification it does not affect depth of field. This is a function of the laws of optics. Here's a way to prove it to yourself... With a 50 mm lens and a 100 mm lens place the 50 mm lens so the same subject is the same size on the sensor as the image created with the 100 mm lens. (about twice as close) At a given f-stop the depth-of-field will be IDENTICAL The perspective and image compression will be different with the two lenses but the depth-of-field will be the same. Most professionals I talk to don't understand this fact -- which is governed by the laws of physics and optics.
If you're going to compare proper medium cameras you need to review the the Pentax 645 as well. BTW think I 'm right in saying Fuji isn't a proper medium format - it's just a turbocharged FF?
it erks me a little when photo bloggers question this camera as a capable cinema camera - remember, fujinon makes exceptional cine lenses so i imagine we’ll see more cinema solution for fuji.
I´m trying to find out how much is the DLA (Diffraction Limited Aperture) for this camera, as no one is talking about that. I believe that with a pixel pitch of 3.76um (even with a BSI sensor) the DLA will be considerably low, wich can reduce the full potential (and the image quality) of this sensor in lower aperture. What is your opinion about this, and also how the sensors tech will overcome the physics?
The GFX100 lacks a high res pixel shift mode on the initial release, thus even when doing still-life, you can't do a pixel shift to get an equivalent 400 megapixel image. This means that you will still struggle to do much more than an 8x10 print, or share photos on the web. Overall, they need to add a high res mode.
@@bignormeister I can see how it could be useful, maybe sports/action where you don't have time to compose. Or not quite enough reach tele end I think the entire resolution argument has, for some time now been pretty much a non issue. Maybe in the early days. With 16/24mp I really don't see any problems. Don't want to work with 40-50mp+ files - it's just overkill. Marketing in action
Deeper DOF makes a lot of sense. Why would you want 90 mp worth of blurry stuff. If you ever want the bokeh you could adapt a fast FF lens and crop in, you got plenty of room for that lol
I have the Sony a7rii and it’s great! I do wish I could afford to get at least like a 70-200 Sony tele lens or something but this Fuji just really catches my eye.. I want a medium format camera but I feel like a film option is a better buy, because it can be wayyy cheaper and you can still get really super good results when blowing up an image. I love cameras though and want them all lol but being a college student I have to be grateful for the second hand Sony with the 35mm that I do have. 0ne can dream th0 🤩🤩🤩🤩😉
After you posted your video on the GFX,there were like dozens more CZcams reviews on the GFX100! Insanity Are you going to review the Phase One for us?
Fuji rumoured to have pixelshift as part of their multi mode... The dials had to go bcos they didn't feel the dials were compatible with video. They wanted it to be easy to switch from stills to video and each have their own settings saved without having to constantly adjust.
I'm thinking we have already passed that benchmark, if you mean 35mm Kodachrome and tech pan, with the Nikon d810 and d850, in fact, did they even make 120 Kodachrome?
its the 10k plus the cost of new sd cards and a computer, theres no way your standard series 1 cards or anything less than a fairly premium computer rig could keep up with the file size
Stop using crappy Adobe software. I'm editing 50MP files on an ancient i3 dual core with 8GB of RAM and it flies, because I'm using darktable with multithreaded, GPU-accelerated software. Zooming in and out and applying filters interactively is essentially real-time, and pushing the final image to disk takes only a handful of seconds.
@@problemat1que *insert doubt meme* plus i'm not talking about just filter application and those SD series II cards aren't cheap especially the higher capacity ones,
@@mcbean1 compute is expensive but storage is cheap. So you won't have to buy a new computer like you said in your OP, just a bunch of hard drives / ssds and yes, memory cards (at a single digit percentage of the camera cost), and make use of your existing GPU which sadly sits mostly idle in Adobe products.
Tony: ISO is just an arbitrary number that means nothing in modern cameras.
Also Tony: I wish this camera has gone down to ISO 50 instead of ISO 100.
Also Tony: Buy my book!
yeeep. this channel is an incredible mix of really good information and really inconsistent opinions/wants.
This is actually a good move for Fujifilm to skip the saturated FF market. APS-C for a quality compact cam and MF for high end photography.
"High-end" photography (for MF) has a very small market size, most for high end commerical fashion/portrait. And these users I can safely say are already using Phrase One cameras.
It will be great for landscape photographer too, but most working photographers probably don't need this resolution especially at this cost, lens lineup matters a lot more.
"APS-C for a quality compact cam"? IMHO, using the techniques I mentioned above, I can produce pretty near "high end photography" with my "APS-C compact" Fuji X-T3 camera.
400 MB pixel shift is coming via firmware update later on
With 5 exposures bracketing along with pixel shift one file is going to be like 1TB or what xD
@@michaelklawitter5366 It's probably either a bunch of 16 bit raws or a single 14 bit tiff, so a few 100 MB either way
@@michaelklawitter5366 so what though. You'll do that for a landscape. I mean. For the best 3 pictures you ended up with at that one beach or whatever, yeah. Worth it.
This camera will turn my memory cards into a one flash bulb.
Looking at the prices of other non Fuji medium format cameras, this is actually cheap
I will get one and use it as a dash cam in my Skoda Fabia.
Mejtub you will probably double that car’s value
Works like a charm in my Dacia.
The 100 mp is great but that's not the main reason to get this camera. The REAL thing to get excited about is the ibis and phase detect AF, both never done before in the MF world.
It is funny to me, I am trying to justify going from 16 megs to 24 megs with my full frame, yet have a hard time doing.
Chrono Trigger youmare excited about ibis ? Subjects move and ibis cannot fix that.
Being used to shooting 6x7 medium format (on film), all the digital medium formats seem more like slightly enhanced full-frame or 35mm+, rather than true medium format. For most (medium format loving) people, I think it makes sense to stay with full-frame until real medium format digital cameras come out.
element4element4 - What is “real” digital medium-format to you? A sensor physically 6x7” or larger? Isn’t 100Mp files big enough for you? It has more detail and probably dynamic range than your film 6x7 film camera as it is. For fashion and landscape photographers, that’s plenty big. I suspect you think digital medium-format has to have a sensor the exact same size as medium-format film in order to call itself medium-format, which is missing the point and not understanding where digital is at. I appreciate film and people who love it, but for commercial purposes it is antiquated and superseded by digital in every way.
@@msandersen
I was making two different (slightly unrelated) points. I was not comparing quality of digital sensors to medium format film. I don't shoot film for commercial purposes. I just happen to enjoy the process of shooting film and printing in the dark room, not so much due to resolution/dynamic range/etc.
1) My first point was that it's strange to call these sensors "medium format", as for more than a century medium-format (afaik) has meant shooting on 120/220 film. The smallest medium format has been (I believe) 6x4.5, but there are also other standards like 6x6, 6x7, 6x9 and (rare) 6x12 formats. I just find it confusing that these digital cameras are called medium-format as that seems to imply (to me) they are at-least 6x4.5 and therefore gather way more light than 35mm. However that's not the case, they are just slightly larger than 35mm and their advantages over 35mm sensors are thus minor. I think it's less misleading to call anything between 35mm (full-frame) and 6x4.5 for "35mm+" or something like that.
2) Besides gathering more light, there are many nice things about "real" medium format film/sensor sizes. For example you can take fairly wide-angle shots with a very shallow depth of field or take wide-angle shot with a lot less distortion (because it will be at a longer focal length). However modern lenses are much faster and more optically corrected than they used to be, and this point might become less and less relevant over time.
I cannot think of how I could use that much resolution. Larger prints are generally viewed farther back unless you are making wall paper murals, then you could just merge photos. Tony did a nice video on that. If you use the right lens you do not have to crop a lot. Even prints off my 54" wide format printer look great at just 16 megs with my Df, again because the angle of comfortable viewing forces you to step back,,,,unless you are the kind of person who loves the front row in a movie theater. Taking about large prints, billboard prints are viewed from afar. Many billboard printers do not print super high res and I never sent one out over 10 megs, yet they look crisp from 50 ft or more. Med format I used to use, was made for film since 35 mm lacked detail and had too much grain for larger prints, but today's digital has solved that. Some marketing of med format is riding on a nostalgia factor in my opinion, not out of the need it once had.
S1R with Pixelshift vs this would be a dope comparison.
A good autofocus is a primary aspect to consider, at the moment to buy any camera system, thanks for your advice.
I love how that Fuji dude in the chopper has no security for the expensive camera
Tony you say at 6:49 there are no analog dials and that you have to use "the touch screen and the LCD screen on top and then pushing buttons" but that seems slightly misleading... my understanding is that you still have physical front and rear control wheels that control virtual rotating dials on the top screen. That seems like a pretty cool feature.
ideal for landscape photography & printing large! exactly what i'm looking to do...
The Phase One 100mpx digital back has been around for a while. You can even use it on the old Mamiya AF camera. Stupidly expensive, but very usable. So it's not a new thing, but I'd definitely still like to own one!
I bet this would be a load of fun for astrophotography! Although, with a 102MP MF sensor, it might over sample seeing conditions even at short focal lengths. Does anyone know the pixel pitch/size in microns for this camera so I can work it out?
3.4 microns!
@@fedevento Wow that's impressive! That's around 2 "/pixel at 400mm focal length. Typical seeing conditions allow for 2"/pixel! This would rule for astro with either long lenses or short apochromatic refractors :)
Will this work for starting a CZcams channel?
My phone went crazy last night when the embargo lifted and many CZcams videos landed. I got up and watched most of the videos and was stunned by what Fuji appears to have accomplished. This seems more feature rich than what Fuji hinted at last fall. If you already have the GFX lenses, this is the missing link. The IBIS is especially important, in my opinion, and that viewfinder must be incredible (as is the one on the GFS 50S, but this is a step beyond). I can't wait for your full review!
Still waiting for that hands on :P
Compare it to to Lumix SR1 (pixel shift) one too :)
That feeling when you come to the sudden realization that you're probably gonna switch to micro 4/3...
Wont ever switch to micro43. Autofocus sucks, Fuji kit lens is sharper than panny 12-35 ii even wide open at 2.8
Yuck
Jose Dias m43 has 2 stop worse noise performance to a FF due to the sensor being 1/4 of the size.
How about hasselblad X2D ? 100mp medium format and not the first one!😎
I hope you guys are doing a contest to give away a 📷 Fujifilm GFX 100 😁😂🤣
Me too. Its the only way that 99.99999 % of the human race will ever own one.
You wait long long
I look forward to the day when I can buy it on eBay for $279 with free memory cards and extra batteries. Thank you.
Haha. People still.want 2000 dollars for the D3s.
@@TheForge10 give it a couple decades
I bet you will eventually be able to get it for $279 in 2079. That's if you are still around by then and remember what you said today when there will be 1000 MP cameras by then.
@@newtonmillennial878 I be a 114
But I think I get the camera when at 5000 and low shutter count💗
ISO 100 - if Fujifilm continues measuring their ISO in SOS standard, instead of REI - this ISO 100 probably is closer to e.g. "Nikon ISO" 64
Thorsten E. Gebuhr THIS! Are you listen, Tony?
In film days there had been medium and large format cameras for which the fuji gfx100 is a dwarf - no blame on the GFX but all the photographers did focusing only manually with that big machines!
And this camera would smoke any film camera every made including 8x10 and Velvia, in all aspects other than shallow depth of field which as a landscape person I have no need for.
This camera sets a new price point in the MF space. It also shows, what can be done with an off the shelf sensor from Sony. Many of the key features directly relate to the IMX461 sensor.
At iconic landmarks f.e. like the Charles bridge at sunset, there always is at least one GFX shooter and the color of the previews look so much better than my A7RIII preview. For some strange reason they talk to their camera, it looks like the GFX has a voice activated trigger.
The mitakon 85mm f1.2 has a gfx Mount option so you can get really thin depth of field
this cam is so flawless
I'd love a mode where they produce a 25mpx picture with 20 stops of dynamic range on this sensor... like sensitivity shift or something like that ;)
OK, but the big question that everyone wants to ask is - is there a Cambodian menu language option?
Damian Sliwinski why Cambodian?
I haven't used any medium format cameras but as far as I have researched sensor sizes and properties bigger sensor size gives richer colours. One more thing to mention why medium format image quality is better.
Just for comparison, a sheet of 4x5 inch film scanned at a mere 2400ppi (as in a high end flatbed scanner) generates 115 megapixels. Cost of camera, lens and scanner easily under $3000. How many of those giant prints can anyone make? At this scale I would think film is actually competitive at least for landscape.
I will purchase Fujifilm GFX100 camera along with the panasonic varicam LT and 35 to make my Indie movies.
I want it, I really do... 5 FPS is all I need, I believe AF will be ok enough for what I mostly need... and I believe IQ will be perfect...
but man, I feel poor af when I look at that price
Id give my left nut for one.
Sensor shift is coming to the gfx100n
Hey Tony, you and I have one thing in common and one difference...We both love superb detail in our landscape images, and you can afford this GFX100 (with lenses)!! :-) Actually, I find that the "meager" Fuji X-T3 can produce 24" x 36" poster prints with quite amazing detail and sharpness (using a solid tripod, good technique and post processing)...and that's without "pixel shift"! Although, for my product photography, I employ "focus merge", in which I take a few dozen images of the product at different focus points, combine the images in Affinity Photo, and do final processing in Photoshop. In this way, I can create the sharpest possible images (especially with the ultra-sharp Fujinon 80mm f/2.8 Macro!), that IMHO, rival any FF camera system, and may even approach this medium format camera, in terms of detail and image sharpness....sort of a "poor man's" approach to medium format image quality. Thanks, and I look forward to your full review of this awesome system!
So as far as video capabilities go it's gotta either be pixel binning or cropping...right?? I refuse to believe that it's oversampling at 100mp!
I am a recordist and the rode nt1a that you are using has its capsule at 90 degree with respect to your mouth. Also at that angle you don't need a pop filter. Found this amusing. Sound is good though
Now the GFX100 has Pixel Shift!
Are you satisfied?
Is 400mpx enough!
You guys really need to have live/interactive stuff going on at 6 or 7p ET, so those of us in Central or further west an catch the live productions and interact appropriately after we get outta work for the day.
Hi Tony desperately waiting for Chelsea's Sony a7riii vs Nikon d850 for wildlife episode.I had sent you an email regarding but didnt get the reply.I am considering Nikon d850 +200-500 f5.6 or Sony a7riii+100-400gm for wildlife photography...which one you think would be a better choice and why.Please reply...regards Vivek Hura.
...and to think, that I just bought the Fujifilm GFX 50s, grip, adjustable eyepiece, and 6 lenses and this happens...What is a poor lad to do? 🤩
I mean the GFX 100 has been pretty much confirmed for a 1 year+, but with 6 lenses you're all ready to skip the GFX100 and get the Fuji GFX 150 or whatever the next one is in 2-3 years.
Tony... you will be AMAZED about it... believe my words...! Believe it
I need 25mp medium format with 15 FPS 100 pictures
ISO 40 or less will good
Higher Dynamic range
Fuji ISO 100 is probably already better than Nikon 64 due to the different scale they are using (some call it cheating but it's just following a different standard)
The fuji wifi app is actually freakin awesome right now after the major update
If you're watching this video, chances are you aren't the targeting audience for the GFX100.
Same here lol. I just think its cool af tech. Well to a noob like me anyway.
My only experience with Fuji, was an early humble Fujica AX3 film camera, wich gave me some beautiful pictures. great color saturation and tones. I have no idea what I would do with the GFX100, other than going crazy, just to be able to buy it.
Put that camera on the MIA robot arm and you have an extreme product photography setup with proper 4k support and unrivaled stills. I cant imagine large companies not bullrushing to get this with their RED cameras as a part of their high end work.
I wonder who makes the sensor ? Sony ?
China
David Banza everything’s made in China 😖
Bayer
Wait a minute Tony - at 2:10 you complain about the ISO level not being able to go a low as ISO 50, yet in previous videos you clearly state that camera ISO is non-standard across all the brands. So what baseline exactly are you basing your complaint upon?
im gonna order two ...one to use & one to give to my neighbour
GilbertTV 🤣😂🤣
wann live next to me ? ^^
Bro, while you doing that don't forget to order d810 for brother man is too broke
can´t wait to see the comparison video
GFX100 now has pixel shift, would you buy it?
Don't worry Tony. When Fujifilm tells you it's ISO100-12800, in reality it's probably ISO50-6400.
They should tell him iso is fake
Not with this Bayer Sensor...
I so much agree with you.
@@fotomats8651 It's got nothing to do with the type of sensor. Digital camera ISO sensitivity is not an absolute scale. There are different methods and Fuji use one that's different to most others.
hey shang-hsien yang is there a way to test it or prove what it really is? honestly how do we know the difference?
Giveaway when? 😜
Considering the prices here in NZ for the (body only) GFX-50R (NZ$8000.00) and the GFX-50S (NZ$9500.00) the GFX-100 will be in the range of NZ$12,000 to $15,000 I reckon. Don't even ask about the cost of lens'. Certainly a professional's tool, unless you're a wealthy amateur. For price comparisons, the Sony A7R mk3 is NZ$4,600 body only, whilst the Hassleblad X1D-50C is NZ$15,000 body only.
If your goal is to create landscape images printed to very large dimensions with superb detail like Ansell Adams, wouldn't it be best to use a film camera like he did? When it comes to image detail, won't any digital camera be something of a compromise over analog film?
Anyone know how many stops of dynamic range?
i dont get the large print, high res thing. bigger your print size, further people will be from it. i use a d3s for a3 and a2, sometimes even a1 prints and that 12 megapixels never bothered me or my clients. i started the job with a kodak dcs 560 with 6 megapixels, made a3 prints and everyone thought they were gorgeous.
This would be the best wedding and events photography camera. You can get 5 different images with one press of shutter, crop crop. I will need 100 terrabite SSD drive for it's files.
They know damn well this big camera should have had a Full HDMI port.
This is a specialized camera geared to landscape, fashion, portraits studio work. This is not your everyday run and shoot.
No, as Fuji have stated, this is the first large sensor camera that is meant for all kinds of photography, and video. Fuji themselves are demonstrating fast action photography with this.
@@ghostgums you would earnestly go shooting street photography and take it for travel?
I've watched 3 blind men and the elephant hands-on, and it seems that the AF on the GFX100 is capable of tracking people running straight towards the camera. According to the Fujifilm representative, they don't want the camera to be "a slave to the studio".
STVO 5 frames a second is NOT enough for sports photography. Files would also be too huge to edit several dozen photos. Not worth it. And no sane person will walk around taking street photography with $15-20k (camera+lens). Family travel photography? Lol. Ummm no. Sorry. This is a specialized camera.
@@ronyedin (of course this is just my opinion)-I would like to know just how modern day digital photographers would have survived taking sports photos “back in the day” when you had to make each frame count. I used to do a lot of photography-sports and wildlife included- with just 1 frame at a time. Did I miss perfect shots? Sure, but as skills and experience increased, hit rates increased. I relate it to firearms and marksmanship. Before the military went to full auto weapons, a soldier had to make each shot count. Marksmanship was an important skill. Full auto came along and marksmanship faded and the rounds fired to get a hit increased dramatically. Film cameras require a photographer to have a lot of patience and practice to be really good. Digital photography has made it too easy to just “spray and pray”. I’m not saying we should go back to giving our military muzzle loading flintlocks, likewise, I am not saying that we should eliminate a fast frame rate on a digital camera. What I am saying is that five frames per second may not be the fastest, but it is not as slow as some people seem to think. Do I wish it was faster? I wouldn’t turn down an opportunity to have it be faster, but I wouldn’t turn down an opportunity to use it at 5fps either. Happy “shooting”😎😎😎
Tony, you made mention of depth-of-field considerations with the larger sensor. Please understand and make it clear that depth of field is a function of aperture and image size on the sensor. Focal length DOES NOT affect depth-of-field! It is true that image compression and rendering of perspective will be affected by focal length but NOT depth-of-field. This is physics and laws of optics.
At its simplest, DoF is a function of two properties: aperture and image magnification. Anything that impacts the image magnification thus also impacts DoF, including sensor size, focal length, etc.
@@TonyAndChelsea Tony, while it's true that focal length can affect image magnification it does not affect depth of field. This is a function of the laws of optics. Here's a way to prove it to yourself...
With a 50 mm lens and a 100 mm lens place the 50 mm lens so the same subject is the same size on the sensor as the image created with the 100 mm lens. (about twice as close)
At a given f-stop the depth-of-field will be IDENTICAL The perspective and image compression will be different with the two lenses but the depth-of-field will be the same. Most professionals I talk to don't understand this fact -- which is governed by the laws of physics and optics.
Hey Tony, will you be testing the new sigma full frame camera when available? And what are your thoughts on the foveon sensor?
If you're going to compare proper medium cameras you need to review the the Pentax 645 as well. BTW think I 'm right in saying Fuji isn't a proper medium format - it's just a turbocharged FF?
it erks me a little when photo bloggers question this camera as a capable cinema camera - remember, fujinon makes exceptional cine lenses so i imagine we’ll see more cinema solution for fuji.
I´m trying to find out how much is the DLA (Diffraction Limited Aperture) for this camera, as no one is talking about that. I believe that with a pixel pitch of 3.76um (even with a BSI sensor) the DLA will be considerably low, wich can reduce the full potential (and the image quality) of this sensor in lower aperture. What is your opinion about this, and also how the sensors tech will overcome the physics?
Best action video setting for sony a7iii? (not frame rate or Fstop or anything like that)
This camera with 8K should be AMAZING or even with 6k.
please do a rolling shutter test of the GFX100 and the X-T3...
cameralabs did a rolling shutter test, looks quite bad to me, unfortunately :o
There's only one conclusion to reach here Tony: "Full frame is dead " ;-)
@Alex X It won't be long before FF isn't good enough for the pixel peepers. They'll be losing sleep.
This is not practical to day to day users. FF will always be mainstream.
The perfect Instagram camera...Fuji rocks!
5:29 aka "in awe at the size of the absolute unit"
Seriously when is a real review coming out for this? Whats the hold up on this camera?
If the Diesel Brothers built a camera it would be this... Thanks Tony & all
Going out tomorrow to buy 2 !!
You don't need a 10k 100 megapixel camera to make 10ft prints, Anybody who thinks I should, have no idea about printing large prints
Yeah, you don't *need* it, but you'll definitely notice the difference in detail.
The GFX100 lacks a high res pixel shift mode on the initial release, thus even when doing still-life, you can't do a pixel shift to get an equivalent 400 megapixel image. This means that you will still struggle to do much more than an 8x10 print, or share photos on the web. Overall, they need to add a high res mode.
Razor2048 🧐 seriously?!
@@kennethwilliamsinc already confirmed fuji is adding pixel shift in firmware
Chazyfizzlez my comment was towards “you will still struggle to do more than an 8x10 print” without pixel shift.
TEN thousand pounds for a camera ??????????????
This is clearly for people that live in a different solar system to me.
This is for filmmakers, they live in Hollywood and Bollywood.
first look how much other medium format cameras and lenses cost. then comment this one.
I think the 1dc was that much or more when it came out years ago. Those specs are now are not that great.
RPdigital
This camera is not really for filmmakers. It is primarily a camera made for photography that can do video well.
U.S. dollars
I can hear the complaints already "but I want to crop even more I need 200mp" ;-)
It will never be enough for some
@@bignormeister I can see how it could be useful, maybe sports/action where you don't have time to compose. Or not quite enough reach tele end
I think the entire resolution argument has, for some time now been pretty much a non issue. Maybe in the early days. With 16/24mp I really don't see any problems. Don't want to work with 40-50mp+ files - it's just overkill. Marketing in action
Deeper DOF makes a lot of sense. Why would you want 90 mp worth of blurry stuff.
If you ever want the bokeh you could adapt a fast FF lens and crop in, you got plenty of room for that lol
Is this not a large format sensor?
I have the Sony a7rii and it’s great! I do wish I could afford to get at least like a 70-200 Sony tele lens or something but this Fuji just really catches my eye.. I want a medium format camera but I feel like a film option is a better buy, because it can be wayyy cheaper and you can still get really super good results when blowing up an image. I love cameras though and want them all lol but being a college student I have to be grateful for the second hand Sony with the 35mm that I do have.
0ne can dream th0 🤩🤩🤩🤩😉
the phase one killer !
Now they need to buff up their lens line up
Be nice if Fuji can come out with a 28MP medium format camera!
After you posted your video on the GFX,there were like dozens more CZcams reviews on the GFX100! Insanity Are you going to review the Phase One for us?
If you want gigantic prints with enormous amounts of details, there's an easy solution: 8x10 sheet film. Worked for Ansel.
Easy?
Easier than saving up for a Fuji GFX100! Way easier.
„Hey boys, pack up that Arri Alexa! It doesn’t have dual card slots.“
- serious video shooters
And there are companies making a living on data recovery from that kind of cameras cameras. And there is a reason 128G Alexa cards cost 3k$.
Fuji rumoured to have pixelshift as part of their multi mode...
The dials had to go bcos they didn't feel the dials were compatible with video. They wanted it to be easy to switch from stills to video and each have their own settings saved without having to constantly adjust.
Finally! Kodachrome and PanX quality!!
$10k might be six months rent. That's what a Nikon F2 Photonic cost when it was new. Six months rent.
I'm thinking we have already passed that benchmark, if you mean 35mm Kodachrome and tech pan, with the Nikon d810 and d850, in fact, did they even make 120 Kodachrome?
its the 10k plus the cost of new sd cards and a computer, theres no way your standard series 1 cards or anything less than a fairly premium computer rig could keep up with the file size
Yes, wish they has upgraded the 50S instead
Stop using crappy Adobe software. I'm editing 50MP files on an ancient i3 dual core with 8GB of RAM and it flies, because I'm using darktable with multithreaded, GPU-accelerated software. Zooming in and out and applying filters interactively is essentially real-time, and pushing the final image to disk takes only a handful of seconds.
@@problemat1que *insert doubt meme* plus i'm not talking about just filter application and those SD series II cards aren't cheap especially the higher capacity ones,
@@mcbean1 compute is expensive but storage is cheap. So you won't have to buy a new computer like you said in your OP, just a bunch of hard drives / ssds and yes, memory cards (at a single digit percentage of the camera cost), and make use of your existing GPU which sadly sits mostly idle in Adobe products.
@@problemat1que mmm series II SD cards aren't super cheap yet, especially compared to series I
FYI I believe the Phase 1 system is around 70K to purchase according to a successful still-life photographer.
So is this good enough for Instagram?
Isn't this just a pre production model that may or may not make it to the marketplace ? It also seems ripe for an upgrade
Naughty Tony when mentioning to 2 card slots ... Serious one: WHY the BAYER ? Fuji is so proud of its x-trans. However the 50S/R have the Bayer too.
Why is focusing on MF slower than normal mirrorless cameras?
Chris Wilson bigger lenses. Have to move bigger pieces of glass around. Probably can’t built a bigger motor or less would get too big.
But you never tested it?
he hasn't 😂