Fujifilm Introduces GFX-100S and more...

E.J. Peiker wrote:

Mark Walrod wrote:

E.J. Peiker wrote:GFX 100S does Arizona - the guy definitely likes blocked up high contrast processing but it's nice to see some real world stuff shot in my neck of the woods with my next landscape camera
https://bryanminear.com/gfx100s/

Are you planning to travel with the new GFX or are you keeping the Sony for that? Also, what lenses do you like best on the GFX for landscape?

Sony is definitely my lightweight set-up for when there will be significant hiking or weight restrictions (in which case I use the Tamron lenses rather than the Sonys due to their smaller size and weight) but I do (or will again) travel with the GFX when I won't have a lot of miles to hike - my entire UK trip to Northumberland and the Lake District as well as Edinburgh was all shot on the Fuji system.  All of my Death valley stuff is Fuji as is my Utah Badlands/Capitol Reef stuff...   The 100S is pretty small and significantly smaller than the GFX50S although the lenses are bigger due to the larger exit pupil requirement of a 44x33 sensor.  My current landscape set-up is the Laowa 17mm (13mm FF equiv), the Fuji 23mm (18mm equiv), 32-64mm (25-50 equiv), and 100-200 (80-160 equiv), and the 1.4x which works well with the 100-200.  I also own the 120 Macro and the 250 prime but the latter a bit too big and heavy for travel.  I do wish we had a wide zoom in the GFX system, something like an 18-36 or 20-40 then I could pretty much get by with just 3 lenses.  I much prefer the Fuji GFX to the Sony for pure landscape photography due to the 4x3 aspect ratio and the excellent focus stacking.

As for adapting lenses, some are OK with the 50 mp sensor camera and the Laowa optical medium format adapter (expands field of view of FF lenses to medium format) works too, but no adapted lens nor FF lens shot with the medium format adapter are up to the resolution requirements of the 100mp sensor (with the exception of the Zeiss Otus lenses) - might as well save your money and get a GFX-50R or stay with 35mm.  If you really want to utilize the resolution of a camera like the GFX100/100S, you have to go with the lenses made specifically for it.  Fuji GFX lenses from the very beginning of the system were made to exceed 100mp resolution capability.  They are all excellent, every one of them is very good.  One thing you notice right away when shooting with any of the GFX cameras and the Fuji lenses is that if you sharpen the way you used to sharpen with FF or APS-C, regardless of camera/lens manufacturer you were using, the Fuji files will look oversharpened.  The system is just plain sharper; sharper than even an a7R4 with the very best lenses money can buy for that system.

Mark Walrod wrote:Also, I may contact you to get some help setting up the camera. Perhaps we can do something via skype if meeting in person is not an option due to Covid.

Mark Walrod wrote:Does anyone know where to get an L bracket for this camera, preferably a custom one? I called RRS and was told it would be a couple of months before they have one available.

Mark Walrod wrote:I see Fuji is making a metal base plate replacement with a dovetail. I may end up purchasing that until an L Bracket is available

Interesting they opted to not include a battery charger. I guess charging via the UBS cord is safe.

E.J. Peiker wrote:

Mark Walrod wrote:I see Fuji is making a metal base plate replacement with a dovetail. I may end up purchasing that until an L Bracket is available

Interesting they opted to not include a battery charger. I guess charging via the UBS cord is safe.

Mark, order one of these:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08527YBCP/

Mark Walrod wrote:Fuji just announced $500 rebates on a few GF lenses.

E.J., any thoughts on the 32-64 vs 45-100, primarily for landscapes? I'm tempted to buy both, but struggling with the overlap.

E.J. Peiker wrote:

Mark Walrod wrote:Fuji just announced $500 rebates on a few GF lenses.

E.J., any thoughts on the 32-64 vs 45-100, primarily for landscapes? I'm tempted to buy both, but struggling with the overlap.

Funny, I was just about to send you the same info although the Fuji rebate page isn't working yet.

I hear you, I got the 32-64 before the 45-100 became available and the huge overlap is a bit annoying as you really can't give up wide angles below 45mm (~36mm in full frame terms) yet if you don't have both you have a hole between 64 and 100 (about 52-80mm in full frame terms) assuming you also have the 100-200.  I keep waiting for the wide angle zoom which will likely be around 20-40 (16-36 in FF) and at that point I would sell the 32-64 in favor of the 45-100.  It is a conundrum though.  These lenses are pretty big and heavy so I would not want to carry both the 32-64 and 45-100 plus the 17, 23, 100-200, and 1.4x.  In a perfect world, Fuji would come out with a 17-45 f/4 and then you could add the 45-100 and 100-200 plus 1.4x and cover everything from 17-280 in three lenses and a converter.

My other conundrum is that I always want a backup body and my GFX-50S, which I love, is a pretty big and chunky backup so does that mean I need to get a second 100S (I don't care for the 50R and sold it) or carry a second system with different batteries and lenses, or get an XT4 with one versatile lens as it shares the same battery but I hate the X-Trans sensor.

That is the conundrum with Fuji - there's a lot of cognitive dissidence in their system.  Every camera has completely different body ergonomics, dial and switch positions, etc, etc, etc and the lens line-up for the GFX isn't complete yet from a landscape photographer's perspective.

E.J. Peiker wrote:L-bracket now available for pre-order from SmallRig - a fairly reputable Chinese manufacturer of support products at much lower prices than the US based companies.  The problem as I see it is that these days, it takes about 6 weeks to get anything you order from a company located in China although they do claim 10 days.  I've ordered bicycle parts and they were shipped the next day and took as much as two months from the time they left the supplier to the time it was delivered:
https://www.smallrig.com/smallrig-l-bra ... -3232.html

At $79 including shipping, I went ahead and ordered one especially since none of the US companies have even committed to supporting the camera as of today (although I suspect they will eventually).

Mark Walrod wrote:Looks like the ship date is still 3/11.  Hopefully, Fuji have enough supply to fill preorders.

lelouarn wrote:What made you love the GFX so much, that you wanted to have it *in addition* to the Sony ? The overlap between the two systems seems quite large, and the quality gain not so huge. And yes, the GFX 100s is sexy (and somehow the Sony more "utilitarian"), so I understand that...