GFX Buzz

If you are curious about the GFX, well, then I can’t recommend you enough to join us at the Fujifilm GFX facebook group, where 5,700+ GFX fans are having great discussions about Fuji’s new system and GFX beta testers continue to share their images, impressions and interact with the whole community.

I’ll pick out a few more GFX tidbits shared at the group… and let’s start with:

GFX Dynamic Range (JPEG)

I’ve already shared yesterday Keith’s first impressions & image samples at clubsnap. Keith is also interacting and answering the questions of the GFX facebook group in his GFX post here. Amongst the others, he shows how much details you can recover from an underexposed Super-Fine JPEG with the GFX.

GFX facebook group members can see the underexposed image here, and the recovered image here.

GFX Portrait Shot with 120mm

GFX with 120mm at the German site fineartprinter (translation) – Go to the finartprinter to see the crop

First Pictures and Impressions of the GFX with 120mm at the German site fineartprinter (translation) – Via GFX Facebook Group here. A short summary of his findings:

• Sharpness is “convincing“
• the lack of mirror (and hence less camera shakes) allows to achieve sharper handheld pictures at slower shutter speeds. He easly shot perfectly sharp images with the 63mm at 1/80 of a second
• impressive 69,9 x 52,43 cm printings at a 300 dpi resolution and 87,38 x 65,5 cm at 240 dpi
• One Image + Crop shared at fineartprinter (translation)

I would be careful with judging the sharpening for now, since it’s uploaded for the web. However, it can give an idea of how sharp the images are with the GFX, and I especially love the soft out of focus transition.

GFX Bokeh & 3D Pop

Fujifilm GFX – GF63mm: Fine JPEG, and at the smallest resolution on the GFX (4000×3000, 12 Megapixel) – shared by Keith at the GFX facebook group.

And more

Mr. Haruki GFX first impressions at the Japanese site dc.watch (translation)

WORKSHOP

• Fujifilm “X” Photographers Travel & Nature Summits at fujifilmxphotosummits with 3 ½ days of presentations, talks etc. by 4 Fuji “X” Photographers + technical and corporate from the FUJIFILM headquarters in New York. For the workshops check out fujixphotoworkshops
• Go To New Zealand (or Guernsey) to Learn How To Master Your Fujifilm Camera at Rico’s Ultimate X-Secrets Workshops 2017. More here.

Cover Stories

GFX + GF 32-64 + GF 63 + X70 fit Billingham Hadly Small – via Ivan Joshua Loh at GFX Facebook Group

• Fujifilm XF56mmF1.2 Disassembly at Andrew’s Flickr
• Olympus OM-D E-M1 II vs. Fujifilm X-T2 – The complete comparison at mirrorlesscomparison
• X-Trans: The Promise and the Problem at medium (NOTE: I share this article, because it is creating quite a buzz. Experienced X-shooters will know to take it with a grain of salt. The waxy skin tones problem, for example, is no issue at all in RAW and significantly reduced with X-TransIII. Moreover, Iridient has proven to be superior with the demoisaicing than Darktable (used in this review). X-TransIII now also gives better results overall, due to the reduced distance between the repeating RGB patterns, reducing certain types of artifacts and improving the results with Adobe. Also, unlike stated in the review, Fujifilm NEVER said that X-Trans “eliminates” moiree, they say it “reduces” it.)

Fujifilm GFX
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• Many GFX Sample Images, first looks and hands-on reports at the Fujifilm GFX Facbeook group
• XOXO X-Series (includes samples taken with GFX + 120mm) at ivanjoshualoh
• Fujifilm GFX 50S – erster Praxistest mit 100-%-Crops at d-pixx (translation)
• Various Fujifilm GFX images at 500px

Fujifilm 100F
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• Fujifilm X100F Review : Beauty And A Beast at derekclarkphotography
• Some Thoughts on Fujifilm’s new X100F and X-T20, and whether to upgrade at henrysmithscottage
• X100F review in the works at cameralabs

Fujifilm X-T20
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• Vlogging Test with Fujifilm X-T20 at bigheadtaco youtube
• Early Review at techradar
• X-T20 review in the works at cameralabs

Fujifilm X-T2