Lensrentals made a teardown of a water damaged Fujifilm GFX100 (it was used in an underwater housing for GFX100 and some water went in).
The main criticism:
The outside part of the camera could be better weather sealed. They write:
Did you notice all those weather resisting barriers and gaskets in the teardown? Yeah, me neither. I did notice some wide-open areas around the command dials you could shine a light through, and pour water in if water happened to be around.
That’s interesting, as Fujifilm managers clearly said that one tricky point to weather seal are the areas around the dials, which is why Fujifilm said here they removed some dials on the Fujifilm GFX100, so it’s better weather sealed. Looks like the dials, that remained, could need an additional sealing.
A $10,000 camera should be better weather sealed, period.
But other than that, the construction is top overall notch. Lensrentals writes:
A medium format camera has a big-ass shutter and shutter slap happens. Fuji has advertised a shock-absorbing shutter, but I hadn’t realized they mounted the entire shutter assembly on springs, it’s not mechanically attached to the body at all.
everything in here was as well supported and robust as you could ever hope. The IBIS unit looks like it could stabilize a small child, and certainly is strong enough to support this big sensor.
Make sure to read the full story and check out all images at lensrentals here.
Inspired by an email of a reader, I went back to check which kind of global shutter sensors Sony has currently to offer.
Worth to mention and possibly of interest for Fujifilm shooters, are the following two:
IMX342LQA-C: 31.49 MP APS-C global shutter sensor and max. 35.4 fps – already reported here
IMX661LQA-C: 127 MP Type 3.6″ global shutter sensor and max. 15 fps
Clarifications & Reminders
Now, we know that the Fujifilm X-T4 and the Fujifilm GFX100 use the same sensor, just the one in the GFX100 is about 4 times bigger, hence it has 4 times the megapixel.
We also know that the current Fujifilm GFX sensor is a type 3.4″, hence slightly different than the IMX661LQA-C type 3.6″ listed above.
If we would take the 31 MP APS-C global shutter sensor and make a 3.4″ type of it, we would end up with about 123 megapixel on medium format Fujifilm GFX.
And as a reminder, Sony also released a 43 megapixel stacked APS-C sensor. The same sensor used on the GFX system would result in a 162 MP sensor.
We’re super excited to announce that we have released the Ninja V AtomOS v10.53 Pre-Release Beta that will allow
Fujifilm X GFX North America
GFX100 users to shoot and record in 12-bit 4K ProRes RAW from the Ninja V.
If you are a GFX100 & Ninja V user you can now register to download the pre-release beta by sending your request and details to our Pre-release Beta email address: gfx.rawbeta@atomos.com or visit: https://bit.ly/2POqNjj
For more information about this powerful combination visit the Atomos website: https://bit.ly/30Skamj
As this is a pre-release beta there are known current limitations listed in the accompanying Release Notes that you will receive, the full release is expected in the last week of August where all functions will be available.
Please note this release is for testing only and use for any other purpose is entirely at the users risk. Feedback you provide can help us identify issues and bug fixes for the final release, please check the requirements in the release notes.
waste of space or good idea? small full frame sensor in big G mount
Full Frame Fujifilm?
There are many ways to define what I am going to write about today: a wish, a dream, an idea… or just simply delirium!
A delirium, that was born during a very hot and sleepless summer night, as if somebody would have filled my room with overheating Canon EOS R5 cameras.
So I did pass the extra time my insomnia decided to donate me by thinking at the most fun thing I can think of: gear! ;)
And especially one thought was tormenting me: full frame!
Why?
Well, because, despite Fujifilm being used by tons of professional photographers, despite winning the most prestigious awards and hence despite being proven by reality that you can get any job done perfectly with Fujifilm cameras, I did stumble on yet another influencer’s youtube video, who repeated the usual marketing phrase, that only full frame is really for professional use.
Now, if you take all images that influencer ever shot in his life, he would not reach 1/10th of the beauty of one single Fujifilm image that won the World Press Photo award, but you know, these days having tons of followers makes you more credible in the eyes of people than actually having no followers, but a stunning portfolio and a list of prestigious photography awards.
Hence, despite me being one of those guys, who couldn’t care less about Fujifilm going full frame, I did catch myself thinking at Fujifilm and full frame in my hot sleeping room.
Just very recently, Fujifilm has released a bug fix firmware for the Fujifilm X-T4 ver. 1.03 and Fujifilm GFX ver. 2.01.
All Fujifilm mentioned was a vague:
Fix of a minor bug during a movie shooting.
Well, FujiRumors could not be happy with such a vague definition ;).
So I decided to try to find out what’s behind it, and despite being on my very last days of holiday in South Italy with my wife, I made quick testings and immediacy reported about my findings in this dedicated article.
My findings in short: exposure change is now smoother (not stepping like before), except in high speed modes (like 120 or 240 fps).
Now, I have no time to make a video and edit it, as I am mainly writing from a beach with a beer/seafood pasta/ice cream/etc. in my hand , but luckily other fellow Fujifilm shooters do :).
So, you can find a video made by Andrei, that shows the difference between Fujifilm X-T4 firmware 1.02 and 1.03. He says:
Exposure changes a lot better than before, it’s not changing in steps anymore
he is happy that Fujifilm works on fixing the small problems the X-T4 has, because it is an amazing camera
he shot some clips in 24fps, some in 30fps and slowed down at 24fps in post to see exposure change better
he also shot at 60fps and higher frame rates, but at those frame rates it still does not work smooth [admin note: in my quick testings, I see the stepping still clearly at 100 fps and above]
at 60fps he shows how the exposure still works in steps, but in my eyes (fujirumors), it is actually smooth, then only shortly stops for moment, and then continues to go down smoothly. Much better than before, where you saw fast and hard steps. Maybe a further firmware down the road will also take away that very last pause at 60fps and higher frame rates
he says the exposure still clips when you zoom in and out
a good improvement for people who are vlogging
he hopes next comes face/eye detection improvement and addition of 4:2:2 internal
Well, happy to see Fujifilm finally addressing this issue.
However, I have received some images by a new source (thanks), of another ultra fast upcoming lens for the Fujifilm GFX system, with a maximum aperture of f/1.4. You can see the images above, mounted on the best camera of all time, the Fujifilm GFX50R.
I am trying to get more information about it, but for now, all I can say is:
1.4 lens for GFX system
likely manual focus
it will be a wide-standard lens (wider than the Mitakon)
Curious for more? Then stay tuned on FujiRumors, and I will update you as soon as I can, since I am continuous talk with the source. ;)
Medium Format, super full frame, large sensor… there are many ways that Fujifilm called its GFX line-up, and now they seem to stick with the “large format” definition.
I personally find there was nothing wrong with medium format. The Pentax 645 was called “medium format” for years, the Hasselblad X1D, too, and nobody ever complaint about that.
It’s just when Fujifilm joined the sensor size 70% larger than full frame, that suddenly some youtubers found the definition “medium format” no longer appropriate. Really, sometimes it feels like if Fujifilm does it, it must be bad.
And now to the video.
Fujifilm published a video, where they repeat, that the sensor is 70% larger than full frame, and they explain why they call it “large format”.
The video is titled “Understanding Fujifilm GFX Large Sensor Imaging“. You can find it down below and see also a summary.