Kai Wong Fujifilm GFX100 Hands On Review: “You Do Get Quite a Bit for Your Money”
Fujifilm GFX100
Kai Wong went hands on with the Fujifilm GFX100. Here is what he thinks about it:
- medium format is ment for tripod still subject shooting, but not with a body like the Fujifilm GFX100
- feels good in the hands
- like a Canon 1DXII in terms of size and weight, but the GFX100 has a much bigger sensor inside [and I’d also IBIS]
- it functions like an oversized Fujifilm X, at least almost. No D-Pad, no retro dials
- skin smoothing effect smooths out ever imperfection. Works only for the JPEGs
- autofocus is pretty damn good. Same AF algorithm of X-T3, but lenses have bigger glass to shift, hence not as fast AF as X-T3
- Fujifilm X-T3 and X-T30 eye-AF is right up there with Sony
- Kai’s GFX100 struggled to detect faces, but on other GFX100 samples face and eye detection worked well
- Eye AF is accurate and fast enough, although feels a little bit slower than on Fujifilm X-T3
- the GFX100 sensor is 4 times bigger than the sensor on the X-T3
- tracking mostly does a good job, although, understandably, sometimes it doesn’t shift the glass in time when the subject is moving at decent pace towards you
- EVF is sooo good
- shutter really well dampened (shock absorber), and you need it, with medium format 102 MP
- nice soft shutter button, like on Fujifilm X-H1
- using IBIS, works easily down to 1/125
- no fancy dials, and Kai missed them, since turning a dial is easier and quicker than pressing a button and looking at the LCD
- not too many negatives
- electronic shutter means bad rolling shutter, but no surprise with a big sensor like that, and probably you are not going to use electronic shutter on the GFX100
- works well enough on the streets, but not the obvious choice for street photography
- a camera for landscapers, who need more resolution and more details
- you can push it 4 stops and still get nice clean, crisp images
- nobody buys the GFX100 for video, but it deserves credit since Fujifilm has done video well on the GFX100
- uses 4K with no crop. Footage looks great. AF works great. Rolling shutter contained and video is still usable
- IBIS works superbly to shoot stable video
- You do get quite a bit for your money
- Props to Fujifilm and well done to all those lucky buggers that can afford one
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