Fujifilm GFX 100 vs Salt Water Teardown: Weather Sealing Could be Better Around the Dials, but IBIS Unit Could Stabilize a Small Child

Fujifilm GFX100 Teardown

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.

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AVAILABLE NOW: Atomos Enables 12-bit 4K ProRes RAW Recording with Fujifilm GFX100 via Firmware Update

The Beta testing is over, and you can finally download the final AtomOS 10.53 firmware update for Atomos Ninja V to allow for 12-bit 4K ProRes RAW recording on the Fujifilm GFX100.

You can download the firmware 10.53 at this page.

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Nauticam NA-GFX100 Underwater Housing for Fujifilm GFX100 for $12,000 – Free Shipping

Nauticam is already offering several underwater housings for Fujifilm mirrorless cameras.

  • Nauticam NA-XH1
  • Nauticam NA-XT2
  • Nauticam NA-XT3
  • Nauticam NA-GFX50S

Now they also released the Nauticam NA-GFX100 underwater housing for Fujifilm GFX 100. You can find it the official Naticam website.

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Fujifilm GFX100 Atomos ProRes RAW Beta Available Now

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We’re super excited to announce that we have released the Ninja V AtomOS v10.53 Pre-Release Beta that will allow

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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.

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Leaving Phase One for Fujifilm GFX100, Hasselblad X1D II vs Fujifilm GFX50R Budget Medium Format Comparison & More

I was once on my Dolomites, when I met a professional landscape photographer, who had a rented Phase One (I posted it on my Instagram here).

We had a brief talk before my hike continued, and I just told him that he should enjoy his Phase One, as this might be one of his last trips with it. A few months from now Fujifilm might drop something that will finally allow him to actually own a 100 megapixel camera.

Now, I don’t know how the story ended. Did he get the Fujifilm GFX100? Well, I wouldn’t be surprised if he did.

For sure, some did, as you can see from the video down below, where a photographer left Phase One for Fujifilm GFX100. And for good reasons: much lighter, much more compact, much cheaper, much faster, much more versatile, still that medium format look and more.

And if the GFX100 is still a bit too high in price, for about 1/3 of the price, you get 1/2 of the megapixel with the Fujifilm GFX50R.

Fujifilm is slowly but surely building up an impressive and absolutely future proof system. A system, that, I am sure, will gain lots of followers in the years to come.

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