I noted this comment in your 50S review: “I am planning to start evaluating all GF lenses through detailed reviews, so if you also decide to invest in the GFX system, you will probably be enjoying all the content that’s coming up.”
Just wanted to express interest in those lens reviews! I haven’t seen any posted yet, but will definitely be keeping my eye out.
The 100S, as well as the great used prices on the 50S and 50R right now, has made this system extremely interesting for those of us shooting full-frame who have admired what Fuji’s been doing the last few years in both ASP-C and medium format and aren’t necessarily shooting fast action.
Benjamin Kanarek
December 14, 2020 10:52 am
I own 2 x GFX50S’s and have used it for VOGUE, ELLE, etc… and I love the look feel and ergonomics of the camera. Form follows function. I have tried the Blad and there is just no contest. Even more so with the newest firmware update for the GFX, it still shines and when you know what the shoot needs, it is perfect for me. Dead on focus accuracy, very quick for a MF and the output is exceptional.
great review, please can you comment the pentax 645z as the price has come way down and I’m going to use 67 glass on it compared to the fujis, thank you Nasim, your reviews are by far the best around.
Alex, yes, the GFX 50R review will be posted within the next 2 weeks.
bgavin
April 24, 2018 11:08 am
Thanks for the usual comprehensive article. Much appreciated.
Nikon is making a lot of noise about their upcoming mirrorless. Yawn.
Even if Nikon went to 50mp, and a larger sensor, it would be the same as the GFX. Today, the Nikon is vaporware, where the GFX is available, and moved past the v1.0 blues.
I don’t need fast lenses. My shooting is done at f/5.6 to f/8 for max resolution and contrast. I don’t need fast autofocus.
What I DO need is exceptional quality at ISO 6400 for hand work. I shot 6×7 and 4×5 film for decades, and appreciate the quality. In digital, I appreciate max sensor and pixels for making quality crops as needed. I do appreciate the EFCS in both my D810 and the GFX 50S.
If the GFX sensor has further improvement over 50mp in the next gen, I would be seriously interested.
Edmund Waltuch
January 6, 2018 11:13 am
Thank you very much for this comprehensive and clearly understandable review even for people like me who are new in the world of digital photography. I am anxiously awaiting your lens review including the new ones, you promised. I will have to limit myself to one or at the most two lenses. I like portrait but other fields should be possible as well. Therefore your lens review would be very important for many people like me with a tight budget, I would also appreciate to learn more from the mentioned bellows I have not heard of elsewhere. If you happen to use adapters for view cameras and different adapters (there are many competing by now even with tilt and shift) for other non-Fuji lenses, please post that very useful information as well. Again thank you very much and have a good year 2018!
Edmund Waltuch
January 6, 2018 11:07 am
Thank you very much for this comprehensive and clearly understandable review even for people like me who are new in the world of digital photography. I am anxiously awaiting your lens review including the new ones, you promised. I would also appreciate to learn more from the mentioned bellows I have not heard of elsewhere. If you happen to use adapters for view cameras and different adapters (there are many competing by now even with tilt and shift) for other non-Fuji lenses, please post that very useful information as well. Again thank you very much and have a good year 2018!
Dirk B
January 1, 2018 5:40 am
What Fujifilm has achieved in only +6 years, is amazing. The GFX50S is the best example of this. And maybe compared to the high resolution Canon & Nikon’s you could conclude from this review by the samples shown that there’s not so much real benefit in purchasing this camera vs the FF competition. But I fully disagree – it’s more a ‘I don’t know what’ kind of feeling, but the GFX is delivering with his native glass pictures OOC that are nothing less than breathtaking, very accurate colours and showing a detail/sharpness that is from another world – this is really not even close to what any DSLR will provide you! Just disappointing that the major DSLR-manufacturers are capable to upgrade their camera’s to a very high standard, but it are the third party lens companies that let them really shine: Zeiss Otus, Sigma Art. From my own experience quite a bit of the native Nikkors really show issues in lens curvature, CA wide open, corner performance and even in true resolved detail/resolution on the D8X0 range. Some primes like the 50mm’s are a real shame on a D800/810. Diffraction start taking its toll around F8.0 (the GFX doesn’t seem to suffer from this problem). Due to the GFX’s firmware 2.0 the AF performance is excellent, again something that only Fujifilm is doing all the time in new firmware releases – keeping their systems up to date while providing new, better features. Another giant step forward is Fujifilm’s HSS support in both the X-series and GFX.
paul c
October 30, 2017 6:53 pm
i read your enjoyable review for curiosity and information ,,, and niot because im i n the market for small medium format
i enjoy my xpro2 xe2 pen f and a compliment of excellent native panasonic olympus and fuji x lenses and also a lot of nikon afd and ais 35mm lenses with a metabones speedbooster adapter and hollow adapters both for fuji x and m43
that said thsi 1441 sq mm sensor fuji camera looks like an amazing performer with strong performance throughout
thanks for an enjoyable article
sceptical1
August 16, 2017 7:32 pm
Hi Nasim, As always, a nice review. I read this mainly to see what it offered in terms of image quality and it certainly looks very high. Despite that, I have no need for this type of camera and feel it would be lost on so many photographers. I am so happy with the image quality of my APC and even 4/3 cameras that I see little difference or need for the type of photography I mainly do. AF speed and tracking is so much more important. I can imagine that for landscapes and perhaps portraits the quality difference is enough to entice some of those photographers (like you), but the audience is very narrow. Note that this is no different then the audience for cameras like the D5, 1DX MkII and Sony A9. As they say, horses for courses.
I noted this comment in your 50S review: “I am planning to start evaluating all GF lenses through detailed reviews, so if you also decide to invest in the GFX system, you will probably be enjoying all the content that’s coming up.”
Just wanted to express interest in those lens reviews! I haven’t seen any posted yet, but will definitely be keeping my eye out.
The 100S, as well as the great used prices on the 50S and 50R right now, has made this system extremely interesting for those of us shooting full-frame who have admired what Fuji’s been doing the last few years in both ASP-C and medium format and aren’t necessarily shooting fast action.
I own 2 x GFX50S’s and have used it for VOGUE, ELLE, etc… and I love the look feel and ergonomics of the camera. Form follows function. I have tried the Blad and there is just no contest. Even more so with the newest firmware update for the GFX, it still shines and when you know what the shoot needs, it is perfect for me. Dead on focus accuracy, very quick for a MF and the output is exceptional.
You may see some samples here:
thebkmag.com/2020/…n-kanarek/
and
thebkmag.com/2020/…n-kanarek/
and here:
thebkmag.com/2019/…n-kanarek/
great review, please can you comment the pentax 645z as the price has come way down and I’m going to use 67 glass on it compared to the fujis, thank you Nasim, your reviews are by far the best around.
Nassim:
Will you do a review of the Fuji GFX50R?
BTW, Great review and beautiful pictures to support it.
Alex, yes, the GFX 50R review will be posted within the next 2 weeks.
Thanks for the usual comprehensive article. Much appreciated.
Nikon is making a lot of noise about their upcoming mirrorless.
Yawn.
Even if Nikon went to 50mp, and a larger sensor, it would be the same as the GFX.
Today, the Nikon is vaporware, where the GFX is available, and moved past the v1.0 blues.
I don’t need fast lenses.
My shooting is done at f/5.6 to f/8 for max resolution and contrast.
I don’t need fast autofocus.
What I DO need is exceptional quality at ISO 6400 for hand work.
I shot 6×7 and 4×5 film for decades, and appreciate the quality.
In digital, I appreciate max sensor and pixels for making quality crops as needed.
I do appreciate the EFCS in both my D810 and the GFX 50S.
If the GFX sensor has further improvement over 50mp in the next gen, I would be seriously interested.
Thank you very much for this comprehensive and clearly understandable review even for people like me who are new in the world of digital photography.
I am anxiously awaiting your lens review including the new ones, you promised. I will have to limit myself to one or at the most two lenses. I like portrait but other fields should be possible as well. Therefore your lens review would be very important for many people like me with a tight budget,
I would also appreciate to learn more from the mentioned bellows I have not heard of elsewhere.
If you happen to use adapters for view cameras and different adapters (there are many competing by now even with tilt and shift) for other non-Fuji lenses, please post that very useful information as well.
Again thank you very much and have a good year 2018!
Thank you very much for this comprehensive and clearly understandable review even for people like me who are new in the world of digital photography.
I am anxiously awaiting your lens review including the new ones, you promised.
I would also appreciate to learn more from the mentioned bellows I have not heard of elsewhere.
If you happen to use adapters for view cameras and different adapters (there are many competing by now even with tilt and shift) for other non-Fuji lenses, please post that very useful information as well.
Again thank you very much and have a good year 2018!
What Fujifilm has achieved in only +6 years, is amazing. The GFX50S is the best example of this. And maybe compared to the high resolution Canon & Nikon’s you could conclude from this review by the samples shown that there’s not so much real benefit in purchasing this camera vs the FF competition. But I fully disagree – it’s more a ‘I don’t know what’ kind of feeling, but the GFX is delivering with his native glass pictures OOC that are nothing less than breathtaking, very accurate colours and showing a detail/sharpness that is from another world – this is really not even close to what any DSLR will provide you! Just disappointing that the major DSLR-manufacturers are capable to upgrade their camera’s to a very high standard, but it are the third party lens companies that let them really shine: Zeiss Otus, Sigma Art. From my own experience quite a bit of the native Nikkors really show issues in lens curvature, CA wide open, corner performance and even in true resolved detail/resolution on the D8X0 range. Some primes like the 50mm’s are a real shame on a D800/810. Diffraction start taking its toll around F8.0 (the GFX doesn’t seem to suffer from this problem). Due to the GFX’s firmware 2.0 the AF performance is excellent, again something that only Fujifilm is doing all the time in new firmware releases – keeping their systems up to date while providing new, better features. Another giant step forward is Fujifilm’s HSS support in both the X-series and GFX.
i read your enjoyable review for curiosity and information ,,, and niot because im i n the market for small medium format
i enjoy my xpro2 xe2 pen f and a compliment of excellent native panasonic olympus and fuji x lenses and also a lot of nikon afd and ais 35mm lenses
with a metabones speedbooster adapter and hollow adapters both for fuji x and m43
that said thsi 1441 sq mm sensor fuji camera looks like an amazing performer with strong performance throughout
thanks for an enjoyable article
Hi Nasim,
As always, a nice review. I read this mainly to see what it offered in terms of image quality and it certainly looks very high. Despite that, I have no need for this type of camera and feel it would be lost on so many photographers. I am so happy with the image quality of my APC and even 4/3 cameras that I see little difference or need for the type of photography I mainly do. AF speed and tracking is so much more important. I can imagine that for landscapes and perhaps portraits the quality difference is enough to entice some of those photographers (like you), but the audience is very narrow. Note that this is no different then the audience for cameras like the D5, 1DX MkII and Sony A9. As they say, horses for courses.