Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Here I will post my experience with the 50MP GFX MF Digital camera.
I wont touch tech specs. Just how it works for me.
First it weighs .4 lb more than the Sony A7R and similarly can take almost any lens you throw at it with a $30 to $98 adapter for MF and $350-$550 for various electronic adapters that allow any native AF, aperture control and stabilization of the dapted lens.
I just have one lens, as the package broke my bank account at just clear of $8,000, (a special sale price at dealers that end December 31 2017, but B&H is still allowing apparently.
It fits in the hand well, the camera focuses very fast and there's a tiny paddle to move the focus point or one can use the touch screen.
I added a little fuji flash which works for casual shoots of several people together. I aklso have a more powerful Speedlight style Godox flash that either mounts on the camera or is fired by a compact trigger on the camera iinstead.
As the synch speed is just 1/125 sec, the advantage of Godoz is that they worked with Fuji to bring HSS so that we do not have that 1/125 limit.
Still I will test the camera on. my archaic but well tuned Lumedyne flash system and I will try out that 1/125 second allowable synch speed and see how it turns out.
I started, without looking at the manual. Thr camera was set to jpg and sRGB. That baffled me! When I went to correct it, I discovered that there was no Prophet RGB, just Adobe RGB 1998. So I set for that.
I turned out that not all my shots were in focus. could be that I didnt move the focus point over the target and when one is set to 50 mm equivalent of 35 mm camera, wide open, that can lead to a thin focal plane.
I have to celebrate my new Fuji GFX with its 32 to 64mm zoom with the baby size Medium Format sensor. I had to visit Holmby Park in the late morning to see how it handled with the enormous dynamic range of the shade and brightness.
I stitched 32 overlapping shots, handheld in Autopano Giga and the stitching went easilly. This could print at 300 dpi about 54" x 36".
Asher Kelman: Holmby Park Tranquility
January 2018
Fuji GFX 32-64 f4.0
Handheld 32 overlapping shots
Stitched in Autopnao Giga
This one is also added to my Holmby Park Collection.
Asher
I wont touch tech specs. Just how it works for me.
First it weighs .4 lb more than the Sony A7R and similarly can take almost any lens you throw at it with a $30 to $98 adapter for MF and $350-$550 for various electronic adapters that allow any native AF, aperture control and stabilization of the dapted lens.
I just have one lens, as the package broke my bank account at just clear of $8,000, (a special sale price at dealers that end December 31 2017, but B&H is still allowing apparently.
It fits in the hand well, the camera focuses very fast and there's a tiny paddle to move the focus point or one can use the touch screen.
I added a little fuji flash which works for casual shoots of several people together. I aklso have a more powerful Speedlight style Godox flash that either mounts on the camera or is fired by a compact trigger on the camera iinstead.
As the synch speed is just 1/125 sec, the advantage of Godoz is that they worked with Fuji to bring HSS so that we do not have that 1/125 limit.
Still I will test the camera on. my archaic but well tuned Lumedyne flash system and I will try out that 1/125 second allowable synch speed and see how it turns out.
I started, without looking at the manual. Thr camera was set to jpg and sRGB. That baffled me! When I went to correct it, I discovered that there was no Prophet RGB, just Adobe RGB 1998. So I set for that.
I turned out that not all my shots were in focus. could be that I didnt move the focus point over the target and when one is set to 50 mm equivalent of 35 mm camera, wide open, that can lead to a thin focal plane.
I have to celebrate my new Fuji GFX with its 32 to 64mm zoom with the baby size Medium Format sensor. I had to visit Holmby Park in the late morning to see how it handled with the enormous dynamic range of the shade and brightness.
I stitched 32 overlapping shots, handheld in Autopano Giga and the stitching went easilly. This could print at 300 dpi about 54" x 36".
Asher Kelman: Holmby Park Tranquility
January 2018
Fuji GFX 32-64 f4.0
Handheld 32 overlapping shots
Stitched in Autopnao Giga
This one is also added to my Holmby Park Collection.
Asher
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