Hi Leigh, good to see your enthusiasm for the GFX. To answer your call out, I have been using full frame lenses on my 50R for over a year. Utilising the in body 35mm crop they are a good alternative. Using the full sensor, I have mixed results with the amount of vignetting, depending on the lens. BTW the TTArtisan 100mm f2.8 lens covers the full sensor with no issues, so that's worth trying for very low cost. Cheers
Having in-body crop is Godlike. Pentaxians faced this issue en masse when the full-frame K-1 came into a hitherto APS-C ecosystem, and the race was on to determine exactly which APS-C lenses would cover the entirety of the full-frame sensor (the answer was: some of them, whose element design was adapted from previous full-frame lenses). The K-1 does have a control knob to allow forced APS-C, which gave one about a 15MP sensor (out of 36), but naturally some of us wanted to have their APS-C cake and eat it too. It also helps that Pentax maintains physical compatibility with all of its K mount lenses, so there was a huge range of lenses from the film era that one could turn to, a couple of which are still in production. However, the K-1 also has a _forced full-frame_ mode, and it became very clear that certain APS-C lenses that do NOT cover the full frame still provide a reach well beyond the central APS-C area that is amenable to editing in post to remove the black areas. So the question must be put: can you pull the same stunt with a GFX and a full-frame lens, getting more out of it than the full-frame sensor would?
Yes many EF lenses cover the whole MF sensor ( most Sigma Art, for example the 50, 85 &105 turn into 39mm, 67mm & 83mm f/1.1 ) and work perfectly without any vignetting ( profiles correction included with the fringer pro adapter )
Leveraging existing equipment appeals to many of us. Sometimes we get results that aren't available with conventional combinations. In diving into the large format world, I've had to do a lot of DIY work to adapt various pieces of equipment to each other. It's fun and interesting, and can save money while learning. Thanks for creating this video!
Not crazy at all. You've identified an archetype of photographer and collector that definitely exist...as I am one of them. Though I started doing this via the Hasselblad system. Great video!
Thank you for the information. I have a GFX 50S II and several lenses designed for the system, but I would like to find some telephoto zoom options. It makes sense to fill in the zoom lens gaps with something from Canon, Nikon, or Sigma, if possible. Having "only" 60 MP doesn't seem like much of a limitation.
Great video, Leigh! I would probably opt to use old school film medium format lenses. That way you can cover the full sensor area and save $ too. But if you have 100MP and FF lenses lying around…why not!
I bought a Hassel X2D a year ago. I have been using it with 40 years old Leica R 80mm Summilux, APO 180mm with outstanding results. The color, contrast, and resolution are outstanding. I also use an R Summicron 35mm. Similar results as the longer lenses except vignette at the corner beyond the 35mm límites (It becomes a 28mm on medium format. I have unobstructed images up to 35mm but with corner vignette beyond 35mm). Same excellent results with the 28mm Elmarit with noticeable vignetting beyond 28mm. I also have a Sony a7r4a with the new Voigtlander APO 35mm, 65mm, and 110mm. These lenses are great but the X2D with the antique Leica lenses beats the a7r4a hands down for stationary subjects or slow moving subjects. I bought an autofocus XCD 135mm with the 1.7 extender. I found using the Leica R APO yields every bit fantastic results as the XCD. In fact I prefer the smaller seize of the 40 years old Leica R APO.
Id love to see specific examples with different lenses on the medium format sensor without cropping. I’d definitely want to use the full sensor size and crop in post, deciding on a vertical or horizontal crop after the fact.
Hello again Ma'am Just finished reviewing your latest video on full frame lens mounted to medium format cameras ! I am really excited to when you get down to the Nitty gritty , and we see the images !! Yes , I am a big believer in this concept of adopting a full frame lens to not only medium format but aps-c , as well ! Again , I am looking forward to seeing your next video tutorial on this subject ! You at least for . Keep me inspired !!! Thank you !
Thank you Leigh & Raymond, yet another excellent video!! And we are thinking the same thing. I have some Nikon Ai-s lenses (for my FM3a) and Voigtlander M-Mount that would work perfectly in this application. Also, as you said, this would help build out the system while I am saving funds to get GFX lenses in the future. Yes, I see it as a great way to use full frame lenses to help step into medium format. Comment: I sure wish the GFX had a D-Pad. Lastly, is this your last (for now) GFX video? And we would like to hear the conclusion; did you purchase one? Thanks again (from Tucson)!!
I am fortunate to be able to afford the Fujifilm GFX 100II and several lenses. One of my old Nikkor lenses I would like to try is a 28mm PC shift lens. Due to its larger image circle for perspective correction, it should be able to cover the 44x33mm medium-format sensor of the GFX camera without vignetting. Thank you for the video!
GFX cameras are amazing in image quality that is unmatched by Full frame. I'll use the GFX lenses mainly for landscape and some indoor and outdoor photoshoots if I want a more studio, magazine look. But for more creative portraits and street photography, i'll use Full frame vintage lenses.
minoltas are great to adapt to the gfx- the tiny 45mm f2 covers beautifully the sensor and the 58mm f1,2 renders great. I now mainly use adapted lenses on my gfx, the 32-64 stays unused.
I have GFX system, a fuji zoom lens 45-100mm and 110mm F2, I may get the ultra wide zoom 2-0-35mm F4. But I have tried a large number of EF mount lenses with Fringer adapters. I have a large collection of Sigma ART HSM series EF mount prime lenses. I have 40mm, 50mm., 85mm, 105mm and 135mm, I also use Canon 200mm F2.8, 300 F4.0, Fringer adapter has aperture control ring and provide good autofocus for these lenses. Sigma is probably the most popular series to adapt to GFX system because most of its prime lenses do cover the sensor. I have also used Nkon F mount lenses on GFX like the vintage 105mm F2.5 and Voitlander 58mm f1.4, M mount like TT Artisan 50mm F0.95, Light lens lab elcan 50mm F2, M42 mount Helios 58mm F2 (that cover the full sensor) and Yashica 50mm F2.0
I‘m getting good results with my Voigtlander 50/1.2 - when sticking to the square format. And instead of the extremely expensive 30mm TS lens I‘m using a 45/2.8 Pentax 67 lens with a shift adapter.
Canon EF lenses are often great on Fujifilm medium format. I particularly like the 40mm f2.8, the 16-35mm F4 IS, and 100-400mm ii. I use the Fringer adapter..
Thanks for the excellent video! FYI, I got a Nikon to Gfx adapter for my GFX 50sii. I tried out various Nikkor lenses and had fun. One lens that I still use today: Nikkor 28mm PC f3.5. This one does not vignette in GFX mode and has about 5mm of usable shift with no vignetting. For the full 11mm of shift, I can go to 35mm mode and still have about 30mp out of the 50 in my camera. Some benefits: o not expensive; I paid $330 for my very good copy o use as a regular lens (without shift) yields an equivalent ff view of about 23mm. A lot less $ than the 23mm Fuji prime. o you can use it as a shift lens instead of the very pricey new Fuji tilt-shift lens. o the images I have obtained are very good
The market competition for the optics in the 35mm segment left large format optics out-of-date forty years ago. Newer large format lenses are improved, but suffer from the same lack of market driven innovation -- as do modern larger sized image sensors. The Americans (Kodak) introduced medium format digital image sensor backs in the 1990's. The general question has always been can you achieve large sensor results from a smaller sensor. We're still marching toward that.
Leigh, M-mount on the X2D produces an interesting look. I love filling out the X2D kit with those lenses. But, they actually feel heavier than the new V lenses. And I give up auto-focus. Of course, manual focus is easy with magnification. And IBIS is nice. So no complaints. But I would say the X2D with native lens is likely lighter. Thanks for the video and thought provoking content.
Fringer adapters are the best from my experience in adapting EF and F lenses. They do extensive testing and release timely firmware upgrades. In fact, I just received a note from them today about their latest firmware updates. Also, they publish a list of supported lenses on their website.😊
What atime to be alive, i am doing the opposite to you i'm a macro shooter and recently bought a view camera system, and i am filling out my lens collection with vintage MF macro lenses trying to take advantage of a larger image circle in the MF lenses to broaden the covage of a the shallow depth of field, its proving to be an interesing experiment , so having done that at the back of my mind there is a thought to get an MF camera since they are only 0.7x larger than FF, where as true MF is so much larger. its a rabbit hole with no end, and i have found this series of MF videos really informative so thank you
I'm using my ultrawide 10-18 apsc lens on my full frame camera for event work every week. Cause my tokina 16-28 is really heaaaaavvvyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, i use it only for architecture photography when I'm using tripod
I only recently learned that 35mm SLR lenses would work on digital medium format cameras with little vignetting. I'm already using my Canon FD lenses on my Fuji X-T2, so I would definitely use them on a GFX if I decided to take that route. There is an FD to GFX adapter, and it has the advantage of being much shorter than the FD to X-mount adapter so the lens doesn't stick out so far from the camera body.
The so-called “full frame” lenses only stand a chance of working on the Fuji bodies because they don’t use full-frame 645 sensors, and can’t use them because of the lens mount. A real full frame 645 would be something to have but currently only exists in Hasselblad or Phase One bodies.
@@javaman4584 Full frame 645 means a sensor the same size as a 645 negative. I know people use “full frame” as meaning only a 24x36mm sensor, but it’s really applicable to all formats. Of course, nobody makes a 6x7 sensor yet AFAIK, or even anything close to that, so it’s academic for anything other than 35mm or 645 formats.
Ιf i may add...there is a wealth of film era medium format lenses out there that can fit the Fuji with adapters. And because the Fuji "medium format" is smaller than film medium formats (even the 6X4.5), you are not using the edge of the lens film covering area...thus getting the best optical quality the lens can produce.
I think Nikon will soon bring out a medium Format camera (MFC). As the Zf and Zfc cameras show, Nikon is not shy about competing head to head with FujiFilm. As the FTZ adapter shows, many lenses can be adapted to a new format camera and I think Nikon will adapt their Z mount lenses to a MFC. So you just need to have an adapter to allow the light cone enough travel and expansion to cover the sensor. The great success of Z mount was the FTZ adapter allowing people to still use their old glass 😅and I think Nikon will do the same with their new MFC, I.E. ZTMF. Cheers
I love Fuji but I don’t get the GFX System at all. After viewing so many reviews (that are either clearly sponsored or neutral) i don’t see any reason to prefer it over any of the leading Fullframe options / maybe except loving an expensive niche. It’s clearly behind in terms of autofocus speed and rolling shutter performance or totally dependent on other sensor producing companies (hello Sony). I would actually question the long term existence of the GFX system since there is no way that Fuji is being profitable with this line. Maybe Fuji needs it to be alive for marketing reasons, since the gfx is a pro line. Maybe being a crop only company is negative for the perception of the brand - a lot of maybes but I’m 100% convinced that my money is better spend on other systems. (I love Fuji though)
IMHO full frame lenses on the GFX are a compromise and fun to play - if you care about full frame lenses, I don't see the GFX as a 'one and done' platform, and there is simply no upside besides 'I do because I can': Cropping down to 60MP results in the same total resolution and pixel pitch (3.76 micron) as current generation full frame cameras. The images will be identical in terms of 'full frame look' (no 'digital medium format' upside) - why carry the heavy Fuji around for that? With M mount lenses, you don't get the optimized Leica sensor (micro lenses, sensor stack depth, lens profiles) - arguably not the best idea to put a lens on the GFX when the cost of the lens exceeds that of the body, and you don't get to use it at its full potential?
Doesn’t cropping to 35mm defeat the purpose of a medium format sensor? Why not just se a full frame body with a lot of MPs? Recently tried the GFX100S &S2 and didn’t enjoy the experience. The camera and lenses were large and heavy. Not unexpected. The write time to the card was slow. Annoying but not unexpected. This is simply the wrong tool for what I do. I can see using these tools for a portrait shoot or landscape. Mask On Nurse Marty (Ret)
This seems like a very expensive way to get the same results as a full frame system, but with less convenience and practicality. You get all of the disadvantages of medium format bodies (like the slow focus system, and in the case of adapting lenses, no auto focus at all) with none of the advantages of the larger sensor or increased resolution. Worst of both worlds in my opinion.
Does the bit depth go down if you use the FF mode in GFX? If not, that could be one possible benefit, acknowledging the drawbacks you listed. But yeah, it seems the main reason would be to try to find a FF lens that actually covers the GFX image circle and shoot the full 100MP sensor
You’re not getting the same results as on a FF system because you are taking advantage of the medium format sensor and .79x crop factor. Thus, I like the flexibility of using old vintage lenses on my GFX to increase it’s fun factor. I can get some wild effects out of some of the older lenses that I can’t reproduce on my FF camera. When you want more pristine images you can use a native GF lens or, in my case, use my stellar Mamiya medium format lenses on the GFX body. Plus, my Fringer EF-GF adapter does a very decent job of auto-focusing my older EF lenses.
50R owner here, I now own 21 vintage lenses because of this camera and having a totally different photographic experience to my Nikon D850. I take both on shoots. Originally I thought I would sell the D850, but found some areas where the GFX struggled, focus peaking is not great in very sunny conditions, and AF came to the rescue with the Nikon. However, the fun and unique images I've shot with the GFX+vintage glass makes it a blast. Some models requested i bring my Voitlander Norton 50 1.2 because of how complementary it was for portrait and fashion. I don't use the 35mm crop too often unless the particular lens vignettes heavily. Software can help in the corners in post and most of my glass gives great results.
Hi Leigh, good to see your enthusiasm for the GFX. To answer your call out, I have been using full frame lenses on my 50R for over a year. Utilising the in body 35mm crop they are a good alternative. Using the full sensor, I have mixed results with the amount of vignetting, depending on the lens. BTW the TTArtisan 100mm f2.8 lens covers the full sensor with no issues, so that's worth trying for very low cost. Cheers
Having in-body crop is Godlike.
Pentaxians faced this issue en masse when the full-frame K-1 came into a hitherto APS-C ecosystem, and the race was on to determine exactly which APS-C lenses would cover the entirety of the full-frame sensor (the answer was: some of them, whose element design was adapted from previous full-frame lenses). The K-1 does have a control knob to allow forced APS-C, which gave one about a 15MP sensor (out of 36), but naturally some of us wanted to have their APS-C cake and eat it too. It also helps that Pentax maintains physical compatibility with all of its K mount lenses, so there was a huge range of lenses from the film era that one could turn to, a couple of which are still in production.
However, the K-1 also has a _forced full-frame_ mode, and it became very clear that certain APS-C lenses that do NOT cover the full frame still provide a reach well beyond the central APS-C area that is amenable to editing in post to remove the black areas. So the question must be put: can you pull the same stunt with a GFX and a full-frame lens, getting more out of it than the full-frame sensor would?
Yes many EF lenses cover the whole MF sensor ( most Sigma Art, for example the 50, 85 &105 turn into 39mm, 67mm & 83mm f/1.1 ) and work perfectly without any vignetting ( profiles correction included with the fringer pro adapter )
Leveraging existing equipment appeals to many of us. Sometimes we get results that aren't available with conventional combinations. In diving into the large format world, I've had to do a lot of DIY work to adapt various pieces of equipment to each other. It's fun and interesting, and can save money while learning. Thanks for creating this video!
Not crazy at all. You've identified an archetype of photographer and collector that definitely exist...as I am one of them. Though I started doing this via the Hasselblad system. Great video!
Thank you for the information. I have a GFX 50S II and several lenses designed for the system, but I would like to find some telephoto zoom options. It makes sense to fill in the zoom lens gaps with something from Canon, Nikon, or Sigma, if possible. Having "only" 60 MP doesn't seem like much of a limitation.
Great video, Leigh!
I would probably opt to use old school film medium format lenses. That way you can cover the full sensor area and save $ too.
But if you have 100MP and FF lenses lying around…why not!
I bought a Hassel X2D a year ago. I have been using it with 40 years old Leica R 80mm Summilux, APO 180mm with outstanding results. The color, contrast, and resolution are outstanding.
I also use an R Summicron 35mm. Similar results as the longer lenses except vignette at the corner beyond the 35mm límites (It becomes a 28mm on medium format. I have unobstructed images up to 35mm but with corner vignette beyond 35mm).
Same excellent results with the 28mm Elmarit with noticeable vignetting beyond 28mm.
I also have a Sony a7r4a with the new Voigtlander APO 35mm, 65mm, and 110mm. These lenses are great but the X2D with the antique Leica lenses beats the a7r4a hands down for stationary subjects or slow moving subjects.
I bought an autofocus XCD 135mm with the 1.7 extender. I found using the Leica R APO yields every bit fantastic results as the XCD. In fact I prefer the smaller seize of the 40 years old Leica R APO.
Id love to see specific examples with different lenses on the medium format sensor without cropping. I’d definitely want to use the full sensor size and crop in post, deciding on a vertical or horizontal crop after the fact.
Hello again Ma'am
Just finished reviewing your latest video on full frame lens mounted to medium format cameras ! I am really excited to when you get down to the Nitty gritty , and we see the images !! Yes , I am a big believer in this concept of adopting a full frame lens to not only medium format but aps-c , as well ! Again , I am looking forward to seeing your next video tutorial on this subject ! You at least for . Keep me inspired !!! Thank you !
Thank you Leigh & Raymond, yet another excellent video!! And we are thinking the same thing. I have some Nikon Ai-s lenses (for my FM3a) and Voigtlander M-Mount that would work perfectly in this application. Also, as you said, this would help build out the system while I am saving funds to get GFX lenses in the future. Yes, I see it as a great way to use full frame lenses to help step into medium format. Comment: I sure wish the GFX had a D-Pad. Lastly, is this your last (for now) GFX video? And we would like to hear the conclusion; did you purchase one? Thanks again (from Tucson)!!
I am fortunate to be able to afford the Fujifilm GFX 100II and several lenses. One of my old Nikkor lenses I would like to try is a 28mm PC shift lens. Due to its larger image circle for perspective correction, it should be able to cover the 44x33mm medium-format sensor of the GFX camera without vignetting. Thank you for the video!
GFX cameras are amazing in image quality that is unmatched by Full frame. I'll use the GFX lenses mainly for landscape and some indoor and outdoor photoshoots if I want a more studio, magazine look. But for more creative portraits and street photography, i'll use Full frame vintage lenses.
minoltas are great to adapt to the gfx- the tiny 45mm f2 covers beautifully the sensor and the 58mm f1,2 renders great. I now mainly use adapted lenses on my gfx, the 32-64 stays unused.
hello Leigh, can you tell me, is there a stackable solution that would allow Nikon lenses to be used on a Hasselblad x2d?
I have GFX system, a fuji zoom lens 45-100mm and 110mm F2, I may get the ultra wide zoom 2-0-35mm F4. But I have tried a large number of EF mount lenses with Fringer adapters. I have a large collection of Sigma ART HSM series EF mount prime lenses. I have 40mm, 50mm., 85mm, 105mm and 135mm, I also use Canon 200mm F2.8, 300 F4.0, Fringer adapter has aperture control ring and provide good autofocus for these lenses. Sigma is probably the most popular series to adapt to GFX system because most of its prime lenses do cover the sensor. I have also used Nkon F mount lenses on GFX like the vintage 105mm F2.5 and Voitlander 58mm f1.4, M mount like TT Artisan 50mm F0.95, Light lens lab elcan 50mm F2, M42 mount Helios 58mm F2 (that cover the full sensor) and Yashica 50mm F2.0
I‘m getting good results with my Voigtlander 50/1.2 - when sticking to the square format. And instead of the extremely expensive 30mm TS lens I‘m using a 45/2.8 Pentax 67 lens with a shift adapter.
Canon EF lenses are often great on Fujifilm medium format. I particularly like the 40mm f2.8, the 16-35mm F4 IS, and 100-400mm ii. I use the Fringer adapter..
Thanks for the excellent video! FYI, I got a Nikon to Gfx adapter for my GFX 50sii. I tried out various Nikkor lenses and had fun. One lens that I still use today: Nikkor 28mm PC f3.5. This one does not vignette in GFX mode and has about 5mm of usable shift with no vignetting. For the full 11mm of shift, I can go to 35mm mode and still have about 30mp out of the 50 in my camera.
Some benefits:
o not expensive; I paid $330 for my very good copy
o use as a regular lens (without shift) yields an equivalent ff view of about 23mm. A lot less $ than the 23mm Fuji prime.
o you can use it as a shift lens instead of the very pricey new Fuji tilt-shift lens.
o the images I have obtained are very good
Using both is an excellent idea, I mostly shoot manual anyway. Lenses are too expensive to completely swap systems.
The real glory of gfx is ef glass with fringer adapter: it makes look you cant replicate with FF and with AF. While vignette could be removed in post.
What about adapting a Hasselblad Medium format lens to the camera? Is that possible?
It is! Fujifilm offers an adapter.
The market competition for the optics in the 35mm segment left large format optics out-of-date forty years ago. Newer large format lenses are improved, but suffer from the same lack of market driven innovation -- as do modern larger sized image sensors. The Americans (Kodak) introduced medium format digital image sensor backs in the 1990's. The general question has always been can you achieve large sensor results from a smaller sensor. We're still marching toward that.
Leigh, M-mount on the X2D produces an interesting look. I love filling out the X2D kit with those lenses. But, they actually feel heavier than the new V lenses. And I give up auto-focus. Of course, manual focus is easy with magnification. And IBIS is nice. So no complaints. But I would say the X2D with native lens is likely lighter. Thanks for the video and thought provoking content.
I adapted my 200-500 to my 50sIi withe fringes auto adapter and have no darkness in corner until zoomed all the way in
any thoughts on the fringer adapter? I'm considering that to use my nikon af-s glass on my 100sii
Fringer adapters are the best from my experience in adapting EF and F lenses. They do extensive testing and release timely firmware upgrades. In fact, I just received a note from them today about their latest firmware updates. Also, they publish a list of supported lenses on their website.😊
What atime to be alive, i am doing the opposite to you i'm a macro shooter and recently bought a view camera system, and i am filling out my lens collection with vintage MF macro lenses trying to take advantage of a larger image circle in the MF lenses to broaden the covage of a the shallow depth of field, its proving to be an interesing experiment , so having done that at the back of my mind there is a thought to get an MF camera since they are only 0.7x larger than FF, where as true MF is so much larger. its a rabbit hole with no end, and i have found this series of MF videos really informative so thank you
I'm using my ultrawide 10-18 apsc lens on my full frame camera for event work every week. Cause my tokina 16-28 is really heaaaaavvvyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, i use it only for architecture photography when I'm using tripod
I only recently learned that 35mm SLR lenses would work on digital medium format cameras with little vignetting. I'm already using my Canon FD lenses on my Fuji X-T2, so I would definitely use them on a GFX if I decided to take that route. There is an FD to GFX adapter, and it has the advantage of being much shorter than the FD to X-mount adapter so the lens doesn't stick out so far from the camera body.
The so-called “full frame” lenses only stand a chance of working on the Fuji bodies because they don’t use full-frame 645 sensors, and can’t use them because of the lens mount. A real full frame 645 would be something to have but currently only exists in Hasselblad or Phase One bodies.
@@RobA_Oz You mean medium format, not full frame. Yeah, I wish there was true 60mm x 60mm+ digital medium format, but I couldn't afford it anyway.
@@javaman4584 Full frame 645 means a sensor the same size as a 645 negative. I know people use “full frame” as meaning only a 24x36mm sensor, but it’s really applicable to all formats. Of course, nobody makes a 6x7 sensor yet AFAIK, or even anything close to that, so it’s academic for anything other than 35mm or 645 formats.
how tall are you please reply ?
Way taller than you
Ιf i may add...there is a wealth of film era medium format lenses out there that can fit the Fuji with adapters. And because the Fuji "medium format" is smaller than film medium formats (even the 6X4.5), you are not using the edge of the lens film covering area...thus getting the best optical quality the lens can produce.
yes
I think Nikon will soon bring out a medium Format camera (MFC). As the Zf and Zfc cameras show, Nikon is not shy about competing head to head with FujiFilm. As the FTZ adapter shows, many lenses can be adapted to a new format camera and I think Nikon will adapt their Z mount lenses to a MFC. So you just need to have an adapter to allow the light cone enough travel and expansion to cover the sensor. The great success of Z mount was the FTZ adapter allowing people to still use their old glass 😅and I think Nikon will do the same with their new MFC, I.E. ZTMF. Cheers
Inspiring thoughts… getting me closer to giving in to my GFX GAS.😏
…and that was it. Try the Voigtländer Nokton 35 mm F/1.2 Aspherical II or III and the Voigtländer Nokton 50 mm F/1.2…
There's a boatload of 35mm and MF vintage glass in my drawers eager to be used on any Fuji's MF camera...
I love Fuji but I don’t get the GFX System at all. After viewing so many reviews (that are either clearly sponsored or neutral) i don’t see any reason to prefer it over any of the leading Fullframe options / maybe except loving an expensive niche. It’s clearly behind in terms of autofocus speed and rolling shutter performance or totally dependent on other sensor producing companies (hello Sony). I would actually question the long term existence of the GFX system since there is no way that Fuji is being profitable with this line. Maybe Fuji needs it to be alive for marketing reasons, since the gfx is a pro line. Maybe being a crop only company is negative for the perception of the brand - a lot of maybes but I’m 100% convinced that my money is better spend on other systems. (I love Fuji though)
Please make an appointment with your eye doctor.
IMHO full frame lenses on the GFX are a compromise and fun to play - if you care about full frame lenses, I don't see the GFX as a 'one and done' platform, and there is simply no upside besides 'I do because I can': Cropping down to 60MP results in the same total resolution and pixel pitch (3.76 micron) as current generation full frame cameras. The images will be identical in terms of 'full frame look' (no 'digital medium format' upside) - why carry the heavy Fuji around for that? With M mount lenses, you don't get the optimized Leica sensor (micro lenses, sensor stack depth, lens profiles) - arguably not the best idea to put a lens on the GFX when the cost of the lens exceeds that of the body, and you don't get to use it at its full potential?
Doesn’t cropping to 35mm defeat the purpose of a medium format sensor? Why not just se a full frame body with a lot of MPs?
Recently tried the GFX100S &S2 and didn’t enjoy the experience. The camera and lenses were large and heavy. Not unexpected. The write time to the card was slow. Annoying but not unexpected. This is simply the wrong tool for what I do. I can see using these tools for a portrait shoot or landscape.
Mask On Nurse Marty (Ret)
This seems like a very expensive way to get the same results as a full frame system, but with less convenience and practicality. You get all of the disadvantages of medium format bodies (like the slow focus system, and in the case of adapting lenses, no auto focus at all) with none of the advantages of the larger sensor or increased resolution. Worst of both worlds in my opinion.
Does the bit depth go down if you use the FF mode in GFX? If not, that could be one possible benefit, acknowledging the drawbacks you listed. But yeah, it seems the main reason would be to try to find a FF lens that actually covers the GFX image circle and shoot the full 100MP sensor
You’re not getting the same results as on a FF system because you are taking advantage of the medium format sensor and .79x crop factor. Thus, I like the flexibility of using old vintage lenses on my GFX to increase it’s fun factor. I can get some wild effects out of some of the older lenses that I can’t reproduce on my FF camera. When you want more pristine images you can use a native GF lens or, in my case, use my stellar Mamiya medium format lenses on the GFX body. Plus, my Fringer EF-GF adapter does a very decent job of auto-focusing my older EF lenses.
50R owner here, I now own 21 vintage lenses because of this camera and having a totally different photographic experience to my Nikon D850. I take both on shoots.
Originally I thought I would sell the D850, but found some areas where the GFX struggled, focus peaking is not great in very sunny conditions, and AF came to the rescue with the Nikon.
However, the fun and unique images I've shot with the GFX+vintage glass makes it a blast. Some models requested i bring my Voitlander Norton 50 1.2 because of how complementary it was for portrait and fashion.
I don't use the 35mm crop too often unless the particular lens vignettes heavily. Software can help in the corners in post and most of my glass gives great results.
Hi Leigh. Nice teeth bleaching.
Kinda boring empty "content" tbh