Thanks for being honest and so thorough with your review! I haven't seen anyone else mention the flash being blocked. Love your production too and photos!
Quick tip: Convert the layer to a smart object before applying the blur so that you can go back and tweak it if you need to without redoing the whole thing!
I love your channel Eddy, I'm obsessed with point and shoot, I just have one question, for the crowd of people at the party did you use the same values? Or a stronger flash value, ISO, slower speed? Thanks bro!
So happy with my x100v but having something like the GFX is definitely a goal in the future. Been shooting with my Nikon d750 for years but after using the x100v for a year now I am just blown away by the colors and would appreciate a medium format look with those colors and a similar layout. Thank you!
I own literally the same combo 50r + minolta 45mm F2 and it's been great so far for me. Thank you for the tips mentioned in your video! Love your photos as well, very inspiring
It sucks that they discontinued making this grip. I purchased an off brand version on eBay, wood was fake, very hollow, and the screw would never properly tighten on the bottom of the camera. Needless to say, I threw it away! Glad you’re enjoying the camera!
We have the 50s if you adjust your shadow tone to taste when getting a exposure, coupled with the DR adjustments then you can get a perfect dynamic range image virtually every time. The shadow recovery in camera has less signal to noise then external editor for noise. Also if want the actual fuji color you need to have the camera do the processing for a jpeg or a tiff. Tiff if i want to edit more. Everything but the fuji color. I keep that.
The focus by wire works very well on GF lenses. I routinely use the AF+MF option with the GF lenses & focus peaking. The longer the adapted FF lens the more likely it will cover the full GF sensor. My 135f2.8 Olympus works fine. And yes ND filters, and a tripod are a reality with this sort of camera.
I went with hasselblad x1d 1st gwn with 45mm 3.5. Like new and very low price. Same sensor but leaf shutter. Works well, so compact too. Love the image look
Beautiful camera..hopefully one day I would love to have this setup..this is the ideal one for me....Mitakon 65mm!..there are rumors that Fuji is thinking of a Fixed lens GFX maybe next year..I hope that its this GFX 50R "rangefinder" style body..that would be great!..basically the big brother of the Fuji X100's..lol
*repeats "I don't need another camera" over and over* Once again, a fantastic and well thought out video as usual, offering guidance and clarity for anyone who is interested into jumping into the scary world of medium format cameras!
Awesome camera and used prices dropped under the price of a new x100vi here in Norway. I was close to making the switch, but eh...I would much prefer having Ibis with such a camera tbh.
Well -- I think that is not quite true ( that there is no better camera for this style of shooting for this price , as you said) , there is at least one camera as good as this one and perhaps better for about the same price : that is in fact the newer fuji GFX 50s II
@@andretim75 50s ii looks more like a normal mirrorless camera though and doesn’t have the same charm as this when photographing other people. For pure specs alone the 50s is better, but I don’t think specs are thing that makes the R so good / a pleasure to shoot with
This is very odd that "lossless compressed" might be actually lossy. I would suspect it is like using ZIP format and that during opening the file Lightroom or whatever is unzipping the file...
@@xenon2Merchant I have tried both compressed and uncompressed on both Sony and Fuji and when recovering extreme shadows there is a difference, it’s really not huge but it is noticeable. Especially when correcting heavy vignettes and then correcting overall exposure, the corners (where the most recovery took place) can look very noisy vs uncompressed. There’s also a very slight colour difference sometimes. But this is correctable. Whether that’s important to you is up to you!
@@EddyMaynard I have Sonys too, but in Sony you have explicit lossy compression, and uncompressed. Lossy is the keyword (I work as software developer so probably I have some knowledge in that respect). I wonder if there is any proof of any data change (in Fuji losless) in as it should not happen.
yeah from my testing on the x100v x100vi xh2 and xt4 there is literally no difference in uncompressed and lossless compressed when processing in captureone or Lightroom. it is literally just compressing the uncompressed file using a lossless compression algorithm. it is fundamentally is the exact same file, it just gets uncompressed when you open it in capture one or Lightroom etc maybe it was just different/not as good with this camera since it is much older
@@v_stands_for_value124 very hard to get the exact same look on full frame, but for most people, yes, full frame is a better choice for everyday work. Less fun though :)
@@Rios278 @esppics21. Do it...been there wandering...just offered myself a used 50S together with the Mitakon 65. Never had so much fun. And definitely makes me want to shoot more (as getting fit arms :O))
Yes, but it doesn’t have the rangefinder charm that the R does, and for me, this is really important. But if it’s not important to you then the Sii is better in many more ways and a much better buy yes :)
I absolutely love it, been such a great platform for adapting lenses for portraits and even for vlogging. I have the same grip, the arca swiss mount on both sides saves a lot of hassle. You can turn a Kiron 24/2 into an ultrawide shallow depth of field monster (it doesn't cover fully, but in 16:9 video it's bang on), just ordered a 7artisans 28/1.4 to see if I can squeeze even shallower depth of field for youtube. The Contax Planar 50/1.4 is a banger, albeit a bit wide for my liking, so I adapted a Minolta Rokkor 58/1.4 (took the optical block out, glued a threaded adapter into a helicoid and now the lens collapses into a pancake for transport, so bonus ergonomics) The newly released TTartisan 75/1.5 should be an absolute banger, it's on its way to me. The Mitakon 65/1.4 I found a bit on the bland side, it's very much like a smaller copy of a Takumar 105/2.4 from Pentax 6x7, but I already have more interesting exotic lenses adapted to the Pentax and I think a lot of people miss out on that beast by just sticking to OEM lenses, but that's beside the point. Got my GFX50R for 1200 quid offa MPB, it has a broken dial but it's no matter to me. So if you look patiently, there's even more money to be saved on this amazing bit of kit.
@@slippinjimmothy some older Minolta lenses like the Rokkora 58/1.4 cover fully with very little vignette if any. Love that lens. Made DIY adapter for it, took the lens block out, glued a little thread adapter, screwed it into a helicoid so focusing is much easier and the lens collapses into a pancake for transport. The sacrifice is that I don't have an aperture anymore, but I never needed it anyway :P
I'd just like them to release a 50R II with a better grip and image stabilisation and fully flippable screen, I'm too particular about my lenses. But it would be an interesting step if the fixed lens makes the camera more compact
@@KNURKonesur I dont care about grip, they can be added after purchase, image stabilization makes the camera more bulky and flip screen is a gimmick, lens quality, big sensor, LEAF SHUTTER and small form factor is all that matters to me
