Fuji GFX100 ii Medium Format Camera Review 

Yes! I use the Sigma 105 F1.4 at full sensor with virtually no vignetting on my GFX 100 ii! I highly recommend using a Fringer adapter, it performs so well.

@@AdventuresinNature Does the 105mm lose AF capability on GFX 100 ii?

@@Jawad.1 it does not, but tracking AF capability is definitely poor. I have found single point AF with focus checking to bring out the best of it. It seems to hit focus 8/10 times, and if I'm lower than f2.5,I'll manually adjust it to perfectly get the eye in focus. I find the GFX 100 ii manual focus checking to be so very quick and easy to use with the huge and clear EVF and 102 mp to zoom in on. The image quality is absolutely outstanding and perhaps the best portrait lens for the GFX system if you have right expectations for AF and can handle the weight.

@@AdventuresinNature Does the AF+MF feature work also well ? ( Manual mode with Af-On autofocus + focus peaking for manual ajustement )

@@Kliffot Yes, that's the exactly how I use this lens, works fantastically!

Indeed that's really a huge plus for the GFX system, i'm just not sure if many people are yet aware of that possibility.

​@@Kliffot The GFX cameras also have a 35mm crop mode in which 35mm SLR lenses are used just as they are on a full frame SLR; though, I've never used it. Instead, I use their various crop modes of the full sensor to help composition, which capture the full 4:3 sensor, so the final crop can be determined in post. The sensor is 44 mm wide by 33 mm high, compared to 36 by 24 for full frame. If we want to shoot square in a full frame, the largest is 24 by 24mm, so much of what the lens sees can't be used, and the field of view is shrunken. With the GFX MF sensor, the 35mm lens' entire image circle is used to create 33 by 33mm 1:1 images, which is very helpful when shooting wide; though, most of the extreme wide angle lenses have petal hoods that get in the way. I had mine sawed off by a local camera repairman. So we can now we're not stuck in 3:2 when shooting astro or anything wide angle. Most 35mm SLR lenses will heavily vignette in the corners when using the entire MF sensor, but any aspect ratios can be chosen later in post. The problem is composition without knowing exactly where the edges are. Fuji's crop modes can help, but it would be great if they offered more that would work specifically with 35mm lenses' image circle, for those of us who want to shoot in aspect ratios other than 3:2, and use the entire (or nearly the entire) image circle to do so. It's pure joy for me not to be stuck in 3:2 anymore, but Fuji could make it more user friendly for those who want a simpler process, like the Panasonic multi-aspect ratio cameras had. If Fuji would provide another complete set of crop modes for 35mm lenses, that would be great! Now they offer large, medium and small. 35mm would be somewhere in-between large and medium. Though large already works perfectly in 1:1 and 65:24 with full frame lenses - no vignetting. Being able to use all lenses in the often magnificent 65:24 pano aspect ratio, being able to accurately view and compose this in the viewfinder or lcd is a dream! The Fringer full frame to medium format adapter works well, and has a rubber gasket on it. This camera is a Godsend - opens up creativity massively. And if we already have SLR glass anyway, many of us won't need to buy a lot of medium format lenses.

mft (macro four thirds)

@@futoenjoyerThat's good one 😂

Excellent comments greg! As a landscape and product photographer currently using the Nikon Z8 and a few superb Nikkor S lenses, I am researching MF (especially this GFX 100 ll), but am concerned about the comparative lack of DOF at a given aperture. I shoot generally f/8-f/13 on the Z8, with superb sharpness from foreground to background, with little diffraction effects. So, would I have a problem achieving foreground/infinity sharpness when shooting the GFX 100 ll tripod-mounted and focusing at hyperfocal distance? Or, would I need to employ focus stacking? Thank you!

​@@stevelink3, зачем?! Когда вышел GF30mm F5.6 T/S 😊

I think you convinced me to pre order a GFX 100S II.

Crop 0,78) not so giant like the phase one sensors.

⁠@@MrIkarphotobut price are not phase one too 😅

@@ioanandrei8814 No giant sensor - no giant price=))

It's 1.7 times bigger than full frame 😊

@@MrIkarphotoit’s giant compared to your cameras sensor

As someone who is mostly shooting landscape I can fully agree, for my work I really prefer a screen in that style having a full flip out screen is sometimes usefull but mostly is more of a hinderance.

The flip out screen is a massive hindrance. fml.. why people put it on the con list is beyond me. ridiculous points.

​@@Juventinoswell, I don't do selfie, but narcissism is a hot topic on this decade, isn't it? 🥴

Flip out screens are not for selfies

doesn't really matter if it is or not, it makes the camera a bigger and annoying as fuck to use. a 2 way tilt screen is much more valuable @@shang-hsienyang1284

You won't have to wait long :-)

If you've never heard anyone complain, it probably means they don't tend to fall off then and are fine

you are very right. i picked up a gfx, and i m ok with it, i like it. but.. fml it can't replace my H4d-60, as weird as that is.. that big ass sensor is truly spectacular.

I think only PhaseOne and older Hasselblad H5/H6D have "real size" medium format sensors...

@@deejayiwan7 H3di adn ii 39, H3D -50 ii, h4d 50 and H5d50 (not the c version) have the big sensor with a 1.1 crop. H4D60 and H5D60 pus the H6D100 have the 1.0 crop. all the others have the 44x33 sensor. and i would never call the H6D an older camera. All of them have a huge sensor but in terms of medium format film they have the smallest negative. Also those CCD sensors are to die for!

Or some genuine GF glass first so we can see what it can do 🙂

try the 65 ad 85 Mitagon f 1.4 speed lenses!

Yes, he said it at the beginning of the video.

He has a few videos where he talks about his favorite lenses.

Hes just started doing GFX for goodness sake dont distract him 🙂

I’m using a 100mm L macro on a GFX 50Sii with Fringer adapter covers really well and AF is also fine.

@@russellbaston974 well I was talking about L mount alliance lenses, for Panasonic S5II 😅. But good to know that Canon EF 100mm L covers GFX sensor. I think that EF mount lenses are one of the best investments in photography you can make now. The prices are lower and can be adapted to near everything, Sony E, Nikon Z, Fuji X and GFX, L mount, and of course Canon RF. Something similar happens with Nikon F AF-S and AF-P lenses but Canon ones works better and are cheaper for the same image quality.

@@amermeleitor 😂sorry ’L’, 100, 2.8 and 100mm were common factors!

Yes. That's really the whole point of a big high resolution sensor. I think it would be better if Chris reviewed camera ISO performance by always zooming in the same amount on the picture instead of zooming down to 1:1 pixel level. That's how the DPReview test scene works, and it gives a more honest view of how it will actually work out.

A short while back we had been sold widescreen as the holy grail. I never saw the point of it. People just look better not squashed into a stretchend rectangle.

4:3 is good, but 5:4 would be even better.

*Pentax Q entered the chat*

@@lackoliver55 Keep your sens of humor. It's a quality these days !

Same. I've added and removed the gfx50s2 to my mpb cart probably 10x 😅

There's not gonna be one, because Sony discontinued that sensor. The 50S II is already discontinued as well, for that very reason.

@@el_fucko That s why I mention a hypothetic 50 S3, I d like a new sensor with phase detect

@@Kliffot Well, someone (Sony) would have to make one first, and I'm not aware of anything like this being on the horizon. Plus, with full frame sensors now at 60 MP, and presumably a little further still to go, the market for 50 MP 33x44 is probably not exactly expanding. I mean, there's a reason Fuji sold more 100S bodies than all previous models put together, despite the higher price.

For me personally I like the form factor and look of the GFX 50R "rangefinder" style body..and I hope Fuji considers making a 50RII..haha

Unlike the Nikon Z8, the Canon EOS R5, previews of the Z9 and the Sony a9III? ;-)

I have family living in Kent :-)

You won’t notice much of a difference

I would imagine restocking South Africa is a low priority. For abundant reasons.

@@POVwithRC The market here isn't that small. Besides how hard can it be to keep at least a few items. Other manufacturers can do it.

It’s heavier than the hasselblad X2D100C. Cringing is not good for you. And Chris knows what he is talking about.

@@leonarddavis8449 by 50 grams? are you 4 real. you have no clue.

@@Juventinos I might have a clue if you gave me the question.

Itching

I prefer 'Fuller Frame'

This is exactly my issue as well. Real digital Medium Format does not exist, and I think the manufacturers should be called out for these misleading claims, but regardless the GFX medium format system still has a bigger than Full Frame look to it, and the dynamic range is astonishing.

Oh dear…. In The Film days everything over 35mm was and still is called Medium Format. Period

@@betscho2875 Yeah, plus if we're gonna by film standards, then "full frame" is a marketing term as well. As are the infamous 1 inch sensors.

Phase One make a 645 size digital medium format camera (which is prohibitively expensive)@@PixPete

The 75 is the sharpest lens I own. It's really phenomenal, even with the 64MP pixel shift.

@@seth094978 Christopher REALLY needs to start giving Olympus lenses some attention. I've got the 12-100mm F/4 IS Pro, and it is INSANELY sharp across the entire range. It boggles my mind how all these big RU-vid reviewers just completely ignore the entire M43 system. WTF man.