The beauty of this camera being a super-performer is that it could free up the GFX-R line to be a more niche-driven camera. I’d love to see a GFX-R in a Mamiya 7 or X-Pan styled body with the hybrid OVF/EVF. Cheers to another great video!
Hassy's X2D-100c is already in the used camera market; Fujifilm makes Hassy’s lenses; most of Hassy’s owners are worried, and some of them are abandoning the X2Ds. Fujifilm made the best medium format camera so far!
@@coolbuddydude1 Are you talking about the Sony BSI CMOS IMX609AQJ sensor that is X2D-100c used? If you are referring to the size of the sensor and resolution, it’s Phase One, 14204 × 10652, 150MP
@@coolbuddydude1 You guys should know that Hasselblad has only 120+ employees. It is a tiny company. Another reason Chinese Communists are interested in brand names is why DJI took over the Hasselblad.
I was looking forward to your review. I knew it’d hit all the marks and you did not disappoint. Great overview, Gajan. I’m gonna have to start pinching pennies.
I’ve shot reala film for many years, without a doubt one of the best film stock ever. Fantastic multi subject film….Kodak had nothing that came close they were either too warm or too cool or too saturated or too mild. but reala hits the sweet spot.Hope this film sim lives up to the reputation.
Quick corrections! The GF 55mm lens is lighter than the 80, but saying “noticeably” may have been too strong a word. Also, I put the emphasis on rounded aperture blades instead of this lens having 11 of them, which is the actual novel feature. Lastly, there is no 20 FPS shooting in electronic shutter at this time. While this was told to us in the media briefing, I received an update from Japan that this feature is not available (at least not yet). Not happy with the amount of oversights in this video, my bad y'all. Gonna make sure to be more meticulous with future first impressions.
Wow very impressive ! But I am presently surprise that Fujifilm didn't make a 50 Megapixel version of this camera . A can shoot 8 frames pre second ! That would have been simply Superb !
Though I am not surprised that they went with 100MP (this is, after all, an update of the original GFX 100), I would also love to see this in a 50MP version (with a new 50MP BSI sensor, not the one in the 50s, 50s II, and 50r). I have the original 50s with the tilting viewfinder adapter and I simply do not want to live without that option, and 50MP is plenty for me.
Wow very cool! What I find impressive, is how fast it is. Almost fast enough to shoot sport with it. And also very capable in video. And that with medium format!
Hi Gajan, i've always loved your detailed and matter of fact reviews. Just wondering if you're still shooting on the GFX system-- Noticed the Fuji GF 55mm 1.7 lens is featured on this review, but just wondering if you'll ever release a full detailed review on the GF 55? Looks so perfect with the GF110mm for this GFX 100 II
Thank you very much for such a great review, excellent photo examples as well. I'd like to ask you about the autofocus performance for portrait work - would you say it's miles above the gfx100s or slightly better? Many thanks!
It’s noticeably better. It was faster and more accurate than my GFX 100s. In video, the accuracy dipped a little bit and was easier to fool but for photo, I was genuinely surprised how much it has improved. That being said, I only tested with one subject in studio. I’d like to test this further in other types of environments before saying it’s miles better or not. Hope this helps!
canon's TS-E 90mm f2.8 covers the GFX sensor and works really well with an adapter! if any of y'all want to be doing tilt-shift without the Fuji lenses and with faster glass =)
Really enjoying your review, you have great photography and understand the tech just as well. Although your communication is even better! Best review channel hope you get the subscribers to back that up.
Looking to buy the whole entire system with all of the newest lense, my only concern will mainly be interior design, and products studio photography also was going to use it to do 360 images currently using the Sony A1 I will have to try the GFX first. Hopefully they’ll have rental available soon.
Awesome camera - I'm sure the film sim won't port down (unfortunately) which is a shame - for now, I'll have to de-saturate Provia myself. But overall a step in the right direction. I'd definitely have to do some math before assuming I'd be headed to FF if I ever felt compelled - Fuji is truly bringing MF to the masses. Lets hope the 50mp variants are even faster - and that, at some point, Fuji can really push the readout/iso/DR performance even further.
Hello from Brazil, Mr. Balan. I have watched most of your videos and I´m aware that you´re fond of the Leica M11 Monochrom. Honestly, what´s your opinion on black and white photos taken on this camera and on the Leica? I´m curious about that, because I do want to get the best camera for B&W pictures. If you can also say anything about the comparison for B&W pictures between the Fujifilm GFX 100 II and the Leica Q2 Monochrom, I´d be very grateful. Thank you in advance.
🎉 Finally a more true to life standard film simulation. Now they can stop pretending that Provia looks like a standard natural and give us a real Provia 120 colour-matched look. 😅 It looks good though. Hopefully it looks just as good on the aps-c line with the less colour depth and dynamic range. If they could solve my other biggest problem which is no Tone slider for skin hue like Ricoh and Canon have. Let me in-camera modify the skin hue in any film simulation between Magenta and Amber please. 🙏 Honestly, though: This is looking like one of the best designed cameras I've seen in along time. Hopefully it trickles down.
Great review! I really enjoyed how you presented this information. And I completely agree with your assessment of AI vs the enjoyment of going out and shooting. I’ve played with Midjourney for a couple of months just to understand it a little bit, and while it can create some amazingly realistic (or surrealistic, or hyper-realistic, etc) images, I’d much prefer going out, holding up my camera, and looking through the viewfinder to compose an image and not simply type “/imagine” followed by a few descriptive words to generate an image. Maybe it will eventually compliment my photography, but for now, I’ll gladly take the actual shooting experience any day.
Any problems with using triggers and EVF? Multiple folks having problems when using Godox and Elinchrom triggers. Would be nice to hear something from Fuji about it. Maybe a FW fix to solve the problem.
Yeah I like what Fuji is doing here, yet design wise they are heading towards Hasselblad. For me they should bring out a little less full spec R version of it with a bit more Fuji vibe in the design
I'll cop flak for this because it may very well be unfounded, but as fully manual photographer I need to depend on the three exposure settings. The deletion of top mounted dials in favor of front and back wheels does raise reliability concerns. But again, on a camera of this quality - Am I just talking hogwash??
As an architectural photographer, waited soooo long for the TL wide other than Canon. Yet, Fuji lenses are just so huge and heavy(especially on the wide side) relative to the rival company H.
"Noticeably smaller than the 80mm cousin" - I don't have my GF55mm F1.7 yet but according to the specs at B and H the size is virtually identical and it's only 15g lighter. Thanks for the review, can't wait to get the GF55mm F1.7. I'll stick with my GFX100S for the time being though.
Im going to crack it if they don't release those video centric features to the xh2s - a camera they were marketing to filmmakers. Also great coverage on the camera, I feel you explained much of the details missing from the event (like actual examples of Reala Ace). Cheers
Thanks for this review! The previous 100s had a pretty bad delay with the cdmi making recording monitors like the Blackmagic and atomos ninja were unusable. Does this new body still has that delay?
Hi, Just back from my first shooting with the new GFX100II, had trouble with the trigger on the flash grip on the camera (for Godox flash) when I turn the trigger on, no more image through the EVF, I had to shoot with the LCD… some help would be very appreciate, thanks, Glenn
Seeing a few people having issues with Godox right now. I switched to Profoto a while ago and haven’t looked back. For whatever reason, I would just have too many issues with Godox for my work.
It’s definitely bigger than the SL2s, but so much so. It’s the lenses that make the overall kit larger. Still, a reasonably sized tool compared to the GFX 100.
@@GajanBalan I have to wonder if there's a missed opportunity not being able to store additional programs, customization modules, and libraries (incl AI) on fast internal SSDs. Or perhaps they just don't take up that much space and it's not a limiting feature. All that said, the specs on this camera supersede the craziest meme camera specs from the early 2010s. What a world we live in...
@@kjbkix I really wanted to believe that the fifth generation processor intro'd last year would invite those features. This idea that your Fuji camera would become even closer to your mobile device. But I just don't know if that's on their radar then gen. I look at Leica with internal storage on the M11 or Leica Looks where you download profiles from the app to a phone on the fly, these are innovations that more brands should look to but it seems to be lacking across the board. Hopefully this changes soon. Would love to see an X-Pro4 or X100V that feels like a more living-breathing creative tool.
What light system do you use? I just got my GFX 100ii 3 days ago. Shot bride’s portraits at a wedding yesterday. Loved it. But when I attached my Godox Trigger to it, the EVF stoped working. I’ve been seeing and hearing the same thing from the GFX community. Is there a fix with this issue? Help!
I switched to Profoto a while back, Godox was just giving me too many headaches. I wanted to love the system but there would be so many lockups, freezes, and colour shifts that (at least for my work) was just not worth sticking with.
Does this camera have the ability to choose small, medium, and large raw files? If this is marketed towards sports and wedding photographers who sometimes shoot 1,000's of photos a day, this absolutely needs to be an option. Sometimes the file size of 100 megapixels is just too much for some jobs.
Not at this time. While you can choose smaller JPG files, there’s no ability to dynamically scale down resolution while still using the full sensor readout.
Wait.... 20 FPS in 35mm (elec. shutter) crop mode?? That's amazing. Not on the spec sheet from fuji though. Is that raw? and what's the buffer size? am I missing something?
I have more questions about this too. I only briefly tested it for function but didn’t deep dive on this unit. Definitely something worth expanding on for a full review.
So it's a real feature that's in the menu and you tested? Wow. Were they raw files? It's kind of a game changer if holds. Nowhere in the spec sheet. But a full-frame 20fps camera built into your GFX? In the past you would need a separate camera system w/ lenses if you occasionally wanted that in. @@GajanBalan
How can the 55 be "noticeably smaller than the 80" when they are exactly the same size??? Furthermore, ALL the GF lenses have rounded aperture blades. How can you not have noticed that, if you ever used them?
The 55 is lighter. And shorter I believe, but you’re right… noticeably may have been to strong a word. And this is 11 rounded aperture blades instead of 9. Watched the video again and it sounds like I put the emphasis on rounded instead of 11. My mistake, thanks for pointing it out.
"Designed to give professionals the best imaging possible" Then in the same breath goes on to talk about film simulations lol 😂 Stopped watching. Cheers!
Gajan you actually read and reply to messages! And reply in a constructive way.double dude! I have Been painting and drawing for 24 year's and started taken photographs about 17 ago,I draw from photographs, mainly still life and it has been a very interesting, frustrating journey sifting through reviews, buying and returning cameras as my needs as a photographer or more importantly my needs from a camera are so different to thant of which the cameras industry aims they product at. You style of reviews are niche! You are very good at what you do, you have created a style around Fuji cameras themselves which is a real achievement. So much nonsense online so much equipment and amazing photography machine and soo little creative out put from people.the net should been swamped with people's stories to though pictures and videos but it's not.its a strange world the camera world.big respect brother
I hold a whole summit and a professional photographers while everyone has been screaming for the X100 V to be produced people can't get XT fives yet they come out with a brand-new camera. Seriously Fujifilm you are losing me,.... But that's the Japanese for you whack yep that is their culture. They don't care what other people think and they will just go about the things that the way they think are the right way to go clearly a poor move and do it. It will impact them in time why don't they just make a camera in hand one to every professional photographer don't worry about the other millions of Photography's on the planet wow
Thanks for the context. The reality is that Fuji did pivot to make a more entry-level product (XS20) readily available along with a line of prosumer tools (XH2s, XH2, XT5). Focusing on a wider market than the hype-driven X100V. You can argue whether that was right or not, but to say they’ve prioritized GFX audience over the masses is just false. Let alone the cash-cow Instax.
@@GajanBalan I just don't see how this camera is going to revolutionise Photography because for one, it's not going to appeal to landscape photographers because it's too heavy so people don't want to carry this kind of gear to a landscape shoot. It's not going to appeal to portrait shooters because they don't use this type of camera so who does it appeal to laughably? They tried to promote it as a street camera that was when are you lost me and just went no this is just stupid sometimes bigger isn't better. That's probably the point. I need to make.
@@nevvanclarke9225 False, landscape and portrait photographers love and use this camera as well as commercial pros. There hasn't been a GFX body release in several years. Meantime, there have been several new fantastic bodies in the other format.
Hey as someone who gets paid to do this photo shit let me just tell you that it’s okay to sit this one out playboi lmao. This ain’t the last camera they’re ever releasing and if you’re to impatient to wait for their newest X line of cameras that’s on YOU when their cameras right now are doing MORE than enough to handle anything. The GFX 100 was well overdue and if you can’t get it. You can’t get. I’m not pissed Porsche releases a new Porsche every year with and not a hatchback Honda Lmao.
So they hold a whole summit for one camera that will basically be aimed at .3 of a percent of camera users. What a complete and utter waste of time and how arrogant are they?
Maybe it is more about branding than anything else. If the best portrait and commercial photographers should choose the GFX system, they would gain a lot more Fuji buyers than ever. That is how it works. A brand simply needs some of the best photographers in the world, for them to sell even their small budget models.
@@GajanBalan reeks of arrogance why would you create all a big grand fanfare 0.5% of the photographers is on the planet.... Don't you see the arrogance in that? Oh that's right because you've got your hands on one and you're going to defend them I get it.... Look up the word nepotism it's in the dictionary
@@GajanBalan this should've been a simple tweet and maybe a five minute video intro that's about all this camera deserves because it's limited market. No one is interested. Everyone is screaming for the smaller Fujifilm cameras and they announce this and you don't think that's arrogant. Seriously come on
@@JJ_Photo it was so staged in cringeworthy. I watched it live on Pal to tech channel .... I can guarantee you a portrait shooter wouldn't buy a camera like this well maybe one in New York that's turning over $100,000 a year would but that's about it seriously this camera is just a waste of time. It doesn't appeal to the mass market. what is the .0 that's right just to feed the big end of town again and make every other photographer feel small and insignificant. This is what pushes people away from photography
