Fujifilm GFX 50S: Four Sensors in One? and an Interview With Dan Bracaglia of DPReview: UPDATED!

By Louis Ferreira | Published: March 27, 2017

image courtesy of Meshmag

Mesh Mag might have figured out how Sony is producing medium format sensors affordably for cameras like the Fujifilm GFX 50S and Hasselblad X1D. It looks like Sony is merging 4 smaller sensors together to make one large sensor. I wonder what the limitations of this technology are because we could see some affordable huge sensors in the near future.

This could also explain some of the properties of this class of medium format sensors, like how sensor readout speed is prioritized and limited at times. It could also be what prevents the sensor from outputting a 4k video. I wonder if we will ever find out what four sensors were merged to make the excellent GFX sensor (They are just about m43 sized). You can read Mesh Mag’s translated write up here. I will try to reproduce their results in the near future and report my findings.

I ran the test myself and it seems my sensor doesn’t really show the 4 parts of the sensor until running the test for 16 minutes. The 8 minute test is barely visible even at 100% and if you use long exposure noise reduction the frame becomes very clean with +5EV and +100 White in Lightroom. All of these images are flat black when first imported. It appears that the biggest advantage of using long exposure noise reduction comes from when you need to adjust exposure after the fact.

I want to apologize for placing so many FujiAddict watermarks on the image, but a site that doesn’t have a GFX has been copying my posts. It seems not all GFX sensors are created equally. I am curious if there are any cameras out there that can go longer than 16 minutes without showing the parts of the sensor.

Interview with Dan Bracaglia from DPReview about the GFX. Apparently their review will be done sometime next week.

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Fujifilm GFX 50S: B&H Photo / Amazon / Adorama
Hasselblad X1D-50c: B&H Photo / Adorama

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Fujifilm X100F: First Lok, iPhone Editing and Reviews

By Louis Ferreira | Published: March 27, 2017

When I recover from my investment in the Fujifilm GFX 50S I’m going to have to pick up a X100F. The Fujifilm X100 and X100S were some of my favorite cameras of all time. Nothing quite matches their portability and image quality for the price.

Photographyblog – 4.5 stars “Ultimately, there’s a hell of a lot to like, if not love, about the Fujifilm X100F. It’s a beautiful camera, is great to use and produces lovely images – there’s just a couple of reasons which means it stops just short of perfection.”

Photo Focus – “The Fujifilm X100F is really just enough camera—versatile, without additional complications, and ready to capture in an instant.”

Street Shooter – Raw? … Color? … The Fuji X100F Made Me Do It! … Part 1

Street Shooter – The Light From Eden … Fuji X100F

Street Shooter – Finding My Way … Fujifilm X100F

Street Shooter – Wants vs Needs … Fuji X100F

Street Shooter – Fujifilm X100F … (but not only)

Finding Range – First Impressions “Personally, for what it is, and what it’s designed to be used for, the Fuji X100F feels about perfect to me.  To me, the X100F is about so much more than just image quality, and total performance; it’s about simplicity, concentrating on the essentials, and most of all, FUN.”

lesnumeriques (Regular) – Translated testing site

Olaf Photo Blog – Portraits

Fujifilm X100F: B&H Photo / Amazon / Adorama

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Fujifilm X-T2 vs Nikon D750 and Nikon D500

By Louis Ferreira | Published: March 27, 2017

There have been a lot of Nikon vs Fujifilm comparisons lately and I am not surprised. Nikon is even lagging behind Canon since the release of the Canon M5. They are the only major manufacture to not release a serious mirrorless camera. Hopefully things will turn around for Nikon this year, but if Nikon doesn’t release a mirrorless camera soon we might have a lot of new FujiAddicts.

The Photo Video Guy – This May Be the Mirrorless You Need/Want

FujiLove – 24 Hours On The London Underground Night Tube With The X-T2

Richard Simko – Wentworth Falls bushwalk, Blue Mountains

Andy Mumford – Fujifilm X-T2 Review

Fujifilm-Blog – Sports Photography as a Spectator

Fujifilm Blog Car Tracking Settings

  • Shutter dial set to ’T’ (and locked). Shutter speed selected on rear command dial
  • Optical Image Stabilisation (OIS) on.
  • Metering set to Centre Weighted.
  • Autofocus – AF-C with camera set to ‘boost’ to improve reaction time.
  • AF custom setting on Set 3 (Accelerating / decelerating subject)
  • AF Mode to Single Point or Zone (3×3 points) – I prefer Single Point for more accuracy with cars amongst the trees and other obstacles such as spectators.
  • Drive set to CH (8 or 11 fps)
  • Action freezing images – 1/500 to 1/1000s with aperture wide open. Adjust ISO accordingly.  Try to avoid freezing the wheels so the car looks like it is parked on the road.
  • Panning images – 1/125s or 1/60s choose a suitable aperture and drop the ISO down to 200/400.
  • People shots – Autofocus to AF-S and use wide aperture to isolate the subject from the background when using telephoto lenses.

Fujifilm X-T2: B&H Photo / Amazon / Adorama
Nikon D500:  B&H Photo / Amazon / Adorama
Nikon D750: B&H Photo / Amazon / Adorama
Canon M5: B&H Photo / Amazon / Adorama

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Fujifilm GFX 50S Shipments Are Arriving, Aurora Borealis, More Adapted Glass, and Reviews

By Louis Ferreira | Published: March 26, 2017

When I wrote my Leica SL review almost two years ago I felt very strongly that a camera this size should be a mirrorless medium format camera. It’s funny to see how similar in size the Fujifilm GFX50S and Leica SL are. The Leica SL might win in the looks department, but the Fujifilm feels way better in your hands. The GFX and Fujica GW690 are also pretty similar in size in the above video. Let’s hope we see a fixed lens GF in the near future.

William Chua captured some amazing Aurora shots. One of these days ill have to take a trip to attempt it, but in the mean time ill be attempting some Astrophotography Monday night during the new moon. Hopefully conditions will be ideal because it’s incredibly difficult to do around a metropolitan area on a consistent basis.

The Photonauts unboxes the GFX and shows us how a completely blown/underexposed shot can be recovered. No other camera does this as well as the GFX, but with a little practice it stops happening. The ISO invariance of the Fujifilm GFX is unmatched.

Adapted Glass and Reviews
The Last Word – Q&A

The Last Word – Hasselblad 80 mm f/2.8 HC on Fujifilm GFX-50S

The Last Word – Otus 55/1.4 & Fuji 63/2.8 on Fujifilm GFX-50S

0816fotograf – “A medium-format camera, which re-animates outdoor and landscape photography!”

fotograficoweb – “I am a photographer and I’m much more interested in getting to know if the tool is going to help me produce great work…What we need to know is if this, or any camera, adds value to your work… As an inspirational gizmo, the camera excels…The GFX is a pure medium format camera…full frame sensors are 864 square millimeters in area, the GFX sensor is 1441 square millimeters in area.I guess this gives you an idea of how big the sensor is, although it doesn’t translate into camera size…Is it better than a full-frame DSLR? It is DIFFERENT and not comparable. Put your shoes on, get out on the street and test both systems, bearing in mind what you are looking for. Let your heart decide, after all photography comes from the heart.”

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Fujifilm GFX 50S: B&H Photo / Amazon / Adorama

 

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Fujifilm Savings Sunday Returns

By Louis Ferreira | Published: March 26, 2017


Fujifilm X-T1
X-T1 Black Body (save $500):  B&H photo / Amazon / Adorama
X-T1 Graphite (save $500): B&H photo / Amazon / Adorama
X-T1 + 18-55 (save $500): B&H photo / Amazon / Adorama

Fujifilm X100
X100T (save $200): B&H photo / Amazon / Adorama

Fujifilm X-T10
X-T10 (save $200): B&H photo / Amazon / Adorama
X-T10 + XF 18-55 (save $200): B&H photo / Amazon / Adorama
X-T10 + XC 16-50 (save $200): B&H photo / Amazon / Adorama

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Fujifilm GFX 50S: Reviews, Stop The Click Bait and Adapted Glass

By Louis Ferreira | Published: March 25, 2017

DPReview wrote a bit of an extreme response to the Fujifilm GFX 50S a few days ago and while I was considering responding The Photo Fundamentalist beat me to it with a well reasoned article that is worth reading. The GFX isn’t hype and it is dragging the photography world forward kicking and screaming. Fujifilm is challenging the norms and that’s what I love about them as a company.

Some are resistant to this, but the technology behind photography is very limited. There is only so much that can be done to improve image quality today and Sony invested billions to move the industry forward a stop. It’s unlikely we will see another breakthrough in sensor technology for a while, which is exactly why the GFX makes sense now. Large format sensors have a lot of room for improvement.

Reviews and More
The Photo Fundamentalist – Analysis of DPReviews Fujifilm GFX 50S Article “The difference is that the GFX is actually a real, single camera, which is arguably much more useful to a photographer…Just as the DP Review article in no way ‘killed the Fujifilm GFX 50S’, the GFX in no way ‘destroys’ the argument for Full-Frame. Life is very rarely binary and (sadly) existing camera owners simply ‘fight for their team’ rather than appreciating things objectively.”

Laroque Photo – GFX ACROS “My head keeps telling me bro, total placebo…relax already, but I can’t shake it. I don’t even know if it translates or if others will even see it, especially on a web page or a social feed—which now defines so much of our image consumption. The only term that comes to mind, the same one I used in my first look some weeks ago, is fluidity. And at the risk of sounding even more ridiculous, I’d now add silent—it’s like there’s a hush that covers these images. A stillness. I guess I could define this in technical terms: it’s the tone transitions, the bokeh that melts into nothingness, a sharpness that’s never jagged. Rounded as opposed to angular…but there I go again with an esoteric description. ”

The Last Word – Review Begins

The Last Word – Hassselblad 150/3.2 on Fujiflim GFX-50S

The Last Word – Nikon 105 mm f/1.4 on Fuji GFX-50S

The Last Word – Otus 85 f/1.4, Zeiss & Nikon 135 f/2 FF lenses on Fuji GFX-50S

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Fujifilm GFX 50S: B&H Photo / Amazon / Adorama

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