Fujifilm GFX100rf Review: One sensor, nine cameras

When Apple introduced the iPhone 15 Pro, Greg Josoyak, the first vice president of the company for marketing all over the world, said the three rear cameras of the device will give consumers “equivalent to the seven camera lenses in their pocket.”

We can spend many podcasts in discussing the technical authority for this statement, but what Joswiak was trying to implicitly mean that iPhone now has great accuracy and high sensors enough so that it could cut them to simulate different focal lengths.

Now, Fujifilm tries the same thing.

With a 35 -mm lens stuck in the body similarly to the famous X100VI, it will be easy to assume the new GFX100RF from Fuji is the company’s attempt to take a profitable strategy and expand its scope to medium coordination.

But while most fixed lens cameras such as X100VI create intentional restrictions and encourage you to shoot more than you think, the GFX100RF revolves around flexibility and intention. Using a 102 -megapixel sensor, high -definition, the width rate is completely height and four different digital “enlargement” modes, Fujifilm aims to replace nine cameras and four lenses with a relatively compressed body.

The Fujifilm GIFIFILM is the most compromise in the company so far. The same sensor includes the pioneer GFX100II, and a 4900 dollar camera that is very capable, providing the same cheerful material controls and rich colors that the brand is famous for. There is a reason that people like to shoot with Fujifilm cameras, and if you are looking for more of this experience, GFX100rf will not let you down.

Touet this new camera that adds to the formula is to ask for the width ratio to the height. This actual phone call, installed on the back of the camera, allows you to choose from one of the different formats to frame your image. As a person still shoots many old movie cameras, it made me out a lot of time. In particular, given that the show rates to the height the camera is based on the real film cameras that were manufactured decades ago. It is very fun. You can choose between 4: 3, 3: 2, 16: 9, 17: 6, 3: 4, 1: 1, 7: 6, 5: 4, and, my favorite, 65: 24-honor for the legendary Panoramic camera in Fujifilm.

Since Fujifilm did not include the hybrid optical camera lens as you will see in X100VI and X-PRO3, it included three different authorship modes with the display rates to this height. You can see the full scene with tire lines, or a 50 % overwhelming position that allows you to see what is outside your stirring, or a complete blackout that shows the crop that you only photograph.

After testing this camera for about a month, I started wondering why not every camera has a tablet like this. When carrying the camera around Utah, there was a lot of fun jumping around different proportions while composing a picture, and in multiple circumstances, only a “good” image was upgraded in full mode 4: 3 to “wonderful” once I find the right crop for that.

It is now clear that when you cut a large part of the image, you also make a decent decision. But even when using the disposable 65 x 24 percentage, it is still leaving with a large 50 -megapixel file. And if you photographed RAW as well as JPG and edit it in Adobe Lightroom, raw files will be eaten with the reduction option to the full image 4: 3. I love it.

The super accuracy is high for the sensor. GFX100RF provides four virtual focal lengths, which are escalating at the sensor center to present a different exhibition. The camera provides 35 mm, 45 mm, 63 mm and 80 mm options, which equals about 28 mm, 35 mm, 50 mm and 63 mm in terms of the full frame. These “zoom” modes will also cost you accuracy, although the full focal length is 80 mm to 65 x 24 spitting on a 9 -megapixel image.

To make simple zoom, Fujifilm added a small key to the front of the camera similar to what you see on the old video camera. On top of that, you will find an applicable tablet, which has not been strangely assigned to anything outside the box on my unit.

It seems as if Fujifilm has built this camera to do everything, and in many ways, it challenges the expectations of what was designed for the fixed camera. Unfortunately, the GFX100RF is also limited in two main ways: the F/4 slot is relatively slow and a lack of visual image installation.

The F/4 aperture is on the medium medium Fujifilm sensor equals around F/3.16 on the full frame camera, and although this is not terrible by any means, he felt my time with it. The slow opening means less lighting on the sensor, and the least light means lifting ISO or withdrawing the shutter speed. On a camera like Fujifilm X100VI with a visual image installed, I can break the speed of shutter comfortably to the full second hand. But on GFX100rf, the slowest thing I could photograph is comfortable by hand without getting a fragile image was 1/30 – perhaps 15 if you are especially fixed.

As a person who carries a tribewood every time I go to take pictures, this was not a big deal for me. But Fujifillm puts this camera as the best daily camera on the market, and without faster lens or installation of visual images, you may have a problem with photography with this camera as soon as the light decreases, unless you use uncomfortable ISO values. When I had to shoot in the lower light, it often turned into a black and white ACROS simulator, which was made to look completely loud anyway.

It is understood why Fujifilm may not have added the installation of the visual images of this camera. 100rf is only marginally larger than Fujifilm X100VI, so it may not have developed a compact installation system enough for the body yet. At $ 4,899, which is still expensive, this camera comes cheaper than any other GFX that currently sells. In addition, this lens includes.

But what confuses me more about the camera is the decision to use the F/4 aperture. The lens was taken alone, which is shockedly small – smaller than each custom GF lens sold by Fujifilm with a long bullet. But Fuji also includes the lens adapter ring and a candidate in the box, and added together, these accessories are almost more than three times the total fingerprint of the lens to the point where the large lens is on Leica Q3. At this stage, why do you not make a larger and faster lens?

There is no doubt that the GFX100rf will be constantly compared to the L-K3 q3 frame-primarily because, until recently, if you want a new fixed lens camera with a large sensor, the Q3 was your only choice. Although Fujifilm has overcome Leica with the new connection of the width ratio to the height and very high accuracy, the Leica trades these features for F/1.7 stability much faster and the visual image stability. The features that interest you depend on the type of photographer you are. At least, I am happy for another option available on the market.

I really love my time with this camera. The composition of each aspect of your final image in the camera is a real joy, and I have a soft spot in my heart for physical faces. But for the camera that is looking to do everything with one lens, you will need a triple leg holder to make it a reality.

David Emil’s photography