Fujifilm GFX100RF review: one sensor, nine cameras

When Apple introduced the iPhone 15 Pro, Greg Josviak, senior vice president of marketing worldwide, said three back camera of the device would provide users with “seven camera lenses” in their pocket.

We can spend several pods cast in discussing the technical authenticity of this statement, but what Josovic was trying to identify was that the iPhone now had sensors with a resolution that was so large and high that it could be ready to imitate different focal lengths.

Now, the army is trying the same thing.

With the 35 mm lens, with surprisingly trapped on a body like the super popular X100vi, it would be easy to understand that the military’s new GFX100rF company’s winning strategy and trying to make it a medium -sized scale.

But when most fixed lenses like the X100Vi deliberately create limits and encourage you to shoot more than your thinking, the GFX100rF is about flexibility and intentions. Its high resolution 102 MP sensor, a absolutely new aspect ratio dial and using four different digital “zoom” methods, the purpose of the fuel is to replace nine cameras and four lenses with a relatively compact body.

The GFX100rf of the military films is still the company’s most compact medium format camera. The same sensor’s accommodation, such as his flagship GFX100II, is very capable of 4,900, which is famous for the brand, provides pleasant physical control and full colors. There is a reason why people like shooting with military cameras, and if you are looking for more than this experience, the GFX100rF will not disappoint you.

This camera adds to the new turn formula in the formula. This physical dial, which is mounted on the back of the camera, allows you to select one of the nine different forms to frame your image. As someone who still shoots a lot of old film camera, he brought me a big time. Specifically, because the camera offering aspect ratio is based on the real film cameras Fujifilm, developed decades ago. This is a very entertaining throwback. 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.

Since the military fault did not include a hybrid optical visner, as you will see in the X100vi and X-PRO3, it has added three different views to compose the proposal with the proportion of this aspect. You can see the whole scene with frame lines, 50 % blurred mode that allows you to see what is out of your frame, or a complete blackout mode that shows your shooting crop.

After examining this camera for almost a month, I have begun to think why not every camera has such a dial. Taking a camera around Utah, jumping around different proportions when writing a picture was a ton of entertainment, and in many situations, a icon I considered ‘good’ in only 4: 3 mode, once I found the right crop for it.

Now, obviously, when you prepare a large portion of an image, you are also preparing a reasonable amount of resolution. But even when using the highest crop 65×24 ratio, you still have a large 50 MP file. And if you shoot the raw in addition to the JPG and you modify the Adobe Light Room, the raw files will be prepared in advance that will be prepared with the Zoom Outdoing the full 4: 3 image. I love it

However, there is another benefit to the highly high resolution of the sensor. The GFX100rF offers a four virtual focal length, which crops in the center of the sensor to present a different sector. The camera offers 35 mm, 45 mm, 63 mm, and 80 mm options, which is equivalent to about 28 mm, 35 mm, 50 mm and 63 mm in full frame conditions. These “zooms” methods will also cost your resolution, however, with a full length of 80 mm, 9MP image has been stuck to 65×24 to spit.

To simplify the zooming, Fijmal added a small switch to the front of the camera that you see on an old camecard. And just above it, you will find a re -nutritional dial, which weirdly did not map the box in my unit box.

It feels as if Fijmil made this camera to do all this, and in many ways, it denys expectations that a fixed lens camera was made to do. But unfortunately, GFX100rF is also limited in two important ways: relatively slow F/4 aperture and optical image stability.

A F/4 aperture on the medium format sensor of Fijmal is almost equal to F/3.16 on a full frame camera, and when it is not scary in any way, it felt limited in my time. A slow aperture means less light on the sensor, and low light means moving the ISO or pulling the shutter speed. On a camera like Fijefelm X100vi with optical image stabilization, I can comfortably hold the shutter speed with each other. But on the GFX100rf, I could comfortably shoot the handheld without the slowest picture – was 1/30 – if I was particularly stable, it was probably 15th.

As someone who takes a photo every time I take a photo, it was not a big deal for me. But the military is taking this camera in the market as the best everyday camera, and without sharp lenses or optical image stability, you may have difficulty shooting with this camera after the light decreases, unless you use restless ISO values. When I had to shoot in the lower light, I often turn into the excellent Acrovose Black and White simulation, which looks quite gray anyway.

It is understandable why Fijmal has not included optical image stability in this camera. The 100rf Fujifilm is just a slight larger than the X100vi, so it has not yet developed the body’s Enough stability system compact. And, at 4,899, which is still quite expensive, this camera is cheaper than any GFX body fuel currently sold. In addition, it also includes a lens.

But what makes me most bothered about the camera is the decision to use the F/4 aperture. Taken alone, the lens is amazingly small – every dedicated GF lens is smaller than a long shot. But the soldier also includes the lens hood and the filter adapter ring, and, together, these accessories bring the total maps of the lens to the point where it is as larger as the lens on the Leka Q3. And then, why not just make a big, fastest lens?

There is no doubt that the GFX100rF will permanently be compared to the full frame Q3 of Lika-because recently, if you wanted a new fixed lens camera from a distance with a large sensor, Q3 was your only option. And while Fijmil has defeated Lika with its new versatile aspect ratio dial and ultra -high resolution, Lika trades these features for a very fast F/1.7 lens and optical image stability. What features are important to you depends on what kind of photographer you are. And, at least, I’m glad another option is available in the market.

I really liked my time with this camera. It is a real joy to write almost every aspect of its final image in the camera, and the physical dials of the physical dials are a soft spot in my heart. But for a camera that wants to do it with a lens, you will need a tripod to make a reality.

David Ismail’s Photography