so today is exciting because I get to
try a camera that came out almost nine
months ago ten months ago ish but that I've been wanting to try for a very long
time Fuji films GFX 100 now why is this
camera special because it is their best
medium format camera that they've ever made so for those of you who have
watched the GFX 50 hour video that we did on Linus tech tips a little while
ago this is the better higher-end
version of that camera and that was the first digital medium format camera that
I've ever used so we have a camera strap
some adapter plugs and here is the
viewfinder so the viewfinder on this camera and Fugees other larger GFX 50s
medium format camera have a removable viewfinder so you can get a couple
different types and the old gfx 50s which is the one I didn't try the
viewfinder from that camera also does work on this one so for those of you who
are unfamiliar medium format sits right
above 35 millimeter full frame and then
below that you have aps-c in Micro Four Thirds so the sensor size is huge this
is the highest resolution stills camera I think this is the highest resolution camera that I've ever held period very
cool you have another secondary display besides your main US LCD for your
settings so you don't have to if you don't want to overcrowd your LCD but
you'll still then be able to know your settings the cherry on top of that is
you can actually change what is displayed on this secondary display in
the rear sub monitor setting you can go to stills mode or movie mode and in
still mode you can have it display your histogram okay so unfortunately our press unit is
almost dead and as far as we can tell in
the Box there is no charger so that
being the case we are going to see now if we can charge this thing through the
type-c port it did turn on but it is not
charging Fuji I know that you listen to
customer feedback and people ask a lot of you but would it be
hard to allow people to charge their camera and use it it has dual SD card
slots which is always nice to have the
display on the top is pretty useful you
can actually map it to different things I've now changed it to have ISO and
shutter speed be physical virtual dials
on it so you can easily tell what your settings are just by looking at the
dials kind of feels like a virtual version of what Fuji physically does on
their other cameras like my X t2 where you have physical dials on the right
here you have their multi movie and
still mode which you have to press down this little button on the top in order
to change the mode which is nice I don't know how much I like the fact that
they're in like because usually the button is the top button and then you
can just press down and change it whereas this one you have to hold down
and then use a second finger to move it
you get to npt 125 batteries they're
1230 milliamp hours each which for a
manufacturer standard battery is not
that great it is a little disappointing that Fuji themselves does not include
larger batteries right off the bat and the nice thing about the LCD is that
it's touchscreen and then the EVF itself
is honestly very good quite sharp
reasonable amount better than the GFX 50
R that I used like it's sharper and it
has no issues with like blackout or
motion blur so trying the portrait grip again it is not very comfortable like
the fact that there's no padding and the grip itself is not nearly as significant
as the main grip this feels like sort of
an afterthought Edition like it's great that they added a battery but made a
battery grip style camera that has two batteries which considering the sensor
and all the other power-hungry parts of this camera feels like a necessity not something
that they just added on to have a better featured camera this like is
probably a the worst part about the camera honestly like it balances okay
but because it isn't comfortable I could
not imagine shooting an entire session with the grip like this like I'd almost
rather have some sort of other solution to get the camera this way now if you
watch the XT four video you know that I was upset that Fuji did not put a
headphone jack on the XT four but they
did put a headphone jack on this Fuji
also did include this interesting little tilt adapter which I've not used before
and I didn't get a chance to check one of these out because I haven't used their other 50s but this adapter
basically allows you to use the GFX 100
in the same way that you would use an old film medium format camera so you can
see that the adapter acts quite a bit of girth to this guy look at how far away
the EVF has moved almost it the size of
itself away from the camera but the benefit of this little adapter it allows
you to do this it can also go side to
side so when you really want to you know
point your camera to the left or the right and look at it straight ahead
well Fugees got you covered for a measly
five hundred and seventy nine dollars US
which is oof for this little doctor that
does this and this and this and this and this that's a lot that's a lot of money
but you know if you're paying ten thousand dollars for a camera why not
it's fun oh that is a tight mount feels
good yes yeah it like wow I'm surprised this
this mount and the whole camera with a lens on it feels very solid so another
big selling point to this camera over the GFX 50 R or the other medium format
cameras that Fuji has made so far is that this has two really big features
that no medium format camera has ever had one in-body stabilization 5.5 stops
which in order to take advantage of the 100 megapixel resolution that's huge
because then you can shoot at shutter
speeds that you wouldn't be able to handheld or even in general be able to
shoot handheld with a lot more confidence that your shots are gonna come out perfectly tack sharp and then
the second feature that it has is phase detection autofocus which for those of
you who are nerdy and know what that is phase detection versus contrast
detection autofocus on a stills camera is night and day difference phase
detection is so much faster and a lot of
the times so much more accurate and boozy Fugees implementation of the phase
detection autofocus is pretty impressive
most of Fugees lenses that are this high-end come with a little bank precise
owners owner's manual who reads that for a lens
and it's an image stabilized lens on top
of the fact that the camera itself will have in body of image stabilization so
that's stacking of stabilization is really gonna give you a lot of
confidence on the long end of a lens like this oh this is an even tighter
click holy crap this lens mount is very
strong okay - the biggest lens for stills that I
have a box so this feels honestly pretty
similar to a 70 to 200 light canon lens
that i've used in the past and honestly the size of it is also very similar
might even be a little bit lighter and this also has oh is which is nice and
like it really does focus very quickly
my XT - doesn't focus this quickly it is really impressive that if you really
wanted to you could go out on the street or if you were doing nature photography
and something was happening quickly you've used to point your camera up and
then like very quickly get your focus
and have confidence that you were both relatively stable and sharp really
impressed cuz again that's this is a lot of sensor to process every time you hit
that shutter button okay so going back to the 32 to 64 for a second this camera
also has which is a first for medium format cameras in general 4k 10-bit
video so that puts it as a not terrible
option for 4k video now again you are
paying $10,000 for a stills camera that is fully featured but the fact that it
also has 4k video that's not bad is impressive you have the aterna profile
that is been added to most of who Jesus
now all the new ones at least and you also have log that you can F log that
you can shoot in camera and then grade later or I believe also shoot externally
that means you get to use a medium format sensor
for 4k video guys that's crazy
now unfortunately before I got too
excited I also realized that most of Fugees lenses that you would use with
the GF mount on this camera for stills are not really going to be able to take
advantage of that larger sensor because they're at stops that are pretty deep
like this is an f4 that's an F 5.6 and
then this is also an f4 however if you
adapt to the lens that could cover the
size of the sensor then you have a setup
that gets into like IMAX territory in
terms of resolution now it's not gonna be as good as that but that's honestly
not that's fine because it's a stills camera but that can also shoot video on
a sensor this big that's pretty cool
honestly I'm impressed that Fuji decided
to take the time to add that feature and make it not bad like it's 10 bit h.265
and you couldn't record externally with a log profile and it shoots amazing
stills good job Fuji so if you're looking for a medium format camera that
can do more than most medium format cameras can do this might be it
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