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so today is exciting because I get to

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try a camera that came out almost nine

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months ago ten months ago ish but that I've been wanting to try for a very long

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time Fuji films GFX 100 now why is this

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camera special because it is their best

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medium format camera that they've ever made so for those of you who have

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watched the GFX 50 hour video that we did on Linus tech tips a little while

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ago this is the better higher-end

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version of that camera and that was the first digital medium format camera that

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I've ever used so we have a camera strap

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some adapter plugs and here is the

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viewfinder so the viewfinder on this camera and Fugees other larger GFX 50s

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medium format camera have a removable viewfinder so you can get a couple

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different types and the old gfx 50s which is the one I didn't try the

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viewfinder from that camera also does work on this one so for those of you who

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are unfamiliar medium format sits right

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above 35 millimeter full frame and then

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below that you have aps-c in Micro Four Thirds so the sensor size is huge this

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is the highest resolution stills camera I think this is the highest resolution camera that I've ever held period very

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cool you have another secondary display besides your main US LCD for your

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settings so you don't have to if you don't want to overcrowd your LCD but

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you'll still then be able to know your settings the cherry on top of that is

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you can actually change what is displayed on this secondary display in

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the rear sub monitor setting you can go to stills mode or movie mode and in

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still mode you can have it display your histogram okay so unfortunately our press unit is

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almost dead and as far as we can tell in

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the Box there is no charger so that

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being the case we are going to see now if we can charge this thing through the

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type-c port it did turn on but it is not

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charging Fuji I know that you listen to

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customer feedback and people ask a lot of you but would it be

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hard to allow people to charge their camera and use it it has dual SD card

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slots which is always nice to have the

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display on the top is pretty useful you

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can actually map it to different things I've now changed it to have ISO and

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shutter speed be physical virtual dials

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on it so you can easily tell what your settings are just by looking at the

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dials kind of feels like a virtual version of what Fuji physically does on

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their other cameras like my X t2 where you have physical dials on the right

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here you have their multi movie and

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still mode which you have to press down this little button on the top in order

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to change the mode which is nice I don't know how much I like the fact that

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they're in like because usually the button is the top button and then you

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can just press down and change it whereas this one you have to hold down

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and then use a second finger to move it

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you get to npt 125 batteries they're

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1230 milliamp hours each which for a

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manufacturer standard battery is not

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that great it is a little disappointing that Fuji themselves does not include

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larger batteries right off the bat and the nice thing about the LCD is that

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it's touchscreen and then the EVF itself

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is honestly very good quite sharp

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reasonable amount better than the GFX 50

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R that I used like it's sharper and it

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has no issues with like blackout or

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motion blur so trying the portrait grip again it is not very comfortable like

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the fact that there's no padding and the grip itself is not nearly as significant

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as the main grip this feels like sort of

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an afterthought Edition like it's great that they added a battery but made a

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battery grip style camera that has two batteries which considering the sensor

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and all the other power-hungry parts of this camera feels like a necessity not something

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that they just added on to have a better featured camera this like is

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probably a the worst part about the camera honestly like it balances okay

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but because it isn't comfortable I could

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not imagine shooting an entire session with the grip like this like I'd almost

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rather have some sort of other solution to get the camera this way now if you

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watch the XT four video you know that I was upset that Fuji did not put a

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headphone jack on the XT four but they

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did put a headphone jack on this Fuji

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also did include this interesting little tilt adapter which I've not used before

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and I didn't get a chance to check one of these out because I haven't used their other 50s but this adapter

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basically allows you to use the GFX 100

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in the same way that you would use an old film medium format camera so you can

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see that the adapter acts quite a bit of girth to this guy look at how far away

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the EVF has moved almost it the size of

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itself away from the camera but the benefit of this little adapter it allows

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you to do this it can also go side to

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side so when you really want to you know

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point your camera to the left or the right and look at it straight ahead

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well Fugees got you covered for a measly

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five hundred and seventy nine dollars US

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which is oof for this little doctor that

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does this and this and this and this and this that's a lot that's a lot of money

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but you know if you're paying ten thousand dollars for a camera why not

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it's fun oh that is a tight mount feels

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good yes yeah it like wow I'm surprised this

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this mount and the whole camera with a lens on it feels very solid so another

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big selling point to this camera over the GFX 50 R or the other medium format

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cameras that Fuji has made so far is that this has two really big features

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that no medium format camera has ever had one in-body stabilization 5.5 stops

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which in order to take advantage of the 100 megapixel resolution that's huge

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because then you can shoot at shutter

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speeds that you wouldn't be able to handheld or even in general be able to

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shoot handheld with a lot more confidence that your shots are gonna come out perfectly tack sharp and then

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the second feature that it has is phase detection autofocus which for those of

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you who are nerdy and know what that is phase detection versus contrast

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detection autofocus on a stills camera is night and day difference phase

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detection is so much faster and a lot of

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the times so much more accurate and boozy Fugees implementation of the phase

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detection autofocus is pretty impressive

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most of Fugees lenses that are this high-end come with a little bank precise

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owners owner's manual who reads that for a lens

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and it's an image stabilized lens on top

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of the fact that the camera itself will have in body of image stabilization so

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that's stacking of stabilization is really gonna give you a lot of

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confidence on the long end of a lens like this oh this is an even tighter

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click holy crap this lens mount is very

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strong okay - the biggest lens for stills that I

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have a box so this feels honestly pretty

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similar to a 70 to 200 light canon lens

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that i've used in the past and honestly the size of it is also very similar

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might even be a little bit lighter and this also has oh is which is nice and

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like it really does focus very quickly

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my XT - doesn't focus this quickly it is really impressive that if you really

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wanted to you could go out on the street or if you were doing nature photography

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and something was happening quickly you've used to point your camera up and

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then like very quickly get your focus

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and have confidence that you were both relatively stable and sharp really

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impressed cuz again that's this is a lot of sensor to process every time you hit

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that shutter button okay so going back to the 32 to 64 for a second this camera

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also has which is a first for medium format cameras in general 4k 10-bit

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video so that puts it as a not terrible

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option for 4k video now again you are

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paying $10,000 for a stills camera that is fully featured but the fact that it

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also has 4k video that's not bad is impressive you have the aterna profile

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that is been added to most of who Jesus

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now all the new ones at least and you also have log that you can F log that

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you can shoot in camera and then grade later or I believe also shoot externally

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that means you get to use a medium format sensor

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for 4k video guys that's crazy

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now unfortunately before I got too

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excited I also realized that most of Fugees lenses that you would use with

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the GF mount on this camera for stills are not really going to be able to take

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advantage of that larger sensor because they're at stops that are pretty deep

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like this is an f4 that's an F 5.6 and

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then this is also an f4 however if you

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adapt to the lens that could cover the

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size of the sensor then you have a setup

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that gets into like IMAX territory in

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terms of resolution now it's not gonna be as good as that but that's honestly

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not that's fine because it's a stills camera but that can also shoot video on

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a sensor this big that's pretty cool

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honestly I'm impressed that Fuji decided

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to take the time to add that feature and make it not bad like it's 10 bit h.265

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and you couldn't record externally with a log profile and it shoots amazing

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stills good job Fuji so if you're looking for a medium format camera that

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can do more than most medium format cameras can do this might be it

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