Gfx-50s

[Black Pearl]

It's a good while since I really, truly and completely head over heels lusted after a new system (I've always had a simmering desire to own a Leica M) but the new Fujifilm MF mirrorless system has me wondering if I could sell the kids or do without a couple of body parts...

https://www.dpreview.com/news/654801...ruary-for-6500

Look at that sensor man!!!




The thing is I'm not even a pixel junky. I am more than happy with the 16mp I have now but there is just something deeply desirable about that big sensor's 50mp wrapped in a camera that isn't that much bigger than my X-T1.

[pnodrog]

Please send photographs of body parts and children. My brokerage fee may cover buying one myself...

Actually as interesting as it looks my next move will probably be towards lightening my equipment rather than needing to spend a lot of time at a gym. It is the weight of all the lenses I would want that has me worried.

[tao2]

It's a good while since I really, truly and completely head over heels lusted after a new system (I've always had a simmering desire to own a Leica M) but the new Fujifilm MF mirrorless system has me wondering if I could sell the kids or do without a couple of body parts...

https://www.dpreview.com/news/654801...ruary-for-6500

Look at that sensor man!!!




The thing is I'm not even a pixel junky. I am more than happy with the 16mp I have now but there is just something deeply desirable about that big sensor's 50mp wrapped in a camera that isn't that much bigger than my X-T1.

Ach Robin,

Keep the bairns as camera equipment Sherpas. Get a Lubitel 2 or 166 B or U. Scan at 3200ppi and ye'll get around 47 mp. Lubitel costs around £15-40, spend the other £6,460 on a round the world air ticket three times (tae visit the places ye missed the first time).

[pnodrog]

Ach Robin,

Keep the bairns as camera equipment Sherpas. Get a Lubitel 2 or 166 B or U. Scan at 3200ppi and ye'll get around 47 mp. Lubitel costs around £15-40, spend the other £6,460 on a round the world air ticket three times (tae visit the places ye missed the first time).

I gave Lubitels to my daughters about 40 years age. I have never thought of asking for them back...

[Dave Humphries]

Nice.

Unfortunately, at the time I read it*, I noted a lot of differences in detail between DPR's text at the head of the page and what I assume is the Fujifilm press release in the grey panel further down the page.

e.g. which lens are out first, what the resolutions of EVF vs LCD, etc. that's a bit sloppy

* these may be corrected in time I guess

[Tringa]

I could never justify or afford one but I will be very intersted in seeing reviews. It looks very interesting.

Dave

[Black Pearl]

Ach Robin,

Keep the bairns as camera equipment Sherpas. Get a Lubitel 2 or 166 B or U. Scan at 3200ppi and ye'll get around 47 mp. Lubitel costs around £15-40, spend the other £6,460 on a round the world air ticket three times (tae visit the places ye missed the first time).

AARRGGHH!!!!!!

I've owned a few Lubitels (hateful, light leaking things they are) over the years along with a few other TLR's and other oddities and while they're fun to use I wouldn't go back. I do still shoot the occasional roll of 35mm though so I'm not against your idea in principal.

I don't know what it is about this camera and even though I'm never going to justify buying one it has simply caught my imagination. Give me the body and two or three primes and you'd find me happily trudging the Cumbrian fells lost in my own little 50mp daydream.

[Black Pearl]

Please send photographs of body parts and children. My brokerage fee may cover buying one myself...

Actually as interesting as it looks my next move will probably be towards lightening my equipment rather than needing to spend a lot of time at a gym. It is the weight of all the lenses I would want that has me worried.

Aye the lenses have a bit more heft to them but the body is about the same weight as my X-T1 which is remarkable really.

[John 2]

Might sound odd, but it would be a retrospective step for me. The weight and size reduction the X series produced, had me back out taking photographs. However I have been reading all of the collected reviews after this morning's launch (Google Film Insider - Thomas Menk's new site) and the I Q seems to be something special. In one studio shot, even the facial hair on the cheek of a female model was completely discernible and sharp in a full length pose.

[LePetomane]

In one studio shot, even the facial hair on the cheek of a female model was completely discernible and sharp in a full length pose.

I'm sure she appreciated that.

I wonder how much the photography part of Fujifilm contributes to their bottom line. They are big into medical imaging. Not a day goes by for me that I don't use their ultrasound for something.

I'm more curious about the X100F.

[John 2]

................................. I'm more curious about the X100F.

So am I. I invested in an X70 as a pocketable camera but I miss the VF. The X100F looks a bit pricy though.

[bje07]

I played on Fujifilm site which gear sticks with my "ability/demand", at the end of the poll I obtained: X-T1 what I got few years ago.
No need for me to buy the new X-T2 or GFX 50.
I'm happy, my back too and my purse too, as I sold all Nikon gear I had.
At the end what I everywhere read it's not the gear which made a photographer but the guy who takes picture

[LePetomane]

Jean, those are my thoughts exactly. Even the XT-1 is more than enough camera for me. I'm having a ball with it.

[rpcrowe]

I am quite happy with my Canon gear... I like an optical viewfinder rather than a EFV and... there are some Canon lenses that I will not give up; these being: the 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II, the 17-55mm f/2.8 IS and my old standby the 70-200mm f/4L IS...

I also am in love with the focusing capabilities of the 7D Mark II...

[tao2]

I'm sure she appreciated that.

I wonder how much the photography part of Fujifilm contributes to their bottom line. They are big into medical imaging. Not a day goes by for me that I don't use their ultrasound for something.

I'm more curious about the X100F.

Hi PD,

Ah had a Fuji company report several years ago and the photography division was less that 8% of Fuji's portfolio. It was forecast, then, tae drop by a further 1.5-2%, although ah think Instax caused a slim revival in fortunes...followed by the new (then) F series and EXR plus the subsequent X series. These changes didn't save the downsizing of the photography division but may have saved it from being discarded and sold off.

Ah think Fuji's long and excellent history as a camera and lens maker may have saved it - the Japanese, despite their hard-nosed business reputation, have the character and nostalgia tae say "This we keep...this is where we started."

[inkista]

I just think it's kind of funny that Fuji tuned in to camera geeks lusting after a cheaper digital M, and now they're tuning into camera geeks lusting after a cheaper Hasselblad X1D. .

Can I blame David Hobby and Zack Arias for this one? Both of them professionally shoot MF, as well as Fuji X...

Also just realized. It's 4x3, not 3x2. That's gonna be an adjustment for the full-frame crowd. Not for the mft crowd, though.

[LePetomane]

tao2, Thanks for the info. The Fuji rep that we see regarding our ultrasound didn't even know that they made photography equipment.