p.1 #1 · Fujinon GF 100-200mm f5.6 R LM OIS WR Lens Announced
Just in case there are any Fuji GFX shooters (or those thinking of getting into the system) that are not members of the Fuji GFX Facebook group, Fuji has officially announced the new Fujinon GF 100-200mm f5.6 R LM OIS WR lens:
p.1 #2 · Fujinon GF 100-200mm f5.6 R LM OIS WR Lens Announced
It's a no-brainer for landscape. I'm definitely getting it, but since I like to save a few pennies when possible, I'll wait and see whether they're having another 20-25% discount in the next couple of months.
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It really does look nice lens, but I admit I am very much on the fence about buying it or not. I already have the GF110, GF120 and the GF250 as well as a Hassy 180. Not sure if the weight savings it worth it, unless it as good as the others.
p.1 #4 · Fujinon GF 100-200mm f5.6 R LM OIS WR Lens Announced
DannyBurkPhoto wrote:
It's a no-brainer for landscape. I'm definitely getting it, but since I like to save a few pennies when possible, I'll wait and see whether they're having another 20-25% discount in the next couple of months.
That will happen immediately after I buy one at full retail price... guaranteed!
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I have very similar feelings as stated. It is a lot easier to have one lens than changing in the field as well, and when traveling could mean the difference between carryon vs having to check a bag.
lostinjapan wrote:
It really does look nice lens, but I admit I am very much on the fence about buying it or not. I already have the GF110, GF120 and the GF250 as well as a Hassy 180. Not sure if the weight savings it worth it, unless it as good as the others.
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lostinjapan wrote:
It really does look nice lens, but I admit I am very much on the fence about buying it or not. I already have the GF110, GF120 and the GF250 as well as a Hassy 180. Not sure if the weight savings it worth it, unless it as good as the others.
Ryan
I am pretty much in the same boat except Hassy 150/3.4 instead of 180.
I do have a few landscape trips coming up that it could be useful but I think I am waiting
for a review first. If it performs anywhere like 32-64 then it would be very tempted.
p.1 #8 · Fujinon GF 100-200mm f5.6 R LM OIS WR Lens Announced
Unusually little promotion material with GF 100-200. Just a small article by Damien Lovegrove and another by Jonas Rask who almost didn't know what to do with it. Maybe it isn't "cool" enough for the typical X-Photographer or the just don't have that many landscape guys using a GFX for landscape and travel. This lens should also be a good chouce for studio work, good focal length and will mostly be used f/5.6 and up.
p.1 #9 · Fujinon GF 100-200mm f5.6 R LM OIS WR Lens Announced
hauxon wrote:
Unusually little promotion material with GF 100-200.....
My gut feeling and 100% speculation is Fuji manufacturing and sales departments forgot to let the marketing department in on the new lens they were releasing this week.
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hauxon wrote:
Unusually little promotion material with GF 100-200. Just a small article by Damien Lovegrove and another by Jonas Rask who almost didn't know what to do with it. Maybe it isn't "cool" enough for the typical X-Photographer or the just don't have that many landscape guys using a GFX for landscape and travel. This lens should also be a good chouce for studio work, good focal length and will mostly be used f/5.6 and up.
Seriously...? I thought everyone knew that Fuji gear is for "street" photography only!
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hauxon wrote:
...or the just don't have that many landscape guys using a GFX for landscape and travel...
It's surprising they don't have more of these pre-production reviews from landscape shooters, especially given how many landscape shooters they conscripted to do the GFX 50S launch promo videos (the "I went to Iceland" people ).
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highdesertmesa wrote:
It's surprising they don't have more of these pre-production reviews from landscape shooters, especially given how many landscape shooters they conscripted to do the GFX 50S launch promo videos (the "I went to Iceland" people ).
I think Fuji's marketing department criteria for who gets pre-launch samples is based strictly on social media activity, and nothing else.
p.1 #14 · Fujinon GF 100-200mm f5.6 R LM OIS WR Lens Announced
I met today with a fairly well-known and highly regarded landscape photographer to discuss some planning for a mutual project building on work we've done together in the past. He has recently used the GFX 50s, mostly with adapted Pentax MF zoom lenses, sometimes with a TS adapter. He was thrilled that the 100-200 was announced, and he reports that he was online ready to pounce on a preorder (multiple pre-orders, actually) as soon as they became available. (He thinks he's pretty darned close to the head of the queue at one well-known vendor.) He also will get the 1.4x TC to go with it.
It is a shame that Fujifilm didn't place pre-release copies of this lens with such folks. He is currently very pleased with the 32-64, speaks highly of the camera, and is excited about the 100-200.
We shared another thought about this camera system. It seems that the people most interested and well-served by it may not be those "moving up" from full-frame (who have to figure out how to work without some tools and features that they may be used to) but instead those who are "moving down" from larger formats. For a long time he was a LF film photographer. He eventually worked "down" to P1 MF digital backs (the larger than miniMF versions) of up to 80MP. From there he continued "down" to the Pentax 645z, which he has used for several years, and now he's excited about the GFX 50S.
He also shared some prints from GFX images that he recently made at a western National Park. Print quality, as you would expect, looks really good. (These images were made not with the Fujifilm lenses, but with adapted Pentax MF lenses.)
Interestingly, we had the same sort of dialog that some of us have tried to have here regarding the pluses and minuses of miniMF and FF alternatives — an angst-free consideration of lots of stuff ranging from large print quality to lens availability, and adaptability to varying sorts of work processes. We both learned a lot.
p.1 #15 · Fujinon GF 100-200mm f5.6 R LM OIS WR Lens Announced
gdanmitchell wrote:
I met today with a fairly well-known and highly regarded landscape photographer to discuss some planning for a mutual project building on work we've done together in the past. He has recently used the GFX 50s, mostly with adapted Pentax MF zoom lenses, sometimes with a TS adapter. He was thrilled that the 100-200 was announced, and he reports that he was online ready to pounce on a preorder (multiple pre-orders, actually) as soon as they became available. (He thinks he's pretty darned close to the head of the queue at one well-known vendor.) He also will get the 1.4x TC to go with it.
It is a shame that Fujifilm didn't place pre-release copies of this lens with such folks. He is currently very pleased with the 32-64, speaks highly of the camera, and is excited about the 100-200.
We shared another thought about this camera system. It seems that the people most interested and well-served by it may not be those "moving up" from full-frame (who have to figure out how to work without some tools and features that they may be used to) but instead those who are "moving down" from larger formats. For a long time he was a LF film photographer. He eventually worked "down" to P1 MF digital backs (the larger than miniMF versions) of up to 80MP. From there he continued "down" to the Pentax 645z, which he has used for several years, and now he's excited about the GFX 50S.
He also shared some prints from GFX images that he recently made at a western National Park. Print quality, as you would expect, looks really good. (These images were made not with the Fujifilm lenses, but with adapted Pentax MF lenses.)
Interestingly, we had the same sort of dialog that some of us have tried to have here regarding the pluses and minuses of miniMF and FF alternatives — an angst-free consideration of lots of stuff ranging from large print quality to lens availability, and adaptability to varying sorts of work processes. We both learned a lot.
It seems like with the 100-200mm zoom, the 1.4x TC and the 250mm GF prime all they are missing to get to the 400mm reach your current kit has is a really good 2x TC. How are you feeling about how the lens lineup is shaping up.
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rbf_ wrote:
It seems like with the 100-200mm zoom, the 1.4x TC and the 250mm GF prime all they are missing to get to the 400mm reach your current kit has is a really good 2x TC. How are you feeling about how the lens lineup is shaping up.
They are making progress. The 100-200 (plus the TC) have been on my "need" list. Now they need to fill in between the 32-64 — reportedly with a 45-100 f/4 lens. I'd still like something longer than the 100-200, even with the TC. A friend is using an adapted 150-300mm Pentax, though that isn't a lot longer than 100-200 plus 1.4x TC.
I use a longer lens (a 100-400mm) with my FF system for two things. First, for some long lens landscapes; second for migratory bird photography. I might accommodate myself (though I'm not sure yet) to having only roughly 300mm for landscape, but I need to figure out an option for the wildlife stuff. I've contemplated the possibility that a mirrorless APS-C camera with better AF (which will come) could work for that.
Would a 2x TC plus 100-200mm lens get me there? Maybe, but a couple of concerns. First, 400mm (with the 2X TC) gives me angle of view coverage equivalent to (depending on how you calculate crop factor) not much more than 300mm on full frame. Functionally that's short of 400mm on full frame... but it might be enough. Secondly, I'd need to see how well a 2X converter would work on this lens. Most of the time lenses that work pretty well with a 1.4X TC (see Fujifilm's x-trans camera zooms, for example) don't hit the same level of image quality with a 2X TC. Time will tell.
I'm still at the watching and waiting stage, though, as these things continue to get rolled out. (My friend, coming from LF film and true MF background, doesn't rely on longer focal lengths the way I do.)
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gdanmitchell wrote:
They are making progress. The 100-200 (plus the TC) have been on my "need" list. Now they need to fill in between the 32-64 — reportedly with a 45-100 f/4 lens. I'd still like something longer than the 100-200, even with the TC. A friend is using an adapted 150-300mm Pentax, though that isn't a lot longer than 100-200 plus 1.4x TC.
I use a longer lens (a 100-400mm) with my FF system for two things. First, for some long lens landscapes; second for migratory bird photography. I might accommodate myself (though I'm not sure yet) to having only roughly 300mm for landscape, but I need to figure out an option for the wildlife stuff. I've contemplated the possibility that a mirrorless APS-C camera with better AF (which will come) could work for that.
Would a 2x TC plus 100-200mm lens get me there? Maybe, but a couple of concerns. First, 400mm (with the 2X TC) gives me angle of view coverage equivalent to (depending on how you calculate crop factor) not much more than 300mm on full frame. Functionally that's short of 400mm on full frame... but it might be enough. Secondly, I'd need to see how well a 2X converter would work on this lens. Most of the time lenses that work pretty well with a 1.4X TC (see Fujifilm's x-trans camera zooms, for example) don't hit the same level of image quality with a 2X TC. Time will tell.
I'm still at the watching and waiting stage, though, as these things continue to get rolled out. (My friend, coming from LF film and true MF background, doesn't rely on longer focal lengths the way I do.)
Don't forget to look at the Contax 100-300 Vario-Sonnar it's quite good from the images + reviews I've seen. You can get a Fringer AF adapter that I've heard works quite well and a TC. Clearly the adapted AF won't be up to modern standards but the long options are looking good for this system now. I'm surprised by the reasonable cost of this GF lens given the features I expected to be much more expensive.
p.1 #18 · Fujinon GF 100-200mm f5.6 R LM OIS WR Lens Announced
gdanmitchell wrote:
They are making progress. The 100-200 (plus the TC) have been on my "need" list. Now they need to fill in between the 32-64 — reportedly with a 45-100 f/4 lens. I'd still like something longer than the 100-200, even with the TC. A friend is using an adapted 150-300mm Pentax, though that isn't a lot longer than 100-200 plus 1.4x TC.
I use a longer lens (a 100-400mm) with my FF system for two things. First, for some long lens landscapes; second for migratory bird photography. I might accommodate myself (though I'm not sure yet) to having only roughly 300mm for landscape, but I need to figure out an option for the wildlife stuff. I've contemplated the possibility that a mirrorless APS-C camera with better AF (which will come) could work for that.
Would a 2x TC plus 100-200mm lens get me there? Maybe, but a couple of concerns. First, 400mm (with the 2X TC) gives me angle of view coverage equivalent to (depending on how you calculate crop factor) not much more than 300mm on full frame. Functionally that's short of 400mm on full frame... but it might be enough. Secondly, I'd need to see how well a 2X converter would work on this lens. Most of the time lenses that work pretty well with a 1.4X TC (see Fujifilm's x-trans camera zooms, for example) don't hit the same level of image quality with a 2X TC. Time will tell.
I'm still at the watching and waiting stage, though, as these things continue to get rolled out. (My friend, coming from LF film and true MF background, doesn't rely on longer focal lengths the way I do.)
Right now the GF 250+1.4x in 35mm crop mode gets me pretty close to the long end of the range I need, which is 400mm. I still want a GF 400 or 500, but likely I will have to adapt something like the Pentax 67 400mm f4 ED-IF, which I really don’t want to do. I don’t want to use manual focus, and I don’t want to lose OIS and end up needing a 7th century BC crutch (tripod).
I’ve got my fingers crossed for a 2x. The 1.4x is not like the Canon converters that have been shown to be equaled or beat by cropping. This thing is more like the bottom half of a modular GF 350 f5.6 that lets you remove part of it to create a GF 250 f4.
p.1 #19 · Fujinon GF 100-200mm f5.6 R LM OIS WR Lens Announced
The Contax 100-300 does work well on the GFX. There's a bit of vignetting at shorter lengths, but gone by 150mm or so. All the same, the native GF lenses are so good that I'm planning to get the 100-200 and between that and the 250 + 1.4x that I already have, I doubt that I'll need to keep the Contax after the new lens arrives.
