RoamingScott wrote:
So far we have 2 owl photos that would have looked as good on a tele at half the price and some out of focus flowers. Still waiting on the photos that make this lens worth the spend.
Of course, any of them would probably look infinitely better if EMBEDDED instead of uploaded to FM as I've said 1000 times, but if you're gonna upload bad quality, I have to assume the output matches.
That people sit around handwriting what I shoot makes me laugh. Rent is free apparently these days.
It is good that you admit that the owl photos are in focus at last, it would have been even better if you did it openly. Once again you are wrong though, the flower photos are also in focus. And don't blame people for uploading. It is perfectly fine to post images that are not in 5K resolution. If you require from people who post images that they have to prove that they could not have been made with a smaller camera, that is your point of view. People are free to present their images as they like. But don't come with false claims based on your viewing method.
I haven't yet had time to thoroughly test this 500 gf on gfx100ii but whoever says it struggles to focus I disagree, in fact I was impressed even on very small subjects and with speeds of 1/250 sec the example of only one photo right out of the box.. I will test next time permitting https://zoomhub.net/oDXkJ
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deevee wrote:
Great details here
What do you think about this combo GFX100SII + 500 for BIF?
Thanks
I have to say up front I'm definitely not skilled in wildlife photography, but if I can use shooting my young daughter as a proxy then I would say don't count on this combination for fast moving or flying birds. I can see how this would work well for owls and anything else that sits still or moves slowly, but the AF system feels ~1-2 generations behind the current FF systems.
ketang wrote:
Watch out guys, future Wildlife Photographer of the Year material here. Full image then 100% crop. Detail is pretty crazy.
Ketang, those are very tight!
It has been quite a while since I've posted to Fred Miranda, but I caught this thread about the GF 500mm and skimmed through some of the posts. I wrote the "Backyard Birding" article that is posted on our Capture Integration site.
I've seen some of the debate about whether one would shoot this system for wildlife now with this lens or stay with their Nikon/Sony/Canon, and I don't really see it that way. I see it more as someone who is interested in this camera system might now find another reason to consider it as the GF 500mm fills a very big hole. I think you can make legitimate arguments that a 35mm system (of which we do not sell) is a better overall system for dedicated wildlife photography. But then again, the Fuji GFX system could also be argued to be a superior quality system that also has the capability for wildlife use. And the importance of this lens is that you couldn't make that statement previously.
But also, auto focus advancements of the GFX 100 II and GFX 100S II cameras are a critical element of that. If Fuji came out with just the 500mm lens, but the cameras were still at the GFX 100 and 100S (pre-version II model) level, the opportunity for wildlife use would not be as compelling. Certainly, for medium format, the GF 500mm is a big step forward, Fuji is all alone there, relative to other medium format options (Phase One, Hasselblad), when it comes to photographing wildlife.
Finally got my GFX100S back from Imaging By Design. Must say, they did a great job on the full spectrum conversion. I've seen posts on the astro forums where people had terrible IR contamination from the shutter optocoupler, but mine is extremely minimal due to the way they did the conversion (replacement quartz glass in the original filter frame).
Anyway, the 500mm doesn't have an IR hotspot at any aperture out to f/22, in case anyone was curious
@Peire. Wonderfull images. Offtopic, but do you use any colour preset? If so, which one? Colours look perfectly saturated..not too much...not too little. Especially your first series here...photo number one and 3 in "Some architectural details by GF 500/5.6" Thank you!
Mujabad123 wrote:
@Peire. Wonderfull images. Offtopic, but do you use any colour preset? If so, which one? Colours look perfectly saturated..not too much...not too little. Especially your first series here...photo number one and 3 in "Some architectural details by GF 500/5.6" Thank you!
Thank you Mujabad123 for your kind words.I do not use any presets,but try to take a picture so it requires least possible PP.Then I do 3 steps development from RAW through TIFF to JPEG.I almost never crank up saturation,but only slightly adjust vibrance,white balance,shadows,highlights,whites to taste.
