Anyone have more info on the Fuji trade-in program, to get $500 of a GFX camera?
Says you have to buy at full price (I get it), and then send in your "good working condition, interchangeable, FF or APS-C camera", fill out some form, and then some day you get your $500...
What I don't see is any indication you get paid for what you send it, in addition to the $500...
Nor do I see anywhere where it says how much your old beater might be worth.
It doesn't seem like such a great deal as there's no mention of getting anything for your camera. Most good working condition interchangeable lens cameras are worth more than $500, and you can often find a better price than "full retail" on the new camera. Hard pass for me, even though I like the GFX system and would love to try a 100SII.
RWNPhoto wrote:
Yeah, or just keep my Z8 and forget it.
Don’t know anything about the trade in specifically, but will add a thought for you.
The things you gain over the Z8 are a bigger file of course, a bit more l attitude/DR, a bit more file detail and Fuji color, along with some excellent baked in film emulations. The gains here are frankly subtle, and other than net file size will mainly be seen while pixel peeping. ISO noise is about a wash. Handling is actually pretty similar. What you’ll lose is the Z8’s significantly better AF and broader range of optics. I don’t see any MF platform as replacing what Fx does best; but it excels at studio, lifestyle, architecture and landscape. As such I think it’s more an “in addition to” system. Hope this helps in some small way.
RWNPhoto wrote:
Anyone have more info on the Fuji trade-in program, to get $500 of a GFX camera?
Says you have to buy at full price (I get it), and then send in your "good working condition, interchangeable, FF or APS-C camera", fill out some form, and then some day you get your $500...
What I don't see is any indication you get paid for what you send it, in addition to the $500...
Nor do I see anywhere where it says how much your old beater might be worth.
That is the question(s)....
One thing to consider, at least if you are not in a white-hot hurry to buy right now, is that Fujifilm often has $500 off (and sometimes more) deals on these cameras. You could wait for one of those offers and keep your old camera… or sell it or or give it to someone who could use it but can’t afford it. And you’d actually come out ahead.
I feel like these cameras trade-in offers are marginally only interesting at all to people with non-functional cameras to trade in.
Jack Flesher wrote:
Don’t know anything about the trade in specifically, but will add a thought for you.
The things you gain over the Z8 are a bigger file of course, a bit more l attitude/DR, a bit more file detail and Fuji color, along with some excellent baked in film emulations. The gains here are frankly subtle, and other than net file size will mainly be seen while pixel peeping. ISO noise is about a wash. Handling is actually pretty similar. What you’ll lose is the Z8’s significantly better AF and broader range of optics. I don’t see any MF platform as replacing what Fx does best; but it excels at studio, lifestyle, architecture and landscape. As such I think it’s more an “in addition to” system. Hope this helps in some small way. ...Show more →
I completely agree with the above, including the "in addition to". I absolutely love my relatively new GFX 100S II, but would never fully replace my A1 or A7R5 with it (or Z8, if that is what I shot). One thing I really enjoy is viewing my GFX RAW files at 100/200% and experiencing all that glorious detail on my 5K monitor, even knowing that I will not see a lot of such detail in the final images sizes I commonly output to.
These trade in things used to be common a few years back, and the terms were always pretty generous about what cameras qualified as a trade in. I saw numerous accounts of people getting $30 beater DSLRs off Craigslist and using that as their "trade". Much better than getting a lowball quote on a real camera...worth checking the fine print.
