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 p.66 #3 · Fujifilm GFX100RF Discussion and Image Thread | |
h00ligan wrote:
I don’t take issue with post - but there’s a personal limit. I wouldn’t feel I was an accomplished photographer If it took me 600 shots of a crowd and an 80% drop to find something that seemed interesting. I may feel like an accomplished editor though.
Honestly I think many of us would love a crystal clear 200mp fixed lens camera that allowed massive crops and gave us ilc like results, but fit in a jacket pocket. I’d take that - but I’d also probably shoot to the focal length most of the time. I’m still a bit at odds with the x100vi cropping. 50mm (which I may now prefer to 35) is 20mp still I think. But the raw is 35mm and 4mp, So maybe saving some room for my inevitable errors!
It’s still the age old question, is photography made in the camera, in the camera plus dark room type enhancements, anything that’s not ai, etc. everyone has a different line.
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With a range of 28 - 50 (reasonable crop, retaining MP's similar to 24MP camera cropped to 4:3 format for 3:2) ... I was reminded of the Leica MATE Tir-Elmar with a 28 / 35 / 50 focal length with an f/4 aperture. While this isn't a zoom lens per se, and it can still be an ILC, there are folks who appreciate the "single lens" package, and the f/4 (non-IBIS M) isn't a bother. There is a different in MTF between the three focal lengths, and that is an acceptable quid pro quo for the convenience of the focal length variation without the need for swapping lenses.
The GFX 100RF ... while using a crop function, rather than an optical function ... imo, puts the camera very much into this same ethos of not wanting to swap lenses. Personally, I think that it makes sense to pair it with a second body, likely mated to a portrait / tele / UWA or uber-fast optic (of one's choosing). I can see for some shooters, this being their mainstay ... and having their second body (e.g. an XT-5, etc.) smaller, and with all the goodies of faster AF / IBIS / other glass options.
For someone who is rooted in the 28-50 realm, it's likely a good space to play in. I mean, the native 35mm lens (i.e. 3:4 crop option) still puts you in the 50MP ballpark territory ... which (aperture / OIS aside) puts you into Q2 territory, but with a 35mm FOV (which would be cropped to less than 47MP to achieve) or Q3 territory cropped to 35mm.
WRT to reviewers:
In some regard, I expect the form factor of how folks bond with it once they get it in their hands is going to be a key element. The point about reviewers giving us insight into AF performance and lens performance ... well, they can't really give us that final piece of how well we interface with it. Sure, they can tell us how THEY interface with it ... but, they aren't us. That's something that everyone has to figure out for themselves, and there will be folks on all sides of that camp. Love it, hate it, meh, etc.
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