Looking at the MSRP on the IQ4 backs or even just these lenses, I can't say I'm too surprised you haven't been overrun with people who have experience with them.
You have a GFX100 II as well, don't you? I'm curious what the use cases are for when you'd pick that up versus the XF system.
Lee Saxon wrote:
Looking at the MSRP on the IQ4 backs or even just these lenses, I can't say I'm too surprised you haven't been overrun with people who have experience with them.
You have a GFX100 II as well, don't you? I'm curious what the use cases are for when you'd pick that up versus the XF system.
A friend used a Phase One back system some years back before eventually moving the Pentax 645z and eventually GFX. He used ot refer to his Phase system as his “million dollar back,” given its then-stratospheric pricing.
Lee Saxon wrote:
Looking at the MSRP on the IQ4 backs or even just these lenses, I can't say I'm too surprised you haven't been overrun with people who have experience with them.
You have a GFX100 II as well, don't you? I'm curious what the use cases are for when you'd pick that up versus the XF system.
Indeed.
Well I end up using the GFX-100II way more often.
The main issues with the Phasone system are focusing and weight/bulk. I consider it to be an MF system and that doesn't match my portrait shooting style (anymore). For landscape it's just too heavy for what I do.
Image quality is very nice, the XF has many unique capabilities and some of the lenses (the Bluering 35, 45, 120 and 150mm f2.8 among others) are just amazing.
I have been considering selling the Phase system many times. But have kept it so far. Keeping only some of the lenses (the 45mm and 150mm for example) and adapting them to the Fuji is one option, hence the adapter question.
