Re: Official: Fujifilm GFX 50S Medium Format Announced!
Lee Saxon wrote: gdanmitchell wrote:
My general feeling is the one gets miniMF because he/she wants better image quality of one sort or another. For this reason, I don\'t quite get the idea of considering the use of FF lenses that may compromise resolution and/or light transmission near the corners of the 33 x 44 frame.
Well,
(a) at 36x24 crop this is still a 30.6 megapixel sensor, that\'s nothing to sneeze at
(b) Fuji has listened to many of the desires of the potential market for this camera, so there\'s every reason to hope it has a quality imaging pipeline and uncooked raw at least on par with pro DSLRs (which would make it the only mirrorless option [with a focal plane shutter] which does)
(c) As Fred mentioned, the Tilt/Shifts would *actually* cover 44x33 (and still have room for some movements). A Canon 13mm f/3.3 with some movements? That\'s pretty frakking cool.
Now, I don\'t think this camera is a good investment if that\'s all you\'re going to use it for. But if you\'d also use it \"right\" (buy native lenses or adapt other MF ones), the above are some neat \"bonus\" possibilities.
Myself, I think Sony is going to realize that designing cameras to up-sell NEX customers (A7 series) isn\'t going to get them everywhere they want to go and finally design one to convert pro DSLR users (A9). And by then (or immediately thereafter), Canon and Nikon are finally going to get with the 21st century. I\'m leaning toward waiting for that.
Note: I\'m not dissing the camera, just trying to get an objective idea of which hopes and claims are correct and also of which may be somewhat unrealistic.
For example, regarding the use of FF-oriented TS lenses, while they might give coverage of the larger (by nearly twice as much) 33 x 44 frame, they would not likely be usable across the full range of their movements. I have no doubt that there might be some photographers interested in such an arrangement (and more power to them!) but I am pretty sure that the number would be a lot less than, say, those who would be interested in TS lenses that do provide full movement range — and that this especially likely to be true among the kinds of photographers who would spend nearly $10k for such a camera.
Again, I\'m impressed with the camera, but I just think some of the (plausible) ideas for adapting lenses are not going to be all that appealing to many users. On the other hand, I\'m confident that adapters that allow the use of non-Fujifilm MF lenses on the camera will be more popular.
Make sense?
Dan
Sep 22, 2016 at 05:45 PM
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