Re: Official: Fujifilm GFX 50S Medium Format Announced!
Everyone is different when it comes to preferences for travel and photography.
I\'m pretty darned serious about my photography all the time, including when I travel. But for the sort of travel photography I do — mostly street photography and similar, including a lot of handheld night photography at high ISO — my personal approach is to use a smaller camera than the 51MP full frame gear I use for landscape.
Since I\'m shooting handheld, the potential for higher image resolution isn\'t a realistic factor — handholding the camera essentially negates that — and the advantages of smaller and lighter equipment are substantial, allowing me to make photographs that I would find difficult or impossible to make with larger cameras and lenses.
So, for me the appeal of the miniMF systems such as the Fujifilm system or the Pentax 645z and so forth is more about what they can do when I\'m traveling \"heavy\" (though less heavy than old-school MF) and working from the tripod.
YMMV,
Dan
rbf_ wrote: chez wrote: rbf_ wrote: chez wrote: Matt Grum wrote:
Ian Boys wrote:
I wonder if a GFX and single 63mm paired with an X100T (or F!) might not be a good combination? A small camera for travel and \"informal\" and a large one for formal.
The thing is I can never predict when I will come across some incredible scene or amazing lighting, So I want my \"small camera for travel\" to give the highest resolution possible.
Matt, I\'m the same as you. When I travel, I want to bring back images from the amazing places I travel to...many of these images are landscapes which I\'d like the option of printing big. Leaving my main landscape outfit ( GFX ) at home because it\'s too big and bulky just would not fly with me.
My travel setup is a combination of A7R and A6000. I use the A7R when I\'m out specifically to shoot photos and the A6000 when photography is secondary like eating out. This combination really works nicely for me and the weight / bulk is very manageable.
I find the lenses to be the bulky part of traveling with kit. I\'m quite happy with the quality I get out of the X system and I don\'t have to leave lenses at home when I travel and can carry it all onboard the plane with me. Having the right lenses available also affects image quality, it\'s not just megapixels the way I look at it
With the Loxia and batis lenses, I\'m not giving up anything in bulk or image quality.
I just can\'t see myself in beautiful locations like Iceland with only a crop camera and only 24mpix. That would definitely be a step back for my large prints.
I guess I have to ask why anyone would by a GFX and not take it to all the exciting places in our world...why would you take your crop and leave this great camera at home?
Let\'s stop trying to conflate general travel with photography centered trips like going to Iceland with the specific goal of being there to do \'landscape photography\'. My last several trips this were to NYC thrice, Vegas twice and a number of other cities. I wouldn\'t bring a medium format camera to any of them even if I had it. I\'d also prefer my lens kit which is much more flexible than a kit like you refer too. I also don\'t like E mount much, I don\'t care what sensor is in a E mount camera. I\'m just not interested it doesn\'t work for me. Please stop trying to \'sell\' me it.
Oct 12, 2016 at 10:40 AM
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