Re: GFX100RF or X-T5 for user experience (compared to GFX 100s)
I don’t “carry a trio of lenses around daily.”
My day to day norm is to carry the XT5 with only the 27mm f2.8 pancake.
For travel, when I want a bit more flexibility/adaptability, I bring along the 14mm and 50mm lenses. I may carry one or both of them in addition to the 27mm or leave them behind as circumstances warrant.
I am not “burdened” by this. I travel extensively, in clouding internationally, for weeks or months with only carry-on luggage — a overhead bin size backpack plus a small shoulder bag.
Or, in the case of my current travels (writing from northern Scotland) there are landscape options. So I brought just one prime, the 27mm, plus two zooms more suitable to the potential subjects.
In other words, this approach lets me choose anything from a tiny system (XT5 with only the tiny pancake) to something more adaptable and flexible as photographic circumstances warrant.
JustAHouseCat wrote: gdanmitchell wrote: Lukacs wrote:
-Where do yo find X100VI mushy at pixel level? If at F4 on center than the problem may the too high pixel density of the sensor, at f2-2.8 close to edges the reason is the lens performance. If you are ok with f4 center sharpness than an X-T5 is a possible ILCE alternative, but only with top tier primes, like 18 f1.4 or 33 f1.4. Or you can just resize to 24MP if you want better pixel level sharpness.
I once made a 40” wide print of a XT5 shot using the 27mm f2.8 at f5.6 just to see how it would turn out… and it actually looked quite good.
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JustAHouseCat wrote: gdanmitchell wrote: JustAHouseCat wrote: gdanmitchell wrote:
I can make excellent (salable) 20” x 30” print using my XT5. Do your requirements exceed that? If not, there is little reason to give up the full controls, the interface, and the small size of that camera for the larger format.
Indeed, if you work carefully and then zoom way in on images on your computer screen the larger format can record a bit more detail… that you are unlikely to see in normal reproductions, even at relatively large sizes.
And you can select the lenses that best match your needs and preferences. Put one of the Fuji pancakes on it and the package is very small, or switch to any other lens that suits you needs.
The biggest reason most people have for higher than 40MP is better cropping and less false colors/moire. The real question is how much do you actually use IBIS on a 28mm lens. It's more useful on telephotos but with with wider angles I essentially only use it for night time suburban landscapes. I don't really miss it on a camera like this since it could never replace an ILC and instead is meant for traveling/street/documentary work.
I do wish the lens was f/2.8 and a bit bigger even if this camera is mostly made for shooting slower apertures.
I do half of my photography on Fujifilm x-trans, and I don’t see problems with “false colors/moire.”
I definitely use IBIS on wide lenses, especially for interiors and for night street photography. It is one of those features with no real downside and plenty of real-world upsides.
It still just seems bizarre to me that people would spend twice the price or more to carry a larger camera with limited maximum aperture and a wide angle lens that must be cropped for a whole lot of shots… when they could have an excellent smaller, lighter camera with exactly the lens(es) they need that will produce quality that, in some cases, exceeds the cropped images they’ll end up with on the larger fixed-lens, non-IBIS camera.
x-trans still experiences false colors and moire it's just better at them at the cost of software not being optimized for and under some circumstances noise looking weird and worm like.
The reason is resolving power and weight. IBIS has a downside in making cameras larger and hotter. I wouldn't hate if it was in the GFX100RF but truthfully I don't need it for a camera like that. It would only ruin the camera by making it bigger for something most people barely use. You can handhold the thing down to like 1/30th pretty easily and if your careful 1/15th. I don't need to go lower on that. I also don't want a little camera and a bag of lenses. Changing lenses in the field is a vibe kill and it just means you are spending less on a camera and more on buying a collection of lenses. I have done that for nikon but truthfully I do 90% of my shooting at either 28mm or 35mm. 100mp in a compact package is better for that then something 40mp with a bag full of lenses.
These days IBIS barely adds any bulk or weight to cameras — the mechanism has become quite small. I have never heard of anyone having a real world problem with heart generated by I IS.
“Bag full of lenses” sounds pretty dire, doesn’t it? ;-)
For street and travel I carry three: 14mm f2.8, 27mm f2.8, 50mm f2. Tiny load.
I sense that you REALLY want to own a RF, and that there is some motivated reasoning going on here. ;-)
I currently own a GFX100rf after trying the Nikon Zf/z5ii and the x100vi when it first came out. The IBIS in the x100vi is indeed small but that is mostly due to smaller sensors requiring smaller movements to correct them. A larger IBIS unit for medium format takes quite a lot more space than a ASPC one and would add much more than a few millimeters larger body to support them and would generate a substantial amount of heat. I could see some OIS potentially being in any future GFX100rf releases but IBIS is mostly useful for telephoto focal lengths and reducing any sort of movement from the focal plane shutter. If Fujifilm could find a way to add stabilization to future GFX100rf's without adding bulk or heat to the camera that would be fantastic and I would be one of the sheep preordering. I just don't think that's realistic.
More power to anyone who wants to carry a trio of lenses around daily. I prefer to move through the world as weightless and unabated as possible. I have no problem losing resolution to cropping when it's a 100mp but I don't want to be slowed down by switching lenses and carrying a shoulder bag of weight that I may not use. ILCs are pretty mediocre at capturing the spontaneous moments of life that I use the GFX100rf for.
May 16, 2026 at 01:51 AM
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