aerowing wrote:
Here's my crazy suggestion, have you considered GFX? If you are to move to heavier stuff might as well go big and go GFX plus in that way you get to stay with Fuji I really enjoy using adapted T/S lens on GFX for things like buildings and interior of church etc.
Our OP is concerned about bulk and weight for travel, and is happy enough with the APS-C gear that the move to FF is not a slam dunk. Doesn’t seem to fit the use case for GFX, right?
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On a different subject that has come up in this thread… that “normal viewing distance” business only works in some situations.
For example, I’ve sold/licensed some work for quite large reproductions in, for example, retail locations. The largest is 31’ (that’s feet, not inches) in a retail location near a national park. I have not personally seen the installation, but I’ve seen similar installations, for example a full wall-sized image of Pinnacles National Monument at my local REI store.
Here that “viewing distance” principle works quite well. Virtually no one walks up to the wall to count the needles on a tree, instead the images are almost always just environmental background. I think there are other, smaller instances that work the same way. For example, I have some relatively large prints in places like restaurants where it is hard to imagine many people (OK, a few oddball photographers excluded) excusing themselves from the table before the desert course to go inspect for sharpening halos at “nose-length distances.)
However…
I’ve also seem large work that has different aspirations in galleries, museums, and private collections where viewers initially look from “normal viewing distances” but they get additional pleasure by moving it closer to see what is revealed close up.
This isn’t odd at all. We certainly do it with paintings, where it is not at all odd to get in close to see how the brush strokes turn into the impression of, say, light on water. It is also common in music where, while you can enjoy the first movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 knowing little about the details, the “closer you get” to seeing beneath the surface the more you enjoy and are astonished by what goes on.
And, again, there’s the simple practical point that photography has evolved, and photographers (witness these forums) and viewers have different expectations for sharpness than were common a few decades ago.
Sep 24, 2026 at 10:32 AM
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I really enjoy using adapted T/S lens on GFX for things like buildings and interior of church etc.