This weekend in Christchurch Fujifilm NZ had an exhibition of photographs curated from the work of 26 New Zealand amateur and professional photographers.
Ira and Craig from Fujifilm NZ were on hand to help with questions about equipment and I had the opportunity to play with a GFX100.
The big deal is the 100mp large format sensor and in-body image stabilisation combined in a body that feels familiar to anyone owning a X series camera.
It’s been compared to the Canon D series in size. I’ve used a 1D and found it a beast to handle.
On the other hand, even though I’m used to a Fuji X-H1 with no battery grip, as soon as I started using it the GFX100 the camera became invisible. No searching for buttons, or grip or weight or other handling issues. That was a surprise.
I don’t have the fasted sd card, and the buffer started to slow after about 18 shots on high speed, saving as raw plus jpeg. Considering the file sizes that’s good.
Speaking of file sizes, if you are considering purchasing this camera, the raw files are 200mb each and the resulting tiff files start at half a gigabyte each, so you may want to think about drastically upgrading you storage.
How good is the image stabilisation?
Here is a file from the event shot at 1/3 second at f7.1, iso 100 and the 32-64mm lens. HAND HELD.
And a crop:
Did I say this was hand held?
“I would be happy with that” is my understatement of the year.