Fujifilm has unveiled the GFX 100S with an enormous 102-megapixel medium-format sensor and a surprisingly compact physique. It’s truly smaller than Panasonic’s full-frame S1R and only a bit heavier than the Canon R5 and Sony’s A7R IV. Nonetheless, it has extra options than Fujifilm has ever packed right into a GFX digital camera, together with in-body stabilization, improved autofocus and spectacular 4K functionality.
Unveiled together with the newly designed X-E4, the GFX 100S packs a back-illuminated, large-format 102-megapixel sensor. That enables for high-detail pictures with “sufficient dynamic vary to permit for astonishing push and pull changes in post-production,” Fujifilm stated. You will get even larger decision photographs as much as 400-megapixels in dimension utilizing Fuji’s Pixel Shift Multi-Shot function, in case you’re keen to make use of a tripod.
Gallery: Fujifilm’s GFX 100S has an enormous 102-megapixel sensor and a compact physique | 25 Pictures
Gallery: Fujifilm’s GFX 100S has an enormous 102-megapixel sensor and a compact physique | 25 Pictures
On the design entrance, the GFX 100S appears to be like completely different than all earlier GFX cameras. It’s smaller, to start out with, with the weatherproof physique weighing in at simply 900 grams or 1.9 kilos. It now has a big prime show rather than the shutter velocity dial discovered on the GFX 50S, and a mode dial as a substitute of an ISO dial. All of these issues are set utilizing the back and front dials as a substitute, with the highest show offering a dial-like view of the settings. Additionally new is an AF joystick.
With the corporate’s newest X-Processor, it may possibly shoot at as much as 5 fps — spectacular contemplating the big picture sizes. It’ll be simpler to maintain these photographs sharp in low mild as properly, because of the 5-axis in-body stabilization that may cut back shake by 6 stops.
The brand new processors additionally permit it to focus as shortly as 0.16 seconds in very low mild all the way down to -5.5EV. That’s aided by phase-detect pixels that cowl almost 100% of the body. It additionally contains steady AF monitoring and face/eye detection that’s superb for the kind of portrait work a digital camera like that is designed for.
If you wish to shoot 4K video with shallow, cinematic depth of subject, the GFX 100S is Fujifilm’s most succesful massive sensor digital camera but. You possibly can shoot 4K at as much as 30 fps in 10-bit 4:2:0 F-log recording internally, or output at 10-bit 4:2:2 F-Log or 12-bit RAW to an exterior recorder. 1080p slo-mo is proscribed to 60 fps, nevertheless. Recordsdata might be recorded both in Lengthy Gop (200 Mbps) or All Intra at as much as 400 Mbps.
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The GFX 100S has the identical battery discovered within the X-T4, however can ship as much as 460 photographs on a cost, Fujifilm stated. Nonetheless, it’s not out there with a battery grip just like the GFX 50S. Different options embody a 3.69 million dot OLED colour viewfinder with 100% protection, twin SD UHS-II card slots, micro-HDMI, microphone, headphone and USB-C 3.2 ports and a 2.36 million dot, three-direction tilt contact show.
With the GFX 100S, Fujifilm has made a giant step towards making its massive format cameras extra trendy, but it surely doesn’t come low cost. It’ll arrive in March 2021 for $6,000 for the physique solely. Fujifilm additionally unveiled the GF80mm f/1.7 lens, a particularly quick prime that can create “superbly easy bokeh,” in line with Fujifilm. It additionally arrives in March for $2,300.
