Hey Photonauts! I have planned a little photo session this weekend. A portrait session, actually,
and I wanted to buy the 56mm for my X-Pro2, but they sold the last one in the shop. So,
I asked them if they could borrow me the this guy and they actually said yes, which is fantastic!
So, we can do a little unboxing of this. It is not the retail version, it's a demo,
but there's no difference at all. So, we just start. Here we go!
So we have: One box - another box - the camera.
A CD with all the manuals in all the languages. A warranty thing. The booklets.
These are international adapters for the charger.
The accessories: Shoulder strap. Battery. Cable management adapter. Little connection points for the strap. The charger.
I mean, it's a battery charger. What do you expect. Viewfinder. This is the body.
It is a pretty nice body. Yeah, that sounded a little pervy!
Swivel screen. Battery compartment. (Hot shoe) connector. Dials - they are a little concave. Drive mode.
D-Pad. Can you call that a D-Pad? Yeah. We just call it a D-Pad now.
The joystick. Custom function buttons. That's a nice sensor! Two SD-card lots.
Data port. DC-In. HDMI port and a remote jack. A mic jack and a headphone jack.
Connection point for the grip and a tripod mount (1/4 20).
32-64mm (F/4) zoom lens. That's pretty nice!
The clicky dial for the aperture.
Ok! So! That's the body. That's all! Let's get to the studio and try this out!
Fujifilm made medium format cameras in the past, but the GFX 50S is their first digital, mirrorless camera
with a sensor larger than full frame. Its main selling points: way less expensive than
other medium format cameras, way smaller body, 51 megapixel sensor with a size of 44x33mm, three lenses
to choose from at the initial release and three more later this year. That's a lot of promises for a first-gen product.
I'll say this right away: I really loved using the GFX at the studio. One thing becomes clear as soon as you start
shooting though: the thing isn't meant for fast action shots. The autofocus doesn't hunt, but it's still
pretty slow, the time between hitting the button and the moment the curtain shutter is pulled back again
after the exposure feels like an eternity. But, to my surprise, every single frame I shot was tack-sharp.
When I checked the first few frames on the screen, which is fittingly vivid and crisp, I quickly learned to
trust the autofocus' accuracy. Talking about sharp, the photos the camera produces are almost unflatteringly
sharp, so that I even turned back clarity a little in post. The colors are incredibly accurate and lifelike
in a way that I've seen with no other camera I've owned. The dynamic range is simply unreal!
Proof is in the pudding right? Well, look at this picture! Looks good? Ok, here's the unreal part:
This is how the picture came out of the camera! For some reason the flash didn't fire, so that the exposure
that came out of the camera was actually pitch-black! This is how much detail I could still recover in Lightroom
from the raw file, without much effort tweaking the colors. It's grainy but still very useable if you ask me.
Body design and button layout are comparable to what we've come to know and love from
the X System cameras. So, if you've owned any other Fuji X camera before, you'll feel right at home.
A similarly articulated screen as the X-T2, D-Pad, joystick, clickable dials any lots of customizable buttons.
The small screen on top of the body shows battery-level and, if there's an SD card in at least one of the
two slots, the remaining shots, even when the camera's turned off. Handling the big 32-64mm f/4 lens was
no issue, even without the vertical grip. It feels heavy, but not heavier that your average Pro DSLR.
Considering this is a Medium Format camera though, that's still pretty light! The viewfinder is amazing.
It's huge! There's also a swiveling adapter for it but to be frank, sorry Fuji but 649€ for a hinge? Really?
The battery is obviously bigger than the ones we know from most X cameras. It's rated at 400 shots,
but you'll probably get more than that out of one charge.
As a bottomline, this camera will open up the medium format class to many photographers,
that couldn't afford one before. I still can't justify a budget like that for a camera that I couldn't use for
all of my gigs, but that's just me. It definitely will be a dream come true for many studio and
landscape shooters. I will probably wait for a second generation, but let's see how the autofocus capabilities
and general operation speed will still improve over time on the GFX 50S. Because when it comes to
firmware updates, as they've shown over and over in the past years, I'm pretty sure Fujifilm won't disappoint.
Big thanks to Isabel for the great shooting, and to Raoul for letting me use the studio. If you liked this video
and would like to learn more about the basics of photography, please subscribe to this channel and
see you in the next one! Bye!
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