Digital camera and lens costs hold going up, however someway, Fujifilm’s newest medium format mirrorless flagship features a bunch of latest options however prices considerably lower than its predecessor. Fujifilm has introduced its new GFX100 II digicam at its X Summit livestream from Stockholm, Sweden, and along with a brand new sensor, new subject-detecting autofocus, and full-width 4K video, the brand new digicam could have a value of $7,499 when it comes out within the fall, about $2,500 lower than the GFX100.
Couple that with a brand new $2,299 55mm f/1.7 R WR lens (equal to a 44mm in full body) and a pair of tilt-shift 30mm and 110mm lenses ($3,999 and $3,499, respectively) additionally launching within the fall, and the considerably dormant GFX line immediately appears to be like to have some life in it.
At first look, the GFX100 II appears to be like extra like its lower-cost GFX100S cousin than the unique GFX100 it’s poised to interchange. The 100 II has a shorter, extra standard-size physique that’s smaller and lighter than its tall-boy forebear. The vertical grip is now an optionally available add-on, however what the brand new digicam loses in stature, it tries to make up for in specs. The GFX100 II’s 43.8 x 32.9mm sensor, which has 1.7x extra floor space than the 35mm full body, maintains the identical 102-megapixel decision, however its ISO vary now hits a decrease ground with a variety of 80 to 12,800 (slightly than its predecessor’s 100 to 12,800 vary), and its full-width 4K recording can now do 60 frames per second, twice its earlier body price.
102-megapixel stills and 8K video
Additionally within the pace division, the GFX100 II borrows the fifth-generation X-Processor from Fujifilm’s X-H2S and X-H2 cameras. Together with the processor comes subject-detection autofocus and the power to document 4:2:2 10-bit Apple ProRes to its twin SDXC or CFexpress Kind-B reminiscence playing cards.
As well as, the GFX100 II’s new tips embrace permitting that very same topic monitoring for use in video, and the digicam can obtain 8K / 30p recording when cropped to 1.44x — which would be the true pixel-to-pixel 8K decision on its medium format sensor. There’s no telling simply but how the digicam’s mixture of a smaller physique and 8K recording will have the ability to deal with overheating; Fujifilm has made its present add-on cooling fan appropriate with the GFX100 II to attempt to help.
Whereas all that’s nice for video, photographers could respect that the GFX100 II has a brand new 9.44 million-dot digital viewfinder, can shoot as much as 8fps (fairly quick for medium format), has a brand new movie simulation referred to as Reala Ace (based mostly on Reala shade detrimental movie), and its adjustable rear LCD rapidly tilts up, down, or to the facet like that of the Fujifilm X-T5. Remember the fact that whereas this fashion of display could also be quicker to deploy for fast from-the-hip photographs, it sacrifices the power to level ahead for self-recording.
The GFX100 was a effectively regarded but specialised digicam when it got here out in 2019, and now the GFX100 II’s extra aggressive pricing and smaller kind issue appear geared toward making Fujifilm’s flagship extra approachable to those that need to make the leap to medium format. It’s nonetheless an expensive system, but it surely wasn’t a few years in the past that simply being within the medium format dialog simply meant a value of $20,000 to $40,000 or extra for a digicam physique designed to reside within the studio. The GFX100 II appears to be like about as jack-of-all-trades as medium format has ever been for a value that’s a fraction of what it was once.