Fujifilm GFX 100S Review: Medium format power in a smaller body | Engadget

However, Fujifilm rectified all that with the launch of the GFX 100S, a model that looks and feels like a “normal” mirrorless camera, while costing a bundle less at $6,000.The GFX 100S isn’t much bigger than Panasonic’s full-frame, 45-megapixel S1R, but it has a sensor that’s 70-percent larger with more than double the resolution. However, recent full-frame cameras like the Sony A1 manage to combine high-resolution image quality with excellent performance. With that bit of extra latitude, it delivers wider dynamic range than any other camera (apart from the GFX 100) that’s a small notch above the Sony A1 and A7R IV, or Nikon’s Z6 II and Z7 II.The GFX 100S is designed for RAW photography but if you do shoot JPEGs, it delivers sharp, color-accurate images. However, you still have to be very smooth when moving the camera to avoid jolts that can induce rolling shutter, so I’d only use it for static handheld shots and not any tracking, panning or tilting.Like the GFX 100, the GFX 100S offers 4K 10-bit video with Fujifilm’s F-Log option. It’s not meant to be used as a video camera, of course, but it’s fine for occasional video use along with photos.It’s difficult to evaluate a camera like the GFX 100S on the whole, because it’s really designed for specific jobs that require high resolution, like studio, artistic or landscape shooting. Buyers might be weighing this model against other medium format cameras, while also looking at high-resolution full-frame models.Most of the latter are significantly cheaper, including the $3,900, 45-megapixel Canon EOS R5, $3,100, 45-megapixel Nikon Z7 II, 45-megapixel Panasonic S1R and $3,500, 61-megapixel Sony A7R IV. On the medium-format side, buyers may also be looking at the $6,399 Hasselblad 970X 50C, $5,750 Hasselblad X1D II 50C or Fujifilm’s own $4,499 GFX 50R.After using the camera for several days, My photographer friends and I very much appreciated the image quality for studio and archival work. Before testing the GFX 100S they were fairly certain they were going to buy one, but now they’re not as positive.What this shows to me is that Sony and Canon have set extremely high standards for autofocus with relatively high megapixel cameras.