Big sensors need big mountains and we NEED you to keep making videos for a good 5 years! Jaw dropping scenes, dude!! This one video contains better photos than some people’s entire portfolio.
3 things I want to leave a comment on (😀): 1 - Dylan, the style of these videos (the way you shoot them and then edit them with a musical accompaniment) is so meditative for me. I said it before and I keep wanting to say it after watching yet another video, the sheer beauty your eye catches and translates into these images is simply satisfying, and inspiring. It often feels like a dose of a beauty booster. Thank you for putting it all out and learning to tackle this darn YT. 2-My favorite moment of the video this time is around 12:25, with the tension/action music on the background of the moody blue mountains. :D I stored this in my memory (actually, I should put it in my Notion for future reference) for when I want to shoot a music video for one of my songs. It's very inspiring. 3 - my second fav moment is 2 kissing crows on the tree (~13:22). Aren't they the cutest?
Oh my gosh you are so kind. 🥹 1 - I don’t even know what to say. This totally makes my day and is so great to hear! It is easy to be discouraged by the amount of work and time it takes to put something like this together. 2 - Ahhh I loved that location so much that I had to switch up the pacing a bit there, I’m glad you liked how it transitioned into that part! 3 - OK RIGHT?!
@@DylanSpitz "It is easy to be discouraged by the amount of work and time it takes to put something like this together" - absolutely can relate! That's why I feel so strongly about supporting us fellow creators, I know how much of creative juice even the smallest amount of pleasant words provide to go forward.🖤
Holy smokes mate, the colour grade on your video and stills is incredible. You really know how to pull the best colours out of that fuji system. Epic stills, insanely beautiful footage. Slow clap
Your review was so cool and human. You are such a warm person with sound conversational skills. I stumbled on your channel for photography but liked your personality even more! Keep up the good work and load up the timeless memories!
super relaxing watch with some fried rice after a tough day. would love to see a review on the small end with the XM5 coming out soon:) keep up the good work brother!!
Small question - what do you think about video quality straight out of this camera? I am thinking about getting it for shooting my reviews in a bit more detailed way with standard 35-70 zoom and maybe macro lenses on some adapter. Do you think it will be a suitable pick? Thank you in advance, I liked watching your review. :)
“I WAS sad to send it back” sold me on it. The review was great. I’ve been with canon for 20 years and am looking to up my images. It feels like the next step as I have always been a fine art landscape photographer. Great review!
Fellow Washingtonian here. Absolutely love your style. So glad that I found this channel. btw, can you name the glacier towards the end of the video where you talk about weather sealing.
These were incredible photos and I love that this focused on actually using the camera and not the specs! Hopefully we'll see some in a book at some point? 👀
I use this camera regularly along with the x2d. I’m fortunate I know. I have to say your photography is superb. A great eye for framing and composition. 👌🏻🍻
I have had a GFX 50S for less than a year at this point and it’s been great. I have 0 GFX lens. All my photos were shot with Pentax 646, Mamiya 645, a few Nikon F lenses on manual, automatic adapters and Mamiya 645 focal reducer. Recently, I got a technical camera with Mamiya RB67 lens board on front and GFX mount on rear, I’m experimenting more with this setup in the future. My experience with M645 55/2.8, 80/1.9 and 110/2.8 has been great as well. I wish you get the chance to try these more.
Beautiful photos, thank you for sharing your journey with us. Always refreshing to see a camera review with actual generous amount of photo examples instead of it 80% being a talking head.
Great photos, and I love how you process them! So many UA-cam "pros" seem to over-expose nearly all of their photos, so it must be a matter of taste, but I just don't care for that look. On a horse?? Wow!
I have the 100S; a camera i love to use in the studio; but also for street. The 50mm f3.5 (like a 40mm on FF) is like a pancake; fast AF and great images. The colours and tones are amazing; the level of micro detail is something you notice at once. For lenses i use the 45-100, 80, 50 3.5 and the Laowa Shift 20mm ZeroD for GFX. If ever you have the chance, combine the GFX with the 20mm shift; it is an amazing combination. I even use it as street setup with the shift feature. I process the files on a desktop, 16core 5Hgz Ryzen machine, 64GB RAM; RTX4090; no issues in Capture One! Smooth processing also in photoshop on SSD USB-C. :-) Capture One comes with GFX camera's and is specifically tunes to process the GFX files; all the film profiles are present should you wish to use them; including Acros.
I've been using GFX 100s II now in Australia for 4 months.. I did upgrade it to the 100s II from the 50s II .... both are just absolutely phenomenal cameras and I honestly could not go back to full frame even though I do have a crop sensor camera which is a Fujifilm XT5. I just fell in love with the Fujifilm colours and one of the challenges as you know is that Fuji don't make a full frame camera if they did make a full frame camera I would probably consider buying one but they don't. So once you get beyond the capabilities with dynamic range of the XT5 and the low light performance you've got no other choice but to go GFX and that is one of the reasons why Fuji do have crop and then GFX if they want people to go from one system to another it's very clever actually if you think about it. That said the 100s ii it's just an absolutely divine camera. I've shot sports with it as well and I've shot portraits. I've shot landscapes products you name it. It can do everything and it does everything really well. It's actually a really good all-round camera. It is slightly tricky to use but my goodness the files that come out of that thing our second to none. I had to laugh because I took a similar photo of a horse recently and just the level of detail the horse was near a fence very similar to your shot and I can totally relate to that and until you've sat in front of a computer and seen the files of a GFX camera people won't understand
Hi Dylan, Thank you for the amazing work. Footage and photos are truly beautiful ! I was checking your video as I am wondering if I should buy this camera. I am looking for high pixel camera for a very specific use of high res scan and as I sometime do short architectural video (tripod, slow action...) work I was intrigued of how well this camera does in term of video. your footage look amazing and the most important for me is colors, but I am afraid of this "mushy downsampled 4k" you mention. Hard to notice with the UA-cam compression though. I read that you could record apple pro res 422 only with an ssd attached. was your footage apple pro res ? thanks again for the outstanding work
Hey Dylan, hope you are well and Happy New Year!!! Amazing review on the GFX 100s II! I was wondering if you are a person that enjoy shooting landscape, cityscape, candid, and street would this be a ideal camera for those use or in general a everyday use camera? Thanks!
Hey thank you and happy new year to you as well! It's such a powerful camera, but I think it's less of an everyday camera and more of a "I am going on a photoshoot specifically" type of deal.
Personally I rally loved your video image and coloring, was supprised you felt kind of disappointed with quality as you mentioned. I would though ask you regarding rolling shutter which I think is quite notisable even though you shoot prete stable handheld shots...started following you though great presentation and I think many will order this beast after this awesome review 👍
Hey, thanks so much! Happy to hear you enjoyed the video. I didn't do any rolling shutter specific tests, but yes, it was noticeable compared to cameras with smaller sensors/faster processors. It's a lovely camera! I miss it dearly haha.
Wow, you tooked amazing photos with this great cam, i‘m very impressed. As a Sony Photographer i‘m planning to buy the GFX100SII with the GF 32-64mm lens. I will see, its pretty a lot of Money, bit….
Great video! And review. I also feel the 100S II is a great step forward in most every area from the original 100S, but also know that it still falls a bit short of the 100 II -- not necessarily in IQ, but in the little things that make the 100 II even more of a joy to use. I appreciate your honest, use-based opinions. On another totally different note, what's the blinking-lights-box of wonder over your left shoulder behind you in the A-cam footage? Electro-synth?
Thank you for the kind words! Very glad you enjoyed the video. Yeah, I'd be very curious to try the 100 II... Oh and yes that's my modular synthesizer! Music production was my first love, that thing is my baby haha.
@@DylanSpitz Sweet synth! Makes for an engaging background . . . who needs boring "practicals" when you have mod-synth. :-D Not that you would need to go out of your way to rent/use the 100 II, but I use it weekly for professional client shoots - and keep the 100S II as a backup - and I'll tell you that the 100 II SHINES when it comes to a deeper handgrip (ergo's), using the optional vertical grip for less-fatiguing vertical shooting (and WAY more battery life), slightly snappier AF, and CF-B flexibility (sooooo happy to leave slow and fragile SD cards behind) . . . those things don't add up to $2500 more IQ, but they certainly make up that cost difference in a (IMO) better overall shooting experience if you're behind the camera a lot. Keep up the great work! And I'll be passing thru the PNW soon on a shooting tour . . . I'll bring you some good Midwest beer. ;-)
They are definitely similar as far as the overall palette and the film sims if you’re into that. The fine gradations between colors and such is where you really get the wow factor of the 16-bit files.
Love your videos, the music, the visuals and the images (perfect balance by the way) it’s a relaxing, enjoyable escape if that makes sense. Curious, how long does it take to make a video like this? (editing once you are back with all the footage and images)
Means a lot to hear feedback like that, thank you so much. To answer your question: this one took around 50 hours of work from getting back with the assets to video release.
ive been shooting with this camera and the 80mm for a few months and love it. i was coming from a nikon d5500 so any of these capabilities with AF seems like sci-fi to me. after changing a few of the settings af-c seems to be working well for me for relatively quick shots, there are some misses occasionally but it seems to pick up focus points very well. it definitely performs better in situations where you can control the action and flow, but with a bit of practice and some tweaks in the settings it seems to work acceptable for random quick shots. im curious what adapter you used, im considering trying the fringer to adapt my nikon glass, i cant find many well done unbiased reviews with the 100s II and nikon.
I just used a simple adapter from fotodiox - the lens I adapted was full manual so it didn't require any electronics. Infinity focus seemed spot on and I didn't have any issues with it, so I'd feel safe recommending it.
Appreciate that! Glad you like the music, I started that track like a year ago and had to go back and finish it. Felt right for this video, haha. I am grading it based off of feeling, really. Most of the time that ends up being somewhat close to the images, because it's just my taste guiding my decisions, but I'm just grading it by hand in resolve.
Thank you! Just single point in the smallest box size for landscapes or still scenes - for anything in motion I like the wide/tracking setting and picking the subject type via the q menu
Yup, everything in Canada was shot on the same body. Talking head and such was shot on my sony as always, didn't have the camera anymore at that point.
Thanks for the reply. I guess I don’t do video enough to know, but the quality on your post I thought was actually really good. Maybe the details aren’t there like an image file, but it looked really good, and maybe it’s the lens that gives it a nice rich look
I did not. If I remember right, I don't think there was a setting for that like in some other cameras (i.e. sony) - if it was raw, it was just raw full size. I did choose lossless compressed instead of uncompressed on the file output though.
Great real life review and stunning work across the board. Curious if you've considered swapping to Capture One for editing Fuji-specific files, given the worming issues with Lightroom (especially at this size & sharpness)?
Thanks for watching! I appreciate the kind words. I have not. I have heard some people talk about this and such, but I've never experienced it myself, even when zooming in to 100% on these massive files they were perfectly clean.
@@DanielBerberi you're welcome! And yeah it does occasionally still occur with X Trans sensors in Lightroom but it's gotten a whole lot better over time. Still a bummer it's something we have to watch out for.
I don’t really know what to think about the gfx line. I’ve never owned one but downloaded some raw files from dpreview to play around. The images are outright gorgeous and make me really want to ditch my Canon mirrorless and get a used gfx 100s. I love the thought of capturing images that I can print large without much upscaling (which I do a lot with my R6 II). I guess I would have to live with the inconveniences to get that 🤷♂️ Do you have any experience with the gfx 50s II? 50 megapixels seem much more manageable and I guess the look won’t be much different. Autofocus seems even worse but ok for non moving subjects. Cheers! I really like your photography style ✌️
First off, thanks for the kind words! I appreciate you taking the time to watch the video. The GFX system definitely has a look that I adore, personally. It's half way to magical, lol. I have not tried the 50S or II, personally. The print topic is a good point, I am itching to see one of the shots I took with it from the glacier nice and big on a fine art paper. I've come to the conclusion that every system just has trade offs, ya know? As much as I want there to be a perfect camera, sadly I just don't think it will ever exist...which honestly is probably a good thing and keeps life a bit more interesting, haha.
Everything in life has trade-offs. The key to printing large is viewing distance. Your Canon will provide great large prints, even if it’s 16 MP, you just need to view them at the right distance.
Guys! Why you ever need af-on button when you could half press shutter button? I have more than 15 years of photography experience and this question still with me 😅
Decoupling the focus from timing is a game changer! That and focusing then recomposing without awkwardly keeping half pressure for me is just more comfortable and makes more sense. I disable the shutter af feature the minute I get any camera haha. If I’m touching the shutter it’s because I need it to fire! (I know not everyone does this but I couldn’t function without it)
@@DylanSpitzmaybe I need to try it, thanks for reply. I was event and nightlife photographer back in 2008 and it was a lot of shutters, many hundreds thousands, but nowadays I just shoot for myself and maybe this solution is that what I will found out would be good for me :)
Might be worth a go, it’s easy enough to change back if you don’t end up enjoying it haha. Ooh and yes, I also have a custom button mapped to changing the look in camera- sometimes seeing in black and white can be more motivating in mid-day or not-so-great light. 📸
@@blakehfreeman Thank you. I would still prefer Zero video capabilities. However, I think it is an amazing camera and I will seriously consider the purchase.
I agree, because no camera will improve a photographer’s images. Skill is totally separate from gear, but I can’t review that. All I can do is make the best work that I can during the time I have with a camera for you guys and share my experience. Some of the all time greats were shooting on the equivalent of a potato relative to what we have available today.
@@DylanSpitz I wasn't being critical, and I enjoy equipment reviews. I was more making a technical point that spending more beyond a good FF camera and better glass doesn't yield noticeably better large prints. I used many systems including 4x5 and medium format digital. Hasselblad and Fuji are smart to get their equipment out on the UA-cams. But MF for landscape is one step forward but then one step back due to situations where the MF gear is actually inferior to FF.
Big sensors need big mountains and we NEED you to keep making videos for a good 5 years! Jaw dropping scenes, dude!! This one video contains better photos than some people’s entire portfolio.
Aw shucks, man that is way too kind! Hahahaha I promise that's the goal, man! Folks like you keep me pushing forward.
@@DylanSpitz as long as you promise! lol
Skill share coming aboard is huge, congrats on that as well 🙌🏼
Just 5 years okay? And then no more. 😁
brother 5 years would be great but ideally id like to be playing them in 60 when I'm sitting in my lazyboy, playing sudoku, and drinking ensure.
@@DylanSpitz and he's 100% right!!!
3 things I want to leave a comment on (😀):
1 - Dylan, the style of these videos (the way you shoot them and then edit them with a musical accompaniment) is so meditative for me. I said it before and I keep wanting to say it after watching yet another video, the sheer beauty your eye catches and translates into these images is simply satisfying, and inspiring. It often feels like a dose of a beauty booster. Thank you for putting it all out and learning to tackle this darn YT.
2-My favorite moment of the video this time is around 12:25, with the tension/action music on the background of the moody blue mountains. :D I stored this in my memory (actually, I should put it in my Notion for future reference) for when I want to shoot a music video for one of my songs. It's very inspiring.
3 - my second fav moment is 2 kissing crows on the tree (~13:22). Aren't they the cutest?
Oh my gosh you are so kind. 🥹
1 - I don’t even know what to say. This totally makes my day and is so great to hear! It is easy to be discouraged by the amount of work and time it takes to put something like this together.
2 - Ahhh I loved that location so much that I had to switch up the pacing a bit there, I’m glad you liked how it transitioned into that part!
3 - OK RIGHT?!
@@DylanSpitz "It is easy to be discouraged by the amount of work and time it takes to put something like this together" - absolutely can relate! That's why I feel so strongly about supporting us fellow creators, I know how much of creative juice even the smallest amount of pleasant words provide to go forward.🖤
Your style, color grade and photos are amazing. Thanks for the review and inspiration!
Thank you so much! Incredible to hear that, glad you enjoyed the review.
Holy smokes mate, the colour grade on your video and stills is incredible. You really know how to pull the best colours out of that fuji system. Epic stills, insanely beautiful footage. Slow clap
The slow clap is absolutely appreciated man, haha! Thanks so much for the compliments.
😮 you really captured them mountains. This was incredible.
Appreciate you!
Thanks for making this as it helped me get closer to deciding between 100S II and the 100 II.
Thanks for watching! Appreciate the feedback.
hey ;-) What have you choose ? I am hesitating regarding video capabilities... thx
Canada special! Full screen. Dim the lights. Headphones on.
Incredible as always Dylan. 🎉
I'm honored hahaha, that is the ultimate experience right there.
Always get so inspired after you drop a video. The Location. The color grading. The framing. soooo good
Man, that is all I can ask for. So motivating to hear that.
Your review was so cool and human. You are such a warm person with sound conversational skills.
I stumbled on your channel for photography but liked your personality even more!
Keep up the good work and load up the timeless memories!
Wow, that is so kind of you. I really appreciate it! Very happy you found the channel.
Stunning work on the video and photos dude! The two little birds in the photo at 13:17 was perfect 👌
Thanks a ton! Ahhh yes such a nice little detail there you noticed. 🫶
Just wanted to say that this was the most relaxing video ever. Love all the shots!
That's so awesome to hear - thanks for watching!
super relaxing watch with some fried rice after a tough day. would love to see a review on the small end with the XM5 coming out soon:) keep up the good work brother!!
Ah glad to hear that dude, even if you had a tough day! I’d definitely be up for that, we shall see what the future holds 🤘
Wow, just wow. The video looks phenomenal - surprised to hear you say it looks mushy. Stunning images and video - great work!
Thank you so much for the compliments, I really appreciate that! Yeah once it’s on UA-cam all compressed you can’t tell as much, which is nice 👍
Big sensors need big mountains was all it took for me to hit that subscribe button! Great work man! stoked to see more!
Hahaha! Amazing. Thanks for the support 🙏
Small question - what do you think about video quality straight out of this camera?
I am thinking about getting it for shooting my reviews in a bit more detailed way with standard 35-70 zoom and maybe macro lenses on some adapter. Do you think it will be a suitable pick?
Thank you in advance, I liked watching your review. :)
Great review as always!! I don't know how you do it, but every image/clip you touch, is magic! Maybe it's that double dip trip you got going on! LOL!!
Thanks dude! LOL that’s gotta be it. Nahhh you’ve just got those OG friend blinders on. 😎
“I WAS sad to send it back” sold me on it. The review was great. I’ve been with canon for 20 years and am looking to up my images. It feels like the next step as I have always been a fine art landscape photographer. Great review!
Glad it resonated with you! It was a tough one to let go haha.
Awesome video Dylan. Love your focus on examples over specs. Beautiful work as always.
Thanks so much dude! Really happy you enjoyed it.
guys drop everything! Dylan dropped a new video!!🔥
Hahaha, you legend. 🤘
@ says the legend himself!🤝🏼
Been dying to see this one! Great review of that beast, Dylan, and superb shots. Geeeeez! 👍👍👍💖
Ah thanks, Rachel! Appreciate you watching. It is seriously such a powerful tool.
First time watching your channel - Great work, and I appreciate the inspiration to get out and shoot!
Really kind of you, thanks so much! Appreciate you taking the time to watch.
Wow! Looks like a really wonderful trip. Beautiful images, makes me want to try out that system so bad!
I hope you get to try it out, it’s so nice! I appreciate the kind words, it was a great time. 🤘
Amazing as always! I was really eager to see your take about this camera!
Thanks so much, glad you were looking forward to it!
Oh we’re in for a ride this Tuesday! Thank you Dylan!
Thank YOU! Appreciate your support so much. 🫶
Absolute guru of colors and mood! Thank you for inspiring us!
You are too kind! Thank you so much for being here 🙏
Beautiful video, beautiful pictures, 🔥🔥🔥🔥 looks awesome man been waiting for this vid to drop 🔥
Appreciate you waiting, I'm stoked you enjoyed it! 🔥
Thank you for your honest thoughts on this camera! Great shots, beautiful area!
I appreciate that! Thanks for watching 🙏
Finally!!🎉 Great video my friend!
Thank you for watching! Glad you enjoyed it 🤘
Fellow Washingtonian here. Absolutely love your style. So glad that I found this channel.
btw, can you name the glacier towards the end of the video where you talk about weather sealing.
Glad you enjoyed the video, I appreciate you taking the time to watch. That was called the Athabasca Glacier.
@@DylanSpitz thank you 🙂
These were incredible photos and I love that this focused on actually using the camera and not the specs! Hopefully we'll see some in a book at some point? 👀
Thanks for watching! That would be a goal of mine for sure. 🤘
Incredible!!!, Beautiful landscapes my favourite pics were of the small town! Would love to explore around there..must get back one day!
Thanks a ton! That town was so cool. Felt like being in a novel.
Hey Fuji - give this guy a camera and some glass! This is very good marketing for you ;)
haha! Love to hear it. 🫡
I use this camera regularly along with the x2d. I’m fortunate I know.
I have to say your photography is superb. A great eye for framing and composition. 👌🏻🍻
Hey thank you so much, I appreciate that! Two beautiful cameras you’ve got for sure.
Do you have any opinions on the two? For IQ, what do you prefer?
I have had a GFX 50S for less than a year at this point and it’s been great. I have 0 GFX lens. All my photos were shot with Pentax 646, Mamiya 645, a few Nikon F lenses on manual, automatic adapters and Mamiya 645 focal reducer. Recently, I got a technical camera with Mamiya RB67 lens board on front and GFX mount on rear, I’m experimenting more with this setup in the future.
My experience with M645 55/2.8, 80/1.9 and 110/2.8 has been great as well. I wish you get the chance to try these more.
Sounds like you have a really cool system going!
Beautiful photos, thank you for sharing your journey with us. Always refreshing to see a camera review with actual generous amount of photo examples instead of it 80% being a talking head.
I appreciate that so much, thank you! I just try to make stuff that I’d want to watch and I definitely agree with you on that.
Great photos, and I love how you process them! So many UA-cam "pros" seem to over-expose nearly all of their photos, so it must be a matter of taste, but I just don't care for that look. On a horse?? Wow!
I really appreciate the feedback, and I’m glad you dig the style! Yeahhh the horseback shooting was interesting 😂
I have the 100S; a camera i love to use in the studio; but also for street. The 50mm f3.5 (like a 40mm on FF) is like a pancake; fast AF and great images.
The colours and tones are amazing; the level of micro detail is something you notice at once. For lenses i use the 45-100, 80, 50 3.5 and the Laowa Shift 20mm ZeroD for GFX.
If ever you have the chance, combine the GFX with the 20mm shift; it is an amazing combination. I even use it as street setup with the shift feature.
I process the files on a desktop, 16core 5Hgz Ryzen machine, 64GB RAM; RTX4090; no issues in Capture One! Smooth processing also in photoshop on SSD USB-C. :-)
Capture One comes with GFX camera's and is specifically tunes to process the GFX files; all the film profiles are present should you wish to use them; including Acros.
Been pumped for this!
Hope it’s worth the wait! 🫶
I've been using GFX 100s II now in Australia for 4 months.. I did upgrade it to the 100s II from the 50s II .... both are just absolutely phenomenal cameras and I honestly could not go back to full frame even though I do have a crop sensor camera which is a Fujifilm XT5. I just fell in love with the Fujifilm colours and one of the challenges as you know is that Fuji don't make a full frame camera if they did make a full frame camera I would probably consider buying one but they don't. So once you get beyond the capabilities with dynamic range of the XT5 and the low light performance you've got no other choice but to go GFX and that is one of the reasons why Fuji do have crop and then GFX if they want people to go from one system to another it's very clever actually if you think about it. That said the 100s ii it's just an absolutely divine camera. I've shot sports with it as well and I've shot portraits. I've shot landscapes products you name it. It can do everything and it does everything really well. It's actually a really good all-round camera. It is slightly tricky to use but my goodness the files that come out of that thing our second to none. I had to laugh because I took a similar photo of a horse recently and just the level of detail the horse was near a fence very similar to your shot and I can totally relate to that and until you've sat in front of a computer and seen the files of a GFX camera people won't understand
Yeah the GFX files are truly something else, I'm not sure there's anything quite like them. Thanks for sharing your experience!
@@DylanSpitz and no, I'm not sponsored by Fuji ha ha ..... And yes, I hit the subscribe button thanks for your channel
Fantastic!!! Thanks for the review!
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching 🙏
Hi Dylan,
Thank you for the amazing work. Footage and photos are truly beautiful ! I was checking your video as I am wondering if I should buy this camera. I am looking for high pixel camera for a very specific use of high res scan and as I sometime do short architectural video (tripod, slow action...) work I was intrigued of how well this camera does in term of video. your footage look amazing and the most important for me is colors, but I am afraid of this "mushy downsampled 4k" you mention. Hard to notice with the UA-cam compression though. I read that you could record apple pro res 422 only with an ssd attached. was your footage apple pro res ? thanks again for the outstanding work
Wow!!! Great, great job man
Hey, thank you so much!
Thank you for a wonderful review.
You're very welcome! Glad you enjoyed it.
Hey Dylan, hope you are well and Happy New Year!!! Amazing review on the GFX 100s II! I was wondering if you are a person that enjoy shooting landscape, cityscape, candid, and street would this be a ideal camera for those use or in general a everyday use camera? Thanks!
Hey thank you and happy new year to you as well! It's such a powerful camera, but I think it's less of an everyday camera and more of a "I am going on a photoshoot specifically" type of deal.
"For someone like me who doesn't vlog . . ."
You are literally vlogging!
I’m holding the camera pointed on me on selfie mode?
Personally I rally loved your video image and coloring, was supprised you felt kind of disappointed with quality as you mentioned. I would though ask you regarding rolling shutter which I think is quite notisable even though you shoot prete stable handheld shots...started following you though great presentation and I think many will order this beast after this awesome review 👍
Hey, thanks so much! Happy to hear you enjoyed the video. I didn't do any rolling shutter specific tests, but yes, it was noticeable compared to cameras with smaller sensors/faster processors. It's a lovely camera! I miss it dearly haha.
Wow, you tooked amazing photos with this great cam, i‘m very impressed. As a Sony Photographer i‘m planning to buy the GFX100SII with the GF 32-64mm lens. I will see, its pretty a lot of Money, bit….
Ah thanks! Glad you liked them.
Killer work!
Thanks Nasser!
Great photos and effort but I was expecting little exif info on each photo so I can check the ISO details at least.
gorgeous video!
Thank you so much! Really appreciate you watching!
Great video! And review. I also feel the 100S II is a great step forward in most every area from the original 100S, but also know that it still falls a bit short of the 100 II -- not necessarily in IQ, but in the little things that make the 100 II even more of a joy to use. I appreciate your honest, use-based opinions.
On another totally different note, what's the blinking-lights-box of wonder over your left shoulder behind you in the A-cam footage? Electro-synth?
Thank you for the kind words! Very glad you enjoyed the video. Yeah, I'd be very curious to try the 100 II... Oh and yes that's my modular synthesizer! Music production was my first love, that thing is my baby haha.
@@DylanSpitz Sweet synth! Makes for an engaging background . . . who needs boring "practicals" when you have mod-synth. :-D
Not that you would need to go out of your way to rent/use the 100 II, but I use it weekly for professional client shoots - and keep the 100S II as a backup - and I'll tell you that the 100 II SHINES when it comes to a deeper handgrip (ergo's), using the optional vertical grip for less-fatiguing vertical shooting (and WAY more battery life), slightly snappier AF, and CF-B flexibility (sooooo happy to leave slow and fragile SD cards behind) . . . those things don't add up to $2500 more IQ, but they certainly make up that cost difference in a (IMO) better overall shooting experience if you're behind the camera a lot.
Keep up the great work! And I'll be passing thru the PNW soon on a shooting tour . . . I'll bring you some good Midwest beer. ;-)
Lovely video, great job. Any similarity with the X-T5 or X100VI in terms of colors or it’s just incomparable?
They are definitely similar as far as the overall palette and the film sims if you’re into that. The fine gradations between colors and such is where you really get the wow factor of the 16-bit files.
Love your videos, the music, the visuals and the images (perfect balance by the way) it’s a relaxing, enjoyable escape if that makes sense. Curious, how long does it take to make a video like this? (editing once you are back with all the footage and images)
Means a lot to hear feedback like that, thank you so much. To answer your question: this one took around 50 hours of work from getting back with the assets to video release.
ive been shooting with this camera and the 80mm for a few months and love it. i was coming from a nikon d5500 so any of these capabilities with AF seems like sci-fi to me. after changing a few of the settings af-c seems to be working well for me for relatively quick shots, there are some misses occasionally but it seems to pick up focus points very well. it definitely performs better in situations where you can control the action and flow, but with a bit of practice and some tweaks in the settings it seems to work acceptable for random quick shots. im curious what adapter you used, im considering trying the fringer to adapt my nikon glass, i cant find many well done unbiased reviews with the 100s II and nikon.
I just used a simple adapter from fotodiox - the lens I adapted was full manual so it didn't require any electronics. Infinity focus seemed spot on and I didn't have any issues with it, so I'd feel safe recommending it.
Looks amazing, & really dig the intro music! Are you color grading video to match the photos? Or using a matching lut from your Lightroom pack?
Appreciate that! Glad you like the music, I started that track like a year ago and had to go back and finish it. Felt right for this video, haha. I am grading it based off of feeling, really. Most of the time that ends up being somewhat close to the images, because it's just my taste guiding my decisions, but I'm just grading it by hand in resolve.
Nice vidéo ! Speaking of focus what is your setting on the fuji x100vi ?
Thank you! Just single point in the smallest box size for landscapes or still scenes - for anything in motion I like the wide/tracking setting and picking the subject type via the q menu
Hi Dylan! Are all the motion in the video shot also on the same body?
Yup, everything in Canada was shot on the same body. Talking head and such was shot on my sony as always, didn't have the camera anymore at that point.
Thanks for the reply. I guess I don’t do video enough to know, but the quality on your post I thought was actually really good. Maybe the details aren’t there like an image file, but it looked really good, and maybe it’s the lens that gives it a nice rich look
Did you try to shoot with lower MPs to see what the work flow is like?
I did not. If I remember right, I don't think there was a setting for that like in some other cameras (i.e. sony) - if it was raw, it was just raw full size. I did choose lossless compressed instead of uncompressed on the file output though.
Great real life review and stunning work across the board. Curious if you've considered swapping to Capture One for editing Fuji-specific files, given the worming issues with Lightroom (especially at this size & sharpness)?
Thanks for watching! I appreciate the kind words. I have not. I have heard some people talk about this and such, but I've never experienced it myself, even when zooming in to 100% on these massive files they were perfectly clean.
I think that only applies to X Trans sensors, the GFX line uses a traditional bayer sensor so there shouldn't be any worming issues.
@@NeonShores Ah I didn’t realize it was just X Trans. Thanks for the info!
@@DanielBerberi you're welcome! And yeah it does occasionally still occur with X Trans sensors in Lightroom but it's gotten a whole lot better over time. Still a bummer it's something we have to watch out for.
@@NeonShores Using AI Denoise function in Lightroom completely solves this issue. It's slow and annoying, but it works.
Really dope video man! As someone terrified of Resolve, this is goals. Is this video footage gimbaled or handheld?
Ah thanks dude! Nothing to be terrified of haha. It’s all handheld, the IBIS was pretty solid.
@@DylanSpitz Very very cool! Thanks for sharing this trip, and remember to wake up 15 min earlier next time =)
Still kicking myself 😂
Ummm ok these are amazing. Subbed for sure.
What a legend...thank you, sir!
wow you found out the GFX is not a sport camera. amazing.
I don’t really know what to think about the gfx line. I’ve never owned one but downloaded some raw files from dpreview to play around. The images are outright gorgeous and make me really want to ditch my Canon mirrorless and get a used gfx 100s. I love the thought of capturing images that I can print large without much upscaling (which I do a lot with my R6 II). I guess I would have to live with the inconveniences to get that 🤷♂️ Do you have any experience with the gfx 50s II? 50 megapixels seem much more manageable and I guess the look won’t be much different. Autofocus seems even worse but ok for non moving subjects. Cheers! I really like your photography style ✌️
First off, thanks for the kind words! I appreciate you taking the time to watch the video. The GFX system definitely has a look that I adore, personally. It's half way to magical, lol. I have not tried the 50S or II, personally. The print topic is a good point, I am itching to see one of the shots I took with it from the glacier nice and big on a fine art paper. I've come to the conclusion that every system just has trade offs, ya know? As much as I want there to be a perfect camera, sadly I just don't think it will ever exist...which honestly is probably a good thing and keeps life a bit more interesting, haha.
Everything in life has trade-offs. The key to printing large is viewing distance. Your Canon will provide great large prints, even if it’s 16 MP, you just need to view them at the right distance.
More video!
on the way!
It’s mushy because of line skipping and or pixel binning. But line skipping is worse
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thank you!
Guys! Why you ever need af-on button when you could half press shutter button? I have more than 15 years of photography experience and this question still with me 😅
Decoupling the focus from timing is a game changer! That and focusing then recomposing without awkwardly keeping half pressure for me is just more comfortable and makes more sense. I disable the shutter af feature the minute I get any camera haha. If I’m touching the shutter it’s because I need it to fire! (I know not everyone does this but I couldn’t function without it)
@@DylanSpitzmaybe I need to try it, thanks for reply.
I was event and nightlife photographer back in 2008 and it was a lot of shutters, many hundreds thousands, but nowadays I just shoot for myself and maybe this solution is that what I will found out would be good for me :)
For now af on button is used to switch to B&W mode to make easier composition, try this out too, for me it was gamechanger 😊
Might be worth a go, it’s easy enough to change back if you don’t end up enjoying it haha. Ooh and yes, I also have a custom button mapped to changing the look in camera- sometimes seeing in black and white can be more motivating in mid-day or not-so-great light. 📸
The K after followers should be replaced with an M.
Haha that would be the day 🫠
Complaint department here, complaint received and denied thank you
🤣 top tier comment.
16:30 LOL
hahahaha ohhhhh, Carl.
That’s why a camera like this should not have ANY video capabilities that add weight and take away from a photography experience.
I own this camera… the video “options” entail an incredibly small “video - Stills” switch… and that’s it…
@@blakehfreeman Thank you. I would still prefer Zero video capabilities. However, I think it is an amazing camera and I will seriously consider the purchase.
I want to see the results straight out of the camera, not with some preset.
7:21 / 7:32 / 17:45
Unfortunately medium format does not improve any landscape photographers images. Especially the GFX with the relatively weak 100-200mm lens.
I agree, because no camera will improve a photographer’s images. Skill is totally separate from gear, but I can’t review that. All I can do is make the best work that I can during the time I have with a camera for you guys and share my experience. Some of the all time greats were shooting on the equivalent of a potato relative to what we have available today.
@@DylanSpitz I wasn't being critical, and I enjoy equipment reviews. I was more making a technical point that spending more beyond a good FF camera and better glass doesn't yield noticeably better large prints. I used many systems including 4x5 and medium format digital. Hasselblad and Fuji are smart to get their equipment out on the UA-cams. But MF for landscape is one step forward but then one step back due to situations where the MF gear is actually inferior to FF.