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Whatever floats your boat. I wasn't saying go buy shit, just try it out at a shop or rent or borrow. If not whatevs. Just making a suggestion to try it out.
I have very briefly dealt with the stuff in store displays years ago. I don't hate the feel of them, just have no interest in them. I'd personally rather just put that rental fee into buying an e mount speedlight over renting a camera I have no real interest in buying.
Jonas has his first impression article up, predictably great shots, but nothing that makes it look worth 10k. Full res are in his dropbox.
https://jonasraskphotography.com/20...orrow-the-fujifilm-gfx100-first-look-preview/
https://jonasraskphotography.com/20...orrow-the-fujifilm-gfx100-first-look-preview/
Goddamn. I hope Fuji keeps kicking ass in medium format. I could definitely see myself moving to it one day. Just need the capabilities of that GFX100 for at least half the price.
Jonas' stuff is so breathtaking. I don't know exactly what it is....the way he plays with light and shadow. The GFX100 is never a type of camera I'd use...but looking forward to that tech trickling down into the GFX50S style body...and we got a stew cooking. Hell I'll take 80 MP.
Edit: Make that the S type body...
Edit: Make that the S type body...
What I would do to be rich as fuck with disposable income.
Jonas is an underappreciated master of street photography in my opinion.
Look at how the white shirt perfectly lines up with the light portion of the walkway. This is masterful stuff, even if it was posed, which I highly doubt it was. His understanding of light is superb, and it's nuts to me that he's a glorified hobbiest that does this on the side.
Jonas is an underappreciated master of street photography in my opinion.
Look at how the white shirt perfectly lines up with the light portion of the walkway. This is masterful stuff, even if it was posed, which I highly doubt it was. His understanding of light is superb, and it's nuts to me that he's a glorified hobbiest that does this on the side.
Yeah, this and the stuff in that GFX100 post are great.
If you showed me this picture without context, I'd say that one of those compact hipster cameras trying to please the wealthy Instagram crowd lol.
It's pretty bad in initial testing - worse than my other Samyang AF lens, the 35mm f/2.8. It's fine if it can find eyes or faces, but outside of that it's kind of a crapshoot so far. That said, Samyang seems to be decent about firmware updates (I grabbed it with a free lens station) so I'm cautiously hopeful for improvements. Even if there aren't any, it's good to go as-is for portraits. Very satisfied with it for the price. I'll report back when I've had more experience with it.
This pretty much explains why I refuse to buy Samyang AF lenses.
The 35 2.8 AF is totally competent at it though!
I own four Samyangs now - two AF, two manual, one Minolta mount and three E mount - and I think all told I'm out $1k. I'm totally fine with this, lol.
They are great at the price, but at the same time I do too much stuff for actual work so a lot of it's kind of on my "no" list. I almost bought the 35 1.4 but heard about too many QC stories.
Had a small moment of panic last night...dropped just over $200 on a Breakthrough ND filter and step up ring, figured if I was going to buy one I wanted to only buy one once and just ball out...but when I tested it, I was getting these horrendous rings in the shot:
Turns out it's something called Newton Rings, and is only visible under fluorescent light, and seems to be limited to Breakthrough filters. The more you know! Wanted to share in case someone saw something similar, it took a post on FM to figure out, I wasn't finding anything on google about it.
Shouldn't be an issue outside, eager to try this thing out, heading out to the Smoky Mountains tomorrow for some hiking and waterfall shooting.
Turns out it's something called Newton Rings, and is only visible under fluorescent light, and seems to be limited to Breakthrough filters. The more you know! Wanted to share in case someone saw something similar, it took a post on FM to figure out, I wasn't finding anything on google about it.
Shouldn't be an issue outside, eager to try this thing out, heading out to the Smoky Mountains tomorrow for some hiking and waterfall shooting.
Figured I'd share this as well. Now that LR is so good on mobile, I've started editing more photos for Insta on my phone, and this works great for pulling RAW files from my SD right to my phone. Should have bought one a long time ago, apparently these have been supported since iOS 9.
I'm borrowing my friend's Sigma 50-100 1.8. It's pretty damn amazing. The IQ is damn good. Can't wait to take it out this weekend!
I almost got that lens once. I think it was too expensive when it came out, lacked stabilization and I didn't want to buy too may crop sensor lenses so never did.
It's kind of crazy that Sigma makes better DX glass than Nikon does.
They make better crop sensor glass than Nikon, Canon and Sony and they kind of do better than Fuji in a way since Fuji really should have made the 16-55 and 50-140 1.8 lenses. None of the big three really care about crop sensor yet they make a lot of their money on it.
Not if you're doing low light event work. I really don't use my Fuji's for indoor event photography. The only one I use is the 16-55 with a flash. I don't really like the high iso on the Fuji's so I don't use the 50-140 indoors. Lately my event combo has been the X-T3 with the 16-55 with a flash and the Sony A7RII with the 2.8 70-200GM since the A7RII handles low light leagues better than any of the Fuji cameras.
Physics has limitations but still I would get a 2.8 crop zoom if the price was right.
They would weigh what the 2.8 zooms for CaNikon would weigh, I'm quite used to these. I mostly got into mirrorless for video work and the EVF tech. When it comes to indoor event work I just care about light gathering. I'd use the Fuji zooms more for event work if their light gathering was better. I don't cover that many events using the 50-140 for that exact reason.
Surprisingly (or maybe not), only Olympus had a standard f2 zoom, it's pretty rare and very expensive:
I was always curious about it, but being such a niche lens, I don't know if many people bought it. I wouldn't put it past Fuji to make two zooms covering 24 - 200mm, but they would be big and expensive. F2.8 zooms basically ensure price, weight, size parity that a lot of people will buy, beyond that the lenses become exotic. But that would be cool if they made these down the line.
I was always curious about it, but being such a niche lens, I don't know if many people bought it. I wouldn't put it past Fuji to make two zooms covering 24 - 200mm, but they would be big and expensive. F2.8 zooms basically ensure price, weight, size parity that a lot of people will buy, beyond that the lenses become exotic. But that would be cool if they made these down the line.
I guess if they made an F2 50-140 it would be priced at what the 2.8 70-200GM runs.
I guess I just want the impossible and improbable then, just explains why I don't use my Fuji's for too much event work. I mean I'd love to, but I shoot natural light way too much at these things. The 16-55 is great with a flash, but the 50-140 as a natural light lens combined with how much I tend to not like the high iso on the Fuji's makes it a no no for me.
This lens for $500 is a fucking bargain.
Goddamn. I'm looking forward to downloading and playing with some samples in Lightroom.
Pretty much. I photograph graduations and go through about 1300 images. This camera would piss me off for that application. You pretty much have to know exactly what you need to photograph with this camera.