Digital Medium Format Thread

Mr Perceptive said:
I suspect this is to clear European stock, BH Photo in the US have had the GFX50R on the discountinued list for some time.
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A lot of camera for the price, I had thought of selling mine but wouldn't get much for it now. Probably stick the GF 50mm on it and finally relegate my XP2, (edit)first world problems :-(
 
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Mr Bastable said:
A lot of camera for the price, I had thought of selling mine but wouldn't get much for it now. Probably stick the GF 50mm on it and finally relegate my XP2, third world problems :-(
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Andreas the UK product manager posted in the Fujicast facebook group earlier today saying these are teh last of the GFX50R, as "it's" production line has been taken over by the 50SII. So I would just enjoy your camera!
 
Mr Perceptive said:
GFX50R down by £1,000 to £2,199 - Black Friday Deal (Wex at the moment) and some savings on lenses as well

Fujifilm Black Friday Deals | Wex Photo Video

Black Friday 2024 Fujifilm Deals now live! Prices won't go lower - while stocks last!
www.wexphotovideo.com

In the past I've had to place seperate orders to get multiple lens discounts (just hopefully useful information)
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Stop it !!!! I've had a play with a 50S II and was impressed, I could live with the AF performance, not sure about the R despite that stonking price, any reply you give that results in me buying a GFX of any flavour can and will be used in evidence against you when my bank account screams STOP DRAINING ME :cool:
 
The devil is at your elbow my child ;->
 
imattersuk said:
Stop it !!!! I've had a play with a 50S II and was impressed, I could live with the AF performance, not sure about the R despite that stonking price, any reply you give that results in me buying a GFX of any flavour can and will be used in evidence against you when my bank account screams STOP DRAINING ME :cool:
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Resistance is futile. :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
 
Mr Bastable said:
Released in September 2018 but Fujis do depreciate quickly, imagine having bought a GFX 100 on release!
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Imagine? I did, well a few months after initial release. I’m still very happy with it. It’s had less use than expected as Covid came a soon after. I have the 50R for sale but end up keeping it to have a backup mf body.
 
Not bought much in Black Friday week, but did buy an EF-Bronica SQ adapter (40% or so discount) so now my GFX can sport my Bronica lenses

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Topsy said:
Love to see how this works out, may have to get one myself if its good. Please let us know. (y)
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Will do, just one samll complication, you have to hold down the DOF button on the lens to hold an aperture otherwise, its wide open, no electrical connections, shouldn't be a problem as the combo has some weight to it, so being a fully paid up member of the shandy drinking southerner club, I will need two hands to hold it!
 
SFTPhotography said:
How do the lenses measure up?

With these adapters it's very clear there is a wealth of oppertunity for some very interesting glass.
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Generally the adapter glass isn’t as sharp as modern native glass - modern lenses usually have exceptional correction for distortion and chromatic aberration, and are often more flare resistant.

Older legacy lenses usually are less sharp, have more distortion and other artefacts (especially when adapting FF glass to the digital MF sensor), but they often have nice rendering. One advantage of the 50MP Fuji/Pentax sensor is that the pixel density isn’t super high, so the line pair ratio (resolving power) demands are not huge. They are however not lenses for pixel peepers!!
 
Mr Perceptive said:
Generally the adapter glass isn’t as sharp as modern native glass - modern lenses usually have exceptional correction for distortion and chromatic aberration, and are often more flare resistant.

Older legacy lenses usually are less sharp, have more distortion and other artefacts (especially when adapting FF glass to the digital MF sensor), but they often have nice rendering. One advantage of the 50MP Fuji/Pentax sensor is that the pixel density isn’t super high, so the line pair ratio (resolving power) demands are not huge. They are however not lenses for pixel peepers!!
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No - I am a pixel peeper but I am not finding the older design'd 45-85 and 80-160 disappointing - and given the later cost me £250 I am thrilled with it. That said - the line pair ratio really isn't demanding which is why you can get away with it. The 28-45 is better though.

My biggest bug bear with the older lenses isn't the optics (I shoot away from the sun always so flare never is an issue) is the lack of weather sealing - they really let the dust spots in whereas the 28-45 really is weather sealed like nothing else. No spots get through when it's on.
 
macvisual said:
Awesome Trevor - the iconic FS1E….!
My school mate in the mid 1970’s owned a Suzuki AP50 - wonderful Japanese machinery.

Awesome colours on that capture - superb Sir…!

Hubba Hubba

Regards;
Pete
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Thanks Pete. I used to work for a company called Sondel Sport. A motorcycle dealer in North London. We simply couldn’t get enough of them. Happy Days.
 
trevorbray said:
Thanks Pete. I used to work for a company called Sondel Sport. A motorcycle dealer in North London. We simply couldn’t get enough of them. Happy Days.
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Great your from a motorcycle background Trevor, I’m similar, in 1978 I was an apprentice motorcycle mechanic for Noel Orr Motorcycles in Belfast, a large Honda dealership that sold bikes like hot cakes at the time …..especially the Super Dreams/Cubs/CX500’s etc….a great experience working there for four years.

Pete
 
Honda 125 scooters still selling like hotcakes. My SIL struggled to get on earlier this year.
 
The GF 50mm 3.5 has £320 off until 31/12
 
Traded in all of my Fuji X gear today for the GFX 50S ii + GF 50mm 3.5.......just a couple of shots straight after picking it up, one lesson learnt already, be braver and use slower shutter speeds, didn't really need ISO 3200

GFX-59 by Pete Downham Photography, on Flickr

GFX-37 by Pete Downham Photography, on Flickr
 
imattersuk said:
Traded in all of my Fuji X gear today for the GFX 50S ii + GF 50mm 3.5.......just a couple of shots straight after picking it up, one lesson learnt already, be braver and use slower shutter speeds, didn't really need ISO 3200

GFX-59 by Pete Downham Photography, on Flickr

GFX-37 by Pete Downham Photography, on Flickr
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I was an early adopter of the original 50s and I love it but I wouldn't have foregone my X-T2s for it they fit a different bill. Happy GFX shooting. (y)
 
Topsy said:
I was an early adopter of the original 50s and I love it but I wouldn't have foregone my X-T2s for it they fit a different bill. Happy GFX shooting. (y)
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Yeah I’m going to have to work harder in the streets for sure without an XT or X100
 
Having acquired a canon 16-35 f2.8 iii by accident today, I thought I'd give it a try with the techart ef-fg01 adapter which reminded me that the adapter was not working with the GFX100 IS and I found there is a firmware update to fix this.

However, it took a couple of hours to get it to work, not helped by the techart firmware update app being in chinese. In case anyone is struggling with this, the most critical thing seems to be the usb cable. It needs to be narrow enough to fit into the adapter and even then the connection is fragile. I tried about 6 cables before I found one that successfully connected and allowed the firmware update to continue. In my case, it was a short USB C to USB B micro that finally worked.

Once the firmware was updated, the IS does seem to be working well with the adapted lens.
 
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