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No video of course and I don’t use it nearly enough but the Sigma SD0 is probably the one for me as it’s completely different to anything else I’ve got and with the 21:9 ratio mode is my bootleg digital XPan. With a lottery win I could see that new GFX100RF taking over from it though !

Smoke has risen from the cabin in the Dolomites and here is the leaked press release. No IBIS, slowish lens and 4K30 maximum but it does have internal ND. Price is semi-ouch considering what is on offer with a used GFX100s and a couple of lenses but not against a Q3 and I can see why this might just be a perfect end camera for a lot of people. —————— Fujifilm GFX100RF Press Release FUJIFILM GFX100RF introduced: Premium compact camera with 102 megapixels With the GFX100RF, Fujifilm has launched its first A premium compact camera in the GFX series has been introduced. Combining a 102-megapixel medium format sensor with a fixed 35mm lens (equivalent to 28mm in 35mm film, f/4), the model brings the image quality of the GFX system into a more compact body – and competes with other premium compacts such as the Leica Q3. Weighing just 735 grams, the GFX100RF is the lightest camera in the series to date. The new X-Processor 5 is designed to enable fast image processing, while AI-assisted subject recognition ensures precise focusing. The lens offers a minimum focusing distance of 20 cm, enabling close-up shots with great detail. Additionally, the focal length can be digitally extended to 45 mm, 63 mm, and 80 mm (equivalent to 36 mm, 50 mm, and 63 mm in 35mm film). A dial on the back allows users to choose between nine different aspect ratios, including 3:2, 16:9, 1:1, and 17:6. The camera also features a built-in four-stop ND filter and supports Frame.ioCamera to Cloud for direct file backup. The FUJIFILM GFX100RF will be available in black or silver from April 2025 for €5,499 (MSRP). Further information is available at: www.fujifilm-x.com. Fujifilm Press Release: Design highlight: FUJIFILM GFX100RF: Premium compact camera with 102-megapixel sensor and AI-based scene recognition Kleve, March 20, 2025. The new FUJIFILM GFX100RF is the first premium compact camera in the GFX series. Weighing approximately 735 grams*1, it is the lightest model*2 to date in the successful camera system*3, which combines technology and design at the highest level. FUJIFILM is thus once again setting a milestone in the advancement of photographic culture. The GFX100RF is the ideal choice for anyone who desires a first-class shooting experience and uncompromising image quality. Equipped with the high-resolution 102-megapixel “GFX 102MP CMOS II” sensor and the latest high-speed X-Processor 5 image processor, the camera offers exceptional performance. The newly developed 35 mm lens (equivalent to 28 mm in 35 mm) with a maximum aperture of F4, AI-based scene recognition, and fast autofocus ensure high-quality images in a wide variety of shooting situations – from casual snapshots to professional reportage. The camera structure has been fundamentally redesigned. The lens is positioned closer to the image sensor. This keeps the design compact and lightweight despite the large sensor. The top plate of the GFX100RF is precision-crafted from aluminum. The high-quality workmanship is also evident in the lens ring, control dials, and base plate. A new control dial on the back of the camera allows for quick switching between nine classic aspect ratios, including 3:4 and 17:6. It provides an authentic analogue shooting experience and allows you to intuitively adjust the aspect ratio to suit your subject and creative intent. The GFX100RF’s elegant design and first-class feel invite you to get creative and explore new photographic possibilities. The FUJIFILM GFX100RF will be available in stores from April 2025 at a price of €5,499 (MSRP). COMPACT DESIGN AND OUTSTANDING IMAGE QUALITY Weighing approximately 735 grams*1, the GFX100RF is the lightest camera in the GFX series.*2 The newly developed 35 mm lens and optimized component layout have reduced both size and weight. The new fixed focal length camera weighs significantly less than the previous lightest model in the GFX series, the GFX50R, at 775 grams*1 (body only). The GFX100RF is equipped with a high-tech duo of the GFX 102MP CMOS II sensor and X-Processor 5. Together with the high-quality lens and unique color technology, it delivers the outstanding image quality typical of the GFX series. The 102-megapixel sensor with optimized pixel structure and microlenses ensures low-noise images, a wide dynamic range, and sharper details at the edges of the image. It also ensures precise autofocus. HIGH-END OPTICAL COMPONENTS The new 35 mm lens on the GFX100RF offers an angle of view comparable to a 28 mm 35 mm lens. It is suitable for a wide range of subjects, such as landscapes, travel, snapshots, and portraits. The optical design comprises ten elements in eight groups. Two aspherical lenses correct sharpness errors and distortion, ensuring high resolution. The Nano-GI coating was specially developed for highly curved lenses. It effectively suppresses distracting light reflections, even at the edges of the image, which reduce sharpness and detail reproduction. The lens enables close-up shots from just 20 centimeters away. The compact body and the outstanding image quality of the sensor open up unique creative possibilities. HIGH-QUALITY WORKMANSHIP AND INNOVATIVE FEATURES The top plate of the GFX100RF is made of precision-machined aluminum. The lens ring, control dials, base plate, and other details are also carefully crafted, ensuring a high-quality feel and a distinctive design. A new control dial on the back of the camera allows for quick changes in the shooting format. Depending on the subject and creative expression, you can choose from nine popular aspect ratios for photos, including the new 3:4 and 17:6 formats. The digital teleconverter adjustment lever is located on the front of the camera. This allows you to intuitively select the desired angle of view and respond flexibly to different shooting situations. The 35 mm focal length (equivalent to 28 mm in 35 mm format) can be converted to 45 mm, 63 mm, and 80 mm (equivalent to 36 mm, 50 mm, and 63 mm in 35 mm format). SOPHISTICATED TECHNOLOGY AND FUNCTIONALITY The GFX100RF’s fixed focal length contributes significantly to the camera’s compact size. It allows the use of a leaf shutter instead of a focal plane shutter, thus shortening the flange focal distance. This creates space for the optimized arrangement of the components and the resulting compact design. The leaf shutter also allows flash photography at any shutter speed, opening up new creative possibilities, for example, when shooting in bright sunlight. The GFX100RF is the first GFX model with a built-in four-stop ND filter. This neutral density filter facilitates shooting with a wide aperture in bright light or at a slow shutter speed. The camera is compatible with the Frame.io Camera to Cloud service. Photo and video files can be uploaded directly to Frame.io, significantly accelerating the workflow from capture to editing. ADVANCED MONITOR AND VIEWFINDER The new 8 cm (3.15-inch), 2.1 million-dot, tilting LCD monitor features a redesigned user interface. To ensure an optimal shooting experience, the display of the shooting icons has been adjusted to the 3:2 aspect ratio of the monitor. The high-resolution electronic viewfinder with 5.76 million pixels and 0.84x magnification delivers an optimally corrected image and offers the best possible view of the subject. The new Surround View function limits the shooting zone with semi-transparent areas or lines, depending on the aspect ratio. A lever can be used to turn this function on or off while looking through the electronic viewfinder, simulating an optical viewfinder with a bright frame that reveals more than just the actual image. FAST AND PRECISE AUTOFOCUS Whether for photos or videos, the GFX100RF offers high autofocus performance, ensuring a comfortable shooting experience. A modified algorithm enables improved autofocus prediction and more accurate face and eye detection. The camera also features AI-based subject recognition. Deep learning technology enables precise detection and focus of animals, vehicles, birds, and aircraft. In video mode, subjects can be tracked even more easily using touch controls. 4K QUALITY VIDEOS The GFX100RF can record high-resolution 4K videos at 30 frames per second and 4:2:2 10-bit color depth. The default ISO setting of 100 enables recordings with a wide dynamic range and low noise. In F-Log2 mode, moving images are recorded with a dynamic range of more than 13 EV stops*4. The resulting video footage offers considerable creative freedom in post-production. STYLISH ACCESSORIES An aluminum lens hood and the PRF-49 protective filter are included. The filter, which is attached with a special adapter ring, provides exceptional weather resistance. The GFX100RF can therefore be used in both light rain and dusty environments. A shoulder strap, like the precision-crafted lens hood, also complements the camera’s elegant design. *1 Weight includes battery and memory card. *2 As of March 20, 2025 *3 With a diagonal of 55 mm (43.8 mm wide x 32.9 mm high), the image sensor area is approximately 1.7 times larger than that of a 35mm format camera. *4 FUJIFILM’s own measurements. FUJIFILM GFX100RF Price: €5,499 Available: April 2025 Color: Black or Silver

This a good piece about how it was used.

I know. From the get go they used sub assemblies made in China and finished in Germany but within a couple of years they’d moved it all there and eventually built an actual city there for manufacturing. The point being that purchasers in the US of a broad range of brands they consider European (the parent company also owns Midas, Klark Teknik, TC Electronics and Tannoy to name a few) are in for a rude awakening with the tariffs imposed on them due to where they are actually manufactured. However, after their practices particularly in their first ten to fifteen years of existence, there won’t be many tears shed for Uli if this heralds a big downturn in sales.

Equally they should’ve got it before the GH series but Panasonic probably felt that line needed the boost ? I don’t know whether the S9 is the most needy but after the balls up of the launch it wouldn’t do it any harm. It could well be if course that ARRI won’t license it for anything above MFT, which would make the whole thing moot of course.

If the bros made The Godfather.

I think the S9 is the thinking man’s Fp. Sadly, I’m not so good on the thinking these days! I had a go of the S9 with that lens combo and it’s not bad at all. I’ve said it before but I think if Panasonic want to kick start the S9 after the stuttering launch then they’d bring over the ARRI LogC3 option from the GH7. With the LUT burning option this would certainly satisfy the “film stock” type of thing that @mercer is after and it’s something that I’ve got an interest in myself too. Yes, I know this can be done with what exists in the camera already but for dummies like me it is appealing to hand over responsibility for the base look and think to myself “right, talented people get this known quantity to look good so keep at it until you can as well and if you can’t work out why”. It also saves the endless noodling about on offer in Resolve.

Yeah I have them in USB hubs for my Macs. Double up as tea warmers.

The problem is that they still send the bros and those are the videos that a lot of people base their judgements and decisions on. Part of this is the cult of personality and also I think that the manufacturer films are somehow disregarded as almost being fabricated con jobs. Ironic really as it’s the shill ones that are more likely to fall into that category. Maybe the compromise is to get the bros to do the BTS of the real films.

I’m sure it will be fine. As an aside for anyone that has watched the show, this is basically an advertorial about the Atomos sync products but The Great Pottery Throwdown uses FX9, A7siii and twelve GoProHero 11. https://www.atomos.com/2024/01/08/atomos-airglu-great-pottery-throwdown/

Instead of spending $7-10K per talking head to get twenty or thirty of the bros to Osaka to film each other eating ramen and doing running to camera AF tests, it would be much better to use that money to fund ten people to make actual small films with their new camera. They’d end up with a far more inspiring showcase of the camera and I don’t doubt the ethical aspect would make them feel better about themselves as well.

The key issue with the Fp and the additions is the “when you need it” aspect though. I don’t always have to use the EVF-11 or the cage or even the SSD but it’s there if and when I need to. Obviously, something like the R5 has to be the R5 all the time so I wouldn’t be able to strip it to a semi pocketable form like my Fp with a small M mount. But it’s all swings and roundabouts isn’t it. With regard to the drive holder, I actually prefer the Dark Power Lab with the front mounted SSD as it can come off in one piece with the EVF-11 and makes a grip too. But the last time I looked it was considerably more expensive (unless I dreamt it) but now looks to be in the same ballpark. So, rudely not following my own suggestion to my good friend @mercer I’ll buy one of these and a couple of the drive holders instead !

Not a camera obviously but Behringer released a new mic pre-amp/compressor today and I was having a look at the review. German company but now do all of their manufacturing in China. The reality is now realitying about who’s paying.

Might be too little too late for you but this Arca-Swiss plate SSD mount is quite interesting and is just over $100 Full details here https://www.52weeks.com/product-page/sigma-fp-arca-swiss-ssd-bottom-plate-1-0

As it’s the current obsession in camera world, I’m trying to work out what would happen if you used a camera with terrible rolling shutter when filming pottery throwing when it starts to go awry on the wheel and gets the wobbles. Will it make it look like a lava lamp or will it go the other way and cross the streams in the Steven Wright “I put instant coffee in a microwave and almost went back in time” way ?

Cameras that have been entrusted to DHL and are now MIA. Also, did you not buy that Lytro Illum in the end ?

My fault so need to apologise when I read it back it looked exactly like you’d interpreted it ! I guess the Jazz English must be catching.

Summerando makes it muchio choosy in the optica cover snuggle width vicinity maximus. Deep Joy

By selling multiple times more of them? Doubtful that they would achieve those levels though with even a 30-40% price reduction. The only thing that stops me buying a 907x isn’t the price but more my wife finding out about it.

So many options torturing you. I bet you can’t wait for full solution so you’ll be Glad It’s All Over.

Someone has made and maintains a spreadsheet guide to the coverage (or not) of lenses on the GFX. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uxvvpxJ9QVFFyh0pW2rs9KBmUW9vlh-d-VnbcLDCTn8/edit?usp=sharing

Well, Hasselblad have been taking the opposite path and removing video altogether in recent cameras rather than enhancing it. I suppose it depends now on whether they are getting spanked by the GFX and if so whether they have to add it back in to regain ground or go completely the opposite way and go for full on differentiation and keep video out for good.

For clarity, the “them” in this sentence is still referring to Hasselblad. So, something from their parent company DJI (ie the incorporation of their video tech) will make Hasselblad more relevant. Although it has to be said that a mirrorless camera from DJI might cause far more of a splash with a far bigger modern audience who’ve been using their drones, action cameras and gimbals than would a cost reduced Hasselblad with comprehensive video features. Those of us of a certain age might well choke on our pipes and unexpectedly fill our incontinence pants in excitement at such a Hasselblad but we are literally a dying breed so it might well appear under the DJI guise if it happens.

What? I said no such thing. It is precisely DJI’s video relevance that makes Hasselblad with their internals such a potentially serious competitor in the high end hybrid market.