A weekend with the Fujifilm GFX100RF
First impressions from a long walk through the Mission. Medium format in a body small enough to forget you're carrying.
I picked up the GFX100RF on a Friday afternoon and walked it around the Mission until the light gave out. These are notes from that first weekend, written before the novelty wears off and the honest opinions arrive.
The body is smaller than I expected. Not small — it's still a medium-format camera — but small enough that after an hour it stops announcing itself on the strap. The fixed 35mm-equivalent lens is the kind of decision I usually argue with and then come to appreciate. One focal length is a conversation with a constraint, and constraints are good for me.
Files are what you'd expect: enormous, beautiful, slightly intimidating to edit on a laptop. The skin tones out of camera are the Fuji ones I already love. The dynamic range is the GFX one I am still learning to trust.
More to come once I've lived with it for a month.
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