Fujifilm GFX 100S Hands-on Review | Why You Want this Camera

[Music] someone once told me that the beauty of life is in the details now i've always thought of myself as a big picture sort of guy but over time i have come to appreciate the little things in life and this has become a motto for me of sorts so as i stand here beneath landscape arch one of the longest sandstone arches in the world i'm deeply impressed by its incredible height and length and i notice every little layer crack and crevice and i wonder how such a delicate structure could remain standing for so long i suppose that's one of the many reasons i enjoy landscape photography so much at once a grand vista can immediately take my breath away but i also see that the landscape is really made up of a million little things that come together to create the whole of it a twisted cedar tree a craggy rock and add to that light and atmosphere and you can understand why i can't help but want to photograph it the beauty of a photograph is that even years after i make an image i can return again and again to a scene like this to recall all kinds of splendid details even long after the sunrise is over [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] i'm a photographer and i appreciate cameras that are built well with care and craftsmanship a camera needs to withstand the rigors of the day-to-day the hot sun and the cold rain it's a tool i use to create images my art it's the brush i use to express the way i feel and to share the wonders i've seen [Music] i like a camera that sees the world the way i see it it needs to travel with me wherever i go and it needs to be ready whenever i want to capture the precious moments in time i have the pleasure to experience [Music] a camera can be a work of art in itself it's made up of a million little things that work together to take a picture and when i'm working with a finely crafted camera and when i can feel all those little parts working together to release the shutter is a great sense of satisfaction that something wonderful has just taken place and if the beauty of life really is in the details i want a camera that helps me draw out those details to record them and to recall them whenever i feel the urge to share a [Music] sunset [Music] [Music] i stopped in at picture line our premier camera dealer in salt lake city utah there my friend and fellow photographer dave ward lined me up with the new fujifilm gfx 100s not only is it a beautiful camera that fits perfectly in my hands i was impressed with how light it was for such a substantial camera we set up some time at the studio of mark reynolds an amazing portrait photographer and we asked our friend kylie to join us because i wanted to see how the fuji would do with skin tones and colors the 100s was easy to work with the menus were logical and the programmable buttons and dials were placed exactly where i like them but more importantly i was astonished at how good the images looked using a simple setup with natural light the 102 megapixel sensor rendered the colors and tones faithfully and the tonal transitions were remarkably smooth and all those pixels mean exceptional detail the gf lenses are incredibly sharp and easily resolved every eyelash and every smile to perfection [Music] kylie is such a natural beauty i was so pleased to have a camera that complemented her and helped to create some stunning portraits [Music] we left the studio and followed the tracks out west to change our setup and work with some outdoor lighting and enjoy what was shaping up to be another amazing utah sunset [Music] um dave and i took turns like two kids on christmas morning with a shiny new toy working with a single strobe for some added fill light we shot with the changing conditions as the sun moved toward the horizon low light never became an issue and the larger than full-frame sensor along with the fast gf lenses gave us excellent control over depth of field and the kinds of perspectives i like with larger format cameras [Music] the chute couldn't have gone any better and as the setting sun filled the sky with its warm and comforting light we walked away pleased with the performance of the 100s and the images we were able to capture the gfx100s and the gf lenses are a great combination they're really sharp and they look really really good they're nice and contrasty they resolve every detail that that 100 megapixel sensor can throw at it the gfx lenses are truly an amazing lens [Music] the next day dave and i made our way south to an old gas station built in the 1930s brought my harley along with the idea of making a large metal print from the image we were going to create we brought along a number of strobes and speed lights gels and other light modifiers we did a little light painting and we took many shots placing the strobes in different positions to highlight various details of the setup this collaboration was exceptionally fun because dave has such a creative mind so we constantly bounced ideas off each other as we built our image one step at a time later i would use six separate shots and with layer masks combine them in photoshop to create the final image [Applause] [Music] i'm a landscape photographer at heart but i enjoy exploring many genres of photography and the gfx 100s proved to be such a versatile camera it became the ideal companion for so much of what i wanted to do [Music] i headed back to moab utah because i wanted a sunset image of delicate arch another famous structure that admittedly has been photographed a million times by millions of people [Applause] so i arrived close to evening and began to search for an angle i hadn't really seen before finding a view i liked i set up the camera and went to work and that's when i noticed the myriad of details that make this arch such an icon every layer every variation in color every crack and every weather-worn grain of sand was there to create a magnificent work of art etched in stone [Music] the gfx100s rendered every splendid detail with such precision while capturing the vivid colors of this desert landscape in such a way that the images i created will bring me back to this place this evening yes this very moment in time again and again [Music] you see the beauty of life really is in the details [Music] you

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Length: 10min 53sec (653 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 20 2021