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The GFX 50R has a mechanical shutter, the 907x doesn't. This means the GFX can use adapted lenses. While you can use adapted lenses on the Hassy, the readout from the sensor is so slow, the electronic shutter is unusable for everything except still life, and it reduces the dynamic range. This affords me the ability to use the Nikkors that cover the GFX sensor, of which I own a few. I shouldn't mention it, because the last time I praised a lens here they shot up in value, but the Nikkor Quanta lenses work on GFX. The GFX also has the awesome Zhongyi 65mm 1.4. If you haven't tried this lens, its better than anything else on the market, bar NONE (although I haven't tried the nikkor .95 or the APO Leica 50, but everything else non-exotic in the 50 range I have pretty much tried). With this lens and a couple of others, I was able to assemble a GFX kit that goes from 28mm to 180mm for less than $1000. Manual focus on the FUji with adapted lenses is pretty good, good enough at least to make me forego thoughts of ever buying a native lens. Indeed after m43 debacle, and my alpha debacle before that, I have decided never to buy into another system, and will adapt the lenses i have in my arsenal for life. GFX and m43 cameras until I die, largely because 3:2 seems too 1970's for me.
Time to Test a Medium-Format Sensor
Fuji GFX 50R I decided a while back that my education is lacking and that I should try out a camera with a larger-than-FF sensor. The only one I've ever touched was a Leica S2 thanks to my friend Jack, but that was a long time ago now and my exposure to it was brief. Generally I've tended to s...
Head down to Miami for a weekend bender in November, I suggest getting a table at whatever nightclub is in the basement of the fountainbleu. Then, when you get back home, you will have NA meetings as another option.
Sunday Support Group: Long Winter (OT)
Are you at all worried about the coming Winter? "If I'm honest," as the British say (I like that expression), I am. A bit scared of it, even. Don't get me wrong: I live in what is for me one of the nicest places in the world. For five months out of the year, and maybe part of a sixth, the Finger...
Ming Thein broke some seriously underreported news that people should have noticed but didn't. Notably, negotiations that Sony refused to make a square sensor for Hasselblad medium format. This one piece of news should have sent shockwaves through the photo press. There will never be a square true medium format sensor for 500 series... like, think about how stupid that is. Even at $20k or $30K it would be assured buyers, simply based on the fact people pay $10k for the miniature medium format 907x now.
Ming Thein Calls It Quits
Ming Thein, whose standout blog was the cream of the crop in the photosphere for most of its existence, is calling it a job well done and will be moving on. He announced his decision yesterday (or was it the day before? The final post doesn't seem to be dated) in a long final post accompanied by...
Fred, I own a couple modified sensor cameras with a Deep IR cutoff filter etc and all I can tell you is I can print much larger than with the bayer version of the same camera. Its a real treat, but a pure BW camera it is not, although all images end up grayscale. I find it to be a real boon to my photography.
Lens Choices—Leica, Zeiss, Voiglaender, 7Artisans, TTArtisan
So this is interesting. A number of people indicated a variety of attitudes about the lenses in the "Lens Quiz" offered by Leica Rumors. Personally, my position in general is that I want photographers to have what they want. Not even what they "need"—what they want. Having what you want (as long...
The Chinese optical industrial parks produce lenses that are very good. Have you ever heard of Risespray? Neither have I, but I own their 35mm .95 lens for m43 and I can tell you the results are stellar. Kamlan 50mm 1.1 ver 1? I never heard of a Kamlan before... guess what, its a perfect portrait lens and length on m43 with great subject separation and wide open usability. Neewer, Mitakon, Zhongyi, 7 artisans... they may not be autofocus but these lenses are freaking amazing, especially for the price. The 7 artisans 35mm 1.2 on m43 is just superb at capturing people, with rendering an image that is a cross between a 75 summilux and a petzval. Hard to describe, but lovely.
Lens Choices—Leica, Zeiss, Voiglaender, 7Artisans, TTArtisan
So this is interesting. A number of people indicated a variety of attitudes about the lenses in the "Lens Quiz" offered by Leica Rumors. Personally, my position in general is that I want photographers to have what they want. Not even what they "need"—what they want. Having what you want (as long...
I love your site Mike, especially these small pieces where you manage to take an exceptionally easy thing that millions of people do everyday without thinking, and somehow turn it into a problem that only Oppenheimer and a government project in the desert could solve. I have an answer to all your needs, and it's easy, but if I elucidate it here, my greatest fear is that the struggle you encapsulate within your mortal coil will find peace, and I will get less of these articles. Your intelligence is the real problem. :)
Open Mike: Stereo, Circa 2020 (Very Off Topic)
I wonder if anybody could help me with this. I've been on a veritable odyssey trying to put together a new stereo system—my last, perhaps. Streaming seems to be the wave of...not the future, of now. But I'm biased against it because I don't understand it. Really, it fits the way I consume music—...
This is what it’s all about
An Evening Walk
I should have worked on the Print Crit yesterday, but it was such a gorgeous afternoon I went for a long walk up the hill instead. Welker Hill rises 520 feet in the stretch of a mile, so I take my car up the steepest part and park it on my neighbor Les's field and walk on from there. It's not th...
There is still no interchangeable digital FF rangefinder camera other than leica. This is 20 years into the digital “revolution”. Seems mighty odd nobody has even tried it. Xpro is garbage because its aps-c, we all know it’s impossible to get a good shot with a crop sensor camera.
Open Mike: People Don't Like Rangefinders
People don't like rangefinders. They like Leicas. —Mike Johnston I've been shopping* for oldster cameras for my 20-Rolls-of-Film project. It has been entertaining. One thing I've noticed again is that prices for rangefinders tend to be high. That seems to be true whether you're looking at the la...
Thanks for sharing. Dancing is super important, and photography doesn’t always do it justice.
Random Excellence: David Saxe
David Saxe, from Dancin' Santa Fe photographer (and TOP reader) David Saxe says: "Wherever I have been, I have always come across people dancing. In bars, in the street, or at home—people always dance. They dance to express joy, sadness and life itself. In this series of photographs, I explore...
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