Fujifilm GFX100 II: Image Quality is Making my Head Spin
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I shot 3000 or so images on my 1-month trip (many focus stacks increase the frame count). I’ll never get through them all before I have to move onto the next project. Out in the field in Live View, things looked awfully nice though.
I cannot get over my impression, which keeps growing stronger: image quality of the Fujifilm GFX100 II keeps impressing me more and more. By that I mean both sharpness and color rendition. There is something there in the images that I have never before seen with Fujifilm, which has always seemed a bit dull and uncouth to my eyes, offering little vs 35mm. That impression is now challenged.
Could it just be the Fujifilm GF 55mm f/1.7? Maybe, but it doesn’t seem like that to my eyes. Then again, it is a hell of a lens, the gem of the entire line IMO.
I don’t yet have a conclusion based on A/B comparisons (I did shoot some), but dang things look better than I have ever seen before from Fujifilm. It’s more like I’m looking at Hasselblad X2D images, which I’ve rated the best out there today in terms of color.
TBD. The image below might not compel you, but I intend to show enough images and comparisons to get the job done. I am now scheming about what I have to sell to get the GFX100 II.
Fujifilm GFX100 II + Fujifilm GF 55mm f/1.7 WR @ 45.3mm equiv (55mm)
ENV: Colorado, altitude 8350 ft / 2545 m, 28°F / -2°C
RAW: Enhance Details, WB 5000°K tint 15, push 0.66 stops, +20 Whites, AI Denoise 10, USM {6,50,0}, diffraction mitigating sharpening, SmartSharpen{35,0,7,0}
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