Fujifilm GFX100S Focus Bracketing: Fails to Reach INF Focus
Related: botched design, focus stacking, focusing, Fujifilm, Fujifilm GFX100S, Fujifilm medium format, Fujifilm mirrorless, imcompetence crisis, medium format, please fix this, please fix this camera, please fix this Fujifilm
re: Focus Stepping for Focus Stacking (FOCUS BKT, “focus shift”): Engineering Dumpster Fire from Sony and Fujifilm
re: Reader Comment: “Given up on Sony A7R V automatic focus shift shooting/focus bracketing”
I do not understand the incompetence of Sony’s unusable focus bracketing, or the hit-and-miss incompetence of Fujifilm’s Focus BKT, since the existence proof for competence exists with Nikon mirrorless or even the Nikon D850 from way back in 2017—totally reliable.
It just isn’t that hard, yet both Sony and Fujifilm screw it up.
And Fujifilm has had 4 years to fix it, and it’s not fixed, even if it works with wide angle lenses most of the time.
Example — Leavitt Meadows at 67mm
Fujifilm GFX100S: Focus BKT @ 67mm Fails to Reach INF (Leavitt Meadows)
Includes images up to full camera resolution, plus crops.
Fujifilm GFX100S + Fujifilm GF 35-70mm f/4.5-5.6 WR @ 55.6mm equiv (67.6mm) + polarizer Breakthrough Photography X4
ENV: Leavitt Meadows overlook, altitude 7200 ft / 2195 m, 75°F / 23°C
RAW: vignetting corrected, WB 5500°K tint 30, pull 0.35 stops, +100 Shadows, -70 Highlights, +20 Whites, +30 Dehaze, +10 Clarity, diffraction mitigating sharpening
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