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Diglloyd Medium Format covers medium format camera systems, including the Hasselblad X1D and Fujifilm GFX.

These systems are hugely expensive, so make the right choice for your own needs (full frame vs medium format).

  • In-depth lens evaluations covering behaviors not likely to be found anywhere else, based on real-world field shooting.
  • How to configure menus and buttons and best operating practices, gotchas and how-to.
  • Real world examples with insights found nowhere else. Make sharper images just by understanding lens and camera behaviors.
  • Jaw-dropping image quality found nowhere else utilizing Retina-grade images up to 100 megapixels filling up to 5K display, plus large crops.
  • Aperture series from wide open through stopped down, showing the full range of lens performance and bokeh.
  • Optical quality analysis of field curvature, focus shift, sharpness, flare, distortion, and performance in the field.

Everything | Fujifilm GFX System | Hasselblad H System | Hasselblad X System | Leica S | Other Medium Format | Pentax 645 | Phase One
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Fujifilm GFX System

Fujifilm GFX 50R

Compact “rangefinder inspired” form factor to the GFX 50S sibling.

Fujifilm GF 35-70mm f/4.5-5.6

Compact wide angle

  1. Overview of Fujifilm GF 35-70mm f/4.5-5.6
  2. MTF for Fujifilm GF 35-70mm f/4.5-5.6
  3. Distortion and Distortion Correction @ 35mm, 47mm, 63mm, 70mm
  4. Fujifilm GFX100S: Loss of Sharpness with Distortion Correction Even for Near-Zero Distortion Lens
  5. Examples, Focus Stacking: Backyard
  6. Examples, Focus Stacking: Landscape
  7. Examples: Tigger the Formerly-Feral Feline Friend
  8. Examples: Eureka Dunes
  9. Examples: an August Hike from Saddlebag Lake to Twenty Lakes Basin
  10. Examples: Twenty Lakes Basin and Mt Conness Lakes, Late August
  11. Examples: August Variability, White Mountains
  12. Examples: Pine Creek
  13. Examples: White Mountains Snow
  14. Aperture Series @ 35mm: Huge Laurel Along Alpine Creek
  15. SHOOTOUT @ 43/35mm: Fujifilm GFX100S vs Sony A7R V Pixel Shift: Huge Laurel at Bend in Alpine Creek
  16. Aperture Series @ 35mm: Lee Vining Creek
  17. Aperture Series @ 40mm: Flowering Trees along Alpine Creek
  18. Aperture Series @ 48mm: Riparian Tree Leafing Out
  19. Aperture Series @ 50mm: Icebergs in Dana Lake
  20. Aperture Series @ 70mm: Fresh Snow on White Mountain Forested Hills
  21. Aperture Series @ 70mm: Cluster of Bay Laurel Trees by Alpine Creek
  22. Aperture Series @ 70mm: Icebergs in Dana Lake
  23. Aperture Series @ 70mm: Icebergs in Dana Lake
  24. Focus Stacking Shootout vs vs GF 50/3.5: Backyard Deck
  25. Focus Stacking Shootout vs GF 63/2.8: Backyard Deck
  26. Shootout @50mm vs GF 35-70, GF 32-64/4: Huge Laurel Along Alpine Creek
  27. Shootout @ 63mm vs GF 32-64/4, GF 63/2.8: Huge Laurel Along Alpine Creek
  28. SHOOTOUT: Fujifilm GFX100S vs Sony A1: Deck and Roof
  29. SHOOTOUT @ 38mm: Hasselblad X2D vs Fujifilm GFX100S: View to Grand Junction from Western Entrance of Colorado National Monument
  30. SHOOTOUT @ 55mm: Hasselblad X2D vs Fujifilm GFX100S: View to Grand Junction from Western Entrance of Colorado National Monument
  31. SHOOTOUT vs Fujifilm GF 35-70mm f/3.5-4.5: Icebergs in August on Dana Lake #1
  32. Conclusions and Recommendations
  33. SHOOTOUT: Fujifilm GF 55/1.7 vs Fujifilm GF 35-70: Snow-Crusted Cliff (GFX100 II) 20 days ago

Fujifilm GF 45mm f/2.8 R WR

Moderate wide angle equivalent to 37mm f/2.3.

  1. Overview of Fujifilm GF 45mm f/2.8 R WR
  2. MTF for Fujifilm GF 45mm f/2.8 R WR
  3. Distortion and Distortion Correction for Fujifilm GF 45mm f/2.8 R WR
  4. Focus Shift Evaluation (GFX 50S)
  5. Focus Stacking Examples, Various (GFX100)
  6. Examples: Panoramas in the Eastern Sierra and White Mountains (GFX100)
  7. Point Spread Function (GFX 50S)
  8. Early Winter Examples in Eastern Sierra (GFX 50S)
  9. Examples: Lundy Canyon Just Before the Winter Solstice (GFX 50R)
  10. Aperture Series: Alpine Meadows view towards North Subpeak of Mt Conness (GFX100)
  11. Aperture Series: Mosaic (GFX100)
  12. Aperture Series with Focus Stack: West Walker River in Noon Shade, Upstream View (GFX 50S)
  13. Aperture Series with Focus Stack: Boulder Escapee from Rockfall (GFX 50S)
  14. Aperture Series: Pre Sunrise Sage and Aspen (GFX 50S)
  15. Aperture Series with Focus Stack: West Walker Creek Meadow to Snowy Peaks (GFX 50S)
  16. Aperture Series with Focus Stack: Indian Rock (GFX 50S)
  17. Aperture Series with Focus Stack: Iced-Over Beaver Pond (GFX 50S)
  18. Aperture Series: Across Green Icy Lake to Blue Mountainside (GFX 50S)
  19. Aperture Series: Iced-Over Beaver Pond View to Mt Warren (GFX 50S)
  20. Aperture Series with Focus Stack: Frozen Beaver Ponds to Forest (GFX 50S)
  21. Aperture Series with Focus Stack: Lundy Lake, Green Ice at Dam End (GFX 50S)
  22. Aperture Series with Focus Stack: Low and Close Viewpoint, Beaver Dam Pond (GFX 50S)
  23. Aperture Series: View Down Shadowed Lundy Lake, Late Afternoon (GFX 50S)
  24. Aperture Series with Focus Stack: Aspen Against Mountain at Dusk (GFX 50S)
  25. Aperture Series with Focus Stack: Light-Colored Boulder Amid Sage and Boulder Field (GFX 50S)

Hasselblad X System

Phase One

Schneider Kreuznach LS 45mm f/3.5

Wide angle 34mm equivalent for Phase One XF system

Pentax 645

Leica S


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