FUJI GFX 50sii
Is this the worst camera I’ve ever owner….No.
Is this the best camera I’ve ever owned…..No.
Before I shred this thing I’ll tell you what I like about this camera.
If you change the settings to capture Jpegs it rocks. The colors straight out of camera are fantastic. It has great skin tones and a fantastic dynamic range meaning the sky will not be properly exposed and you can still see details in your shadows.
In raw the images are fantastic too with tons of detail.
What is the best use case for this camera. Pretty simply it’s a studio photographers camera. If you have tons of light this thing is an absolute beast and if you want to take it out of the studio and shoot walking around I’d switch over from RAW to JPEG and run it like the Fuji X100 series.
Where this camera falls short is in speed, focusing, and white balance. When I decided to make the jump to medium format digital I was excited for all of the latitude I would have in my color grading.
About 4 months in and I still can’t get consistent color out of my images with this camera.
With my Canon system I could make one preset on the first image from a shoot apply it to the entire shoot and be about 80-90% finished with my editing for all of the images.
With the fuji files I have to be very meticulous just to get relatively close to where I want to be.
I have to flatten the images in capture one then take them into photoshop to finalize them.
Doing the same adjustment in capture one and then doing the same exact adjustment in photoshop will render entirely different results.
It’s frustrating to say the least.
Forget the slow focussing and missing shots what really takes the cake for me is the image sensitivity to white balance.
In capture one the slightest adjustment to white balance completely throws off the entire image.
The raw files are so sensitive the slightest nudge will turn your image entirely green or magenta.
I think I’m going to have to try editing in Lightroom to see if it’s just as sensitive.
Either way I think it’s safe to say I’m going back to Canon as soon as I possibly can.
