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Anonymous Mon 05 Jan 2026 20:35:10 No.4492368 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>4492371 >>4493015 >>4493212

Well I ordered a used Fujifilm GFX 100s for 3k and the Gf 50mm f3.5 for a little over 600$. I've been doing a series of suburban/urban landscapes late at night and was previously shooting with a Nikon z7ii and the 35mm f1.4 and Voigtlander Nokton 40mm. I think the 50mm should be a pretty good light weight option but I was also looking at adapting some pentax 645 and Mamiya glass. I've also heard the Mitakon 65mm f1.4 is pretty good. Any suggestions or tips for someone who hasn't ever shot digital medium format?

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Anonymous Mon 05 Jan 2026 20:39:36 No.4492369 Report

Quoted By: >>4492371 >>4492383

What's the point of digital medium format? I get it with film because the negatives are bigger but what do you gain over a full frame on digital?

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Anonymous Mon 05 Jan 2026 20:48:45 No.4492371 Report

Quoted By: >>4492377

>>4492369
more resolution, more dynamic range, cleaner high iso, different lens options
>>4492368
enjoy it, be sure to share lots of pics here
i loved my GFX, but it really put the nail in the coffin for any "more resolution" desire and I went back down to shooting mostly ~24mp
TTArtisan 50 f1.4 also has decent sensor coverage
seems odd to do mostly night stuff and also get a slower lens, but have to assume you're already doing mostly tripod stuff anyways

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Anonymous Mon 05 Jan 2026 22:08:23 No.4492377 Report

Quoted By: >>4492379 >>4492380 >>4492386

>>4492371
lol @ spending $3k on a TOTL speed oriented fake medium format mirrorless to use a ttartisan lens

why even do that when fuji makes an official hasselblad slr adapter? and vaseline and step down rings provide the ttartisan experience

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Anonymous Mon 05 Jan 2026 22:16:40 No.4492379 Report

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>>4492377
It's very cheap and I already owned it for other systems, I still used GF lenses most of the time
Sorry for mentioning it at all I guess
What specific hasselblad lenses would you recommend instead?
Did you forget to attach your example image of how poor quality that lens actually is?

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Anonymous Mon 05 Jan 2026 22:23:38 No.4492380 Report

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>>4492377
What bodies and lenses do you use?

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Anonymous Mon 05 Jan 2026 22:36:33 No.4492381 Report

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>>4492380
i use a 5d classic and 50mm f1.8 to take pictures of my penis and nothing else (yes, I’m over 6ft)

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Anonymous Mon 05 Jan 2026 22:42:33 No.4492382 Report

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GF lenses are pretty complete at this point, they even have superteles and a 1.4x teleconverter. I've heard everything but the 100s ii has shit af but I'm guessing that doesn't matter to you. The GF macro lens sucks also (it is very bad good at 1x, which requires an extension tube that costs hundreds of dollars), go with an adapted lens. There's a spreadsheet out there of how compatible FF lenses are on GFX, apparently a lot of Canons can have their back baffles removed for great coverage... but IMO the point of going with GFX is the great lenses. Do you have a decent tripod?

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Anonymous Mon 05 Jan 2026 23:08:12 No.4492383 Report

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>>4492369
A bit more light, 16 but color, and 100mp for large printing or cropping. Honestly the lenses are a bit more but size wise they are roughly the same as canikon. If you aren't using autofocus for wildlife or sports you don't really lose anything.

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Anonymous Mon 05 Jan 2026 23:14:33 No.4492384 Report

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>>4492382
Yeah the AF doesn't really matter much to me. I'm using manual focus most of the time anyways since it's low light. I have a couple tripods I use but recently have been just using monopods. With the distance I was shooting at most of the lenses I was using there wasn't much reason to shoot about f4 or 5.6. the z7ii IBIS was pretty sharp with a monopod down to a couple of seconds which was more than enough for a clean ISO. We'll see with the gfx 100s though. I'll probably have to bring out the tripod or shoot from the car window.

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Anonymous Mon 05 Jan 2026 23:18:06 No.4492386 Report

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>>4492377
I rented a hasselblad x2d a week or so ago. Truthfully after editing they looked pretty much exactly the same as Fuji ones. I would go with hassy if I needed high speed flash but otherwise I don't really see a reason. Plus I could only use the electronic shutter of I was adapting anything.

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Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 08:10:57 No.4492437 Report

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i had a 50r and the 50mm 3.5 and the 65mm mitakon for a bit. sold the 50r and the 50mm and got a 100s and the 45mm 2.8. it spends most of its time with an adapted macro lens attached now lol, because i use it to scan my film. the mitakon is good, about what you'd expect from a large aperture lens on the cheaper side. otherwise it's mostly used for friends and family pics
normally i shoot film or apsc. the most noticeable thing about shooting on the 100s for me is that the files are giant and slow to work on my computer. another strange result i get with the 100s and had with the 50r is color banding on jpegs. which seems strange to me because i never had an issue with that any other cameras - compact, apsc, full frame, etc. probably user error since i haven't heard of others running into this. you could say just always shoot raw if you're going to go to the trouble to get a gfx. that's pretty fair but a lot of the time you don't want to deal with a 200mb raw file and its annoying for such supposedly powerful camera to have such a lame shortcoming. besides that, it's very nice

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Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 08:34:14 No.4492438 Report

Quoted By: >>4492456

people hear 'medium format' and expect to get blown away. but as you'd guess from the sensor size, it's not radically different from ff

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Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 14:32:01 No.4492456 Report

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>>4492438
Actual medium format film is noticably nice because you get very fine grain (except for 645) and pleasing film attributes in basically any scenario outside of super low-light.
GFX Medium Format is like what... 1.2x larger than FF? Pretty sure 645 is 1.4x the size of 35mm/FF, and 6x7 is 1.5x. Except I'm absolutely convinced due to the way smaller pixel pitch you get worse colour rendition and less light gathering.

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Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 14:43:35 No.4492458 Report

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>>4492437
If you get a GFX to shoot JPG you are a retard, simple as

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Anonymous Fri 09 Jan 2026 16:56:10 No.4493015 Report

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>>4492368
Just use a digicam. Trust. You can get one of those suckers at the thrift for 30 bucks.

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Anonymous Sat 10 Jan 2026 18:49:03 No.4493212 Report

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>>4492368
If you are looking for sharp lenses, GF ones are the way to go. For me it was too clinical and I've ended up using adopted glass on GFX. I believe for landscapes it will be good. As for static subjects and tripod operations - adopting glass could be an option. GFX raw's are super flexible so without problem you can use "film profiles" to match style of your previous work using filmstock.

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