The translation from Chris is on point.

Even though it's the internet I'm a little surprised at just how contentious an issue this video is creating and I feel it important for clarity sake to state for the record where my opinion lies on the GFX. So here goes. I love street photography. Fuji Japan was surprised at how much interest the GFX generated among street photographers when polled. Medium format mirrorless is a new frontier and promises being possibly lighter, faster, and more discreet, all things which may appeal to street photographers. Medium format is not ridiculous for street photography, Mamiya 6s, and 7s, for example are excellent for this, and who is anyone to say what a person can and can't shoot with or for what reason? Hasselblad 500CM on the street? Why not. Weegee shooting 4x5 press cameras on the street? Why not. Terry Richardson using point and shoots in the studio? I wouldn't, but why not. An artist may want the aesthetic that medium format offers for any kind of photography including street and I was quite happy with the photos that the GFX delivered for me in this environment. In the end I didn't find the Fuji GFX to be that well suited for street photography nor do I advocate its use as such, but I wanted to test it and see, which is part of the point of reviewing a camera in the first place. We also tested it for landscape in this video, and some commercial work as well, to give a more full concept of its full potential across many fields, and not exclusively as a street camera. I never complained about 125th sync speed, and in fact feel this is a minor issue, easily worked around, which I state in the video. I think it's awesome for travel photography personally, and we also happened to be travelling so why wouldn't I test it as such? And why would it need to be relegated in such a limited way only to studio shooting, and tripod work? The GFX as a selfie camera sucks! It's the worst possible selfie camera of all time. Don't buy the GFX people, because its a terrible selfie camera! And also that was all OBVIOUSLY a f#&king joke. Thanks. CHRIS @ TCSTV

not a selfie camera? damn. Was hoping to put this on my selfie stick

12:40 Purifying the camera for better performance, nice.

The translation didn't help since I don't speak Canadian.

Your SA accent cracks me up. :D

OMG your change of accent and the cheeky jokes. LOL. Brilliant. This is an awesome video. Both your photographs are absolutely stunning. I'm drooling big time over the camera and the lenses.

Wow! Welcome to Tokyo (and thanks for the wonderful GFX review) From Roppongi to Asakusa, great to see you around town taking in the sights. Hope you enjoyed Japan and def come back again soon. -John

I can't understand why people are so salty about this?? TCSTV is a very self aware channel, and the reviews are therefore often made with tongue-in-cheek. I feel like people are perhaps getting a bit too granular with their own personal analysis of TCSTV's take on a camera.

GFX not being a selfie camera is a deal breaker for me.

Great job on picking the locations for night time video shots, especially that alley and those steps with barriers behind them.

Wow... as a South African your accent was on point!

definitely had a LOL moment when you were talking and 'translating' Brent. I like that you guys showed the camera in mulitple situations and presented perhaps your own confusion about the product. obviously the scenario it suits best is the landscape and studio work. hope you guys are well. keep it up!

The camera is awesome. It's not perfect, but really quite incredible. I really think Fuji have taken the crown. They've got back to what they were in the film days, a high end pro camera manufacturer. The image quality is exceptional and the price is affordable.

Chris’ South African accent is actually pretty good!

Just bought the 50s last week and im totally loving it! got the 32-64 with it, saving up for the 110mm .

Really great video, great mix of interesting content, sample photos and comedy!

Very good video quality! much better than many TV production companies. Good Job 👍👍👍

I think you are one of the very few young guys to review a medium format camera and KNOW that they're supposed to be used in conjunction with a tripod. BRAVO!

The GFX is a just a tool. If you want to use it for street photography, then more power to you. Chris, your photos prove that it can be done very well. The photograph of the gentleman with a butterfly crawling on his face was particularly impressive. God, I miss Japan.

Hey Jordan! Those are some Great colours on the video! Great step up from previous videos.

Nicely shot Jordan 👍🏻

Thanks! I hate watching review videos where it just shows bland photos and was happy to see more of what the system can actually do in pro hands! Keep it up!

The image quality of the GFX is amazing!!

Your videos are great. Thanks for being such a balanced human being.

3:07 . Thats where you get to see the beauty of a medium format sensor. Such a clean , crisp and most importantly well lit picture at f32!

Excellent review. Love it. You deserve more subscribers, for sure.

You video quality on my 4k display blows me away every time.

Started watching these videos after buying a canon eos 500d a few days ago. Channel is awesome

Wow what an amazing looking camera. Awesome video thanks for sharing. Fantastic work on the SA translating absolutely hilarious.

Chris keep doing this great work

Great video guys

Great stuff Chris and Jordon.Cheers

You are so well-spoken.

this what i was waiting for. 💗

I surprised you do not have a million subscribers. I personally find this Chanel to be one of the best.

Funny as always....love your take and honest opinion on the Fuji 50.

Haven't been through the whole video yet (5:55 now), but I gotta say: veeery nive video work there @TCSTV! The colours are spot on and the gradation is so natural, it's fun to watch it just for its own sake. Very well done!

Japan suits Chris extremely well! Love how he is driven away from the tripod!

Great review...love the role reversal. Spot on translation.

This is exactly the reason why I will get the GTX 50S, medium format magic in a smaller compact system, compared to the original mamiya medium format... I will get one for sure, thanks Chris for another objective and down to earth review...

Good video, thanks!

This camera is very exciting. Hopefully they will be able to improve the focus speed in the next revision.

Love that accent!! Also great expression on Brent Taylor as he tried hard not to laugh!! Great work!

15:56 Chris is an amazing translator. I understand everything!

thanks. good travel vlog on top of the technical camera analysis. Two things. 1: Understatement of the decade when you said, "... it's a fairly affordable price tag." !... to infinity. It lists for just under $8500 on your site. That's a serious chunk of change. 2. Nice B&W of Anthony Bourdain. Love the channel and learn from you both.

I took a trip to New York this year with my Fujifim X-T1 put a 27mm pancake lense and carried a 50mm. It wasn't ideal but it was light. First time using a wrist strap. Thanks for the idea Chris. When I'm on vacation I like limiting my gear. I once had a tripod off camera flash remote for a Upper Pennisula Michigan trip, waterfalls every where. I got great shots but it was a lot of work and a little ridiculous.

Another great video! Did you get a chance to check out any of the camera shops in Shinjuku while you were here? And in the future, if you find yourself in need of a tour guide in the Fuji Five Lakes area, feel free to give me a shout...

Brent Taylor is an incredible photographer!

Took the Fuji GFX50s with me on a trip through Ireland. Great, great performer. This camera is simply stunning for Landscape and portraits. Damn. No regret I sold all my Sony stuff. The Fuji is (not only from the technical data) way ahead of everything Sony can offer for landscape and portraits. Specifically I mean here the HMI which is really, really intuitive. Yes, it's not a camera for street photography. For their purpose I have the Fuji X-T2 :)

Very good, decent review. Thank you and keep uploading good videos! :)

great review ... thx

great video

Great video. I really enjoyed it, even if I might never buy a Fuji GFX. What I have seen from this camera (and the Pentax 640 and the Hasselblad) is that the 50Mp larger sensor doesn't improve the image quality that much compared to modern full frame camera's. The difference with the Fuji XT camera's is obvious, but if I compare this to a modern Canon, Nikon or Sony the gap is so much smaller. I think Fuji has done a marvelous job with the GFX. It is really impressive as a system and it will grow, but it should grow significantly on image quality. From a practical point of view, a lighter full frame will be much handier while traveling. Thanks to Brent Taylor for contributing. Wonderful photography.

for packing, you can remove the viewfinder and it makes the overall size less bulky in the bag.

Wish I knew you were in Japan, being a FujiFilm shooter, would have loved to have shown you around and just hung out.

Man that South African accent was funny. I love this channel. Awesome video. You guys have made this channel a lot better with time.

Hey, thanks for a great review. All your videos are really engaging. I'd like to ask: what's your favorite camera? One that's reliable in a situation when you want to quickly capture the moment, whether at night or during the day.

YES!!!!

Great review, had a good chuckle with the SA accent translation and wow, you do a great accent, it's definitely not an easy one to pull off.

Thank you for the review. It would have been beneficial to compare the image quality of the GFX with other medium format cameras to give some context. I am assuming that most folks who will buy into this system are commercial photographers and image quality would be a primary interest for them.

Interesting camera. Amusing accent switch - keep the humour coming Chris!

Chris is a superstar translator! thanks for the another nice video.

Cool camera! Cool Vid!

Ooooh finally!

I'm really impressed that Chris can speak fluent South African and Canadian.

So not many down-checks for those of us who do landscape and portrait work mostly. I wonder how it will work with longer lenses for wildlife work?

X1D is certainly a potential game changer when it was firstly exposed, but lack of focal plane shutter, handicapping the adaption of other lenses, greatly impaired its practicality. One of my friend, a Linhof and Alpa user, used to be very excited about GFX. After proving the smearing effect on GFX when using Diagron HR lenses by Rodenstock, he sold his GFX. Unlike how NEX series and A7 work as universal digital back in 135 system, there is simply not so many optional lenses for medium format users to choose for GFX. Meanwhile, the G-Mount does not look very promising for adopting larger sensors like a full-frame medium format (54mm*40.5mm) CMOS that is used by Phase One and Hasselblad in their flagship products. The GFX and X1D are certainly milestones of the photography history, just like SONY NEX 5 and A7. But unlike 135 cameras, being professional/superrich aimed product while not being easy to use like 135 or M43 cameras, neither as powerful as the full-frame medium format mirrorless that is meant to come in the future, these two systems may as well become no more than a foot note, for the beginning of this new era.

Welcome JAPAN!!

GH4 OR G85 I really help need in choosing a camera and I mostly want to make comedy films,just what to know which is best for filmmaking,the GH4 AND G85 almost the same price.It's my first time buying a camera for filmmaking

Hi, I know you heated the Hasseldlad X1D, But I just been to one of the camera store in the UK and took both cameras out that the Fuji GFX and the Hasseldlad X1D and I found the Fuji uncomfortable to hold just awkward to control in manual i.e. changing most of the setting other than aperture. As to the image quality there was little to no difference on what I shot, But when I have look at other test I think the Hessalbad is still just a small bit better. But the Hessablad is so much nice in the hand. You have got to remember that both of these cameras are medium format and need to be used as such.

Great review...Here is my question. I have 3 Rollei 6000 series lenses, 150 mm, 80mm, 50mm and would like to adapt them to a medium format camera. Can I adapt these lenses to the GFX-50s?

Chris you guys should make a video on how to be insanely funny and witty.(seriously) Thanks a bunch it is a real good review!

he's crazy..... the design is flawless ,,,most beautiful camera ever it's why I bought it

and now pls tell us when they come with 100 mlx camera cos they are making lenses for it :D

a great camera for traveling of fuji. BTW your South Africa accent is pretty good

TSCTV does a great job of covering Fuji cameras but there aren't many reviews (here or other channels) that go in-depth to show off Fuji's zoom lenses. We know their primes are good and everyone talks about them. Any chance we could see a video centered around the 16-55 and 50-140?

lekker man lekker!! greets from Namibia!

Great video Christopher. It would be fun to see a comparison with the 50 mega pixel Cannon 5ds I too can't believe you don't have a million subscribers. Hey, keep putting in the quality work, "they will come."

Is it really a huge jump if i change from full frame into medium format mirrorless? just consider to buy phase one for commercial work but the price is near 4 times than fuji Gfx...please suggest me :) thank you mate!

do you think that we will ever see a large format digital camera?

The "Selfie-Function" was already missed by Ansel Adams on his large format camera ;-) anyway...very interesting video!!

Hakone is beautiful, great onsens and Unagi

Good to have the specific strong and not so strong points highlighted as was done but I personally don't see this camera as a street photog rig but then I don't see a d5 or 5d as street rigs either. That was the point of the x series , especially the xe/xp and other smaller cameras wasn't it ? I guess one can use anything for whatever one wants but it is a large camera which defeats the non intimidating appeal of the x line to carry for street work.

Nice

I do love your videos ;)

im a full frame Nikon photographer, I have way to many lenses to change my entire system, so my question is: what happen if I use my F mount lenses w/ the Fujifil GFX 50S?? I know I need an adapter, but what happens w/ the autofocus in this conditions? would work?

The South African ‘translation’ had me in stitches. Done completely dead pan. Hahaha.

TheCameraStoreTV may I ask you how could you shoot handheld with the GF110 at 1/100th? I've used it for a job, and even with the 63mm and a flash I had to use a tripod for the little shaken images at 100% (enlarged 1:1) I can shoot with 1/10 or 1/15th with my A7R3 and the 55mm but I think it's quite impossible to achieve 100% steady shots as I saw in the video with such a long lens and no IBIS.... May I also ask you if the autofocus in normal daylight is any good as the "old" Fuji XT1? I'm really interested in buying the GFX50R sooner or later Thank you

Nice video, well done. I bought the Fuji GFX50s about 3 weeks ago. I own also the Fuji GF 63mm 2.8 and Fuji GF 23mm 4.0 lenses. The camera basically delivers great pictures. No doubt about that. However, I changed back yesterday the Fuji GF 23mm 4.0 for the 2nd time. In both cases, a failure saying "Switch camera off and on again" error appeared. And this message never disappeared again, even after following the instruction. And this error message also goes with the camera, means, in case I use this failed lens on an other GFX body, the same message appears. And this behaviour can be reproduced (at least my case the described procedure was applied): I used the Fuji GF 63mm first for quite a while and changed then to the Fuji GF 23mm 4.0 and continued shooting. Sooner or later, typically after some hours this error message pops up. If I only use the Fuji GF 23mm 4.0 then I never had any issue. Now, I forwarded per request the GFX and the failing lens to Fuji because they kept saying the first lens is working (what is not the case on all the bodies I tried before, also verified by the dealer). One week my gear will be gone now, then let's see. I expect here a clear and unambiguous answer from Fuji. If not, the gear will go back together with the lenses and I am done with Fuji. Sorry, man, but the Fuji GFX system looks quite unstable and not finished yet. Including the well praised Fuji service. Yes, I am disappointed.

Is that the Domke f-5xb that is used? Doesn't look exactly like the Domke f-5xb I have.

That was worth watching just for the hilarious translation bit...good one!

Hmm, nice review. Some parts of this video had poor lighting or bad selection of locations to shoot the different segments at as it was to dark or to much sunlight. I too enjoy these TCS videos and I am here mostly for the reviews as photography for me is just a hobby. Always great narration, reviews, camerawork etc. Thanks guys.

How did you get almost no noise with the high iso night shots in low light? i feel like once you go over 1600-3200 and beyond the photos look super super noisy and unusable in most cases. What are you doing in post to clear them up?

how does it compare to the d850 shot for shot?

Just found one of these brand new for $2200... Should I do it ?!

Chris has either been working out or the GFX-50S is a fairly heavy camera. Those biceps are showing!

I wonder what Godox lighting system that Brent Taylor using?

I am sure they will improve the autofocus with firmware updates

How did Brent fint out which ND to put on?