With the big smile on your face at the beginning of the video I was pretty sure you are having a lot of fun with the new camera. And you are. Thanks
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@RedShiftedDollar Жыл бұрын
One thing that surprised me is how well Adobe Lightroom's superresolution works on the GFX files. Normally you might think it is pointless on 100mp, but it is actually more useful than on lower resolution images. The reason is that it always quadruples the resolution for any photo. If you start with a 20mp file, you end up with 80mp which is a gain of 60mp. But if you start with 100mp, you end up with 400mp for a gain of 300mp. 300mp is significantly more than 60mp which means the processing is adding significantly more information in total to the larger initial image. Basically, the larger your initial file, the more information superresolution is able to add, the more impactful superresolution will be.
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
Thanks - not something I've tried - I'll give it a go
@jessekoskinen Жыл бұрын
That stained glass window photo looks gorgeous. Thank you for making this video. Very interesting to see a professional speaking of this particular camera.
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
Thanks - glad it was of interest
@WhosPhotoTube Жыл бұрын
The Coventry Cathedral Window is spectacular, I must go and see it again, great image Keith.
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
Thanks - it was my first [brief] visit.
@simonohalloran9964 Жыл бұрын
Great update, like the Coventry cathedral images, shows the potential of the GFX 100S. Look forward to seeing more updates soon.
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
Thanks - I've some more work this coming week ;-)
@RAS-pz3st Жыл бұрын
Great video! The photos from Coventry - WOW!
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
Thanks - need to go back for when I'm not in the middle of a job ;-)
@TriggerTheGoldFinger Жыл бұрын
Wow now that looks stunning handheld with manual lenses bought my first GF lens 32mm - 64mm for street photography super impressed with how much detail is captured and can spot a 2mm wire at 100m then lose most of it in the printing process thinking of scaling up the print size or cropping out points of interest
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
Thanks - glad it was of interest
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
I'll be looking at big prints from this when I next test a larger printer [44']
@TriggerTheGoldFinger Жыл бұрын
@@KeithCooper would love to see one of those
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
Me too... ;-) I'm having a look at the 32-64mm lens as a 'proper' lens option for the camera - focal length fits nicely what i use when not using the T/S lenses
@TriggerTheGoldFinger Жыл бұрын
@@KeithCooper my use is for street photography usually put on adapted sigma art 1.4 105mm to get about 86mm or put it on my Baby Lumix GH5 so have a low light 210mm which is so useful my old canon pap slide zoom 35-350 is a 70-700 so weird and wonderful
@ironmonkey1512 Жыл бұрын
The pentax 645 120 macro is a great lens for gfx it has a great look.
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
Which particular lens? and in what way?
@ironmonkey1512 Жыл бұрын
@@KeithCooper There is only one that I know of... it's got a creamy look which takes away the macro hardness without looking soft. I don't know how else to explain it. I focus stack with helicon focus...
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
Thanks Although for my commercial macro work [electronic components and engineering] 'macro hardness' is perhaps more of a compliment ;-)
@charliehoffmanphotography3145 Жыл бұрын
Keith, Take a look at how Capture One handles the Fuji raw files. I find C1 handles it significantly better than both Lr or Pl 6. Though both are in my tool box, I prefer it over the others. It just seems to nail the colors better.
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
I'll have a look, but it will need to be astounding for me to pay for it ... I'm told the software budget is 'not much'...
@charliehoffmanphotography3145 Жыл бұрын
@@KeithCooper Yes indeed. At one time you could pick and choose cameras or a exclusive license for one. Those days are gone. However you can try it for a period of time, 30 days I think. If I didn't think the results were superior I wouldn't have kept up with it. In fact I have one coustermer who noticed the difference and prefers the results. Fuji even recommends it as the raw processor.
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
Thanks
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
Just checked and the current version simply won't run on my Mac [nor will the latest PS for that matter, but I know PS well enough after 25 yrs to be fine with that. ;-) ] Unfortunately, absolutely zero chance of getting a new computer at the moment unless someone sends me a winning lottery ticket this weekend ;-)
@sigmundklaus8 ай бұрын
6 months later ... :) Being a subscriber, I bet you tested all the lenses you had access to with the GFX ... Out of the "modern classic" TS/PC lenses, Canon 17TS, 24TS! Nikon 19PCE, the Laowas in teh 20mm plus minus range ...which one would yousay is the best match for that 100 MP sensor? Thank you again for all your great content.
@KeithCooper8 ай бұрын
Unfortunately [for my wallet] the Fujifilm 30mm TS matches my number one choice for my Canon of the TS-E24 II Next on the GFX would be my TS-E24 II - more than wide enough The PC-E 19 would be a strong contender if it wasn't for the [tiny] 'F' mount which causes far too much vignetting at shift. Wider works, but I need it much less often and it is much more tricky to make really effective use of such wide angles [when shifted].
@ColinRobertson_LLAP Жыл бұрын
Kieth, I found your comments about the GFX100S pretty interesting. I don't own one myself but I have a lot of experience with the 100S and editing files from it. It's a great camera with incredible colors and dynamic range but I have found a few things about it can be really frustrating. First, and probably most annoying is the ridiculous amount of hot pixels it seems to produce... (at least on the particular GFX I was editing files from). Even with shutter speeds that aren't that slow. Second, and you can see this in your cathedral shot opposite the stained glass (lower left corner, right next to the window), is the giant blobby flares it seems to produce. It doesn't seem to matter which lens you use, but we run into this all the time shooting interiors and it's often very difficult to prevent, forcing you to live with them or edit them out, which can be difficult and sometimes impossible. Third is the files are a dog on older computers... My 'late 2015' iMac really struggled with them, whereas it edits my Canon R5 files with relative ease. This can obviously be mitigated with a better computer however. Regarding the Canon 24mm tilt-shift softness you see on the left side of the frame-I see it on my copy as well. I've already had it in at Canon but the problem persists. Hearing you see the softness too makes me wonder how common this issue is. At least on full frame I find if you stop down to f/11-13 it really helps. I've held off from trying to find another copy because I keep hearing there will be an RF mount version soon.Hopefully Canon is able to update the optic to be more in line with say the EF 50mm TS-E and will work well on increasingly higher resolution bodies.
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
Thanks for that - I've not seen the hot pixels in any significant amount on this one. I do need to do more low light testing - the cathedral shots were pushed a lot and hand held. I'm editing on a 2012 Mac Pro - lots of RAM, SSD and a fast graphics card really seems to work quite well [2x 4k 32" displays] - bulk exporting a series of RAW->JPEG conversions showed all 24 cores running at a hefty usages. Slower than my 5DS for sure but not alarmingly so
@jefffenske1958 Жыл бұрын
Wonderful to hear and see! I just don't see any downsides to using this camera for these uses. I see more than two options though besides full sensor or 35mm crop mode. If the lens vignettes a bit with a hard shift in the full sensor, just step back a bit, reshoot, and crop it in post to be slightly smaller (but still bigger than in 35mm mode, and in 4:3). Or shoot in the full sensor in the 3:2 aspect ratio size, and then choose that same aspect ratio in post, which also may get rid of the vignette, especially when shooting in landscape mode. I don't see why anyone would be afraid to stop down to f/10. F/13 will still often be plenty sharp. F/16 is where I would be really hesitant, but is worth trying on the GFX, and would probably depend on the lens too. Those dye ink prints look fantastic! Thomas Heaton recently tried out the Hasselblad that has this same medium format sized sensor, and found the sides of the image to not be sharp at all. Commenters said it was probably due to its "7 stop" IBIS, which may keep the center sharp only. I've never heard of this happening with the GFX IBIS in everything I've seen online, nor have I ever heard of this happening with micro four thirds cameras in which IBIS has been used by Olympus for a long time. But it's possibly something to watch out for.
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
I've got to have a more detailed look at the IBIS, but the fact that it is just one side of the image suggests a slight lens misalignment. Stepping back is often not an option when I'm working in towns with an original medieval street plan, but with tall building, but yes - crop options are there too.
@jefffenske1958 Жыл бұрын
@@KeithCooper You're probably correct in thinking that something happened to your 24mm TS-E to make the one side soft. Something happened to mine to make the entire image soft, so I have to get it repaired too. I don't recall dropping it, but like you say it could have been bumped. I have the original Sony RX100 [mark I - 20MP compact camera] which I found out too late has a really soft right side. I learned the hard way to check for that before the warranty runs out. It doesn't seem possible how a less than stellar IBIS could only make one side softer. With Heaton, it was definitely both sides that were soft. The Hasselblad lens should have been tack sharp at f/8 on the edges. It's possible that Heaton tilted the camera during exposure, which that one axis of the IBIS couldn't handle, or maybe that tilt axis of their IBIS is inadequate? If you're interested, it's Thomas Heaton's KZfaq video entitled "Hasselblad Do a Lightweight Field Kit, But is It?," posted on May 31, 2023. He shows the image at minute-13:33. The softness is easy to see if you watch in 4K. He zooms into the one side too. I'm retired now, so have the time to look at every video and print review of all of the GFX cameras that I could find, and no one has complained about the IBIS delivering soft edges. Regarding not being able to step back when your back is against the wall, across the street, that's one of the coolest things about this camera. There is no way you could shoot your TS-E lenses wider than 24mm and 17mm unless you were shooting the GFX medium format camera! In order to understand how Fuji's 7 crop modes relate to the 35mm lens circle, I printed out their page of the 7 different aspect ratio shapes and the 35mm FORMAT rectangle, so I could place them on top of one another, comparing them especially to the 35mm FORMAT rectangle. That's how I discovered that the 65:24 IMAGE SIZE just barely extends beyond the tightest 35mm lens circle, so all Canon SLR lenses should be able to shoot in 65:24 on GFX cameras. I know that's not an aspect ratio you'd normally use, but this oversized sensor size is super sweet that way, and so many others! Just cutting back from full 4:3 to full 3:2 may cut vignetting enough when your back is against a wall, and could get rid of the soft top when shooting in landscape mode. If the shot can handle the crop. If the 17mm isn't wide enough, there is still the Laowa 15mm shift lens option too. You mentioned the 90mm TS-E. Would you be interested in doing a video on how it works on the GFX 100S? I have one of those also. It's their early model; is incredibly sharp. I wonder how it does with shift and vignetting on the GFX, since it is their early model, which they made smaller than their mark II versions. I just discovered that Canon also makes 50mm, 90mm and 135mm *macro* TS-E lenses, and the 90mm macro has a bigger image circle than mine (77mm filter size). My 90mm TS-E has a tiny 58mm filter size. So maybe the macro version of the 90mm is like a mark II version of the original 90mm TS-E non-macro, so would likely vignette less on the GFX. I haven't seen any reports on how either work on the GFX sensors. Either would be interesting, if you have the time. Amazing how much you get done - very much appreciated!!! God bless!
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
I've tried the 90 [original] and it works really well with the camera - a video is on my to-do list ;-) I've reviews of all the Canon TS-E lenses on the Northlight site - the new 90 & 135 are some of the sharpest lenses I tested. The new 90 is an entirely different lens - the name and mount are the only similarities ;-) I might be getting the Laowa 20mm shift to test as well - I only reviewed the Canon mount version last year.
@jefffenske1958 Жыл бұрын
@@KeithCooper Looking forward to the Laowa 20mm video and especially the 90 TS-E. Your TS-E reviews on your site are incredible! I really had no idea the original 90 was replaced by the macro version, which isn't a full macro. I thought macro lenses had to be 1:1 magnification to be called macro. GOOD NEWS! I'm particularly interested in the Laowa 15mm shift, and just discovered the price has been lowered by Laowa about $200. They announce on their website that the 14 blades aperture version is available now in all lens mounts, and are pricing them the same as the 7 blade version! If only one side of your images is consistently soft, including when shot on a tripod without IBIS, then it's definitely lens misalignment. I've never thought possible that IBIS could affect parts of images. With Thomas Heaton's Hasselblad example, it makes sense that the sensor could rotate too much, so the center could be sharp and the sides not. But only one side not sharp: could one side of the sensor raising or lowering out of synch with what's needed while the other side did not even happen?
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
@@jefffenske1958 They don't have a 20mm spare at the moment, so the next laowa lens I test will be the plain 17mm I'm pretty sure, it's the lens with the softness, but I do need to test more to be sure...
@oneeyedphotographer Жыл бұрын
4:12 Thanks Apple. Apple is always making incompatible changes to Mac OSX, it buggers up Adobe and Capture One too. Windows, however, always seems to work.
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
Yes, maybe, but at a cost I've no interest in... I've managed this whole century without using a win pc and it's unlikely to change
@oneeyedphotographer Жыл бұрын
@@KeithCooper Use whatever you like but when stuff breaks like this,it's probably Apple broke it. Back in the 1970s I used to write software for IBM mainframes. IBM guaranteed that, with a few exceptions, programs written then would continue to work into the distant future. As far as I know, that still holds.
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
Yes, I'm used to Apple breaking things since I started looking after Macs at a job some 35 years ago ;-)
@sigmundklaus Жыл бұрын
I found the Pentax 645 35mm to be the best option for a 35 in medium format lenses ... I do agree, the Mamiya 55 and 80 are really good - but I would have never thought that they are 100MP good... I just have a GFX 50 and they have plenty of resolutin for that one.
@sigmundklaus Жыл бұрын
a good alternative to the Mamiya 80 is the Pentax 67 75mm... Very cheap and really sharp. I just don't know if it is good enough for 100MP :) .... According to reviews the Pentax 67 55mm is also a great lens.... And of corse these 67 lenses have larger image circles than the 645 lenses
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
Thanks - I need to do a few more experiments with the 55/80. That said, my perceptions of 'good for 100MP' is somewhat at variance with a fair bit of received 'forum wisdom' ;-) I've a few real clunkers, which seem to work - just not sure when I'd use them. Diffraction is a 'feature' not some lurking beast... I've had people already tell me that the TS-E24 and 17 are not really suitable...
@protestagain Жыл бұрын
Let me suggest two old, but good wideangels to use with GFX. Both of them will cover the sensor. The Nikkor 28mm f:3.5 Tilt and the Zuiko 35mm f:2.8 Tilt. As they are just tilt lenses, you can use them as normal wide angle lenses. They cost about $ 3-400. Think you can tilt them about 11 degrees both ways before dark corners.
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
Potentially good lenses... However, looking at the specs [on-line and in my tilt/shift book] these lenses are shift lenses not tilt? I'd not really want an F mount lens due to the mount vignetting from its relatively small size. Also the 28mm lens is known for some barrel distortion - definitely not something to deal with when shifted and taking architectural photos I don't know the Olympus one. When writing the book, I did try to get some examples of these to test, but was unable to at the time - I cannot afford to buy old lenses like this just for testing.
@protestagain Жыл бұрын
@@KeithCooper I understand, but they are very useful as normal wideangel lenses.
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
Thanks - They are definitely up to the job in that respect. It was the issues with much shift which would concern me for my uses, and I do use shift a lot ;-) I actually use one of my old Zuiko 24/2.8 lenses from my OM-2n, via an adapter [on an EOS RP] for recording almost all the video on this channel - tried it on the GFX, but not very good in the corners ;-)
@protestagain Жыл бұрын
@@KeithCooper After this video, I started following you, and found a lot of fun in your feed that I will watch and I completely agree with "your statement"; who cares! Today's cameras and technology can produce completely clinically clean images, which is what we want? But like you, I am also hooked on tilt & shift optics, architecture, but also landscape and art photography, preferably in combination. I have several systems, everything from m43 all the way up to 4x5". Optics I can use across platforms. Last time, when I was almost certain to buy a GFX 50R, I bought a Mamiya 7 with 43mm instead .My thought about a photo is: will someone want to have it on the wall and enjoy it for a long time. By the way, I'm a OM/Zuiko nerd. My nearly first camera was a OM2, and now I have the OM3Ti and nearly the most of the f:2.0 line up, and Nikon F's.
@protestagain Жыл бұрын
@@KeithCooper Almost twenty years ago, I was engaged by a museum. Take pictures of the art collection. Was when I started to delve deeper into Pro-Photo versus aRGB and wanted to make everything the best possible. A valuable thought process, when is good enough, good enough? How to illuminate acrylic paintings without reflections and without expensive lighting equipment etc. The answer; minimum possible light and long exposure time.
@mamumonkan Жыл бұрын
Leicester ... that brings up the question where my wife is going to watch her games next season !?!
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
Who knows? I'll have to admit though that I find football slightly less interesting than watching paint dry ;-)
@mamumonkan Жыл бұрын
@@KeithCooper agreed it was a bit like watching my dying Epson 11880
@mamumonkan Жыл бұрын
Never mind bringing in new coaches ( aka Epson repair ) all the time who could not fix anything ... until I consolidated to a P20000 five years back ... and then it was like playing in Premier League again ( TG I did not buy Canon ).
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
Yes, the P20000 is my usual answer when people say 'what printer should I get' with no additional info... ;-)
@dummatube Жыл бұрын
Hi Kieth, Did you get any 'shadowing' of the image coverage from the PC lens caused by the lens adapter tube?
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
Yes, it's the slight mount vignetting I point out at the bottom corners of the Birmingham picture. This only happens at extreme shift. It's not the adapter, but the EF mount itself See my more detailed look at this in my other GFX lens reviews and notes
@dummatube Жыл бұрын
@@KeithCooper that’s what I thought would happen! I was going to get a Nikkor 35mm PC to use for shift stitching on my 40MP X-H2 then I realised that I would most likely get image cut off from a non optical Nikon to Fuji lens adapter. I’ll try a 50mm with a shift adapter. Thanks and welcome to Fuji world!
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
Thanks - the F mount impinges even more in this way unfortunately
@siangli6400 Жыл бұрын
Hi Keith, great video! What would be the biggest size of paper the GFX’s file would allow you to print while maintaining quality? Thx!
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
Thanks - it all depends on the image, since there is no specific "X megapixels = max picture size" relationship At a basic level, the GFX100S image would print at almost 40" x 30" at 300dpi When I'm next testing a really big printer I'll have a better look!
@siangli6400 Жыл бұрын
@@KeithCooper Got it. I personally recently purchased a EPSON P900. But I haven’t really got into all the larger stuff printing yet. Still just testing things out on the A4 and occasionally A3. Since I am also a Fuji system user and wondered about upgrade to their medium format line up one day. So I was just curious to know your findings on this. Again, thanks for all the insights you are providing through all the amazing videos. Cheers!
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
I do have a video looking at making a large B&W GFX100S print on the 17" P5000 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lbifabtmxq7JYJs.html
@gerardferry3958 Жыл бұрын
is the canon 24mm wider on the gfx so edge softness even more likely
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
It's there on the 5Ds, when fully shifted, but he important bit to note is that the [relative] softness is only on one side, which points much more to a slight lens misalignment
@drwatsonismine Жыл бұрын
Do you manual focus these Canon lenses? You mentioned focus peaking for the Mamiya manual focus.
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
Yes - the same for both, I just assumed people would be less familiar with the Mamiya lenses
@drwatsonismine Жыл бұрын
@@KeithCooper ok. Thanks. I thought i might have missed something.
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
No signs of AF in a tilt/shift [yet] ;-)
@drwatsonismine Жыл бұрын
@@KeithCooper yes. The work you showed is beautiful!
@mamumonkan Жыл бұрын
DxO is also very keen to get it's yearly NATO contributions ... it's an arms race you can not win :) ( that's why I stopped with v9 :) ( how come you are not using Capture ? )
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
I'm not using C1 because of the cost and utility - I pay for photoshop, lightroom comes 100% ignored in the subscription. DxO - well I've reviewed their software since Optics Pro V1 [before it supported raw files] and done beta testing in the past...
@mamumonkan Жыл бұрын
@@KeithCooper I used it for design interiors until about 10 years ago, but then one day on the job it would not open and I needed to wait until Monday to get login support ... that was worse than Silverfast ( who were the worst pursesnatchers in the buisiness ) ... but I agree I could never warm up to Lightroom - ACR is still better for my brain
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
SF are still the only company where someone took exception to one of my reviews and phoned me up to complain that I should have run the review by them first... I took great pleasure in telling the guy where he could go ;-)
@mamumonkan Жыл бұрын
@@KeithCooper laughing my butt off ... just remembering their demo videos ...
@thomaseriksson6256 Жыл бұрын
Good info than you. get the 45-100mm.
@KeithCooper Жыл бұрын
The 32-64 would be a better fit for when I want an 'ordinary' lens
@thomaseriksson6256 Жыл бұрын
@@KeithCooper Okay so a wider angle Zoom. Pity that there are not a 32-100mm lens to Fuji GFX. A good part in your video when you discuss your MF lenses. My main reason for getting the 100s is to reuse my old MF lenses and to be able to crop to HB pan format in the camera. I’m still saving for a D850.I got higher taxes that have delayed my upgrading time table...