Fujifilm GFX 50R
Announced September 25, 2018
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Reviewer Consensus
Strong
The Fujifilm GFX 50R offers an accessible entry into medium-format digital photography by pairing a 51-megapixel sensor with a relatively compact, weather-sealed rangefinder-style body. While it delivers exceptional image quality and color reproduction, the system is designed for deliberate, specialized work rather than high-speed action or general-purpose everyday use.
Weighted from 44 reviewer scores
Pros
- Exceptional image quality with high resolution and dynamic range
- Affordable price point for a medium-format system
- Compact, rangefinder-style design with intuitive controls
- High-quality lens selection and film simulation modes
- Rugged, weather-sealed construction
Cons
- Slow contrast-detect autofocus system
- Limited video capabilities and lack of 4K recording
- Inadequate grip and ergonomic frustrations
- Lack of in-body image stabilization
- Slow burst shooting speeds
- Launch price $4,500 (USD)
- Sensor 51.4MP Medium Format CMOS
- Stabilization None
- Burst 3 fps electronic
What the Reviewers Say
All 44 expert reviews, weighted into the PixelMeter score.
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- DPReview 84/100
The Fujifilm GFX 50R brings medium format digital photography down to a more attainable price point than we've seen before, and does so while offering exceptional image quality in a reasonably compact yet well-built body.
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The medium-format Fuji GFX 50R shares many of its features and performance with the GFX 50S, but offers them in a slimmer, less ergonomic body at a lower price point.
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[T]he Fujifilm GFX 50R is a very capable medium format camera.
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With so much going for it, this is a camera that simply begs to be picked up and used, and occasionally I even found myself taking pictures just to see what hidden features it might tease out of a scene.
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What Fuji has done is bring medium format, feel of a film camera, and portability to the convenience of digital. This is something worth celebrating.
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It's not a general purpose camera. I would choose a ton of other cameras over top of this as a walk-around everyday camera. But if I know I'm going out and I'm shooting certain certain things that are going to require the time to to achieve results. I love this thing for that.
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If I had to choose the Fuji GFX 50S or the Fuji GFX 50R, the GFX 50S is the obvious choice.
- The Verge 7/10
Despite it looking like an incredible street camera, the reality is it’s not much different from every other medium format camera currently available. But hey, at least it’s less expensive.
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The Fujifilm GFX 50R offers one of the most affordable routes into medium format shooting.
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The GFX 50R blurs the boundaries between 35mm full-frame and medium format more than ever before, bringing the larger format into closer reach of high-end DSLR and mirrorless users both financially and in terms of the overall system size.
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The GFX 50R won’t be for everyone – even those who can afford it – but if you need to be relatively mobile without compromising on image quality, this deserves to be on your shortlist.
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The GFX 50R was designed for superb medium format image quality at a price we haven’t seen before and in a portable, resilient camera, and it does that quite superbly.
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The Fujifilm GFX 50R matches the imaging capabilities of its fraternal twin, the GFX 50S, but is better styled for use outside the studio.
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The GFX 50R combines so much of what we love about Fujifilm's more established X-series with a sensor that's capable of superb image quality.
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The Fuji is a specialized camera; it's something different.
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The GFX 50R delivers a maximum of 10.8 stops of dynamic range (at ISO 100), which is a strong result.
- Photo Review 8.9/10
GFX 50R has plenty to offer stills photographers, whether you shoot JPEGs, RAF.RAW files or both, particularly for photographers who shoot on location.
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In our experience, the 50R was not a particularly fun camera to use. Autofocus takes a long time, and even when it’s done, depth of field is so marginal you have to be utterly pedantic to come anywhere near guaranteeing a solid-looking result.
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Medium format isn’t suited to everybody – it’s big, it’s not cheap and it’s cumbersome – but the files are bloody gorgeous. By reducing the price, Fujifilm brings medium format within the realms of mass affordability – we’re hooked.
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The Fujifilm GFX-50R is built around a Medium Format sensor which truly delivers amazing images with extremely low noise and unrivalled dynamic-range.
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Medium format is a niche market and so is the still somewhat hefty price tag that adorns it, but Fujifilm must still be applauded for their efforts in putting larger sensor sizes at least vaguely on the radar of prosumer photographers.
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The GFX 50R is such a capable camera. I cannot help but compare it to the X-Pro1.
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If I actually use that camera for the rest of my career, I would be more than happy, definitely. It produces great quality image files.
- Eric Kim 10/10
In terms of the functionality, price, design, image quality, I would give it a perfect 10/10.
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There's a lot I love about this camera: the styling, the look of it, the portability, the sensor, obviously the image quality, the film simulations, the combination with that 65mm f/1.4 and the look that's giving me. It really does like pretty much check all the boxes.
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The GFX 50R is for people who know when to press the shutter.
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Compared to 20, 30, 40 thousand dollars that you would usually pay for a medium format system out there, this is really a game changer.
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This is a camera which I would recommend unreservedly to any landscape photographer looking for the ultimate in image quality.
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It's a fantastic thing that Fuji have done here, they've basically made a medium format camera for a similar cost and a similar weight value to a full frame DSLR system, and that I think is absolutely amazing.
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Now this is the Fujifilm GFX 50R which, considering its size and weight, might not be anyone's first choice for travel, but the photos—the big deal here is the sensor. 51 megapixels on a medium format sensor.
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All in all I am extremely happy with GFX 50R and enjoyed making photos with it very much. The camera’s button layout is very intuitive, and I immediately felt at home with it.
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[D]espite being discontinued and a little bit slower than the current lineup, for the price, the Fujifilm GFX 50R I think is still a really great option.
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For landscape and wedding photographers its comfortable, lightweight form factor is delightful, while its ease of use and unobtrusive design will appeal to street photographers that seek the image quality afforded by the 51.4mp sensor.
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To say I am totally delighted with the GFX 50R is an understatement. It does everything, well almost everything right, and little wrong.
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I am really excited by the camera; it's fun to use, it makes epic images, I think you'll like it too.
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They're both great cameras for two different markets, and if you are looking for a brilliant medium format camera which honestly will not break the bank too much, then the GFX 50R is the perfect camera for you.
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[T]he Fujifilm GFX 50R’s design is fantastic and feels so satisfying to use with the big GFX lenses.
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I feel like it's one of my favorite cameras that I've ever used. I love the experience.
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The Fujifilm GFX 50R, I have to say I think it's going to be another winner from Fuji with that sensor, that price, the growing lens lineup, and just the familiarity that Fujifilm users are going to have using this camera.
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[...] I do like this camera a lot.
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A lightweight camera that has a large sensor, amazing colors, eye detection autofocus, touch flip screen, a weather-resistant body, built-in interval timer and the ability to connect via bluetooth to your phone — that sounds too good to be true.
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I do love the rangefinder style body. It feels good in the hand. It looks much better than the 50S, which to be honest will never win any beauty contest. And this is a very nice design.
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[T]hese cameras, medium format cameras, are not built for speed; they're built for landscape photography, studio photography, and portrait photography primarily.
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This isn’t an everyday camera like the X100, but it is a camera you can use a lot of the time and for specific purposes.
