Fujifilm GFX100
Announced May 23, 2019
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Reviewer Consensus
Strong
The Fujifilm GFX100 is a groundbreaking medium format camera that delivers exceptional 102MP image quality and dynamic range, yet it remains a physically imposing and expensive tool. While it integrates modern features like in-body stabilization and fast phase-detection autofocus to improve handheld usability, the bulky design and complex control layout can be cumbersome for some users.
Weighted from 39 reviewer scores
Pros
- Exceptional image quality and dynamic range from the 102MP sensor
- Effective in-body image stabilization for handheld shooting
- Fast and precise phase-detection autofocus system
- High-resolution, immersive electronic viewfinder
- Durable, weather-sealed magnesium alloy construction
Cons
- Bulky, heavy, and physically tiring design
- Uncomfortable or poorly designed vertical grip
- Small, fiddly buttons and non-intuitive control layout
- High cost and massive file sizes requiring significant storage
- Limitations in autofocus speed and burst rates for action
- Launch price $9,999 (USD)
- Sensor 102MP Medium Format CMOS
- Video 4K 30p
- Stabilization In-body IS
What the Reviewers Say
All 39 expert reviews, weighted into the PixelMeter score.
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- DPReview 90/100
From the point of view of image quality alone, the GFX 100 is the best camera we’ve ever reviewed (though its larger sensor 150MP peers should out-perform it).
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In the end, the Fuji GFX 100 is a very unique camera, offering an enticing combination of image resolution and performance that simply isn’t found elsewhere on the market.
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Ultimately while the GFX100 is aimed at a specialist market, it redefines what we can expect from a medium format camera, delivering industry-leading quality at the price with surprisingly easy and enjoyable handling more akin to smaller formats.
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Simply put, it is the most complete and the most feature-rich medium format camera on the market today.
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An astonishing technical achievement and the best ultra-high resolution camera yet, but let down by some handling flaws.
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The Fujifilm GFX-100 is a fascinating camera. It is full of contradictions.
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Yeah, this is probably the most exciting camera I've used in a long time. Having that dynamic range, having this kind of resolution, having in-body stabilization, I can't get enough of this camera cuz it gives me the utmost in image quality.
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If you can afford it, and want the best available, then the Fujifilm GFX100 is a camera that delivers the results, and the price is easily justified. The Fujifilm GFX100 is, without doubt, an exceptional, and groundbreaking camera, well worth the money.
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The GFX 100's massive 102 megapixel resolution is undoubtedly the one feature that gets everyone's attention, but it's the other major improvements that have been made that really make it a step forward for both Fujifilm and medium format cameras in general [...]
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The GFX 100 is big and expensive compared to regular cameras, but in the world of medium format photography (sensors larger than 35mm full frame), it's a positive bargain. It's also a groundbreaking camera that changes our expectations about what medium format cameras can do.
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The Fujifilm GFX100 is, bar none, the best medium format camera on the market today, thanks to an advanced autofocus system and in-body stabilization.
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Even with a handful of small foibles, there's little doubt the GFX 100 is a landmark medium format camera.
- Digital Trends 7/10
[Y]ou don't need it, but the GFX 100 takes the best pictures of any camera we've tested.
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The fact you can buy a camera today with 100 MP for less than $20,000 is pretty remarkable, and shows just how far imaging technology has come in the past decade. It’s not overly practical, light or compact, but for sheer imaging splendour, the GFX 100 is a sensational camera.
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Fujifilm GFX100 without a doubt, proved that world is full of surprises and that the camera manufacturers can still excite the photographic passion in us.
- Photography News 92/100
It’s rich with great features, handles well despite its heft and is inspiring to use in so many ways.
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For the vast majority of us, the sheer level of detail here isn’t something we need, especially when the trade-off is a very heavy camera and a very light bank balance.
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For professionals looking for the best image quality and the most usable medium format option on the market, this is it.
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If ultimate image quality is your game, definitely check out the Fujifilm GFX-100.
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The video features are fine, but it’s clearly, mainly, a stills camera. In that, its chosen realm, it brooks no compromise.
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All in all, as a usable medium format camera, that's the thing, it's very usable, it's made to be usable. And even if you see as if you've got cash, if I had the money for this I'd buy it because it's just lovely to use.
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This camera is really going to be incredible if you want to put it on a drone, for handheld work. it really becomes a video camera, rather than just a still camera.
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It's like nothing I've seen before actually beyond those Phase One and Hasselblads but it's not gonna be for everyone.
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The bottom line is that the GFX 100 creates very compelling files. Handled and shot properly, you're going to see things you didn't see on your previous (smaller) camera.
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When everything comes together, the images that roll off of this camera really are second to none.
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As others who own the GFX100 have confirmed, it's a pain to use compared to other smaller format cameras, but if you need the resolution, the image quality makes all that effort worth it.
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It’s a gamechanger of a camera, and in some ways, it’ll change the way we use medium format as a whole.
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This is a tricky one. Judging purely on image quality, I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend the GFX100 as a landscape camera.
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It is the best product they've created in as long as I can remember.
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Here's the thing: this is a camera that every time I pick it up and use it, I immediately want to do something extremely creative, something that I've never done before.
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Sometimes though, I want the look of the GFX 100 and when you get it right with this camera it is 100% worth what I paid for it.
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[T]o make the story short, I love this camera.
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So I think this camera comes down to being a flex. If you've got the money and you want the ultimate in image quality in a portable system, this camera is going to be where you're going to look.
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Fujifilm have really knocked them out of the park.
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I've had the chance to use a few digital medium format cameras, and this camera by far is the easiest and most reliable to use.
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[W]e are super impressed by the results of the GFX100 in both video and photo.
- KelbyOne Insider 90%
The Fujifilm GFX100 changes what has been expected from medium-format cameras in the past.
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Fujifilm has done a phenomenal job with this camera. Some photographers could be disappointed with autofocus speed or shooting speed, but it’s safe to say that anyone with deep pockets won’t care too much about these things.
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It's hard to nail this camera down because it's so special and different and unique. Like me, it's an awesome camera.
