Commute

I got a new camera – the Fuji GFX100RF.

My daily carry for the last six years has been the Fuji X100V, which I talk about in this post on photography.

The Fuji GFX100RF is a medium format version of the X100V, which means it has an absurdly large sensor that's 4x bigger (110MP vs. 26MP). The RAW files from this thing are 200mb!

One of the fun things you can do with a files that big is crop out half the image and still be left with a whole lot of pixels. The GFX100RF has a dial to select shooting aspects of 4:3, 5:4, 1:1, 16:9, etc. The viewfinder and JPEGs are constrained to the ratio, and the full un-cropped RAW is still available if you choose to save it.

Many photography purists feel this is gimmicky. I'm yet undecided, but I've been experimenting shooting in JPEG only, using the extreme letterbox 65:24 crop, and in-body film emulations (Fuji's fancy phrase for "filters"). That is, shooting in a highly-opinionated way and forgoing the option do to much editing or framing in post.

I published a few of these in Around Piermont a couple nights ago.

Here are a few more from my commute home today. These are straight out of the camera, with small adjustments to exposure. Each jpg was 24mb when I uploaded it to my CMS.