Should I Change To Fujifilm
In the end the answer was YES.
For over 5 years i was wedded to my Canon 5DSR a 50mp 35mm full frame DSLR which i loved, i am a great believe in getting the highest resolution image possible in order to reduce noise in any post processing.
With Canon promising a replacement for the Canon 5DSR as early as 2018 i waited patiently to no avail.
Finally my supply of patients was exhausted and despite the fact that i was full invested in the Canon system i began to look at making a change. I already had a Fujifilm XT-3 and although i was not full conversant with the Fuji system i had knowledge of it and had use it.
After much research of numerous systems, the choice in the final event came down to price and quality with the Fujifilm GFX100S being the only really option.
If you take other medium format cameras such as Phase One with a 150mp sensor you are looking £44,000.00 for the body alone, which makes the Fujifilm GFX100S with a resolution of 100mp look like a bargain at around £5500.00.
However it does not end there, my main reason for waiting so long for Canon to upgrade the 5DSR was that it would mean i could keep my existing stable of lenses. Once i changed camera manufacture i had to buy all new glass and that for the GFX system is an expensive option much more expensive that the actual camera body.
In addition to this the Fujifilm line up of lenses was and still is limited in term of the GF lens series, in the end i when for all zooms as was not worried about the speed of the glass merely its resolution.
In the final event through was it worth it, the answer is a definite YES, once i after some perseverance got fully to grips with the Fujifilm system i loved it particularly the abundant film simulations that can be applied to JEPG and the fantastic detail that the 100mp sensor affords you.
There are however some drawbacks which are to do with the change to medium format which apply to which ever camera system you go with and these will be the subject of another blog post.