Hola!
This is your boy Magic* and I would like to add a few words here.
*Magic (Maciej Suwalowski) is a Warsaw-based wedding photographer. Follow him on Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, or his website. Add him as a friend here, cause he is super friendly and awesome. He travelled the timeless and endless space as a magician of light, wizzard of moments, the witcher of wind and fire… or maybe not exactly fire. Born in the best year ever 1985. That’s our boy Magic.
First – if you haven’t watched the video – please do watch it!
Ok, so now what you can see below is my super non-geeky, non-exact-the-same-parameters approach to compare GFX image with other cameras. What I wanted achieve by this? For me, considering getting this camera comes down to one very specific answer – “can I get the awesome portrait with it?”
Short backstory: last year, I tested Fuji X-Pro2 as my 2nd body along with Canon 5d Mark III. And with all its awesomeness (small, super fast, reliable, EVF (!!!), again super fast) I couldn’t get the awesome portrait I wanted to. So personally, this camera was a perfect camera for a documentary part of the wedding day, but excluding portraits. It was just lacking this mystical FF feel. And here a window opens for the GFX.
The Comparison
I wanted to compare the overall feel of the image shooting wide open plus DOF and bokeh effect. To compare with, I chose two cameras that I shoot now, which are 5D mark IV with 50/1.2 lens and Fujifilm X-T2/X-Pro2 with 50 eqiv. To this super weird mix of crop sensor, full frame sensor and almost medium format sensor I decided to add Leica M240 with 50lux lens, because why not? Below, you can find the results from two portraits of Mr. Brad Pitt. Enjoy!
(side note: I applied my personal preset and uniformed the look using colour temperature and tint to make them visually look the same)
Wahoo! Great review. Can’t wait for next episode! Well done guys