Surprise! Fuji Announces 100-MP GFX Camera

In an announcement that evidently came as a surprise to the watchers-and-waiters (I ain't one, so I dunno), Fujifilm announced that it is working on a one-hundred megapixel GFX camera. This is something for the future, not for now, but there are a few known details. Imaging-Resource reports that the upcoming camera will not only have IBIS, but will have on-sensor phase-detect autofocus across the entire sensor. The price is expected to be an effective way to make $10k disappear...unless you're in the target market, which would consist of professionals who would use the camera to earn many times $10k.

This is not even as delightful as Fuji's other announcement today, which I'll get to in a minute....

Slightly overwhelmed Mike

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Stephen Scharf: "Not only that...but, Phase One has announced Capture One Version 3 today with full Capture One Pro support for all Fujifilm cameras, including medium format RAF conversion and tethering! There is also a free version of Capture One Express. I just downloaded my copy of C1 v.11.3 and there are camera profiles for both the GFX50S and GFX50R! Woo-hoo! This is a GOOD day!"

JOHN GILLOOLY: "I find all of this to be very exciting and yet unsettling at the same time. I was chugging along happily for 25 years with Nikon. Then Micro 4/3 peeked in with some compelling benefits. Then Sony brought along mirrorless with all of the benefits of a full-frame sensor. Then Nikon finally answered and their mirrorless roadmap looks very promising to me. Now the floodgates have opened. I'll be relieved when I am once again settled within a system."

Comments

[Patrick Dodds]

And suddenly, I'm lost in cameraworld and no longer have a clue what is what. It's good for creativity to get lost sometimes I guess...

[Hank]

Huh. Lots of "future" cameras being announced today.

[Kenneth Tanaka]

There are some folks in Denmark with knitted brows tonight.

[Rob Campbell]

This baby instantly makes me think of my Pentax 67 11 that was very well constructed, but had awful shutter bounce. As I never used it handheld, I don't know if the mirror bounce was as bad, too, because it was always up and out of the way; together, they must have been amazingly interesting... a dance of the giants.

Mirrorless certainly seems a great step forward for larger formats, but as I have not been disappointed with my slr cameras from the advent of the Nikon F, the appeal isn't entirely obvious for me with small formats such as 135.

[Olly]

Evidently Fuji decided to pony up for C1 support- I suspect they weren’t moving many cameras (to pros) without it.

[Stephen Scharf]

Actually, the GFX50S exceeded Fujifilm's sale goals (to Fuji's surprise), but to Olly's point, yes, I think Fujifilm ponied up some big bucks to Phase One for Fujifilm MF support.

Hey, whatever it takes, and good on Fujifilm for that!

I like that Fujifilm is really looking out for it's customers.

[Benjamin Marks]

Styling looks kinda like a Nikon n8080S on digital steroids! I wonder what folks will do with files that size? Weep over the cost of a computer that can process them?

[Jeff]

The 100 MP GFX has actually been discussed ever since the 50MP version. The question has been whether it or the eventual 100 MP X1D (or X2D), also discussed, emerges first. Wild times.

[Terry Letton]

Well we have gone from contemplating the ethics of the sale of a photographic print to contemplating dropping 19K on a camera. Just sayin