Speaking of Reviewing Cameras...

...I'm still intending to try out the Fuji GFX 100S. Unlike most cameras, I don't want to try that one. Why? Because I could never afford one (viz. the recent "Stained Glass Windows" post) and I'm afraid I'll like it. Trying one is risky. The things I do for ya!  :-)

[UPDATE: Dan said it best in the Featured Comments: "It would either disappoint me deeply or ruin me for anything else."]

By the way, if you haven't seen DPReview's "Shelburne Hotel with Corey Arnold and the Fujifilm GFX 100S" video yet, highly recommended—head and shoulders above most camera marketing videos. I was glad to "meet" photographer Corey Arnold and I definitely want to see more of those crab-fishing photos. The film is at the Amazon link for the GFX 100S, in with the product pictures. (Amazon owns DPReview.)

Mike

Book o' the Week:

Andy Warhol: Polaroids 1958–1987. "Carrying a Polaroid camera from the late 1950s until his death in 1987, [Andy Warhol] amassed a huge collection of instant pictures of friends, lovers, patrons, the famous, the obscure, the scenic, the fashionable, and himself...this book features hundreds of these instant photos." Any book with Grace Jones on the cover has to be cool.

The above is a link to Amazon from TOP. Here's Andy Warhol: Polaroids 1958–1987 at The Book Depository. The following logo is also a link:

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Featured Comments from:

Phil: "Thanks, Mike, for that link about Corey Arnold. I first saw his work in Portland, Oregon about seven years ago. It was one of those nice serendipitous moments as a tourist where you are just aimlessly browsing though galleries and come upon something that is arresting and memorable. They were his big colour prints of fishing in Alaska, complete with eagles and bears and hauling in the catch on the deck of a fishing boat. How he kept his gear dry (enough) I'll never know!"

Eolake Stobblehouse: "The Warhol book has very high reviews. But I don't think I'll get it. There is something about Warhol, both his personality and his work, which I find...creepy. He seemed so intensely, uhm, disconnected. Completely without feeling. And in his work he seemed to revel in that, celebrate it and emphasise it."

Dan: "That’s the same reason I have never driven a Porche 911. It would either disappoint me deeply or ruin me for anything else."

Comments

[Dave Sailer]

Interesting. That shot of the guy on the boat with the horse head holding the cat [at 1:02] must be at least 10 years old. It appeared in Seattle's alternate newspaper "The Stranger", along with several related photos, long before Fuji's big cameras were even a rumor. I think it was the cover shot. One of them was, and I specifically remember the cat and the horsehead.

Rewatching the video with the sound on, which I usually don't do, it seems a tiny bit less like Fuji is claiming credit for those images, but it is kinda-sorta implied.
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OK found it: "The Stranger", October 31, 2007, with a link to his site: http://www.coreyfishes.com/

"Corey Arnold is a photographer and an Alaskan crab fisherman. I highly recommend that you go to his website right now and click through every single photo on there. You won’t be disappointed. And no, I can’t imagine what circumstances could have possibly led to this: 1708cover.jpg"

The image is no longer available there. It was probably the cat shot, but you can look at this instead: http://www.coreyfishes.com/albums/human-animals/content/last-days-of-summer/lightbox/ or this collection: http://www.coreyfishes.com/albums/fish-work-bering-sea/

From the Department of What It's Worth Department. (No, I don't have a life.)

[Kenneth Tanaka]

Sorry, but I think you will enjoy using the Fujifilm GFX100s, Mike (although I think it's already quite thoroughly "reviewed”). I’ve been in the GFX system since it was introduced and switched from the GFX50s to the GFX100s last April. Of the three medium-format digital systems I regularly use Fuji’s GFX is undeniably the most versatile and the most user-friendly. The 100s will feel much like a regular DSLR, able to go anywhere and tackle any job. But it is a slower machine than today’s smaller cameras. The soft "ka-thunk" of its shutter will be the most jarring aspect to get used to, I think; it feels like something just fell inside the camera.

Is the medium-format digital tech of the GFX100s really worth the extra expense and bulk compared to the top full-frames? For most hobbyists probably not. A good full-frame system would more than fill their high-resolution bills. But that aside, the GFX is the best all-around medium-format choice where strobe sync / leaf shutters and other clinical studio issues aren’t a factor. It’s an X-T3/4…on super steroids.