Fujifilm GFX 50S II vs Fujifilm GFX 100S - Image Quality Review

[@ZJMichaels]

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[@GrainyByNature]

Thank you for the comparison. The 50sII consistently shows better colors over the 100s. Especially in the higher iso city scenes with blue in the sky and warmer city light tones. The 100s looks more grey or neutral.

[@bobby350z]

I have GFX50s and GFX100s. Colors are 99% same using C1.

[@thomastuorto9929]

@@bobby350z Any reason to use something like the z rite ColorChecket Passport when using 2 different cameras for this?

[@brianbeattyphotography]

Wow, I was expecting a bigger difference. I thought the 50s II really punched above its weight in this. The detail looks nearly as good and the colors arguably better. Glad I followed my gut and went with the 50s II and a lens instead of the 100s. One thought, instead of 100s downsampling for each, I would have been interested to see the opposite - how does the 50s II image upscaled to 100mp compare? I mean if someone is going to print really large (40x60 for example), this would be interesting to compare. Great review!

[@ZJMichaels]

Yeah upscaling would definitely be an interesting comparison as well

[@DannyChau7]

In resolution terms the 100mp only has about 20-25% pixel resolution over the 50mp sensor, if focusing speed is not an issue, it is far cheaper to buy the 50s II and use Gigapixel if larger file size print is required. I own both 50 and the 100 bodies, I use the 50 most of the time because it will cover over 90% of my workflow, while the 100mp for the remaining 10% of work where super high res are necessary (400mp pixel shift is deployed).

[@karlmoore6354]

Does anyone know how to get the 100SII to look like the 50SII? I like the speed of the 100SII and intended to sell the 50SII, but so far I'm liking the images from the 50SII much more because of the less realistic and more creamy bokeh look it produces with the same lens. If I can match the two cameras, I'd be happy to sell the 50SII because it's very slow by comparison.

[@thomastuorto9929]

Thanks for the vid. Do you think the lower mp cameras would be better for night photography at all? Thanks for any replies. Also watched your Z7-2 vs fuji50 before this & am amazed how much these cameras can pull out of an underexposed photo.

[@ZJMichaels]

I think they’d both be great for night (I’m assuming night to mean landscape astrophotography btw) photography, but the problem is there’s really not a great selection of native fast lenses for that application currently.

[@NoThemeReviews]

I've been trying to decide between these two. I watched comparison between the original GFX 100 and the X1D II, and the difference in resolution wasn't particularly great, even when 400% zoomed. The concern I have is whether the 50mp image, scaled to 400%, can gain similar sharpness as the GFX 100s if I apply sharpening in LR or other similar program. What do you think?

[@ZJMichaels]

I’m not too sure how that would go, but given how good editing software is it’s probably possible… Have you done tests like that with other cameras?

[@NoThemeReviews]

@@ZJMichaels Yes, I've tried it with other cameras with different sensors and resolutions. It's never exactly the same as far as sharpness is concerned. Lenses make a big difference, too.

[@jharrelphoto]

I’m definitely trying to decide on which one to get so this helps. Still unsure haha. The 50sii with 35-70 is a solid deal right now.

[@ZJMichaels]

Yeah the 50S II with lens is a great deal at the moment being on sale. Also looks like the GFX 100S is on sale also right now... haha decisions, decisions :)

[@jharrelphoto]

@@ZJMichaels I ended up getting the 50sii. love it so far. only using the 35-70 kit lens for now but the quality is so good. I think the next lens I will get is the wide angle zoom.

[@chloescanlon1107]

The main reason to shoot medium format is the look, and you get the same look with both cameras, the 100s just has more resolution… for £2,000 more 🙂

[@ForrestGalt]

Is the 100s $2,300 better image quality than the 50Sii? With modern software any difference to me, it seems, would be negligible. What your paying for is better auto focus and more frames per second.

[@sovu9399]

50sii it is. Thank you so much for this comparison, very usefull.

[@JohannaAnnable-f9t]

Thank you for this comparison. Still on the fence. For still life and food photography which one has better dynamic range and color?

[@ZJMichaels]

I think you would probably be happy with either one of the cameras, but the 100S is definitely the one to go for in my opinion, if it’s in the budget

[@maze400]

I love this comparison because I am considering both of these cameras. I world like to point out something. It looks like there may be a quarter to a half stop under exposer on the 100 which looks like it's giving the detail edge, am I wrong?

[@waynedobie]

Great video. Thank you !

[@brotherdom1]

The 3D pop from the 50mp is clearly better and color's are better especially in shadow ,Please Please tell me im seeing things RIGHT

[@Duartephotographer]

Wonderful. Did you notice the 16 bits of 100S?

[@MikeLikesChannel]

50 megapixels is about right these days. Most people don't have the computer or the storage to handle 100MP at this point.

[@helloianzakharov]

My 5 yo MacPro manages 102 Mp with no issues at all. I assume more faster M1-3 chips do it flawlessly

[@dannyli9424]

When doing high ISO test, you need to do it at the lightning level that is actually require high ISO, doing high ISO test during date time is very very misleading to say the least. it's almost close to useless. try to do a ISO 6400 in the morning vs the same ISO 6400 in the middle of the night on the street now you will see what the " real" ISO 6400 performance will be.

[@sansin6250]

Can the GFX 100s produce 50mp raw files, if you don't need max resolution?

[@mrbigg2u]

Sadly not. I bought the 100s thinking this would automatically happen when reducing the images to M from L. But that only affects the jpg. Work flow speed is the only draw back with the 100s as the raws are 95mg approx each. I got mine for £3k on ebay, so only paid 500 quid more than the 50sii, so not a deal breaker. The 100s also houses the uodated sensor, so future proofs the camera... ish :)

[@TylerThomas]

Cool video, would be nice to zoom to 400%

[@queen-lf4vj]

50Sii sensor is better than GFX100 series, GFX 100series sensor has Chromatic aberration problem.

[@bobby350z]

what?

[@kirillkrylov6674]

I see a bad work a lens 45-100 on 100 mpx.

[@4sapphireb]

Maybe I should put my money into new glasses. I can see no difference