The next medium format camera from Fujifilm is expected to offer an even higher resolution than the expensive Phase One XF IQ4. According to the latest rumors from a reliable source, Fujifilm is currently developing a GFX camera with a 180MP medium format sensor.
  • SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    Christ fujifilm, we just want an xPro-4 with 50 megapixels and IBIS. That’s it.

    The Xpro-3 is 7 years old now.

  • DisgruntledPelican@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    Hello. Diffraction limit calling, who am I speaking to? Yeah hi, it is Fuji medium format 180MP camera. How it is going ? Ok just remember than any aperture smaller than f/5.6 will be affected by diffraction ok. Anything smaller won’t be sharper, you will just have to save larger files and won’t have more details in your image. Well, am I just a marketing gimmick them? Yes you are… that’s ok. Fuji is also selling the xhalf, we still love you.

    • drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2 months

      I don’t know much about photography, so forgive me if this is a dumb question, but would something like focus stacking help with this?

      That is to say, make the lens less of a bottleneck so you could benefit from a higher resolution sensor.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      As a real life example, the Canon 600mm F11 telephoto lens should be awful, on, say, a 32MP crop sensor R7. That’s insane pixel density somewhere in the ballpark of this Fuji.

      …But look at real life shots of that exact combo, and they’re sharp as hell. Sharper than a Sigma at F6.3.

      The diffraction limit is something to watch out for, but in reality, stuff like the lens imperfections, motion blur, atmospheric distortion and such are going to get you first. You don’t need to shoot at F4 on this thing to make use of the resolution, even if that is the ideal scenario.

    • Bruncvik@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      I may not be representative of a larger sample, but I used medium format for landscapes, and always shallow depth of field. For sharper images, I used longer lenses on a 35mm camera. So, a diffraction issue wouldn’t be bothering me on a medium format camera, if I ever even found the money to get one.

  • basket@pie.gravitywell.xyzEnglish
    2 months

    Fujifilm wants to simulate the film experience by having 30 shots fill up a 128 gb sd card

    spoiler

    /s

    • Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2 months

      Well, you can just calculate the maximum number of bytes per image to see what the actual capacity is. 128M pixels * 3 bytes per pixel is 384 Megabytes. Should go down to 100 each after JPEG compression.

      • moseschrute@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 months

        If you’re spending this much on a camera and only shooting JPEG, what are you doing lol

          • moseschrute@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2 months

            Ahhh I forgot about Fuji’s film simulations. But I still can’t imagine you spend more than $5k on a camera and use jpegs.

          • moseschrute@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2 months

            Most “lossless” compressions (e.g. PNG) wouldn’t work here, because they throw away a lot of extra data you get raw from the camera sensor. Hence photographers using their camera’s “raw” file type to retain as much data as possible. A PNG may capture everything you as a consumer sees in an image, but raw file types will retain extra information you can use when editing a photo.

      • panda_abyss@lemmy.caEnglish
        2 months

        Is that a fixed 35 prime lense?

        I do have a Fuji 35 prime and it’s fantastic, but I’m looking for something interchangeable

        • SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2 months

          Fixed 35, but with the larger sensor it’ll behave more like a 28mm full frame.

          I brought the RF up just because of its size. Those other GFX cameras are absolute units once they have a lens on.

  • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
    2 months

    Oh. Oh my. I’ve always wanted a medium format, but I’m also really happy with Fuji. Þis could be a perfect storm for me.

  • sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2 months

    Is high MP with real detail an actual thing AI can’t generate easily?

    • mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2 months

      AI generated detail is not something anyone wants in an actual camera, it usually looks odd. but i doubt 180mp vs 50mp is going to make much difference other than massive file size

      • sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2 months

        I’m saying as a way to detect a real photo vs AI. An ai photo at 180 would have giveaways…