Fuji GFX Medium Format - Why I am so disappointed

[Fdotbone]

Vivek I'm on the floor
Listen all I wrote is not a critisim of anyone opinions it was just an observation. No insults intended.I'm a guitar snob I'd die for a 1963 fender telecaster because it looks cool. Anyways I suspect the flash synch issue will become a thing of the past due to High Speed Synch technology which not everyone has realised how good it is yet or indeed understands.Interestingly Profoto have just launched their newest Studio generator which offers high speed synch up to 1/8000 sec.! it's only 12,000 CHF which is the price of a small car...gulp! So I won't be buying one.There are Chinese alternatives that offer HSS from Godox and they are cheap as chips!
Tally ho...

 

[dirk]

I do think that my disappointment about the GFX was, because I expected something totally different from them. As soon as you have a specific expectation in your head, you rre disappointed if reality does not turn out this way.

Looking at their X-System, I expected more or less a blown up X-Pro2. Because I personnally want to have a blown up X-Pro2. Hasselblad did such a good job with its X1D, I would never have thought, that Fuji would not go the same route. I did not manage my own expectations I had for a Fuji medium format body. Therefore I was deeply disappointed if iot does not fit the image in my head. Do you understand my point?

Maybe you will understand it better if you look at my report of the X1D event I was invited to in July this year in Hamburg:

https://www.camera-info.com/threads/hasselblad-x1d-press-event-07-2016.11253/

There will be customers for both cameras and only because I prefer the Leica M/ Fuji X-Pro / Mamiya 7 style that does not mean that everybody else has the same taste or need. I see the GFX more as a competition for the Pentax 645 or Hasselblad H6. I do not see any competition to the X1D (except price point). But those, who want to have the form factor of X1D are not interested in the GFX at all and vice versa.

 

[dirk]

The tilt screen is a nice feature though.

Can a tilting screen not be better replaced by my smartphone? The X1D has wireless connectivity as a feature. So I can use my smartphone to connect and have a far more flexibel tilting screen...