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I have XT1, XT2, Pentax 645D/Z, Hasselblad Hxx, and Phase One XF experience. Both the Fuji's have better AF systems than any available medium format AF system made today. This is actually pretty obvious, Phase and Hasselblad have failed to even add multi-point AF systems to their cameras.
Thanks. Not convincing to me as the DSLRs (including the Leica S) have PDAF.
Both the XT1 & 2 have on sensor PDAF. The GFX will have CDAF only, but cameras like the SL have shown that having CDAF doesn't always mean having slow AF. You lose great tracking though, that's for sure. OTOH CDAF is extremely accurate generally, which is important for a 50mp camera. Nikon's and Canon's have faster AF than mirrorless cameras, even those with PDAF. The Leica S's, Hasselblads, Phase cams, and Pentax cams do not. Pentax has the best of the mirrored AF systems because it has multi points, but given that multipoint system was taken from their APS-C line up, the spread is laughably small. None of the above out-perform the original XT-1 in any way. It's not magic, and it's no D5 or 1DX, but there were few situations in which the camera would simply fail or frustrate you.
Shooting both Nikon (D810) and Fuji (XT2) I only can say the XT2 feels as fast as the D810 in almost all AF modes. Sometimes I think it is even faster. And AFC if setup correctly is stunning anyway.
Man I always love these system brochures. Look at the design of that 63mm, that ain't no Planar derivative!
The various crops were announced at Photokina and were a big part of my interest in this system. One can still get sufficiently large images and various equivalent widths with all of the cropped modes.
I wonder if you can shoot video in 24x65, that would be pretty rad.
No idea but I'm sure it could be added through firmware down the line.
Any idea of how to make the conversion from HC lenses to GFX? Initially I had assumed my HC lenses would convert 1:1, but now I believe maybe not.
Depends on the camera you're using. It's got a 44x33 chip. If you shoot with the H5D-50c, it's 1:1. Not so if you shoot with the H6D-100c, or a "full frame" 645 camera. It's a 1.3x crop factor from 645 basically.
I was asking about using an HC HB lens with adapter on the GFX. So does that mean a 150 HC lens would be a 195mm when used on the GFX?
Will the H adapter be useful for you where you can sync at 1/800 with HC lenses?
No it'll still be about a 118mm equivalent on the GFX the same as it would on the H6D-50. They have the same sensor sizes. The only lenses that are "different" are the HCD lenses that only have image circles large enough to cover the cropped MF sensors (like the 44x33 ones) and not the full frame MF ones.
Maybe in the short term but in reality I don't want to adapt lenses as I just need for a Fuji controller to be released for my lighting system. Depending on the speed of the lenses that come down the line for Fuji I may want to continue with Fuji glass for consistent signature in look across focal lengths.
Well, if that's the case one might as well get the GF 120 macro lens which has IOS, AF and is Fuji glass and has LM and WR. The HC lens looks like a goner if I get the GFX system.
K-H
