p.1 #1 · My Fujifilm GFX100RF review for landscape is out!
In September 2025, Fujifilm Italy kindly loaned me a Fujifilm GFX100RF, letting me keep it until April 2026 to try it out for my landscape work. Over the six months I had the camera, except for about a month over Christmas and New Year I have been on the road non-stop, both for my personal work and to lead Workshops.
The camera has been with me all over the world: Italy (Cinque Terre & Tuscany), Spain (Asturias & the Northern Coast), the USA (Oregon, Death Valley and the Southwest), Ireland (the Northern Coast), then Italy again (Comacchio’s lagoons), Scotland (Glencoe & the Isle of Skye), Ireland (the Northern Coast again), Iceland and finally on the Faroe Islands.
Technically speaking, this gave me the opportunity to test it on the most diverse variety of landscapes, from the ocean to the mountains, from dry deserts to boggy moorlands and everything in between, and use it under all sorts of weather conditions, from gale force winds to rain and snow, and temperatures from mild end of summer in Spain to extremely cold winters in the north of Europe.
Artistically speaking, this allowed me to put it through its paces on a wide variety of photographic situations, from iconic vistas to intimate, minimalist compositions, requiring different treatment both at the time of shooting and when it came to post-process the files.
The article linked below the result of these six months on the road. As always, my findings and my conclusions are based on my work as a Fine Art landscape photographer; if you do a different kind of photography, my conclusions might not apply to you. Enjoy!
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Great review and love those black and whites. I've owned the RF twice and really liked it; liked the body and LOVED the image quality. My only issue, is that as a hobbyist and at that price point it would have to do the work of several bodies for the different areas of photography I dabble in. I hope to circle back to it at some point because for its niche I love it and as your blog demonstrates it's a phenomenal camera in the right hands.
FYI - maybe it's just me but I got a couple of 404 errors using your links. I was able to navigate to your blog from the top level menu, but the links were broken for me.
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kenbennett wrote:
Nice review and great photos.
Thank you very much Ken, happy you enjoyed the read and the photographs!
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Seabassius wrote:
Great review and love those black and whites. I've owned the RF twice and really liked it; liked the body and LOVED the image quality. My only issue, is that as a hobbyist and at that price point it would have to do the work of several bodies for the different areas of photography I dabble in. I hope to circle back to it at some point because for its niche I love it and as your blog demonstrates it's a phenomenal camera in the right hands.
FYI - maybe it's just me but I got a couple of 404 errors using your links. I was able to navigate to your blog from the top level menu, but the links were broken for me. ...Show more →
Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed the read and the images! Yes, if you need more than a 28mm FOV equivalent lens, then the GFX100RF is not going to be enough for you - but, if the single lens works for you, it's an amazing tool.
Thanks for the heads up - for some reason, either FM didn't insert the links properly, or I must have made a mistake when posting - fixed now!
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Nice review!
You mention the possibility of different focal length GFX100RF versions... I think this is where the idea of dual focal length lens, picked by Fuji manager in recent Peta pixel podcast, fits in. Not much extra bulk or weight and the lens would be optimized just for two focal lengths (no zoom). It would make this kind of camera much more versatile. I brought up this in the main GFX100RF discussion.
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It would make more sense to have a built in 1.4x teleconverter like many long primes do these days vs a zoom lens or having to crop to get to 35-50mm equiv.
I think I'd finally bite at 28mm/40mm lengths in one.
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RoamingScott wrote:
It would make more sense to have a built in 1.4x teleconverter like many long primes do these days vs a zoom lens or having to crop to get to 35-50mm equiv.
I think I'd finally bite at 28mm/40mm lengths in one.
I think that's exactly what was meant – a lens that changes focal lengths via a lever or twist of a ring at the base of the lens like the macro ring on the Leica Q. But since they have the 28mm equivalent RF already, we'd more likely see a 45-65.
The next gen stacked sensor for the GFX based on the A7RVI sensor tech might not even need the leaf shutter, freeing up the lens designers a bit.
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tuomkok wrote:
Nice review!
You mention the possibility of different focal length GFX100RF versions... I think this is where the idea of dual focal length lens, picked by Fuji manager in recent Peta pixel podcast, fits in. Not much extra bulk or weight and the lens would be optimized just for two focal lengths (no zoom). It would make this kind of camera much more versatile. I brought up this in the main GFX100RF discussion.
That would be great to have. I I can easily see a 16-21mm FOV equivalent GFX100RF, the current 28mm equivalent, and a 50-75mm or 50-90mm equivalent (if lens size will be feasible). A quick look at Leica M lenses gives me hope, keeping in mind they need to cover a much smaller sensor, but that this can be somehow compensated by being able to design the lens inside the depth of the camera body.
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RoamingScott wrote:
It would make more sense to have a built in 1.4x teleconverter like many long primes do these days vs a zoom lens or having to crop to get to 35-50mm equiv.
I think I'd finally bite at 28mm/40mm lengths in one.
Yes, the so-called "digital zoom", which is nothing but a crop, is useful to compose but not very useful if one needs all those pixels, such as for landscape work.
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sirimiri wrote:
He liked it so much, after returning the Fuji loaner, he bought his own. Can't argue with that, if the camera ticks your boxes.
I loved it, and while clearly not a full replacement or backup for my 4x5" film kit, it's a great little camera to carry with it to have a digital alternative with great IQ and very easy to use for long exposure work.
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highdesertmesa wrote:
I think that's exactly what was meant – a lens that changes focal lengths via a lever or twist of a ring at the base of the lens like the macro ring on the Leica Q. But since they have the 28mm equivalent RF already, we'd more likely see a 45-65.
The next gen stacked sensor for the GFX based on the A7RVI sensor tech might not even need the leaf shutter, freeing up the lens designers a bit.
The focal lengths will be great; not sure about not having a leaf shutter anymore, though, that would depend on the next gen sensor's abilities but I don't see a global shutter coming to a MF sensor yet, in the next gen (might be wrong though). If not global shutter, not having a mechanical shutter might be too much of a limitation (and a show stopper for many, if only on a perceived level).
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vieri wrote:
That would be great to have. I I can easily see a 16-21mm FOV equivalent GFX100RF, the current 28mm equivalent, and a 50-75mm or 50-90mm equivalent (if lens size will be feasible). A quick look at Leica M lenses gives me hope, keeping in mind they need to cover a much smaller sensor, but that this can be somehow compensated by being able to design the lens inside the depth of the camera body.
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Yes, the so-called "digital zoom", which is nothing but a crop, is useful to compose but not very useful if one needs all those pixels, such as for landscape work.
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I loved it, and while clearly not a full replacement or backup for my 4x5" film kit, it's a great little camera to carry with it to have a digital alternative with great IQ and very easy to use for long exposure work.
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The focal lengths will be great; not sure about not having a leaf shutter anymore, though, that would depend on the next gen sensor's abilities but I don't see a global shutter coming to a MF sensor yet, in the next gen (might be wrong though). If not global shutter, not having a mechanical shutter might be too much of a limitation (and a show stopper for many, if only on a perceived level).
I can't see Fuji bringing out different versions of the RF with different focal lengths, but a lens that can switch from 28mm to 40mm equivalent might be possible and would be a lot more appealing than the RF in current form. There have been lenses and compact cameras that did this in the past.
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Geoff D F wrote:
I can't see Fuji bringing out different versions of the RF with different focal lengths, but a lens that can switch from 28mm to 40mm equivalent might be possible and would be a lot more appealing than the RF in current form. There have been lenses and compact cameras that did this in the past.
I am confused - you say you don't see Fuji bringing out different versions of the GFX100RF with different focal lengths, but it seems to me that at the same time you are actually saying you can see Fuji making one, since a GFX100RF with a lens switching between 28/40mm would be a RF with different focal lengths, given the current one has only one while the one you advocate for has two.
If they bring out a new RF with two lenses in one, then why not doing a RF with 16/21mm equivalent as well, and possibly a longer one, single focal, say around 85mm?
That would make for an amazing, compact, portable and fully flexible system indeed. Best regards,
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vieri wrote:
I am confused - you say you don't see Fuji bringing out different versions of the GFX100RF with different focal lengths, but it seems to me that at the same time you are actually saying you can see Fuji making one, since a GFX100RF with a lens switching between 28/40mm would be a RF with different focal lengths, given the current one has only one while the one you advocate for has two.
If they bring out a new RF with two lenses in one, then why not doing a RF with 16/21mm equivalent as well, and possibly a longer one, single focal, say around 85mm?
That would make for an amazing, compact, portable and fully flexible system indeed. Best regards,
So different wishes for focal length The hypothetical fual focal length lens would probably be very conventional max 2x "zoom". Something like current 35mm and 70mm - this with a modest f/4 aperture.
Sorry to predict, anyone wishing for wider, longer or brighter lenses is probably better served with ILC camera. Making a 20mm eqv. GFX100RF version is sure possible, but it cannot be very compact. That kind of camera would also has very niche position in market (GFX100RF is already a niche camera).
Anyway I am sure that popularity of fixed lense compacts will increase in all formats. There is also a place for a fixed lens camera (or two!) in GFX-system. GFX100RF is will get a successor.
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vieri wrote:
I am confused - you say you don't see Fuji bringing out different versions of the GFX100RF with different focal lengths, but it seems to me that at the same time you are actually saying you can see Fuji making one, since a GFX100RF with a lens switching between 28/40mm would be a RF with different focal lengths, given the current one has only one while the one you advocate for has two.
If they bring out a new RF with two lenses in one, then why not doing a RF with 16/21mm equivalent as well, and possibly a longer one, single focal, say around 85mm?
That would make for an amazing, compact, portable and fully flexible system indeed. Best regards,
A RF that can do two focal lengths would be more versatile. RFs with a single niche focal length such as 21mm or 75mm are less versatile, requiring people to buy and carry multiple cameras which they are unlikely to do. Even the popular X100 series can't justify having an ultrawide or telephoto version.
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Geoff D F wrote:
A RF that can do two focal lengths would be more versatile. RFs with a single niche focal length such as 21mm or 75mm are less versatile, requiring people to buy and carry multiple cameras which they are unlikely to do. Even the popular X100 series can't justify having an ultrawide or telephoto version.
Dual focal length combing ultra wide and tele faces same problems as a wide range zoom. Sure it is possible, but one cannot have everything. Combing small size with good optical quality is much more realistic goal with a more moderate spec, say 35mm and 70mm.
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tuomkok wrote:
Dual focal length combing ultra wide and tele faces same problems as a wide range zoom. Sure it is possible, but one cannot have everything. Combing small size with good optical quality is much more realistic goal with a more moderate spec, say 35mm and 70mm.
I was thinking a RF that did 28mm and 40mm might be feasible and commercially viable. It was the OP who was hoping for RFs with 21mm, 28mm, 40mm, and 75mm primes.
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I am indeed. I think that more single-focal GFX100RF are way easier and more feasible to do; that said, I would love a dual-focal GFX100RF, nothing wrong with that if Fujifilm can make it happen.
p.1 #17 · My Fujifilm GFX100RF review for landscape is out!
Geoff D F wrote:
A RF that can do two focal lengths would be more versatile..
The GFX 100RF's 45mm digital zoom outputs 62 megapixels, matching the resolution of high-end full-frame cameras like the Sony A7R V or Leica Q3. This effectively makes the 100RF two high-end cameras in one.
But there is even more available when you don't need a humongous number of megapixels:
63mm Crop (50mm Full-Frame Equiv.): 31 Megapixels
80mm Crop (63mm Full-Frame Equiv.): 20 Megapixels
Once a photographer accepts that these are real, high-fidelity megapixels—even if they come from a cropped area of the sensor—there is very little left to wish for in terms of versatility.
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SergeyT wrote:
The GFX 100RF's 45mm digital zoom outputs 62 megapixels, matching the resolution of high-end full-frame cameras like the Sony A7R V or Leica Q3. This effectively makes the 100RF two high-end cameras in one.
But there is even more available when you don't need a humongous number of megapixels:
63mm Crop (50mm Full-Frame Equiv.): 31 Megapixels
80mm Crop (63mm Full-Frame Equiv.): 20 Megapixels
Once a photographer accepts that these are real, high-fidelity megapixels—even if they come from a cropped area of the sensor—there is very little left to wish for in terms of versatility.
A cropped 28mm/f2.8 equivalent photo isn't going to render like an 80mm lens on full frame, though, in any regard.
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RoamingScott wrote:
A cropped 28mm/f2.8 equivalent photo isn't going to render like an 80mm lens on full frame, though, in any regard.
It's not 80mm eqv., it's 63mm. And it's render like 63mm lens at f7 on FF. I shoot A7iii with 65 apo at f7 and gfx100rf at maximum zoom level, downsized the A7iii image to 20MP, cannot tell the difference. Of course pixel peeping the apo is somewhat sharper, but not a huge difference.
