My New Fujifilm GFX

Greg7579 said:

Ben, you and Chris should hire my Corsican models.....

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Ben told me two years ago to not be chicken to shoot people on the street. Just ask! So I walked out from the table when I saw locals talking and set the 50r on a short table tripod on the ground and shot up the street a few days ago. I think this was in Sardinia. I'm in Corsica now. You see that girl leaning over the table ate the end of the street? That is the owner of the restaurant asking my wife if she wanted more wine.

I need MF in order to produce these kinds of photos with the rich 3D pop and micro-contrast. We are talking another dimension here that can't be achieved with FF.

Jim … Please print this out on a huge poster and report back to me if it looks good. I only see it on my 13 inch Dell laptop.

Greg Johnson, San Antonio, Texas
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139148982@N02/albums

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Very nice indeed!

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Greg7579 said:

Ben, you and Chris should hire my Corsican models.....

View attachment 546ffdb03de84f07b803a0edfbff9922.jpg

Ben told me two years ago to not be chicken to shoot people on the street. Just ask! So I walked out from the table when I saw locals talking and set the 50r on a short table tripod on the ground and shot up the street a few days ago. I think this was in Sardinia. I'm in Corsica now. You see that girl leaning over the table ate the end of the street? That is the owner of the restaurant asking my wife if she wanted more wine.

I need MF in order to produce these kinds of photos with the rich 3D pop and micro-contrast. We are talking another dimension here that can't be achieved with FF.

Jim … Please print this out on a huge poster and report back to me if it looks good. I only see it on my 13 inch Dell laptop.

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Greg, I hate to tell you this, but I think you need to crank up the ISO a bit, set the shutter speed a stop faster and the aperture a stop narrower, take a step backwards, and try again.



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JimKasson said:

Greg7579 said:

Ben, you and Chris should hire my Corsican models.....

View attachment 546ffdb03de84f07b803a0edfbff9922.jpg

Ben told me two years ago to not be chicken to shoot people on the street. Just ask! So I walked out from the table when I saw locals talking and set the 50r on a short table tripod on the ground and shot up the street a few days ago. I think this was in Sardinia. I'm in Corsica now. You see that girl leaning over the table ate the end of the street? That is the owner of the restaurant asking my wife if she wanted more wine.

I need MF in order to produce these kinds of photos with the rich 3D pop and micro-contrast. We are talking another dimension here that can't be achieved with FF.

Jim … Please print this out on a huge poster and report back to me if it looks good. I only see it on my 13 inch Dell laptop.

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Greg, I hate to tell you this, but I think you need to crank up the ISO a bit, set the shutter speed a stop faster and the aperture a stop narrower, take a step backwards, and try again.

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You are right. I am obsessed with ISO 100. But ISO 200 or 400 would not have mattered here and gaining the speed would have helped. I didn't lift any shadows here I don't think.... But I was already at F11. But more speed would have helped. Their heads were moving and people were moving. Yes, 1/100 not enough. But F11 should be.

Anyway, I'm terrible at shooting people. I was just trying to shoot a street people shot. Back to the drawing board!

Greg Johnson, San Antonio, Texas

Greg7579 said:

JimKasson said:

Greg7579 said:

Ben, you and Chris should hire my Corsican models.....

View attachment 546ffdb03de84f07b803a0edfbff9922.jpg

Ben told me two years ago to not be chicken to shoot people on the street. Just ask! So I walked out from the table when I saw locals talking and set the 50r on a short table tripod on the ground and shot up the street a few days ago. I think this was in Sardinia. I'm in Corsica now. You see that girl leaning over the table ate the end of the street? That is the owner of the restaurant asking my wife if she wanted more wine.

I need MF in order to produce these kinds of photos with the rich 3D pop and micro-contrast. We are talking another dimension here that can't be achieved with FF.

Jim … Please print this out on a huge poster and report back to me if it looks good. I only see it on my 13 inch Dell laptop.

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Greg, I hate to tell you this, but I think you need to crank up the ISO a bit, set the shutter speed a stop faster and the aperture a stop narrower, take a step backwards, and try again.

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You are right. I am obsessed with ISO 100. But ISO 200 or 400 would not have mattered here and gaining the speed would have helped. I didn't lift any shadows here I don't think.... But I was already at F11.

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I am suggesting — you had better sit down for this — that you shoot that shot at f/16 from 3 feet further back.

Greg7579 said:

But more speed would have helped. Their heads were moving and people were moving. Yes, 1/100 not enough. But F11 should be.

Anyway, I'm terrible at shooting people. I was just trying to shoot a street people shot. Back to the drawing board!

Greg Johnson, San Antonio, Texas
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139148982@N02/albums

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Greg7579 said:

JimKasson said:

Greg7579 said:

Ben, you and Chris should hire my Corsican models.....

View attachment 546ffdb03de84f07b803a0edfbff9922.jpg

Ben told me two years ago to not be chicken to shoot people on the street. Just ask! So I walked out from the table when I saw locals talking and set the 50r on a short table tripod on the ground and shot up the street a few days ago. I think this was in Sardinia. I'm in Corsica now. You see that girl leaning over the table ate the end of the street? That is the owner of the restaurant asking my wife if she wanted more wine.

I need MF in order to produce these kinds of photos with the rich 3D pop and micro-contrast. We are talking another dimension here that can't be achieved with FF.

Jim … Please print this out on a huge poster and report back to me if it looks good. I only see it on my 13 inch Dell laptop.

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Greg, I hate to tell you this, but I think you need to crank up the ISO a bit, set the shutter speed a stop faster and the aperture a stop narrower, take a step backwards, and try again.

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You are right. I am obsessed with ISO 100. But ISO 200 or 400 would not have mattered here and gaining the speed would have helped. I didn't lift any shadows here I don't think.... But I was already at F11. But more speed would have helped. Their heads were moving and people were moving. Yes, 1/100 not enough. But F11 should be.

Anyway, I'm terrible at shooting people. I was just trying to shoot a street people shot. Back to the drawing board!

Greg Johnson, San Antonio, Texas
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139148982@N02/albums

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You shouldn't be discouraged, FWIW I think it's a great "street" shot (not that I am an expert on that "genre"). I like it, it has character. The entire series you posted looks superb.

Only technical thing I noticed was with the 100-200 shot where I see a bit of blue fringing CA on the top edges of the roofs of the buildings right at the bottom of the pic. Otherwise that pic looks great.

Your 32-64 seems to be delivering fabulous results!

I might have to consider raiding my piggy bank.

Frank

JimKasson said:

Greg7579 said:

JimKasson said:

Greg7579 said:

Ben, you and Chris should hire my Corsican models.....

View attachment 546ffdb03de84f07b803a0edfbff9922.jpg

Ben told me two years ago to not be chicken to shoot people on the street. Just ask! So I walked out from the table when I saw locals talking and set the 50r on a short table tripod on the ground and shot up the street a few days ago. I think this was in Sardinia. I'm in Corsica now. You see that girl leaning over the table ate the end of the street? That is the owner of the restaurant asking my wife if she wanted more wine.

I need MF in order to produce these kinds of photos with the rich 3D pop and micro-contrast. We are talking another dimension here that can't be achieved with FF.

Jim … Please print this out on a huge poster and report back to me if it looks good. I only see it on my 13 inch Dell laptop.

Click to expand...

Greg, I hate to tell you this, but I think you need to crank up the ISO a bit, set the shutter speed a stop faster and the aperture a stop narrower, take a step backwards, and try again.

Click to expand...

You are right. I am obsessed with ISO 100. But ISO 200 or 400 would not have mattered here and gaining the speed would have helped. I didn't lift any shadows here I don't think.... But I was already at F11.

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I am suggesting — you had better sit down for this — that you shoot that shot at f/16 from 3 feet further back.

JimKasson said:

But more speed would have helped. Their heads were moving and people were moving. Yes, 1/100 not enough. But F11 should be.

Anyway, I'm terrible at shooting people. I was just trying to shoot a street people shot. Back to the drawing board!

Greg Johnson, San Antonio, Texas
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139148982@N02/albums

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F16! That is MF No-Man's land. F16 sacrifices expensive MF resolution because of the dreaded diffraction and we might as well be carrying FF gear, and FF has nowhere near the magic of our beloved MF. We all know this to be an absolute truth.

Of course, I could just use My XH-1 for this shot and shoot it at F5.6 and probably get more DOF than MF F16. It least, that is what it usually looks like to me, but I guess it is really only about two sops, not three or four like I keep thinking it looks like.

I love MF. I just miss my DOF that until shooting MF I took for granted and I miss IBIS....

Greg Johnson, San Antonio, Texas

Greg7579 said:

Ben, you and Chris should hire my Corsican models.....

View attachment 546ffdb03de84f07b803a0edfbff9922.jpg

Ben told me two years ago to not be chicken to shoot people on the street. Just ask! So I walked out from the table when I saw locals talking and set the 50r on a short table tripod on the ground and shot up the street a few days ago. I think this was in Sardinia. I'm in Corsica now. You see that girl leaning over the table ate the end of the street? That is the owner of the restaurant asking my wife if she wanted more wine.

I need MF in order to produce these kinds of photos with the rich 3D pop and micro-contrast. We are talking another dimension here that can't be achieved with FF.

Jim … Please print this out on a huge poster and report back to me if it looks good. I only see it on my 13 inch Dell laptop.

Greg Johnson, San Antonio, Texas
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139148982@N02/albums

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They all look quite angry? Even though there is nice sunny weather? Any reason?



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Stefan

FrankG said:

Greg7579 said:

JimKasson said:

Greg7579 said:

Ben, you and Chris should hire my Corsican models.....

View attachment 546ffdb03de84f07b803a0edfbff9922.jpg

Ben told me two years ago to not be chicken to shoot people on the street. Just ask! So I walked out from the table when I saw locals talking and set the 50r on a short table tripod on the ground and shot up the street a few days ago. I think this was in Sardinia. I'm in Corsica now. You see that girl leaning over the table ate the end of the street? That is the owner of the restaurant asking my wife if she wanted more wine.

I need MF in order to produce these kinds of photos with the rich 3D pop and micro-contrast. We are talking another dimension here that can't be achieved with FF.

Jim … Please print this out on a huge poster and report back to me if it looks good. I only see it on my 13 inch Dell laptop.

Click to expand...

Greg, I hate to tell you this, but I think you need to crank up the ISO a bit, set the shutter speed a stop faster and the aperture a stop narrower, take a step backwards, and try again.

Click to expand...

You are right. I am obsessed with ISO 100. But ISO 200 or 400 would not have mattered here and gaining the speed would have helped. I didn't lift any shadows here I don't think.... But I was already at F11. But more speed would have helped. Their heads were moving and people were moving. Yes, 1/100 not enough. But F11 should be.

Anyway, I'm terrible at shooting people. I was just trying to shoot a street people shot. Back to the drawing board!

Greg Johnson, San Antonio, Texas
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139148982@N02/albums

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You shouldn't be discouraged, FWIW I think it's a great "street" shot (not that I am an expert on that "genre"). I like it, it has character. The entire series you posted looks superb.

Only technical thing I noticed was with the 100-200 shot where I see a bit of blue fringing CA on the top edges of the roofs of the buildings right at the bottom of the pic. Otherwise that pic looks great.

Your 32-64 seems to be delivering fabulous results!

I might have to consider raiding my piggy bank.

Frank

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The 100-200 is not the best lens of the GF portfolio and has its limits in comparison with the others. Its definitely not in the same league as the 32-64 which for a zoom performs very well.



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Stefan

They are surprised why Greg has taken an interest in their rather monotonous lifestyle ... or even noticed the needless use of MF for such shot?

Benjamin Kanarek said:

Just wanted to announce that I just bought my Fujifilm GFX...getting it next week...Can't wait!

Will use for my up and coming shoots for VOGUE and STYLE magazines...

Have a nice Weekend

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You shouldn't have bothered. You could make stunning images with a pinhole in a coffee can. Cheaper too.:-D LOL

Iain

scst48 said:

Greg7579 said:

Ben, you and Chris should hire my Corsican models.....

View attachment 546ffdb03de84f07b803a0edfbff9922.jpg

Ben told me two years ago to not be chicken to shoot people on the street. Just ask! So I walked out from the table when I saw locals talking and set the 50r on a short table tripod on the ground and shot up the street a few days ago. I think this was in Sardinia. I'm in Corsica now. You see that girl leaning over the table ate the end of the street? That is the owner of the restaurant asking my wife if she wanted more wine.

I need MF in order to produce these kinds of photos with the rich 3D pop and micro-contrast. We are talking another dimension here that can't be achieved with FF.

Jim … Please print this out on a huge poster and report back to me if it looks good. I only see it on my 13 inch Dell laptop.

Greg Johnson, San Antonio, Texas
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139148982@N02/albums

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They all look quite angry? Even though there is nice sunny weather? Any reason?

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OK picture this. You are a nice older crowd of village residents in a Sardinian hill town.

A big bald-headed American carrying ten thousand dollars worth of Medium Format huge camera equipment mounted on a 1500 dollar Really Right Stuff carbon tripod walks by you and says hello. He stops, turns around and kneels on the ground. He drops his tripod to the lowest setting on the ground. He points it at them. They stare in bewilderment a=t you. You say in English, I'm not taking a picture of you. I'm shooting up the street. Then I say, don't look at the camera. Act naturally. But they don't speak English so they stare at me. But then when I walked back by they all smiled at me and I said thank you 14 times in Italian. Thank You is the only Italian word I know except for Chow. I am in Corsica now and I know even less French.

The problem with those fine people is they did not understand the high level of street photography that was taking place right before their eyes.

But seriously, I showed the lady the image on the LCD and she smiled and laughed, so I didn't feel guilty. I hate shooting people on the street. Absolutely hate it. But I did it for you guys.

I am now a street photographer. I made my Bones Baby.

Greg Johnson, San Antonio, Texas

IainD said:

Benjamin Kanarek said:

Just wanted to announce that I just bought my Fujifilm GFX...getting it next week...Can't wait!

Will use for my up and coming shoots for VOGUE and STYLE magazines...

Have a nice Weekend

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You shouldn't have bothered. You could make stunning images with a pinhole in a coffee can. Cheaper too.:-D LOL

Iain

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No. Ben only makes stunning images with Fuji gear and sometimes he has to use his Nikon fast lenses for that magical separation and bokehdeliciousness he will now get with Fuji GFX.

Sell the Nikon Gear Ben! Go all in. I want to see some Elle and Vogue covers with Fuji GFX. That 250 will get you that distant compression and separation you are famous for. Stand back and shoot away. I like it when you put the model far away and shoot her with that fast Nikon 200 (I think that was the lens you used). Now you can do it with the GFX.

Carry on Sir, and report back soon your GFX progress.

Greg Johnson, San Antonio, Texas

don-bosco said:

They are surprised why Greg has taken an interest in their rather monotonous lifestyle ... or even noticed the needless use of MF for such shot?

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Aghhhh Don! You got me. I have posted 600 images on Flickr taken with MF Fuji gear all on a monopod. On all 600 of them someone could say … you don't need MF for that shot Greg.

Well.... Not really. Most of them are landscapes and MF does fairly well at those.

But Don, don't you see the Other-Dimensional quality? The 3D Pop? The Magic of MF? That special MF Look? That micro-contrast? Come on..... Look real hard. It is there.

Well.... It is probably not there on my mediocre photography. But look at Jim's flowers and Chris's shots. Look at some of these great photographers on here. Wait till Ben starts shooting the GFX. Then you will see it. And then you will toss all your FF gear into the sea and become a convert.

Greg Johnson, San Antonio, Texas

scst48 said:

FrankG said:

Greg7579 said:

JimKasson said:

Greg7579 said:

Ben, you and Chris should hire my Corsican models.....

View attachment 546ffdb03de84f07b803a0edfbff9922.jpg

Ben told me two years ago to not be chicken to shoot people on the street. Just ask! So I walked out from the table when I saw locals talking and set the 50r on a short table tripod on the ground and shot up the street a few days ago. I think this was in Sardinia. I'm in Corsica now. You see that girl leaning over the table ate the end of the street? That is the owner of the restaurant asking my wife if she wanted more wine.

I need MF in order to produce these kinds of photos with the rich 3D pop and micro-contrast. We are talking another dimension here that can't be achieved with FF.

Jim … Please print this out on a huge poster and report back to me if it looks good. I only see it on my 13 inch Dell laptop.

Click to expand...

Greg, I hate to tell you this, but I think you need to crank up the ISO a bit, set the shutter speed a stop faster and the aperture a stop narrower, take a step backwards, and try again.

Click to expand...

You are right. I am obsessed with ISO 100. But ISO 200 or 400 would not have mattered here and gaining the speed would have helped. I didn't lift any shadows here I don't think.... But I was already at F11. But more speed would have helped. Their heads were moving and people were moving. Yes, 1/100 not enough. But F11 should be.

Anyway, I'm terrible at shooting people. I was just trying to shoot a street people shot. Back to the drawing board!

Greg Johnson, San Antonio, Texas
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139148982@N02/albums

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You shouldn't be discouraged, FWIW I think it's a great "street" shot (not that I am an expert on that "genre"). I like it, it has character. The entire series you posted looks superb.

Only technical thing I noticed was with the 100-200 shot where I see a bit of blue fringing CA on the top edges of the roofs of the buildings right at the bottom of the pic. Otherwise that pic looks great.

Your 32-64 seems to be delivering fabulous results!

I might have to consider raiding my piggy bank.

Frank

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The 100-200 is not the best lens of the GF portfolio and has its limits in comparison with the others. Its definitely not in the same league as the 32-64 which for a zoom performs very well.

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I don't know Stefan.... Maybe you are right in comparison with the other great GFX lenses but the 100-200 saves MF for me. Otherwise I would abandon it for sure. I love shooting at 80 to about 160 FF equivalent (really to 200) and the 100-200 also has great OIS which really helps this MF system in a big way (for travel shooting).

I really like the lens and it is about the size I am used to with the Fuji 50-140 or Canon 70-200L. The size is not a limiting factor. Pure IQ? I think the lens is great but I am not a scientific lens tester.

I'm going to get the 250. The question is will I travel with it.

Greg Johnson, San Antonio, Texas

Greg7579 said:

scst48 said:

FrankG said:

Greg7579 said:

JimKasson said:

Greg7579 said:

Ben, you and Chris should hire my Corsican models.....

View attachment 546ffdb03de84f07b803a0edfbff9922.jpg

Ben told me two years ago to not be chicken to shoot people on the street. Just ask! So I walked out from the table when I saw locals talking and set the 50r on a short table tripod on the ground and shot up the street a few days ago. I think this was in Sardinia. I'm in Corsica now. You see that girl leaning over the table ate the end of the street? That is the owner of the restaurant asking my wife if she wanted more wine.

I need MF in order to produce these kinds of photos with the rich 3D pop and micro-contrast. We are talking another dimension here that can't be achieved with FF.

Jim … Please print this out on a huge poster and report back to me if it looks good. I only see it on my 13 inch Dell laptop.

Click to expand...

Greg, I hate to tell you this, but I think you need to crank up the ISO a bit, set the shutter speed a stop faster and the aperture a stop narrower, take a step backwards, and try again.

Click to expand...

You are right. I am obsessed with ISO 100. But ISO 200 or 400 would not have mattered here and gaining the speed would have helped. I didn't lift any shadows here I don't think.... But I was already at F11. But more speed would have helped. Their heads were moving and people were moving. Yes, 1/100 not enough. But F11 should be.

Anyway, I'm terrible at shooting people. I was just trying to shoot a street people shot. Back to the drawing board!

Greg Johnson, San Antonio, Texas
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139148982@N02/albums

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You shouldn't be discouraged, FWIW I think it's a great "street" shot (not that I am an expert on that "genre"). I like it, it has character. The entire series you posted looks superb.

Only technical thing I noticed was with the 100-200 shot where I see a bit of blue fringing CA on the top edges of the roofs of the buildings right at the bottom of the pic. Otherwise that pic looks great.

Your 32-64 seems to be delivering fabulous results!

I might have to consider raiding my piggy bank.

Frank

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The 100-200 is not the best lens of the GF portfolio and has its limits in comparison with the others. Its definitely not in the same league as the 32-64 which for a zoom performs very well.

Click to expand...

I don't know Stefan.... Maybe you are right in comparison with the other great GFX lenses but the 100-200 saves MF for me. Otherwise I would abandon it for sure. I love shooting at 80 to about 160 FF equivalent (really to 200) and the 100-200 also has great OIS which really helps this MF system in a big way (for travel shooting).

I really like the lens and it is about the size I am used to with the Fuji 50-140 or Canon 70-200L. The size is not a limiting factor. Pure IQ? I think the lens is great but I am not a scientific lens tester.

I'm going to get the 250. The question is will I travel with it.

Greg Johnson, San Antonio, Texas
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139148982@N02/albums

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The 250 is much better especially with the TC 1.4 converter. Its even amazing with the converter attached which confirms that both 250/TC1.4 are well optimized for best IQ.

But I agree with you. I wouldnt travel with the GF250 neither

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Stefan

scst48 said:

Greg7579 said:

Ben, you and Chris should hire my Corsican models.....

View attachment 546ffdb03de84f07b803a0edfbff9922.jpg

Ben told me two years ago to not be chicken to shoot people on the street. Just ask! So I walked out from the table when I saw locals talking and set the 50r on a short table tripod on the ground and shot up the street a few days ago. I think this was in Sardinia. I'm in Corsica now. You see that girl leaning over the table ate the end of the street? That is the owner of the restaurant asking my wife if she wanted more wine.

I need MF in order to produce these kinds of photos with the rich 3D pop and micro-contrast. We are talking another dimension here that can't be achieved with FF.

Jim … Please print this out on a huge poster and report back to me if it looks good. I only see it on my 13 inch Dell laptop.

Greg Johnson, San Antonio, Texas
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139148982@N02/albums

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They all look quite angry? Even though there is nice sunny weather? Any reason?

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The reason is that when people sit around like this all day they tend to debate and/or gosip a lot and anger/arguments can be a result. I know because my family history comes from a similar small mediteranian village (different country) and I have seen this very often.

Greg7579 said:

scst48 said:

Greg7579 said:

Ben, you and Chris should hire my Corsican models.....

View attachment 546ffdb03de84f07b803a0edfbff9922.jpg

Ben told me two years ago to not be chicken to shoot people on the street. Just ask! So I walked out from the table when I saw locals talking and set the 50r on a short table tripod on the ground and shot up the street a few days ago. I think this was in Sardinia. I'm in Corsica now. You see that girl leaning over the table ate the end of the street? That is the owner of the restaurant asking my wife if she wanted more wine.

I need MF in order to produce these kinds of photos with the rich 3D pop and micro-contrast. We are talking another dimension here that can't be achieved with FF.

Jim … Please print this out on a huge poster and report back to me if it looks good. I only see it on my 13 inch Dell laptop.

Greg Johnson, San Antonio, Texas
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139148982@N02/albums

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They all look quite angry? Even though there is nice sunny weather? Any reason?

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OK picture this. You are a nice older crowd of village residents in a Sardinian hill town.

A big bald-headed American carrying ten thousand dollars worth of Medium Format huge camera equipment mounted on a 1500 dollar Really Right Stuff carbon tripod walks by you and says hello. He stops, turns around and kneels on the ground. He drops his tripod to the lowest setting on the ground. He points it at them. They stare in bewilderment a=t you. You say in English, I'm not taking a picture of you. I'm shooting up the street. Then I say, don't look at the camera. Act naturally. But they don't speak English so they stare at me. But then when I walked back by they all smiled at me and I said thank you 14 times in Italian. Thank You is the only Italian word I know except for Chow. I am in Corsica now and I know even less French.

The problem with those fine people is they did not understand the high level of street photography that was taking place right before their eyes.

But seriously, I showed the lady the image on the LCD and she smiled and laughed, so I didn't feel guilty. I hate shooting people on the street. Absolutely hate it. But I did it for you guys.

I am now a street photographer. I made my Bones Baby.

Greg Johnson, San Antonio, Texas
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139148982@N02/albums

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Ha ha, you made a funny story of it which I like. I believe its hard to create great street pictures with the GFX capturing the momentum especially by using a tripod. I am sure I would not be able to do it better with such a setup maybe even worse! Why dont you
just use the X-H1 without tripod or the X100F if you have?

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Stefan

Congrats. The GFX system should suit your shooting style very well. No doubt about that .

You might have a hard time going back to smaller formats though.

Cheers,

Max

Benjamin Kanarek said:

PS... 45,63,110,120, 32-64,& 250

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Thats a nice lens selection! I am sure you will love the 110 and 45! It would be great if after some time you might be willing to share some of your experience using the GFX-50 R/S or the GFX-100S and managing DOF as well as sharing some experience how useful the 250 and the 120 lenses might be for fashion shooting

scst48 said:

Greg7579 said:

scst48 said:

Greg7579 said:

Ben, you and Chris should hire my Corsican models.....

View attachment 546ffdb03de84f07b803a0edfbff9922.jpg

Ben told me two years ago to not be chicken to shoot people on the street. Just ask! So I walked out from the table when I saw locals talking and set the 50r on a short table tripod on the ground and shot up the street a few days ago. I think this was in Sardinia. I'm in Corsica now. You see that girl leaning over the table ate the end of the street? That is the owner of the restaurant asking my wife if she wanted more wine.

I need MF in order to produce these kinds of photos with the rich 3D pop and micro-contrast. We are talking another dimension here that can't be achieved with FF.

Jim … Please print this out on a huge poster and report back to me if it looks good. I only see it on my 13 inch Dell laptop.

Greg Johnson, San Antonio, Texas
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139148982@N02/albums

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They all look quite angry? Even though there is nice sunny weather? Any reason?

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OK picture this. You are a nice older crowd of village residents in a Sardinian hill town.

A big bald-headed American carrying ten thousand dollars worth of Medium Format huge camera equipment mounted on a 1500 dollar Really Right Stuff carbon tripod walks by you and says hello. He stops, turns around and kneels on the ground. He drops his tripod to the lowest setting on the ground. He points it at them. They stare in bewilderment a=t you. You say in English, I'm not taking a picture of you. I'm shooting up the street. Then I say, don't look at the camera. Act naturally. But they don't speak English so they stare at me. But then when I walked back by they all smiled at me and I said thank you 14 times in Italian. Thank You is the only Italian word I know except for Chow. I am in Corsica now and I know even less French.

The problem with those fine people is they did not understand the high level of street photography that was taking place right before their eyes.

But seriously, I showed the lady the image on the LCD and she smiled and laughed, so I didn't feel guilty. I hate shooting people on the street. Absolutely hate it. But I did it for you guys.

I am now a street photographer. I made my Bones Baby.

Greg Johnson, San Antonio, Texas
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139148982@N02/albums

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Ha ha, you made a funny story of it which I like. I believe its hard to create great street pictures with the GFX capturing the momentum especially by using a tripod. I am sure I would not be able to do it better with such a setup maybe even worse! Why dont you
just use the X-H1 without tripod or the X100F if you have?

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I am traveling with the 50r and X100F right now but the XH-1 is at home with 12 very good Fuji XF lenses.

As you know, I have shot and posted thousands of images with the X100F and XH-1, and if you look at the San Miguel Mexico Albums you might see some decent people street shots taken with both of those fine cameras.

But who wants to do that and I can't post them here because they are not MF and I can't post them on the Fuji forum anymore, which I'm sure is hugely disappointing to hundreds if not thousands of people there that for many years were used to seeing a lot of my bad photography and almost daily entertaining posts.

But for the hundreds who would be disappointed if given a poll, I could name 5 guys who are very happy,. Most of them own Sony gear but post a lot on the Fuji board which was known to cause me minor degrees of irritation. often expressed in ways that may have upset a few guys.

Greg Johnson, San Antonio, Texas