Comparision SDQH - DP2M - Fujifilm GFX100

Greetings Sigma Friends

HDPro Brasil wrote:

This was pretty exiting when I got my hands on a Fujifilm GFX100, this is a very good camera with some impressive features and some 100MP medium format sensor, what I also liked was the anti shake and the video.

Fuji has some excellent cameras. If you want anti shake buy the Sigma IS lenses they work fine and their cheaper. The FP does great video not sure about my SDQ-H I'll have to look.

If I would have too choose for ONE camera to work with, the Fujifilm would be on top of my list, it is as easy to handle as any other DSLR but has really a high quality output, but all this comes with a hefty pricetag.

There again if I had to choose one camera, I couldn't. My SD15 and my DP2x would be the top two. For the following reasons, the Fuji is to costly and to big, the SDQ-H is to slow and too big, my SD15 and DP2x give me the perfect balance between cost, size and speed I wish they had LV and and tilt screen. I wish the DP2x had a EVF.

As I had the camera for one day I made a walkaround in Basel with the Fujifilm GFX100 and the 63mm lens and to compare it I brought my SDQH plus the 35mm ART and the "old" DP2 Merrill.

The photos are a 100% crop out of camera JPG, just for the fun of it.

They look good

The Fuji's 100MP are really good, but in print, from my experience with other Bayer prints, the SDQH would narrow the gap quite a bit. So I am still quite happy with the SDQH even more when I look at the price, which is literally 10% of the Fuji.

A couple of friends and I were doing a print test, and printing some gallery work, we all use different cameras one Fuji, one Nikon, one Sony, one Canon and me with my Sigma's the SD15 or the SD1M, I sell more images. It's tied between the Sigma and my film prints. Sony being last, Nikon second along with the Fuji, then Canon. Just different styles in our work.

Anyway when printing 13x19 inches or 17x22 inches on a Epson P800 or the Canon Pro 1000. The Sigma/Foveon has the nod/edge over the others. It was crisper, sharper, and has more pop.

The Merrill looks a bit sad towards the Fuji, but come to think of it that there is some 8 years of engineering between the cameras and 100MP compared to 15MP for crying out loud! Not to mention one could buy 15 DP2M for the price of one Fujifilm combo.

Once again in print I really don't know if you'll see the difference. The printers can't do it.

Excellent samples.

Have fun be Safe

Roger J.

Fujifilm GFX100 & 63mm

SDQH & 35mm ART

DP2 Merrill