Fujifilm GFX series Release Date, Price and Specs – CNET

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The world was expecting a full-frame mirrorless camera from Fujifilm at Photokina 2016; the company surprised us with a medium-format instead. Hasselblad was first with a mirrorless interchangeable-lens medium-format, the X1D-50c, but the Fujifilm GFX 50S looks a lot more affordable: the company didn’t provide actual price or availability, but did say it would ship in early 2017 and cost less than $10,000 for the body and a lens.

I haven’t gotten full specs yet, but It has the same sensor specifications as the X1D-50c — 50 megapixels, 43.8 x 32.9mm 4:3 at a 5.3 micron pixel pitch — and it was designed by Fujifilm. Unlike Hasselblad, which puts the shutter in the lenses, Fujifilm puts a focal-plane shutter with a maximum speed of 1/4,000 second in the body. It’s dust and weather sealed and can crop to a variety of medium-format aspect ratios.

It will come with an electronic viewfinder that attaches in the hot shoe, and there’ll be an optional multiangle adapter to use with it.

Of course, it’s going to need lenses, and Fujifilm has introduced a new mount, G. The company says the lenses are designed to resolve to resolutions higher than 100 megapixels, and offers the usual claims of sharpness thoughout the aperture range, no diffraction and no distortion. The first models will be the GF63mmF2.8 R WR, GF32-64mmF4 R LM WR, GF120mmF4 Macro R LM OIS WR in early 2017, followed by the GF110mmF2 R LM WR, GF23mmF4 R LM WR and GF45mmF2.8 R WR. (To get the 35mm-equivalent focal length for reference, multiply the lengths by 0.77.)