Originally posted by biz-engineer Even if Vogues hired me, I'd decline their offer as I'm making more money than if was working for them.
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He's sponsored, Fuji offers nice sponsorships to photographers much less known than Kanarek.
How can Pentax K3 PDAF be too slow for him and GFX50S CDAF be fast enough? GFX50S is significantly slower than a K3.
When I asked him this, he broke like a kid unable to properly communicate his thoughts.
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Fuji invested in making new lenses for their GFX line, that's good. Other than lenses, there is no thing extraordinary with the GFX50s, the 645z does CDAF and face recognition in LV mode. I've tried a GFX50S for awhile, I found it clunky, especially for the price. I much prefer to use the K1. The GFX line is relatively new, customers like that, even some people got themself a GFX50 not even aware of the 645z, because Fuji advertised, but feeling of novelty has nothing to do with picture taking capability.
Originally posted by surfar Fuji sponsored people HAVE to use Fuji exclusively.He uses what he wants. He adapts non Fuji lenses at times,Fuji sponsored people have left due to that exclusive restriction.
He shot his Nikons at 3 fps,so the 50S with the latest firmware has provided what his Nikons did.He states"99.9% keepers"...so I suppose the 50S is doing what he requires.He used(on the Chinese Vogue shoot) 50S for stills and XT3 for video, they suit his professional requirements.
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Most definitely, and the X cameras and lenses do pretty well too.
First ILC digital was in 2012, they have progressed rapidly.
Originally posted by biz-engineer Being a photographer doesn't make that much money. Using what you are given free of charge (against a little promotion) helps financially. As a photographer, given that all camera are capable to take the high quality pictures, you usually adjust to the camera provided by the sponsor. One of our photographers is using a Canon 5DSr (50Mp) for his independent work as a photographer, but Fuji came to offer him to sponsor his workshops, so he setup paid photography workshops and for each workshop he gets lent a bunch of Fuji X camera to give the students, and he gets also paid by Fuji for running the workshop. All in all, the majority of his income comes from Fuji, and obviously his contract doesn't allow him to use his 5DSr at the workshop. The other one pro photographer runs a photography school, a photo magazine and a website, he doesn't promote any camera at the school, but he never bought a camera for more than a decade, he's got the reputation of an famous artist photographer, so he receive new camera models to evaluate (Canon, Nikon, Fuji, Sony, Phase One, Hasselblad, all of them), using a different camera every time, depending on who gave him a new camera model to try and review with an article online his photo school website and magazine.
It is exactly just because of A Lot of money have been spilled to this entiere big menu of lenses and cameras, that they are pushing them everywhere. Why would we see all of these youtube videos other vise and all the rest. Known tubers have been given cameras and told what they want from them. That is all. Fuji has done it properly, and that has been only way. They did not really have possibility to have big line of vintage lenses ready to fullfill any of that. But they have all the knowhow, and money. You can see it at here.
They are playing the same game as any other camerabrand out there, being agressive, why not. This little reminds me of how Sony did develope their ILC. Fuji just went their way, but the same. Big money big what not. And it shows.
They say that it is aimed to be alternative to FF, but better than that. Well, all are comparing it to the MF. Is it better than FF? Compared to what I see at here, I could fit my K-1 to my pocket. There are better models from Sony, pana, canon,ect(they fit to a pocket too)..to get that functionality and speed and more than enough performance. Now they seem to go for extrreme amount of pixels. They are entering MF higher class tier? I just looked af flickr pool of fujifilm GFX 50&100 so far there is not much new, even underwhelming shots. Ofcourse Pro's or people who can take pictures are easy to pick, but could they do the same with almost any camera?
anyway. Looking forward of what is coming next..