Fujifilm GFX100RF
102 Megapixels at 6 FPS, Unstabilized 35mm f/4 (28mm eq.) Lens
World's Sharpest Fixed-Lens Camera, World's Best High ISOs & World's Only 33 × 44mm "Medium Format" Fixed-Lens Camera (2025 ~ today)
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I got my GFX100RF in silver (as shown) at B&H. It also comes in black, and it comes as kits with free goodies thrown in.
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Fujifilm GFX100RF with Included Body-Colored Plastic Hot Shoe Cover. Here's how it looks uncovered. bigger.
Fujifilm GFX100RF. The big dial between the Focus Mode (S/C/M) and the AEL/AFL button is the Cropping Selector. bigger.
Fujifilm GFX100RF. bigger.
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More samples throughout this review at Bokeh, Falloff, High ISOs, Macro, Sharpness, Spherochromatism and Sunstars.
These are just snapshots; my real work is in my Gallery.
These are all shot hand-held as NORMAL LARGE JPGs. No tripods, FINE or SUPER FINE JPGs or RAW files were used or needed. I have my GFX100RF set to STD film simulation, +4 saturation and +4 sharpening:
Quiet Sunset at the Beach, Solana Beach, California, 7:18 PM, Friday, 13 May 2026. Fujifilm GFX100RF at 63mm (50mm equivalent) "digital zoom" with included Fujifilm PRF-49S Protective Filter at f/5.6 at 1/640 at Auto Dynamic Range 200% at Auto ISO 160 (LV 13⅔), exactly as shot. bigger or camera-original 31 MP (6,448 × 4,840 pixel) © 2.7 MB JPG file.
Prepper's Proud Pile of Paper Products, Provo, South Dakota, 6:43 PM, Wednesday, 13 May 2026. Fujifilm GFX100RF wide-open at f/4 at 1/125 at Auto ISO 4,000 (LV 5⅔), Radiant Photo software to add light to the shadows while retaining highlights. bigger or camera-original 102 MP © 26.9 MB JPG file.
The GFX100RF has superb High ISO Performance, so even if it needs ISO 4,000 indoors to remain hand-holdable at 1/125 as it does here, it still looks fine.
Toy Box, Torrey Pines State Reserve, La Jolla, California, PM, Wednesday, 13 May 2026. Fujifilm GFX100RF at f/11 at 1/125 at Auto ISO 1,250 (LV 11⅓), Skylum Luminar Neo software to amp up the colors a bit, roll and distortion correction in Photoshop to make the horizon straight and level. bigger or camera-original 102 MP © 25.5 MB NORMAL LARGE JPG file.
Tower Two, Torrey Pines State Reserve, La Jolla, California, 7:22 PM, Wednesday, 13 May 2026. Fujifilm GFX100RF at f/4 at 1/140 at Auto ISO 80 (LV 11½), exactly as shot other than perspective correction in Photoshop to fix my sloppy hand-holding. bigger or camera-original 102 MP © 18.4 MB NORMAL LARGE JPG file.
Bluff with Peregrine Falcons Aloft, Torrey Pines State Reserve, La Jolla, California, 7:31 PM, Wednesday, 13 May 2026. Fujifilm GFX100RF at f/5.6 at 1/125 at Auto ISO 320, +⅔ stops exposure compensation (LV 10⅓), colors amplified slightly in Skylum Luminar Neo software in which I also added deliberate vignetting to spice it up. bigger or camera-original 102 MP © 23.5 MB NORMAL LARGE JPG file.
You can see the falcons in the camera-original 102 MP JPG file! They're in the sky just above the bluff about a third of the way down from the center.
Drywall Screw Chicken, 3:46 PM, Thursday, 14 May 2026. Fujifilm GFX100RF in square-crop mode wide-open at f/4 at 1/125 at Auto ISO 2,000 (LV 6⅔), Skylum Luminar Neo software to amp it up and add deliberate vignetting to emphasize the chicken face rather than the background. bigger or camera-original 8,736 × 8,736 pixel (76 MP) © 18.6 MB NORMAL LARGE JPG file.
Torrey Pine Tree, PM, Friday, 15 May 2026. Fujifilm GFX100RF at f/11 at 1/120, Auto Dynamic Range 200%, Auto ISO 160 (LV 13⅙), color amped-up in Skylum Luminar Neo software (it was almost black-and-white as shot). bigger or full-resolution 12 MP © 3.4 MB JPG file or camera-original 12 MP © 3.3 MB NORMAL SMALL JPG file.
I shot this in the 12 MP SMALL JPG (4,000 × 3,000 pixels) mode to show you all how sharp it is, even at its lowest resolution setting. You can see every needle, limited by the camera's JPG engine not being smart enough to use more bits when presented with this much detail.
Shake Shack, 12:50 PM, Friday, 15 May 2026. Fujifilm GFX100RF at f/5.6 at 1/180, Auto Dynamic Range 200%, Auto ISO 160 (LV 11.9), exactly as shot. bigger.
This is the typical look I see from my GFX100RF and my other Fuji cameras: natural, unexciting color and mild contrast. It's perfect for representing real estate accurately and portraits, but my work demands screaming colors, which I get when cranking my Canons and Nikons to 11.
As I explain at How to Get Great Colors, most importantly I get brilliant colors by pointing my camera at bright colors:
Guards Red 1995 Porsche 911 typ. 993, 8:05 AM, Saturday, 16 May 2026. Fujifilm GFX100RF in square crop mode wide-open at f/4 at 1/125 at Auto ISO 1,000, -⅔ stops exposure compensation (LV 7⅔), Radiant Photo software to add light to the shadows while retaining highlights. bigger or camera-original 8,736 × 8,736 pixel (76 MP) © 12.8 MB NORMAL LARGE JPG file.
Petunias, 12:44 PM, Saturday, 16 May 2026. Fujifilm GFX100RF, on-camera Godox iT32 flash with X5F module for Fuji (X5 modules also come for Canon (X5C), for Nikon (X5N), for Sony (X5S), für LEICA (X5L) and for Olympus, OM SYSTEM and Panasonic (X5O)) at f/11 at 1/125 at Auto ISO 320 (LV 12.2), Radiant Photo software to add light to the shadows while retaining highlights. bigger or camera-original 102 MP © 19.9 MB NORMAL LARGE JPG file.
Sharp? Of course, as limited by depth-of-field:
1,200 × 900 pixel (9.7× magnification) crop, as marked in red above. bigger or camera-original 102 MP © 19.9 MB NORMAL LARGE JPG file.
Pretty good, huh?
If this 1,200 × 900 pixel crop is only about 3" (7.5cm) wide on your phone, then the complete image printed at this same large magnification would be about 20 × 30" (50 × 75cm).
If this 1,200 × 900 pixel crop is about 6" (15cm) wide on your screen, then the complete image printed at this same extreme magnification would be about 40 × 60" (1 × 1.5 meters)!
If this 1,200 × 900 pixel crop is about 12" (30cm) wide on your screen, then the complete image printed at this same insanely high magnification would be about 80 × 120" (6⅔ × 10 feet or 2 × 3 meters)!!!
Cactus, 12:46 PM, Saturday, 16 May 2026. Fujifilm GFX100RF, on-camera Godox iT32 flash with X5F module for Fuji (X5 modules also come for Canon (X5C), for Nikon (X5N), for Sony (X5S), für LEICA (X5L) and for Olympus, OM SYSTEM and Panasonic (X5O)) at f/11 at 1/125 at Auto ISO 160 (LV 13.3), Radiant Photo software to add light to the shadows while retaining highlights. bigger or camera-original 102 MP © 18.4 MB NORMAL LARGE JPG file.
Sharp? Here's a crop from the area in red above:
1,200 × 900 pixel (7.3× magnification) crop as marked in red above. bigger or camera-original 102 MP © 18.4 MB NORMAL LARGE JPG file.
Noni and Pops at Thai Bite, 1:46 PM. Fuji GFX100RF at 63mm (50mm equivalent) "digital zoom" wide-open at f/4 at 1/125 at Auto Dynamic Range 200% at Auto ISO 2,500 (LV 6.4), on-camera Godox iT32 flash with X5F module for Fuji (X5 modules also come for Canon (X5C), for Nikon (X5N), for Sony (X5S), für LEICA (X5L) and for Olympus, OM SYSTEM and Panasonic (X5O)), exactly as shot save for come cropping and fixing my crooked hand-holding in Photoshop. bigger or camera-original 31 MP © 2.3 MB NORMAL LARGE JPG file.
People look great with Fuji. This was shot with on-camera fill-flash set to auto everything and with the 63mm (50mm equivalent) "digital zoom" option, which still gives 31 MP. The GFX100RF has so much resolution that you aren't missing anything using the in-camera zoom options.
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The GFX100RF is a compact "medium format" 102 megapixel camera for people who absolutely, positively need a hundred megapixels in their pocket — if you're talking foolish cargo shorts. The GFX100RF is very reasonably priced considering how it's the world's first medium format fixed lens camera. Medium format digital used to cost more than a new Mercedes, and now it costs less than upper-end Sonys.
The GFX100RF has the best high ISO performance I've ever tested as of June 2026.
Not only are its images ultra-sharp, the GFX100RF is a class act which includes a solid billet-aluminum lens hood, a solid billet-aluminum felt-lined lens cap, a multipiece solid billet-aluminum filter and hood adapter, a rope-style strap and a $75 Fujifilm PRF-49S Protective Filter all for free in the box!
The GFX100RF is made completely out of metal (even its battery door is metal!), and it weighs the same as the compact LEICA Q2 or Q3, or less than a full-frame mirrorless camera with lens! Bravo! This is why I have no tolerance for plastic cameras: plastic saves camera makers money but doesn't make cameras lighter.
Just like the other Fujis, the GFX100RF is a hip camera. I had girls asking me what film I was shooting the first day I took it out in public. People relax around the GFX100RF because they assume you're shooting film and that no one is going to see the photos plastered online.
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The GFX100RF feels and operates just like an APS-C X100VI, but packs a much larger sensor with a lot more pixels. If you know Fuji cameras then you're going to love this. In fact, if you are a Fuji shooter, you need one of these unique gems.
Compared to the X100VI the GFX100RF lacks an optical finder, has no built-in flash and has absolutely no image stabilization. The X100, X100S, X100T and X100F all have extremely useful four-way/OK rear controllers lacking in the X100V, X100VI and this GFX100RF. Otherwise the menus and controls are all the same.
It's a fixed-lens camera and has a "digital teleconverter" with a dedicated nipple control just below the front command dial that lets us crop the image to simulate longer lenses. Laugh all you want, but with its extreme 102 megapixel resolution at 28mm equivalent, we can zoom in-camera to 50mm equivalent at 31 megapixel resolution, and cropping later to 12 megapixels gets us to 80mm equivalent. Even the triple 48 megapixel iPhone 17 Pro Max which advertises "8x optical zoom" at which it has only 12 actual MP, at 80mm equivalent the triple-lensed iPhone 17 Pro Max is working with only 4⅓ MP!
Autofocus is straight out of 2006. It's not unusual to have subjects on which the GFX100RF won't focus unless I go out of my way to point it at something deliberately contrasty. Other cameras today focus instantly on just about anything, while the GFX100RF often can have to hunt for a moment to get focus.
The "mechanical" shutter is actually a superior and just about silent leaf shutter just like HASSELBLADs and the X100 series, not a slow, floppy focal plane shutter.
It works marvelously with fill-flash in any light because its "mechanical" leaf shutter synchronizes at all speeds! 1/2,000 sync in daylight at f/4 lets even small flashes work at long distance in direct sunlight. I get good TTL fill flash in sunlight at 75 feet (23 meters) at 1/2,000 sync even with my tiny Godox iT32 flash with X5F module!
Like other Fujifilm cameras I find it takes me several days of uttering unprintable language while trying to get everything set in the infuriatingly obtuse menu system — which only takes a few minutes in well-designed cameras like my Canons or Nikons, but once set and stable it has the advantage of real aperture, shutter speed, compensation and ISO dials Even cooler is that any or all of these may instead be controlled in the camera with the command dials usually by setting the dedicated dial to "C."
I find everything takes just a little too long to react to my commands as I'm trying to shoot. While Fuji tries to impress the innocent with gibberish like "X-Processor 5," it reacts very slowly to my inputs which can become maddening if I'm actually trying to take pictures and expect the almost instant response I get from my Canons and Nikons.
For instance, going through the detailed data screens on playback, which only cycle in one direction, often I'll hit the nubbin a second time before it changes to the next data screen, at which point it jumps ahead two screens! Since pressing the nubbin down won't go back a screen (it cycles through them in only one direction (?!?)); I have to go through all the screens again to see what I need. Ultimately one needs to slow down and wait for the camera.
The GFX100RF is for masters willing to take a little more time and effort for immortal results.
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Color rendition and contrast is typical Fuji: softer colors and contrasts superb for people pictures and natural looks, but it can't be set anywhere near as vivid as I demand for my usual work and as I get easily from my Canons and Nikons.
This is all art and we all have different visions, but I don't like the look any of the "Film Simulation" modes. To me they're ugly, off-color and not at all like the great films they claim to simulate.
While the Fuji faithful (yes, it's a cult) love these simulations, as a virtuoso at shooting real film (here's what real VELVIA looks like), these simulations don't look at all like film. They look like bad scans of film. Shadows get crushed, colors are screwed-up, and they look like what people who've never really shot film expertly expect it to look. Therefore I always shoot my Fujis in their "STD" ("Standard") film simulation.
I set my Saturation to +4 and sharpening to +4, but it doesn't make much difference. Colors are still restrained and natural and never psychedelic as I prefer.
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The GFX100RF is best for experienced photographers and artists who know how to set up a studio shoot and are masters of their lighting outdoors.
It makes more sense to have and grab a GFX100RF in the studio rather than to use an interchangeable-lens GFX and have to swap to a 35mm GF lens as needed. Keep a longer lens on your other GFX and just grab the GFX100RF for wide shots. Easy!
The GFX100RF is great for environmental portraits if you know how to light them, but less so for casual shooters who think that "medium format" will magically make better pictures by snapping away without applying much effort. The GFX100RF is like film in that you have to know more about what you're doing to coax good results out of it than just waving an iPhone 17 Pro Max around. The iPhone 17 Pro Max has so much internal smarts that it masters light and color simply by waving it in the right direction, while Fuji shooters appreciate that you have to be more involved to get that same magic from the GFX100RF.
Like a playing a Steinway Concert Grand piano, it doesn't matter how wealthy or technically knowledgeable you are. You need talent, vision, practice and the soul of an artist to create great images with the GFX100RF. You can't just point and shoot as you can with an iPhone that does all the magic for you in the background. Great images with the GFX100RF are earned, never given.
The GFX100RF is also great for surveillance, visual data gathering and crowd logging with so much resolution in such an unobtrusive package.
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The Fujinon EBC 35mm f/4 GF lens is more than a match for the 102 MP sensor, no worries here. You're getting a super lens with the GFX100RF.
Future intro top
The GFX100RF is such a gem that you should be begging your congressman to ask Fuji to make this body available as an equally compact interchangeable lens system with a series of small interchangeable GFX-RF lenses to obsolete the horribly cumbersome GFX100 bodies and clumsy old GF lenses.
Add a 25mm (20mm eq.) f/4.5 GFX-RF, a 55mm (43mm eq.) f/3.5 GFX-RF and a 105mm (80mm eq.) f/5.6 GFX-RF and you're ready for anything. The 180mm (150mm eq.) f/8 GFX-RF could come later.
I got my GFX100RF in silver (as shown) at B&H. It also comes in black, and it comes as kits with free goodies thrown in.
I'd also get mine at Adorama or at Amazon or get it used at eBay (How to Win at eBay), or get it used at KEH.
Fujifilm GFX100RF. bigger.
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World's first 33 × 44mm "Medium Format" Fixed-Lens Camera.
Can record directly to an SSD: just plug it into USB-C. Use this for ProRes movies.
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Professional native 4:3 aspect ratio lets us use more of the sensor with less cropping most of the time, compared to the more common 3:2 aspect ratio which more often requires cropping the longer dimension for common subjects.
Huge selection of crop (aspect ratio) modes, selected by a dedicated dial.
"Digital teleconverter" with a dedicated lever under the front control dial crops the sensor to the equivalent of 45, 83 or 80mm on 33 × 44mm (35mm, 50mm or 63mm eq. on full frame) and works in any of the selected crop (aspect ratio) modes. With so much resolution these look great.
Dedicated AF-S / AF-C / MF focus mode lever.
Dedicated Aperture ring. Set to A for Shutter-preferred mode. Easy!
Dedicated Shutter speed dial. Set to A for Aperture-preferred mode. Easy!
Set Aperture ring and Shutter speed dial both to A for Program mode. Easy-peasy!
Dedicated ISO dial - but it omits the pushes and pulls and some auto settings so you have to set these in the camera's electronics anyway.
Dedicated exposure compensation dial.
Color histograms while shooting if you assign HISTOGRAM to an Fn button. I tap the Fn button next to the shutter and it pops right up!
Leaf (mechanical) shutter is essentially silent.
Leaf (mechanical) shutter syncs with flash at every speed, which is up to 1/2,000 at every aperture and to 1/4,000 at f/8 and smaller.
Electronic shutter goes to 1/16,000 (set the shutter dial to T and use the rear dial).
Timed manual exposures out to an hour with either shutter (set the shutter dial to T and use the rear dial).
Combo shutter mode magically switches between the two for the best of both worlds.
Threaded to use a standard threaded cable release.
Fuji throws in a very nice $75 Fujinon EBC 49mm protective filter for free!
Filter adapter & hood included, too.
4 stop ND filter, most useful to get 180º shutter angles for video in daylight (the 1/16,000 electronic shutter eliminates the need for an ND filter for stills).
In-finder data displays rotate with the camera.
Takes two normal SD cards.
Great battery life. Rated 680 shots with the finder.
Ample in-camera ability to convert raw files to other formats, complete with very basic editing, adding various film simulations, changing exposures and more.
Can record directly to an SSD: just plug it into USB-C. Use this for ProRes movies.
4 channel audio recording with two dedicated inputs (or built-in stereo mic) and the TASCAM CA-XLR2d-C XLR Microphone Adapter Kit for the second two channels, in MOV format.
Drop Frame time code and many video features.
Use as a webcam over USB. Wow, a $5,600 basic webcam!
USB / LAN tethered remote shooting.
Works with online services like Frame.io.
Wi-Fi.
Bluetooth.
Made in Japan.
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Horribly obtuse and disorganized all-gray menu system makes the GFX100RF a nightmare to get set up to your preferences.
While it can shoot automatic focus-bracketed sequences, it can't stack and composite them in-camera into one complete image as other cameras like most recent Canons can do.
Unlike every iPhone, it will not rotate the playback images as you rotate the camera while viewing them. If you rotate the camera during playback, the images will not flip as they do on an iPhone. It flags vertical images as shot so verticals are vertical, but it's not smart enough to flip them as you rotate the camera on playback. Arrgh.
Still uses the old menu conventions that require us to select an item, move the selection back and forth between ENABLE or DISABLE, and hit OK to toggle a setting back or forth. Modern menu systems just let us toggle these in one tap instead of several.
Cards not titled.
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No Image Stabilization (there is electronic frame-shaking for video, only).
No deeper clicks at full stops to tell them apart by feel from the third-stop settings.
No Lens Modulation Optimizer or Lens Corrections, not a problem because the lens doesn't need any significant corrections.
Flash doesn't work with electronic shutter (works great with the other shutters).
No advance mode lever.
The dedicated ISO dial lacks the push and pull settings and some of the auto settings so you have to set these in the camera's electronics anyway — making the dial just window dressing.
No always-responsive instant manual-focus override.
Electronic shutter only works at ISO 80 ~ ISO 12,800.
The leaf (mechanical) shutter is limited to 1/2,000 maximum at f/4; you need to stop down to f/8 to get 1/4,000, or use the electronic shutter at any aperture.
Absolute maximum exposure time limited to one hour regardless of mode.
No automatic brightness control for the rear LCD.
Menus don't rotate when held vertically (Shooting displays do rotate).
Playback images don't rotate as you rotate the camera (as iPhones do).
Like most cameras except iPhone, no FIND mode in menu system.
While it can shoot automatic focus-bracketed sequences, it can't stack and composite them in-camera into one complete image as other cameras like most recent Canons can do.
While it can shoot in HEIC, it has no easy way to create JPG+Gain Map image files which will display in brilliant HDR in Safari on iOS and in most social apps on better iPhones.
No ability to save and recall camera settings to and from a card. This is too bad because it takes a long time to figure it out and get the GFX100RF set up. You should be able to do this with the Backup/Restore function of Fujifilm’s XApp on mobile or the Fujifilm Tether program on a computer.
There's a dedicated 3.5mm headphone jack, but the other 3.5mm jack is either a remote control OR the mic input at any one time, selected in a menu.
No plug-in power for the external mic input.
Like most cameras, no illuminated buttons.
No GPS, use the app.
No "Delete Burst" option during playback.
No Sony-like mode to create a new folder for each day of shooting.
Like most cameras, simple ON/OFF menu entries still require selecting that item, clicking up or down to select the other OFF or ON option, and then hitting OK to register your selection. You can't simply toggle them directly at the menu listing as you can in the Z9 or an iPhone.
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I got my GFX100RF in silver (as shown) at B&H. It also comes in black, and it comes as kits with free goodies thrown in.
I'd also get mine at Adorama or at Amazon or get it used at eBay (How to Win at eBay), or get it used at KEH.
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Camera: Finder, Meter, LCD, Power & etc.
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Sensor, Image, Audio & Video specifications top
Sensor
32.9 × 43.8 mm (54.78 mm diagonal) "CMOS II."
Traditional RGB Bayer array requiring Bayer interpolation to make images, not Fuji's brilliant X-Trans array used on some smaller cameras that give improved resolution.
3.76 µm pixel pitch.
Professional 4:3 aspect ratio.
0.790 × crop factor.
No sensor cleaner because the camera is sealed and we hope it won't get dirty 🤞🏻.
While marketing tries to gloat about sensor size, it's nowhere close to what I call medium format. The GFX100RF sensor is only 32.9 × 43.8mm (54.8mm diagonal or 1,441 mm2), which is not much different than 35mm film (24 × 36mm, 43.3mm diagonal or 864 mm2).
35mm full-frame is 36mm wide and the GFX100RF's sensor is only 43.8mm wide, less than a 22% difference.
Baby medium format starts at 6 × 4.5 cm (42 × 56mm actual or 2,352 mm2) and real medium format ranges from 6 × 6cm HASSELBLAD (55 × 55mm actual, 80mm diagonal or 3,023 mm2) and commonly goes to 6 × 9 cm (57.1 × 83.5mm actual, 89.6mm diagonal or 4,768 mm2), and also includes even larger 6 × 12 cm and 6 × 17 cm panoramic formats with double or triple the area of the smaller sizes. You can select all these and more aspect ratios in the GFX100RF, but these are cropped-down from 32.9 × 43.8mm, not added-on as done with larger medium formal roll film formats.
Real medium format digital still costs the same as a new Mercedes. As of June 2026, a 100 MP HASSELBLAD H6D costs $33,000, and only has a 40 x 53mm sensor, still a bit smaller than 645 baby medium format. Oh well.
Image Sizes specifications top
11,808 × 8,754 Native, Raw (103.4 MP or 103,367,232 pixels).
LARGE (Native, JPG & TIF): 11,648 × 8,736 pixels (101.8 MP or 101,756,928 pixels).
MEDIUM: 8,256 × 6,192 (51 MP or 51,121,152 pixels).
SMALL: 4,000 × 3,000 (12 MP or 12,000,000 pixels).
Digital Crop Lens Converter
Flick the nipple just below the front dial to select these crops:
35mm (28mm eq.) native uncropped.
45mm (36mm eq.) crop.
63mm (50mm eq.) crop.
80mm (63mm eq.) crop.
Regardless of the Image Size selected (SMALL, MEDIUM or LARGE), the camera reverts to LARGE for any of the 45, 63 or 80mm crops.
Cropped Aspect Ratios
In addition to the native 4:3 image sizes above, the big rear cropping dial allows us to select any of these crops, cropped from inside any of the above three sizes:
1:1 Square HASSELBLAD 6 × 6 cm 120 film.
4:5 Standard photo paper & Large Format film.
6:7 "Ideal Format."
3:2 Barnack's Folly.
16:9 HDTV/4K/8K.
6:17 6 × 17 cm Panoramic 120 Film.
65:24 24 × 65mm Panoramic 35mm film (HASSELBLAD X-Pan).
3:4 Vertical crop inside the horizontal 4:3 image for people too lazy to rotate the camera.
ISO specifications top
Stills
ISO 80 ～ 12,800 in third stops.
Also pushes and pulls of ISO 40 (L), ISO 25,600 (H1), ISO 51,200 (H2) and ISO 102.800 (H3).
Video
ISO 100 ～ 12,800 in third stops.
Also pushes to ISO 25,600 (H1).
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Adjustable for high and low limits from ISO xx to ISO xx in xx stops.
Auto ISO minimum shutter speeds adjustable either to track the zoom setting (and adjustable ± xx stops from there) or settable in xx stops from xx seconds to 1/xx.
White Balance specifications top
Auto, Auto Ambient or Auto White.
2,500 ~ 10,000 K.
Custom, Daylight, Fluorescent, Incandescent, Shade or Underwater.
Still Formats specifications top
JPG or HEIC and/or 14- or 16- bit raw.
sRGB and Adobe RGB.
Video specifications top
Frame Sizes and Rates
4K and 1,080 at 59.94, 50, 29.97, 25.00, 24.00 or 23.976 FPS.
16:9 or 17:9.
File Formats
H.265 (10-bit MOV 422/420 at 720, 360, 200, 100 or 50 Mbps.
H.264 (8-bit MOV/MP4 420 at 360, 200, 100 or 50 Mbps.
Apple ProRes 422 HQ, ProRes 422, ProRes 422 LT holding 10-bit MOV 422.
HDMI output at 8-bit or 10-bit 422.
More details on page 183 in Fuji's manual.
Audio specifications top
S - t - e - r - e - O microphone built in.
3.5mm mic-in jack with NO plug-in power overrides built-in mics. This jack is shared with the Remote Control and only does one thing at a time as as assigned in a menu.
Two channels are native, coming from the built-in mics or the 3.5mm jack.
LPCM at 48 ksps at 24 bits.
AAC 48 ksps at 16 bits for MP4 video only.
To add two more channels for a total of four, use the dedicated-to-Fuji TASCAM CA-XLR2d-C XLR Microphone Adapter Kit.
Voice Memos, too.
Lens specifications top
Fujinon Aspherical Super EBC GF 35mm f/4 Internal Optical Construction. Aspherical elements. bigger.
2 Aspherical elements.
Nano-GL and Electron-Beam Coatings.
4-Stop ND filter.
Digital Zoom specifications top
This camera has no zoom; it's a fixed lens.
There is a digital zoom, which simply crops the image.
Diaphragm specifications top
Fujinon Aspherical Super EBC GF 35mm f/4. bigger.
9 blades.
Electronically actuated.
Stops down to f/22.
Filters specifications top
Metal 49mm filter thread, but only when used with a clunky adapter.
Autofocus specifications top
Eye recognition.
Also recognizes Animals, Birds, Cars, Motorcycles & Bicycles, Airplanes/ or Trains, if set in a menu.
Focus Scale specifications top
No.
Not on lens, but may be displayed in-camera.
Infinity Focus Stop specifications top
No.
You have to focus somehow to get precise focus at infinity, just like at every other distance.
Depth of Field Scale specifications top
No.
Not on lens, but may be displayed in-camera.
Infrared Focus Index specifications top
No.
Why do you care?
Close Focus (distance from subject to image plane) specifications top
0.82 feet (10" or 0.25m).
Working Distance (distance from subject to front of lens at close-focus distance) specifications top
Rated 0.7 feet (8" or 0.2m) from the front of the lens.
Maximum Reproduction Ratio specifications top
1:5.0 (0.20 ×), measured.
Equivalent to 1:6.3 (0.16×) on 24 × 36mm full frame.
Image Stabilizer specifications top
NONE.
Shutters specifications top
Mechanical Leaf Shutter (essentially silent)
1/2,000 second ～ an hour at all apertures.
To get to 1/4,000 you have to shoot at f/8 or smaller.
Even in Bulb the longest exposure is limited to one hour.
Silent Electronic Shutter
1/16,000 second ～ one hour.
Only works at ISO 80 ～ ISO 12,800. (no higher or lower ISOs).
Won't work with flash or various trick modes.
Movies
1/4,000 ～ 1/8.
Remote Releases specifications top
Standard threaded cable release.
Use the free app.
Frame Rates specifications top
6 or 4 FPS with mechanical leaf shutter.
3 FPS with electronic shutter.
2 FPS in Continuous Low setting.
Autofocus is pretty pokey so I didn't bother seeing if it could keep up at 6 FPS.
Frame Buffer (Burst) Sizes specifications top
296 JPG, 40 raw or 19 JPG + raw at 6 FPS.
1,000 JPG, 83 raw or 38 JPG + raw at 4 FPS.
Camera Specifications specifications top
Finder specifications top
0.5" OLED.
4:3 aspect ratio.
5,760,000 dots.
0.47 × magnification, measured.
Fuji offers a shamefully misleading spec of "0.84× with 63mm (50mm eq.) lens," but of course this camera has only a 35mm (28mm eq.) lens! Scam!
40º diagonal, 32º horizontal apparent angle.
Auto brightness control.
-5 ～ +3 diopters.
24 mm eyepoint.
Light Meter
256-segment through-the-lens (TTL) metering; MULTI, SPOT, AVERAGE, CENTER WEIGHTED
±5 stops compensation for stills.
±2 stops compensation for video.
Flash specifications top
Syncs at every mechanical shutter speed.
Doesn't work with electronic shutter.
Built-in Flash
NONE.
External Flash
Dedicated hot shoe.
No Prontor-Compur (PC) terminal; use a small flash to trigger your studio strobes or use a hot-shoe adapter for corded sync.
LCD Monitor specifications top
Pathetically tiny monitor as it it's 2009 all over again. Why is Japan stuck in the past for screen sizes?
Fujifilm GFX100RF. bigger.
3.15" (80 mm) diagonal.
2,100,000 dots.
1.5:1 aspect ratio.
Swivels up 135º and down 45º, but not left or right.
Connectors specifications top
Fujifilm GFX100RF. bigger.
From Top
3.5mm Mic-in or Remote Control, as selected in a menu. No plug-in power.
3.5mm Headphone.
USB-C 10 Gbps with USB PD.
HDMI Micro-D.
Wi-Fi specifications top
IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac.
USA, Canada, Brazil, China, India, Korea, Malaysia & Indonesia
2,412 MHz ～ 2,462 MHz (11 channels).
5,180 MHz ～ 5,320 MHz (W52, W53).
5,745 MHz ～ 5,825 MHz (UNII-3) .
European Union, Japan, United Kingdom, Australia, Norway, New Zealand, Turkey, Hong Kong, Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand, UAE, Russia, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Egypt, Iran, Kuwait, Lebanon & Uzbekistan
2,412 MHz ～ 2,462 MHz (11 channels).
5,180 MHz ～ 5,320 MHz (W52, W53).
5,500 MHz ～ 5,700 MHz (W56).
Israel
2,412 MHz ～ 2,462 MHz (11 channels).
NFC specifications top
Apparently not.
Bluetooth specifications top
Version 4.2 Low Energy.
2,402 MHz ～ 2,480 MHz.
GPS specifications top
No; try using the app.
Storage specifications top
Two SD/SDHC/SDXC slots, UHS, UHS-I and UHS-II compatible:
Fujifilm GFX100RF. bigger.
Power & Battery specifications top
Battery
NP-W235, included.
7.2V, 2.2 Ah (up to 2.35 Ah) or 16 Wh.
0 ～ +40°C (+32 ～ +104°F)
1.5 in. × 2.1 × 0.9 in. inches (38.92 mm × 52.26 × 22.8 mm millimeters).
2.8 oz. (79g).
Rated 680 shots with the finder or 820 with the rear LCD, or 100 minutes of 4K/29.97 video, or 90 minutes of 1,080/59.94 video.
Rated 530 shots with finder or 680 shots with the rear LCD In BOOST mode.
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Charging
No external charger included, but they are easy to get.
Size specifications top
Beauty mode: absolutely no lens protection |
Real-world mode with hood, protective filter and adapters |
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Fujifilm GFX100RF. bigger. |
Fujifilm GFX100RF. bigger. |
90.4 × 133.5 × 76.5 millimeters HWD. 3.56 × 5.26 × 3.01 inches HWD. It's 37.2 mm (1.46 inches) deep at the narrowest point ignoring the lens and viewfinder protrusions. |
90.4 × 133.5 × 104 millimeters HWD. 3.56 × 5.26 × 4.09 inches HWD. It's 37.2 mm (1.46 inches) deep at the narrowest point ignoring the lens and viewfinder protrusions. |
Weight specifications top
25.970 oz (736.2 g) in beauty mode with two SD cards and battery, actual measured weight.
28.695 oz. (813.4 g) in real-world mode with two SD cards, battery, hood and filter, actual measured weight.
Rated 26.0 oz (735 g) in beauty mode with one SD card and battery.
As shipped: 46.8 oz. (1,327 g).
Quality specifications top
Fujifilm GFX100RF. bigger.
Made in Japan.
Environment specifications top
-10 ～ +40°C (+14 ～ +104°F).
+5 ～ +40°C (+41 ～ +104°F) while charging.
10% ～ 80% RH, no condensation.
Announced specifications top
20 March 2025.
Promised for specifications top
Late April 2025.
Included specifications top
Camera.
Solid billet aluminum, felt-lined front cap.
Solid Alloy Hood.
USB-C to USB-C cable.
Rope-Style hipster strap, lugs, tools & body protectors:
Fujifilm GFX100RF. bigger.
There are no manuals or warranty cards; all there is is a card with QR codes for those.
Packaging specifications top
The box is 8.8 × 7 × 5 inches (224 × 178 × 127 mm):
Fujifilm GFX100RF. bigger.
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Box End, Fujifilm GFX100RF. bigger. |
Box Back, Fujifilm GFX100RF. bigger. |
Internally things are stabilized by the usual corrugami dividers.
Model Numbers specifications top
FF240004.
Black: 16938039.
Silver: 16938065.
JAN Codes
Black: 45-47410-556551.
Silver: 45-47410-556568.
Price, U. S. A. specifications top
May 2026
$5,599.95 in silver at B&H, in black at B&H, and it comes as kits with free goodies thrown in.
I'd also get mine at Adorama or at Amazon or get it used at eBay (How to Win at eBay), or get it used at KEH.
830,500 ¥ in Japan.
April 2025 (Introduction)
$4,899.95 USD MSRP.
Accessories top
Sample Images Intro New Good Bad Missing
Specifications Accessories Performance
User's Guide Recommendations More
I got my GFX100RF in silver (as shown) at B&H. It also comes in black, and it comes as kits with free goodies thrown in.
I'd also get mine at Adorama or at Amazon or get it used at eBay (How to Win at eBay), or get it used at KEH.
Optional
Standard threaded cable releases.
GFX100RF Cases.
External battery chargers.
Included
NP-W235 Battery.
PRF-49S Protective Filter.
Performance top
Sample Images Intro New Good Bad Missing
Specifications Accessories Performance
User's Guide Recommendations More
Overall Autofocus Manual Focus
Distance Recording Focus Stacking Auto ISO
Auto White Balance Bokeh Distortion Ergonomics
Exposure Falloff Film Simulations Filters Finder
Flare & Ghosts Flash High ISOs Interline Smear
Image Quality Lateral Color Fringes
Lens Corrections Long Exposures Macro
Spherochromatism Stabilization Sunstars
Playback Voice Notes Data Power & Battery
Spherochromatism Stabilization Sunstars
I got my GFX100RF in silver (as shown) at B&H. It also comes in black, and it comes as kits with free goodies thrown in.
I'd also get mine at Adorama or at Amazon or get it used at eBay (How to Win at eBay), or get it used at KEH.
Overall performance top
As I covered in the Introduction, this is a compact camera with loads of resolution.
It's a pain to set up and it doesn't respond or autofocus very quickly, but once you get used to it you can get great pictures. It's easy to manipulate basic exposure settings due to all the dedicated controls.
Autofocus performance top
Most of the time it's OK, but more often than it should it will hunt and take a moment to focus, and in some cases it might not be able to get focus at all, or think it's in focus and it's not.
Sadly too often I will have to point the camera at something deliberately contrasty to get it to focus. Unlike OM, Canon and Sony, it won't simply focus on almost anything.
Autofocus is pretty pokey so I didn't bother seeing if it could keep up at 6 FPS.
Oddly it did recognize a face from 100 feet (30 meters) away when I had one person in an image.
The rear focus mode selector lever near the finder is very handy, but it was easy to knock by accident until I got used to it.
Manual Focus performance top
There is no instant manual focus override. Use the rear Focus Mode switch to force it into manual focus.
Mine automatically swaps to peaking and magnifies when turning the focus ring in Manual focus mode.
Focus Distance Recording performance top
I see no focus distance displayed in the lower left of my screen in Photoshop's lens correction filter.
Focus Bracketing, Stacking & Compositing performance top
While it can be set to make bracketed sequences, it has no in-camera ability to stack and composite them into final images, so I ignore this feature. My recent Canons can do this in-camera, hand held!
Auto ISO performance top
Auto ISO is the usual, with high and low limits set as well as minimum shutter speed.
Amusing is that there's an Auto setting for minimum shutter speed, and all it does is set it to 1/125 regardless of digital zoom.
Auto White Balance performance top
Auto White Balance works swell.
With relatively low to normal saturation the colors are never that far off.
Bokeh performance top
Bokeh, the feel, character or quality of out-of-focus areas as opposed to how far out of focus they are, is good, but never that far out of focus with such a slow, wide lens.
Here are photos from headshot distance wide-open. I'm focused on the DAVIS logo. Click any for the © camera-original files:
Made-in-U. S. A. Davis 6357 Vantage Vue Wireless Sensor Suite (use with WeatherLink console), 11:20 AM, Thursday, 14 May 2026. Fujifilm GFX100RF at 1/1,800, 1/480 and 1/125 at Auto ISO 160 (LV 14⅙, 14¼ and 14⅓). bigger or camera-original © file.
Click any for the © camera-original files.
As always, if you want to throw the background as far out of focus as possible, shoot at f/4 and get as close as possible.
Distortion performance top
The GFX100RF has minor to moderate barrel distortion. I doubt anyone will be disturbed by it:
Door,11:21 AM, Thursday, 14 May 2026. Fujifilm GFX100RF at f/4.5 at 1/170 at Auto ISO 80 (LV 12.0), Radiant Photo software to add light to the shadows while retaining highlights bigger.
For more critical scientific use, use a value of +1.9 in Photoshop's lens correction filter.
Ergonomics performance top
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The GFX100RF looks and feels like an X100VI, but missing a built-in flash flash and missing an optical finder.
The GFX100RF is missing the rear 4-way controller of the X100F. Both have rear nubbins called "focus levers," while the GFX100RF replaces the 4-way controller's real buttons with foolish "Touch Functions" that rarely work with your eye to the finder.
Fujifilm's all-gray menu system is the worst in the business. Menus are not color coded so there's no instinctive way to recall from what menu any particular item came when you want to find it again.
The menu item titles sound reasonable, but in practice they are relatively meaningless when actually trying to figure out what to set or what they do.
The battery has two ways to go in; it should be keyed so you only can get it in one way. It's not that much of a deal unless you change batteries; it charges in-camera.
Card 1 is on the bottom. What?
It says NO MEDIA and won't record if only one slot is empty and it's set to backup to a second card. This defeats the purpose of backup if the GFX100RF stops shooting whenever either card fills or fails. It does this regardless of the setting of MENU > Wrench > button/dial setting > shoot without card.
The rear nubbin (called the focus lever in the menu system) is poor. It's flat and mushy with vague clicks and requires we move its big flat surface sideways rather then flicking a smaller lever as on the X100 series.
The hood & filter adapter come on and off together if you turn the knurled screw-ring rather than twisting the hood's bayonet mount.
The flat, flush rear buttons all feel the same as each other, so they are hard to identify by absolute feel rather than relative position.
The front and rear dials are mushy. They are damped and the clicks are weak. They are not snappy dials as in other cameras.
The digital teleconverter is a nice touch, but the finder indication isn't particularly obvious so it's easy to shoot all day with it cropping everything.
It's not difficult to confuse the compensation dial with the rear control dial by feel. This is another reason I suggest this camera is for people who are going to shoot it every day and remain intimate with it.
The markings of the Aspect Ratio dial will be hidden by a flash mounted in the hot shoe. It's not catastrophic as the values are repeated in the finder as you change them.
It makes a weird internal sound every time I hit play. It think it's the lens motoring back in, and in any case it is inelegant.
The lens focus ring can be reprogrammed to other functions, but it's poor for them because it has no clicks and responds too quickly for selecting things like white balance.
What's called a 2D level is useful but really only reading one dimension: roll. Crappy menu names!
What's called a 3D level is poor because it blocks most of the live-view image, and shows only two axes: roll and pitch. Crappy menu names!
The dedicated ISO dial lacks the push and pull settings and some of the auto settings so you have to set these in the camera's electronics anyway — making the dial useless window dressing because you need to leave it at "C" to set all the values with the front command dial instead.
One can't always program the camera to do the same thing when playing images from the PLAY button rather than during IMAGE REVIEW (Image Disp.). For instance, pressing the nubbin zooms-in during just-shot image review, but does something else in Play. This is a huge pain; when I'm playing an image I want every control to do the same thing regardless of how the image came to play, and I haven't been able to program my GFX100RF to do this.
It's slow to wake when turned on or after tapping the shutter after it went to sleep, like an old camera. It's not forever, but I'm used to modern cameras that wake up before I can get them to my eye.
Menus are often slow to respond — leading to hitting a button a second time by accident when it finally responds!!!
It will not wake with anything other than a shutter press. Usually pressing MENU or PLAY will wake a camera, but not the GFX100RF.
I program my front Fn2 button to change image sizes, and it works great.
I program my top Fn1 button (by the shutter) to show a color histogram while shooting, and it works great.
The card door has an unnecessary lock that makes it more difficult to get to my cards, and the strap interferes with opening the door.
Third and full stop clicks all feel the same. The full stops should click more deeply so we can set them by feel, and the zero compensation should be an even deeper click — as it is on the brilliant CONTAX G2.
Occasionally the camera would seem to reprogram itself when I first got it. For instance, the front dial would stop controlling ISO until I set the rear dial to ISO to get the front dial working again. What? Next time it stopped working I had to set MENU > Wrench > button/dial > command dial > and set 1-F. 🤔? It works one day, but not the next.
Exposure performance top
Like everything mirrorless, exposure is very good.
The finder gets very bright in daylight, but not so bright as in other cameras as to imply something is overexposed when it's not. This is great!
Falloff performance top
Falloff is invisible.
I've greatly exaggerated the falloff by shooting a gray field and placing these on a gray background; it will not look this bad in actual photos of real things:
Falloff at infinity, no correction.
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Film Simulations performance top
This is all art and we all have different visions, but I don't like the look any of the "Film Simulation" modes. To me they're ugly, off-color and not at all like the great films they claim to simulate.
While Fuji faithful live for these simulations, as a virtuoso at shooting real film (here's what real VELVIA looks like), these simulations don't look at all like film to me. They look like bad scans of film.
Shadows get crushed, colors are screwed-up, and they look like what people who've never really shot film expect it to look. Therefore I always shoot my Fujis in their "STD" film simulation.
Filters, use with performance top
I have a whole section on this at Usage. Fuji includes an adapter to hold filters, and the hood bayonets on top of the filter.
Even better, Fuji throws in a very nice $75 Fujinon EBC 49mm protective filter for free!
Finder performance top
The finder is wonderful: big, bright, sharp and always the perfect brightness under almost every condition, except
The finder useless outside in the dark as it beciomes very, bery noisy, as the finders of Nikon's first mirrorless cameras were back in 2018..
There is some mild barrel distortion in the center.
It gets very bright in daylight, and doesn't start to look overexposed unless it is. Excellent!
Some other cameras get very bright in daylight and can look overexposed even when the exposure is fine. This is because they're pushing the screen so hard that they are losing highlight detail — but it's only in the finder, not the actual image. With the GFX100RF we don't get tricked into underexposing images as some other cameras can do in daylight.
Flare & Ghosts performance top
Flare and ghosts are well controlled, even with the included Fujifilm PRF-49S Protective Filter (filters usually exaggerate ghosts).
See examples at Sunstars.
Flash, Use with performance top
Ultrafast sync speed gives the GFX100RF superb fill-flash performance, even with a small flash. Its leaf shutter, like the one in the X100VI, gives it a a huge advantage over interchangeable-lens cameras like the other GFX models.
With a 1/2,000 sync speed at every aperture with the mechanical (leaf) shutter, even a small flash like the Godox iT32 works well even at 75 feet (23 meters) away in daylight.
Sync speed increases as stopped down, and is 1/4,000 at f/8. You're not likely to use this combination unless you're using the wrong ISO in daylight.
The GFX100RF ships with a solid-alloy hot shoe cover. Here are the contacts with the cover removed:
Fujifilm GFX100RF. bigger.
High ISO Performance details dark detail performance top
The GFX100RF has the best high ISO performance I've ever tested as of June 2026.
It's superior to the original GFX100 of glorious 2019, and better than just about every other camera out there. Even at ISO 102,400 (H3) it's not that horrible — but you should never be using ISOs that high if you're worried about making great photos.
There's no mystery to comparing cameras; I shoot this same test at all the ISOs in every other camera I review so you can compare for yourself. Caveat: I repainted these walls white from their previous tan as of the beginning of 2023, so the background wall won't match in older reviews, and this set is lit by natural light which is different every day.
Complete Images details dark detail performance top
As seen at normal image sizes below, the GFX100RF pretty much makes the same images from ISO 80 to ISO 25,600 (H1).
ISO 40 (L) is a "pull" ISO, and thus has more highlight contrast and can lead to clipped highlights if you have too much subject contrast, as in the case of the window reflection in the mirror and the glass of the clock face. Highlight clipping at the pulled ISO is much stronger in the GFX100RF than in any other camera I can recall, which isn't a good thing. I'd avoid ISO 40 (L).
ISO 51,200 (H2) gets only a slightly blotchier or noisy, and ISO 102,400 (H3) gets a little blotchier and grainier and its shadows become a little lighter, but images are still quite usable at every high speed for normal-sized images.
This is superior performance; all cameras work just fine for online image sizes at insanely high ISOs. Honestly I never use anything above ISO 10,000. If you have to use five-digit ISOs you're doing something wrong, and no one needs six-digit ISOs other than for fooling around. Photography is all about light and lighting, so if you have no light, you should be working on improving that light rather than worrying about which camera makes the least awful photos in bad situations.
Click any to enlarge. In the interest of saving us all bandwidth I chose not to copy the original 25 MB files here as I always do. I do share them from the original gigantic GFX100 from back in glorious October 2019.
Fine Details: 600 × 450 Pixel Crops (19.4× magnification) High ISOs details dark detail performance top
Here are crops from the same images as above, showing the clock on the right.
What we see at the high magnifications below is that fine details go away as the ISO increases. This happens with all cameras (and our own eyes) and is an artifact of the noise reduction working harder as the ISO increases.
What makes the GFX100RF so special is that there is very little loss of detail at higher ISOs.
This GFX100RF has far superior detail retention than any other camera I've tested, and it's far superior to the original interchangeable-lens GFX100 from glorious October 2019.
ISO 40 (L) is a "pull" ISO, and thus has more highlight contrast. This leads to clipped highlights moreso than in other cameras, and in this shot the clock face looks awful and washed-out.
The detailed scrollwork between the clock numbers holds up well through ISO 6,400 and is still there to some extent even at IO 51,200 (H2).
It's not until ISO 102,400 (H3) that the finest details are gone, and even at ISO 102,400 (H#) the minute ticks are still there. Those are usually long gone at lower ISOs in other cameras.
These 600 × 450 pixel (19.4×) crops will vary in size to fit your browser window.
If these 600 × 450 pixel crops are about 3" (7.5cm) wide on your screen, then the complete images printed at this same high magnification would be about 40 × 60" (3¾ × 5 feet or 1.1 × 1.5m).
If these 600 × 450 pixel crops are about 6" (15cm) wide on your screen, then the complete images printed at this same extreme magnification would be about 80 × 120" (7½ × 10 feet or 2.2 × 3 meters)!
If these 600 × 450 pixel crops are about 12" (30cm) wide on your screen, then the complete images printed at this same insane level of magnification would be about 160 × 240" (15 × 20 feet or 4.4 × 6 meters)!!!
Click any to enlarge. In the interest of saving us all bandwidth I chose not to copy the original 25 MB files here as I always do. I do share them from the original gigantic GFX100 from back in glorious October 2019.
Click any for the camera-original © JPG files (about xx MB each).
Dark-Area 600 × 450 Pixel Crops (19.4× magnification) High ISOs details dark detail performance top
Here are different crops from the same images as above, now showing the dark grillwork of the fireplace.
ISO 40 (L) is a "pull" ISO, and throws much more light into the shadows and thus gives them the most detail.
Higher ISOs don't start having much effect in shadow detail until we hit ISO 3,200, which is much better performance than other cameras.
The bricks behind the grill go away by ISO 12,800, superior performance.
The grill doesn't disappear until ISO 51,200 (H2), which is superior performance.
Even at ISO 102,400 (H3) the iron bars are still visible!
These 600 × 450 pixel (19.4×) crops will vary in size to fit your browser window.
If these 600 × 450 pixel crops are about 3" (7.5cm) wide on your screen, then the complete images printed at this same high magnification would be about 40 × 60" (3¾ × 5 feet or 1.1 × 1.5m).
If these 600 × 450 pixel crops are about 6" (15cm) wide on your screen, then the complete images printed at this same extreme magnification would be about 80 × 120" (7½ × 10 feet or 2.2 × 3 meters)!
If these 600 × 450 pixel crops are about 12" (30cm) wide on your screen, then the complete images printed at this same insane level of magnification would be about 160 × 240" (15 × 20 feet or 4.4 × 6 meters)!!!
Click any to enlarge. In the interest of saving us all bandwidth I chose not to copy the original 25 MB files here as I always do. I do share them from the original gigantic GFX100 from back in glorious October 2019. This GFX100RF has superior performance:
Interline Transfer Smear performance top
There is no significant interline transfer smear.
This means you can shoot with the sun in the image at large apertures and it doesn't have a vertical smear of light coming from the disk of the sun. This is excellent.
Image Quality performance top
Resolution is state-of-the-art.
The images have soft, natural color and contrasts.
In-camera settings don't allow us to set the image to have the insanely high levels of saturation I prefer, so I often use Skylum Luminar Neo software to amp up the colors to my taste.
Lateral Color Fringes performance top
I see none, which is excellent.
With a lens as slow and complex as this one, I'd expect this all to be this good.
Lens Corrections performance top
There are no optional lens corrections.
The GFX100RF EBC 35mm f/4 GF is so good that it doesn't need any corrections.
The GFX100RF taunts us when we look at file data in playback, where it will indicate Lens Modulation Optimizer: OFF, but then has no way to turn it on in the menu system. There is no Digital Lens Modulation Optimizer, the lens is so good that it doesn't benefit from one, save for easy distortion correction in Photoshop.
Long Exposures performance top
The GFX100RF is relatively unique in that manual exposure times can be set all the way out to an hour, by default. Yay!
To set these, turn the shutter dial to T and turn the rear dial. You can program other dials to do this if you prefer.
However, even in Bulb you may not make an exposure longer than an hour.
Macro Performance performance top
It does not get very close. The GFX100RF is a poor choice for macro use.
If you insist, a compact way to get much closer focus is with high-quality dual-element closeup lenses. I'm unsure if you can get these new; most regular close-up lenses are single-element designs and not very good. Look for a used Canon 500D (+2 diopter) or 250D (+4 diopter) and use a step-down ring to fit it to your GFX100RF.
Wide-Open at f/4
Its not close, and not all that sharp wide-open at f/4 at macro range:
Casio G-Shock Solar Atomic Watch at close-focus distance, Thursday, 14 May 2026. Fujifilm GFX100RF at f/4 at 1/1,600 at Auto ISO 80, +0.7 stops exposure compensation (LV 15.0), Radiant Photo software to add light to the shadows while retaining highlights. bigger or camera-original 102 MP © 9.4 MB JPG file.
1,200 × 900 pixel (9.7× magnification) crop from above. bigger or camera-original 102 MP © 9.4 MB JPG file.
If this 1,200 × 900 pixel (9.7x) crop is about 3" (7.5cm) wide on your screen, then the complete image printed at this same large magnification would be about 20 × 30" (50 × 75cm).
If this 1,200 × 900 pixel crop is about 6" (15cm) wide on your screen, then the complete image printed at this same extreme magnification would be about 40 × 60" (1 × 1.5 meters).
If this 1,200 × 900 pixel crop is about 12" (30cm) wide on your screen, then the complete image printed at this same insanely high magnification would be about 80 × 120" (6⅔ × 10 feet or 2 × 3 meters).
At f/8
As with all lenses, it's super sharp at f/8 but still has a very limited depth of field this close:
Casio G-Shock Solar Atomic Watch at close-focus distance, Thursday, 14 May 2026. Fujifilm GFX100RF at f/8 at 1/420 at Auto ISO 80, +0.7 stops exposure compensation (LV 15.07), Radiant Photo software to add light to the shadows while retaining highlights. bigger or camera-original 102 MP © 10.1 MB JPG file.
1,200 × 900 pixel (9.7× magnification) crop from above. bigger or camera-original 102 MP © 10.1 MB JPG file.
If this 1,200 × 900 pixel (9.7x) crop is about 3" (7.5cm) wide on your screen, then the complete image printed at this same large magnification would be about 20 × 30" (50 × 75cm).
If this 1,200 × 900 pixel crop is about 6" (15cm) wide on your screen, then the complete image printed at this same extreme magnification would be about 40 × 60" (1 × 1.5 meters).
If this 1,200 × 900 pixel crop is about 12" (30cm) wide on your screen, then the complete image printed at this same insanely high magnification would be about 80 × 120" (6⅔ × 10 feet or 2 × 3 meters).
Mechanical Quality performance top
The Fujifilm GFX100RF is made out of almost all metal, bravo!
It's made about as well as a modern LEICA.
Hewn from solid billet aluminium, in some ways it feels like an Apple TV remote control or MacBook Pro.
It's about time someone made a real camera; and it weights less than a full-frame mirrorless camera with lens!
Fujifilm GFX100RF. The only plastic in this picture is the release button on the alloy battery door! bigger.
Metal mechanics performance top
The top plate of GFX100RF is machined from a single block of billet aluminum. Even the cosmetic hot shoe cover is hewn from solid billet aluminum!
The shutter speed dials, the ISO ring, the exposure compensation dial, the ON-OFF lever switch, the shutter button, the top Fn button, the front Fn2 button and the lever around it, the front control dial, the front Digital Teleconverter (cropping) nipple lever, the rear focus mode lever, the rear cropping (aspect ratio) dial, the rear command dial, the aperture ring, the focus ring, the front lens threads, the removable lens front trim ring, the bottom plate and even the battery door cover are all solid aluminum alloy.
The hot shoe, the battery door pivot and the LCD hinges all appear to be steel.
The strap lugs seem to be brass with steel inserts. The tripod socket is also metal.
The filter & hood adapter and its knurled rings are all solid alloy.
The hood is solid alloy, with a black plastic internal bayonet coupling for smooth operation.
Silver-Painted Plastic mechanics performance top
Release button on the battery door.
Plastic mechanics performance top
Rear buttons, rear nubbin, connector door, card door, battery door innards, LCD outer frame.
Rubberizedish mechanics performance top
Eyepiece protector, fake leather grips, door seals.
Glass mechanics performance top
Optics, LCD cover.
Serial Number mechanics performance top
Fujifilm GFX100RF. bigger.
Printed on a sticker glued on the back of the LCD frame.
Also recorded in every file.
Noises When Shaken mechanics performance top
Mild clunking.
Filter Threads mechanics performance top
Metal (57mm male threads on lens barrel and standard 49mm on included adapter).
Hood Bayonet Mount mechanics performance top
Metal (on included adapter).
Markings mechanics performance top
Almost everything is engraved and filled with paint.
Truth & Ethics mechanics performance top
Made in Japan.
Sharpness performance top
This camera is the sharpest fixed-lens camera ever made, but know that lens and camera sharpness has nothing to do with picture sharpness.
Every lens made in the past 100 years is more than sharp enough to make super-sharp pictures if you know what you're doing. The only limitation to picture sharpness is your skill as a photographer. It's the least talented who spend the most time worrying about lens sharpness and blame crummy pictures on their equipment rather than themselves. Skilled photographers make great images with whatever camera is in their hands; I've made some of my best images of all time with an irreparably broken camera! Most pixels are thrown away before you see them, but camera makers don't want you to know that.
If you're not getting ultra-sharp pictures with this, be sure not to shoot at f/16 or smaller where all lenses are softer due to diffraction, always shoot at ISO 100 or below because cameras become softer at ISO 200 and above, avoid shooting across long distances over land which can lead to atmospheric heat shimmer, be sure everything is in perfect focus, set your camera's sharpening as you want it (I set mine to the maximum) and be sure nothing is moving, either camera or subject. If you want to ensure a soft image with any lens, shoot at f/22 at ISO 12,800 or above at default sharpening in daylight of subjects at differing distances.
People worry waaaaay too much about lens sharpness. It's not 1968 anymore when lenses often weren't that sharp and there could be significant differences among them; ever since about 2010 all new lenses are all pretty much equally fantastic.
This lens and camera system is super sharp corner-to corner at every aperture, limited by your vision as an artist and of course by heat shimmer and by diffraction at the smallest apertures. Avoid f/16 and smaller unless you really need them for extreme depth of field because diffraction takes its toll. See also How to Calculate the Sharpest Aperture.
Shutter performance top
The shutters are magnificent!
The mechanical shutter has flash sync at every speed, and is nearly silent!
In fact, this mechanical leaf shutter is often more silent than cameras with with electronic shutters and sensor-shift stabilization!
The electronic shutter is typical and doesn't work with flash or extended ISOs.
The automatic combined mode magically swaps among the two, defaulting to the leaf shutter and only going to electronic magically if a higher shutter speed is set or needed.
Spherochromatism performance top
Spherochromatism, also called secondary spherical chromatic aberration or "color bokeh," is an advanced form of spherical and chromatic aberration in a different dimension than lateral chromatic aberration and therefore cannot be corrected with software or automatic corrections. It happens mostly in fast normal and tele lenses when spherical aberration at the ends of the color spectrum (red and blue) are corrected differently than in the middle of the spectrum (green).
Spherochromatism can cause colored fringes on out-of-focus highlights, usually seen as green fringes (the middle of the spectrum) on background highlights and magenta fringes (the red and blue ends of the spectrum added together make magenta) on foreground highlights.
Spherochromatism is common in fast lenses of moderate focal length when shooting contrasty items at full aperture. It goes away as stopped down.
Spherochromatism is a completely different aberration from lateral color fringes.
This system has nearly no spherochromatism, with very slightly cool fringes behind and very slightly warm fringes ahead of the plane of perfect focus.
This is as expected for a short, slow lens:
Mondaine A132.30348.11SBB at close-focus distance, Thursday, 14 May 2026. Fujifilm GFX100RF at f/4 at 1/900 at Auto ISO 80, +0.3 stops exposure compensation (LV 14⅙), as shot. bigger or full-resolution or camera-original 102 MP © 9.3 MB JPG file.
1,200 × 900 pixel (9.7× magnification) crop from above. bigger or camera-original 102 MP © 9.3 MB JPG file.
If this 1,200 × 900 pixel crop is about 3" (7.5cm) wide on your screen, then the complete image printed at this same large magnification would be about 20 × 30" (50 × 75cm).
If this 1,200 × 900 pixel crop is about 6" (15cm) wide on your screen, then the complete image printed at this same extreme magnification would be about 40 × 60" (1 × 1.5 meters).
If this 1,200 × 900 pixel crop is about 12" (30cm) wide on your screen, then the complete image printed at this same insanely high magnification would be about 80 × 120" (6⅔ × 10 feet or 2 × 3 meters).
Image Stabilization performance top
This camera and lens have NO Image Stabilization (OIS, IS or VR (Vibration Reduction)).
Therefore I can't get consistently perfect images at any speed below 1/125, just like with the unstabilized Sony RX1R III, but with the GFX100RF's superior high ISO performance, it's no big deal.
Just for kicks, I measured what I got at various shutter speeds.
"Percent Perfectly Sharp Shots" are the percentage of hand-held, free-standing with no support or bracing, frames with 100% perfect tripod-equivalent sharpness as viewed at 300% on my 100 DPI monitor from 2½ feet (76cm) away, the same as scrolling around a 30 × 20 foot (9 × 6 meters!) print from just 2½ feet (76cm) away!
Of course we all will get different results hand-holding.
Hand tremor is a random occurrence, so at marginal speeds some frames will be perfectly sharp while others will be in various stages of blur — all at the same shutter speed.
This rates what percentage of shots are perfectly sharp, not how sharp are all the frames:
| % Perfectly Sharp Shots, NO Stabilization | 1s |
1/2 |
1/4 |
1/8 |
1/15 |
1/30 |
1/60 |
1/125 |
1/250 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
17 |
27½ |
44 |
95 |
100 |
As you can see, while 1/30 may have been "good enough" back on film with a 35mm-eq. lens, with 102MP on digital even 1/60 gives imperfect shots more than half of the time.
Sunstars performance top
With a 9-bladed rounded diaphragm, I get mild 18-point sunstars on brilliant points of only at the smallest apertures.
Ignore the crazy rainbow dots at small apertures; these are sensor artifacts caused by interference among the divisions between pixels on the sensor. These are made visible because we're using enough exposure to show the dark underside of a huge palm tree, and then putting the blinding disk of the mid-day sun in it. Doing this will show everything due to the insane lighting range.
Flare and ghosts are well controlled, even with the included Fujifilm PRF-49S Protective Filter with which I shot these samples.
Click any to enlarge:
Click any to enlarge.
Playback performance top
Unique to Fuji is that we only can go forwards from one data screen to the next for any given image.
Unlike other brands, we can't move the rear nubbin down to go back a screen. If we want to go back a screen, we have to go forward through all of them to get back to one before!
Playback images don't rotate as you move the camera during playback as does every iPhone. The "autorotate" playback menu option is simply a "rotate tall" option, not true autorotation if we move the camera during playback like an iPhone.
Scrolling around a zoomed image is slow. Painful!
The Image Review option (press play, then Menu > Playback > Image Disp.) locks us out of other images, as well as its data. All it does it let us check focus if we press the nubbin, not really review it in full.
Voice Notes performance top
Set it, and you can tap a button while playing a still image and record a voice note for future reference.
This was previously only found on pro newsgathering cameras, and is super handy for recording who, what, why or where is in a picture.
Data performance top
Cards are titled as "Untitled," which is bad because it's difficult to tell things apart without proper card titles like "FUJI_GFX."
LARGE (102 MP) NORMAL JPG files are about 25 MB each.
They are tagged as 72 DPI.
"Digital Teleconverter" crops are not read as equivalent focal lengths in Photo Mechanic. I have to look at the horizontal pixel size and do the algebra.
Fujifilm's own GFX100RF User's Guide (page 127) says that we have to rename HIF files to HEIC to play them in a computer. That sounds like a problem!
Power & Battery performance top
Battery life is superb. I can walk around all day shooting and have most of my charge left. Bravo!
Different from many cameras is that having my eye (or back) to the finder doesn't register as "use" to the Auto Power Off (sleep) timer. It sleeps properly when left ON and slung around my shoulder because it doesn't get fooled by seeing my body near the eyepiece to keep it awake as usually happens with Sony cameras. This may be due to how I set my power saving options.
This also means that with my Auto Power Off timer set to 15 seconds that it can go to sleep as I'm peering through the finder if I don't hit any controls!
It only wakes by tapping the shutter; not by tapping the MENU or PLAY buttons as with other cameras.
While this means that my battery doesn't run down because the camera doesn't get tricked into staying awake while carried around my neck (seeing my body next to the finder), it also means it can go to sleep when unexpected.
It charges at up to 10W (15V at 667 mA) from any USB-C source with a USB-C to USB-C cable (included).
It charges at up to 4W (5V @ 800 mA) from any USB-A source with a USB-A to USB-C cable (not included).
I can be powered by USB, drawing about 4 watts, but it won't charge and run from USB at the same time.
Be sure the camera is asleep or off to charge.
Clock Accuracy performance top
Every sample is different, but mine loses about 1.067 seconds per day, or about 32½ seconds per month, which is poor.
This matters when you shoot multiple cameras (or this camera and an iPhone) and then sort all the images based on capture time to compare the similar views of each scene. The more accurate a camera's internal clock, the less often you need to reset it.
The app probably allows GPS time sync. I didn't try it.
User's Guide top
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I got my GFX100RF in silver (as shown) at B&H. It also comes in black, and it comes as kits with free goodies thrown in.
I'd also get mine at Adorama or at Amazon or get it used at eBay (How to Win at eBay), or get it used at KEH.
See Ken Rockwell's Fujifilm GFX100RF User's Guide.
See also Fujifilm's own GFX100RF User's Guide.
Recommendations top
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I got my GFX100RF in silver (as shown) at B&H. It also comes in black, and it comes as kits with free goodies thrown in.
I'd also get mine at Adorama or at Amazon or get it used at eBay (How to Win at eBay), or get it used at KEH.
Fuji cameras have their quirks which makes them the darlings of Fuji fanatics. For dedicated Fujifiles, this is a must-have icon. Honor the brand by owning one.
Be sure to get yours only from my recommended sources above so that you can just send it back if you don't love it. You never have to guess about how well it will work for you; order it and see for yourself. That's why I've used B&H and Adorama since I was a kid in the 1970s: I can try it in my own environment with my own other gear and if I don't love it, back it goes.
I cover cards, straps, flash, filter, cap and hood suggestions and far more at my Fujifilm GFX100RF User's Guide.
I use the included clear (UV) protective filter instead of a cap (exactly like an iPhone) so I'm always ready to shoot instantly. I never need a cap; I throw this in a bag with its sturdy hood and never worry.
If you want a replacement filter, it's easy to buy more of the Fujifilm PRF-49S filters.The very best protective filter is the Multicoated Hoya HD3 49mm which uses hardened glass and repels dirt and fingerprints.
The LEICA faithful use the LEICA 19 691 49mm UVa II filter.
For less money, Canon makes a great 49mm UV filter, and the multicoated B＋W 010, the Hoya NXT Plus multicoated and the basic multicoated Hoya filters are all optically superb, while the Hoya HD3 is the toughest and therefore the best.
Filters last a lifetime, so you may as well get the best. The Hoya HD3 stays cleaner than the others since it repels oil and dirt — but I doubt you'll ever need another filter since the included Fujifilm PRF-49S is well protected behind the hood.
All these filters are just as sharp and take the same pictures, the difference is how much abuse they'll take and stay clean and stay in one piece. Since filters last a lifetime or more, there's no reason not to buy the best as it will last you for the next 50 years. Filters aren't throwaways like digital cameras which we replace every few years, like it or not. I'm still using filters I bought back in the 1970s!
I got my GFX100RF in silver (as shown) at B&H. It also comes in black, and it comes as kits with free goodies thrown in.
I'd also get mine at Adorama or at Amazon or get it used at eBay (How to Win at eBay), or get it used at KEH.
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Ken.
More Information top
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Ken Rockwell's Fujifilm GFX100RF Pro Tips, Tutorial & User's Guide.
Fujifilm's GFX100RF User's Guide PDF.
Fujifilm's Printed Brochure PDF (in Japanese).
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