Fujifilm GFX100S

It’s now over four years since Fujifilm transformed the medium-format camera market with its GFX 50S. With a 50MP sensor measuring 44x33mm, it promised higher image quality than its full-frame rivals, but in a much smaller package than traditional medium-format DSLRs.

With each successive model, the firm has made significant advances. The GFX 50R placed the same sensor into a smaller and more affordable rangefinderstyle body, then the GFX100 doubled the resolution while adding in-body stabilisation and vastly improved autofocus. Now the GFX100S has arrived with almost all the same features, but in a much smaller body with a far lower price. This places it in a similar league to high-end models such as the £6,500 Sony Alpha 1 and £4,200 Canon EOS R5.

Officially, Fujifilm says that the GFX100S replaces the GFX 50S in its line-up. But it’s difficult not to conclude it will do rather more than that. It makes the GFX100 look practically obsolete, while matching the GFX 50R for its key selling point of portability. But at £3,200 body-only, the latter is still much more affordable.

Features

With the GFX100S costing £4,500 less than its big brother, you might think that it would suffer when comparing its major specifications. But instead, they’re identical in almost all aspects of imaging performance. Perhaps the biggest difference lies with the viewfinder: the GFX100S’s fixed EVF is smaller and lower resolution than the GFX100’s removable unit. On the flip side, the newer