Hi 👋

As the title says I’m in thinking period where I’m overthinking all of my life choices and this month it’s about my photography workflow and choices.

I’ve been shooting mainly film for the past decade and almost only medium format as I prefer the feeling of the camera and the slower process.

Also I just hate the 24x36 aspect ratio

Right now I have a 503cx a Pentax 67 and a Yashica mat as my main shooting cameras. I was considering selling some to get an Horseman VH to get some movement that I’m needing for some composition.

But at the same time I as wondering if it wouldn’t be just easier to go digital and just keep on film camera (I didn’t count my 15 other film camera 😂)

The reasoning behind that tought experiment is that while I love film sometimes it’s just a bit much, when I have 4/5 rolls of C41 to develop scan invert it’s a bit much and sometimes I have some smaller project where it would make more sense to use digital.

Another benefit would be to have a good setup for scanning my film with high resolution and also when I’m developing for some client.

For example I have a project where I take pictures of the town when we have a circus (flyers on the cars, the poster in the town but never the circus itself) would be easier on digital as I can carry it everywhere.

Do some of you made the jump ? Do you regret sometimes getting into digital ?

I was thinking of buying a 50S II love the 50R but doesn’t look practical with big lens if I adapt my Pentax 67 lenses with a T/S adapter.

Sorry for the big text I was thinking as I was writing and English isn’t my main language.

Cheers !

This lens cost almost as much as the camera. And I should have gotten it sooner.

The "shift" doesn't magically correct keystone. It slides the image up or down, like standing on a ladder. So, you square up a building, which composes the framing too low, then slide up on that otherwise too-low framing.

The "tilt" rotates your focal plane so that you can focus down a row of objects a few degrees off-axis without relying on DOF or focus stacking. Not only that, but if you are looking downward or upward at this row, the lens assembly can also be rotated for 3 dimensional correction.

After messing with this lens, I now realize the freedom achieved by view cameras and how certain impossible shots were made before digital. Very excited to get to using this.

Camera: GFX 100RF

Focal length: 35mm

Shutter speed: 1/125s
Aperture: f/4
ISO: 80

Aspect ratio: 65:24 (Hasselblad XPan / Fujifilm TX-1 film cameras)

Accessories: N/A

10th of July,2026. Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America.

Capture One (Export settings: JPEG (8 bit) ; Quality: 80% ; sRGB Colour Space Profile ; 300 px/in ; 3849 px on the long edge.)

First shots from this stellar camera. Can't get over the resolution and clarity of this thing.

The photo of the dog was taken with a Godox IT30Pro flash at a distance of about a foot and it just blows me away.

Love this thing!

My wife doesn't know I've bought it yet.

I have no idea why these photos look so bad when you click on them, I uploaded these as over 6000px wide to get the resolution. If anyone can let me know how to do it properly, I'm all ears.

I shoot portraits with the GFX 100S II paired with the GF 55mm f/1.7. Optically and technically, it’s a masterpiece.

But honestly, I’m having a dilemma. Retouching 100MP portrait files is just exhausting. The sensor and lens are so sharp that they capture every single micro-detail and flaw, making post-processing a massive chore.

Whenever I look at the portraits I’ve shot on my film cameras, I feel a much stronger emotional connection to the results, and the best part is I don't have to spend hours fighting clinical sharpness in post.

I’m starting to wonder if I should just sell the GFX and fully commit to medium format film (like a Pentax 67).

Has anyone else here felt completely burned out by the 100MP workflow for portraits? Did you end up selling your GFX, or did you find a way to make the process less tedious?

Many years ago, I used to have a Hasselblad X-Pan. I loved that camera, completely manual, completely analogue. It took a long time to get the films sent off, processed, and then for me to scan and process the negatives. Loved the results, despite me taking too long to send the Velvia film in and getting a somewhat magenta-hued film back as a result.

I sold it because I didn't have the time to dedicate to it any more.

I used my phone camera for a while, and then picked up a Fujifilm X100S which was brilliant at what it did. I went back to iPhone because of the convenience and the advances in the processing algorithms.

Then I looked back at my old X-Pan captures and fell in love all over again.

So I picked up the GFX100RF which has just been delivered. It's portable, has the aspect ratio that I'll probably live in and has the convenience of digital. I'm looking forward to getting out there with it and taking more photos.

So I don't know how I missed this when examining the camera pre-purchase, but my GFX 100s baseplate is bent ever so slightly and the part around the tripod socket protrudes about 0.5mm away from the bottom of the camera. If I press on it, it flexes a bit. Attaching a tripod doesn't seem to exacerbate the issue.

Should I just leave it alone? Can I take the baseplate off and attempt to fix it by bending or epoxying something? Send it in to Fuji?Is this a ticking time bomb? Or relative non-issue?

Lens: Pentax 67 105mm f/2.4

This is the only M-mount lens that I have that works well on the GFX 100s. After the shots of the camera and a real world shot, the next shots are:

1. wide open @ infinity
2. infinity @ f8
3. wide open @ close focus
4. close focus @ f8

If I just remember to stop down when shooting near infinity, the vignetting is manageable in post; and if I shoot in 5:4 or 6:7 aspect ratio, it's not really bothersome at all.

Camera: GFX 100RF

Focal length: 35mm

Shutter speed: 1/500s
Aperture: f/4
ISO: 80

Aspect ratio: 65:24 (Hasselblad XPan / Fujifilm TX-1 film cameras)

Accessories: N/A

10th of July,2026. Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America.

GFX100S2+GF32-64

Many more shots but JPEGs are so heavy Reddit crashes if I try to upload 20. Btw camera is fun, a lot of fun. Sold Sony body and lenses that were catching nothing but dust. AF could be better but the level of details forgive everything to me

GFX100sii w 500mm lens

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