welcome back to my channel for another fui episode and this episode will be about the following sometime back fui brought the new gfx 100 Mark I to Market and that's a fantastic camera I was just shooting that camera in Hong Kong by the way with the 35 to 70 mm zoom lens that's an absolutely fabulous lens in my opinion I reviewed this lens before on my channel but might want to post a video about that Hong Kong shooting later in the next couple of weeks because this lens is almost as a prime lens on every focal length you choose here and that is something which I appreciate because it gives you quite some flexibility from 35 mm to 70 mm and uh I think is a really really good lens but this camera now got a smaller more compact sibling and that's the gfx 100 S Mark I and uh if you look at that package here that box here lighten bite in Zurich one of the best and largest photo stores for for equipment and gear you can have in the area was kind enough to give this camera to me for free for a couple of days to just have a look do a comparison with The gfx 100 Mark I and uh putting side by side all the specifications data points but also having of course a look at the camera body in comparison to the gfx 100 Mark II and I'm very grateful to my friends there they helped me out again it's always great to collaborate with you guys because you're so helpful and whenever you have new gear you let me have a first look at it let's kick off the [Music] video all right so let's open the box here and let's get the camera out that's actually simply done by pulling these lever here and then we have here the gfx 100s Mark I and that's the camera body which will be the topic of this video and uh of course I will also look into all the specifications but first of all let's start with design let's have a look at what the camera is offering how much more compact it is compared to the gfx 100 Mark II and uh let's put these two camera side by side let's start with the rear side of the camera and there is not much to spot here but we'll come to specifications later on so here on the left hand side you see the gfx 100s Mark I and here you see the gfx 100 Mark I on the right hand side first of all it's clear that in terms of Dimensions this camera here is larger than the other camera we'll also see this in the specification so the 100 Mark I is larger than the 100s Mark I you see in terms of height you see it also in terms of width here if I put them on top of each other it's not a lot but it's a larger camera body to some extent we'll get the exact dimensions in a moment in the specifications but we have two LCD screens screens here we have here the joystick that's the same on both cameras we have Auto exposure lock menu and okay display and back button we have a play button autofocus on button we have the switch here between single autofocus continuous autofocus and manual focus that's the exactly same on the 100s Mark I we have here the delete button if you want to delete images a drive button just the labeling is here on top and here below we have here a rear control wheel and we have here the famous CBE button for quick access to menus on these camera bodies and that's exactly the same on both camera bodies so from the rear side you don't see any differences at all both cameras have exactly the same flexibility built into the LCD screen when it comes to tilting the screen so let's look here at the uh 100 Mark I first so we can pull this out so you can go here for all kinds of different angles in the LCD screen you can also get it out in this way which is convenient and the exactly same is true for the gfx 100s Mark I so look here same flexibility on the LCD screen you can also get it out in this direction and can pull it further out there is the same flexibility kind of the same mechanics built into these two camera bodies and that's of course really good because you don't want to lose that on the 100s Mark I if you have it on the 100 Mark I looking at the two camera bodies from the top you have here the 100s Mark I here the 100 Mark I and both have here a movie still switch on both cameras exactly the same we have a mode dial here for the mode so these cameras are currently in aperture priority and they're locked you see that here on both camera bodies they are locked and if I press the button at the center of the dial I can switch here from aperture priority to shutter speed priority or program mode or fully manual mode and then I can lock it again and the same works also on the 100 Mark I I can unlock it then here shutter speed priority program mode manual mode and both cameras also have custom modes which can be programmed in the menu of the camera system so it's exactly the same and then we have the top side display here or the control display and this one is definitely larger on the 100 Mark I than it is on the 100s Mark II you clearly see this with your Naked Eyes we have a light switch here if I push this one here and the camera would be switched on let me do that for a second so here it's on now and if I press that button here it enlightens the display I can switch back let me do the same on the 100s Mark I switching it on but here the light button is not here because here we have customizable control buttons it's actually here in the electronic viewfinder let me push it and then you see it's turning and lighted now in white and then I can push it back and that's the way it works but here we clearly have the larger top side display then we have here on the 100s Mark I two programmable customizable function buttons here we have only one on the flat top side of the camera body but we have three to program and customize in the menu here and that's plenty of options is more fungible more versatile gives you more ways to customize your own workflow than what you have on the 100s Mark I in terms of customization you also have more options again on the right hand side on the 100 Mark I because you have here two customizable function buttons and here you have only one this is for mounting and unmounting the lens on both camera bodies and of course you have a front control wheel that's the same on both camera bodies so that's basically what we have here if we look at the rear side the front side and the top side let's Now quickly look at the side of the camera bodies and then let's go into specifications looking at the right hand side of the two camera bodies we have here card slot doors and by the way in terms of Dimensions again you see that the 100 Mark I is larger in terms of Dimensions so let's open that door here and then we find here inside there are two SD card slots here currently I inserted One SD card here so there's slot one and two and it's SD card only whereas on the 100 Mark I let's open this up here we have actually here the SD card slot but the primary slot the one numbered S1 is a compact flesh Express type B card slot and I will come back to this later in the specifications but but that's one of the huge advantages of the 100 Mark I over the 100s Mark I looking at the left hand side of the 100s Mark I we have here two doors let's open this one here so this one here is for a microphone and for a headphone check here so you can use this in that way and if we go on this one here we have first of all a USBC then we have Micro HDMI and then another s Port here and if you look at these ports on the 100 Mark I we have here an Ethernet or an local area network port and I will come back to this when we look into the specification side by side and here we have a microphone Port here we have a standard HDMI port and here we have the USBC Port so there's also a difference here when it comes to interfaces and ports these two cameras are offering here but that's not all there is more to say when it comes to the design differences between these cameras and again look at the dimensions here so so on top is the 100 Mark I and that's clearly larger here in the horizontal Dimension it's larger in the vertical Dimension and it's larger if you look at depth of the two camera bodies by the way on the grip they are both really good cameras this grip here is really good and lets you have the camera firmly in your hands and the grip on the 100s Mark I is a little bit smaller but it's still very comfortable to hold so I have smaller hands for a male human being and I don't mind that grip here despite the more compact build it's actually a very nice grip and it's very good in my hand I appreciate that so what else do we have if you look at the camera body of the 100s Mark I here at the bottom side we have here the battery compartment the battery by the way is the same as what we have on the 100 Mark I but there are differences in the specifications which I will cover later but then there is nothing going on here there's a tripod mount and that's it that's different on the 100 Mark 2 because here we have the tripod mount here we have the battery compartment same battery as what we have on the 100s Mark I but here is another door and that door is to mount actually a hand grip which fui offers for the 100 Mark I for vertical shooting and then you have here all your control elements and you can basically turn the camera by 90° for portrait orientation shooting can mount that hand grip and there is no hand grip at least from fui available for the 100s Mark I and this one here also offers more flexibility in terms of batteries if I open that up here let me quickly do that you have two batteries in here and that extends of course your battery life compared to mounting a third party provider hand grip here where you will have no connections at the bottom of the camera to use or deploy two batteries simultaneously and in this way double Your Capacity that's only possible on the 100 Mark I and that's a pro feature which professional photographers in particular if the out there in the field and not in the studio where you can maybe more easily switch batteries will really appreciate in particular if you are in fashion and people photography and you want to go for portrait orientation and you want to double your battery capacity that's the way to go and for this we have on the 100 Mark I here a port and that Port is not available on the 100s Mark I there is just nothing going on here in terms of electronic connections the last big difference when it comes to the design of the camera body is the way the electron viewfinder is here integrated into the camera body and on the 100s Mark I it's actually firmly built into the camera body you cannot remove it you have the electronic viewfinder here firmly mounted and that's it by the way you have the same hot shoe as what you have on the 100 Mark I but here you can remove the electronic viewfinder let me quickly illustrate this it's very simple it just slides off if I push these two buttons here and then I have an additional accessory I can use namely a tilt adapter here if I unscrew this I can use this here to actually mount it I will show in a second and get the electronic viewfinder on top of that tilt adapter and that's a very very useful feature for in particular one reason I'm going to point out when I mounted all this so let's Mount this here let's see how this works let's get this on top here let's get this down and uh let's then Mount here the electronic viewfinder which comes here let me just do this so this is firmly on now and now you can here first of all control this in terms of movements so that's fine and you can now if you want tilt that for Waste level type shooting and this is super convenient if you want to deploy the inbo image stabilization in the camera body and go for longer exposures much longer exposures without a tripod by handheld shooting and by the way you should lock all this so here's a lock mechanism I need to push that lever here then this cannot accidentially slide off and I should also lock this one if I'm in the waist level shooting mode here and if this is locked it cannot tilt into other angles here and now you can look from the top with your eye into the electronic viewfinder press the camera firmly to your chest and in this way get even more stability less shakes and vibrations and you can control them longer exposures by handheld shooting via the inbody image stabilization of the camera body it's an absolutely fantastic feature and of course there are also other applications I see for that if you are micro shooter you have to go on a low level on the ground you can just look from the top with your eye into the electronic viewfinder you can also go for different angles of course which might also be useful you can always screw this on here and in this way get it fixed and it cannot accidentally slide into a different angle and that's an absolutely fantastic feature that the fui gfx100 mark2 is offering and which you cannot have on the fui 100 S Mark I and I just wanted to illustrate this to make people aware that there is a tilt adapter and the electronic viewfinder can be removed and used in this way and then you have a totally different flexibility in your workflow and the way you shoot the camera all right the only way to get the truth what the differences are between these two cameras the major ones and also the nitty-gritty ones is if you go side by side through the specifications of these two cameras I've done this in the past in other comparisons and it's a lot of work but I can Prov here and there a shortcut so you will not get bored and I have done the work for you and let's start with the sensor so a lot of information in the web by bloggers vloggers YouTube you know on internet Pages says that the sensor of the two cameras is essentially the same and I don't think that's true and uh if you look into here image sensor in the third line of the specifications both are SOS Mark 2 sensors and both have the same size so they are medium format sensors but there is the left hand side for the gfx 100 Mark I an additional HS which is not there on the right hand side where we have all the specifications for the gfx 100s Mark I and HS stands for highspeed and means that the sensor readout time on the gfx 100 Mark II is about twice as fast as what we had before on the gfx 100s and uh I don't think that feature is implemented in the same way on the gfx100 S Mark I on the right hand side and and I'll provide further evidence for that later on when we go through specifications which actually show that the readout time of the sensor on the gfx 100 Mark I actually seems to be faster than what you have on the right hand side on the 100s Mark II so my assumption is that people who say that the sensor in the two cameras is the same that this is not a correct information and as I said evidence will follow in a moment the second big difference here are the card slots the 100s Mark I has no compact flesh Express card slot whereas the gfx100 Mark II has a compact flashh Express type B card slot where you can use storage capacity up to 2 terab and these Express cards they are much much faster in their reading and riding speed and transfer rates than what you have on SD cards and that's also a big Plus on the left hand side for the 100 Mark I compared to the right hand side for the 100 S Mark I everything else on that first page of specifications is essentially the same most importantly the image processing engine is on both cameras an xpressor 5 which is the newest generation of image processors Fuji has to offer on the second page of specifications everything is the same the sensitivity when it comes to ISO values and range exposure control and metering exposure modes exposure compensation and image stabilization which is in body image stabilization by a sensor shift mechanism where you can gain up to eight f- stops and you also can combine it with digital image stabilization in the movie mode so that's all the same no differences here the third page of specifications essentially shows that on the mechanical shutter the fastest shutter speed 1 over 4,000 seconds is the same on both cameras but the electronic shutter is faster on the 100 Mark I with one over 32,000 seconds compared to 1 over 16,000 seconds on the 100s Mark I and that's the only differences I spotted here everything else is kind of the same next page of specifications and I will come to that also on the following page in terms of movie shooting and for videographers the 100 Mark I is way of superior to the 100s Mark I on the 100s Mark I you have still the 4K video option you have full HD but that's basically it on the 100 Mark I you can go up to 8K you can shoot with 5.8k 4.8k 4.6k you have all kinds of options I will come to that in a moment again and uh clearly if you want to use your medium format camera not only for still Image Photography but also for videography the option space for you on the 100 Mark I is incredibly larger than what you have on the 100s Mark I when it comes to touchscreen functionality on both cameras so you can swipe you can zoom you can tap you can do all kinds of things and integrate touch guestures into your workflow both cameras are exactly the same so you have to the same functionality on both cameras but as we saw before when we looked at top of the camera body the sub LCD monitor is larger on the 100 Mark I compared to the 100s Mark I and the resolutions are also slightly different we have 320 * 219 dots on the 100 Mark I and 3003 * 230 dots on the 100s Mark I and then in the specifications there come a lot of movie recording features and I will take a shortcut here I will not go through all of them I already mentioned that the option space on videography is so much larger on the 100 Mark I compared to the 100s Mark to that I don't think it makes a lot of sense to go through pages of specifications here I just make the statement that the movie options on the 1002 are much more advanced than what you have on the 100 S Mark I here's now in my opinion confirmation what I said at the very beginning when walking through the specifications of the two cameras that the readout time of the 100 Mark I sensor is actually faster than the readout time of the sensor in the 100s Mark I because whenever you do a like for like comparison and you look into the specifications for continuous shooting burst rate in terms of frames per seconds the 100 Mark I on the left hand side is superior on the next page of specifications everything is exactly the same we have the same options on the drive mode we have the same Focus system we have intelligent hybrid autofocus on both cameras that means we have a combination of contrast detect ction and face detection autofocus that's a superior way of implementing an autofocus system and also the autofocus frame selection is exactly the same on both cameras in general the gfx system in my opinion is by far the most Superior when it comes to autofocus because typically you don't have autofocus tracking on medium format cameras and no object or subject detection and here you have it on the next page of specifications everything is the same except the electronic viewfinder so for instance on the LCD monitor we have the same 3.2 in til type screen which you can also use with the touch functionality as I mentioned before but on the electronic view finder you have a better one on the left hand side in the 100 Mark I because it's a larger evf and it also has way of more resolution in terms of 9.44 million dots for the 100 Mark I on the left hand side compared to 5.76 million dots on the right hand side for the 100s Mark I when it comes to features like film simulation mode or grain effect color chrome effect and so on both cameras offer exactly the same features there is no difference and on the dynamic range setting at the bottom of this page you also see we have exactly the same specifications when it comes to interfaces and ports again the 100 Mark I is superior because what I like more is you have an HDMI connector type A on the left hand side for the 100 Mark I compared to an HDMI micro connector type D on the right hand side for the 100s Mark I and that's typical for smaller camera bodies you you see this a lot in the camera industry and uh that might also only be a question of taste and preferences but what really moves the needle for Studio photographers is that on the left hand side on the 100 Mark I you actually have a local area network terminal so you can wire up physically your camera with your local network or your computer and that might be an advantage for Studio photographers and then for battery life you see in any like for like comparison the battery life on the gfx100 Mark II seems to be a little better tiny little bit better but not much and uh that's actually interesting and a little bit astonishing because you have of course more going on on the 100 Mark II compared to the 100s Mark II and you have exactly the same battery it's still the npw 235 from fui which is included in the Box for both cameras of course on the last page of my walk through the specifications I come to the obvious we already saw of course with our Naked Eyes that the dimensions of the 100 Mark I are larger than the dimensions of the 100s Mark I and that's just what the data points are saying here but you easily figure that out by just staring at the cameras when placing them side by side and accordingly we have also a higher weight on the 100 Mark I and uh in terms of accessories included I already showed that we have an interchangeable electronic viewfinder here which can be combined with a tilt functionality by an adapter we also can mount here a vertical battery grip and that needs a connector of course we don't have that option on the 100s Mark I and then of course because we have 8K video capabilities and also a substantial time where we can continuously record video there is an option to mount the cooling fan on the 100 Mark I on the left hand side here which you don't have and also don't need because it only goes up to 4K video on the 100s Mark I and that concludes basically the specifications so I spent now a lot of time in the specifications based on what we have from fui on the 100 Mark I and the 100 S Mark I I also showed you the design differences the additional tilt adapter optionality you have the different hand grip with two batteries instead of one for the 100 Mark I and so on unfortunately I have to return the camera to light and bite tomorrow and that means I cannot take it out in the field but I wanted at least provide one test shot here so I mounted on both camera bodies My mro Lens from fui the GF 120 mm widest open is an F4 and I placed two of my toy dinosaurs here in front of me on the table and took a shut manual exposure of course to have everything exactly the same lighting conditions are not changing in the studio so I went for a two-c exposure I stopped down to F16 to have not a completely shallow depth of field I took the lowest ISO in terms of Base ISO which is 80 here and I also fixed the white balance for daylight and uh that provided these two images on the left hand side the 100 S Mark I on the right right hand side the 100 Mark I and these images at least if you look at them from a distance they look exactly the same the colors everything image composition is slightly different because I placed the camera with the mro lens in front of me on the table and had not the exact same positions but it looks exactly the same let's crop in by 100% And if I look at that I don't see any difference there's really nothing I can spot which would suggest that the image quality of these two sensors is different in any way let's go to the body here of the dinosaur looks exactly the same let's go to the blurry background looks exactly the same I don't see any differences here here's my hustle blood x2d blurry in the background looks exactly the same there is nothing going on here I can spot and my assumption really is but others will have other data points to contribute to that discussion the image quality of these two seos Mark I sensors from Fuji is kind of the same what seems to be the case because the 100 Mark I has these two capital letters H s in the sensor specification that the readout time of the 100 Mark I sensor is faster than what we have on the 100s Mark I and that I need to test when I get my hands again on the gfx 100s Mark I tomorrow I have to return it unfortunately but at least I wanted to contribute one image here there is nothing going on in terms of differences nothing I can see here it looks exactly the same and uh you know as I said other people will have other theories and hypothesis what have you to say to that do you think these sensors are totally the same as some people say in the web do you think there is a difference in readout time but the image quality will be the same or do you think these are totally different animals here in this image I do not spot any differences at all this looks like exactly the same image quality we get from these two cameras all right let's conclude the video what do we want to think about these two camera bodies the slightly more compact 100s Mark I whereas the slightly heavier and slightly bigger 100 Mark I the elephant in the room of course is the price tech because the 100s Mark I at B&H in New York comes in at about $5,000 and the 100 Mark I comes in at about $7,500 so there is a $2,500 price gap between the slightly more compact camera and a slightly bigger and slightly heavier camera that's 50% more what you pay for that camera body here now of course you get more professional specifications but having said that the 100s Mark I is a highly professional camera this will do the job for basically every professional photographer out there in the world now on the 100 Mark I we also have a hand grip option for a couple of batteries instead of just one battery and for vertical portrait shooting with all the elements here on the hand grip so that is of course an advantage AG you also have the optionality here if you want to spend the money to get the Tilt adapter which I showed before in the video and that enables waste level shooting on the 100 Mark I and you have differences in specifications so you have a better package here on the right hand side but it costs you 50% more than what you pay for the 100s Mark I and in my opinion it's really a matter of taste some people will just appreciate a slightly more compact camera body although calling this one here compact is probably a bit of a misleading statement and some people will also say I have to live on budget for me it makes a huge difference whether I spend 5,000 bucks or 7,500 bucks and then the 100s Mark I is the perfect companion for you I can fully recommend this camera the image quality will be about the same as what you have on the 100 Mark I the readout time as I said a little bit speculating will be slower on that one so if you go for electronic shutter you will have probably more likely rolling shutter effects on this sensor here because it doesn't have the attribute HS standing for high speeded as I pointed out in the specifications as you have on the 100 Mark I but you get for a significantly cheaper price tag almost everything on the 100s Mark I what you get on the 100 Mark 2 in particular the same quality of images and high 102 megapix resolution if you are a medium format Pro photographer and you want to have the full monty then probably if you're not living on a budget you should spend the 7,500 that's my camera of choice that's the one I bought for me and I will keep this one here goes back to light and bite again many thanks guys for giving that camera as a loan to me for producing that video here for my channel and then this is the full program the I want everything in terms of features camera body in the medium format setup and I think this is currently the best medium format camera the market has to offer I get this question very often what do you prefer the x2d from hustle blood or the gfx 100 Mark II it's very hard for me to answer because I love my hustle blood camera I love the hustle blood natural color signs I love the image quality coming from the x2d as well as from the 907x CFW 100c but this one here is just more fungible more versatile it has autofocus tracking it is easier to do people and fashion photography with that camera or shoot animals and faster moving subjects and this is just the better package although I'm luckily in a position to keep both of them the hustle blood x2d as well as the gfx 100 Mark I but this really is an attractive offer from Fuji 5,000 bucks for a camera which is almost at par with a 7,500 bucks camera and it has the same tracking features in autofocus the same image quality the same same resolution the same features the same menu structure so I can highly recommend both cameras what is your Preferred Choice let me know in the comments drop me a comment and I will try to get back to you if you have a question and I hope you enjoyed that video if you liked it don't forget to drop me a thumbs up stay tuned on my channel there's always more to come thanks for watching stay safe and healthy and of course peace out