Fujifilm GFX100 II gets rumored title, launch date and a new 100MP sensor

After an official announcement that the newest Fujifilm X Summit is going down on twelfth September (see Youtube video, beneath), Fujifilm Rumors has confidently shared that the star of the present goes to be the Fujifilm GFX100 II. 

A medium format mirrorless digital camera is touted as the subsequent mirrorless digital camera we are able to anticipate from Fujifilm, and its rumored title suggests it will likely be the successor to the four-year-old GFX100, a flagship 100MP monster that raised the picture high quality bar upon its 2019 launch. 

Two years later, Fujifilm put a lot of the tech from this flagship mannequin, together with the standout 100MP sensor, into a smaller and easier physique that prices half the value – the GFX100S. With its smaller sibling on the scene, there was little motive to half with twice the money for a GFX100, until you wanted its bigger physique and battery.

Since the GFX100, we’ve additionally loved the Hasselblad X2D 100C, a divine 100MP medium format digital camera that sits in our greatest mirrorless cameras information. It can be a robust ask for Fujifilm to steal our hearts again, so what can we hope for from the rumored GFX100 II?

GFX100 II: what to anticipate

Stockholm hosts Fujifilm’s second X Summit of 2023, the place anybody can attend to check out the lastest digital camera gear. Previously we now have listed a GFX digital camera with a stacked sensor as new gear we’d hope to see. However, the GFX100 II is unlikely to characteristic the stacked sensor kind as discovered within the X-H2S – Fujifilm’s quickest digital camera out there – and rumors as a substitute recommend a new model once more with 100MP, however with a sooner sensor learn out that reduces rolling shutter, and improves autofocus pace. Presuming it will likely be paired with the newest X-Processor 5 that Fujifilm claims is twice the pace of the previous-gen processor, the GFX100 II may very well be the quickest medium format digital camera out there. 

There may additionally be a modular really feel to the GFX100 II, adorning a comparable kind issue to the smaller GFX100S, however with the choice to connect a battery grip to bulk it out and enhance battery life – a perform that the GFX100S doesn’t provide. That possibility to change the digital camera measurement and battery life is the perfect of each worlds, and a bonus is that the removable battery grip is likely to be included within the field. 

The GFX100 II may additionally work with a tilt-EVF accent that tilts up for straightforward viewing from low angles, making it perfect for waist degree capturing – once more an adjunct that not all GFX cameras are suitable with. 

The sum of all rumors factors to a extra refined capturing expertise that might make medium format accessible to a broader vary of creatives, even when the value may show a sticking level. Any new GFX digital camera generates a buzz, and we’re excited to see what’s in retailer in Stockholm subsequent month.