Fujifilm surprises with GFX 100 development announcement: 100MP, IBIS, phase-detect and more!

 

 

In addition to announcing the rangefinder-styled GFX 50R, Fujifilm also announced today at Photokina the development of the GFX 100, a 100-megapixel medium format mirrorless camera.

Sporting a new magnesium alloy body with a fixed-grip design -- much like that of a Canon 1D X II or Nikon D5 -- the Fuji GFX 100 offers a load of never-before-seen features for a medium format camera. Sensor resolution aside, the GFX 100 includes on-sensor phase-detect autofocus across 100% of the image sensor, which neither the GFX 50S nor the new 50R features and should provide much faster AF performance.

Furthermore, the GFX 100 also features the world's first in-body image stabilization system for a medium format mirrorless camera -- no doubt one of the reasons for the larger body design.

 

 

We were told in an interview with Fuji exectutives last year at CP+ that the GF system lenses were designed with a 100MP sensor in mind, so it's not totally shocking to see a new GFX model being developed that takes advantage of these lens' full optical performance.