In our August issue last year, we reported that Hasselblad had recently announced the world’s first medium-format mirrorless camera, the X1D. A few months later at Photokina, Fujifilm introduced its own medium-format mirrorless system, the GFX 50S. Both cameras are now available, and in this issue, we go hands-on with each.
Justin Black traveled to Patagonia’s Torres del Paine National Park with the Fujifilm GFX 50S this spring and, as you’ll see in his review, returned with beautiful photographs. “Particularly for landscape photographers, the potential benefits of a mirrorless medium-format system camera like the GFX are exciting,” says Black, considering the camera’s “super-fine image quality in a relatively compact, lightweight and rugged package.” The chief advantage of medium-format sensors is their larger surface area and photosites—the individual sensors that record…