How BIG can you PRINT your PHOTOS? (Fuji XT3 vs Nikon Z7 vs GFX 50R)

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s and we'll look at full frame and medium format aps-c and see how they compare starting out. im

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ing the morning for everyone as you can see by my breath a very cold morning this morning so I went out early this morning to try and do an early hike with my dad who is here for Christmas and we are climbing the cloud it's called Con Luckily, it won't be too cloudy and it looks like it will be a really nice sunrise.

I'm also here with pebbles and I have the Fuji 50 R which I'm also going to try and I have my Fuji xt3, the Fuji 50 R and also my Nikon z7, ​​so I have an XPS C sensor, a full frame sensor and a medium format and I'm going to compare the three, well, we'll get there sooner. sunrise, come on, it's kind of hard, so sunrise didn't really happen, it's kind of a very dull sunrise there, so what I'm doing is shooting in this direction, which is the Cheshire play and it's very flat and I found some interesting rocks here. and a small puddle and there is a viaduct passing over the hills in the distance.

I think it will be a very good opportunity to test this Fuji gfx 50 against my Fuji xt3 and my NIC now, obviously this is going to be better, it is a medium format camera, but what I want to see is how much better it is. Do you know what the real difference is between this one and the others? This shot doesn't have a huge amount of dynamic range, but it does have a lot of detail from the sheep walking through the field. Distant views. There are very close views here. I'm going to be able to see a little bit of what I can get out of the shadows because there's going to be some shadow detail down here, plus anything.

It was just a great shot so I'm going to put this on the tripod and one thing I would say with this camera is that it's a big lump, it's not the prettiest camera in the world but that doesn't matter I have to say. I don't find it that intuitive to use and maybe it's because I'm not used to it, yeah, but you know, I've obviously used a Fuji for a good number of years. It's a 23 millimeter lens, which is equivalent, I think if I got my numbers right at about 16 millimeters and that's what I've shot with all my cameras as well, so I got between 14 and 18 millimeters around that. kind of range is okay so I'm going to put this on a tripod and let's try it, it's a 23 millimeter prime lens and it's meant to be one of the sharpest lenses you can get for this camera so turn it on and do it .

It's like shooting with any other camera, I really have full focus, but I can actually focus in the distance and then I just do an exposure delay for two seconds one eighth of a second with a 23 millimeter prime lens. this Fuji 50 R and it looks fantastic. This is the sun rising over the rocks now and it's so beautiful here. Oh, and I'll finally take it with my Nikon Z7. She will take off this Pete design strap if ever Looking for a strap, this is a fantastic strap to get the best design, it just makes it so easy to get on and off the camera.

Now they are a bit annoying, a bit because of the tinkling noise, not the best review in the world. but it just makes it easier to put the strap on and off and you don't really want to put it on when you're on the tripod because otherwise

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camera is just going to move and that won't be good because I'm going to have movement and then it's not going to be sharp

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image. Sorry, I started making this video just wanting to know while I had the 50 what the Fuji xt3, z7 and 50 would be like in comparison, but then I thought I liked printing so why not create a video about how large can be printed with an aps-c, full frame and medium format camera?

That's what I'm going to do, so I printed things. kinds of different sizes, three, two and then very large also fifty inches wide so I'm going to talk a little bit more about that and we can take a look at some of the prints so that was a good morning. It wasn't fantastic and in fact the whole time I had the GFX the weather was a bit overcast and cloudy so it was difficult for me to really test the dynamic range so you may have noticed I'm in a different situation. room and that's mainly because the prints that I'm going to get later are so big that they simply wouldn't fit on my table in my usual studio where I record them so welcome to my dining room and I'll probably tell you a little bit. about the print sizes because if you look at the file sizes coming out of the camera then the pixel dimensions of the

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xt3 are around 6200 pixels and the z7 and 50 are the same around 8400 pixels in The long border that the 50s have is slightly higher because it's a different aspect ratio crop, so there are extra pixels at the top and bottom of the image, which is interesting if you like that type of crop, but really in that in the horizontal. dimension, you don't get more pixels now, all the images I took were taken with the same comparable focal length.

I always shot the lowest ISO on cameras and tried to take what I perceive to be the best aperture for that lens to ensure that I can focus everything from back to back and that's why I shot wide open because I wanted to try to focus the entire scene, so this first as you can. Watching is quite boring, but when you try to take a lot of images like this with three different cameras and vlog, you can excuse me, it's quite complicated, so one of them was taken with my Fuji xt3. These are a3 size images and any.

You don't know a3 a4 etc, then a4 is about 12 inches, a3 is about 16 inches, and a2 is about 24 inches at the longest edge. First of all, they are both a3 images, so you can see that one is the Fuji difference between them, you can start to see the edges because the lens is not good. I'm going to talk a lot. More on lenses, but the lens isn't as good at this as the amazing lens on the 50 R, but even when you actually inspect them, you know the prints are too small to really notice that difference in resolution, so yeah.

There's not a huge difference in the input and Nick is here because I didn't think it made sense to show that aps-c and medium are both ranges, so let's take a look at these two prints next. I'll do the same thing with this one at the top is the Fuji, this is the 50 R, obviously this is now printed on a 2 instead of the ones that were printed on a 3. Now what's interesting, now I'll just go down here . so I can see them as you can start to notice very slightly the difference between the images, it's not as noticeable in the center, so if I were to just look in the center here of the center of the Fuji, it's almost as good as the 50 is, if you get really close you can probably tell the difference the 50 yards, the tonal definition here and I also did a video on the review of the 50's on the DP review channel.

I talked about this, but tonal rendering. it's really good and also here on the the edges, you can really notice it here in the two Walkers who just sat down to admire this view, by the way, this is not a sun, it's just that the sun hasn't risen yet, this was before dawn, but you know, fast and more or less. you can't tell the difference here, it's really impossible to tell the difference, right, it's time to take out the big prints right here for a second, now there really are big prints, just giving you an idea of ​​their length. /4 of me now I didn't include the entire sky because I didn't think there was any point in just making them even more manageable and thanks to the speed of

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to print, these also have a short notice.

Great job on your part, so they are printed with exactly the same technology that I printed on the same paper and the others and again I printed 3-1 that was taken with the Fuji xt3, with the z7 and with the 50. -yard, okay so I'm going to move them around a little bit and these are the 50 that are here, this is the XT 3 here and I'll show you the nickel one in a minute, but I wanted to show you. that again the extremes the first thing to say is that when you zoom out again you can't see a big difference because when you start looking at bigger letters you don't tend to look at them as closely, so I know you look at them from further away and that's why the number of pixels per inch, which is when viewed up close, is usually 300 PPI, that's what most people quote or what you should print your images on, but that's good for when you print it on a book or something where you look at it very closely but you actually make it bigger and bigger.

I think you can turn it down a little bit and in fact, if we had followed that exact rule, I should have only been able to print an image this big, about 33 inches for the 50 R, but obviously I've gotten up to 50 inches here now when you start getting closer. , although, my goodness, this print looks amazing, so I'm very impressed with this resolution on this camera on the 350. You can go and what are the lenses. The lenses are so good and I really noticed it when I compared them to my z7, but you can go well. to the edges and I see some really fantastic detail and you know down here where we have these grasses and it just looks absolutely incredible, really impressed, I mean the detail and the shadow here too, where it was particularly difficult to get the exposure. correct and it is bringing out the details very well and detailing the shadows is often quite difficult and sometimes it gets a bit muddy which is what happens with the Fuji xt3 now.

It really surprised me, if I'm honest I would be very happy with this image. of the Fuji on my wall, but when you get closer I think it breaks, it really starts to get too soft. You look at it and just crave it for a little more detail. You can see around the sheep so just bring this here you can see around the sheep here this bridge there's just no brick date details but here you can see all the brick details so at this distance it's well but when you get closer you start to lose that detail and you really lose it at the edge that's where the lens just isn't as good as the 50 lens now in fact if I get rid of that and then we look we take out the food from the Nick, so this now the Nick is hot, well that's a little bit of a different game now if you look in this area here, so in this area I think the Fuji and the 50 are very similar, so you know, Full frame and medium format gain is very similar if you look. in the middle here there really isn't much difference.

I mean, don't forget that the images that come out of here have the same horizontal dimension, so that's to be expected, but where the Nikon falls and this was with a 16 to 35 millimeter lens with the adapter the adapter makes no difference in image quality. I saw the same thing when I shot an 8 10 and an 850, but on the edges that you can see in this corner here it's very soft and you really have to. look at the corners with those lenses again in this corner, it's not as smooth as this corner, but it's not, it's not great, the bottom doesn't look that bad, but these corners are very good and then the top corners aren't as hello good.

Well, in the clouds, so it's going to soften a little bit, whereas in full format, medium format, it looks amazing, however, I haven't printed that large, but I put them aside when I looked. I was interested. At that, I thought I would try the new Zed 24-70 lens and these two images here are taken from that scene, one with the 50 wands, which was the 50 yards, this one at the bottom and this is my Nikon now, this was taken with the Zed 24 at 70 f4 lens and it's so sharp and to sum it up a bit, what this has taught me is that maybe you shouldn't get too carried away with the resolution, you know?

Certainly, if we're talking about going to these parts and we're looking at this impression here from the Fuji, then you know I'd be perfectly happy with that and I'm happy with that. I know I've taken my parents with a Fuji that will allow me to do that and I think I have the camera. I think it's okay, but I think the lenses are something I really need to think about now and really try to test some lenses for edge sharpness because I want to get these quality 50s on my lenses and I think with that lens 24 to 72 millimeters that I have on my neck there was one in one corner that was a little soft but it was so good that I was so impressed with it and I think if I would say anything to anyone, just go out and invest in lenses, spend money on lenses , don't worry about your camera technology, as long as you know it's reasonably good, it has a 24, 25 and 26 megapixel camera. we're going to be able to print bigThere's no doubt about it, but what you're going to lose is the really soft nature of those lenses, maybe on the edges, maybe in the middle, you know, maybe it won't work as well onf/2 or f-22, but it will be the lens that will make the biggest difference in your impression.

I hope you enjoyed that it kind of escalated to something that I probably didn't think it was going to be when it started, but I think it was really very interesting and I think it shows that you can actually print some pretty large images with cameras that are considered very high resolution and in that I have two images that I just wanted to share with you. I just put them on. on my website as new portfolio images, so the first one is this one, they both print the sky and this one is quite interesting because, speaking of a lower resolution, because it's actually taking my drone, it's a composition that I think I showed In one of my other videos six images all stacked together made for an awesome morning.

I didn't want to include too much of the sky, but it looks so good printed. I am very happy with it. The details down here are truly incredible. I mean. I think the resulting file was about 60 megapixels anyway, so I'll put that one in and I also put this one in, which is actually one of my favorite images from last year, which was this green stone that we saw at a workshop and it was one day pretty boring cloudy, but again this was on my Fuji xt3 with a ten to twenty-four lens and actually looking at the corners here, it's a little soft here, but it can't be done. any difference so that the image can focus your eye or fix it here and there's a lot to say, it really looks good, so they're both on my website now and talking about my website.

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I've had a great time and am now off to Tortora in Scotland to do some wild prints. It's going to be interesting, okay, see you next Sunday, bye.