Fuji 100-200mm
GF f/5.6 R LM OIS WR
(80-160mm equivalent)
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Fujifilm Fujinon GF 100-200mm f/5.6 R LM OIS WR (metal 67mm filter thread, 41.315 oz./1,171.2g with collar as shown, 36.950 oz./1,047.6g without 4.370 oz./123.95g collar, 2~5¼'/0.6~1.6m close focus, $1,500 new or about $1,200 used if you know How to Win at eBay). bigger.
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Half Dome in Clouds at Sunset, Yosemite Valley, 7:04 P.M., 07 May 2019. Fujifilm GFX 50R, Fujifilm GF 100-200mm f/5.6 OIS at 123.8 mm, f/11 at 1/20 at ISO 100, Perfectly Clear v3.7. bigger or full-resolution.
Yosemite Falls, 5:01 P.M., 07 May 2019. Fujifilm GFX 50R, Fujifilm GF 100-200mm f/5.6 OIS at 200mm, f/22 at 1/320 hand-held at ISO 100, Perfectly Clear v3.7, split-toned print. bigger.
Tree, Yosemite Valley, 7:04 .P.M., 07 May 2019. Fujifilm GFX 50R, Fujifilm GF 100-200mm f/5.6 OIS at 100mm, f/11 at 1/2 at ISO 100, Perfectly Clear v3.7, split-toned print. bigger.
Trees in the Merced River, Yosemite Valley, 2:58 P.M., 08 May 2019. Fujifilm GFX 50R, Fujifilm GF 100-200mm f/5.6 OIS at 100mm, f/16 at 1/18 at ISO 100, Perfectly Clear v3.7, split-toned print. bigger.
Rainbow in Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite Valley, 4:15 P.M., 08 May 2019. Fujifilm GFX 50R, Fujifilm GF 100-200mm f/5.6 OIS at 200mm, f/16 at 1/42 at ISO 100, Perfectly Clear v3.7. bigger.
Backlit Tree, Yosemite Valley, 5:05 P.M., 08 May 2019. Fujifilm GFX 50R, Fujifilm GF 100-200mm f/5.6 OIS at 164.5 mm, f/5.6 at 1/170 at ISO 100, Perfectly Clear v3.7, split-toned print. bigger.
Two Pine Trees on the Bank of the Merced River, Yosemite Valley, 7:26 P.M., 08 May 2019. Fujifilm GFX 50R, Fujifilm GF 100-200mm f/5.6 OIS at 100mm, f/16 at 2 seconds at ISO 100, Perfectly Clear v3.7. bigger.
Alpenglow, Yosemite Valley, 7:52 P.M., 08 May 2019. Fujifilm GFX 50R, Fujifilm GF 100-200mm f/5.6 OIS at 200mm, f/11 at 1/6 at ISO 100, Perfectly Clear v3.7. bigger.
Three Textures, Merced River, Yosemite Valley, 7:40 A.M., 09 May 2019. Fujifilm GFX 50R, Fujifilm GF 100-200mm f/5.6 OIS at 123.8 mm, f/22 at 1/6 at ISO 100, Perfectly Clear v3.7, split-toned print. bigger.
Flowing Water, Merced River, Yosemite Valley, 8:23 A.M., 10 May 2019. Fujifilm GFX 50R, Fujifilm GF 100-200mm f/5.6 OIS at 158.8 mm, f/16 at 1/7 second at ISO 100, Perfectly Clear v3.7, split-toned print. bigger.
More at Springtime in Yosemite, May 2019.
Introduction
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This GF 100-200mm lens is an all-purpose telephoto for Fujifilm's GFX series of medium format cameras.
As we'd expect for a premium lens with such a limited (2:1) zoom range and slow (f/5.6) speed, its optical performance is flawless.
It's limited zoom range is perfect for medium format, allowing us to make very precise compositional adjustments while on a tripod.
It's as big, but weighs less than 70-200/2.8 lenses for full-frame cameras. This is an easy lens to carry all day, and it's also super-easy and smooth to zoom very precisely with just a fingertip, even if pointed up or down.
I'd get my Fujifilm 100-200mm at Adorama, at Amazon or at at B&H, or used at eBay.
New
Fujifilm's first telephoto zoom for its digital medium-format GFX system.
A (AUTO) and C (Command-dial-controlled) positions of aperture ring now lock.
Good
Flawless optics.
Dedicated, locking aperture ring.
Stops down to f/32.
Internal focus and zoom, nothing moves externally.
Smooth, precise one-fingertip zooming.
Metal filter threads.
Made domestically in Japan.
Works with GF1.4x TC WR Teleconverter.
Tripod collar included.
Weather- and dust-sealed in 10 areas:
Fujifilm 100-200mm weather gaskets.
Fujifilm GFX 50R and GF 100-200mm covered in spray at the base of Yosemite Falls. bigger.
Bad
Electronic manual-focus ring, not a real mechanical one.
Missing
Removable tripod collar included, but it has no 90º click stops.
No focus scales, which could have been used for computing optimum apertures.
No depth-of-field scales.
Specifications
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Name
Fujifilm calls this the FUJINON LENS GF100-200mmF5.6 R LM OIS WR.
Fujinon is Fujifilm's brand name for their lenses.
GF means it works with Fujifilm's GFX medium format system.
R means it has an aperture ring.
LM means Linear (autofocus) Motor.
OIS means Optical Image Stabilization.
WR means weather resistant.
Fujifilm's model number is GF100-200mmF5.6 R LM OIS WR or 600020702.
Also has:
∅67: Takes 67mm filters.
Aspherical: Uses aspherically-shaped lens elements for sharper pictures.
Super EBC: Fujinon's brand of multicoating, standing for Super Electron-Beam Coated.
Optics
Fujinon internal optical construction. Aspherical and Super ED elements.
20 elements in 13 groups.
Two Super ED extra-low dispersion elements, which help reduce secondary axial chromatic aberration.
One Aspherical element.
Internal zooming; doesn't change length as zoomed.
Super Electron-Beam Coating (EBC).
Coverage
33 × 44mm Medium-Format (55mm image circle).
Diaphragm
Fujifilm GF 100-200mm (diaphragm not shown). bigger.
9 rounded blades.
Electronically actuated.
Stops down to f/32 in 1/3-stop clicks.
Focal Length
100~200mm.
When used on Fuji's 33 × 44mm Medium-Format cameras it sees the same angles of view as an 80~160mm lens sees when used on a full-frame (24 × 36mm) camera.
See also Crop Factor.
Angle of View
30.6º ～ 15.6º diagonal on GFX medium format.
Autofocus
No external movement as focussed, so no air or dust is sucked in.
Focus Scale
No.
Infinity Focus Stop
No.
Depth of Field Scales
No.
Reproduction Ratio Scale
No.
Infrared Focus Indices
No.
Close Focus
2 feet (0.6 meters) at 100mm to 5¼ feet (1.6 meters) at 200mm. (distances measured to image plane; distances to front of lens are closer.)
Maximum Reproduction Ratio
1:5 (0.2×) at 100mm. Yes, it gets biggest and closest at the 100mm, not 200mm, end.
Image Stabilizer
Yes, not rated for stops improvement.
Filters
Metal 67 mm filter thread.
Hood
The hood is included and has a little sliding door so you can rotate your grads and polarizers.
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Bottom, Fuji 100-200mm hood. bigger. |
Case
Black sack included. A sock works better.
Tripod Collar
The tripod collar is included and removable.
There are no 90º click stops.
Size
3.52" Ø maximum diameter × 7.20" extension from flange.
89.5 mm Ø maximum diameter × 183 mm extension from flange.
Weight
41.315 oz. (1,171.2 g) with collar.
36.950 oz. (1,047.6 g) without collar.
4.370 oz. (123.95 g), collar only.
Rated 37.0 oz. (1,050 g).
Quality
Made in Japan.
Environment
Rated to work down to -10º C (+14º F).
Announced
Fujifilm's Lens Roadmap, 25 September 2018.
Included
Lens.
FLCP-67 II 67mm front lens cap (p/n 16539807).
RLCP-002 G-mount rear cap (p/n 16539730).
Hood.
Tripod collar.
Black sack.
Packaging
Box, Fujifilm GF 100-200mm. bigger.
Microcorrugated cardboard box. Corrugami top section holding sack, closed-cell white foam below holding lens.
Fujifilm's Fujinon Model Number
GF100-200mmF5.6 R LM OIS WR or 600020702.
Price, USA
$1,500 new or about $1,200 used if you know How to Win at eBay, May 2019.
Performance
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Overall Autofocus Manual Focus Breathing Bokeh
Distortion Ergonomics Falloff Filters Flare & Ghosts
Lateral Color Fringes Macro Mechanics Sharpness
Spherochromatism Stabilization Sunstars
I'd get my Fujifilm 100-200mm at Adorama, at Amazon or at at B&H, or used at eBay.
Overall
This is an essentially flawless lens. Optics are flawless and operation is superb, too.
Autofocus
Autofocus speed is moderate, and it's silent.
Manual Focus
Manual focusing is entirely electronic; the manual focus ring isn't connected to anything other than a digital encoder.
Manual focus speed is dynamic: it focuses more quickly or more precisely based on how fast you turn the ring. It's easy to get from one end of the range to the next, and then to get precise magnified focus.
Focus Breathing
Focus breathing is the image changing size as focused in and out. It's important to cinematographers that the image not breathe because it looks funny if the image changes size as focus gets pulled back and forth between actors. If the lens does this, the image "breathes" by growing and contracting slightly as the dialog goes back and forth.
The image from the 100-200mm gets a little smaller as focussed more closely.
Bokeh
Bokeh, the feel or quality of out-of-focus areas as opposed to how far out of focus they are, is neutral to good. It's nice and soft.
Here are photos from headshot distance wide-open:
Davis 6250 weather station, 04 May 2019. bigger or camera-original © file.
Davis 6250 weather station, 04 May 2019. bigger or camera-original © file.
As always, if you want to throw the background as far out of focus as possible, shoot at f/5.6 at 200mm and get as close as possible.
Distortion
The Fujinon 100~200mm has no visible distortion, at least as shot on a GFX 50R which is probably correcting any that's there in its default Digital Lens Modulation Optimizer.
These aren't facts or specifications, they are the results of my research that requires hours of photography and calculations on the resulting data.
On 33 × 44mm at 10' (3m) |
Correction factor with Digital Lens Optimizer ON |
100mm |
+0.10 |
130mm |
±0.00 |
150mm |
±0.00 |
170mm |
±0.00 |
200mm |
±0.00 |
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Ergonomics
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This lens handles great.
The focus ring is only electronic, so who knows when it's working or not depending on how you have the camera set.
Zooming works so much better than other lenses: it's smooth, easy to turn and half the lens is zoom ring. A fingertip is all it takes to zoom precisely, even pointed straight up or down.
The zoom is so nice you're going to get caught just turning it back and forth for no reason as you're relaxing while counting your profits from the great photos you'll be selling made with this lens.
Falloff
Falloff is invisible, at least with the GFX 50R's default Lens Modulation Optimizer ON.
I've greatly exaggerated the falloff by shooting a gray field and placing these on a gray background; it will not look this bad in actual photos of real things:
Fujinon GF 100~200mm f/5.6 falloff at infinity.
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Filters, use with
There's no need for thin filters. I can stack several regular 67mm filters without any vignetting.
Go ahead and use your standard rotating polarizer and grad filters.
Flare & Ghosts
Flare and ghosts aren't a problem; there's only the slightest ghosting under extreme conditions. See Sunstars for a sample.
Lateral Color Fringes
There are no color fringes as shot on Fujifilm's cameras, which by default correct for any that may be there with the Digital Lens Optimizer.
Macro Performance
Oddly this lens gets closest and has the largest macro magnification at its 100mm setting, at which it works very well.
Wide-open at f/5.6
It's sharp wide-open:
Casio G-Shock Solar Atomic Watch at close-focus distance at 100mm, 04 May 2019. bigger or camera-original © file.
Here's a crop from this image:
1,200 × 900 pixel crop from above. bigger or camera-original © file.
If this crop is about 3" (7.5cm) wide on your screen, then the complete image printed at this same high magnification would be about 14-1/2 × 21-3/4" (1.2 × 1.8 feet or 37 × 55 cm).
If this crop is about 6" (15cm) wide on your screen, then the complete image printed at this same extreme magnification would be about 29 × 43" (2.4 × 3.6 feet or 0.75 × 1.1 meters).
If this crop is about 12" (30cm) wide on your screen, then the complete image printed at this same insane level of magnification would be about 58 × 87" (4.8 × 7.2 feet or 1.5 × 2.2 meters).
At f/11
Stopped down it gets even sharper:
Casio G-Shock Solar Atomic Watch at close-focus distance at 200mm, 04 May 2019. bigger or camera-original © file.
Here's a crop from this image:
1,200 × 900 pixel crop from above. bigger or camera-original © file.
If this crop is about 3" (7.5cm) wide on your screen, then the complete image printed at this same high magnification would be about 14-1/2 × 21-3/4" (1.2 × 1.8 feet or 37 × 55 cm).
If this crop is about 6" (15cm) wide on your screen, then the complete image printed at this same extreme magnification would be about 29 × 43" (2.4 × 3.6 feet or 0.75 × 1.1 meters).
If this crop is about 12" (30cm) wide on your screen, then the complete image printed at this same insane level of magnification would be about 58 × 87" (4.8 × 7.2 feet or 1.5 × 2.2 meters).
Mechanical Quality
Fujifilm GF 100-200mm. bigger.
This beautiful lens is almost all metal.
Hood
Plastic bayonet hood with locking pawl.
Front Bumper
None.
Filter Threads
Metal.
Hood Bayonet Mount
Metal.
Focus Ring
Rubbery.
Zoom Ring
Rubber-covered metal.
Aperture Ring
Metal.
Rear Barrel Exterior
Metal.
Identity
Engraved and filled with paint around front of lens and on top of barrel near mount.
Internals
Seems like all metal!
Dust Gasket at Mount
Yes.
Mount
Chromed brass.
Markings
Most are engraved and filled with paint as they should be, with some minor markings laser-engraved.
Serial Number
Laser engraved on the side of the barrel, just ahead of the tripod collar.
Date Code
None found.
Noises When Shaken
Mild clunking from the uncaged OIS section and the focus groups.
Made in
Japan.
Sharpness
Lens sharpness has nothing to do with picture sharpness; every lens made in the past 100 years is more than sharp enough to make super-sharp pictures if you know what you're doing. The only limitation to picture sharpness is your skill as a photographer. It's the least talented who spend the most time worrying about lens sharpness and blame crummy pictures on their equipment rather than themselves. Skilled photographers make great images with whatever camera is in their hands; I've made some of my best images of all time with an irreparably broken camera! Most pixels are thrown away before you see them, but camera makers don't want you to know that.
If you still care, this lens is flawlessly sharp at every aperture from center to corner. The only thing you can do wrong is stop down too much, because the laws of physics are such that it's supposed to be soft at f/22 and f/32 due to diffraction. Only use f/32 if you really need it.
If you're not getting ultra-sharp pictures with this, be sure not to shoot at f/22 or smaller where all lenses are softer due to diffraction, always shoot at ISO 100 because cameras become softer at ISO 200 and above, avoid shooting across long distances over land which can lead to atmospheric heat shimmer, be sure everything is in perfect focus, set your camera's sharpening as you want it and be sure nothing is moving, either camera or subject. If you want to ensure a soft image with any lens, shoot at f/32 at ISO 102,400 at default sharpening in daylight through heat shimmer of rapidly moving subjects at differing distances in the same image.
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MTF at 100mm at 40 cyc/mm. |
MTF at 100mm at 40 cyc/mm. |
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MTF at 200mm at 40 cyc/mm. |
MTF at 200mm at 40 cyc/mm. |
Spherochromatism
Spherochromatism, also called "color bokeh" by laymen, is an advanced form of chromatic aberration in a different dimension than lateral color. It can cause colored fringes on out-of-focus highlights, usually seen as green fringes on backgrounds and magenta fringes on foregrounds. Spherochromatism is common in fast lenses of moderate focal length when shooting contrasty items at full aperture. It goes away as stopped down.
I see no spherochromatism with this lens, it's not that fast so I wouldn't expect to.
Image Stabilization
The built-in stabilization works wonders. I can handhold with perfect sharpness at 18 to 1/15 of a second!
"Percent Perfectly Sharp Shots" are the percentage of frames with 100% perfect tripod-equivalent sharpness I get when I'm shooting hand-held while standing with no support. Hand tremor is a random occurrence, so at marginal speeds some frames will be perfectly sharp while others will be in various stages of blur — all at the same shutter speed. This rates what percentage of shots are perfectly sharp, not how sharp all the frames are:
| % Perfectly Sharp Shots at 100mm | 1 |
1/2 |
1/4 |
1/8 |
1/15 |
1/30 |
1/60 |
1/125 |
1/250 |
1/500 |
| Stabilization ON | 0 |
3 |
17 |
83 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
| Stabilization OFF | 0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
67 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
| % Perfectly Sharp Shots at 200mm | 1 |
1/2 |
1/4 |
1/8 |
1/15 |
1/30 |
1/60 |
1/125 |
1/250 |
1/500 |
| Stabilization ON | 0 |
0 |
33 |
50 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
| Stabilization OFF | 0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
50 |
100 |
100 |
As you can see the 100-200mm's stabilizer adds about three to four stops of real-world stabilization. Astounding is that I can shoot at 1/8 to 1/15 and get perfect tripod-equivalent sharpness almost all the time!
Sunstars
With a 9-bladed rounded diaphragm at large apertures that becomes nonagonal at the smallest apertures, I get 18-pointed sunstars on brilliant points of light only at the smallest apertures.
Here's the best you're going to get at f/32. God beams are exaggerating the effect because this is shot in heavy mist at the base of Yosemite Falls:
Godbeams and Sunstars at f/32. bigger.
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Full / 5m - ∞ Switch
This is a focus distance limiter.
Leave it in FULL.
The 5m - ∞ position prevents the lens from autofocusing closer than 5 meters (16 feet). Use this setting only if you're having a problem with the lens attempting to focus on irrelevant close items, or if for some reason the lens is "hunting" from near to far looking for distant subjects.
OIS ON - OFF Switch
Leave it ON hand-holding.
Leave it ON if on a tripod and making short exposures up to about 1/8 second, especially if you're not using the electronic or electronic front-curtain shutter.
Leave it OFF when making exposures longer than a second on a tripod, or if you have a very sturdy tripod.
Recommendations
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I'd get my Fujifilm 100-200mm at Adorama, at Amazon or at at B&H, or used at eBay.
This is a superb do-everything telephoto for Fujifilm's GFX series of medium format cameras. Its ultraprecise zooming is great for tripod landscape use, where I always can set the perfect framing easily with a fingertip.
I use a clear (UV) protective filter instead of a cap so I'm always ready to shoot instantly. I only use a cap when I throw this in a bag with other gear without padding — which is never. The UV filter never gets in the way, and never gets lost, either.
The very best protective filter is the Hoya multicoated HD3 67mm UV which uses hardened glass and repels dirt and fingerprints.
For less money, the B+W 67mm 010 is an excellent filter, as are the multicoated version and the basic multicoated Hoya filters, but the Hoya HD3 is the toughest and the best.
Filters last a lifetime, so you may as well get the best. The Hoya HD3 stays cleaner than the others since it repels oil and dirt.
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