Hockey Mourning in Canada Edition - What you're "not" supposed to do with the GFX100RF
I just recently got the GFX100RF and have owned an XT5 with multiple prime lenses for some time.
Everyone talks about lack of IBIS and F4 and NOT using it indoors and in the dark.. well I thought I'd test my luck.
Ofcourse don't be overly clinical of these shots because that will defeat the purpose...
You're not going to get studio quality shots from this indoors and with hardly any light but hey I'm actually very impressed. I knew that the medium format could push ISO but just wasn't quite sure how far. I did do post processing on an uncompressed 16 bit RAW file to try and recover and hey I'm actually happy with the results! Any RAF had denoising applied via LR.
And to the actual point of my shots... to try and do what I could to document what 5AM hockey in Canada (Vancouver) looks like while simultaneously trying to not get a heart attack multiple times...which in the end resulted in a bitter loss to team Canada. But it was a great game. A great vibe, and can't say it's often you have a 5AM beer... at least at my point in life!
All photos needed to be shrunk down (1.5 mb files you're looking at vs 70 mb full files) since I can't upload these massive jpegs so... yeah also doesn't do the photo justice but bear with my scientific fun experiment.
*On the subject of AF in the dark*... don't recommend face/eye detection at all.
Settings per photo
all photos F4 so i could shoot "wide open"
Photo 1 - RAF ss 1/60, iso 25600
Photo 2 - RAF ss 1/60, iso 102400 (wtf?!)
Photo 3 - RAF ss 1/60, iso 25600
Photo 4 - RAF ss 1/60, iso 25600
Photo 5 - RAF ss 1/125, iso 25600
Photo 6 - jpeg ss 1/60, iso 25600
Photo 7 - jpeg ss 1/60, iso 25600
Photo 8 - jpeg ss 1/125, iso 10000
Photo 9 - RAF ss 1/125, iso 25600
Congrats on the gold medal USA, enjoy it while it last. But 100% class act with Johnny Hockey
