My Fujifilm GFX100RF review for landscape is out!

[Vieri]

In September 2025, Fujifilm Italy kindly loaned me a Fujifilm GFX100RF, letting me keep it until April 2026 to try it out for my landscape work. Over the six months I had the camera, except for about a month over Christmas and New Year I have been on the road non-stop, both for my personal work and to lead Workshops.

The camera has been with me all over the world: Italy (Cinque Terre & Tuscany), Spain (Asturias & the Northern Coast), the USA (Oregon, Death Valley and the Southwest), Ireland (the Northern Coast), then Italy again (Comacchio’s lagoons), Scotland (Glencoe & the Isle of Skye), Ireland (the Northern Coast again), Iceland and finally on the Faroe Islands.

Technically speaking, this gave me the opportunity to test it on the most diverse variety of landscapes, from the ocean to the mountains, from dry deserts to boggy moorlands and everything in between, and use it under all sorts of weather conditions, from gale force winds to rain and snow, and temperatures from mild end of summer in Spain to extremely cold winters in the north of Europe.

Artistically speaking, this allowed me to put it through its paces on a wide variety of photographic situations, from iconic vistas to intimate, minimalist compositions, requiring different treatment both at the time of shooting and when it came to post-process the files.

The article linked below the result of these six months on the road. As always, my findings and my conclusions are based on my work as a Fine Art landscape photographer; if you do a different kind of photography, my conclusions might not apply to you. Enjoy!

https://www.vieribottazzini.com/2026/05/fujifilm-gfx100rf-review.html

Best regards,

Vieri

 

[JimFox]

Hey Vieri,

I was traveling so I just now had a chance to sit down and read this. It's very well written, and I enjoyed your images taken with it. It certainly seems very capable!

 

[Vieri]

Hey Vieri,

I was traveling so I just now had a chance to sit down and read this. It's very well written, and I enjoyed your images taken with it. It certainly seems very capable!

Hey Jim,

thank you for taking the time to read and comment, much appreciated - the GFX100RF is a really lovely camera to use and can create incredible images when used within its fixed lens limitations, so to speak. But, if a 28mm FOV equivalent lens is your thing, there is nothing like it. Small, light, powerful, medium format, 100Mp, nothing wrong with any of that - now, if only they made a wider version and a longer version!

Best,

Vieri

 

[Kyle Jones]

I appreciate the review and your images are excellent as always. I just can't see myself being limited to a single focal length.

 

[AlanLichty]

Very nice writeup Vieri - a worthwhile read for anyone who want to keep up with the medium format world. Like Kyle I would be lost without the flexibility of my zoom lenses these days.

 

[Vieri]

I appreciate the review and your images are excellent as always. I just can't see myself being limited to a single focal length.

Thank you Kyle, glad you enjoyed the read & the work with it. Indeed, as a sole camera the single focal length is way too limiting - I was interested in seeing how it behaved for the kind of work I do, and the GFX100RF passed that test with flying colours. I enjoy having my own as a backup to my film camera, and who knows - if Fujifilm will someday add an ultra-wide and a normal model then I can see a 3-cameras kit as a serious alternative to a 1-2 bodies, 3 lens kit.

Very nice writeup Vieri - a worthwhile read for anyone who want to keep up with the medium format world. Like Kyle I would be lost without the flexibility of my zoom lenses these days.

Thank you Alan, glad you enjoyed the article! I am a prime-only guy, and have been for the last 6 years; 8 years if you add my X1D years, where there were no zoom lenses until the 35-75mm appeared (and I left the system shortly after). More than the lack of a zoom, it's the lack of a couple more bodies, one with an ultra-wide and one with a normal lens, that make the GFX100RF a no-go as my sole system (weren't I shooting film, that is). But, if Fujifilm saw in their heart to add a couple more cameras, that would make for an amazing, portable MF kit in my view.

Best regards,

Vieri