At just 735 grams, this must be the lightest, smallest, large format digital camera around! Fujifilm has just released the GFX100RF and it should be available in stores from 7 April.

It’s a specialty camera with a fixed lens the equivalent of 28mm on a ‘full frame’ sensor. And it’s very stylish with a clean chrome top deck and a traditional ‘leatherette’-like finish. This is a camera for photographers who already have it all, or who are pursuing a genre like street or travel photography where they don’t want to compromise on image quality, just because their camera is small.

The 35mm f4 is a fixed lens, so unlike the other GFX cameras, you won’t be changing lenses around, but if you’re wanting to follow in the footsteps of famous documentary and photojournalism photographers, the lens is plenty wide-enough and there are more than sufficient pixels to allow generous cropping as well.  In fact, Fujifilm is encouraging us to crop with a new aspect ratio dial, allowing you to switch between nine different formats, from square to panorama. And there are 20 film simulations so if your aim is to shoot everything ‘in camera’, there should be minimal adjustments required in post-production.

The GFX100RF features Fujifilm’s high-speed 102-megapixel Large Format CMOS II sensor and its X Processor 5. You can also shoot 4K/30P video at 4:2:2 10-bit and the built-in AI subject detection will actually make it a lot easier to shoot from the hip than it was in the old days!

I’m currently on the Scotia Sea heading towards South Georgia – when I’m back, we’ll grab a GFX100RF for review in a future issue of the magazine.

For further details, click here to visit the Fujifilm website.