{"id":9892,"date":"2017-02-17T17:12:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T17:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/?p=9892"},"modified":"2017-02-17T17:12:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T17:12:54","slug":"fujifilm-gfx-experiences-the-harsh-winter-in-mongolia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/fujifilm-gfx-experiences-the-harsh-winter-in-mongolia\/","title":{"rendered":"Fujifilm GFX experiences the harsh winter in Mongolia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firstly, thanks to everyone who attended the GFX lanuch in Singapore today 17th Feb 2017<br>\nHope everyone had a great time .. especially with the GFX<\/p>\n<p>Also thanks to Fujifilm Singapore for the continued support\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I was given the chance to test out the new Fujifilm GFX camera a few months ago.<br>\nBesides testing it out in normal environment in Singapore, shooting weddings and portraits, I also wanted to stress test it a bit more.<br>\nI wanted to see how it performs in a harsh environment.<br>\nSo I brought the camera to the harsh winter of Mongolia, where I was shooting at temperatures<br>\nof -30 degrees Celsius.<br>\nI stayed with the Mongolian horsemen, in their Ger Tents, enjoyed horse meat, mutton, and the freezing temperatures in the steppes..<br>\nI have to say the camera handled the situation very well. For a medium format camera, it performs well in low light situations, focusing was good enough, resolution was great ..<br>\nAs a travel photographer, traveling with the 3 available lenses ( 32-64mm, 63 mm f2.8, 120mm f4) with the GFX does not feel too heavy.<br>\nBattery life performed better than expected, though u cannot compare it with a DSLR.<br>\nOverall a great experience, and shooting with the camera can be very addictive.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a video of the images taken during the trip.<br>\nI was hosted by the horsemen, and portraits in the Ger Tent was with available light.<br>\nCamera was freezing cold most of the times, as long as I am not in the Ger tent..<\/p>\n<p>All photos here taken with the GFX<br>\nWith extra video coverage from the xt2<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/204559381\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/204559381\">mongolia in winter<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user18056517\">William Chua<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firstly, thanks to everyone who attended the GFX lanuch in Singapore today 17th Feb 2017 Hope everyone had a great time .. especially with the GFX Also thanks to Fujifilm Singapore for the continued support\u2026 I was given the chance to test out the new Fujifilm GFX camera a few months ago. Besides testing it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[267,377,376,136,345,380,379,378,269,50,32,16,189],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9893,"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9892\/revisions\/9893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}