The Fujifilm GFX 100 can now capture gigantic 400-megapixel images, courtesy of newly released firmware announced today by the manufacturer.
With its 102MP medium format image sensor, the Fujifilm GFX 100 was already capable of capturing enormous (and enormously detailed) files, but the new firmware version 3.00 adds the much-anticipated Pixel Shift Multi-Shot feature. This captures and combines 16 images into a single 400MP shot.
This is made possible by the GFX 100’s in-body image stabilization system, which is designed to counteract camera shake by making micro-adjustments to the image sensor in order to compensate for movement.
Pixel Shift Multi-Shot, however, turns this technology on its head and instead shifts the image sensor by 0.5 pixels between each frame to incrementally record high-resolution RGB pixel information while capturing 16 RAW images. You can then open these files into Pixel Shift Combiner to merge them into a single 400MP image, which can then be outputted as a DNG RAW file in editing software such as Capture One.