Fujifilm XF56 mm F1.2 R Lens

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You will also notice on the 50mm there is a slight pulsing to find the eye, but the 56mm F1.2 WR performs these autofocus pulls rather smoothly. Fringing is consistently low across the entire image frame, regardless of aperture. Aberrations just become visible once you stop down to f/8 and narrower apertures. Extras Fuji Filter Thread Sizes Lightroom 5.7 vs. 6.1 for X-Trans Best X-Trans RAW Converter Long Exposure Photography Tips Heavy Issues Mirrorless vs DSLR weight Adobe’s Fujifilm Camera Calibration Profiles Film Simulation Modes Compared Fujifilm Metering ONA Bowery vs. Billingham Hadley Small Compared to lenses before it, the XF 56mm F1.2 is a serious hunk of glass. As primes go, it still has the most impressive front element. It’s a bit chunky, and feels substantial. While not exceptionally heavy, I’d still at least consider my choice of camera body with the XF 56mm F1.2. Aperture and Focus Rings

Fujifilm Fujinon XF56mmF1.2 R WR review | Digital Camera World

I had no real issues with the first version of this lens regarding focus speed, but I know that that, along with sharpness wide open, is what most people are interested in with the new version. Some longitudinal aberrations are present a wide apertures. This is to be expected with larger aperture lenses. I’ve seen much worse however. If this lens has chromatic aberrations, I have yet to find them. Conclusion and Rating

Both lenses had very audible motor noises, which was annoying. I could not use any of the B-Roll for video, unless I was using an external microphone. I make a promise to you, the Fujifilm 56mm f/1.2, that I will use you much more regularly and keep persevering with you in terms of my travel photography! In comparison, the previous 56mm F1.2 lens weighs 405 g and its dimensions are 73.2 x 69.7 mm. It has 11 Elements in 8 Groups and minimum focus distance of 70 cm and filter thread of 62mm.

Fujifilm 56mm F1.2 R WR (Mark II) Review Fujifilm 56mm F1.2 R WR (Mark II) Review

With their apertures wide open both the 56mm and Nocticron rendered blurred specular highlights as oval / cats-eye shapes towards the edges, but this effect was much more pronounced on the Nocticron. However the Nocticron’s blurred highlights suffered from less outlining than the 56mm and to my eyes were creamier too. Both lenses thankfully avoided the concentric circles inside blurred highlights though. Since you already mentioned how you would prefer XF 50mm f2 for travel & portrait rather than XF 56mm f1.2, I wanted to ask for your opinion regarding 35mm entering the equation. It can focus 20cms closer than its predecessor, and consequently has a larger maximum magnification (0.9x on the original version). In the past, an apodization filter has only been used on a manual focus lens, this is the first to use high-precision contrast AF.

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His first serious camera was the iconic Olympus OM10, with which he won the title of Young Photographer of the Year - long before the advent of autofocus and memory cards.Today he uses a Nikon D800, a Fujifilm X-T1, a Sony A7, and his iPhone 11 Pro. The Fujifilm XF 56mm F1.2 R WR is a fast mid-telephoto prime lens for Fujifilm's X-series range of APS-C format mirrorless cameras. I can honestly say that I believe this lens is noticeably snappier when it comes to focusing acquisition. I used it on my X-Pro3 and my newly acquired X-H2S, which performed amazingly well. No Linear Motor

Fujifilm 56mm F1.2 R WR (Mark II) Review

It toggles between auto aperture control (the ring is set to A) or manual aperture control (the switch is set to one of the aperture values). I’ll come out and say it now that I’d probably go as far to say that this is the perfect portrait lens for the Fujifilm X Series. 56mm (85mm on full frame) is a brilliant focal length for full length portraits as well as headshots. Combine that with a super fast aperture of f/1.2 and you have an incredibly dreamy lens. The wedding photographer’s lenses of choice seem to be the 23mm and 56mm on two separate bodies and, from the few weddings I’ve shot, that has worked brilliantly for me. It’s around F4 that the bokeh balls on the 56mm start to gain sharper edges, rendering the bokeh balls less usable. The bokeh transitions are going to be good on both lenses. It’s far from busy, and you will be able to separate your subject from the environment with these lenses.The build quality will be excellent for most. The 50mm F1 and 56mm F1.2 WR are made out of similar, if not identical material. It is a metal alloy of some sort. It has an optical formula comprised of 13 elements in eight groups including one ED element to reduce flare and ghosting and two aspherical elements to help limit distortion and spherical aberrations. The apodization filter delivers its best results at wider apertures. To enable wide apertures to be used even in bright environments, an ND filter is included that adjusts brightness in three levels. To indicate the apodizing effect, the lens features an aperture ring showing the effective F No. in red. The difference between the F No. and the effective F No. indicates the effectiveness of the apodization filter.

56mm f/1.2 R WR lens - Photo Review Fujinon XF 56mm f/1.2 R WR lens - Photo Review

The Fujifilm XF 56mm F1.2 R WR lens has an internal focusing (IF) system that uses a DC linear motor, which results in pleasingly fast and accurate auto-focusing on the X-H2/S camera that we tested it with. Here are a few Fuji prime lenses that could be used forsimilar purposes to the XF 56mm. They are all good lenses, although none are as fast or exhibit quite the same bokeh: The closest focusing distance is 0.7m for a maximum magnification of 0.09x. This is closer than the 0.85m of the Canon EF 85mm f1.8, but further than the 0.5m of the Leica Nocticron. In use the 56mm can focus close enough for pretty much any portrait situation but I found it less flexible than the Nocticron for casual macro work. Sure the Nocticron at 0.5m is only delivering slightly greater 0.1x magnification, but it does allow you to get closer to non-portrait subjects for more detail. Below is an example of shooting close to the minimum focusing distance.The fly-by-wire focus ring is smooth in action without being loose, although it has no “hard stops” at either end of the focus range, making it more difficult to focus on infinity. Once again compared to lenses released before it, the aperture ring feels better, and great. The aperture ring on my early copy is comparatively looser than any of the newer F2WR lenses, but much tighter than Fuji’s earliest-released lenses. Hood