Fujifilm XF35 mm F1.4 R Lens

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Bokeh is not easily definable as you look at individual images – but a lens with great bokeh makes a surprising difference in the overall atmosphere of your pictures. The Fujifilm XF 35mm F1.4 R lens boasts a metal mount, high-grade metal barrel and non-rotating 52mm filter thread. The focus ring is generously wide, smooth in action without being loose, and has a ridged, rubberised grip band. There are “hard stops” at either end of the 28cm-infinity focus range. The Fuji 35mm f/1.4 lens is widely regarded as one of the best lenses for Fujifilm cameras, particularly due to its outstanding quaulity of image and sharpness. Its fast aperture allows you to capture great detail even in low-light situations, while its wide field of view lets you capture a lot of your scene in a single shot. Plus, I’ll explain some of the terminology that can help you decipher the names of the lenses in Fuji’s X Series (LM, OIS, R, WR, say what?) so you can more easily assess lenses in the future. Thank you for the comment! I always knew it would be good just gutted I didn’t get it a few years ago for travelling Australia!When looking at these sample photos, you can really see they are almost indistinguishable with color and contrast when I edit them in the same style. But with the 35mm f1.4, I get to play a little more with that depth. PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. If you are bothered by what you see wide open, you can take care of vignetting easily using post-processing software like Lightroom or Photoshop.

To sum it up, the 35mm f2 is really more of a casual, adventure lens while the 35mm f1.4 is more of a pro portrait lens. Lens Stats – 35mm f1.4 Good review, but this conclusion has nothing to do with the reality of optical design. It’s just physical compromises and marketing decisions. Fuji knows how to design reference lenses since decades. They made trade offs to offer a compact f1.4 lens with the launch of the system. They could have done a bigger 1.4 with much improved corner sharpness, but it woudn’t have fit the size of the body. And they could have launched the system with this f2.0. But f2.0 doesn’t draw that much attention.

The Fujinon XF35mm f/1.4 R is effectively a smart fast standard prime for Fujifilm’s APS-C format X-mount cameras

Helped by firmware corrections applied automatically in-camera, there’s only a very small amount of barrel distortion. Verdict At this 1m focus distance, the XF 35mm f/2 is showing to be the sharper lens across the frame while maintaining similar bokeh to its older brother. At this distance, the 35mm f/2 is the superior lens, provided you don’t need that potentially all-important full stop of aperture. That extra speed gets you lower ISO in dim condition and better subject separation when shooting shallow depth of field. How important those points are to you will help guide your decision. Candidly, I don’t love the Fuji 35mm f/2. It’s a bit cheaper than the 1.4, and on paper, it’s certainly up to snuff: other than a cheaper build quality (plastic vs metal) and a slower aperture, you could even make the case that it’s a better lens.

The only travel photography this may not be suited to is wildlife photography. Most wild animals have very good ears and could be startled by the soft whirring sound of the focus rings. Some lenses are totally silent – so if your focus is wildlife photography and you don’t want to take the risk, it may be better to go for one of these. Fujifilm 35mm Lens Price Range Last year before a trip to Florida, I bought the 16mm f/1.4 as well as the 35mm f/2. I spent hours reading blog posts and watching YouTube videos about this age old question; which version of the 35mm lens to buy? Every article, every video, all mentioned the ‘magic’ of the Fujifilm 35mm f/1.4 version but this was never something that could accurately be described. I guess I was a bit cynical about this and so the complaints about noise and slow focus put me off and I went for the f/2 version. It’s cheaper, smaller, quiet, weather resistant and fast to focus. Are you on a mid-level budget, and you want superior image quality, sharpness, bokeh, and you don’t care about weather-resistance? Get the 35mm f1.4.The build quality of Fuji lenses is excellent and the 35mm f/1.4 is no exception. Unlike some of the plastic lenses we see on modern DSLR lenses today, the lens has an all-metal barrel, a metal mount and even a metal hood. It has a compact construction, small size and half the amount of glass when compared to full-frame lenses (with the lens being only designed for APS-C sensors). At just 187 grams, it is pretty comparable to the Nikon 50mm f/1.8G. It balances pretty well with every Fuji X series camera. its “glass-molded aspheric lens at the 5th element, which minimizes spherical aberration” and (that’s what my gut feeling is telling me) is responsible for this unique image character I was writing above Basically, something is either wrong with your 35 f/1.4 or you need to find a better focusing point.

The review of theFuji XF 35mm 1.4 lens, covers the pros and cons, and all the specs you need to consider when deciding if this is the right lens for you depending on your photography style. In summary, there is not much to complain about this lens sharpness-wise. When shooting JPEG, it seems like there is little difference between f/1.4 and and f/5.6 in the center (which is remarkable), thanks to the smart lens corrections applied by Fuji. Corners are a little weaker at large apertures, but that’s about it. When shooting RAW, results will vary depending on what RAW converter you use. Based on my tests, I would say that Photo Ninja is probably the next best thing to JPEG images. Bokeh You can benchmark contrast or bokeh roundness, but sometimes, the marriage of certain optical elements produces a unique look and feel. The Fuji XF 35mm f/1.4 has scores of dedicated loyalists across the world who've fallen in love with the color reproduction and woozy mix of sharpness and creaminess produced specifically by this lens.

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Haha they definitely my two favourite lenses now! Just unbelievable results that I’ve missed out on for so long! When looking at build quality alone, the 35mm f2 is nicer. It’s a single barrel with internal focusing, so nothing moves. The 35mm f1.4 has two barrels where the outer barrel dances around when focusing. I’ve dropped the 35mm f2 from waist high on concrete by accident once, and everything is still fine. Most lenses wouldn’t survive that. Don’t drop your lenses obviously.