So what do people use a standard lens for? Well, just about everything I guess. Add to that improved portability, weather resistance, as well as much faster focussing, and I will not hesitate to call this lens a new favourite of mine. The smoothness of the OOF areas is much improved, and I actually prefer the 35mm f/2 bokeh to that of the 35mm f/1.4. Give this lens golden color light and you will get some of the most rich and vibrant images possible, just as the XF 35mm f/1.4 gives you. So what about that magic! – Does it retain just some of what makes the XF 35mm such a special lens for so many people? – From my limited time with the lens I would say yes. The coating of the lens is no less than fantastic. Give it sun light during the golden hour and the colors will gloom at you! Give it harsh cold light, and it will do great highlight preservation without blowing them. It renders the images in a very varm tone. The XF 35mm f/2 has exactly that! A defined signature. Its much more important how all these things come together. It isn’t the sharpness of an image that makes an image. I know that sharpness isn’t all its cracked up to be. This is where things gets really interesting.ĭoes it render like the 35mm f/1.4? YES, and more! Its hard to say if it’s the lens or the cameras, but in dark conditions you can still get som occasional focus hunting. The focus is internal, meaning that you don’t have a protruding barrell like on the XF 35mm f/1.4 This makes the lens oh so much more useful in those highpaced moments that life throws at you! It’s superfast, and dead accurate! It’s closest competitor is the XF 23mm f/1.4 which has been rated as the fastest focussing lens in the XF lineup. The focussing speed of the new 35mm f/2 is an entirely different ballgame. Especially on the new FW 4.0 for the X-T10 and X-T1 the 35mm f/1.4 is vastly improved in this regard. Various firmware updates to the lens have made it quite accurate and whole lot faster. The old 35 f/1.4 was not a excactly a precision speed daemon at launch. It has a near-focus limit of 35cm, and a maximum magnification of 0.135x. The aperture diapragm is made up of 9 rounded blades. It is constructed of 9 lens elements in 6 groups with 2 aspherical elements. The lens weighs in at 170g and is sized at 60 mm in diameter and 45,9 mm in length. (Even on the black X-Pro1, but then again I have a thing for silver lenses on black bodies!) Regardless, it looks perfectly fine on the XT1 as well. It isn’t the Graphite Silver variant of the XT1 GS. The silver finish is made to match the silver of the X-T10, X-E2, X-A2. And from reading the WR moniker on the box/lens this lens comes with weather resistancy! Weather Resistant BuildĪvailable in both black and silver finishes, I received the latter version. When I received my test-copy of the lens the validity of the above 4 main points was of course what I said out to test. Something that will play on diversity, and give the photographer a choice depending on the task at hand.įrom what I saw from the reveal back in the beginning of 2015 I hence expected this lens to be: What I feel Fujifilm needs to accomplish when they take away an f-stop of light, is to add something else in other areas of the lens design. They can now start to add different variants of similar focal lengths, adding a higher level of diversity to the line-up. With the initial reveal of the XF 35mm f/2 R WR Fujifilm made it abundantly clear that the X-series lens selection is getting closer to completion. The product shots were taken using the X-T1 with the XF56mm f/1.2 and the MCEX-11. DISCLAIMER: The lens used for this review is a pre-production unit, and image quality might not be final.
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