Fujifilm XF50 mm F2 R Weather Resistant Lens, Black

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The best sharpness from theFujifilm 50mm f2 R WR comes when you use a flash. In this case, I used the X500 flash from Fujifilm and dialed the TTL compensation down. The result: a beautifully sharp photo. Extra Image Samples For a second example, I photographed London’s Tower Bridge, again with both lenses from the same distance and closed to f16. Here’s the full view, followed again by crops of the best-defined spikes. Would I have bothered taking a similar image, or even got a similar result, with the 56mm F1.2? Who knows. Fujifilm 50mm F2 and Wedding Photography So in all honesty, I need to give Fujifilm some serious credit. TheFujifilm 50mm f2 R WR is highly capable when it comes to build quality and it can take quite a beating. Ease of Use

Even at f/2, vignetting from the lens isn’t distasteful. It’s tolerable for most applications and can be of benefit for portraiture and other subjects, where you’d like to encourage the viewer’s eye from the edge to the centre of the frame. If you’re looking for a genuine film look though, theFujifilm 50mm f2 R WR pairs best with the Fujifilm X Pro 1 over the X Pro 2. The Fujifilm X Pro 2 is better with colors when you’re talking about the digital world, but not so much with tones. I’ve done some pretty extensive comparisons after reviewing lots of Fujifilm film emulsions and the only thing the X Pro 2 gets pretty perfect is Acros.MPB puts photo and video kit into more hands, more sustainably. Every month, visual storytellers sell more than 20,000 cameras and lenses to MPB. Choose used and get affordable access to kit that doesn’t cost the earth.

The quality of out-of-focus highlights means a lot to photographers who like to generate images with a shallow depth of field. Bokeh has a tendency to shift from circular in the centre to an elliptical shape at the edges. The closest lens in Fuji’s catalogue, at least in terms of focal length, is the older XF 56mm f1.2. This employs 11 elements in eight groups including one aspherical and two extra low dispersion elements, sports a maximum focal ratio of f1.2, uses seven rounded aperture blades, and has a closest focusing distance of 70cm for a maximum reproduction of 0.09x. Again there’s no optical stabilisation, although Fujifilm does offer an APD version of the XF 56mm f1.2 lens which delivers a softer rendering style to out-of-focus areas which some portrait photographers will prefer.If we stop all three down to f/2.8 – the fastest aperture they share – the rendering becomes much more similar. X-T20, 1/2400, f/2.8, ISO 200 – XF 50mm X-T20, 1/2400, f/2.8, ISO 200 – XF 56mm X-T20, 1/2200, f/2.8, ISO 200 – XF 60mm