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Well-shot comparisons like this one should be helpful for those wavering between the compact X100s and the SLR-sized X-Pro 1 or XE with the massive (and impressive) XF 23/1,4 R Fufjifilm lens.
Fuji vs. Fuji is a comparison site with scattered, but interesting information about Fuji cameras and lenses. I expect great things from it in the coming months.
Even the ranks of Fujifilm's lineup of excellent XF lenses has its shining stars. Perhaps this year's brightest is the long-awaited 23mm/1.4R fast wide-angle. Though many users have contributed personal usage reports, news from the top of the English-speaking camera world is always welcome.
via @DPReview's growing XF 23 F1.4 R review
Post purchase, most of my Canon P life was spent behind a Canon 50/1,4 LTM lens. I’m definitely not a street shooter. I like distance; I like my space. 50mm is a good insulator. It keeps me just far enough away from goddam people. But there’s this thing about lenses and cameras that attracts geeks like me. And with my purchase of the X-Pro 1, more than just the Canon P’s brilliant 1:1 viewfinder beckoned to be filled.
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Fujifilm's long-awaited XF 23mm F1,4 R lens received its official press kick off today. You can read the entire thing at DPreview. This lens should give a very similar field of view to Fujifilm's X100 camera and add an extra stop of light for the shallower depth of field necessary to rival benchmark 35mm f/2,0 film rangefinder and SLR lenses.
At 300g and 63mm long, it is a rather large 'normal' lens, especially when fitted to bodies that are meant to mimic the look and feel of rangefinder cameras, whose 35mm lenses are much smaller. Of course, it autofocuses, and they don't.
The XF23mm F1,4R is slated to arrive in October at the rather hefty price point of 899,95$ / 849,99£, but knowing Fujifilm's lenses, it should fail to disappoint.
Image taken with the X-Pro 1 and Nikkor 10,5/2,5 PC LTM
I’m one of those boring chaps that favours the 50mm equivalent focal length. I also do a lot of free-lensing and faux-macro with normal lenses. Fuji’s excellent X lenses just don’t work well for the way I shoot, and because I have perfectly good lenses already, I'm not in the market. Two lenses I’ve had for years: the Zeiss Biogon 2/35 ZM and the 2/35 Canon LTM, are favourites of mine.
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