#Fujinon XF 80mm f/2.8 R LM OIS WR Macro

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Unveiled: The New Fujifilm XE-3 Mirrorless Digital Camera

In a triple announcement, Fujifilm has released the new Fujfilm X-E3 interchangeable-lens mirrorless camera, the FUJINON XF 80mm f/2.8R LM OIS WR Macro Lens, and, for the GFX shooters, the FUJINON GF 45mm f/2.8 R WR medium format lens.

#fujifilm #new fujifilm camera #fujifilm xe-3 #fujinon #fujinon xf 80mm f2.8R LM #gfx #gfx shooters #fujinon gf 45mm f2.8 R WR medium format #fujifilm mirrorless #new fujifilm

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New Post has been published on http://www.updatedc.com/2018/10/15/fujifilm-xf-lens-roundup-xf-35mmf1-4-disassembly-xf-80mm-reviews-my-final-fujinon-lens-lineup-and-much-more/

Fujifilm XF Lens Roundup: XF 35mmF1.4 Disassembly, XF 80mm Reviews, My Final Fujinon Lens Lineup and Much More

A few days ago we dedicated a roundup to the growing Chinese Fujifilm X mount lens offering. Now it’s time to focus again on Fujinon only lenses, with a major roundup.

Disassembly

Yukosteel – Disassembly: Fujinon XF 35mm F1.4 R lens

XF 80mm Reviews

admiringlight – Fujinon XF 80mm f/2.8 Macro Review

leighmiller – Fuji XF80mm F2.8 R LM OIS WR | 1 Year Update

dyannewilson – The Tulip Festival with Fujifilm XF 80mm f/2.8 R LM OIS WR Macro Lens

roninphoto – Fujifilm XF80mm Macro Review

mirrorlesscomparison – Fujifilm XF 80mm f/2.8 vs 90mm f/2 – The complete comparison

philippalermo – More time with the Fujifilm XF 80mm Macro

& More

Eivind Røhne Youtube – Fujifilm LensTalk XF90mmF2 R LM WR

imaging-resource – Fuji 50mm f/2 WR Lens Review

roycruz – A Classic Revitalized – Fujinon XF 35mm f/1.4 Review 2018

Pawn Collective Youtube – 60 SEC REVIEW – Fujinon 35 f2 WR

Dylan Goldby Youtube – What is My favourite Fujifilm X Series Lens?

Omar Gonzalez Photography Youtube – The Fuji 27mm 2.8 Pancake Second Try for Street Photography

thephoblographer – Four of Our Favorite Third-Party Lenses for the Fujifilm X-Series

thephoblographer – 5 of Our Favorite Portrait Lenses for the Fujifilm X-Series

Omar Gonzalez Photography Youtube – XF23mmF2 Review

Omar Gonzalez Photography Youtube – Travel with the Fuji XT2, 56mm f1.2, and Colonial Williamsburg

Xshooters – A tongue in cheek look at the fantasy of shooting primes and the reality

fstoppers – Fujifilm XF 16-55mm f/2.8 review

KentuckyMan30 Youtube – Fujifilm 60mm f/2.4 Vs. Fujifilm 56mm f/1.2

catalinolteanu – XC 15-45 reivew

brandonremler – Around Town with the New Fujinon XC15-45 Lens

thephoblographer – Under $600: 3 Fujifilm Lenses For the Photographer Making a Switch

Darren Miles Youtube – Switch to Fuji? Fujifilm XF 10-24 f/4 R OIS Review

Denae & Andrew Youtube – After Two Years of Fuji, My “Final” Fuji Lens Lineup

Source from fujirumors

#Fuji #Fujifilm #lens #mirrorless #om #rumors

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Fujifilm Fujinon XF 80mm f/2.8 R LM OIS WR 1:1 Macro Review http://bit.ly/2lOJQdL

Fujifilm Fujinon XF 80mm f/2.8 R LM OIS WR 1:1 Macro Review http://bit.ly/2lOJQdL

— Carla Brasseur (@Photograpa) January 3, 2018

#Photography

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In a triple announcement, @fujifilm_northamerica has released the new Fujfilm X-E3 interchangeable-lens mirrorless camera, the FUJINON XF 80mm f/2.8R LM OIS WR Macro Lens, and, for the GFX shooters, the FUJINON GF 45mm f/2.8 R WR medium format lens. Looking sleek and stunning, like its predecessors the X-E1 and X-E2, the new X-E3 has the latest Fujifilm 24.3MP X-Trans CMOS III sensor driven by the X-Processor Pro high-speed processing engine. Who's upgrading? . . . #bhphoto #fujifilm #photogear #fujifilmxe3 #preorder #mirrorless http://ift.tt/2wM5DIh

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Fujifilm’s XF 80mm f/2.8 Macro is the First 1:1 Reproduction X Series Lens http://ift.tt/2wLRt9O

Fujifilm has just announced its new Fujinon XF 80mm f/2.8 R LM OIS WR Macro lens, the first X Series lens to offer 1.0x magnification.

The lens has a focal length equivalent to a 122mm on a 35mm full frame camera and features a design formula that uses 16 elements in 12 groups, including one aspherical lens, one Super ED lens, and three ED lenses.

“As the first in the X Series interchangeable lens series to have a 1.0x magnification factor, the XF 80mm f/2.8 achieves high resolving power and beautiful bokeh, making it a perfect lens for capturing stunning macro images,” Fujifilm says.

The lens uses a Floating Focus System that enhances autofocus while reducing aberration. There’s also Optical Image Stabilization with 5 stops of stabilization for reducing blur from camera shake while you’re shooting handheld.

Other specs and features of the lens include a fluorine coating (for resisting smudges/water/dirt), a weather- and dust-resistant build with 11 points of sealing, the ability to operate in temperatures as low as 14°F/-10°C, and fast and quiet AF with a linear motor.

Here are some official sample photos captured using this lens:

Photo by Akin Acar

Photo by Shinichi Eguchi

Photo by Akin Acar

Photo by Shinichi Eguchi

The Fujinon XF 80mm f/2.8 R LM OIS WR will be available starting in November 2017 for $1,200.

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September 07, 2017 at 07:00PM

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https://www.fujifilm.eu/uk/news/article/the-xf-lens-line-up-expands-with-a-new-xf80mm-macro-lens

“Fujifilm announces the FUJINON XF80mmF2.8 LM OIS WR Macro, the first 1.0x magnification mid-telephoto macro lens for the X Series range. The lens supports hand-held shooting thanks to a powerful image stabilizer and ultra-lightweight design, which perfectly complements FUJIFILM X Series mirrorless cameras….

… This lens features a focal length equivalent to 122mm (on a 35mm format), a maximum aperture of F2.8, and 1.0x magnification factor, a first in the X Series interchangeable lens range. By achieving high resolving power at the focus point and beautiful bokeh, this lens is optimal for shooting flowers and nature photos. Combine this lens with Fujifilm’s unique Film Simulation such as Velvia, for truly stunning close up images….”

Gallery

Links:

Fujifilm Global – FUJINON LENS XF80mmF2.8 R LM OIS WR Macro

Fujifilm X – XF80mmF2.8 R LM OIS WR Macro

FUJIFILMglobal – XF80mmF2.8 R LM OIS WR Macro x Akin Acar / FUJIFILM

FUJIFILMglobal – XF80mmF2.8 R LM OIS WR Macro x Mateusz Piesiak / FUJIFILM

FUJIFILMglobal – XF80mmF2.8 R LM OIS WR Macro x Michael Magulski / FUJIFILM

Fujifilm UK: The XF lens line-up expands with a new XF80mm macro lens "Fujifilm announces the FUJINON XF80mmF2.8 LM OIS WR Macro, the first 1.0x magnification mid-telephoto macro lens for the X Series range.

#80mm #APS-C #Fujifilm #Fujinon #Fujinon XF 80mm f/2.8 R LM OIS WR Macro #macro lenses #macrophotography #mirrorless #Super 35 #XF80mmF2.8 R LM OIS WR Macro

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When the folks at Fujifilm Australia’s PR consultancy asked if I wanted to borrow a Fujifilm X-H1 and some lenses I leapt at the chance to put this intriguing camera through its paces and to see how well Fujifilm’s first effort at XF camera in-body image stabilization aka IBIS and increased dedication to video production had turned out. 

The Fujifilm X-H1 APS-C/Super 35 mirrorless digital camera and accessories. Photograph courtesy of Fujifilm.

Big lenses need balancing with big rigs. Fujifilm Fujinon XF 8-16mm f/2.8 R LM WR wideangle zoom lens on Fujifilm X-H1 with VPB-XH1 Vertical Power Booster Grip. Photograph courtesy of Fujifilm.

The loan also provided an opportunity to compare two of Fujifilm’s smaller wide-angle lenses, the Fujicron-style Fujinon XF 16mm f/2.8 R WR and the semi pancake-style Fujinon XF 18mm f/2.0 R.

Since experiencing the many joys of using vertical battery grips on DSLR-style mirrorless cameras with Panasonic’s Lumix DMC-GH4, DC-GH5 and DC-G9, I have been in the habit of always requesting vertical battery grips with loaner cameras that have them.

Unfortunately, a Fujifilm VPB-XH1 Vertical Power Booster Grip wasn’t available so I used the camera ungripped and found, despite that preference for adding hand or battery grips to all Fujifilm cameras, the X-H1 acquits itself well without one when used with smaller lenses.

On the other hand, I suspect a gripped X-H1 with larger, heavier Fujinon lenses attached such as the Fujinon XF 8-16mm f/2.8 R LM WR illustrated above would be easier to carry and operate all day long compared to the same lens on an X-T3 or X-T4, gripped or not.

It is, simply, a matter of balance.

Fujifilm X-H1, Fujinon XF 16mm f/2.8 R WR and XF 18mm f/2.0 R

Fujifilm X-H1.

Fujifilm Fujinon XF 16mm f/2.8 R WR “Fujicron” prime lens.

Fujinon XF 18mm f/2.0 R prime lens.

By the time the loan opportunity arose, there were rumours the Fujifilm X-H1 was about to be listed as discontinued and that soon occurred with heavily discounted camera, vertical battery grip plus lens packages appearing in foreign camera retailer websites shortly followed by similar deals in Australia.

Now the X-H1 and its camera-specific accessories are no longer available on the retail websites that I checked this morning, and I am in two minds about that.

If I were offered longterm loan of an X-H1 with VPB-XH1 Vertical Power Booster Grip, I most certainly would not say “no”!

Fujifilm X-H1

Photographs courtesy of Fujifilm.

Fujifilm X-H1 with Fujinon XF 80mm f/2.8 R LM OIS WR Macro lens.

Fujifilm X-H1 with Fujinon XF XF 16-55mm f/2.8 R LM WR professional standard zoom lens.

Fujifilm X-H1 with Fujinon XF 18-55mm f/2.8-4.0 R LM OIS kist standard zoom lens.

Fujifilm X-H1 with Fujinon XF 16-55mm f/2.8 R WR zoom lens.

Fujifilm X-H1.

Fujifilm X-H1 with Fujinon XF 18-55mm f/2.8-4.0 R LM OIS kit zoom lens and Fujifilm VPB-XH1 Vertical Power Booster Grip.

Fujifilm X-H1 with Fujifilm VPB-XH1 Vertical Power Booster Grip.

Fujifilm X-H1 with VPB-XH1 Vertical Power Booster Grip in portrait/vertical orientation and 3-way tilting LCD monitor untilted.

Fujifilm X-H1 with 3-way tilting LCD monitor flipped up for portrait aka vertical shooting.

Fujifilm X-H1 with Fujinon XF 16-55mm f/2.8 R WR zoom lens.

Fujifilm Fujinon XF 200mm f/2 OIS WR telephoto lens on Fujifilm X-H1 with VPB-XH1 Vertical Power Booster Grip.

Fujifilm X-H1 with VPB-XH1 Vertical Power Booster Grip and Fujinon XF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR telephoto zoom lens.

Fujifilm X-H1 with Fujinon MKX 18-55mm T2.9 cinema zoom lens.

Fujifilm X-H1 with Fujinon MKX 50-135mm T2.9 cinema zoom lens.

Fujifilm Wide Eyecup EC-XH W.

The X-H1 was an innovative camera but its release suffered from unfortunate timing, falling as it did between the X-T2 and the X-T3 and thus having the same sensor as the Fujifilm X-T2, the X-Trans CMOS III sensor as well as its own CPU, the X-Processor Pro.

At time of writing, the Fujifilm X-Pro3 and the X-T4 contain the latest generation sensor and processor, the X-Trans CMOS 4 sensor and X-Processor 4.

When I attended the Fujifilm X-Pro3 First Look Touch & Try Event at Ted’s World of Imaging in Sydney on Wednesday November 6 last year, a staff member there was keen for me to share my experience of recent Fujifilm cameras with a female customer.

There are all too few female camera store staff members hereabouts and possibly not so many with my particular background so it is understandable male staffers might point her my way.

She ended up taking advantage of the end-of-production-run X-H1 special offer after I gave her the pros and cons of the X-H1 and X-T3, and I hope she is doing well with her purchase.

The Fujifilm X-H1’s in-body image stabilization unit aka IBIS, the first iteration of it to appear in Fujifilm XF APS-C/Super 35 cameras. Has its design drawn from the larger IBIS unit of the Fujifilm GFX100? Photograph courtesy of Fujifilm.

She told me she already had a Fujifilm X-Pro2, loved it and relied on it for most of her work but there were occasions when she needed to photograph in low light and at night so was interested in the X-H1’s in-body image stabilization aka IBIS.

I related my experience with the camera’s IBIS and added that I could comfortably carry either the smaller X-Pro2 or the slightly larger X-H1 around in my hand all day long in a way that I found I could not with the X-T2’s more minimalist and less sculpted body shape.

The Fujifilm X-H1’s “firm-hold design allowing the index finger to concentrate on shutter release actions”. Photograph courtesy of Fujifilm.

Fujifilm X-T4 with Fujinon XF 16-80mm f/4.0 R OIS WR zoom lens. Photograph courtesy of Fujifilm.

As above, Fujifilm describes the shutter release button and grip area of the X-H1 as a “firm-release design”, having the same configuration as other mirrorless and DSLR cameras which is more often described as a “trigger” or “pistol” grip by aficionados of the latter types of cameras.

My first digital camera, the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, has the same configuration and, despite that camera’s bulk and weight with the Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L USM kit zoom lens attached, its “pistol grip” and soft-touch shutter release button made carrying and using it in the field on documentary projects easier than one might think.

It was, simply, a matter of balance. And then the kit zoom’s notoriously poor manufacturing quality control left me without a lens until I adapted a couple of vintage manual focus M42-mount lenses via a Gobe M42 Lens Mount to Canon EF & EF-S Camera Mount adapter.

The X-H1’s shutter release button is more sensitive than that of previous cameras like the X-Pro2, X-T2 and the like, the increased sensitivity apparently being aimed at professional photographers needing minimal lag between hitting the button and making the image.

In practice I found this lag minimalization to be very effective for portraiture, photojournalism and urban documentary photography, ensuring a higher percentage of selects than usual, as well as reducing subtle camera shake at the start of clips when shooting video.

The leaf spring switch of the Fujifilm X-H1’s feather-touch shutter button. Photograph courtesy of Fujifilm.

Having now experienced both types of shutter release button, I much prefer the one on the X-H1 and hope to see it used in more Fujifilm cameras for its speed gains, boosted stability and lack of a threaded cable release hole that can attract dirt.

Fujifilm X-T2 in black and graphite versions, with their prominent exposure compensation dials falling under the right hand’s thumb. Photograph by Jonas Rask, courtesy of Fujifilm.

In contrast, the lack of an exposure compensation dial on the X-H1 slowed down my shooting speed and efficiency somewhat compared to the ease and speed with which I can set exposure changes on X-Pro and X-T cameras.

Pros and cons where you gain speed in one aspect of the X-H1’s design yet lose speed on another.

The X-H1’s IBIS bestows two overlapping advantages, being able to shoot at shutter speeds slower than can usually be handheld, and having the confidence that one can resort to it if one must.

As anti-IBIS pundits are always keen to tell us, shooting moving objects while stabilized at shutter speeds too slow to handhold unstabilized will result in at least something being blurred through movement.

But the contrast between unblurred and blurred through movement can be a wonderful creative device to draw attention to the main and unmoving object in the picture.

Other advantages of the Fujifilm X-H1’s design and manufacture

Photographs courtesy of Fujifilm.

The Fujifilm X-H1’s “grain size of the exterior coating has been improved to achieve scratch resistance equivalent to 8H surface hardness”.

The Fujifilm X-H1’s body is “made of magnesium alloy, 25% thicker than previous models. The lens mount’s structure has been revised to achieve a compact and lightweight design that is also of high precision and more resistant to shock or damage than other models in the X Series”.

The Fujifilm X-H1’s shutter shock absorption mechanism. I found myself using its mechanical shutter far more than I would for other Fujifilm cameras.

With the exception of the Fujifilm X-H1, all Fujifilm cameras need hand grips or vertical battery grips. Fujifilm Finepix X100 with hand grip. Photograph by Karin Gottschalk.

Four more features of the Fujifilm X-H1’s design stand out: the black 8H coating making it more scratch resistant than its predecessors, its magnesium body that is thicker than its predecessors and its stronger lens mount that takes the strain off the body when mounting large, weighty lenses such as the Fujinon XF 8-16mm f/2.8 R LM WR, XF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR and XF 200mm f/2 R LM OIS WR Lens with XF 1.4x TC F2 WR.

Although I have yet to experience any of them, I suspect that the Fujinon XF 16-55mm f/2.8 R LM WR and XF 50-140mm f/2.8 R LM OIS WR professional red badge zoom lenses would also benefit from the X-H1’s strengthened lens mount as well as its stronger body and better balance achieved by attaching the VPB-XH1 Vertical Power Booster Grip.

I have focused here on the X-H1’s design and manufacturing qualities because the DSLR style is not my first choice when it comes to cameras for documentary photography and yet many aspects of the X-H1’s body design work for me in a way I have not experienced with Fujifilm’s X-T3 series cameras.

I have used the X-H1 alongside my X-Pro2 on day-long documentary projects where I have walked and walked and walked with a shoulder bag or backpack full of gear, and not once have my hands been fatigued in the way I have experienced with the Fujifilm X-T1, X-T2 and X-T3 cameras whether equipped with vertical battery grips or not.

Fujifilm has got the design of the X-H1 body closer to perfect for me, at least, than that of the X-T series.

Fujifilm, please seek inspiration from Panasonic and Olympus

Panasonic Lumix DC-GH5 with Panasonic Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 12-60mm f/2.8-4.0 Aspheric zoom lens. Photograph courtesy of Panasonic.

Which is not to say that Fujifilm does not have some way to go with its X-H, X-T and X-Pro series cameras.

The Fujifilm x100 camera radically improved digital photography for me but its poor video quality and that of subsequent cameras meant I had to look elsewhere and I settled (solely) on Panasonic’s Micro Four Thirds cameras for their great stills and video quality and (mostly) Olympus’ M. Zuiko Pro lenses for their manual clutch focus and excellent optical and mechanical qualities.

Panasonic Lumix DC-G9 with Panasonic Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 12-60mm f/2.8-4.0 Aspheric zoom lens. Photograph courtesy of Panasonic.

As good as they already are, Olympus’ M.Zuiko Pro professional lenses for video and stills would be even better with the addition of an aperture ring that can be used clicked or declicked at the flick of a switch.

I chose the Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro over the Panasonic Lumix G X Vario 12-35mm f/2.8 Aspheric Power OIS kit zoom lens due to the former’s manual clutch focus mechanism, its all-black metal barrel and smoothly operating zoom and focus rings and its slightly longer focal range, forgoing the optical image stabilization of Panasonic’s standard zoom alternative.

The Lumix zoom’s OIS would have been useful for the IBIS-less Lumix DMC-GH4, but optical quality and excellent manual focusing comes first in my opinion.

Nowadays, I probably would have chosen the Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-100mm f/4.0 IS Pro as my first Micro Four Thirds zoom lens for the non-IBIS cameras in my collection, or the Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-45mm f/4.0 Pro plus the Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 17mm f/1.2 Pro for my available darkness work with IBIS-equipped cameras.

Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 17mm f/1.2 Pro, Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 25mm f/1.2 Pro and Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 45mm f/1.2 Pro professional prime lenses with manual clutch focusing, brilliant for shooting video or stills where accurate focus is absolutely critical.

The Fujifilm X-H1 for moviemaking

Coming soon.

Fujifilm’s Super APS-C camera system is one of the most affordable Super 35 platforms for professional moviemaking including feature-quality documentaries and narrative feature films. The two MKX cinema zoom lenses are amongst the most affordable of their kind, though Fujifilm needs to upgrade its prime lenses for serious video production. Photograph courtesy of Fujifilm.

Fujifilm cameras, photojournalists and World Press Photo 2020

Fujifilm GFX100 medium format digital camera with Fujinon GF 63mm f/2.8 R WR prime lens. Photograph courtesy of Fujifilm.

I first spotted a Fujifilm X-H1 in use by an expatriate Australian photojournalist, Jack Picone, alongside an X-T2 when shooting in available darkness and events like World Press Photo show that more and more photojournalists are relying on Fujifilm cameras for their daily work.

Fujifilm first used former Leica aficionado National Geographic photographer David Alan Harvey to promote the X-Pro2 and he is now using the X-Pro3 in his magazine work.

I and others in the magazine and newspaper spheres have also relied on non-rangefinder-style cameras to supplement our rangefinder cameras over the years and it is interesting to note how many World Press Photo award-winners are Fujifilm users this year.

Yasuyoshi Chiba uses Fujifilm X-H1 and GFX100 in-body image stabilized cameras for his available light photojournalism work, testimony to the cameras’ capacity to handle challenging environments and terrible light.

Fujinon XF 16mm f/2.8 R WR and Fujinon XF 18mm f/2.0 R

Photograph made with Fujifilm X-T3 and Fujinon XF 18-55mm f/2.8-4.0 OIS kit zoom lens at 18mm setting, equivalent to 28mm in 35mm sensor format. The 28mm focal length is perfect when one needs enough width to depict figures in landscapes and interiors, but without the exaggerated, attention-grabbing perspective of wider focal lengths such as 24mm and 21mm, 16mm and 14mm respectively in the APS-C sensor format. Photograph by Karin Gottschalk.

Up close and personal with Fujifilm’s Fujinon XF 16mm f/2.8 R WR Fujicron-style prime lens. The lens’ 24mm equivalent focal length can boost the feeling of being mere inches away from your subjects at the cost of exaggerating perspective.

  What I want to see in the Fujifilm X-H2

Coming soon.

Links

B&H Explora – WPPI 2018: Fujifilm Launches Stabilized X-H1 Camera and MKX Series Cine Lenses

British Journal of Photography – The story behind Yasuyoshi Chiba’s World Press Photo of the Year – the award-winning photograph was made with a Fujifilm X-H1.

Fuji Rumors – Fujifilm X-H1 Snaps Top Winning Image at the World Press Photo Awards, but Canon is Still Top

Fujifilm X – X-H1

Instagram – Yasuyoshi Chiba

Olympus – M.Zuiko Pro professional Micro Four Thirds lenses

World Press Photo 2020 – World Press Photo of the Year, Yasuyoshi Chiba – made with Fujifilm X-H1 and unspecified 16mm lens.

Considering the Fujifilm X-H1 Camera with Fujinon XF 16mm f/2.8 R WR and 18mm f/2.0 R Lenses When the folks at Fujifilm Australia's PR consultancy asked if I wanted to borrow a Fujifilm X-H1…

#Fujifilm X-H1

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Warrewyk Williams of Fujifilm Australia presented the Fujifilm GFX 50R Touch and Try event at Ted’s World of Imaging in Sydney. Photograph copyright Karin Gottschalk 2018, all rights reserved.

Fujifilm Australia’s Warrewyk Williams arrived at the Touch and Try event at Ted’s World of Imaging in Sydney last night with one of the few, if not the only, Fujifilm GFX 50R medium format rangefinder-style digital cameras along with a selection of G Mount lenses, Fujifilm GFX 50S DSLR-style medium format camera, Fujifilm X-H1, Instax printers and more. 

The event provided an opportunity for a brief but informative hands-on with the GFX 50R with the proviso that the camera is a pre-production model with pre-release firmware and therefore possible quirks and operating speed reductions compared to the firmware version 1.0 that will be available for production versions at release time. 

This event was particularly welcome as I have not had the opportunity to touch or try the X-H1, GFX 50S or any of Fujifilm’s Instax products, given the closure of our local top-end camera stores, and I have long been hoping and waiting for a digital version of Fujifilm’s justly loved and celebrated “Texas Leica” 120 roll film analog cameras of the past. 

Fujifilm GFX 50R with Fujinon GF 45mm f/2.8 R LM WR lens, equivalent to 35mm in 35mm format.

Some “Texas Leica” medium format rangefinder cameras from the analog era, made by Fujifilm, Bronica and Mamiya

Some of the last Fujifilm analog 120 roll film cameras.

The last 120 roll film analog camera to be made by Fujifilm, the Fujifilm GF670 folding rangefinder camera with fixed Fujinon 80mm f/3.5 standard lens. I saw one once at a photography trade show in Sydney alongside its non-folding wide-angle rangefinder sibling.

Fuji GS645 II Professional Wide 60 120 roll-film rangefinder camera with wide-angle lens, great for photojournalism. Photograph courtesy KEH Camera.

Fujica GW690 120 roll film rangefinder camera, image kindly released into the public domain by Jfriedl.

Mamiya 7 II interchangeable lens 120 rollfilm rangefinder camera. Photograph courtesy of Japan Camera Hunter.

Bronica RF645 6×4.5cm 120 roll film rangefinder camera, photograph courtesy of Japan Camera Hunter.

Fujifilm, as well as Bronica and Mamiya, made some remarkable 120 roll film rangefinder cameras with Fujifilm producing a huge variety of “Texas Leicas” in the 6×4.5cm, 6x6cm, 6x7cm, 6x8cm and 6x9cm formats and for all I know may well have produced 6x9cm and 6x12cm cameras too.

I continue to search for top quality photographs of these and other cameras in the hopes of preserving some of the camera-building achievements of the past, some of which may trickle down to the present day.

The Fujifilm GFX 50R has clearly benefited from Fujifilm’s analog innovations, its look and feel reminding me of the company’s larger 120 roll film cameras while also sharing a great deal of the X-Pro2’s own DNA.

Fujifilm GFX 50R Touch and Try

Reeling off a few snapshots with an unfamiliar and pre-production camera is hardly a thorough real-world test but the experience reminded me that documentary photography and portraiture with a medium format camera is a very different thing to making the same sorts of photographs with a small, fast, agile, gestural camera like the X-Pro2 or X-T3.

Making reportage and portraits photographs with the GFX 50R and GFX 50S is more akin to how I used to work handheld with my Hasselblad, Mamiya 7 and even my Crown Graphic 4″x5″ sheet film 4field camera – slower, more deliberate and with fewer shots than I would make on APS-C or Micro Four Thirds cameras.

I tried two lenses, the Fujinon GF 45mm f/2.8 R WR and the Fujinon GF 120mm f/4.0 Macro R LM OIS WR in emulation of the two-lens moderate wide and medium telephoto kits I had for my medium and large format analog cameras.

I learned that, aside from the coming-soon Fujinon GF 50mm f3.5 R LM WR pancake lens, equivalent to about 40mm in the 35mm sensor format, more wide prime lenses are planned for GF mount cameras along with the  Fujinon GF 45-100mm f/4.0 R LM OIS WR and Fujinon GF 100-200mm f/5.6 R LM OIS WR zoom lenses currently slated for 2019 and 2020 releases on Fujifilm’s G Mount Lens Roadmap.

The Fujifilm GFX 50R is, for me, a combination rangefinder-style and small field view camera, for use primarily handheld but also on a portable but sturdy tripod such as 3 Legged Thing’s Winston or those made by Really Right Stuff, for making environmental and full-face portrait photographs.

My quick and dirty test shots indicate that it has the image quality of an analog sheet film camera rather than a 120 roll film camera, and I would prefer to use prime lenses with it rather than zooms.

Warrewyk Williams estimates the focal length equivalence factor at 0.79 for Fujifilm’s G Mount lenses, making the 45mm equivalent to 35.55 in 35mm terms and the 120mm equivalent to 94.8 in 35mm terms.

Other lenses worth considering for my sort of portrait photography include the Fujinon GF 110mm f/2.0 R LM WR equivalent to 86.9mm and hopefully a soon-to-come 35mm GF lens equivalent to 28mm.

Not to be discounted is the Fujinon GF 32-64mm f/4.0 R LM WR zoom lens which provides at least three useful focal lengths for different forms of portraiture, in 35mm equivalent terms 28mm, 35mm and 50mm, and is available right now rather than waiting for fast prime lenses to come.

A two or three lens kit for the GFX 50R may be all I would need for portraiture should I invest in digital medium format.

While it is too early too come to conclusions about the GFX 50R and its lenses, I have been particularly struck by the superb 3D image rendering in the available light snapshot portrait of Warrewyk Williams above and am very much looking forward to exploring more of the creative possibilities of Fujifilm’s GFX camera and lens system very soon.

Links

Fujifilm Global – G Mount Lens Roadmap

Fujifilm X

Fujifilm X/GFX USA

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Image Credits

Portrait of Warrewyk Williams made by Karin Gottschalk on Fujifilm medium format camera with Fujinon GF 120mm f4.0 R LM OIS WR Macro lens as five autoexposure brackets processed in Skylum Aurora HDR 2019 with film emulation LUT applied and further processing in Skylum Luminar.

Documentary photographs made by Karin Gottschalk on Fujifilm X-Pro2 with Fujinon XF 23mm f/1.4 R lens.

Header image of GFX 50R made by Jonas Rask for Fujifilm.

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