Karin Gottschalk
Coonanbarra Road
Familiarizing myself with Fujifilm Australia's review loaner X-Pro2 with Fujinon 35mm f/2 prime lens (35mm full frame equivalent focal length is 50mm). Processed with Adobe Photoshop CC2015 and Camera Raw, using Google Nik Collection's DFine for noise reduction and Nik Sharpener Pro for final sharpening. I applied the Classic Chrome analog film profile in Camera Raw.
It has been a long time since I owned a 50mm f/2 Summicron lens for my Leica M-Series analog rangefinder cameras and back then it was one of the least used lenses in my small but well-chosen collection of Leica optics. Consequently, I find I need to practise with this lens before making a series of photographs and videos over the loan period in order to best visualize what it can do. I am more familiar with how a 50mm equivalent lens works with my Panasonic Lumix GX8 using the EVF tilted up to simulate a Rolleiflex TLR camera with so-called normal lens,
I am more accustomed to the 50mm lens as a crucial component of a set of movie lenses, so may need to think more cinematically when making still images than I would normally, shooting in 16:9 format rather than 3:2.
Meanwhile I am writing up my wishlist for when I buy my own X-Pro2, perhaps starting off with an XF 23mm f/1.4 lens, then an XF 56mm f/1.2, then an XF 16mm f/1.4 or possibly an 18mm lens if Fujifilm chooses to update its current XF 18mm f/2 lens, which seems less sharp than its more modern lenses. I would add the XF 35mm f/2 lens somewhere amongst the latter lenses.
That would make for a classic set of 35mm full-frame equivalent focal lengths, roughly in this order - 35mm, 85mm, 24mm or 28mm, then 50mm.
My aim with the X-Pro2 is to rely on the camera's amazing HVVF/OVF viewfinder rather than resorting to the EVF, and use lenses that work well through the optical viewfinder. Perhaps I should drop into a camera store and find out whether the image from the 24mm equivalent lens, the XF 16mm f/1.4, can be fully seen without cropping within the OVF.
One of the many pleasures of non-DSLR cameras, I find, is that people in the street rarely if ever take notice of someone wielding one. Or if they do, they do not take their users at all seriously. I had an example of that this morning, in a coffee shop. The shopkeeper came over with our coffees, spotted the X-Pro2, laughed and asked me if this funny old camera was a new toy that i was playing with.
Coonanbarra Road
Familiarizing myself with Fujifilm Australia's review loaner X-Pro2 with Fujinon 35mm f/2 prime lens (35mm full frame equivalent focal length is 50mm). Processed with Adobe Photoshop CC2015 and Camera Raw, using Google Nik Collection's DFine for noise reduction and Nik Sharpener Pro for final sharpening. I applied the Classic Chrome analog film profile in Camera Raw.
It has been a long time since I owned a 50mm f/2 Summicron lens for my Leica M-Series analog rangefinder cameras and back then it was one of the least used lenses in my small but well-chosen collection of Leica optics. Consequently, I find I need to practise with this lens before making a series of photographs and videos over the loan period in order to best visualize what it can do. I am more familiar with how a 50mm equivalent lens works with my Panasonic Lumix GX8 using the EVF tilted up to simulate a Rolleiflex TLR camera with so-called normal lens,
I am more accustomed to the 50mm lens as a crucial component of a set of movie lenses, so may need to think more cinematically when making still images than I would normally, shooting in 16:9 format rather than 3:2.
Meanwhile I am writing up my wishlist for when I buy my own X-Pro2, perhaps starting off with an XF 23mm f/1.4 lens, then an XF 56mm f/1.2, then an XF 16mm f/1.4 or possibly an 18mm lens if Fujifilm chooses to update its current XF 18mm f/2 lens, which seems less sharp than its more modern lenses. I would add the XF 35mm f/2 lens somewhere amongst the latter lenses.
That would make for a classic set of 35mm full-frame equivalent focal lengths, roughly in this order - 35mm, 85mm, 24mm or 28mm, then 50mm.
My aim with the X-Pro2 is to rely on the camera's amazing HVVF/OVF viewfinder rather than resorting to the EVF, and use lenses that work well through the optical viewfinder. Perhaps I should drop into a camera store and find out whether the image from the 24mm equivalent lens, the XF 16mm f/1.4, can be fully seen without cropping within the OVF.
One of the many pleasures of non-DSLR cameras, I find, is that people in the street rarely if ever take notice of someone wielding one. Or if they do, they do not take their users at all seriously. I had an example of that this morning, in a coffee shop. The shopkeeper came over with our coffees, spotted the X-Pro2, laughed and asked me if this funny old camera was a new toy that i was playing with.