Fujifilm XF50 mm F2 R Weather Resistant Lens, Black

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When I'm working, at weddings, or anywhere else really, I'm looking for emotion in the pictures I make. As a final example to illustrate their maximum magnification, I shot a ruler at their closest focusing distances. As you can see below, the XF 50mm f2 on the left can reproduce an object measuring as little as 143mm across the frame, compared to 245mm for the XF 56mm on the right. It’s a significant difference.

Use the excellent and inexpensive B+W 46mm 010 , or splurge on the multicoated B+W 010M or use a multicoated Hoya filter. It’s tough to test for vignetting with Fujinon lenses since the RAW files and jpegs are processed with a built in lens profile that removes it. I’ve read that you can remove these profiles with editors like Iridient Developer. As a photographer that is already using Lightroom and Capture One, I’m going to pass on a third piece of software and just live with the built in corrections. AutofocusTurning to a closer focus distance of about 1 meter, we see a slightly different trend develop. Reference image 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

You can buy the Fuji 50mm F2right now. It's available and pretty reasonably priced if you ask me. I can imagine people who are setting out on a new journey with the X-Series investing in the three F2 lenses and having a pretty amazing system from the off. A Surprising Lens In a word: "wow." The images that come out of this lens are sharp, contrasty, and have smooth out of focus areas. In my testing, it was equally as sharp as the 35mm f/2, and sharper than the 56mm f/1.2 at f/2. Edge-to-edge performance seems to be excellent in my tests. Even the corners look quite good wide open, and excellent by f/2.8. The hood for the Fujifilm XF 50mm F/2 is made of plastic, and like a lot of lens-hoods does not feel entirely durable. While it seems to attach securely, it tends to rattle when moving around. The lens’ minimum focus distance is another area where it has an advantage over the XF 56mm f/1.2 R. It has a maximum magnification of 0.15x and can focus within 39cm of a subject. By way of comparison, the XF 56mm f/1.2 R can only focus as close as 70cm. Fujifilm XF 50mm f/2 R WR – Build and Handling Compare this lens to Fujifilm’s wider f/2 primes and you’ll notice it’s a fraction longer than the XF 23mm f/2 R WR and not as stubby as the XF 35mm f/2 WR.The Super EBC (Electron Beam Coating) coated front element is surrounded by a tiny 46mm filter thread, and outside that a bayonet mounting accepts the provided lens hood. The hood clips positively into place and does an excellent job of shielding the front element. The image of Rosa playing chess was the very first shot I took using the Fujifilm 50mm F2 and it's already one of my favourite images of her. As much as I love my Fuji XF 35mm f/2, it isn’t without its shortcomings. In my use, I found the center to be a tad soft when close focusing at f/2. I also found the corners and edges to be soft until stopping down to f/5.6. The Fuji XF 50mm f/2 is much better in both areas, and I’ve been really blown away by the edge to edge sharpness. If you find you really like this focal length, the Fujifilm XF 50mm f/2 R WR may be the next step, or upgrade, in your photography gear journey. The results from my Applied Imaging tests revealed the lens gets gradually sharper in the centre when it’s closed down from its maximum aperture of f/2 to f/4. There’s a very gradual increase in corner sharpness between f/2 and f/5.6, with the sharpest results at the edge reaching their optimum at f/8. With centre and corner sharpness being affected by diffraction beyond f/8, we’d consider f/4-f/5.6 to be the lens’ sweet spot.

The performance of all three lenses improves as you stop down, especially that of the 60mm. By f/5.6, they all perform in a very similar manner once again. These caveats aside, this lens is very sharp even wide-open at f/2, although it's a tiny bit softer in the corners if you're looking with a microscope in the lab. It and sharpens up as stopped down a few stops. In actual pictures it's very sharp even wide-open, no worries here. The Fujifilm XF 50mm f2 becomes the third model in its compact, weather-sealed f2 series, following the XF 35mm f2 and XF 23mm f2 models. Like them, it shares a simple, slightly tapered profile designed to present the least obstruction in the corner of the optical viewfinder on the X-Pro bodies – although of course all X-series owners can appreciate the compact and lightweight form factor.Centre sharpness out-resolves corner sharpness at f/2, and the same can be said right through the aperture range to f/11, where the introduction of diffraction starts to soften overall sharpness. The manual focus ring is electronic, so it only works some of the time depending on how you have your camera set. From f/2.8 onwards, the three lenses perform in a very similar manner. All values from f/2.8 to f/8 are excellent and diffraction only begins to show at f/11 and beyond.