Fujifilm XF23 mm F2 R Weather Resistant Lens, Black

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Fuji X-T20 . Fuji XF23mmF2 @23mm . f/8 . 1/105″ . ISO 200 – Porto Fuji X-T20 . Fuji XF23mmF2 @23mm . f/8 . 1/100″ . ISO 250 – Porto I have found these two 23mm options to be similar in performance quality. It is not an apples-to-apples comparison as the X100V is a fixed lens option and the XF 23mm f/2 is a stand-alone lens option that can be used on a variety of Fujifilm X Series cameras. Since my teenage years, photography was always present in my life. My dad used to have film cameras when I was young and he carried them with him on our family trips and holidays. When I was getting older I also had a small film camera. Later, when digital cameras became more and more affordable, I bought a Pentax K-30 with an 18-135mm lens. This camera boosted my photography. He photographs weddings across the UK, Europe and Destination Weddings overseas. He was the first officialFujifilm Ambassador for Wedding Photography. You can also visit his Corporate Media Agency, Portrait & Headshot Photography& Personal Photography.

In my conclusion above I alluded to the fact that I was entertaining the idea of swapping my XF 23mm f/1.4 R for the lighter and more travel-friendly XF 23mm f/2 R WR. In my summer holidays, I started my first street photography trip to three different cities: Amsterdam, Cologne, Frankfurt. In these seven days, I was walking around the cities every day with my Fuji X-T3 in my hand. The Fuji X-T3 with the 23mm F2 never disappointed me a single day when I was out. My name is Philipp Meiners. I am 35 years old and I live in a small town (Pop: 30,000) in Northern Germany. Street photography has been my passion for almost one and a half years now, and the Fuji X-T3 with the 23mm F2 lens helped me a lot on this journey. But let us start from the beginning. The image quality is particularly good across the entire aperture range. Even at the widest aperture, corners are still useable. Stopped down a little bit, the entire frame is razor-sharp. The bokeh is very pleasing, also is only an open aperture of F2.0 on a crop body, the bokeh is very unobtrusive and smooth. The close-up limit of just 10cm is great, and the Fujifilm 23mm F2.0 WR can almost be used for macro work 😉 Fuji X-T20 . Fuji XF23mmF2 @23mm . f/8 . 1/340″ . ISO 200 – Faro Fuji X-T20 . Fuji XF23mmF2 @23mm . f/2.0 . 1/26000″ . ISO 200 – Faro Above left: XF 23mm f2 at f2. Above right: XF 23mm f1.4 at f1.4. At closest focusing distance of each lens.

Shooting in amongst the guests in lower light is still fine of course, its only really when I needed to ensure the fast shutter speed that it mattered. The features are the first thing many look at when choosing a new camera lens. This lets you know what you’re working with and provides an excellent base for comparing against other lenses.

This slim, hardworking, affordable lens is compatible with all Fujifilm X-Series interchangeable system cameras. It’s perfect for beginner photographers, ideal for bloggers, and is a must for street photographers. I also find the 23mm/f2 lens to be a great all-around lens, even if it isn’t great for close-ups, let alone for macro applications. I bought mine as a colour- matched set for my graphite-coloured X-Pro2 a couple of years ago and the combo looks fantastic, beside being a rugged, ideal all-weather kit. At its widest point around the aperture ring, the XF 23mm f2 has a maximum diameter of 57mm, but again this tapers beyond the aperture ring to 45mm by the time you reach the 43mm filter thread at the end. Meanwhile the lens barrel measures 52mm in length, making it a fairly compact walk-around lens, albeit not quite in the pancake territory of models like the XF 27mm f2.8. Tip: If you’re still looking at your options, take a look at my review of the Fujifilm 35mm f1.4 lens. Fuji 23mm f2 – At a Glance For me, however, I have always maintained that I want the smallest camera possible, which is as plain as possible, but does the best job possible.When looking at the field of view, the f2 provides a wider view compared to its counterpart. It has slightly better colour and contrast than the f1.4, but it’s not as noticeable in most cases. The compact and stylish form factor almost completely eliminates mechanical vignetting *2when using the optical viewfinder on the FUJIFILM X-Pro2 and X-Pro1 cameras. The 23mm, f2 X-series lens does have a free-spinning manual focus ring. This ring has no real hard stops, so you can’t really tell which stop you’re on. Fuji 23mm f2 Sharpness

Another benefit of Fujifilm releasing lenses such as the XF 23mm F/2 is that consumers are offered more choice. More substantial and older lenses of similar focal distance are far more expensive and have slower autofocus. The Fujifilm XF 23mm f/2 R WR lens has a minimum focusing distance of 0.22m, with a maximum magnification of 0.13x. It is not a true macro lens, but you can use it for typical macro subjects, such as flowers and still life, to good effect.The Fujifilm XF 23mm f2 is a standard wide angle prime lens designed for Fujifilm’s X-series mirrorless cameras. Announced in September 2016, it’s the second 23mm lens for the X-series, following the earlier XF 23mm f1.4.

I’m a 35mm (full frame equivalent) kind of guy. It’s really about the way my brain works – I can walk up to a scene and put the camera to my eye and the framing is exactly where I expected it to be. I know a lot of guys like 50mm and even more like 28mm but for me it’s 35mm or nothing. The type of motor that rotates only at a fixed angle in response to an electrical pulse signal, and is used in precision positioning. No lens is perfect, but some of them are a must-have, and the 23mm f/2.0 WR Fuji falls into this category. of Street Photography is all about failure. To be honest: sometimes, at the end of a day, I don’t have a single shot that I really really like, but on other days I come home with two or more. That’s the part of the game of street photography.I used the camera a few times on AF-C mode on the X-Pro2 and it didn't miss a beat. Again, it's a bit disconcerting when you can't physically feel the lens doing its thing, and more so when shooting in AF-C, but it worked and it worked really well. Autofocus is one area where the 23mm F2 WR lens really stands out. The autofocus on this thing is fast. I mean REALLY fast. In their press release, Fuji claim, "the lens can focus in an astonishing 0.05 seconds.” In my real world testing I had no way of verifying this claim and besides, most photographers take these kinds of blanket statements with a huge pinch of salt, but certainly I found the autofocusing of this lens to be noticeably faster when compared to other lenses in the Fuji line up. How much faster I will leave to others to decide, but faster none-the-less. To find out I shot two compositions at dusk which included some bright, distant lights. First a view of The City of London from the South Bank. Here’s the full composition below and below that I’ve cropped and enlarged a portion from just below right of centre which featured the best-defined diffraction spikes. I shot both lenses at their minimum apertures of f16. The hood is made of metal, but it is a genuinely odd little accessory. It hardly stretches beyond the filter thread. There is, however, a better aftermarket lens hood available for this lens.