Fujifilm XF56 mm F1.2 R Lens

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Some longitudinal aberrations are present a wide apertures. This is to be expected with larger aperture lenses. I’ve seen much worse however. If this lens has chromatic aberrations, I have yet to find them. Conclusion and Rating Optically the 56mm f1.2 employs 14 elements in 10 groups, including one extra low dispersion and two aspherical elements. This makes it a more complex design than, say, the nine elements / seven groups of the Canon EF 85mm f1.8, although roughly similar to the 14 elements / 11 groups of the Leica Nocticron. Note the 56mm f1.2, like all Fuji X primes to date is not optically stabilized, and stabilisation is not built into any of the bodies either, so you’ll want to be using shutter speeds of around 1/85 or faster to avoid camera shake. This is par for the course for most short telephoto primes on other systems, although it’s worth mentioning the Leica Nocticron features optical stabilisation and of course there’s also the option of body-based stabilisation if you’re using an Olympus body; I found I could handhold the Nocticron on the EM1 as low as 1/5, whereas I really needed over 1/80 for the 56mm on the XT1, or 1/40 if I was leaning against something steady. Here’s a handheld example taken at 1/40 while leaning against a wall. I tested the Single, Continuous and Manual focusing of the Fuji 56mm f1.2 using an XT1 body, and compared it against the XF 18-55mm f2.8-4, the Zeiss Touit 32mm f1.8, and out of curiousity, also against the Leica Nocticron mounted on an Olympus OMD EM1 body. The 56mm f1.2 fills an important gap in the current line-up of X-series lenses. There may have been the 60mm f2.4 macro for some time, but the system really needed a much brighter lens of a similar focal length to truly satisfy portrait and wedding photographers. By going for an f1.2 focal ratio, the 56mm also gains an exotic status shared by models like Leica’s Nocticron 42.5mm for Micro Four Thirds and Canon’s EF 85mm f1.2L USM. Of course in full-frame terms, the depth of field of the 56mm at f1.2 is more like f1.8 – and for the Nocticron on MFT it’s more like f2.4 – but in terms of exposures they’re all f1.2 and again offer the some of the shallowest depth of field options for their respective systems with autofocus capabilities. As you can see, this lens does a phenomenal job at controlling CA – there is only about half a pixel of lateral CA at apertures from f/1.2 to f/2, and once the lens is stopped down to f/2.8, it practically all disappears. X-T1 + XF56mmF1.2 R @ 56mm, ISO 200, 1/1600, f/1.4 Comparables

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The only potential complaint. Vignetting is heavy on the widest apertures. More often than not I don’t have an issue with this, and in situations when I want falloff to be minimal, I’ve stopped down to where it is minimal. FlareThe lens did not appear to have any discernible distortion in images and Imatest measured 0.04% distortion (which is within margin of error), so we can conclude that distortion simply does not exist on this lens… X-T2 + XF56mmF1.2 R @ 56mm, ISO 200, 1/640, f/1.2 Chromatic Aberration Lenses like the 56mm f1.2 are all about delivering a shallow depth of field with attractive rendering of out-of-focus areas, also known as the quality of the bokeh. A key specification in this process is attempting to maintain a smooth circle when wide open and also closing the aperture iris control. The Fujifilm XF 56mm F1.2 R WR doesn't exhibit any barrel or pin-cushion distortion, as you can see in the photo below. Macro

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Body Versus X-T2 vs. X-Pro2 X-T2 vs. X-T1 X-Pro2 vs. X-T1 X-Pro2 vs. X-Pro1 X-T10 vs. X-T1 vs. X-E2(S) X-T1 vs. X-E2 vs. X-Pro1 X100T vs. X100S vs. X100 X-E2 vs. X-E1 X30 vs. X20 Interchangeable Lens Body Spec Comparison Fixed Lens Body Spec Comparison Since I started my photography journey with Fujifilm in 2021, I have wanted to get ahold of the Fujifilm 50mm F1. After all, there are only a few lenses within the XF Mount that can produce comparable bokeh to more-expensive, full-frame systems, and the Fujifilm 56mm F1.2 was certainly starting to show its age. Autofocus is quite fast and extremely accurate in good light. However, in low light, I found that the lens sometimes struggled to find focus, hunting in front and beyond my subject. Considering that this is a pretty complex lens, it is understandable that it is not as snappy to focus as the much smaller XF50mmF2 R WR lens with its linear motor. Extras Fuji Filter Thread Sizes Lightroom 5.7 vs. 6.1 for X-Trans Best X-Trans RAW Converter Long Exposure Photography Tips Heavy Issues Mirrorless vs DSLR weight Adobe’s Fujifilm Camera Calibration Profiles Film Simulation Modes Compared Fujifilm Metering ONA Bowery vs. Billingham Hadley Small Keep that lens hood on and try to avoid the sun reaching the front of the lens if you want to avoid ghosting and flare. DistortionWith their apertures wide open both the 56mm and Nocticron rendered blurred specular highlights as oval / cats-eye shapes towards the edges, but this effect was much more pronounced on the Nocticron. However the Nocticron’s blurred highlights suffered from less outlining than the 56mm and to my eyes were creamier too. Both lenses thankfully avoided the concentric circles inside blurred highlights though. I’m not sure this lens was ever designed to be a must-have lens for a travel photographer. I wanted to see whether I could bring the high quality portrait images and combine that with a walk around mid-telephoto lens. I tried my hardest but unfortunately, for me, it hasn’t worked out.