Fujifilm, as they so often do, hit us with a flurry of announcements today. In addition to the new X-E3, Fujifilm has announced two brand new lenses, one for their APS-C X-Series, and one for their Medium format GF series.
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Fujifilm has launched the XF33mm f/1. 4 R LM WR lens for its X Series mirrorless digital cameras. The company bills the lens as a “next-generation” large-aperture prime lens. When converted to the crop-sensor size of the X Series cameras, the 33mm f/1.
We often refer to 50mm lens on a full frame as a "standard" lens because 50mm is fairly close to the perspective of the human eye. Using a 50mm lens on a camera with an APS-C sized sensor changes that perspective by about 1.
In addition to its two new lenses announced yesterday, the 200mm f/2 and the 8-16mm f/2. 8, Fujifilm has also revealed three upcoming lenses that are now on its roadmap: the 16mm f/2. 8, 16-80mm f/4 OIS, and 33mm f/1.
Portrait photography. Chances are, if you own a stand alone camera you are probably using it to take portraits, at least on occasion. So it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to say that you may be in the market for a good lens for just that purpose; portrait photography.
Fujifilm has an excellent reputation with their lenses, and overall their price to performance among other brand name lenses is up there with the best of them. they are so good, in fact, that many times there seems to be no reason to even purchase third-party lenses because the price to performance ratio won't be much, if any, better.
Fujifilm’s 23mm F2 R WR is a popular choice for many Fujifilm photographers looking to have a small, compact, and weather sealed 35mm field of view equivalent lens with fast and quiet autofocus. Many of these photographers are also likely portrait photographers, who have really as a community embraced the 35mm field of view for a variety of looks.
Photography is a wonderful thing; pick up any camera and any lens and with that you can capture the world, for just a moment, to be preserved as long as the medium which holds it survives. It is a timeless, though under appreciated, a gift to the future.