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.
Macro photography is one of those interesting niches of photography that can sort of bleed over into almost every other niche of photography. You have wedding photographers needing macro detail shots of the wedding rings and reception details.
Phase One has announced their latest updates to their XF system camera, which has been called Feature update #4. The long awaited firmware update brings a slew of new features primarily aimed at improving the focusing control and accuracy of the camera – including one feature designed to make focusing and recomposing easier and more accurate than ever.
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.
Fashion and portrait photographer Jeff Rojas walks us through his beauty photography workflow in this 6-minute video, explaining what he does on set and why he does it. Beauty photography is a symphony of many moving parts, in which the photographer acts as a director on set to bring a team together under a creative […]
Fujifilm shooters find themselves in an interesting dilemma of late with there now being two clear prime trinity setups that one could choose from. On one hand you have the newer, weather sealed, and smaller F/2 variants in 23mm, 35mm, and 50mm.
Phase One just released their XF Feature Update #3, and it’s definitely a firmware update worth paying attention to. Not only did they add a fully electronic shutter to the IQ3 digital back—a world’s first for medium format photography—there are a slew of other updates for the XF system as well. The big one here, […]
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.