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    Getting the Medium Format Look > Utopy on small sensors ?

    in Fuji X Lenses

    Posted · Edited by PascallacsaP

    These were shot with the Mitakon 35mm (mk II) @ f/0.95 (on an X-Pro2):

     

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    Another eyes session 1 by Pascal van Gerven, on Flickr

     

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    Eyes session 1 by Pascal van Gerven, on Flickr

     

    I like this lens a lot! It's a bit heavy, yes, but compact and who cares about that anyway with this type of photography? Manually focusing the lens can be a challenge, but less so if the subject cooperates... ;-) The lens is tack sharp wide open. No complaints. These were shot very close to the subject, by the way: 0.5 to 1 meter. Note that the DOF of this lens at maximum aperture is essentially comparable to that of a 50mm f/1.4 lens on FF.

    Jonas Rask's review of the Mitakon 35mmF0.95

    in Fuji X Lenses

    Posted · Edited by PascallacsaP

    yes, interesting, but again, puzzling.

     

    Rask, himself says that the main reason to buy this lens is to buy it to shoot wide open and that wide open the lens has only millimieters of sharpness due to its limited depth of field .

     

    I too like shooting, especially portraits with, little depth of field or limited definition and in order to do this I use lenses or adapters. 

     

    I just don’t know whether I would do it by means of a lens like this at the price of a lens like this.

     

    The razor-thin DOF wide open could actually be a challenge at closer focusing distances. My personal use of this lens would be "medium" focusing distances, such as with whole-body environmental portraits. At these distances, the DOF should be workable. I personally like this example (not my own, because I don't own the lens):

     

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    Untitled by Cat Zheng, on Flickr

     

    For me, this photo shows the real potential of the Mitakon. After all, for close-up, shallow-DOF portraits, we already have the XF56 and XF90.

     

    Thanks for the YouTube review, by the way. I have seen it before but I like Jonas Rask's review better, simply because he's a great photographer.

    Lightroom/ACR - free ClassicChrome profile (.dcp) for X-Pro1 & X-E1!

    in RAW conversion Fuji X-Trans Sensor

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    I changed the 'uniquecamera' parameter to X100S here:

     

    ClassicChrome X-E1/X-Pro1 Homebrew version for X100S

     

    It's the same profile as above, only enabled for the X100S; I don't know how it will look, as I brewed my version based on the first generation x-trans sensor. I tried my version on X-T1 files and it looked very similar to the genuine profile, so it should be ok.

     

    Thanks so much! Really appreciate your effort!

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