Tom H.

Slow moving is mostly because it's a large hunk of glass I'm guessing... And because you don't have PDAF. My 16 1.4 and 50-140 are both crazy sharp wide open. The 56 APD not so much, it's sharp as hell as from f2.8 onwards. It's no slouch though a bigger apertures, it's just not as sharp as some of the other glass I own or used to own, including Olympus and Canon. It's sharp enough at f1.8, below that I find it's rather soft, only for use in very low light for my taste.

I have the 56 APD. It has been sent back twice for servicing. First time they replaced the entire autofocus mechanism. When it came back, it seemed even less able to focus correctly, so I sent it back again. Second time they replaced the entire optical assembly, so now I have a whole new lens, apart from the barrel... This seems to have fixed any issues I had with lack of sharpness and focus problems... I like how it renders, but I never used the regular 56 1.2. It's not the sharpest lens I've ever owned, but neither was the Canon 135 f2 L, and I liked that one too just for the rendering. This comes very close to how I felt about that one.

Hi all! I'm Tom, hobby photographer, based in Belgium. I started with an interest in photography as a child, but never did much about it until I was 25 and going to Thailand for the first time. I decided I wanted to have decent pictures for a change, and so I got my first DSLR, the inevitable Canon 500D. I shot mostly travel over the next few years, since the big DSLR kit rarely left home for smaller events. I loaded up on gear, thanks to the inevitable GAS every beginner faces. Last few years, I suffered with knee and ankle injuries, so I felt I needed to lighten my kit, should I have any interest in shooting anything more than a few special days each year... And so I sold all my Canon gear and went looking into mirrorless, and after a long debate on Fujifilm, I decided I preferred the Olympus E-M1... Build quality wise, that felt like a step up, lenses are small and it seemed like all I'd ever need... And boy, was I ever surprised. The smaller camera really rekindled my love for photography, and I started taking it everywhere... So much did I like it, that I learned to light using speedlights and started to develop an interest in portraiture, something I never dabbled in before... Fast forward one year later, and I've now settled on a kit containing a Fujifilm X100T and X-T1, 16 1.4, 56 1.2 APD and the 50-140. The Olympus is still the better travel camera I feel, but for portrait work, the Fuji's reign supreme... Most of the time, I just take the X100T and the X-T1 with the 56mm. That to me is a perfect travel kit.