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There are two lenses that I think could be significantly improved if they had a slight improvement with the minimum focus distance. The first is the XF50/1.0 which has 700mm as the minimum focus distance, the second is the IBELUX 40/0.85 which has a 750mm minimum focus distance. The 50/1 I do not have but the Kipon IBELUX 40/0.85 I do.
I recall one of my favorite togs (Barney Arthur) getting around the minimum focus distance of the Pentax 67 105/2.4 (1000mm minimum focus distance) by using extension tubes, he talks about it here;
I'm now pondering if any X Mount compatible extension tubes would be a viable work around to not getting macro results but just bringing that minimum focus distance constraint in a little to open up the lens creativity speaking.
Has anyone tried this before? Does it work, or do the MCEX-11 and 16 just 'zoom too much' for this purpose? What other options might we be able to use, to close that gap from 700-750mm down to something like 400mm?
TIA
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58 minutes ago, Herco said:
I disagree that it should be a commandment. A car magazine usually tests one car out of the production line. Not three or four. We can assume that the car represents all copies and the performance and quality is more or less similar.
Fuji should take care of good QA and minimize the sample variation. I now have a history of 6 Fuji cameras bought of which 2 had to be swapped for a new one as well as 14 lenses over the past years of which 4 had to be replaced or repaired. All almost straight out of the box. That is considerably more than all other brands combined that I have owned over the past 40+ years.
Last year I had a GFX50s and a GFX100 over for a trail period. One of the lenses showed again signs of poor QA. For various reasons I decided to stick to my H6D. For other professional work I moved away from Fuji. For personal work I’m just too fond of my X-Pro2.
My point is that with Fuji I hear lots of people brushing poor performance off with “ahh, you had a bad copy”. That’s not normal. These are expensive cameras and lenses and they should work within a very narrow sample variation.
I feel Pentax can also fall under questionable Q&A. I've said before that multiple lens testing would be additionally informative and useful but of course unrealistically going to happen. If say 1/3 lenses was quite a bit off it could give the buyer some further knowledge to really be aware of the possibility of a bad copy and that expectations of the lens should be in line with what the reviewer was finding consistent with the other other 2 good lenses etc. Basically it's just useful information regardless.
What would be nice would be for companies like Fuji and Pentax to send out a good copy to trusted reviewers and that I think would really put the idea of the chance of a reviewer reviewing a bad copy to rest. If the lens he's testing has come from the company itself (test by them to ensure it is a good copy) then this is what we should all expect from the lens and if our own copies are not meeting that same benchmark then we would be in a good position to demand an exchange.
The thing is, I can't help feeling the Americans get such a good level of customer support for this kind of stuff (compared to the rest of us), they can play with a camera or lens for a month and then decide its not for them and just 'give it back'. For us down here in Australia that is a no deal approach, not even within 7 days can we change our minds. We have to build a very strong legal case for returns so to prove a lens is faulty and not performing up to scratch (via proof of a comparison with a good review) is helpful. -
Just got the Viltrox 56/1.4 and an XT-4, took a couple shots, popped the RAW into LR and had a look at the Lens Correction section.
I noticed there is a message I have not seen before at the bottom of that section that says;
! Built-in Lens Profile applied.
That's cool. I took a shot at f1.4 and was wanting to see how strong the vignette would be but its practically non existent.
But what if I want it? I'm curious to know the charm of this lens without Lens Correction automatically applied, what is the distortion like etc. Is there a way to disable it? I noticed toggling the Lens Correction switch on and off resulted in no perceivable difference (and the message '! Built-in Lens Profile applied.' still shows clearly), so I'm thinking there is no way around it. I really would expect quite a shift between a corrected lens and a non corrected lens, at least with all my other lenses I have used there seems quite a strong difference between before and after when toggling the Lens Correction switch on and off.
Thoughts?
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1 hour ago, mdm said:
There is a post started back in 2015 by "quincy" - https://www.fuji-x-forum.com/topic/998-complete-overview-over-the-available-and-upcoming-fuji-x-mount-lenses/
I didn't check updates of that post last years and just did it now. He added some links to reviews that is great and sort of what you are talking about I suppose.
Yeah, it would be better with its own section rather than a thread, and of course its not members reviews. Still a cool thread tho, thanks!
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11 hours ago, lleo said:
Hello Bruce, I know the database in Pentax forum, it's quite good.
The only advice is take every lens review with a pinch of salt, since no two lenses of the same type are the same.
Yep, which is why I think PF lens reviews are good because if you get 10ppl reviewing a lens and one really hates on it and the others love it, you kinda get the feeling he has a dud copy or whatever. An averaged rating from users contributing to the review section is really quite helpful to give you somewhat of an idea of the lens performance. What I find is not so helpful is for example a single in depth review, unless the review states that they had 3-5 copies of this lens and could weed out the dud copies or average the results across the 3-5 lenses... yer at mercy to one guys tests and that one lens, which may or may not be a good representation of that lens across the board.
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13 hours ago, mdm said:
Hi Bruce. There aren't such a db with reviews on this forum, just some personal opinions, but very often quite valuable, so you may try search through the topicks. Hoever there are some great sites of professional fuji gear reviewers, so here you are a couple for a start:
https://jonasraskphotography.com/
Thanks, will check those out.
I wonder if its a good idea to start some kind of official lens review here on this forum group, following a similar format to PF? Could be a great resource and strengthen the Fuji brand. -
Hi everyone.
I come from Pentax Forums where this is quite a database on lenses with members reviews and ratings and such, it can be quite a useful and helpful resource when starting your research into your next lens purchase.
I just wondered if I had missed any feature like this with this forum here? Or whether there is a place most of ya'll go or refer people too for lens impressions and reviews.
Cheers!
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Hi everyone, thanks for having me.
I am not yet on the Fuji system, I am researching if it will be the right system for me to jump to in the very near future. I am currently a Pentaxian shooting with a KP (crop), K-1 (FF) and 645D (MF). You may check out my work here if you like; https://www.flickr.com/photos/95230640@N04/
What I am really after would be to ascertain IQ at a high level of some XT-4 files, and even better would be if it were files taken with the 50/1. The 50/1 really intrigues me because its coming quite close to the experience of shooting my FA77/1.8 on the K-1.
The reason I am considering XT-4 is I guess why many jump to Fuji, video capabilities and competent AF. I love Pentax but it is mainly suited to landscape and slow shooting scenarios. I have no intention of giving up Pentax, I just have some jobs coming up that require better AF than what I currently have.
It would be super useful for me to get some RAW files from the XT-4, with varying ISO's so I can see for myself in LR/PS what the ISO limits are.
Could anyone help me out here please?
TIA!
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I am keen to hear from anyone using this grips features. I have a corporate event in November where I think it could be useful but would like to hear back from real world user experiences.
Cheers!
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