That lens woks great on portraits. There are many versions of it and much variation from copy to copy. I am sorry to hear that you weren’t happy about yours Johan. I was just lucky with this, a lens with no coating and riddled with some little transparent impurities on the lens rear elements which might be droplets of something or even minuscule specs of glass dust, they are translucent.
So much for “ clean" lenses!
The depth of field is not only shallow at a relatively open aperture ( and much more completely open), but as you will see it is very sharp at 2.8... but only where it was focussed ( eyebrows and eyes) but tip of the nose and ears are out of focus.
As for price, yes, it is true that some lenses which you can use on mirrorless cameras ( such as the Olympus) are very expensive now while a few years ago you couldn’t give them away, but there are still many street markets and charity shops where you can luck out, yet, especially in central and East-Europe there were truck loads of these more humble lenses, although they have their own rarities as well, but I am not a collector, and some people kept them well and used them until not so long ago on analog cameras, instead of having been chucked out as many did in the West.
So, yes, all manner of “ zebra” lenses are NOW sold at relatively high prices ( always lower than a new lens) simply because they are old and look the retro part and you get the paradox of people shooting with the latest technology in “ film” ( camera bodies are in fat the film you shoot with) and the oldest one in glass.
So people argue the maximum result obtainable from a raw converter and then use the camera with one of these lenses. But that is another thread altogether.
I am not proposing to use these lenses for everyday photography, although yesterday, I took a portrait of my father in law and just before he was just sitting with my wife talking about his administration that my wife helps him with and I quickly shot a picture of them two together which was very nice indeed.
By the way the adapter that I’ve used in this case is a “ dumb” adapter ( one that doesn’t do anything els than adapting bayonet with the M42 thread of the lens) by K&F. So the full frame focal length equivalent of a 50mm is 80mm, which makes the humble 50mm one of the ideal focal lengths for a portrait although for some reason now people have taken to shoot portraits with much longer lenses.
i found a workaround to use the film simulation also with other cameras like Sony A7 or Fuji XT10
as fleckintosh mentioned
and the fly over with the mouse works.......
for mac users:
1. download the ICC profiles from fleckintosh....again great thanks to you, fleckintosh to post these files!!!!!!!
2.rename the ICC Profiles ...... for example .......from...... "FujiXT1-Classic Chrome Adobe RGB.icc" to "SonyA7-Classic Chrome Adobe RGB.icc" or "SonyNEX7-Classic Chrome Adobe RGB.icc" or........"FujiXT10-.........
3. copy the ICC Profiles to: Capture One/Contents/Frameworks/AppCore.framework/Resources/Profiles/Input
i am new to this forum and this will be my first post.
As a faithful fujirumors reader i decided to register today, because i have something i like to share with you.
I found a workaround to use the film simulations we all appreciate in capture one pro.
All the work and all the credits belong to Scottie Wang who made this possible. Thank you, Scottie
He made some pretty cool icc profiles that can be used in capture one pro 8 to simulate all the films we know.
Due to file size limits in this forum i have to make several zip files with each simulation in sRGB and Adobe RGB.
To install (on a mac) put that icc in this folder : ~/Library/ColorSync/Profiles
If you made it right, it should be looking like this:
You can flyover with the mouse and have an instant preview on your image. I love this very much so i like to share this with everybody who is enthusiastic about fujifilm!
I just need to be reviewed because i am new and i will upload all icc profiles here in this post.