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I ordered the new Fuji 100-400mm from Amazon DE last Friday and it was delivered this morning.

 

It was a grey rainy day today, really not great for photography. In any event, I immediately mounted the lens on my X-Pro1 and tried a few random shots around here. 

 

Very briefly, my first impressions:

  • Image quality is outstanding.
  • Hand held at 1/15sec or 1/20sec is no problem, the OIS works beautifully, there's no motion blur, images are pin sharp.
  • Auto focus is silent & relatively fast  -I need to still try this on moving subjects.  I'm doing a safari in Botswana in early April, it will be a good opportunity to test the lens properly.

 

I've been waiting for this lens, so I could make a final decision on selling my Leica R APO 280mm f4. After a couple of hours of playing, the decision's been made, the Leica is going tomorrow...

 

Images are all straight out of camera Jpegs no PP:

 

#1- Hand held  1/15sec f5.6 ISO 200 @ 100mm

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#2- Hand held  1/20sec f5.6 ISO 200 @ 400mm

 

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#3- 100% crop - Hand held  1/20sec f5.6 ISO 200 @ 400mm

 

 

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Hand held  1/42sec f5.6 ISO 200 @ 100mm

 

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Hand held  1/17sec f5.6 ISO 200 @ 243mm

 

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Shot indoors low light & full afternoon back lighting from the window behind Ronaldo.

Hand held @ 1/60sec f5.6 ISO6400 SOOC Jpeg no PP.

 

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I was aware that there was no FW update for the X-Pro1, and I was on the lookout for any issues. There's nothing yet that I've noticed.

Aperture works well & is displayed in the EVF.

EXIF information is displayed on image playback.

 

I'll keep looking out for any issues and report back if any.

 

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Mike

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I can confirm the incredible sharpness of this lens, here's a "test" indoor shot only, but with birders parameters:

X-T1 with 400mm + 1.4 TC = 560 mm, shooting distance = 7,5 meters, indoor, so flash on, ISO 1600, f/8 (full open), 1/30 sec (hand holded) ...

It's an amazing, well built dream lens! As always the last 2-3 years coming from Fuji (e.g. 90mm f/2 !) ...

Now only the 120mm macro with OIS is missing and my DSLRs have to leave ... ;-)

 

For upload I had to resize the OOC Jpeg, otherwise you could clearly read the text on the box ! Look at the shimmering zone of tissues package coming from flash - you can see clearly surface of foil ...

 

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I wanted to contribute to this topic for days, but I was looking for a way to upload high resolution images. I've dediced to upload them to flickr, set to private. I hope you can see them. You should be able to click some them to see the big versions:

 

 

My first image with the lens:

 

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I think the image quality is nice, but you can see slight CA at the crow's throat. For me it's okay, the black crow on the bright blue sky is a pretty harsh transition and this is the only image that I've seen CA.

 

 

Then there was a cute little woodpecker:

 

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And a nice great tit (dark, high iso):

 

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If you ever asked yourself the question which Fuji-X lens has the nicest "bokeh", the 56 1.2 or the 90 2.0, the answer is: The 100-400. But don't take my word for it, have a look:

 

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The nine-bladed aperture does a great job.

 

/edit: I'm slowly migrating the images to the forum, for persistence.

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Had to split the post.

 

I didn't have much luck with wildlife in the woods, thus I decided to make a trip to a zoo to deliver at least some animal shots here. And guess what? They had free-flying wild egrets and cormorants because they drained a large pond to dig out the dirt.

 

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And some zoo animals:

 

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Action, OIS and panning detection also works pretty good:

 

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All in all I can say at least my sample seems to be sharper when focussed close, but that's perfect for me.

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Just buy it if you want it, it's unrivaled in it's focal lenght range anyway.

 

What I forgot to say: It seems to be very energy efficient. With my 55-200, I need all three batteries for one day of shooting. That day in the zoo with the 100-400, I was able to get about 900 shots out of one battery, and had to put in the second one only for the last hour.

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Just buy it if you want it, it's unrivaled in it's focal lenght range anyway.

 

What I forgot to say: It seems to be very energy efficient. With my 55-200, I need all three batteries for one day of shooting. That day in the zoo with the 100-400, I was able to get about 900 shots out of one battery, and had to put in the second one only for the last hour.

 

The local camera shop, must not be on first name terms with the Fuji dealer as the stock has not arrived yet :) 

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Weather was perfect yesterday so I had a short photo walk with family and time to test lens outside (all pics with TC 1.4 of course ;-) ...

 

Distance about 30 meters OOC 380mm f/7.1 1/800s ISO800

 

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Distance about 900 meters OOC 560mm f/8 1/240s (try this without OIS !) ISO800

 

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Distance about 70 meters OOC 560mm f/8 1/38s (try this without OIS ! ;-) ISO800

 

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And last but not least from pic above a crop of the cat ... ;-)

Not bad thinking about that the sun was going down and ISO800 just gives 1/38s with half automatic ....

 

Here it would be interesting what raw converter could do for me ... maybe I will give it a try ...

 

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