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Fujifilm 23mm F2 R WR out of focus areas looks blurry


Noga

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Hey,

So I bought the fuji XT-3 camera and a 23mm F2 R WR lens and the out of focus areas of my picture looks bad, they look blurry and  smeared although I'm shooting on height shutter. Is that the lens out of focus/bokeh quality or is there a problem? I fell like it's not supposed to be like that, it's looks bad.

I took a few pictures to try and show you what i mean. all the photos was taken in open aperture and above 1/125 

 

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I will expect it will look like a nice soft out of focus and not blurry like a low shutter speed smeared movement. You really don't see that the out of focus areas looks bad? like a shoot while walking or something.

Look at the hand, it doesn't look like a normal out of focus, it looks like a low shutter moment blur.
IDK maybe it how it's 
supposed be with this lens, i'm disappointed with this optical performance :(

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The depth of field is quite small with an open aperture at 2.0. But not small enough to give you a nice buket when there is not enough distance between the major object and the backgroud (or foreground). Try some other motives like flowers to get a feeling for good distances and positions of objects and backgrounds. IMHO the lens is working fine.

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Here is another pic with distance Frome the out of focus background. It looks like a blur effect in photoshop. This lens suck, I just moved to Fuji from Nikon and i’m disappointed, with Nikon it looked much better  :( i’m really surprised you don’t see that... but thanks anyway 

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I'm still not sure what you are expecting. This is what my X100F with open aperture (23mm, F2.0) looks like when where is bright sunlight in the background:

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Try the same shots on 1/125 with electronic shutter enabled. Than try the same shot on mechanical shutter but with speed 1/200 or 1/250  and check the sharpness. I've found that xt3 shots blurry photos on mechanical shutter between 1/80 and 1/200. I try to solve and figure out the problem but for now no new ideas.

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I purchased this lens about 7 months ago.  I should have returned it as soon as I noticed what the OP sees as well.  There is something very displeasing about the way that it focuses and I do not like it.  Maybe I have a bad copy.  On the positive side, it does fairly well with very close up shots of flowers and things.  

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