Fuji 56mm V. Panasonic Leica Nocticron 42.5mm | Josh McLeod
I have been wanting to do this comparison for quite some time but until now have never had access to the Panasonic Leica Nocticron. I could never quite justify buying it as it is one of the most expensive MFT lenses on the market and is about 5 times the price of the not too dissimilar Olympus 1,8/45mm lens. The Olympus 1,8/45mm is a brilliant lens but for some reason I didn’t really use it all that much. I have previously written about the Olympus images looking too “digital” and I think the Olympus 45mm was one lens that actually exaggerated that look. I decided to bite the bullet. I sold a number of my Olympus lenses, including the Olympus 45mm, in order to liberate some funds to be able to buy the Nocticron. Only time will tell if this was a bad decision, but at this early stage I have no regrets. My Olympus kit now only consists of only 2 lenses: the Nocticron and the Olympus 1,8/75mm. For what I generally shoot this is the perfect setup. I am considering re-buying the Panasonic Leica 1,4/25mm at some stage but it is fairly low down the list. As most of you probably know the Fuji X-T1 and Fuji 1,2/56mm lens is one of my favourite portrait setups. However, this shoot really highlighted the flaws of the Fuji and it did begin to frustrate me to some degree. The Fuji is slow to respond and the Auto Focus is poor compared to the Olympus O-MD E-M1 (and the Sony A7 and Sony A7s as well). Luckily it does make up for its flaws with amazing image quality and that unique Fuji look……
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Fujifilm Fujinon XF 56mm F1.2
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