The relationship between aperture and depth of field is one of the first things you learn when you start to take photography seriously. Controlling this is relationship is a good portion of making your pictures look more professional. A narrow aperture means more of the photograph will be in focus, a wide aperture creates those lovely out of focus backgrounds and keeps just the subject sharp. Portrait photographers have to balance keeping the aperture of their lens low enough to blur details behind the person they’re shooting and keeping the whole face in focus. Having a speckled ‘bokeh’ backdrop is no use if the ears are slightly out of focus too. Which is why Fujifilm’s latest high speed lens, the XF 56mm 1.2 R APD, includes a built-in ‘apodisation filter’ designed to both enhance image sharpness at the wide apertures used for portraiture and simultaneously smooth the bokeh in the background. And it works. The bokeh really is even creamier and smoother than the standard XF 56mm lens (which also has an F1.2 aperture). It’s best to let the pictures do the talking here, so click through the sample gallery below…….

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Fujifilm Fujinon XF 56mm F1.2 APD

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Adam Oxford Fujifilm Fujinon XF 56mm f/1.2 R APD htxt.africa reviews