Love is the Fuji 35mm 1.4 | Richard Wood

Ok so from the title of the blog you can probably surmise that I have a bit of a thing for the 35mm 1.4 from Fuji, guess I’d better tell you why. I’ve had the 35mm (53mm equivalent.) since late November 2014 when Fuji UK sent me a demo model and it’s given me the chance to put it through it’s paces as a portrait lens on the X-T1. The lens like all of the Fuji range is very well made and to compliment the lens construction Fuji provides a metal hood that with it’s rectangular shape has divided opinion – personally I love it, I think it makes the setup very cool looking with a nod to the kind of design that were available on vintage Leica & Voightlander glass. The aperture ring has a nice click to it and the manual focus is smooth, however being one of the elder statesman of the Fuji lens lineup it can when used in autofocus mode hunt around now and again and sometimes fail to achieve focus in very low light conditions. However for the vast majority of normal shooting it is fast and silent……

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Fujifilm Fujinon XF 35mm F1.4

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