New features of the Fuji X-T2 | Tom Grill

At first glance it doesn’t look much different from the X-T1, but once you hold it in your hands and start to fiddle with the controls, the differences become apparent. It is slightly larger, which is probably a good thing. Read more …

Tackling the night with the X-Pro2 — fading tulips | Tom Grill

Night falls. The room goes dark, the shadowy shapes of the tulips fade into the background. I switch the Zeiss 50mm from the X-T1 to the X-Pro2 to take advantage of its Acros film setting. At first I photographed with Read more …

Fuji’s 16-55mm lens – a zoom lens that works like a a prime | Tom Grill

I tested Fuji’s 16-55mm f/2.8 zoom when it first came out, and wrote a review of it where I praised the versatility of its design for myriad uses, and noted that it was one of the few zooms I know Read more …

The Fuji 1.4x teleconverter – a Hands-on review | Tom Grill

The Fujifilm XF 1.4x TC WR teleconverter is intended to fit two lens — the current 50-140mm f/2.8 zoom, and the 100-400mm to be released later this year — multiplying their focal length ranges by 1.4x with a loss of Read more …

Getting by with a Fuji X-T1 and two Fuji standard zoom lenses | Tom Grill

Sometimes I really want to travel light and uncomplicated, yet have enough of a focal range to cover most anything I would encounter. When I know my photography will be limited to the outdoors and I will have plenty of Read more …

Fuji’s 90mm lens at f/2 for beauty photography | Tom Grill

Every now and then, on rare occasions, I happen upon a lens that produces exceptional results. I once had a 150mm Sonnar C lens for my old Hasselblad 500 cameras. It produced a creamy smoothness while maintaining great sharpness and Read more …

Fuji XF 56mm f/1.2 R APD lens — a hands on review | Tom Grill

My favorite full frame lens for shooting lifestyle is an 85mm wide aperture. On a Fuji X camera this translates to the 56mm f/1.2.  A main reason for this choice is that I want to keep the background very soft Read more …

Fuji 56mm f/1.2R a perfect lens for portraits and lifestyle | Tom Grill

An 80-90mm fast aperture lens has always been my favorite for portraits. When I did photography advertising for cosmetic companies, however, I used instead a Nikon 105mm macro because it was very sharp, had a flat field, and could get Read more …

Choosing between the Fuji 16-55mm f/2.8, 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6,
and 18-55mm f/2.8-4 | Tom Grill

In my latest hands-on review of the Fuji 16-55mm f/2.8 I mentioned that with this lens Fuji expands its lens system with a redundancy that covers more that one solution to the same optical coverage. For the consumer, this means Read more …

Fuji XF 16-55mm f/2.8 zoom | Tom Grill

As one of the most popular focal length zoom ranges of many pro photographers, the Fuji 16-55mm has been eagerly awaited as a complement to the already released Fuji XF 55-140mm f/2.8 zoom providing an f/2.8 focal length range from Read more …