images: fuji 23/1.4

[free2move]

Dear Gav, awesome colors from the 23mm. Did you happen to use any filters during post processing?

 

[gavinlg]

Dear Gav, awesome colors from the 23mm. Did you happen to use any filters during post processing?

Thankyou 🙂 Just a VSCO base preset with my own colour tweaks in lightroom. Think the preset was gold 200.

 

[free2move]

Virgin shot with the new 23mm 😀

 

[free2move]

 

[honozooloo]

I was in an agricultural lot on the North Shore of Oahu recently shooting a piece on a farmer/water rights activist and forgot that my X-Pro and 23mm was in fully-manual mode. I saw a nice opportunity for a snapshot as we were walking to another location and without paying attention to my settings, snapped a quick photo on the fly. I keep image review on my camera disabled so I didn't notice the massive overexposure. This is what ISO 400, DR200, 1/1000th, and f/1.4 looked like in post (shot RAW, processed in LR5):

A bit of (morbid) curiosity led me to play with dropping the EV slider a bit, and to apply a bit of sharpening and a VSCO preset. And lo and behold, at -2.3 EV, this is what I came up with:

Now, this isn't exactly ready for 20x30 enlargement or submission into any landscape photo contests...but considering the huge overexposure and wide-open aperture, I was quite impressed with the DR present in the RAW, and the IQ while wide-open. Now I'm not in the habit of overexposing nearly two and a half stops, nor am I partial to large-aperture landscape photography, so I've never really had the occasion to push the X-Pro's sensor and glass to this extent; seeing this kind of capability is a first for me.

And I thought it was pretty cool. 🙂

 

[goamules]

Thanks, that is cool. And having lived on Oahu for 5 years in the 80s, kind of nice too.

 

[gavinlg]

Yup the 23mm f1.4 will shot landscapes wide open allllll day long.

 

[agoglanian]

On the X-Pro 1. Can you guess where this was? Haha

Seattle @ Night by Abram Goglanian, on Flickr

 

[free2move]

 

[free2move]

 

[macvisual]

The wall;


The wall by Peter McCullough Photography, on Flickr

 

[kuzano]

Fuji... MASTER of flare resistance 50 yeas now....

Fuji... MASTER of flare resistance 50 yeas now....

Just picked one of these up today and I can't wait to give it a go over the weekend.

Played around with it for ten minutes in the car park shooting through the windscreen into the sun, no hood and still very hard to make it flare!

About 50 years ago, the letters EBC began to appear on the front of Fujinon lenses, sanding for Electronic Beam Coating. Now replaced by Super EBC.

Those who have used Fujinon lenses for that period of time have a healthy respect for the ability of Fujinon lenses to control flare or resist flare.

Why is this so surprising?

It's one of the best and longest standing benefits of shootin Fuji/Fuji glass.😱

 

[OurManInTangier]

Just picked one of these up today and I can't wait to give it a go over the weekend.

Played around with it for ten minutes in the car park shooting through the windscreen into the sun, no hood and still very hard to make it flare!

About 50 years ago, the letters EBC began to appear on the front of Fujinon lenses, sanding for Electronic Beam Coating. Now replaced by Super EBC.

Those who have used Fujinon lenses for that period of time have a healthy respect for the ability of Fujinon lenses to control flare or resist flare.

Why is this so surprising?

It's one of the best and longest standing benefits of shootin Fuji/Fuji glass.😱

Simple. Because I didn't know that 😀 My Fujinon lens use has started with the Fuji X100 and later the X-Pro but I am sharing in a new found healthy respect for them!

 

[honozooloo]

A few favorite night exposures during a clear night at Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii.

Moonrise over Halemaumau Crater. Fuji X-T1, 23mm f/1.4. ISO 2500, f/2.8, 20 sec:

Ohia tree. Fuji X-T1, 23mm f/1.4. ISO 1600, f/1.4, 10 sec (at full size the sky shows shallow DOF...prints beautifully!):

Quite impressed by the astrophotographical potential of the combo...have a few wider shots of the same area taken with the 14mm coming in a separate post as well!

 

[GaryLH]

Like the first one..

Gary

 

[kbb]

About 50 years ago, the letters EBC began to appear on the front of Fujinon lenses, sanding for Electronic Beam Coating. Now replaced by Super EBC.

Those who have used Fujinon lenses for that period of time have a healthy respect for the ability of Fujinon lenses to control flare or resist flare.

Why is this so surprising?

It's one of the best and longest standing benefits of shootin Fuji/Fuji glass.😱

The resistance to flare and ghosts is mainly a lens element geometry and internal blackening thing; multiple layer coating is equally available to all the manufacturers.
The Fujifilm lens designers probably enjoyed their break from designing 99:1 zooms for sports television and US$110,000 cinema lenses to knock out a few small masterpieces for the X system.

 

[macvisual]

Winter sunshine;



Winter sunshine by Peter McCullough Photography, on Flickr

 

[Spanik]

The resistance to flare and ghosts is mainly a lens element geometry and internal blackening thing; multiple layer coating is equally available to all the manufacturers.
The Fujifilm lens designers probably enjoyed their break from designing 99:1 zooms for sports television and US$110,000 cinema lenses to knock out a few small masterpieces for the X system.

They probably went back to their experience with the 690 and 670 range of gear.

 

[macvisual]

Winter hills by Peter McCullough Photography, on Flickr

 

[honozooloo]