I often use my Minolta 50/1.4 PG as a walk-around lens and this is one of the worst sinners I've found in this regards.
Backgrounds with many small objects and patterns I guess you can call it.
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Even brick walls and buildings with many windows etc can show it. It will most often show itself in patterns like trees, especially with light falling through the leaves, or even fallen leaves on the ground. Just look at the third picture for a very good example. I'm going to look for some good examples of my own later on, but there are some excellent examples of what I mean by busy bokeh in this thread. I made this post in A-mount since I'm very interested in what the options are here, but the discussion is for any lens. Full-frame vs Crop-sensor comparison : Depth-of-field & perspectiveįiled Under: Anastasiya Ana, equipment reviews: Fuji, Fuji Tagged With: Fuji lens review, Lens review Fuji 56mm f/1.Recently I've become more and more annoyed with the busy bokeh of some of my bright primes.85mm – The best lens to change your portrait photography.Hopefully the few examples shown here are convincing enough of how easy it is to get striking portraits, especially with a wide aperture. If you are expanding your arsenal of Fuji lenses, the Fuji 56mm f/1.2 R ( B&H / Amazon) should be high on your list of must-have lenses.
The mild compression of the short telephoto lens was enough to capture just that part of the overhang as a striking background for a few portraits there. This photo (and the one at the top) was shot against the overhang of the McD’s on 42nd Street – a familiar sight to any visitor to Times Square. Out of focus high-lights are pleasantly oval, without much of that crazy swirl you’d get with some of the vintage lenses.Ī straight-forward portrait, where the wide aperture lets the background pleasantly blur. In this way you can melt away the background with an 85mm portrait lens at wide aperture … or in this case, the Fuji 56mm f/1.2 lens. The iPhone photo below will give you an exact idea of where we were. This was shot against the glass door of one of the buildings. It’s very busy with so many people and colors, but with a lens like this, it all melts away.Īnother example of how you can get a pretty decent portrait with an interesting or complementary background, when you blur it all out. So that you have an idea of where we shot – this is an iPhone photo of the scene in Times Square. In this photo below, the two people in the background become a pastel wash of colors! There are no hard or double edges to elements in the background. Here are a few examples where you can see how smooth the bokeh is from the Fuji 56mm f/1.2 lens. Some lenses have a wiry or harsh look to the background, even when used wide open. Now, keep in mind that smooth bokeh and shallow DoF are not quite the same thing – Bokeh vs shallow depth-of-field (DoF). Using this lens at the widest aperture, the depth-of-field will be supremely shallow, giving your photographs a specific look. The bokeh of the Fuji XF 56mm f/1.2 R lens If it looks this good at f/1.2 then it will improve if you stop down just a little bit already. Even with those limitations, I love the amount of detail that is visible in her eyelashes. Keep in mind that this was shot hand-held, and that there could’ve been flare from all the lights. So we will look briefly at the sharpness and the bokeh. The 56mm lens actually felt good on this small camera, and not front-heavy or out of proportion.įor this test, I only shot at f/1.2 with the idea that if you buy this lens, it is to be used mostly wide open like that. The camera I used is the little Fuji X-T20 ( B&H / Amazon), a great travel camera when you don’t want to carry around a larger camera. If the results look great with these limitations, then I am sure the lens will perform even better when used with a more rigorous technique.
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While not a thorough lens review of the Fuji XF 56mm f/1.2 R, I did use this lens in a way that matches a way I often shoot – using higher ISO settings, and using the camera hand-held. To test the Fuji XF 56mm f/1.2 R ( B&H / Amazon), I photographed one of my favorite models, Anastasiya, using the flood of light from the billboards in Times Square. And if you’re a fan of Fuji, then you will already know that their lenses are razor-sharp. If you’re a fan of Fuji, then the equivalent focal length would be the 56mm optic. For any photographer moving from zooms to using primes as well, with a strong interest in portraits, the 85mm lens is your best choice.
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