p.7 #1 · What Fuji GF lenses would you like to see?
i have gfx 50s ii with fujinon lenses:
50mm
110mm
35-70mm
100-200mm
and mitakon 65 and adapted tamron 150-600
i always missed lens for portraits, 110mm is too tele for me, and not able to shoot from close enough. 63mm or 80mm would be fine, but it have to be with lm, otherwise it is too slow af. 70mm would be perfect, f3.5 is enough. could be something pancakeish like 50mm. i like very compact lenses
p.7 #2 · What Fuji GF lenses would you like to see?
I shoot weddings with a pair of GFX100S II bodies as well as a XT-5 and X100VI.The GFX's are the workhorses. Most of the day they have the 55mm and 110mm attached. If I need wider but still fast I have the Tamron 35mm and 45mm f1.8 VC lenses adapted. I really, really am longing for a faster on the wide end. i would LOVE a GF 30 or 35mm f1.7 or f2.That would make my life complete. Well, maybe a GF 175mm f2... An adapted Canon 200mm f2L IS fills that part right now. For fun and when I want some wild flare I also adapt a Canon EF 85mm f1.2L II. Though I use that rarely as the focus is so slow. But man the flare can be awesome.
For landscapes I really can't think of anything wanting as I have the 20-35, 32-64 and 100-200.
p.7 #3 · What Fuji GF lenses would you like to see?
olegkin wrote:
I love GF50 or GF35-70 on GFX100S2 for travel. I actually tried xt5 and xh2 vs gfx and ended up using gfx most of the time (partially because x series got focus most of the time, and gfx got focus right EVERY time. I don't work with equipment I cannot trust).
Yeah, with travel I think preferences really matter and particularly how much weight you are willing to cart around. When traveling I almost always walk at least 5 miles a day and often 10, so I like to keep my kit light. At the same time I like to shoot a wide variety of things, so I want to cover a wide focal length range and I want some lenses with wide apertures to shoot in low light.
My whole travel kit with the XT-5 and 4 lenses will weigh less than your kit with the GFX100S II, the GF 35-70, and the GF 50, but not by much. It is more the versatility that I would miss with your kit as I like to shoot everything from architecture and landscapes to portraits and even macro and I want to shoot in low light indoors and even some at night so I want wide aperture lenses. I don't worry about focus too much either as 3 out of the 4 lenses are manual focus and getting shots in focus is on me.
I am certainly not saying your approach is wrong and you do have a pretty light kit, but it is just very different from what I want for travel. So very much different strokes for different folks.
p.7 #4 · What Fuji GF lenses would you like to see?
Ken_Cravillion wrote:
I shoot weddings with a pair of GFX100S II bodies as well as a XT-5 and X100VI.The GFX's are the workhorses. Most of the day they have the 55mm and 110mm attached. If I need wider but still fast I have the Tamron 35mm and 45mm f1.8 VC lenses adapted. I really, really am longing for a faster on the wide end. i would LOVE a GF 30 or 35mm f1.7 or f2.That would make my life complete. Well, maybe a GF 175mm f2... An adapted Canon 200mm f2L IS fills that part right now. For fun and when I want some wild flare I also adapt a Canon EF 85mm f1.2L II. Though I use that rarely as the focus is so slow. But man the flare can be awesome.
For landscapes I really can't think of anything wanting as I have the 20-35, 32-64 and 100-200....Show more →
I hope I didn't lose track of that 30 or 35 f/1.7 or f/2 in my descriptions. I think it is a really important lens for the system. For wider aperture portrait type lenses they have a really good start. I think the 110 f/2, the 55 f/1.7, the 45-100 f/4 and even the 250 f/4 are all really good lenses for that purpose. I think they need three more, however, to really keep portrait shooters happy and that would be that wide angle/wide aperture prime (something like the 30 or 35 f/1.7 or f/2), a longer prime in between the 110 and the 250, (something like your 175 f/2 or more likely f/2.5--I used an Agenieux 180 f/2.3 APO on the GFX and it was lovely), and a longer at least f/4 aperture zoom. Something like a 70-175, or 90-225, or 100 to 250 (I am betting on this being a bit shorter more like the 70-175, so it isn't as huge, but any of these I think would be very welcomed by some shooters and I personally would probably get one).
Like you for landscapes I mostly need shorter lenses, but some people (Dan obviously) want a much longer reach for their landscape shooting.
p.7 #6 · What Fuji GF lenses would you like to see?
olegkin wrote:
I love GF50 or GF35-70 on GFX100S2 for travel. I actually tried xt5 and xh2 vs gfx and ended up using gfx most of the time (partially because x series got focus most of the time, and gfx got focus right EVERY time. I don't work with equipment I cannot trust).
Are you using AF-S on static subjects at medium to far distances? Part of my reason for switching to GFX was the high AF-S misfocus rate with Fuji's X bodies, but I've found that my GFX50R still misses focus on static subjects occasionally with the GF20-35mm or GF35-70. It's more prevalent in low light (forgivable) but it's happened in bright conditions too. Not as frequent as with my X-H1 or X-T5, but definitely not bulletproof.
p.7 #7 · What Fuji GF lenses would you like to see?
aloy99 wrote:
Are you using AF-S on static subjects at medium to far distances? Part of my reason for switching to GFX was the high AF-S misfocus rate with Fuji's X bodies, but I've found that my GFX50R still misses focus on static subjects occasionally with the GF20-35mm or GF35-70. It's more prevalent in low light (forgivable) but it's happened in bright conditions too. Not as frequent as with my X-H1 or X-T5, but definitely not bulletproof.
Wondering if the GFX bodies with PDAF fix that.
I had gfx50s2, gfx100s, and now use gfx100s2, with af-s on mostly static subjects, from model shoots to cityscapes and landscapes. I never had issues with unexpected out of focus images. I had a few OOF on every shoot with X cameras, even if I shot a building or a tree.
p.7 #8 · What Fuji GF lenses would you like to see?
I have a lot of (now expected) out of focus images with 50S II. And I know exactly why: It focuses on the farthest part of the focusing area. Not the closest. So everytime you try to focus on a branch, tree or something small that doesn't fill the square, it will choose to focus on the background. Utterly useless.
p.7 #9 · What Fuji GF lenses would you like to see?
olegkin wrote:
I had gfx50s2, gfx100s, and now use gfx100s2, with af-s on mostly static subjects, from model shoots to cityscapes and landscapes. I never had issues with unexpected out of focus images. I had a few OOF on every shoot with X cameras, even if I shot a building or a tree.
Hm, thanks for the information. I'll review the images where I had misses and see if they have anything in common.
p.7 #10 · What Fuji GF lenses would you like to see?
Makten wrote:
I have a lot of (now expected) out of focus images with 50S II. And I know exactly why: It focuses on the farthest part of the focusing area. Not the closest. So everytime you try to focus on a branch, tree or something small that doesn't fill the square, it will choose to focus on the background. Utterly useless.
I've had misses where the entire focus area was basically at infinity, and it couldn't find the best distance to focus at. Not as egregious as my Fuji X cameras where you can see that focus was missed in the EVF if you look closely, but rather cases where I could improve sharpness noticeably by punching in afterwards and manually adjusting focus a little.
p.7 #11 · What Fuji GF lenses would you like to see?
I shoot X and Gfx and for me, the X has a much more reliable auto focus. I have noticed quite a bit of difference from one X lens to the next, it seems that newer designs are faster and more accurate.
p.7 #12 · What Fuji GF lenses would you like to see?
aloy99 wrote:
Hm, thanks for the information. I'll review the images where I had misses and see if they have anything in common.
See what Makten said. It is a weird quirk, and it could be an issue if your focusing point is bigger than subject you are focusing on. It was not an issue for me, but I confirmed this behavior in tests.
p.7 #16 · What Fuji GF lenses would you like to see?
One thing I keep thinking about from this thread is that I'm surprised how many think Fuji was either holding out on us or that lens design tech has advanced considerably since just 2017. Some of y'all are expecting 2x f/4 zooms to become 2.5x (or even greater) f/4 zooms and/or even 2x (or greater) f/2.8 zooms--without prohibitive increase in size, weight, and cost. Obviously the 45-100 shows that 2x isn't an *absolutely rigid* limit, but I don't think we'll see a major revolution in what's possible.
p.7 #17 · What Fuji GF lenses would you like to see?
Lee Saxon wrote:
One thing I keep thinking about from this thread is that I'm surprised how many think Fuji was either holding out on us or that lens design tech has advanced considerably since just 2017. Some of y'all are expecting 2x f/4 zooms to become 2.5x (or even greater) f/4 zooms and/or even 2x (or greater) f/2.8 zooms--without prohibitive increase in size, weight, and cost. Obviously the 45-100 shows that 2x isn't an *absolutely rigid* limit, but I don't think we'll see a major revolution in what's possible.
There certainly is no free lunch. It seems to me Fuji has kept about 1000g as a target for the max weight of all their zoom lenses. If they are going to build longer zoom lens that have even 2.5X zoom ranges they are going to have to expand that significantly. I think something like a 75 -180 f/4 or a 90-225 f/4 is going to get a lot closer to 1,500g than 1,000g and I think something like a 200-500 at even f/6.3 is going to be over 2000g. I think you are right that what people might not be realizing is that in asking for some of the lenses they are asking for they are asking for lenses that will be quite a bit bigger than the current GF lenses.
p.7 #18 · What Fuji GF lenses would you like to see?
I think that a good general predictor is that if we imagine a lens for GFX with a particular zoom range (let’s say 100-400mm) and maximum aperture (let’s say f/5.6) that it will be a bit larger and heavier than it would be if built to accommodate a FF body, mainly because it must produce a slighlty larger image circle.
But the old rules about MF film camera lens sizes don’t apply here, as we’re talking about a format that is smaller even than 645 film.
So while we aren’t going to see lenses that match a given FF lens for focal length range, aperture, and size/weight, the difference doesn’t have to be as large as we imagine based on older MF lens designs.
It is also useful to keep in mind that it is reasonable for GFX lenses to have somewhat smaller maximum apertures. So if we think of somethng like the Canon 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 v.2 (apparently often adapted by GFX users), A Fujifilm 100-400mm lens with a maximum f/6.3 aperture at 400mm would be pretty useful. (The dream lens for many of us would be a 200-500, of course.)
And a bit larger and more expensive is OK with a system that is already a bit larger and more expensive.
p.7 #19 · What Fuji GF lenses would you like to see?
I would like to see Fuji give us lighter lens options that would travel / carry well, and fast wide angle prime for astro:
1. 21mm f/2 or 2.5 with manual focus clutch…geared toward night / astro
2. 38, 55, 75 and 90, similar to Hasselblad, lighter with focus clutch, at least f 2.8
3. Lighter mid range zoom, maybe 35-100 same as Hasselblad…Hassy is f2.8 to f4 with leaf shutter and 0.2 lbs lighter than 45-100,
Fuji made the 16-55ii for the X system reducing weight by 1/3 (0.5 lbs)…Fuji is capable of delivering smaller and lighter lenses without much sacrifice to image quality which would probably pull me back into GFX.
p.7 #20 · What Fuji GF lenses would you like to see?
I did not read all 7 pages of suggestions, but the only lens I'm missing in the GFX lineup is a true flat-field 1:1 macro. This is why I sold my GFX 100s. I do a lot of reproduction work on a copy stand and no matter what macro lens I tried to adapt, the GFX platform couldn't compete with the Sony A7R with its native E-mount phenomenal Sigma 105mm f/2.8 Macro Art.
