#Fujifilm 35mm manual#

The included hood is made of plastic, 1/2'' long, and is ribbed in the interior. The lens does have a bayonet mount attachment point, and a new metal lens hood (model LH-XF35-2) will be available that attaches to it. It's not a huge hardship as the hood accepts the lens cap, which is a nice center-pinch design. This is worth noting if you want to attach a filter, because you'd have to remove the hood, attach the filter, then attach the filter again. The 35mm ƒ/2 R lens hood ships with a plastic, round hood that attaches directly to the 43mm filter threads. The lens has little external features to speak of: no distance scale, depth-of-field scale, or infrared index. Rather, turning the focusing ring moves the elements electronically. The X-series camera concept uses a fly-by-wire system in its lens focusing method, so the focusing ring is not actually directly connected to the lens elements in a mechanical way. The focusing ring is about 3/8'' wide, made of polycarbonate with deep grooves that offer excellent tactile feel.

The rounder 9-bladed aperture diaphragm provides smooth bokeh.

#Fujifilm 35mm manual#

In addition to manual aperture selection, you can also rotate the aperture ring to an 'A' mode for automatic aperture selection. The aperture ring sits closer to the lens body, around 3/8'' wide, with click-stops between aperture settings in 1/3 EV increments. There are two rings for this lens: a focusing ring, and an aperture ring, something of a rarity in modern digital cameras, but a standard feature for most Fuji X-series lenses. The lens is, however, fully weather-resistant with dust and moisture protection and works in low temperatures (down to -10C). Because it isn't trying to achieve a super-fast aperture, or incorporate vibration reduction, Fuji has kept the size and weight down, making it a nice little lens (170g, 6 oz). The Fuji XF 35mm ƒ/2 R is a well-built lens, harkening back to the days of metal rangefinder cameras and has a satin black finish. Maximum magnification is a poor 0.135x, and it's very wide angle, so it's not suited for macro work it has a minimum close-focusing distance of 35cm (just over a foot). The front element does not rotate, making life that little bit easier for polarizer users. The lens focuses from infinity to close-focus in less than a second: it's fast, and locks on to your target easily. The Fujinon 35mm ƒ/2 R focuses very quickly with an electrical motor housed in the lens. It was only by converting the same RAW images with DCRAW (which does not convert the images with these corrections) that we were able to confirm this. However, when converted with Adobe Camera Raw, as it our usual procedure, ACR carries over these in-camera corrections.

Note: It should be noted that the X-E1, our Fuji test camera, does feature in-camera correction of CA, vignetting and distortion, and it's important to note that our results here were taken from RAW files. There is essentially no distortion found when using the Fujinon 35mm f/2. However, when set to ƒ/4 or smaller, corner shading is negligible. When used at ƒ/2 there is some light corner shading when using this lens: we note extreme corners are 1/4 EV darker than the center.

Results for chromatic aberration were excellent looking at the sample images, I'm hard-pressed to see any color shifts at all.

However, even then, I think you probably wouldn't notice. Diffraction limiting begins to set in at ƒ/8, but overall sharpness isn't really impacted until ƒ/16, where edge-to-edge sharpness is slightly softer than other apertures. Stopping down reduces the impact of corner softness stopping down to ƒ/4 produces results which are almost tack-sharp, and these results are essentially the same with the lens stopped to subsequently smaller apertures. At this setting there is only a very slight amount of corner softness, in the extreme corners. The Fujinon 35mm produces very sharp images, even when working at its widest aperture of ƒ/2.