(This post is part of a series of posts reviewing the Fuji 50mm f/1.0 lens.) Every December gear reviewers Chris and Jordan at DPReview TV put out a video naming the year's best and worst in cameras and lenses. They make it a trivia game and not only pick winners…
(This post is part of a series of posts reviewing the Fuji 50mm f/1.0 lens.) If you hold it and shift it around so the light reflects off the glass, the surface of a Glimmerglass filter looks like it has been sprinkled with some sort of metallic dust, maybe gold.…
(This post is part of a series of posts reviewing the Fuji 50mm f/1.0 lens.) Beach Bokeh Boo! The Fuji 50mm f/1.0 compared to the 56mm f/1.2 There is far more to a lens than bokeh—the character of the out-of-focus areas—but with an f/1 lens set wide open the out-of-focus…
(This post is part of a series of posts reviewing the Fuji 50mm f/1.0 lens.) Bokeh is a word for the background (or foreground, I suppose) blur characteristics of an image. It differs from lens to lens (sometimes by a lot) and sometimes it differs a lot with the same…
(This post is part of a series of posts reviewing the Fuji 50mm f/1.0 lens.) "First light" is a phrase from the astronomy community, usually referring to the first road-test image taken with a newly-built telescope, but it is also used more casually by the non-professional astronomer to refer to…
(This post is part of a series of posts reviewing the Fuji 50mm f/1.0 lens.) The new Fuji 50mm f/1.0 lens is here—what is it like? With any super-fast lens your expectations are that it will be huge, with a triple-digit filter diameter. And the lens is big, just not…
(This post is part of a series of posts reviewing the Fuji 50mm f/1.0 lens.) If you were designing a lens what would you do? Ahead of you is a line of trees, planted in a straight row. They form the top of a “T”, you stand at the bottom…