The best trio of Fujinon and X-Fujinon lenses

hoanpham · Expire: 2015-01-18

?? What is wrong with the photos? And colors??
Why awful?

Pontus · Expire: 2016-08-25

hoanpham · Expire: 2015-01-18

Forums and internet still have room for improvement Smile

It's not easy to detect humor like body language, face, tonal...

Pontus · Expire: 2016-08-25

That's true. It is so easy to misunderstand someone when you're not talking eye to eye. Especially humour and/or sarcasm can be tricky.

Oldhand · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 9:16 pm Post subject:

Just one letter left out - an "e"
Awe-Full .... full of awe!
Nice lenses, nice results too.
OH

Fujinonuser · Joined: 06 Jan 2011 Posts: 128 Location: Germany

My apologies to hoanpham and other members of this forum. Of course I wanted to express my admiration and gratitude to hoanpham for his great pictures and for sharing them with us.

Oldhand · Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2013 1:43 am Post subject:

Over the Xmouse break, I was lucky enough to find a Fujinon EBC 55mm f1.8
This is my only Fujinon so I can't compare it with other Fujinons ..... BUT ........... if they are all this good or better, then they are truly top shelf.
Here are some quick and dirty images on K-10D

100% crop:

Cheers
OH

MuchoFlavorStudio · Joined: 10 Aug 2017 Posts: 1 Location: Mexico City

Hi, does anybody know if the Fujinon T EBC 135mm 3.5 lens is radioactive? I got it today and I find it pretty sharp. Not amazing bokeh but it seems like a solid portrait lens. Love the size and construction and it came with a metallic hood that makes it look hot. Thanks.

spiralcity · Joined: 02 Oct 2008 Posts: 1207 Location: Chicago, U.S.A

quidam · Joined: 28 Sep 2012 Posts: 216 Location: Belgium

Lightshow · Joined: 04 Nov 2011 Posts: 3669 Location: Calgary

I think the vast majority of radioactive lenses are wides and normals.

spiralcity · Joined: 02 Oct 2008 Posts: 1207 Location: Chicago, U.S.A

I'm stealing this from flickr, it was posted by our member Arkku, take it for what it's worth.

The following lenses are not radioactive:

• “new style” (rubber focusing ring) non-EBC Fujinon 50mm f/1.4
• “new style” (rubber focusing ring without “stripes” or gaps between knobs) EBC Fujinon 50mm f/1.4
• Fujinon 55mm f/1.6
• any of the four styles of 55mm f/1.8 Fujinon, EBC or non-EBC

Out of the 50 and 55mm Fujinons I have tested, only the “old style” (silver-coloured aperture ring) non-EBC 50mm f/1.4 is radioactive. (edit: there is also a relatively rare EBC version that is radioactive)
I measured.

edit: I've since seen one person claim to have measured an EBC 50mm f/1.4 Fujinon and to have found it radioactive. I have measured two EBCs and one “new style” non-EBC and they were not radioactive. This raises an interesting question: are some rare versions of the EBC 50mm f/1.4 Fujinon radioactive?

edit 2: Turns out that there is a (relatively) rare EBC 50mm f/1.4 version that is radioactive: it is the one which has gaps between the knobs in its rubber focusing ring, i.e., the focusing ring has a “striped” or “segmented” look rather than uniform knobs all around. This lens is a different optical design than the later (much more common) EBC 50mm f/1.4, since it also differs in size and weight.

Lloydy · Expire: 2022-01-01

iangreenhalgh1 · Expire: 2014-01-07

Sadly that grease spot or whatever it was could not be cleaned off my 1.6/55. I do have two copies of the 1.6/50 and really like it. I also had a copy of the 1.6/50 3-4 years ago and it was awful, didn't get remotely sharp until f4 and then was still not very sharp, had very strong CA. Obviously, it was a duffer. I also have 2.8/35 and 3.5/28 X-Fujinons and like those too, particularly the vivid colours.

Oldhand · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 2:20 am Post subject:

Yes, I have had the 1.6/55 and the 1.8/55.
I rate the 1.8/55 as the better lens all round and this one I kept - the 1.6/55 wasn't as good in my opinion, even though I have seen beautiful images taken by others with it.
I onsold the 1.6/55
Tom

iangreenhalgh1 · Expire: 2014-01-07

The 1.8/55 didn't make it into the X-Fujinon era, probably it was too expensive to manufacture. The 1.9/50 and 2.2/55 X-Fujinons are rather underwhelming, it's the 1.6/55 and 1.6/50 X-Fujinons that are the good ones.

Oldhand · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 2:24 am Post subject:

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iangreenhalgh1 · Expire: 2014-01-07

iangreenhalgh1 · Expire: 2014-01-07

sergun · Joined: 01 Jun 2017 Posts: 283 Location: наша раша

X-Fujinon 50mm f1.6 DM EBC @f1.6

D1N0 · Joined: 07 Aug 2012 Posts: 2491

Sample of my 55mm/1.8 EBC:

I think the rendering is quite modern. The bokeh looks a bit plasticky especially when the are highlights in it. I think that is a Fuji thing.