image courtesy: Max Angeloni (photostream) XF55-200 
F3.6 1/1000 ISO640
1) 21 beautiful sample shots taken with XF 55-200 by Max Angeloni can be seen here.
2) thephoblographer posted his first impressions of the Zeiss Touit 12mm lens here. From the conclusions:
“So far, we really can’t say much terrible about the Zeiss 12mm f2.8. It has excellent color rendition on the X Pro 1, is sharp, focuses silently and snappily, and is really small for what it is. Though we really wish that the lens’ exterior overall were metal, the plastic hasn’t proved to be much of a problem just yet.”
3) “Hi Patrick! I wrote some first impressions of the new [shoplink 12335]Samyang 8 mm fisheye (specs&price)[/shoplink] for the X-series. It is in English! Feel free to link it.”… and here is the link ;)!
XF 55-200 pre-order: USA: Adorama / BHphoto / AmazonUS / DigitalRev / Uniquephoto / Pictureline / Europe: AmazonUK / AmazonDE / PCHstore Brussel
Zeiss Touit 32mm pre-order: USA: Adorama / BHphoto / Uniquephoto / Pictureline / Europe: AmazonDE / ebayUK / PCHstore Brussel
Zeiss Touit 12mm pre-order: USA: Adorama / BHphoto / Uniquephoto / Pictureline / Europe: AmazonDE / ebayUK / PCHstore Brussel
image courtesy: Matti Sulanto (sulantoblog)
6 Responses
Nice pictures, BUT I ask myself why passing through Lightroom (it seems LR, at least to me) when reviewing a lens? That “halo” around the seagull shows that there’s a post production. I have nothing against it, but I findodd to write about the quality of a lens and then “mask” it in PP. Complimenti per le foto! 🙂
Some rather extreme skin smoothing as well on some of those model shots (the one model after the seagull shot). The seagull I could do without as well, horrible shot/post processing. Other then that nice shots.
The bokeh looks pretty decent, although sometimes a bit nervous. Could do with a nice tele zoom, cant wait to test it out myself to see whether I will get one or not.
This is neither a review, nor a test…. it’s a gallery published on Fijifilm X-com Photographers site….. You can like it or not, but it’s the photographer’s artistic expression. 😉
You can do this “artistic impression” with the kit lens of any camera. Just slide the “clarity” slidebar in Photoshop a bit further to the right than common sense would command and you’re done.
Noticed another review of the Samyang 8mm (on the X-Pro1) here:
http://fujixfiles.blogspot.nl/2013/03/ultra-wide-angle-fisheye-lens-on-fuji-x.html
neither fuji-related news nor rumors