Do you remember when, a year ago, I told you Fuji announced a 24mm filter lens cap XM.FL (35mm equivalent)? No? Then check out this post!
Well, one year after, Fujifilm finally decided to release it. It will start selling on February 26 and cost 10,260 yen ($87).
To know more, check out the google translated announcement at Fuji’s Japanese site here.
Four functions that can be switched dial. Protecting filter, cloth filter, three kinds of filters and lenses lens cover soft filter four functions, can be switched by rotating the dial. Easily pan-focus shooting by switching to protect filter, and allows you to easily enjoy the sophisticated art expression by switching to cloth filter and soft filter. In addition, it is also possible to use as a body cap if you choose the lens cover.
XM-FL does not communicate such as camera and data. On the camera side of the function, you may not be able to use some.
- There is no autofocus manual focus function. (Pan Focus only)
- Lens information is not recorded on the camera side.
- Shooting screen (LCD monitor, viewfinder) to, F value will be displayed as “F0”.
- Display item of data communication to the necessary viewfinder of the camera (such as bright frame of X-Pro1)
- ※ shortest shooting distance The focus is about 1m. The subject is I turn off the shutter even if within 1m.
FYI, posted earlier today:
– Rico’s X-T1: Tethering with Adobe Lightroom and Fujifilm HS-V5
– Fujifilm Announces FREE RAW FILE CONVERTER EX 2.0 (with Film Simulation support)
– ANNOUNCED: Adobe Tethering Plug-in coming 26th of February… and how to use HS-V5 tethering software also on MAC!
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Ah I wondered what had happened to this. Be interesting to see some samples from it, but I imagine it’s mostly for the Instagram crowd.
Or street. Because it`s F8 is very highly usable by streetphotographers
I’m thinking more about the image quality and filters rather than the focal length and aperture. The 27mm f2.8 pancake is a great street lens.
+1 This 27mm is glued on my X-M1 for this reason. The X-T1 for everything else..
Finally we get a mechanical part in an X lens.
hehe, true… but one more new lens interface, too 🙂
This one I’d forgive them for since it really is such a specialized lens. I may even buy one for the heck of it. It would be good for walking around cities in daytime. Makes the X-E2 very pocketable.
Exactly. It is a specialised lens needing a specialised UI. Standard interfaces switching from lens to lens (aperture, focus, stops, distance, etc., labelled and unlabelled) those are not forgivable.
I was just kidding with the interface… FujiHumors 😉
I hope some samples will be shown soon. I’m interested to see what this little cheap thing can deliver
I’m really curious, too. Same with the lens baby, although I have no desire to buy one of those.
That should be fun on my X-M1..
I like the price. I imagine a lot of people will buy it just for that whether they’ll use it or not.
I hope I am not the only one who has this little issue…
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3730669
Welcome to “left in a car” club.
So much for concentrating on prosumer market… 🙂
Actually it may be perfect for enthusiasts/prosumers. It’s cheap and fun and falls into the discretionary money pile. Like when the 27mm was on sale for $199 last year. A lot of people bought them but likely never used them, simply because it was cheap.
There’s only one pro/prosumer lens on a market today that costs around $100 new – Canon’s “plastic fantastic” 50/1.8 ($125 new, $60 used). The rest are pretty much toys that no one would take on a job as a primary lens.
Would I like to experiment with this pancake on a commercial shoot, after I’m done with “bread and butter” shots? Sure! Same could be said about Trioplans or Helioses, too. But would I take it with me as the main lens for the job? Nope. Never.
And that’s the difference between prosumer glass and toys.
The Nikon 50mm 1.8 AF-D is still technically able to be bought new and is around $100. Still, I didn’t say this would be for pros. I said enthusiasts/prosumers. And maybe even pros would want to have it to play with on off-time. But I can see enthusiasts for sure wanting it to just play. To me it’s like buying a 10 stop ND filter. For most people it’s an occasional tool used for fun and experimentation.
Yes, it’s a “bored photographer” lens, just like Lensbabies 🙂
The 27mm lens is great – it’s the lens that transforms my X-E2 from a relatively large camera (usually with the 18-55 and lens hood) to something unassuming and “compact” in the sense of taking it anywhere.
You’re right I wouldn’t buy the 27mm for $450 or whatever the standard price is but for $200 it was a no-brainer.
This one seems a bit too much of a toy – it cripples the camera too much to take as an only lens like I do with the 27mm.
I wish I would have bought one when they were $200. Right now they are on sale for $299. But I keep thinking someday they will be back at 200
why?
Why not 🙂