Over at the Japanese site camera.itmedia (translation) you can read first impressions and see some samples taken with the Zeiss Touit 50mm 1:1 makro lens (mounted on a X-T1).
The lens should come in April and is available for pre-order at BHphoto and Adorama.
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Rendition of out-of-focus highlights which are close to the plane of focus looks horrible to me. Sigh.
Although manual aperture is a pita, I’m afraid I still have to keep my Leica-R Apo Macro 2,8/100. I’ve hoped (and still hope) that Zeiss or Fuji will finally come up with a native X-mount lens that gets at least close to this almost 30-years-old lens design (ok the current Zeiss Planar 2/100 does, but it ‘features’ severe loCA and on Fuji no auto aperture either).
How can you tell in a 200px wide print? I tell a thing.
Every sample have full size , just click on it.
I want a lenses to do copy work and portraits, Funny looking highlights won’t bother me.
Manual aperture. What is that? Do you mean manual autofocus?
I never use AF on my macro lenses anyway. I just go slightly back and forth with camera+lens to adjust the distance to the subject.
Manual aperture just means no auto-aperture. A Leica lens does not communicate with a Fuji-X camera. Thus, in turn, the camera cannot control the aperture. You have to close it manually, either already prior to focusing, which makes focusing difficult (focusing is manually too here but, you’re right, that’s generally no problem with macro work), or after focusing but prior to releasing the shutter. Altogether- kind of a hassle.
That’s why I really(!) would like to have a macro lens with native mount to replace the Leica, despite the extraterrestrial performance of the Leica. Yet, the lens replacing this Leica should come somewhat close to its performance…
I think I still prefer my method for getting a 50mm 1:1 macro. Getting a minolta 50mm 1:1 f3.5 for $55.
Except the f3.5 version was 1:2 but very good, I sold mine a few years back.
Mine is certainly 1:1, I guarantee it 🙂 You have the MC or MD version? Mine is the MD version.
Here’s a site with samples and shows the lens has 1:1.
http://www.dyxum.com/dforum/samples-minolta-mc-md-rokkor-50mm-f35-macro_topic103624.html
Only with the tube, sadly.
There is a dedicated extension tube for 1:1 usually sold with the lens.
Until further notice (until there is a respective native X lens coming) I will stick to an adapted Tokina 100/2.8 (Nikon F). It’s a great, reasonably priced lens, built like a tank with an aperture ring of its own. 50mm are too short for my liking…
50mm on APS-C (75mm equiv.) is simply too short for nature macros.
We need around 100mm, which on APS-C is equiv. to 150mm FOV which provides a decent working distance and smoother bokeh. Make it true 1:1 macro and weather sealed (for X-T1 and future WR camera bodies)
M43 has 2 good tele macro lenses which are about 90mm and 120mm equivalents. It’s so frustrating that neither Fuji or Sony have yet made such a lens for APS-C mirrorless, or even mentioned one AFAIK.
Fuji’s 60mm doesn’t count as it’s still too short and not even true macro (1:1), plus it’s slow and not weather sealed (i.e. Olympus 60mm Macro is weather sealed and true 1:1 macro).