– It might be the best Fujinon lens ever produced: the XF 56mm f/1.2! Camerlabs just published their full review here:
“Bottom line? The Fujifilm 56mm f1.2 is another great quality lens for the X-series. It’s a confidently-built, optically superb, well-priced for a lens of its class and exploits the latest body technologies to deliver crisp details into the corners and effective tracking of moving subjects. Bokeh obsessives may prefer the rendering of some higher-end options, but there’s few who wouldn’t look at the images from the 56mm on a modern X-series body and be anything other than delighted.
If you’re an X-series owner who needs a short, bright telephoto with AF, it may be your only choice, but thankfully it’s also a great one. What with the fabulous X-T1 and new 10-24mm ultra wide zoom, the X system goes from strength to strength.”
– Getting Married with the Fuji X-T1 & XF 56mm F1.2 at olafblog: “After reviewing our material, we both agreed that this is the best, sharpest X-series lens from Fuji ever, and one of the best we have ever shot with. But see for yourself.”
– X-T1 face detection AF at f/1.2 with the 56mm Lens at f-sunny: “Even with this set-up, I was unsure as to how well the FD AF would pick out the model’s eyes as the key point of focus – DOF at f/1.2 is razor thin, so this was a significant challenge. […] No more worrying about AF box location over the eyes, I could (in theory) just line up the perfect comp, and shoot – the camera would do the rest. […] The pictures tell the story – I am immensely impressed with the Face Detection AF on the X-T1.”
– Nocticron vs M.Zuiko Digital vs Fujinon XF at the Spanish site dslrmagazine (translation).
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Just wondering if this reviewer, Cameralabs, used High Performance mode or regular mode when doing auto focus tests. They never say. I recently watched one review on YouTube by Tony Northrup where his first review comparing the X-T1 to the Olympus failed to use this mode. To his credit and did another post where he turned on this mode and now says he had much better AF and worst battery life. Couldn’t find a place to comment to Cameralabs to find out. It would be nice if FR asked reviewers this before putting up their posts.
One thing on the battery life. I guess Tony shouldn’t have turned on pre-focus as well…That probably was the most battery-critical setting in his re-test. The funny thing is, in the comments he said that with those settings the E-M1 and the X-T1 were pretty even regarding battery life (in the first test the X-T1 clearly won here). I however wonder how the X-T1 would have performed in the re-test with High Performance Mode turned off as well (as pre-focus). Because not turning on that mode wasn’t by far the only thing he did wrong in the first test…