Our Japanese friend from Digicameinfo posted these pictures of XF 23mm f/1.4 that will be announced soon. This is the perfect street photography lens, Something that other mirrorless system cannot offer (and should offer!). Really a great lens! Hope the price isn’t too high!
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Boring!
Sony had the 24/1.8 Zeiss long before this.
f/1.4 is totally the same thing as f/1.8. Riiight.
Goody for you. Too bad it is 2/3’s stops slower, doesn’t have a focus distance scale or proper manual focus and costs more. But well done on money wisely spent 😉
yea, but sony is a crap
Panny/Leica 25mm 1.4, damn near close in size, been out for yonks!
This is 17mm f/0.95 in m4/3 terms. Been there for years? With autofocus, aperture ring and push-pull manual focus?
“This is the perfect street photography lens, Something that other mirrorless system cannot offer (and should offer!).”
Remember Oly 17mm F1.8 or CV 17.5mm F0.95? What’s wrong with those lenses?
Slower and even more slower to focus. 🙂
Finally! Now show us the XPro2 and I change sides!
Fuji is on the right way. Should be a better choice compared to the overpriced Sony 24/1.8 Zeiss lens. Much better manual control, faster, maybe cheaper, maybe metal lens hood. I wished Sony would follow this approach instead of delivering boaster Zeiss lenses.
And the fall of Zeiss began
What fall?
Can’t you see from the recent rumors that Zeiss already making ff nex lenses? After rx1… they are on the rise.
That is the most exiting stuff now except the sony hating people.
For now I only hope that this lens will perform like the 35/1.4 does.
I guess Admin meant that it’s “the perfect street photography lens” because it has a distance scale and DOF scale. Many street shooters like to work by pre-focusing for a distance range/aperture combination. There are lots of other mirrorless lenses with similar “35mm NFE” (Nostalgia Format Equivalent) focal lengths, but this is one of the few that has the scales.
However, street shooters don’t care about an f/1.4 maximum aperture because they are working by DOF. So if you can get by without the scales, there are lots of other lenses that would be just as well suited to street photography.
Still, this is a nice addition for the Fuji system. This plus the promised-in-2014 56mm f/1.2 (“85mm NFE”) lens will make Fuji appealing at least as a secondary mini-system for documentary shooters… although they’ll still need a longer, fast tele lens (100mm f/2, please!) which isn’t even on the roadmap yet.
I’d like a similar lens for samsung nx. The nx 30 f2 is good for street photography, but this 23 f1.4 is sweet.
Focus ring rotates to the ‘opposite’ side or am I seeing things?? Ala Nikon? Is it normal to Fuji? Sorry my ignorance… 🙂
Actually it is the same as on the 14mm (and Nikon). For all the other lenses you can set the direction in the menu.
yay! i’ve been waiting for this since i got the x pro 1 in early 2012. the 18-55mm is great, but shooting with prime is a completely different experience (much easier, i find. yes, i admit that i’m a noob who can’t handle zooms :]…)
size with sony-fuji http://www.admiringlight.com/2013/fujisony23.jpg abababba SONUY fail!!!
StraLOL