Thread: Fuji 14mm F2.8

There are some on the way to Orange County.

I am very happy with this lens. I shot a prototype in early January and was surprised how good and usable it is.

Here are some more sample images. I'm sold.......sigh...... Looks like I'm driving the Nikon to Austin this weekend. The dogs like the Red Bud Isle dog park so I'm all set.

Photography by Mike Mander | Fujifilm XF 14mm f/2.8R - First Tests

Originally Posted by Pelao

And sure, you can zoom with your feet, but in a confined space (say a historical church, or a waterfall scene) you can end up with your butt to a wall, and the extra few mms could be critical for the shot as you want it.

To me, zooming in or out with your feet is kind of beside the point. If it's just about what I want covered in the frame, yeah, sometimes that works. But to me it's more about the geometries created by a wide angles, how lines and angles come together, when its morphs from angles into distortion, etc. I find 24mm equivalent lenses to really pull all angles and lines to the center pretty radically, but stopping short of getting out of hand. 28 looks just about normal to me, 35 verges on realism, and a neutral 50 just bores the hell out of me. A UWA like 14-18 is pretty bizarre and i can only make it work in limited circumstances and a fisheye has a whole other thing going on. Nobody shoots a fisheye for more coverage - you shoot a fisheye for the fishi-ness effect. Whether a 21 will work for me remains to be seen. Buts my love of wide angles has very little to do with what I can fit into the frame and everything to do with how it pulls the elements together and the kinds of compositions they encourage. And I guarantee a 21 will be very different than a 28.

-Ray

Originally Posted by Ray

To me, zooming in or out with your feet is kind of beside the point. If it's just about what I want covered in the frame, yeah, sometimes that works. But to me it's more about the geometries created by a wide angles, how lines and angles come together, when its morphs from angles into distortion, etc. I find 24mm equivalent lenses to really pull all angles and lines to the center pretty radically, but stopping short of getting out of hand. 28 looks just about normal to me, 35 verges on realism, and a neutral 50 just bores the hell out of me. A UWA like 14-18 is pretty bizarre and i can only make it work in limited circumstances and a fisheye has a whole other thing going on. Nobody shoots a fisheye for more coverage - you shoot a fisheye for the fishi-ness effect. Whether a 21 will work for me remains to be seen. Buts my love of wide angles has very little to do with what I can fit into the frame and everything to do with how it pulls the elements together and the kinds of compositions they encourage. And I guarantee a 21 will be very different than a 28.

-Ray

Right. I was making a very similar point. I don't zoom with my feet only in order to fit things in the frame. I mentioned getting the photo that you want. To me at least this is as much a out the look delivered by the lens. WA lenses offer a very particular viewpoint. Zooming with my feet allows me to change the application of that viewpoint.

Generally, apart from most landscape shots, I like to use my WA lenses up close.

To some degree with fixed focal length lenses, you are always zooming in or out with your feet. Or...you are standing in one spot changing your lenses constantly.

Originally Posted by Pelao

Generally, apart from most landscape shots, I like to use my WA lenses up close.

Me too. And even with landscapes, it either has to have some BIG DRAMATIC elements that take up a lot of the frame or I've gotta find some big foreground rock or tree or something or a WA landscape can have that "long ago and far far away" look....

-Ray

Very excited B &H just emailed me my 14 is on its way, now that I have this lens, I will be even more committed to the XPro line which has me I am thinking of selling one of my OMD bodies along with some of my M4/3 lenses

Got mine yesterday. Very VERY cold here. Not much shooting this morning, but I took the camera up to the farmer's market since I had to go out. Just to check it out. BIG lens, very nice. Not great with the OVF in terms of coverage within the frame and the lens blocking a lot of such a wide view. Sort of an in-between width. Not sure if this'll be a keeper for me or not. Gonna have to find a day to take it into Philly and really play with it to figure that one out. It'll sure extend the range of the X-Pro, if that's a direction I decide to take it. Anyway, three quick grab shots just to check it out...







-Ray

Originally Posted by Ray

Just to check it out. BIG lens, very nice. Not great with the OVF in terms of coverage within the frame and the lens blocking a lot of such a wide view.

Ray nice images.
Mine should be here on Tuesday, the blocking the VF not critical to me with such a wide lens, I have always used a 21 more for shooting from the hip than anything else.