Scenes Seen: At the optical extremes of GFX.

Scenes Seen: At the optical extremes of GFX.

The motivation.

The usual. Photography as a distraction. Much needed nowadays.

The setting.

Took the rigs wherever I went.

The rigs.

The legacy glass extreme. Officially an all-time favorite.

So… The GFX 50R Intro: Or How A Leica Camera Release Freed Me Up To Get A Fujifilm Camera.

My favorite lens to adapt to GFX.

Lens Arrival: Minolta MC Rokkor 58mm f/1.2 – Digital Edit.

The objective.

Ethereal artsy fartsy-ness. All the things that modern lenses break their neck to eliminate…

• Flare.

• Vignetting.

• Less than pin sharp. Nah. Honestly, this lens is far sharper wide open than it has any business being.

…but I am here for it all day.

In trade what you get is more than worth it.

• f/1.2 + GFX = wow.

• Wonderful bokeh.

• Wonderful colors.

• It is gorgeous. What? That matters.

Enough of my rambling about the lens.

The pics.

On to the other extreme.

The portrait dream team.

Based solely on image-capturing performance, the finest camera I have ever had the pleasure of using.

Week 1 WIth The GFX System: What I Have Learned So Far.

Based solely on image-capturing performance, the finest lens I have ever had the pleasure of using.

Lens I Had Was Fine Until It Wasn’t: FUJIFILM GF 80mm f/1.7 R WR Preview.

Put them together and wow.

I went a little crazy with the examples, and I could have posted more.

Will list the demerits.

• Not the fastest to focus….
• Ok, demerit, singular.

As for everything else? Stellar.

• Pin sharp.
• Great colors.
• Beautiful bokeh.
• And last but not least, the subject isolation I have been looking for with digital cameras for years.

The pics.

Stopped through the camera shop for some color and black and white film chemistry.

Thoughts.

Is GFX overkill for day-to-day photography?

Perhaps. A likely yes.

But I like it. A lot.

Happy capturing.

-ELW