It's nigh on impossible to choose a winner here, so companion was a wise choice of words. Still struggling to choose personally though. I think as I own the stupendous 45-100mm the Mitakon may well be my next purchase. Although I'd love a 23mm for a trial day excursion... there are some fair 2nd hand offers out there if you keep an eye out. Excellent video, thanks for giving us your time and thoughts Mister 👊🏽 it's the journey that is fun for all of us

@WoodenAxle

11 ай бұрын

My joy! Thank you for writing and letting me know!

GF 63 for the win. Vignette in Mitakon and very heavy

I have them both. And they are so different I don’t even think of them as the same focal length. I use them is separate ways.

@WoodenAxle

8 ай бұрын

Exactly

This is what I am looking for. Thanks nice video.

@WoodenAxle

8 ай бұрын

Glad I could help!

Oxford was a jumpscare for me! Been watching videos about the GFX system and came across this one. I lived in Oxford for seven years and started my photography business there. Great shots, love to see a beautiful town like this in a youtube video

@WoodenAxle

2 ай бұрын

That’s awesome!! O-town is a lovely place.

Nice test❤thanks you

@WoodenAxle

24 күн бұрын

Thanks!!

There's no hope for this but I hope and wish Fujifilm would add FOCUS TRAP on their cameras. It would even be a game changer feature for the rangefinder-style bodies of Fujifilm like the X-Pro. For those who don't know, Focus trap is a feature in Nikon (and I think Pentax also) that enables the camera to disable shutter release when the area where the focus point is out of focus. Then if you hold down the shutter, a photo will be taken when you turn the focus ring and the spot where the focus point is becomes in focus. Sort of like using the phase detect on the sensor as a trigger to take a photo instead of using it to move the lens motors to focus. Nikon though limits it to just their AF lenses or chipped lenses though on the Z-Mount, there's a Leica M adapter with chip that enables Focus Trap that essentially lets you any lens that can be adapted to Leica M mount work with the trap focus on a Nikon Z body.

@WoodenAxle

11 ай бұрын

That sounds like a cool feature.

Hi, really enjoying your videos on the GFX 50 and lenses. Thanks for making them. What is your experience manually focusing lenses on the Fuji vs some of the FF cameras you’ve used. Are you manually focusing using the viewfinder or the LCD? Appreciate any thoughts you might have. Thanks again!

@WoodenAxle

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for writing! I use the viewfinder 99% of the time and focus peaking is a must. For me, focus peaking is the most helpful “new” camera tech. Fuji seems to make it easier to access that feature but doesn’t me necessarily to it “better” than say the Canon R, which was equally a joy to use. I hope this helps!

Love the music. Are you on threads yet? All the cool photographers are there!

@WoodenAxle

5 ай бұрын

Kiefer. He’s a fav. Why Threads?

@CryptoJones

5 ай бұрын

@@WoodenAxleI’m not sure. Photos just seem t hang out there.

I guess I knew somehow you would keep both. 😊 I don’t know if you’ve tried the 45 yet… but that’s a beauty too.

@WoodenAxle

11 ай бұрын

😂!! I haven’t but I’d love to. I’ll keep my eyes peeled for one!

would have been nice to see them tested in a portrait setting. They are not exactly a walk-around-forest type lenses.

@WoodenAxle

11 күн бұрын

Everyone has their own uses. Walk-around forest type is mine.

You didn’t venture very far 😊. The look you can get with the Mitakon is far superior, very special. The Fuji is a boring, modern lens in comparison. I use my gfx with adapted glass only, sold all my Fuji lenses. Too bad Fuji lens design is so conservative.

There is a lot more vignetting on the Mitakon. 🙂

Think I really need that Mitakon! Do you always shoot it wide open? And if you do stop down, do you focus wide open?

@WoodenAxle

Ай бұрын

For creative work I’ll shoot wide open 99% of the time. The clickless aperture on the Mitakon makes it easy to adjust the setting on accident when changing lenses frequently, that and wanting to replicate the look of a 6x7 was why I shot everything wide open for this test. The Mitakon does some great things at 1.8-2.8f as well. Since I made this video, I opted to sell the Fuji 63mm and went with the 50mm 3.5f.

@jeroenbouman9430

Ай бұрын

@@WoodenAxle Lens arrived today, very happy with first test results!

Bro I bought mit 65mm too but I cannot shoot whit it ? My camera gfs 50s 2 too :)

@WoodenAxle

8 ай бұрын

Seriously? What’s it doing?

@steveneate

6 ай бұрын

Enable the setting for the camera to shoot without lens. When a lens has no digital contacts, the camera can't detect that it's mounted.

fuji way better than the MIT but if you stop down a little it gets a little better. i would like to see both at 2.8 although i already know the results. fujifilm btw we have the 50s and the MIT and its like photography with an anvil... 5lbs+ with the grip

@WoodenAxle

2 ай бұрын

Anvil! Great analogy.