Tag: fujifilm
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Misty Morning Sunrise Photography
Back in April I took an early morning trip into the Peak District National park chasing mist laden sunrise views of Hope valley from Winnats pass at Mam tor. However predicting mist or fog is notoriously hard to get right, checking the weather forecasts for the then upcoming weekend showed a drop in overnight temperatures…
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The Puffins Are Back At Flamborough
Every year a colony of puffins returns to nest on the cliffs at Flamborough head on the Yorkshire coast. As a child i was taken to see them and still have vague memories of it however i had not been back in the nearly 2 decades since then. This year, as we are living up…
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Kamlan 21mm F1.8 Review
Kamlan is a fairly young brand, I believe that they started life in 2016 when they released their 50mm f1.1 mk1, on paper this lens was promising and good value proposition but ultimately it was too optically simple and lacked an acceptable level of sharpness. Since then they have followed up with a range of…
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Kipon Iberit 35mm F2.4 Review
The Kipon 35mm F2.4 is a lens that I have had an interest in trying for some time now, however up until recently the price tag was too high to justify a purchase purely to satisfy my curiosity. Kipon has currently got the lens on sale for an advertised 51% off bringing the current price…
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Zonlai 22mm F1.8 Review
The Zonlai 22mm F1.8 is a compact and relatively fast manual focus prime lens for APS-C and MFT mirrorless camera systems. It provides a focal length that is a full frame equivalent of around 35mm on APSC and 44mm on MFT sensors. I bought a copy for the Fujifilm X mount and used it on…
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Meike 28mm f2.8 Review
The Meike 28mm f2.8 is a pancake prime lens for APSC and MFT mirrorless cameras, it has a full frame equivalent focal length of around 40mm on APSC and 56mm on MFT. The copy used in this review is the Fujifilm X mount version on an X-T2. This “review” is not scientific or wholly comprehensive,…
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Fujifilm XF 35mm F1.4 Lens Thoughts
Use as a Landscape lens and comparison to other primes Over the last couple of years I I have managed to work my way through my fair share of both first and third party prime lenses for the Fuji X mount system.Through this constant churn of lenses i have come to realise a few things,…
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Meike 35mm f1.7 lens review
Performance beyond its price Meike are a Chinese company that are pumping out cheap manual focus primes for mirror less systems.I am currently unsure if they design and manufacture their own lenses or just rebrand third party OEM lenses, I say this because i have seen company’s such as Neweer selling identical lenses under their…
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7artisans 55mm f1.4 review
Sharper, faster and stronger than vintage 7artisans are a Chinese brand known for making a plethora of fast budget prime lenses for crop mirrorless camera systems. I recently picked up their 55mm f1.4 lens for my Fuji x system, it set me back a total of £75 from amazon UK which makes this little lens…
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Kamlan 50mm f1.1 review
Its fast, its soft and its cheap. As I am writing we are in black “Friday” week 2019 and as you may have just guessed that means that I very recently picked up the Kamlan 50mm rather cheap. We will however gloss over the fact that I was under the impression that I was purchasing…
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