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Great review. Which adapter do you use for this combo voigtlander lens plus Fujifilm body

Remember it was being said by a colonizer. Smh. Our ppl didn't have to steal anything from anyone.

I think the AA's are a better than a removal proprietary ones: A. You can find them anywhere B. You can use rechargeable batteries and save money and the earth.

The AA batteries are a bummer, but I guess rechargeable ones are a small con for the many pros this thing offers. Looks really nice! I hope we get this in South Africa soon, would be a cool camera to use for our community photo walks

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I didnt realize this was my dream camera until you showed it to me

Good to see you again Doriyan (its been a while). This reminds me (many moons ago) of my Yashica Mat 124 and I still shoot many of my street photos from the hip with my X-T4. Be well and stay safe.

The view finder on this was so cool!

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The fifty is perfect for anything outdoors. Its been my standard choice for 25 years.

One of the most important things with black and white photography is the greyscale. I see so many horrible greyscales theses days that look so artificial, unnatural and what I would call "digital plastic" with extremely flat midtones and highlights too close to "blown out" or just simply blown out. This is an exposure issue AND a post production issue. Another BIG problem is the overuse of the red filter which give white people ghost-white skin! HORRIBLE! As a standard, red filter is only for use in landscape /nature photography OR in controlled studio environment portraits /scenes. It just does NOT work for any kind of people photography in natural light in normal circumstances.

Just picked up one for travelling with my X-T2. The OIS has been a game changer. Still subjects at 80mm 1/15 second tack sharp.

A great way to describe the 40mm lens. I did event photography including weddings for a number of years and while i can't say it's any thing like steet photography because at an event people have expectations of being photographed, many of the same focal lengths are used, you have to capture the interaction of the guests at times with their knowledge and other times without, you have to be aware of how light and shadows influence a scene and how to use it to your advantage, and you still have to make people comfortable with what you're doing. On Monday of this coming week i will travel to the Eastern Shores of Virginia, i will be staying on Chincoteague Island to photograph the wild life and different sea birds, the island is a watermans community and one of my cameras will be a Nikon ZF with a variety of prime lens, one being a Voightlander 40mm f1.2. This is the first time I will be using both the camera and lens so it should be an interesting trip.

Bro this was a really good video. What I appreciate the most is the fact that Fuji sent you the camera and you had no hesitation to point out its flaws like a gangsta. No f’s given 😂. Respect. We need more guys like you in the TH-cam space. Subbed

Thank you

I shoot 21mm exclusively.

Well stated.!

Great video Dorian on an unsung hero and almost forgotten focal length..yeah, you have to work a lot harder and smarter than 35mm 🙂

Enjoyed this discussion, Doriyan! Great pictures making a great case.

Doriyan, help! I am on the verge of plunking down for the Voigtlander 27mm f2 for the small form and image beauty - but all these 18f2 (and 16f2.8 and xf 27 f2.8) videos have been clobbering me, and now you’re telling me this has a character look like a voigtlander or 35f1.4 plus autofocus! Sure, slow loud ancient autofocus, but I was considering NO autofocus so what’s it to me how old it is! Acccck decisions! I’m probably going with the vg 27 f2 for the light and the focal length but wow this video is killing me! Anyway thanks and keep on making art, love to see it.

That thumbnail tho. 😂 rip 2pac.

Hello Sir … I’m from India 🇮🇳 and planning for XT4 with 16-80mm f4 as kit lens in India on Amazon… sir I’m a Columnist by profession but loving street photography and for daily use . Should I go for this combo ?? Need your Advice 🙏

I shoot mostly street on an A7Riii with a Sony 50mm prime, and very rarely find myself wanting to use auto focus. I'm much happier setting my focus distance & mentally trying to measure the distance and gauge when to take a shot, rather than hoping & praying the (already slow) auto focus gets me there. But then even in settings where I could switch to auto focus I usually don't see a good reason to. Do I scroll through a menu to turn a setting on that I'm gonna turn off immediately afterwards anyway, or do I... turn the damn focus ring? (and even when the focus is a little soft, I remind myself that, like Henri Cartier Bresson said, "sharpness is a bourgeois concept," before crying myself to sleep)

Excellent take on the never ending question of 'best street lens'. Fabulous photos.

Great video Doriyan, would you mind to share the books recommendation that you shown in this video? Or maybe that’s for another video in the future? Thanks!

It's way too expensive...

Our attitudes towards creative ownership are tied to an exploitative market, and we end up conflating the evil of the latter to be something that's evil about creativity. When ideas are supposedly owned by individuals and their efforts, then creativity involves stealing. It is how the brain learns.

lol shout out to Flossy

great - feedback: put a de-esser on your audio, that will make sure your "s"-sses wont cut as thorugh sharply

Coming to this 3 years later, but really liked your explanations. A lot to absorb here. I really like how you put it. My prime of choice is a 35. I *did* just grab a 17-70 to see if it scratches my occasional "zoom in" need. But I *feel* like it'll be far less used compared to my 35. Before making that purchase, I hovered over the 50 for quite a while. I think I'm happy to stay at 35 OR use a zoom (depending on the project/plan). :)

Question for the chat! Would that cromatic aberration show up if shooting in B&W? I know we wouldnt see the color, but would it appear as a sort of fringe or haze around the subject? As soneone who loves B&W photography, that might remove the one hangup I have with this lens....

Hello, still using it today?

Everything you say, I agree.

Oh HELL YEAH, I'm now a subscriber to this channel! Smart arguments, brilliant advice, transparent, and genuine. You helped me decide on which focal length I need to use for when and where. But I will follow your advice going between 28mm, which will capture more "thick action" shots, and 35mm, which will get more specific. But to your point, both win depending on what story you tell and shooting style. Doriyan, you are truly talented! Thank you for sharing your thoughts and making this video, cheers.

I found the lens not sharp enough. What's your take？

I've always thought that it was a load of crap, in my mind art is a gigantic library from which we can all borrow whatever we want and then everything we do will be borrowed to built upon whether it's thru emulation or deconstruction. The only way to steal would be to lock it up in a way in which no one else can tocuh it anymore, akin to what disney does with it's properties and everything they've touched. That's not only anti ethical but also against the spirit of creation by itself. But hey people like to quote picasso, usually without knowing anything about picasso. If they went and quote some of the other things picasso said they would probably go to jail kek

I want to say thanks a lot. I think I learned something about photography style being beyond shooting with a certain film simulation or focal length lens. Starting from how I see the world to seizing the moment, maybe it is “I was here and this is what happened.” Or “I think is beautiful and/or interesting.”

surely nothing will go wrong if i go from my only 55mm lens to a 28mm right away right?

One more question, does it make sense to have both lenses? A lot of people recommend 35/85 as a 2 lens combo if you don't want to collect two many lenses. 85mm kind of gives you the ability to isolate a single detail even more and a 35mm gives you an opportunity to capture more in the frame or gives you the opportunity to capture a scene in a tight space, where you wouldn't be able to with a 50mm.

Doriyan, thank you so much for this wonderful tutorial. Can I ask, which 35mm lens do you use? And, more importantly, how close are you comfortable getting to your subjects?

I agree on everything you said .

Very refreshing after watching all of the other channels. Thanks!

Yeah, but if you got the Fuji 27mm WR already, because you didn't know about this lens, is it worth swapping? There is a fear of Manual Focus, and some some of the Fuji MF helpers, like those split prism and round dot thing, make no sense to me. I see hardly any difference.

I bought the 40mm f/2 to use with my z6 II for street photography. I've since added the 28mm. I really like my 40mm. Nikon's 40mm z lens is very under rated. It is a very sharp lens. It has a close focusing distance. It looks great in black and white. It's one of my favorite lenses to use.

I am struggling between my bank account and this lens. This lens has everything I want.