Fuji GF 80mm f/1.7 R WR lens review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- Is this really the star lens on the Fuji GFX Medium Format lineup?
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4:15 when you zoom back out it truly demonstrates just how high the resolution and sharpness is
Yes. What I love about this camera system is being able to aggressively crop-in and there's still all this detail there and suddenly you've got a completely different image.
Finally a medium format lens on this channel I've been waiting for this day for years
Your channel is a goddamn gold mine. I'm new to the Fujifilm ecosystem and your reviews are extremely helpful.
Chris Frost is a gift from the heavens
Pretty sure he appreciates the compliment but not the expletive.
Great review! Quite honestly, I was expecting better optical performance from the lens that costs $2000 USD.
I have to question Fuji UK's judgment for sending Chris the 80 f/1.7, instead of the 110 f/2 or the new 55 f/1.7. From what I've seen, the 80 seems the overall worst performing GF prime by a pretty big margin - that CA is plain unacceptable, and thankfully fixed on the 55.
Disagree completely, if youre shooting a model 55 and 110 are nowhere near as useful, I have all of them. You just need to use the 80mm at f2 to see much better images than f1.7
@@jukeboxjohnnie then change the distance to the subject. In any case that focal length is your personal preference and in no way representative of a majority of photographers. The fact that the 80 is significantly worse than the 55 and 110 on the other hand is objective
Honestly, I agree with you. He's a influential reviewer and a different lens with better performance would help people find their way to GFX. Now lots of people may just see GFX as overly priced and not that much more than FF. The 55 would have been my choice to have him review
@@MrBradleysharp1I'm pretty sure one review on one lens on one system will not ruin GFX in the minds of possible purchasers. You really genuinely TRULY think that people ready to spend five g's and another two or three for a lens are just gonna listen to one guy about one lens and use that for their entire decision? Mate. Please. Sit down..
I own it. It’s a great lens. I have the 120 macro, the 35-70. Ca is gross wide open but whatever.
Works great for me…does exactly what I need. Can’t get full body in my little studio with the 120 and the 35-70 isn’t as sharp as the primes. Autofocus is about the same as the 120 macro
Thanks for the review. A suggestion. If you have the chance to bump into any Sigma Foveon-sensor camera, take it for a short review. There should be a lot of negatives about the camera, but my curiosity is how a base-ISO well-exposed image compares to others. It is said that its color depth is unbeatable even today.
I wish he lived close to me, I'd lend my SD Quattro.
@@artphototech Nice!
I love the rendering and the unique look this lens gives
Honestly, the autofocus and the purple fringing are kind of shocking for such an expensive lens in such an expensive system.
I hope they also sent him the 110, that's the real highlight lens here. The 80 was honestly kind of a miss...
@@el_fucko 110mm will turn out much sharper
I recently purchased this lens and I am enjoying the image quality that it produces on my GFX 50sII. I agree on the auto focus that it is not really great but does the job. This is a very sharp lens.
In Labs the 50S 2 out-performs the very best Full Frame cameras in the world. The 50S ii doesn't have phase detect, but this camera is all about Fine Art, Portraits, Fashion, and Landscapes. none of those subjects are going anywhere fast.
I was just thinking about this lens! So excited. Hope you’re doing more of them!
Fantastic. Would you do all the major GF lens series? I would be thrilled to watch GF 50mm F3.5 LM WR and GF 63mm F2.8 R WR. Wish Fuji GB donate all the GF lenses to the very trustworthy reviewer Christopher. These reviews are worth 50 times on the Photographer Magazines. "Highly Recommended."
I’m sure this wouldn’t really be something you’d want to do Chris but it would be interesting to test some old EF lenses to see how they perform adapted to the GFX sensor and which can actually cover the whole sensor. I know some people use GFX cameras with old manual focus Minolta lenses.
yep. A lot of Sigma art (40, 135) work perfectly on gfx system
I use a Leica Summilux 50 (type 2) from the 1970s and the results are nothing short of spectacular. Yes it gets a little blurry around the edges and the CA is sometimes off the charts, but the portraits that this combination of old and new can render are dreamy - ironically they are sometimes confused with AI generated images. I guess that's a compliment...
I've just got an adaptor for my Canon FD lenses (50/1.8, 28/2.8, 70-210/4.0) and so far the results are surprisingly good. It's a bit of fun.
All of these lenses cover the sensor in full.
As an aside, it's interesting to contrast these old lenses with my 32-64 GFX lens. It's technically perfect in my experience. I do have to work harder at breathing life and flare into the images I create with it but the detail that lens can resolve is mind blowing.
I hope this is helpful or at least interesting
I did side by side comparisons of your review videos and the Canon RF 28-70mm F2.0 with the R camera killed this lens. WOW.
I have both the GF 80mm and the RF 28-70 and I can say 100% the RF 28-70 is a million times better in every why other than of course the resolution of the 100mp medium format sensor. Fuji's GF lenses are so dated.
Loving reviews from Chris 'GFX' Frost! My 80mm 1.7 is the same, I always stop it down to f2 at least, looks sharper and the purple fringing goes away
Absolutely love your reviews!!! Especially your foray into Medium Format domain 😍
With the Fujifilm 80mm f/1.7. Fujifilm wanted a really fast lens, with headline grabbing figures. It is faster than the Hasselblad 80mm f/1.9, though I think optically the Hasselblad is better.
In the real world, the Fujifilm is a good lens. Yes, it is a little pedestrian and noisy, but generally I use it at f/2 or higher and it does a very good job.
My GF 80 focuses twice as fast and half as loud as the one you have. Also, the manual focus is super smooth - doesn't jump around like yours. Not sure what is going on with the one you got....
This is awesome. I’ve waited long time for this review from you, Christopher
Though the resolution in the centre is absolutely amazing, I'd be pissed seeing this amount of fringing on a much cheaper full frame f/1.8 prime, can't even imagine spending this much money and having so much purple fringing, even with the corrections profile enabled. Depending on the scene, this can be a pain in the ass to fix in post.
Hey Christopher! Can you review Canon’s relatively new RF-S 10-18mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM? I’ve been looking for a good technical review, but no one does a good performance review like you do.
The GFX system is amazing, but definitely much, much slower than full frame cameras. Although I've been successful taking it to the NYC streets, it requires significant more effort than with my Sony a7cii and a compact wide angle lens, e.g. Sigma 24mm f/3.5. But I love the images it produces. Outside of the high resolution, I especially love the low distortion and (cropped) medium format look the GF lenses can give us.
If you are doing street, you are using the wrong camera. If you are into Fine Art, Portraits, Fashion, or Landscapes, then get a GFX. For street, sports, wildlife, there are several choices from MFT to Full frame that will get the job done.
Thanks for another good lens review but honestly I can’t see how a lens at this price could come recommended with the level of fringing and truly atrocious auto focus speed and noise. Did you somehow get a bad or damaged copy for review? I can’t even believe Fuji would release such a lens to the market with such flaws.
Sweet! GF lenses 🙌🏼
Hi Chris, please do review on fuji 8-16 f2.8. we are waiting for that. Thank you
Keep going, Chris!
2:26 came here just for this, had to make sure my lens wasn’t defective
I may be missing some technical aspects here, but this is why I never considered paying for a medium format system. Practically, given the kind of lenses available for medium format, it is possible to replicate almost identical images using an APS-C camera at 10% of the price of lens + camera, and with a significantly smaller and lighter package.
If someday they make an f0.95 (or even f1.2) medium-format lens, then that kind of shallow depth of field will be impossible to replicate in full-frame, let alone APS-C format. But is that even physically possible?
If I get a Fuji GFX Camera, then the GF 80mm 1.7 will be one of the Lenses I will get for Landscape photography, the other two Lenses I will get are the GF 30mm 3.5 and GF 45mm 2.8
I wasn't expecting this lens to be this weak, to be honest. The center has to be stopped down to f/2.8 and the corners need to be stopped down to f/5.6 to obtain good results. Perhaps the 50mm f/1.2 and f/1.4 lenses from Canon, Nikon, Sigma, and Sony from a full-frame sensor could deliver better sharpness and details given similar circumstances.
@@djstuc "boring, flat, lifeless" is usually caused by photographers who doesn't know how to handle light. If I want optical imperfection, I'd look for vintage lenses.
The wheel house for this camera/lens is Landscapes/Fashion/Portraiture/ Art. If you make a living in sports, street, wildlife or video buy another camera. The Porsche 718 is a piece of art, but it sucks at pulling a U-Haul trailer. So why do Fuji GFX reviewers bang on about things it was not designed to do ?
Ahh, what a dream
Those who criticize the lens do not realize that it is a specific lens for portraits, a perfect lens, super sharp, it does nothing but bring out every slightest flaw of the model's skin and if it is a bride who is over 30 years old you see the disaster
It’s far from perfect. Fuji’s own 55 mm and especially 110 mm are considerably better performers optically.
I believe the 110mm F/2 will be much sharper than this 80mm. Let's wait for former's review on this channel...!
the test result are not great but the image did come out great
I think we need to agree to disagree Chris! My careful assessment of your excellent charts and comparisons with the best Nikons and Sonys, this lens seems a pretty weak performer across the board, especially for the price. Maybe I’ve missed something….perhaps it’s good for a medium format device?
Nope, on the contrary - it's remarkably bad standing on its own, but even more so in the context of the otherwise consistently excellent GF lenses. Sure, some have antiquated AF motors, but IQ issues like these are otherwise unheard of.
Awesome, hasselblad next please
Sounds like my older Nikon lense!
I am confident Sigma would do a better job. This is pretty disappointing for its cost.
Imagine dropping 8k on this combo and getting 24 mp worth of sharpness 😂 i would be livid
the Bokeh on this thing looks out of this world.
He really hates that the medium format system is better than canon.
Im very disappointed about the bad results. I’m staying with my Sony a7iii system
Poor High school basketball coaches….ouch 😂
As a Fujifilm 100S owner and a Canon R5 owner I can say that the Fuji GF lenses absolutely 100% SUCK! The only reason the images look any good is because of the 100mp sensor and it's unique image character but if you look at the GF lenses themselves they seriously need to be updated with modern lens and glass designs. Optically these GF lenses preform like lenses from the early 90's. They are simply outdated. The new Canon RF L glass easily out preforms all the lenses in the Fuji GF lineup. Fuji needs to get their act together. They need to stop developing new GFX bodies and put their efforts into modernizing the GF lens lineup. OK rant over. Really enjoy all your videos by the way. Thanks for making this one.
Considered the price it's pretty mediocre
Very mediocre lens tbh. Great review as always
Everyone crying on Canon that it's expensive, plastic-fantastic etc. Meanwhile Fuji shows lens for price 3x higher than for example Canon RF85 f2.0 with much worst optics.
the lens costs 2 thousands… closes video xF
It's AF medium format fast lense covering 100mpx, what do you expect?
@@KingFiercer_zip less than 2k xD On a longer conversation btw I don’t think it’s innacurate pricing, or that it is not worth it, just that the market has decided the phone cameras will get the r&d to be low priced, and I think prices like these remind me of that, that we will never really see entry level prices in some tech because only professionals buy them or use them.
I stopped watching when I heard you say bocka