I do too. It's F4 (usually all I need), has excellent IQ, is reasonably sized, and it is contained in my 24-50mm "kit" zoo. I could write this under a few other videos about the "only lens you ever need" (50mm), or "my most used lens" (28mm). I admit that I love isolating objects too. But for that, I use a longer lens.
It's by far my most used lens! I love how you can get close to people and capture close-ups without noticeable distortion. Or capture context when you're a bit farther away. It's very versatile, and the size and weight make it a great companion for longer hours. Cheers!
I used to buy and sell this lens over and over again, but aside from a short time with the 35mm 1.4, something never felt right to me. I bought the voigtlander 21mm f/4 Leica m mount with an adapter and it was life changing. I realized that AF wasn't for me. Now I'm not saying I'm the king of range focusing as I most always use the lens at f/16, but it finally put me in my place. I own the 21mm and the voigtlander 50mm 3.5 and I never even think about lenses anymore. The voigtlander 23mm fuji x mount is great, but the distance scale on it is absolutely terrible. That was the last lens I tried before accepting I found my forever lens.
I sold the newer Fuji 18, 23, and 33mm f1.4s because they were bulky. Ended up with the old 23mm/f1.4, the original, and love it very much! It's like the 35mm/1.4 original. A little slower af but tons of character, lighter, shorter, cheaper, albeit noisier. Never tried the 35/f2 but hear only good things about it.
I am a 35 er,tried others Now a Z6II and 35mm F1.8 S and love it, With 24 and 28 always seamed to be having to movve closer. BTW Love those sensible size grains of sand you have over there, Do not get in everything, Cheers from Australia.
Loved the video and your photography of Brighton, as i use a Fujifilm X series i am going to look for this lens for my street photography and maybe take a trip to Brighton soon you have inspired me 😊
This lens was the first one I owed for the X-T5 and actually I would not need any other lens, but I bought also the 35mm f1.4 and very recently the 10-24mm f4 from Fujifilm as well and the 18-300mm Tamron; but the last one I'm gonna sell.
Hi, My dream lens is a strange tiny zoom 35-50 full frame or 23-35 apsc. I only use 35 & 50 so being able to change between 35-50 without checking the zoom would be really great, 1 single lens and that's it. With the quality of a fixed focal length I am convinced that there would be a big demand
@@frame-lines Yes ! I don't understand why Fuji never thought of it. It's an instant best-seller for sure. With a littme "click" at 35mm so you don't need tocheck the lens, eye always in the evf
How do you know when a situation calls for the 35mm or the 50mm? They are definitely different, but also fairly close that I'd find it distracting deciding which to use if I carried both. How do you decide?
@@frame-lines I think I know what you mean. It's easier to go unnoticed in a crowd of people. Whereas, if you're in a suburban park or just a place that isn't densely populated, people have sense someone encroaching on their zone of comfort, so to speak. Love the color grading for this video, btw.
Great combo. Love the piece to camera shot too. Looks the most like your photos I've seen in your video. Also, I never liked 35mm until I bought the x100vi a few months ago and I have grown to love it. It works in so many situations. Martin Parr when speaking to Kai W said that if he was restricted to one lens for the rest of his life it would be the 35mm and yet he never seems to shoot at that focal length. This has been a longwinded comment, but I also have a question for you. Do you use Face Detection for AF or just centre spot and reframe? Or something else? I find face AF very flakey and I've missed a lot of shots with it.
Nice. Totally agree with the 35. I also love 28, but i find I shoot a bit slower/compose more with the 35. So it depends on what I’m after on the day i guess! I’ve never really used a 50 much. I have the Fuji 35/2 gathering dust somewhere. What situations do you switch to a 50 from a 35?
Nice one Adam - I usually reach for a 50mm if I know it’s going to be very very busy and might need to isolate a subject - IE portraits at the classic car boot, or if I’m walking locally and know it’s going to be super quiet so I can get some little detail shots… what do you usually have on your m11?
@@frame-lines 35 of course! With the Leica glass, it’s basically a fixed lens camera. Have never taken it off 😂 that said, I have been enjoying some work, not street, from other photographers like Freya Najade in Hackey Marshes, and I want to give something like that a go and it clearly is 50 or longer. Heh, I just remembered I found out about her from your zine! (This is not a sponsored comment). Typoch seem to have reasonable priced M mount lenses, I think I’m sold on a 50m Simera but can’t find one anywhere. Seems to be more TH-cam reviews than actual products!
I also have the XT5 and bring the 35mm and the 50mm (23 and 35) is redundant for me. 50mm is 35mm cropping, what XT5 allows. I usually brings 28mm and 50. Or 35mm and 75mm (50mm on APSC). Great video!!
I used to feel this same way, then I bought a 28mm and 24mm for street. Forcing myself to get close enough to get anything useable with those lenses has now made 35mm often feel too tight.
I have the leica Q with 28mm on it, but I have to say, I too, like the 35mm for street.. who knows, maybe after working with this lens for a year, I will like it better.
It can be very difficult finding the right camera gear and most of the time we only get to experience this gear by buying it and trying it for ourselves. Often this can lead to regrettable decisions, including selling a lens and sometime later wishing you hadn't. I own a Voigtlander 40mm f1.2 and whilst I love the quality, I really wish Voigtlander made a smaller 40mm lens in my lens mount (I don't really need f1.2) because the one I have does make my set up just a little bit too heavy and annoying to carry around all day. I'm still on a quest to find a lighter camera/lens setup for a 'nice to have on me everyday' combo then use my current camera/lens for more purposeful photo outings.
haha so true - I also tried he very small voigtlander 40mm 2.8 equivalent for fuji thinking it would be perfect, but it has the dumbest focus throw - super annoying. I'm still waiting for someone to make a constant F2 aperture 28-50mm zoom - that would do me nicely
@@frame-lines I saw that video with you trying the Voigt 27mm (40mm) and saw and felt your frustration. I get put off aps-c as I like manual lenses and the focus throw at useful street distances is ridiculous. I did consider an aps-c with a cheap chinese 28mm for an everyday camera but the distance markings only goes to 2m before infinity, literally missing out on all the useful street distances 😡.
This was the first prime I bought for my first Fuji body more than 7 years ago. Since then I've acquired the 27mm f2.8 pancake and the 35mm f2 (amongst others), but I keep coming back to this little gem. It accounts for nearly 3 times the number of images that I've taken with the 35mm f2 in my Flickr photostream.
It's a nice lens; it would be even nicer, though, to see an upgrade with a linear focus system in the next couple of years.. Anyways.. I guess I bought and sold it at least 3 times.. and you probably just pushed me right over the edge to go for no. 4.. please give me that number🙈
I have the Fujinon XF 35mm f/1.4 R and thought this was about it. On my xt20 its equivalent to 50mm so i guess if i want use this focal length it would be 23mm.
On my old camera(nikon d7000) my 35mm and 50mm lenses were a constant. Especially my 35mm, I hardly ever took it off of my camera, I just loved shooting with it. Now on my d750, the kit lens(24mm-120mm) has lived on my camera, I’ve not used the 35mm and I just put the 50mm on a week or so ago. It is weird for me because I’ve had the d750 for 7 years now and have mostly used the kit lens, I am having to figure out how to use the 50mm in a creative meaningful way, not just snap shots. Haha! I feel like a newbie shooting with a different lens than my norm. 🤪🧐🤓🤣
Gee, I don't want to be the nitpicker guy, but I'm pretty sure it's closer to 34.5. (23X1.5 crop factor.) I know it doesn't really matter in the end, it's the shots that count, but I think Josh is right.
@@stephenericwalsh I know if you calculate the numbers it's 34,5. But if you compare shots between the 23mm f2 and the X100V for instance you will definately see that it's wider, somewhere between 28mm and 35mm field of view.
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I do too. It's F4 (usually all I need), has excellent IQ, is reasonably sized, and it is contained in my 24-50mm "kit" zoo. I could write this under a few other videos about the "only lens you ever need" (50mm), or "my most used lens" (28mm). I admit that I love isolating objects too. But for that, I use a longer lens.
It's by far my most used lens! I love how you can get close to people and capture close-ups without noticeable distortion. Or capture context when you're a bit farther away. It's very versatile, and the size and weight make it a great companion for longer hours. Cheers!
Yes versatile is definitely the right word. Nice one Leo 💙
I also love the focal length. Great job on the video and beautiful images, as usual. Thank you for sharing.
Much appreciated - thank you Joe
I used to buy and sell this lens over and over again, but aside from a short time with the 35mm 1.4, something never felt right to me. I bought the voigtlander 21mm f/4 Leica m mount with an adapter and it was life changing. I realized that AF wasn't for me. Now I'm not saying I'm the king of range focusing as I most always use the lens at f/16, but it finally put me in my place. I own the 21mm and the voigtlander 50mm 3.5 and I never even think about lenses anymore. The voigtlander 23mm fuji x mount is great, but the distance scale on it is absolutely terrible. That was the last lens I tried before accepting I found my forever lens.
I sold the newer Fuji 18, 23, and 33mm f1.4s because they were bulky. Ended up with the old 23mm/f1.4, the original, and love it very much! It's like the 35mm/1.4 original. A little slower af but tons of character, lighter, shorter, cheaper, albeit noisier. Never tried the 35/f2 but hear only good things about it.
The 35mm F2 is probably one the of the best 50mms I’ve ever used to be honest - the IQ is incredible
I am a 35 er,tried others Now a Z6II and 35mm F1.8 S and love it, With 24 and 28 always seamed to be having to movve closer.
BTW Love those sensible size grains of sand you have over there, Do not get in everything, Cheers from Australia.
Loved the video and your photography of Brighton, as i use a Fujifilm X series i am going to look for this lens for my street photography and maybe take a trip to Brighton soon you have inspired me 😊
Nice place.
Like your shots.🎉
Thanks for sharing
Thank YOU
My favourite equivalent lens…❤
lol
100 percent agree 35 gets you close enough but not right up...love the 35...only ting is getting better doing portraits with em.
Awesome video josh
haha love it - thanks pal
I don’t have a 35mm but i do have a 24mm pancake lens which i love carrying with me everywhere that i use on a crop sensor.
This lens was the first one I owed for the X-T5 and actually I would not need any other lens, but I bought also the 35mm f1.4 and very recently the 10-24mm f4 from Fujifilm as well and the 18-300mm Tamron; but the last one I'm gonna sell.
The 35 1.4 is fantastic eh
I’ve always felt like the 35 & 50 combo was too close in focal length. I’d rather have 24/28 and 50 or 35 and 85.
Hi, My dream lens is a strange tiny zoom 35-50 full frame or 23-35 apsc. I only use 35 & 50 so being able to change between 35-50 without checking the zoom would be really great, 1 single lens and that's it. With the quality of a fixed focal length I am convinced that there would be a big demand
Hah yes I’ve been saying it for years - a constant aperture 28-50mm F2 would do me perfectly
@@frame-lines Yes ! I don't understand why Fuji never thought of it. It's an instant best-seller for sure. With a littme "click" at 35mm so you don't need tocheck the lens, eye always in the evf
How do you know when a situation calls for the 35mm or the 50mm? They are definitely different, but also fairly close that I'd find it distracting deciding which to use if I carried both. How do you decide?
Haha yeah that’s a good question… if I know it’s going to be busy, 35mm… if I’m doing a more suburban walk, probably 50…
@@frame-lines I think I know what you mean. It's easier to go unnoticed in a crowd of people. Whereas, if you're in a suburban park or just a place that isn't densely populated, people have sense someone encroaching on their zone of comfort, so to speak. Love the color grading for this video, btw.
Great combo. Love the piece to camera shot too. Looks the most like your photos I've seen in your video. Also, I never liked 35mm until I bought the x100vi a few months ago and I have grown to love it. It works in so many situations. Martin Parr when speaking to Kai W said that if he was restricted to one lens for the rest of his life it would be the 35mm and yet he never seems to shoot at that focal length. This has been a longwinded comment, but I also have a question for you. Do you use Face Detection for AF or just centre spot and reframe? Or something else? I find face AF very flakey and I've missed a lot of shots with it.
Ha glad you like the video - I only ever use single point, single AF, face detect is too unpredictable for me
Nice. Totally agree with the 35. I also love 28, but i find I shoot a bit slower/compose more with the 35. So it depends on what I’m after on the day i guess!
I’ve never really used a 50 much. I have the Fuji 35/2 gathering dust somewhere. What situations do you switch to a 50 from a 35?
Nice one Adam - I usually reach for a 50mm if I know it’s going to be very very busy and might need to isolate a subject - IE portraits at the classic car boot, or if I’m walking locally and know it’s going to be super quiet so I can get some little detail shots… what do you usually have on your m11?
@@frame-lines 35 of course! With the Leica glass, it’s basically a fixed lens camera. Have never taken it off 😂 that said, I have been enjoying some work, not street, from other photographers like Freya Najade in Hackey Marshes, and I want to give something like that a go and it clearly is 50 or longer. Heh, I just remembered I found out about her from your zine! (This is not a sponsored comment). Typoch seem to have reasonable priced M mount lenses, I think I’m sold on a 50m Simera but can’t find one anywhere. Seems to be more TH-cam reviews than actual products!
Personally I use the XF40mm lens on my X-T5 but I also have no choice with focal length because I have the X100VI as my other street camera 🏴
I also have the XT5 and bring the 35mm and the 50mm (23 and 35) is redundant for me. 50mm is 35mm cropping, what XT5 allows. I usually brings 28mm and 50. Or 35mm and 75mm (50mm on APSC). Great video!!
Ha yes that’s a fair point - cheers!
Now for the really tough question: If you could only shoot 35mm or 50mm with no cropping for the rest of your life, which one would you choose?
Oh definitely 35mm - too many situations where 50 is too long I think
I find it tough to get close enough to get consistently good images with a 35mm when doing street photography.
I used to feel this same way, then I bought a 28mm and 24mm for street. Forcing myself to get close enough to get anything useable with those lenses has now made 35mm often feel too tight.
Brought three lenses on a trip to Japan this Summer , only ever ended up using the 23mm on my X-Pro 3 . Go figure . Nice vid.
Haha glad to hear it’s not just me - nice one Dom
I'm looking forward to a trip to Brighton in November for a couple of days... it's going to be less sunny and a lot fewer people!
Ha yeah it gets very quiet over the colder months eh
I’ll have to go for that whole abandoned urban space thing!
I have the leica Q with 28mm on it, but I have to say, I too, like the 35mm for street.. who knows, maybe after working with this lens for a year, I will like it better.
I love 28mm but really struggle with it outside of the summer months when the light isn’t as good
Josh, what kind of sunglasses are those? Josh. Also great video.
Haha thanks! They are from Cubitts
Your in Brighten. You must play a mean pin ball!!!
What's the ID and that blue button up? Looks great.
The ID? The shirt is from Wax I think!
I’ve struggled between 35 and 40. 40 always is close enough but sometimes not wide enough.
Agreed!
You have a diffusion filter on? Lovely glow to the shots, look beautiful
Nope just turned the clarity down a bit
But it's a 23mm. The background compression is entirely different than with a 35mm.
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It can be very difficult finding the right camera gear and most of the time we only get to experience this gear by buying it and trying it for ourselves. Often this can lead to regrettable decisions, including selling a lens and sometime later wishing you hadn't. I own a Voigtlander 40mm f1.2 and whilst I love the quality, I really wish Voigtlander made a smaller 40mm lens in my lens mount (I don't really need f1.2) because the one I have does make my set up just a little bit too heavy and annoying to carry around all day. I'm still on a quest to find a lighter camera/lens setup for a 'nice to have on me everyday' combo then use my current camera/lens for more purposeful photo outings.
haha so true - I also tried he very small voigtlander 40mm 2.8 equivalent for fuji thinking it would be perfect, but it has the dumbest focus throw - super annoying. I'm still waiting for someone to make a constant F2 aperture 28-50mm zoom - that would do me nicely
@@frame-lines I saw that video with you trying the Voigt 27mm (40mm) and saw and felt your frustration. I get put off aps-c as I like manual lenses and the focus throw at useful street distances is ridiculous. I did consider an aps-c with a cheap chinese 28mm for an everyday camera but the distance markings only goes to 2m before infinity, literally missing out on all the useful street distances 😡.
Is there a GAS support group he can join ?
This was the first prime I bought for my first Fuji body more than 7 years ago. Since then I've acquired the 27mm f2.8 pancake and the 35mm f2 (amongst others), but I keep coming back to this little gem. It accounts for nearly 3 times the number of images that I've taken with the 35mm f2 in my Flickr photostream.
I get the appeal of the pancake but it’s so expensive these days vs the 23mm and it’s already quite a light lens right
It's a nice lens; it would be even nicer, though, to see an upgrade with a linear focus system in the next couple of years..
Anyways.. I guess I bought and sold it at least 3 times.. and you probably just pushed me right over the edge to go for no. 4.. please give me that number🙈
I have the Fujinon XF 35mm f/1.4 R and thought this was about it. On my xt20 its equivalent to 50mm so i guess if i want use this focal length it would be 23mm.
yes the 23mm is fuji's 35mm equivalent
I also bought and sold the 23mm f2 3x times and just sold it again 😂😂😂
lol glad it’s not just me
My 23mm f2 has been with me for 6 years, 90% on my X-E3 and I will never ever sell it, way too attached, it's sentimental now
0:38 Holy LoCA, Batman!
lol
Don't worry, this video isn't going to be entered into the Cannes film festival 😉.
I've bought the XF35mmF2 R WR twice. I've held onto it even though I have no Fujifilm bodies currently. But maybe I should sell it…
haha dont do it - you'll only buy it again 🤣
Think I bought and sold the 23mm F2 like 9 times now 😂 And just bought it again ....
Wow ok 😂
On my old camera(nikon d7000) my 35mm and 50mm lenses were a constant. Especially my 35mm, I hardly ever took it off of my camera, I just loved shooting with it. Now on my d750, the kit lens(24mm-120mm) has lived on my camera, I’ve not used the 35mm and I just put the 50mm on a week or so ago. It is weird for me because I’ve had the d750 for 7 years now and have mostly used the kit lens, I am having to figure out how to use the 50mm in a creative meaningful way, not just snap shots. Haha! I feel like a newbie shooting with a different lens than my norm. 🤪🧐🤓🤣
haha you'll get used to the 50mm pretty quickly I reckon
I bought the 18 f/2 and the 18 f/1.4 🙃
Haha ok you’re worse than me
What lens hood are you rocking?
‘Hoage’
@@frame-lines thank you
35mm is 90 percent of what I use
Nice
Actually the field of view with this lens is a little wider, more like a 31mm view on FF. Maybe that's why you like this lens so much.
Aha yes maybe that’s it 😅😅
Gee, I don't want to be the nitpicker guy, but I'm pretty sure it's closer to 34.5. (23X1.5 crop factor.) I know it doesn't really matter in the end, it's the shots that count, but I think Josh is right.
@@stephenericwalsh I know if you calculate the numbers it's 34,5. But if you compare shots between the 23mm f2 and the X100V for instance you will definately see that it's wider, somewhere between 28mm and 35mm field of view.
@@duschbrauser Weird. Haven’t done a real world comparison. Interesting.
I love 200mm for street. I can sit in my car and pick subjects off.
Extremely creepy / concerning
Get yourself a Sony RX10IV, you’ll be in heaven.
your video is great. the 35mm focal length is really childish. for me it does not exist. 50mm here!
Haha wow ok
In what way is it….”childish”?
I used a 50mm exclusively for my film photography, but sometimes the 35mm adds a bit of oomph to the lines..