if you are a beginner in photography and you're looking at buying your first lens
chances are you're looking at a 35 millimeter or a 50 millimeter lens
and there are so many different versions
of a 50 millimeter lens and that's personally what my first lens was
now fuji has made a brand new 50ml
and it is very special let's take a look
so they have a very non-script box okay
box within a box nice keep the lens nice and safe
here we have fujifilm's
50 mil f1
now f1 what does that mean
now if you know anything about lenses aperture is the setting
which dictates the amount the iris blades on the lens
are opened or closed and
most lenses bottom out at f 1.4
so fuji has designed a lens that not
only is f1 but
has fast responsive
autofocus at least that's what they claim we're about to find out
if it is as good as you think it might be
on paper so in the box you get the lens itself wow
you know as a fuji user one of my favorite things about their lenses
is that they have always been quite small because it's an aps-c sized sensor
and most cameras these days are full frame you got sony making the a7c
and the a7s3 and panasonic coming out
with the s1h and the s5 everyone's going full frame fuji is
sticking with aps-c but this lens is obviously designed for
their xf aps-c size sensor cameras like the xt4
my personal xt4 and it is
significant like this feels closer to me
to maybe an 85 mil stills lens on a
full-frame camera actually can i get the scale id i want to weigh this
1.77 pounds now that might not sound like a lot but when
you look at lenses that is not insignificant okay just for comparison let's take my
xf 56 millimeter which is the lens i would typically use
when wanting to shoot in that focal range of like 50 mil portrait look
and let's weigh this .88 pounds so this
50 ml is almost a full pound heavier than my typical 56 millimeter and again
that doesn't sound like a lot but when you think about it on like a
hike where every gram matters or you're traveling somewhere and
you want to travel light a pound will make a difference
and just for giggles this is our
85 millimeter sigma cinema lens
i am curious to see the weight
difference okay so this lens weighs three pounds that's
not even double when you think about the
size in the application this is going to go on a big heavy film camera
and this is a for a stills camera so yeah this lens is not
it's not super heavy but it's not light by any stretch of the imagination
fuji's also said that they've weather sealed this lens in 11 places which is
nice because the 56 mil isn't actually weather sealed
at all and this lens is one of the fastest lenses fuji makes
it's nice to see that upgrading the aperture wasn't the only thing that they did
with this focal length wow
the focus ring on this lens is a lot smoother than any other lens
i've ever used on a fuji which is actually my biggest gripe with fuji
lenses when it comes to video is that the all the focus rings on all
of them aren't quite smooth enough to do like precise
focus pulls this feels like a step forward for them
whoa look at that front element and you can see
how large the circle on the aperture of
this lens actually is and you have such a nice aperture ring
because all of fuji's lenses are going to have this aperture ring that allows
you to manually control your aperture at any point and this one sounds good listen to that
it's just like really satisfying
very few lenses are able to say
this enough talk i want to put it on my camera and see
how this does
i will never get sick of the sound of putting like a very
fresh lens on a
camera body this lens is loud
like do you guys hear that can you hear that yeah i can hear that pretty clearly
it is it is a loud boy
which is i mean for stills for the most part
okay i mean if you're at a wedding and you're trying to be really quiet
and your lens is just like constantly
making this noise while you're re-focusing that could be
an issue you know you're taking a photo of an
animal and you don't want to scare them off
the noise of this lens might just be loud enough that it could scare
something off now the autofocus isn't
the fastest that i've ever seen but there's a lot of glass elements
moving around in this thing i did want to compare this 50 mil f1
that fuji made to something that is also
maybe the crowning achievement that some might say of a 50 ml
f1 and that is
this leica noctelux
50 mil f1 now it's not an autofocus lens
because all of leica's lenses are manual focus but
it is a historically high pedigree
lens last i checked this leica 50 mil
is worth between 8 to 10 grand
us used and that's if you can find
a good copy of one and i have to say
it is also very wow there is so much glass in here
okay just really quickly we're gonna weigh this as well
because wow 1.28 so
just for context again half a pound almost
lighter than the fuji but look at the size difference guys
that is not insignificant um why don't
we see what it looks like to test these lenses next to each other
okay so i'm going to test the leica first and then i'm going to
switch to the fuji and i have chase here to take photos of
wow this leica is
not that sharp wide open
it is soft i am punching in all the way
to see and it is soft
okay well that's really interesting it looks good
despite it being soft but it
is not a super sharp lens okay
fuji is going on f 1.0
okay and let's see
immediately the fact that it has autofocus just gives me so much more
confidence in the accuracy of the photo
so just to cover all our bases i'm going to do a quick test shot on the 56 mil
f 1.2 it's not going to be the exact same aperture obviously
but i do want to see how they compare
so right off the top this is the leica 50 ml
noc deluxe frame
and yup as i expected it is
super soft now this lens is 45 years old
so i don't expect it to be super sharp and like
it looks super creamy in the bokeh out
of focus areas it is definitely at f1 and this
might be a look that you like because it's sort of a nostalgic look honestly
this is without any editing this is straight out of camera no settings or
changes have been applied uh let's take a look at fuji wow okay
so punching into the fuji you can see that
it is immediately so much sharper especially in chase's eyes
it's not the sharpest lens that i've ever seen but considering it's at f1
it is pretty sharp the other interesting
thing to me is the color difference between the leica and the 50mm
f1 because you can see in the leica that it is
much lower contrast
by default and there's a significant more amount of vignetting
to the point where you actually see in chase's black jacket it looks
darker but it is much less and it
doesn't actually make the overall image feel darker now between the 50 mil and
the 56 mil which is an f 1.2 not an f1
lens the left is the 56 mil f 1.2 and the
right is the 50 mil f 1.0
honestly
the 50ml f 1.0 at 1.0
looks slightly sharper
just for our again our reference the 50ml f1
is on the left and the leica is on the right very clear
the difference the fuji is way sharper
and the other cool thing is the leica while
an antique at this point and a very
sought-after rare lens that lens is
eight to ten thousand dollars usd the canon version of the f1 lens is five
thousand dollars ish usd this fuji 50ml f1
is 1500 usd
come on 1500 usd so
far cheaper five times less expensive
than the leica i'll hand it to fuji they delivered on
an autofocus f1 lens that
while it's bigger for a fuji lens is still usable
and feels good in the hand so great job if you're in the market for 50ml and you
want like crazy low light performance and crazy shallow depth of field
and you own a fuji camera this is probably it
for you you can see a clear difference between
f1 and f1.2 but a lot of you might argue
that it's negligible so that's up to you yeah so compared to the 56
if you don't want the extra weight and you want the f 1.0
aperture this is a great choice and a great addition to fuji's lens lineup
so thank you guys for watching ShortCircuit if you like camera things
especially fuji content you might want to watch my xt4
unboxing that i did a couple months ago if you haven't seen it already thank you guys for watching