It does remind me of some of the Zeiss lenses in that regard that the specs don’t always look great on paper or if you dissect the image, like I did above, but when you take a step back and look at the whole image, it does look great. I think the photos came out really great and I’m not left thinking, “If only I used another lens.” Or I would have had to have stopped the lens down to f8 or f11 to have a massive depth of field and cross my fingers that everyone is in focus. The autofocus actually helped me achieve these photos, which would probably have been quite difficult to do with the Samyang lens. In this scenario, the autofocus really helped me keep my mind clear and allow me to focus on directing the family (see photos below). I did for instance take these lovely family portraits with it. Having said that, I’m not mad that I own it, or that it exists. Is it as good as the entire internet seems to think? No, not at all.
Is the Fujifilm 35mm 1.4 a bad lens? No, not at all.
And nothing annoys me more than having to swap autofocus modes or continuously having to switch the ‘Eye AF’ function on and off constantly because the camera is focusing on the wrong subject.
#Fuji 35mm 1.4 manual
It’s all personal preference at the end of the day, but I just love the simplicity of manual focus lenses. But I’m a little old school in that way of thinking and working. I still have moments though where I’ll just pop on a manual focus lens because the autofocus lens is distracting me too much. I don’t mind manual focusing and it’s not that difficult to do on a Fuji camera, but when I’m photographing events or weddings, it does drain my energy levels quicker than when I’m using an autofocus lens that works well. I wish that Samyang would make an autofocus version of this lens! Of all their APS-C mirrorless lenses actually. I honestly didn’t think I could make them look so similar!Īgain, first one is the Fuji, second one is the Samyang: However when I changed the white balance of the Fujifilm to 5700k, keeping the secondary slider at +10, and changed the white balance on the Samyang photo to 5500k and +21, the two become much more similar than initially anticipated. That sets it to 5500K and +10 on the green/magenta scale. Interestingly, I set both photos to the standard ‘Daylight’ setting within Lightroom. The image looks way sunnier in comparison. The Samyang has a much warmer, friendlier tone. Regarding colour, the greens with the Fujifilm are colder looking, the whole image is colder actually. The latter has more defined edges to its bokeh. With it being an f1.2 aperture, it is also blurred a little more than the Fujifilm. Immediately, you can see in the yellow bush in the middle that the Samyang has much smoother bokeh, without appearing too clinical. It’s either wide open or f2.8 or smaller. I thought it would only be fair to do so, as you wouldn’t stop down the Samyang to 1.4 usually during a shoot. Both lenses were shot wide open, so either f1.4 or f1.2. This shot indicates two things nicely the difference in bokeh and the different colours these lenses produce.
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