This is a beautiful, affordable and well-constructed piece of optical goodness in a sturdy and relatively compact shell. The hood is 7/8'' long, adding about 3/4'' of length to the lens when attached. It does not reverse for storage on the lens, and attaches with a standard bayonet mount. The 35mm ƒ/1.4 R lens hood is made of metal, and can only be described as a circular hood with its sides squished in. There are no distance scales or depth-of-field information on the lens, but the X-Pro 1 offers a distance scale on its LCD or viewfinder readout. There is a slight amount of lens extension when the lens is focused. In practice this means the focusing ring will turn forever in either direction, and you'll have to rely on the readouts to know if you have reached minimum or maximum focus. Rather, turning the focusing ring moves the elements electronically. The X-Pro camera concept uses a fly-by-wire in its lens focusing method, so the focusing ring is not actually directly connected to the lens elements in a mechanical way. The focusing ring is about 3/4'' wide, made of polycarbonate with deep grooves that offer excellent tactile feel. We found the aperture ring a bit looser than we would like, which means if you like the be able to move quickly between settings, you'll be happy with this action. The aperture ring sits closer to the lens body, around 3/8'' wide, with click-stops between aperture settings. There are two rings for this lens: a focusing ring, and an aperture ring, something of a rarity in modern digital cameras. It's small and it isn't all that heavy (just 187 grams, or just over 6 oz), textured in a satin black finish. The Fuji XF 35mm ƒ/1.4 R is a well-built lens, harkening back to the days of metal rangefinder cameras. The 35mm ƒ/1.4 R only offers a magnification rating of 0.17x, making this less than ideal for macro work its minimum close-focusing distance is 28cm (just under a foot). The front element does not rotate, making life that little bit easier for polarizer users. The lens focuses from infinity to close-focus in less than a second: it's fast, and locks on to your target easily. The Fuji 35mm ƒ/1.4 R focus very quickly with an electrical motor housed in the lens. Results for distortion were very low for the 35mm ƒ/1.4 R there is just a hint of barrel distortion in the extreme corners. This reduces to a third of a stop at ƒ/2, and at all other apertures, corner shading is negligible. There is some light corner shading when the lens is used in the ƒ/1.4 aperture position in this case, the extreme corners are a half-stop darker than the center. When present, it will show as magenta fringing on areas of high contrast. Results for chromatic aberration were very good there's hardly any chromatic aberration to speak of, and it only becomes noticeable when the lens is stopped down to ƒ/16 or ƒ/22. Stopping down to ƒ/4 almost completely removes this corner softness (you'd have to peep pretty closely to see any softness at all, really, depending on your subject), and improvements are very small until the image is essentially tack-sharp across the frame at ƒ/5.6.ĭiffraction limiting appears to set in at ƒ/8, but there's no appreciable loss of image sharpness until ƒ/16, or ƒ/22. Stopping down to just ƒ/2 offers a significant improvement: central sharpness is excellent, and corner softness is dramatically improved. When used wide open at ƒ/1.4 there is some significant corner softness, but in the central part of the image we do note some very good results. The 35mm ƒ/1.4 R is capable of very sharp images, but for maximal image sharpness the lens must be stopped down to ƒ/5.6.
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