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My lens has nowhere near as much vignette as shown in the video. Just some very little piece of the corner. Two things to keep in mind. I have the older version, with metal focus ring. And I take the lens hood off - it vignettes on GFX. I made a bigger lenshood with a 55-67mm step up ring and a simple metal lens hood. And the vignetting is just super minimal. Near non existing at closer distance and really only showing at infinity - which you rarely use this lens at.
Hi! Thanks for the content! Trying to make my GFX camera into X100 version but 28mm FF focal length. Its for everyday carry so I dont mind it being manual or auto focus. Do you have any recommendations that is a compact, covers the 44x33 very well that is 28mm FF equivalent? I wished voigtlander 35mm f2 to be one but can't find much information on it. Thanks a bunch!
Looking for a method for scanning negatives with my GFX 50R I purchased a PK adapter to use with my Pentax smc A 100mm f4 macro lens. Amazing! no need to use crop mode, hardly any fall off in the corners and no smeering, sharp corner to corner at f11which I use for negative scanning (with extension tubes). So tried my 50mm f1.7, some poor corners at f1.7 but all good by f4, an amazing lens. So my last remaining Pentax lens smc A 70-210mm f4 again very good, probably may replace my P 645 80-160mm due to weight difference. I have long suspected that my copy of that zoom lens was better IQ than average hence why I still have is when not using Pentax now.
I have been using a Pentax 645 80-160mm and have been impressed once stopped down half a stop or more. Heavy thought stuck out on the end of the adapter! At least my adapter has a tripod shoe which makes a ballanced handle. With the exception of the 90mm APO, my Voightlander VM lenes are disapointing even in 35mm crop mode when wide open.
Maybe next time include some 100% sized views of the images. Seeing images zoomed out to full screen says or shows very little of the actual sharpness of a lens. Especially if you also leave out the specific F-stop used in every image. There is little to play with here. Is the lens sharp wide open at F2.8? Does it get much sharper at F8? How does it perform at 50MP? Only questions, no answers.
A good test to see whether a lens can outresolve the GFX sensor is to put the aperature at f/5.6, take a photo, then do a pixel-shift multishot under the same conditions. If the pixel shift image has more detail than the regular photo then you know the lens is capable of outresolving the GFX sensor. The aperature is important here because beyond F/7.1 you will be diffraction limited and pixel shift does not help. Then if the lens is too wide open you will have to deal with abberation induced blur which could cause blur limited performance. Again, pixel shift will not help. F/5.6 seems like the general sweet spot where many lenses are sharpest. You also know the performance will not be diffraction limited, because that limit is f/7.1.
This lens is an absolute bargain..!! I had it on my 6d for years was almost never left the camera. It is almost the perfect lens. It is sharp. It is bright. It is stupidly cheap. It is small and make the whole setup look much less professional when do street photography. Extreme light, like there is no new in the camera. I have made some of my best shots with it..
Great video! I was looking exactly at this combo for my gfx 100 II. Are there any other 'faster' lenses that are comparable to this one, that you can recommend?
@@HealingMushroom It works great with the Viltrox adapter, with the newest update even the vibration control works fine. Image quality wide open is exelent, exept the far corners, there ist a little drop down in resolution. The longitudinal CAs are lower pronounced, than with fullframe. The only downside is, that the Tamron doesn't look so good on the Gfx, if this is important.
I lucked out and picked up one of these as my first vintage lens. I use it on my 60 mp full frame sigma FPL, and I love it. I think an APSC sensor under utilizes it, and the medium format is asking it to do more than it was designed for. I assume the GFX has a crop mode which makes it act like a full frame? The optical vignetting causing the very busy bokeh around the edges of the medium format sensor are not an issue with the full frame sensor.
How does it perform through the focal range? If you don’t mind me asking? I have the version 2 and just picked up a used gfx100, but I’m trying to decide if it’s worth it to get the EF fringer adapter.
@@TheJ_G There is heavy vignetting up until between 50-70 and there is vignetting all the way through to 105. Because of the 50 mega pickle sensor I just crop the image so the vignetting doesn't show.
@@TheJ_G I'm using the kippon adapter not the finger, but I think the vignetting is the lens, not the adaptor because my EF 16-35 doesn't vignette until you go below 20mm.
Best video of the century. I’ve been shooting Fuji for six years and now use the XE4. I constantly think about upgrading to full frame or GFX 50 R. I love the XE4 size and only use the f2 primes. I would keep doing these type of videos. I think they would eventually get popular.
Very interesting test, sir! As a Nikon Z System landscape, wildlife and small product photographer, I am currently evaluating MF systems such as the Fuji GFX 100 ll, and the Fujinon lenses. I would have liked to see a side-by-side image taken with both the Zeiss and the Fujinon GF equivalent lens, but how would you compare the central sharpness between them? Thank you!
I got one from KEH based on this video. Thank you for making this video. You earned a sub from me!! I payed $119 (USD) for Excellent Condition on 2023-01-30.
Thank you for the great, and very helpful, review! I already have the Steelsring II adapter, which I purchased some time ago at the same time that I purchased the 120mm ƒ4.0 makro. I have been wanting to get the 80mm for a long time, but it seemed that all the nice ones were over $3,000; too much for me. Your Target Price made me feel much better about the one I purchased today on eBay. I found an 80mm in near mint condition for $2,138, delivered, from a store in Japan. I think it's the same store that I got the 120mm from. But anyway, I know I have purchased from them before. I had the GF110mm for a while, but I found that I rarely used it. It was too heavy to carry around, and it made an annoying noise all the time. I think it had something to do with the AF motor constantly checking on things.
For anyone adapting vintage glass to the GFX there is a list available online of tons of old glass and whether or not it covers the GFX sensor (its community maintained although im not sure if its still being updated). Even on glass that does not cover the whole sensor it can still be used in the GFX 35mm crop mode, although there are some surprising entrees on that list (i picked up a 28mm f2 nikon lens and a 300mm f4.5 minolta that both cover the entire sensor with some vignette wide open). Whether youre looking for something wide or tele, heck i think theres even a couple of zooms that work, the list probably has something youre looking for and has been a great resource for me.
Some glass I use is Yashica 50mm f1.7 Yashica 135mm f2.8 Minolta 58mm f1.4 Minolta 300mm f4.5 Nikon 28mm f2 All of these image quite well on the GFX (with some vignette and smearing) with the 58 Minolta and 135 Yashica being optically the sharpest. Definitely a more busy and vintage style bokeh but on relatively small form factors compared to medium format or native GFX lenses (which is the real reason why I chose to adapt in the first place)
@@BelowKelvin its actually surprisingly good, I've used it quite a bit so far but only indoors. It covers the whole sensor with pretty minimal vignette and distortion, although like most adapted ff lenses the distortion is at its worst wide open. But having such a wide lens that is for me plenty sharp (no where near clinical) and pretty bright at f2 is basically unbeatable for the price (I think I picked it up at around 150 with the adapter). Most of the time the issues with smearing, vignette and distortion start to improve at around f4 and by the time you get to f8-f11 it's almost completely gone.
Dear Heritagefocus team firstly I want to say that finally I found a place where people do real, fast, simply and accurate tests of lenses, great job! I am standing before buying GFX system but also I want to invest in some vintage 645 lenses, cuz also I am going to leave my 67 format and go to 645. I can't decide mamiya .vs pentax. Have you tested, or are you plannig to do some of mamiya ~75, ~55 shoots? Also it's really hard to find pictures made with that KIPON adapter with 0.8 lens inside. Its pretty expensive but maybe is it worth to pay and get that full medium format look/ deph of field/ 100% usage of lens. Thanks for any help! Best from Poland Marek
Dumb question, hope someone can help. I'm looking to purchase the gfx 50r and love it for the 65:24 panorama (closest I'll get to xpan). Does anyone know if i can still shoot 65:24 with Minolta lenses?
To be clear the 65:24 aspect ratio gives you a wide center crop on the GFX sensor. You're basically cutting off most of what the sensor would image to get a crop like that. These old adapted lenses would be doing pretty well as these old full frame lenses do struggle with vignette and smearing toward the edges of the frame at lower f-stops on the GFX sensor. At these lower f-stops shooting with a slight or major crop is actually incredibly beneficial
@@poobs2361Thanks and yeah, I'm seeing that first hand now that I have the camera and the lenses. I've had a chance to test both the MC 35mm f2.8 and the MC 50mm f1.7. The latter is much much better with the DOF consistency. It's not just that it's a wider aperture, but with the 35mm, I'm seeing inconsistency in DOF across apertures. Maybe I landed a lemon. But overall, I'm thoroughly satisfied with the camera and FF lenses. Even tried an E49 28mm Leica 2.8 lens. Not an absolutely hard vignette but it is strong. Definitely usable with 65:24.
This lens looks great, I kinda want it. Just need an adapter first. The only adapted lens I have (that I use) is the Canon FD 135mm 2.8, which I use on my crop sensor fujis. It’s pretty good, even wide open on the new 40mp sensor.
Hello, Thanks for the video. I bought a version of this lens (the A) to use with Fuji GFX 50R for scanning negatives. I have a Fotodiox adapter. The f-stop ring moves, but I am not seeing the diaphragm/aperture change. I moved the switch from A to M and still no movement of the diaphragm. Am I doing something wrong? Or is this lens damaged? I do have the 80mm macro and that seems to work fine on my setup. I thought this would be the same. Thanks.
Thank you a lot ! Excellent video. As owner of gfx 50s and gfx 100, I really want get it to pair with my Fringer adapter. It’s a little sad you didn’t tried video mode to see how is the framing , because it’s smaller than shooting mode, and af in video mode. Do you think it has a good enough AF? I’m looking to film some interior interviews, I hope it’s wide enough but I guess something between 20-35mm would be better for interior videos .
Thanks for watching! I never planned to use it for video (I do all my video on the X-S20 and X-T3), so have never actually tried! Would be interested to hear how it goes. It is a bit old, but the STM AF motor was designed specifically for Canon's earlier live view cameras and keep up with the video feed, so it's very possible. Good luck!
On the Fringer and Techart adapters, is the focus ring correctly disabled when the lens's AF switch is set to AF? It remains enabled on the Viltrox adapter, and if you manually focus this way, the lens fails to autofocus correctly from then on until you restart the camera.
I guess so . I have canon 85mm 1.2 L and on Fringer adapter if you switch AF to off mode on the lens , there is no AF. Should be same on 40mm 2.8 And Fringer adapter is the best for gfx. You should pick that. Don’t take Techart , it’s so bad. I’ve had and Fringer is lightning fast compared to Techart
I will say this much, if you’re interested in this combination I would strongly advise saving a bit extra for the native 50mm 3.5! It’s an absolute gem of a lens and it’s not bank breaking.
Agreed! I think the GF 45mm 2.8 is even better, but obviously a different size/weight class. Thanks for the comment and for taking the time to watch! :)
@@HeritageFocussorry it's 10k AUD. don't get me wrong, I live for these kinds of videos, I'm all about finding the weirdest lenses and putting them on an adaptor! Love your videos man!
It's on the list, and I actually have it here. Would you just like me to measure it for you for now? You just looking for total length with adapter + lens?
@@HeritageFocus yes please, the total length and if you could check the total weight as well. That would be amazing. BTW does putting a 645 lens on a GFX which has a smaller sensor than the 645 film, change the crop factor. I read somewhere that you need to multiple the Focal length by 1.2. So the Pentax 45 mm would be a 54mm on the GFX. Similar to how a 50mm lens for Full frame on a APSC turns into a 80mm due to the 1.6 crop factor.
@@ytshank 127mm at min focus distance. ~140mm fully extended at infinity. Both measurements with adapter. 647g with adapter. I'm using the Kipon P645-GFX adapter. This is the Pentax-A version as shown in the main image on this page - lens-db.com/smc-pentax-a-645-45mm-f28-1984/
@@HeritageFocus Thx for the info, now its a choice between the Pentax 45mm or the Mamiya 45mm. I really wish there were MF lenses with a shorter flange distance to reduce the overall length of the setup.
