Fujifilm 50mm F1.0 Hands-on Review 

what an opening statement. bravo chris, bravo

Furlongs, Chains, As a civil engineer it cracked me LOL. You guys are geniuses

Not only did you review a lens I was thinking of purchasing you shot in front of the building my studio is in for reference. Thanks :)

I’m going to have to visit Calgary just to experience the awesomeness of Japanese Village.

Please never stop dissing the american metric system

Thanks very much for your honest review, all I can see around the web is the autofocus is perfect, sharpness is perfect etc. etc. it’s the first time I see such a honest take on a lens that is on a hype cycle, so it must not be easy to say these things out loud. Thank you again

Also 50 mm f1.0 is marked as WR (weather resistant) lens, this is what 56 mm can't offer.

You didn't do low light test for F1.0?

Considering this is an f/1.0 lens, the compromises aren't bad at all. The Canon 50mm f/1.0 is just craziness in and out, but this is actually a usable modern lens with beautiful bokeh rendering and apparently some nice character. I think I'll give it a shot once business is back to normal.

At this point all I really want to know is how many Nocts a lens weighs😅

It's nice to watch a review when Chris is on top of is game. When he's on like he is in this video, he's one of the best!

Very balanced review giving a great insight on the merits and limitations on this lens Many thanks

very useful even for non Fuji shooters. Learned a lot about rabbits, electronic shutters, bokeh and more!

keeping my 56mm f/1.2 and yes a 33mm f/1 would be amazing. I think the 35mm f/1.4 needed an update badly

Chris: we are gonna take pictures of Jordan Jordan: :D

I would definitely buy a 33mm f1.0 as it is a very versatile focal length. 50 mm is not what I need in everyday photography. If I need a lens specifically for portraits, I'll buy a used XF90 f2 for a fraction of the price of the XF50 f1.

Whenever there’s been a LOCA example shot in the past, I always thought I was fooling myself when I “saw” it. This is the hands-down best example.

got 56 1.2, I think I stick to it. As a hobbyist it's enough however the 50 1.0 is veeery tempting...🤪

My copy arrives tomorrow. I'm so excited for it!

Liked the video for showing Microbreweries beers from Chambly, Qc. Humor in here is on point, never change guys.

Are you gonna release a metric version of this video? 😜

Wow, this is the first review that says it's not sharp wide open.

Phenomenal video quality, very nice colour and crisp AF. kudos to Jordan! :)

i remember when I took my 56mm 1.2 to Cuba once.... tough to get to use that app over day, anywhere even at ISO 100. good days!

The 56 f1.2 is a sharp lens and the 50 f1.0 looks marginally sharper 8:19, so for me sharpness here will not be an issue. Fujifilm should have kept this as a 33 f1.0. Nevertheless it is a great lens and one I hope to buy one in the near future.

I hope your food was prepared in their unique samurai style. That commercial has been stuck in my head for decades 😂

When I watch these guys, I feel like I’m stuck in a late ‘90s G Rated Midday program on some free channel you get with the basic cable package, so you can imagine how out of character that opening comment came across lmao

1:47, print and frame that! Masterpiece!

Your review is great, I just tried it at my camera shop and I’m thinking about getting it

I'd like to see a shootout between that and the Olympus 45/1.2 on MFT.

S1H video makes this worthwhile to watch.

Everybody wanted a super fast 35mm, so Fuji came up with a 50mm to go along an already great 56mm. #stonks

Interesting review. It is a niche lens that is not really meant to be shot in bright day light situations like you did in this review. This is a lens that is intended to be shot in low light or in a controlled lighting situations.

Corrected for the focal length, the 50/f1 has the exact same DOF as the 56/f1.2. Vey good review. For me its a shame they didn’t make it 56 or 60mm and with a closer focusing distance. For fashion make-up portraits its too wide and too far. So I’ll stick to my switch to FF... For general purposes, Fuji has another often underestimated option which is the 50/f2. Stopped down to f4 its very sharp with good contrast. It’s WR and with silent and fast AF. Highly recommended.

I have bought a second hand 50mm f1.0 lens in Hong Kong,which cost about 790usd ,it is quite cheap.The autofocus is quite fast with X-h2, and using very low ISO(under 640) at night ,it is an amazing lens for portrait

3:25 Are you using imperial furlongs or Edward Furlong's for that measurement?

mmmmm Unibroue. Finally, a lens with actual character. Fuji knocking it out of the park having a system that actually has unique advantages!

Take that thing out during the night time, with only the street lights for illumination, that what f 1.0 is all about, when I lived in Alaska, where it was dark for most of the winter, I would've killed for an aperture like that.

Hey guys!!! I love your reviews, and always a pleasure to see yours videos

Drink enough beers and one gets wonderful bokeh, and one doesn't even need a camera. Postcript: a chain is 22 yards (the length of a cricket wicket, and was actually measured using a chain); ten chains make a furlong (still used in horse racing), and there are eight furlongs to a mile.

Jordan kissing the fish was G R E A T 😮

Is this with the most recent camera firmware? I guess Fuji dropped a new update to make the 50 F1 AF faster / more accurate 🤷🏽‍♂️

Thank you and I have got a 56 1.2 😀😀😀

Got to try this out at a Fujifilm event a couple weeks ago. They also had the 50mm F2 and 56mm f1.2 on hand. Have to say the 56mm ruled the day. The color and sharpness was there, and the bokeh was perfect. The color was a tiny bit better on the 50 F1. But was it 50% better? Nope. Also have to say, regardless of what the Fuji guys at the event said, I could not see any difference between the focus speed of the 50 and 56. The 50 F1 is moving more glass to be fair. But in actual use they both seemed identical in that regard. Also the sheer ludicrous size of the 50 F1 makes it quite ungainly with an XT3 or Xpro3. Even on the XT4 they had for try out, it was an awkward balance. So I have to agree, this is a studio lens. Now how do I swing a 56mm on my budget?

Guessing they're probably gonna release a cine version of this too then.

Video is great, but it would be perfect if the lens was tested in low light.

Thanks for this. The 33 mm would have been so much cooler.

The Toneh is top notch with this one

thanks, very helpful

Wow! What a great review. Fact after fact, rapid speed review that tells it like it is.

The AF problems were disappointing. Did you use the camera firmware released on September 17 that improves AF with this lens?

I'm still not convinced that 50mm is a good focal length on APS-C. It always feels awkward, to me. 56mm is just longer enough that it makes more sense.

Jordan Looks are highlight of the video

56mm is already awesome. I'd rather see 35mm 1.2 or at least updated 1.4 (which is long due for update)

so strange the lack of reviews that cover low light... i mean it's f1, that's the real legitimate reason you would get it.

Are they just pretending to be oblivious to the Viltrox 56 1.4? It's looking a proper bargain compared to this - looks like you're mostly going to be stopped down a bit mostly with the Fuji f/1.0

I might pick this up...dont have a portrait prime for the Fuji system yet

Thanks for the review. I'm suprised at the lack of sharpness at f2, as my xf50 f2 seems sharper, judging from youtube anyway. This really seems like a niche lens, i would not want to own one, but i can appreciate, that fuji has such a well rounded lens lineup, that they can afford to provide lenses for niche application. Nevertheless i think some people will be dissapointed, as the fuji crowd really wanted a new lens, because recently it seems, that fuji is not releasing lenses at the former pace. There is still some room to grow or upgrade in the lineup, i hope they will continue to add to the f2 lineup.

3:06 "Budgie". (And good luck sticking a mob of budgies in a bag. You'll need gloves.)

Long time listener, first time poster - X-T2 owner here and I have to ask the question even though I have some idea as to why it costs this much - but - why is it $2699AUD in Australia?! My most expensive lens is the 80mm macro and I get why it retails for $1800 (got mine for $1100 - bargain) - loads of glass, heft, sturdiness, weather sealing and IBIS but the 50mm f1.0 has me slightly stumped as to why it is a whopping $900 more - thoughts people?

I'm going to stick with the 50mm F2 - the poor man's portrait lens. 😂

Ok, no mention of it being weather resistant? To me that's the game changer between the 56mm 1.2 and this lens.

cool mural

Compare it against the new 56

I enjoy your videos very much and am a faithful viewer, but I've always found them to be a bit soft for perhaps the first thirty seconds. Then they sharpen up. This one was soft until about 3:00. I wonder if anyone else sees this.

😍 more data for my Noct weight comparison chart!

Lens & beer reviews...that sounds great for the shake of sharpness ;)

Hello goldfish! Please begin the fan fiction backstory now so that Jordan can produce his next masterpiece, Love in the Bowl

Is this a production lens with the new firmware in camera??

Cool review.

man that S1H footage looks good

Looks great, if I shot Fuji, it’d be in my bag.

Great piece of tech

Looks like Fuji needs to address the autofocus hunting issue on the XT-4 and future X cameras.

This is a really good video

There is Something Very Nice About the 50mm - (75mm) Focal length on the fuji size APSC Sensor...!!!! In Comparison an 85mm on Full Frame always seems too tight to be Versatile enough for general shooting and compositions other than portraits and still life's with not enough room in the frame to take in a whole scene...seemingly no matter how much you fry to move back...and a wider fifty eg the Tamron 45mm 1.8 VC or the Sigma 50mm 1.4 EX which are both to the wider 45mm end of the focal length just seem much too wide to give the magic of a short telephoto both in terms of the magic of the drawing of the lens and the composition at a given distance... where as a 50mm on a fuji body Just seems to Be the Perfect Goldilocks lens for all occasions....which I have yet to find on Full-frame as even the 70mm end of my Nikon 24-70mm 2.8 ed Just seems too wide to produce the magic and it weighs an absolute tonne.... In truth I have def settled on a 50mm on a Speed Booster on an X-T Body which seems to retain a lot of the magic of the drawing of the lens and poss slightly tighter than a standard 50mm on FF (poss 55mm equivalent) but is wider and more versatile with a massive stop more light (which is really hard to ignore or give up once you've had it, especially for so cheap too...!!!!) in a relatively tiny package and even at the wider focal length is Still Just Magical and So Lovely to Shoot too....especially in monochrome....!!!!! But even so especially with the Pentax 50mm 1.7 on a basic K&F Adaptor it still seems Just absolutely perfect every time in a way which is impossible to achieve on any other system except Leica M mount...!!! Also the Sigma Art and Samyang 50mm 1.4s although tighter in focal length both seem to super from super heavy contrasty coatings like the canon SSC coatings on FD Glass back in the day, which make it near impossible to render natural looking colours without super heavy contrast even if you back the contrast and saturation off all the way (especially on the fuji system where higher contrast is kind of baked in to the jpeg profiles too) which is something that the Sigma 50mm EX version with it's coatings seems to excel at in comparison...which is a really lovely trait and draws beautifully and is really nice and sharp when stopped down to f2 to 2.8 and beyond....!!!!! and focuses really well if you have a nice copy too....!!!!! But as with the Tamron 45mm is really annoyingly just too wide to give that slight telephoto look & composition when shooting really close up to give that added degree of versatility in composition when you need it....!!!!! The two Nikon G's do seem to be almost there in being both slightly tighter and having lovely coatings with the 1.8 having a lovely slightly brown tint reminiscent of the atmosphere of shooting with a really nice vintage manual focus lens or Nikon D lens and the 1.4G which just lets colours sing and bloom in a really special and almost supernatural way although both are slightly limited in that the 1.8 does not have quite a large enough aperture to produce significant Bokeh unless super close to the subject and the 1.4G is super soft wide open and really slow focusing.... which means that compared to Nikon at least a 50mm on a Fuji Body with or without Speed Booster is always an absolute delight to Shoot and very difficult to replicate on Full frame in any other way....!!!!! :)

33mmm f1.0 please--> I will buy

There are affordable diopters for that close focus problem.

I’m curious to know how does the sharpness compares to the 56mm f1.2 wide open. For me it’s the reference.

I’ll never see “The Tortoise and The Hare” the same way again.

Does this lens have character? In other videos, Chris mentions that lenses are very clinical nowadays. Does the combination of LoCA + bokeh + falloff make for some character? I’m wondering if the unique attributes actually inspire more creativity?

8:21 I'm seeing the word "UNIBROUE" in green colour shot with the 50mm f1; on the 56mm it's black. What's up with that?

Don’t forget the 50mm F2!

Fuji XF 16-35 F2 would be great!!

What Fuji needs to release are a 16-50 f2.0 and a 50-140 f2.0. I Love fuji and after 2y of research ended up with the Sony a7iii, primarily because of the lack of these versatile ff equivalent focal lengths and apertures. Because they do not have these the only way to get decent background separation is to carry around 4 or 5 primes, which completely negates the “compactness and portability of APS-C.

Your video sharpness is very nice.

Pour Jordan. He got 3 hickies I wonder is that was a side effect of the 1.0 bokeh.

Hi , Aquaman here, I was wondering how many fathoms deep can I shoot if I'm about a 1/4 cable away? Haha,,,, just kidding. Thanks to both of you for this entertaining and informative review.

I actually sometimes think that too much bokeh is kind of weird and it just doesn’t look right

How many fathoms is the minimum focusing distance and how many talents does it weigh?

I'm curious, do most people consider this lens for it's subject separation, or for it's low light capabilities? The latter seems to be far more interesting to me, but not many online previews seem to focus on it.

Sharpness is overated. Separation & uniqueness is just as important. Great video

You got the thumbs up for the first sentence lolololol

Lots of your comments seem to contrast lots of other unbiased reviews on youtube

Does anyone know something about manual focussing in comparison to the xf 56 1.2? I would like to reduce my lens-collection to only one lens per focal length that I can use for both, photo and video. Instead of owning the 56 for photo and a Zeiss Contax Planar 85 1.4 plus speedbooster for video.

If you're gonna shoot this at f2 or narrower, the 50mm f2 wr seems like a huge bargain. Saving in nocts and furlongs too.

Ouch that AF motor issue is a bit of a recurring theme with Fuji.

Anything but the metric system XD, loved the lens though!

I'm buying the Viltrox 56mm f1.4 instead.

Strangely I don't agree with this review. I found the 50mm f1 to be exceptionally sharp for an f1.0 lens. I had some problems with focusing, that's true, but I'd expect this lens to be used for portraits and possibly perpendicular movement shots, detail shots, street photography with some skill applied and a fairly capable low light beast. I'd like to see lenses as different tools with their own personalities. My ancient pentacon 50mm f1.8 has given me some amazing photos (soap bubbles Galore) but requires a lot of finesse to use perfectly. You have to spend a day or two to get used to the manual focus, but when you do you can get perfect shots off and still retain that beautiful character. The Fuji doesn't feel as heavy as it looks either.