"The New Standard" FujiFilm GF55mm f/1.7 R WR Field Test and Full Review I Jason Halayko Photography 

I really liked your report. Thank you! I have never used a Fujifilm product, but this release is causing me to think hard about buying into the system. It has many areas of interest for what I'd like to use it for. Firstly, I want something that is well built, really solid. Considering that I am using the Hasselblad 503cx (film), with Carl Zeiss Hasselblad lenses, I want a similar "feel" to the build of this camera. Secondly, I want something that is "big" on imagine quality, but still shoots video. I want the camera to be my primary tool for both. It appears, from the press release, your review and the initial video from Gordon at Camera Labs, that it'll be able to deliver what I want from a system. I will go into my local store, to hold and play with one first, but since I have been holding out for a system like this, I'll start my orders with the GF55mm /f1. 7. I like that GF110mm tiltshift macro lens as well. But, first things first, the visit to my local shop, followed by the GF55mm

Thanks for the video. Just noticed, focal distance does not bring more or less Bokeh. It makes DoF more narrow from the same perspective. Bokeh is not an amount of blur and not the measure of DoF, it’s describes the beauty of rendering of out of the focus areas. So you can have beautiful Bokeh with some 200/5.6 and some ugly with 50/1.8 etc. So yeah nose Bokeh does not literally exist neither on f/0,95 nor on f/32 it’s just a nose in focus plane or out of it ))

I have the 80 1.7 and would love to buy the 55 1.7 BUT I found my 80 had a harder time picking up focus vs my 110 2.0 on my GFX100S. Did you find the DC motor in the 55 any better than the DC motor of the 80 in the ability to catch focus. Sometimes I would not even take my 80 to an event or wedding because of this draw back and I don't want to buy another expensive lens that has the same tendency... Thanks

thx for the visualization of your experience.... I would have preferred a more structured way of presentation;-). BUT: I also tested the 55 1.7 at my local store in Berlin - and compared to the 80 mm, which is in full frame about 62 mm - not so far away from 45 mm: but it produces a much more portrait-like rendering. And in most of you practical cases there was a bit more space behind you... the main argument for the 55 mm could be the faster AF, but if your are not doing sports for animals, for normal people the accuracy of focusing is more important. AND: the second issue - why not a fast 45 mm 1.7 - that would have been a real groundbreaking approach to journalistic photography... but now we habe 45 2.8, 50 3.5, 55 1.7, 63 2.8 , and 80 1.7 ???

Do you still see utility with the GF 50mm 3.5 alongside the new 55mm?

Hey, thank you! What about the responsiveness when manual focusing??

My friend, if we're talking about a 100MP camera, maybe we want to upload a 4k video.