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Zeiss 15/2.8 Distagon, Metabones 1.26x on GFX 100S

April 30, 2021 JimK 13 Comments

This is one in a series of posts on the Fujifilm GFX 100S. You should be able to find all the posts about that camera in the Category List on the right sidebar, below the Articles widget. There’s a drop-down menu there that you can use to get to all the posts in this series;… [Read More]

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Metabones NF-GFX 1.26x Expander won’t focus to infinity

April 30, 2021 JimK Leave a Comment

This is one in a series of posts on the Fujifilm GFX 100S. You should be able to find all the posts about that camera in the Category List on the right sidebar, below the Articles widget. There’s a drop-down menu there that you can use to get to all the posts in this series;… [Read More]

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Metabones 1.26x Expander on GFX 100 with Otus 55

March 21, 2020 JimK 7 Comments

Three or four weeks ago I received a Metabones 1.26x expander for Nikon F-mount lenses on Fujifilm G-mount cameras. This is an adapter with glass — and quite a bit of glass, at that — inside. It increases the focal length of any lens attached to it by a factor of 1.26, and expands the… [Read More]

a7RIV, GFX 100

Nikon 180-400/4 on GFX 50R in infrared

May 3, 2021 JimK 4 Comments

I’ve been looking for a 400 mm lens to use with my LifePixel-modified GFX 50R. The hot mirror replacement I chose passes light of longer wavelength than 720 nm. I’ve been impressed with the quality of the Nikon 180-400 mm f/4 for quite some time; it’s the best zoom I’ve ever used. I decided to… [Read More]

GFX 100, GFX 100S, GFX 50S

Still more on adapter tolerance

February 16, 2015 JimK 20 Comments

More than a year ago, I wrote a post on lens adapter tolerance, bemoaning the fact that all the adapters that I’d tested were too short. I followed that up with a post about how, at least in the case of Novoflex, this was on purpose. As I continued to purchase adapters from various manufacturers,… [Read More]

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