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Fujifilm 30 mm f/5.6 GF tilt/shift lens summary part 3

November 28, 2024 JimK 4 Comments

This will be the last summary post in my review of the Fujifilm 30mm f/5.6 GF tilt/shift lens. It’s not about the lens in particular, but about how to handle tilt and focusing when using the GFX cameras with any tilt/shift lens. Examine the scene and decide where you want to place the focal plane…. [Read More]

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Fujifilm 30 mm f/5.6 GF tilt/shift lens summary part 2

November 28, 2024 JimK Leave a Comment

In the previous post, I talked mostly about the mechanical operation of the Fujifilm 30 mm f/5.6 GF tilt/shift lens. In this one, I will summarize the optical performance. Light falloff The GF 30/5.6 T/S lens has a very large image circle for such a short focal length. This almost always comes with significant light… [Read More]

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Fujifilm 30 mm f/5.6 GF tilt/shift lens summary part 1

November 27, 2024 JimK 1 Comment

I’ve had a Fujifilm 30 mm f/5.6 GF tilt/shift lens on loan from LensRentals for about three weeks, and I’ve done the basic testing. I had hoped to get some time using the way the lens was intended, but testing this complex lens turned out to take all the time I’d allotted to the task. … [Read More]

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Fujifilm 30mm f/5.6 T/S lens — sharpness, shift vs post, extreme right

November 23, 2024 JimK Leave a Comment

Lensrentals has loaned me a Fujifilm 30mm f/5.6 GF tilt/shift lens. I’m getting ready to send it back, and I asked on DPR if there were any tests that anybody wanted me to run. One reader asked that I compare the sharpness of shifted images vs ones that applied the same sort of corrections in… [Read More]

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On shift, pitch, yaw, and sharpness

November 21, 2024 JimK Leave a Comment

Earlier, I posted some examples of images made in two ways: Using the shift function of the GF 30/5.6 T/S lens with the sensor parallel to the target. Using no shifting, yawing the camera to put the target in the same place in the image, and using Photoshop in postproduction to make it seem as… [Read More]

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