There are two important aspects to bokeh. It seems most people, when they hear the word, think immediately of the look of parts of the scene that are for out of focus. That’s a good thing to think about when buying, selecting, or using a lens, but the, ahem, focus, of today’s post is going… [Read More]

In a previous post, I tested the field  curvature of the Fuji 35-70 GF using Roger Cicala’s quick and dirty method. A reader said he was having difficulty with what appeared to be field curvature in the corners. That gave me an idea for a modifications of Roger’s test. I rolled the camera so that… [Read More]

I finally got around to doing some quantitative tests on the Fuji 35-70 GF. This is the first of several posts with the results of those tests. Here’s the test protocol: RRS carbon fiber legs C1 head 35, 45, and 70 mm focal length Target distance as per the table below ISO 100 Electronic shutter… [Read More]

  In the previous post, I compared the Fuji 35-70 GF against the 32-64 GF using foliage as the subject. I looked at the center of the images there; now I’ll look at the corner performance. I set up the GFX 100S as follows: RRS 4-series Versa legs Arca-Swiss C1 2-second self timer ES ISO… [Read More]

  I set up on one of my usual foliage test scenes, shown here with the 35-70 at 35 mm wide open.   I set up the GFX 100S as follows: RRS 4-series Versa legs Arca-Swiss C1 2-second self timer ES ISO 100 AF-S for three shots, picking the best sharpness in post; this calibrates… [Read More]