Off-axis contrast of Fuji 45-100/4 on GFX 100s

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; just look for “GFX 100S”. Since it’s more about the lenses than the camera, I’m also tagging it with the other Fuji GFX tags.

In a previous post, I looked at the off-axis MTF50 and microcontrast of the Fuji 32-64 mm f/4 GF zoom. In this post, I’ll do the same for the 45-100 mm f/4 GF lens.

Here’s the test protocol:

RRS carbon fiber legs
C1 head
45, 60, and 100 mm focal length
Target distance as per the table below
ISO 100
Electronic shutter
10-second self timer
f/4 through f/11 in whole-stop steps
Exposure time set by camera in A mode
Focus bracketing, step size 1, 120 to 60 exposures
Initial focus well short of target
Convert RAF to DNG using Adobe DNG Converter
Extract raw mosaics with dcraw
Extract slanted edge for each raw plane in a Matlab program the Jack Hogan originally wrote, and that I’ve been modifying for years.
Analyze the slanted edges and produce MTF curves using MTF Mapper (great program; thanks, Frans)
Fit curves to the MTF Mapper MTF50 values in Matlab
Correct for systematic GFX focus bracketing inconsistencies
Analyze and graph in Matlab

MTF50 results for the three focal lengths tested:

On the lens axis, and for radial edges, the 45-100 tends to follow the rule of mid-focal-range zooms: the shorter fcal lengths are the best ones. But for tangential edges, the 45-100 is best at 60 mm.

How the zoom compares to the three GF primes closest to the tested focal length: