The thought of using a medium format digital camera on location, without strobes, for an event during the day and night, with moving subjects seems like an absolute disaster waiting to happen. Alternatively, the high quality photos produced by the Fuji GFX 50s is extremely appealing. Read More
When full frame mirrorless digital cameras started being manufactured a few years ago, it breathed new life into a vast amount of vintage film camera lenses. This was expanded when Fuji released the affordable GFX 50s medium format mirrorless camera. There are many pros and cons to using vintage lenses on modern digital cameras which I won’t go into here, but a separate post on that topic is coming.
One of these vintage lenses is the Carl Zeiss Jena DDR Sonnor 180mm f2.8. The lens I tested has the Pentacon Six mount. It is the most modern version of the lens, therefore it has multi coating. The older versions only had a single layer or no coating. This lens is considered by many to be the crown jewel of Pentacon 6 Carl Zeiss lenses and an amazing portrait lens.
Lets start with the obvious here. The Flashpoint R2 eVOLV 200 is a variance of the Godox ad200 and is sold at Adorama in the US. This system appears to check all the boxes a photographer would want in a flash system. It is small, portable, and at 200 watts of power brighter than a modern speed light at about the same size. There are a stable full of accessories and gadgets that make the flash even more attractive.
Given that this system also has a transmitter for most of the major camera brands adds to the excitement. I shoot medium format and full frame cameras from different manufactures. Being able to use the same lighting system by just changing out the transmitter is a huge plus of not needing to buy portable speed lights for both systems. The eVOLV 200 also has High Speed Sync (HSS) as icing on the cake.
Now that we’ve gotten all excited about the possibilities, let’s see how it performed the first time out.
The new rise of mirrorless cameras has allowed many of us to dust off old vintage film camera lenses to use with modern digital cameras. Until recently we were limited to full frame digital mirrorless camera bodies, but that all changed when Fuji released the medium format digital mirrorless camera in 2017. This is very exciting because there is a whole untapped genre of vintage medium format lenses out there to potentially use. There are many pros and cons to using vintage lenses which I won’t go into here, but a separate post on that topic is coming.Read More
I recently had the luxury of unboxing the new Fuji GF 120 f4 lens for the GFX 50s from Fuji. So far this lens does not disappoint in any way. For anyone that is researching this lens or camera here is what you get in the box when the lens arrives.Read More
I recently had the luxury of unboxing the new Fuji GF 32-64mm f4 lens for the GFX 50s from Fuji. So far this lens does not disappoint in any way. For anyone that is researching this lens or camera here is what you get in the box when the lens arrives.Read More
I recently had the luxury of unboxing the new Fuji GFX 50s. So far this camera does not disappoint in any way. For anyone that is researching this camera here is what you get in the box when it arrives.Read More