#Rolleiflex 2.8 wiki series#
Haoge offers two designs depending on your camera and personal preference while RJ Cameras has a vented design where one of the three vents looks like it will coincide with X-Pro series cameras’ optical viewfinder, reducing occlusion in the OVF’s lower righthand corner. I did a quick search for third-party lens hoods for the Fujinon XF 14mm f/2.8 R at ebay and and came up with two by Haoge and one by RJ Cameras. It’s good to see Fujifilm releasing optional rectangular metal lens hoods in recent years and third party accessories makers are also coming to the party with clones or their own alternative designs. Most lens makers provide plastic petal lens hoods with their lenses but they tend to jut into the optical viewfinder of cameras like Fujifilm’s X-Pro series and are not particularly protective against hard knocks. In any of those applications I recommend protecting the front element of your lenses with an aluminium lens hood that bayonets or screws onto the front of the lens or onto a UV or protective filter.įor protective filters I recommend Breakthrough Photography’s knurled brass traction-frame X4 UV filters as I often need to quickly and easily unscrew them to replace with fixed or variable neutral density filters for video.įujifilm’s Protector Filters are also a good choice if you don’t want UV filtration. A better lens hood & other protection Optical Viewfinder of Fujifilm X-Pro1 with Fujinon XF 14mm f/2.8 R attached. The 18mm is great when one can step back a little while the 14mm is perfect for when one is right in the middle of it all and can’t move an inch in any direction. Instead, I’d rather use a 21mm-equivalent lens for events like this, where I only had an XF 16mm, or a 28mm-equivalent XF 18mm lens for events like this (some images were also made with an 84mm-equivalent Fujinon XF 56mm f/1.2 R). I have documented a few protest rallies entirely with the Fujinon XF 16mm f/2.8 R WR “Fujicron” lens to try and understand the appeal of the 24mm focal length but it continues to feel like neither fish nor fowl to me, not wide enough for some things and too wide for others. Oddly enough, the most popular wide-angle focal length I have encountered amongst contemporary street photographers is 24mm in the 35mm sensor format, equivalent to 16mm in APS-C or 12mm in Micro Four Thirds. Super wide-angle and medium wide-angle lenses are well-suited for immersive documentary photography and photojournalism, and some street photographers have also adopted them such as Julia Coddington of Unexposed Collective who pairs up a Fujinon XF 14mm f/2.8 R with a Fujinon XF 18mm f/2.0 R for graphic and highly-saturated colour street photography. Accessories for the Fujinon XF 14mm f/2.8 R I have yet to try out the XF 10-24mm f/4.0 in its new aperture ring-equipped weather-resistant incarnation. It also worked brilliantly for immersive, extreme close-up documentary photography covering events like the International Women’s Day March at Hyde Park in Sydney on March 9, 2019.
I found the 8-16mm’s “box of primes” optical quality incredibly useful for architectural photography when I had to stand right up close to the subject yet depict all of the building’s facade without distortion. I am not dismissing Fujifilm’s current wide-angle zoom lenses, the amazing Fujinon XF 8-16mm f/2.8 R LM WR and the recently-released Fujinon XF 10-24mm f/4.0 R OIS WR as both provide wider focal lengths than the XF 14mm f/2.8 R. Image courtesy of Fujifilm.įujifilm Australia product expert Warwick Williams shared at an event that Fujifilm’s lens designers had been inspired by Leica’s Elmarit-M 21mm f/2.8 Aspheric prime lens for Leica M-Series rangefinder cameras and, if the results I achieved during some all-too-short tryouts of the amazing Fujinon XF 14mm f/2.8 R are anything to go by, they have come awfully close to that role model. Fujinon XF 14mm f/2.8 R, optical diagram.