SFU with Fujifilm XF 14mm f/2.8 R
February 10th
This is my first real daytime shoot with the new Fujifilm XF 14mm f/2.8 R on my X-E1, at least one where I've spent more than just a few minutes on my lunch break at work. I parked at Burnaby Mtn. Park on an absolutely gorgeous Sunday afternoon and hiked over to Simon Fraser University and then wandered around the campus for three hours, shooting with the new lens.
I had already been impressed with the night shots I had gotten with the 14mm previously, and now? In a word… wow. Once again. None of these images have had any distortion correction applied and I find it amazing how cleanly straight lines are rendered. Not quite perfect, but as close to it as I've ever seen any ultra-wide lens come. A few images did have dramatic perspective corrections made in Lightroom though - the 14mm is not a tilt-shift after all. This lens is amazing to use for architectural work with its corner-to-corner sharpness, lack of distortion and minimal wide-angle "corner stretching" - just look at frame 17 for example, to see how well the tiles are rendered into the corners. Microcontrast is excellent as well and autofocus accuracy proved essentially flawless, although with so much depth-of-field, that isn't too surprising I suppose.
The X-E1 showed its capabilities once again by displaying suberb dynamic range. With the accurate EVF in aperture-priority mode, I generally found I could nail a difficult exposure with the first attempt too. The amount of shadow and highlight detail one can recover from a single raw file means I almost never ran out of dynamic range, even on images that were intentionally underexposed to preserve bright highlight tonality. Lastly, I have to say that the new 14mm is so good, it's practically worth buying an X-E1 body just to make use of this one lens!
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