The 35mm on an APS-c sensor is about 53mm in 35mm equivalent, so it is the good old fifty focal length. I kinda broke my 35mm lens hood opening bottles of cider with it.
As you can tell I use my XF18mm metal lens hood on my 35mm. The XF18mm hood is better anyway, as it is smaller.įrom a recent gig with Danish band Spleen United. I once used my original XF35mm F1.4 hood to open bottles of cider which worked great, but left some major dents. I am btw using my XF18mm metal hood on my XF35mm F1.4 – they are interchangeable. That is why I love shallow DOF in messy concert environments, directing your attention to where I want it! I do not really need sharp pictures, I just need to control where the sharpest part is because that is where your eye is going to go. I do not care, it is worth it for those moments when I do hit the focus where I want it. But I shoot almost everything else at F1.4 because I just love that look, even if it means in action filled music gigs I do miss the focus a bit at times. It shoots at F1.4! Ok, you can stop it down if you like, but why would you! Not entirely true, I do at times stop down to get sun bursts and flares. I love this, I hope I never completely break this lens as then I need to break in a new one! The XF35mm F1.4 is a pretty tough lens, I have brought mine around the world many times, banged it around a lot of gigs, I once dropped an X-T2 with the XF35mm F1.4 mounted on it straight onto concrete at Roskilde Festival and it landed right on the metal lens hood – both camera and lens worked fine! The images still have plenty of detail but it flares and the highlights bloom and lots of imperfections creep into the images.
All of this adds a unique character, look and feel to the images from my F1.4. My old F1.4 model has plenty of soul now, it is worn, battered, flares, the focus ring sticks at times in warm environments and if you look through my F1.4 against the light it is just filled with dust and crap inside the lens. So why do I still use the old F1.4 version? Apart from the obvious advantage – it is F1.4 – for a lowlight concert photographer, the images from the F1.4 have a certain look and feel to them. Perfection is boring, and as this lens just gets more imperfect with use, in my mind it gets better with age! The XF35mm F2 lens has much faster autofocus, it is weather sealed and in many ways an improvement technically. I use the 35mm F1.4 as a combo with my very favourite glass – the XF16mm F1.4 – and make more than 80% of all my pictures with this combination. I am still using that same XF35mm F1.4 lens! It is not exactly in pristine condition now, but I believe it just gets better with age! I have shot hundreds of thousands of pictures with this lens now. You can see my blog post about the X-Pro1 and 35mm here, featuring a brand new pristine X-Pro1 with a 35mm F1.4, so pristine it even has that rubber cap on it! Way back in May 2012 I purchased a Fujifilm X-Pro1 camera with the XF18mm F2 and the XF35mm F1.4 lens. My good old battered XF35mm F1.4 lens from 2012 – mounted on a lovely silver X-T3.
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