Dustin Abbot published his Fujinon GF55mm f/1.7 lens review. You can watch the full review above or you can check out the key points below:
- Great Focal length with amazing optics and good autofocus
- 44mm equivalent focal length
- Great walk around lens that most people will leave on the camera
- Clicked aperture that is in 1/3rd stops
- Weather-sealed like all other GF lenses it also has a fluorine coating on the front
- Almost identical to the 80mm f/1.7
- About 15g lighter than the 80mm at 780g
- 77mm front filter threads
- Should have declicked the aperture for the GFX100II video features
- Big manual focus ring that moves nicely
- Included lens hood is pretty nice with a locking mechanism
- 11-bladed aperture that provides better bokeh as you stop down compared to Fujifilm’s usual 9 blades
- Improved over the 80mm you can focus down to 50cm or 1.6 feet with a 1.7x magnification
- DC focus motors instead of linear ones which is disappointing
- It seems Fujifilm has problems using linear motors with their large aperture lenses
- This makes autofocus loud and scratchy sounding which limits the lenses used for video
- AF is really good
- Fujifilm’s AF system is still having trouble focusing on the eye over the eyelashes
- AF isn’t fast enough for animals, but it is decent for things like shooting layups which gave about an 80% hit rate
- AF was good in low light even at 12,800
- Video AF is a bit rough with some pulsing
- Autofocus has room for improvement but it is better than the 80mm
- Many of the strengths of the 80mm f/1.7 with fewer weaknesses
- Mild barrel distortion with vignetting that requires 3 stops of correction to completely remove, but there is no LoCA and no color fringing
- Extremely sharp and high contrast even wide open in the center with strong detail into the corners especially compared to the 80mm f/1.7
- If you stop down to f/2 there is very little improvement same with f/2.8 and f/4
- Image quality peaks at f/5.6 and diffraction ruins the image by f/22
- Beautiful colors that are not over-saturated but still manage to be rich
- Great transition between in-focus and out-of-focus at all distances
- Some chroma smearing toward the corners if you shoot something like Astro
- This is the best lens Fujifilm makes
- Expensive but no more expensive than good full frame glass
Fujinon GF55mm f/1.7
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