Surprisingly everyone that ventured a guess on the site, in person and on Youtube, did so correctly. The Brielle Murch video is indeed the one filmed with a Leica 50mm f/1.4 Summilux M ASPH. Surprisingly, no one mentioned the different exposure as being the primary reason for picking one video over the other. Youtube introduced more compression than I expected, and it greatly diminished the differences between these two lenses, yet the “Leica Look” shined through. I considered presenting screen captures for comparison so that you can see the small differences between these lenses, but after going through several hundred frames of each video I really can’t pick which would be the best/most fair/most accurate. Generally the Summilux looks better, but sometimes the Fujifilm XF 56mm f/1.2 R has an edge.

To me the biggest advantage of all between these lenses comes from handling. The Summilux manually focuses on the X-Pro2 very well, through the EVF or on the LCD, which makes the focus by wire nature of the XF56 very noticeable and off-putting. The Summilux has a level of sharpness to it through the EVF and LCD that the XF56 does not, which makes achieving critical focus significantly easier and faster. While I didn’t change the focal point in these videos, I imagine tracking a subject manually with the XF56 would be futile, because the image looks very flat when it is in focus or close to in focus.

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