Fujifilm X-T3: Using vintage lenses and manual focusing options
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
- This video is aimed at those who want to mount vintage lenses on their Fujifilm X-T3 cameras for the first time. Richard shows how you can mount the lenses and the in-camera settings you will need to change. After that there is discussion on each of the manual focus assist features - how they work and how they can help.
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0:00 - Intro
0:47 - Mount Adapters
1:43 - 'Shoot Without Lens' Setting
2:29 - 'Mount Adapter' Setting
3:50 - No In-Camera Stabilisation/Shutter Speed Selection
4:47 - Magnified View
5:34 - Manual Focus Assist Settings
5:47 - Digital Split Image
6:35 - Digital MicroPrism
7:35 - Focus Peaking
9:41 - Outro and Thank you!
Photogearnews I'm considering buying a Nikon adapter for my Fuji. I want to know what is the best adapter - preferably smart - money can buy.
That 50mm is the exact lens that I'm trying to fit. Perfect.
Okay difficult question here. If I'm using a 50mm with a regular adapter for I set it to 50mm or the 35mm equivalent focal length? Then, if I'm using a focal reducer (zhongyi turbo II) what do I do? What focal length do I enter then? Thirdly, I'm using a Samyang 8mm but it's a fisheye, how do I get the correction profile for this lens since it's special?
Thanks for adding time stamp
Hi, thanks for the video. What was the first lens that you took off? It doesn't look like it came from Fujifilm. Thanks.
Very clear and helpful. Tells you everything you need to know to use your good old lenses on a Fujifilm mirrorless camera. I'm using Leica, Nikon, Voigtlander, Canon lenses on an X-T30, with excellent results.
very useful, I'm using X-T3 with Canon 50 mm f1.4 vintage lens, the results are very impressive in terms of of image quality. It is incredible how Fuji developed this tools for manual focus which make us easy to buy old and cheap lenses. Bravo
finally I found an ultimate guide about using manual lenses on xt3! Thank you so much!
This immediately helped me with a Helios on an XT4, did not know about the 'shoot without lens setting' and it would have taken AGES to figure out. Great video overall, high ratio of instruction to opinion. Nice one!
The best video on manual focus and focus peeking for fuji, thanks guys
Thanks. That was very helpful. I've been loading up on vintage Nikon cameras and lenses and it's great to be able to use the lenses on my X-T3. Never knew how to do it until today.
I use an X-T3 with a Summicron-c 40mm F2 lens and it's very fun!
Thanks for this. I was struggling to find how to magnify when using fully manual lenses. You have explained exactly what I need in a few minutes.
Can't wait to try some vintage lenses on my camera!
Omg! Thanks so much. I was stuck. I got a Meike lens with the camera and was trying to figure it out. I knew it was a quick setting, but couldn't find it. Thanks! Subbed for that.
This is what I was looking for to use my Xt2... thanks a lot for this video!
Very usefull and by far the most comprehensive video I"ve seen on the subject. And thanks for the index, you earned a loyal sub.
Thank you!! I finally had the answer I looking for so long!!! Good video!
Thanks for your tips I’m old canon auto focus addict and I’ve just switch to Fuji mirrorless so I’d like to dive in a manual lens world
Exactly what I was looking for! Thank you so much, this is very helpful!
Thanks a lot! I have just got two vintages lenses and I needed a video like this one!
This was very helpful, thank you!
super excited
Thanks for this video! I wasn't getting the magnified view when using manual lenses as it wasn't coming on like when turning the focus ring with lenses having electronic connectors. Managed to assign that function to pressing the rear dial now!
Thank you for your detailed information.
The X-TFree looks like a great camera!
People like me wouldn’t have been allowed on the BBC years ago
@@Photogearnews Excellent video, very well explained.
Innit? 😊 fanks for the video guv. I feel better now while waiting for my secondhand xt-20 and some radioactive asahi lenses to arrive! 🙏
Very nicely explained. Thank you for sharing.
Very good and informing video!
Great video, thanks!
Great video. Super helpful. 👍
Great video, very helpful thanks
Great video! I've learned something!
Very helpful, thank you!!
A big help thanks!
Very nice video and well explained. Do you know if you can move the position of the magnification window ?
OMG THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!!
Very helpful and informative 👍
Adding the lens information adds to the metadata but also programs the IBIS to accurately adjust for the focal distance of the lens. Pal2tech has a video on just this. Great video man now put another shrimp on the "Bobby".
The best manual lens bar none that I have used on the Fujifilm X Series cameras is the Zeiss 28mm F2 ZE lens, which gives you an equivalent of 42mm.
Thanks much for the broad topics coverage related to MF. I'm thinking of picking up an Xpro2/3 or XT4 as a second camera and use with Nikkor lenses I already own, and a 35mm 2.0 lens from Fuji.
Thank you very much! Very helpful!
Glad you found it useful!
Amazing tips! Could explain which are the best setups for shutters with vintage lenses?
I really enjoyed this, thank you. It was invaluable in setting up a third party manual focus lens on my XT30. The only issue I have is that I can't magnify the screen image by pressing the command dial as you do on your XT3. Is that something that isn't available on the 30, or have I failed to find something in the menu I need to change? Thank you.
Thanks very much!!!
Superb video
Amazing.
Thanks for this video. Can't seem to find how to assign the zoom option on any of the buttons. I know how to assign a button, but don't see this particular option. Thanks for the help.
Thanks a lot for sharing, save my life.
I like the effort Fuji put into this aspect of the camera, pretty sure there's lots of younger photographers bemused by the notion of manual focus:), I only say this because I was teaching recently and asked people using Sony's, Nikon's, Canon's etc what direction to turn their focussing if a model was walking towards them, (without looking at their cameras), suffice to say none had a clue, understandable really but it was fun to see.
Sony's, Nikon's, Canon's what?
Does the focus peaking work in video, while moving and is there a way to enable a colorless preview on the screen so I can see the peaking better?
👍Well done. Useful content, capably presented, without distracting hype - time index in description a plus. (Just subscribed.) Pentaprism and split image remind me of analog cams like the Pentax Spotmatic and K mounts - more accurate, I sense, than focus peaking in general. A comparison vid showing Fuji’s split image/pentaprism/peaking would be terrific - e.g., check of accuracy using same subject, gear and exposure settings.
Thanks Paul. Yep, I try and do the time code content as appreciate that people may just want information on one or two things, and I’d rather they found that information than stop watching.
I’ll have a think about a follow-up video with so thorough testing of different manual focus aides, maybe across different brands too
THANK YOU!!!
What was the brand and model of the adapter you used on the Nikkor 50/1.4? Thanks!
Very nice 👍👍 review
Just receiving an XM-1 body, and a separate lens yesterday. I'll be interested to see if it can do that closeup up focusing you displayed by using the magnified view. I haven't found it yet. Naturally, the batter is charging while I'm watching this...
Great vid. I have canon film slrs which I want to use with several Fd lenses. Is there an argument about investing more in Fd glass than x mount?
Beginner question. When using a manual vintage lens, my aperture reads as 0 and the metering isn’t very accurate. The exposure bar on the left is at 0 and the display is bright, but when I take a photo, it comes out very dark. Just wondering if I am missing a certain setting to have proper exposure.
Thank you! I thought something was broken because the shutter release would not shoot the picture!
I've got an X-T2 with an M42 adapter and I'm going to take my 40 year old Helios from my very first SLR (Zenit EM) and have some fun. I will be street shooting in black & white, so the red focus peaking will be my weapon of choice.
Can I ask, do you try to keep the aperture as wide as possible, or experiment with different settings?
Thanks for a brilliant video.
the question is:
are you able to choose/move the area of magnification?
for example for the first shot I wanna magnify the left top corner but for next shot I want to magnify the center.
Great video mate! I have a Super Takumar 50mm 1.4 with a focal reducer (speed booster). I set my manual lens selection to 35mm as the sensor sees a 35 mm after the .71 reduction factor gets applied to the 50mm. Sound right?
Digital split focus? Prism? Man, that takes me back to my Nikon fm2. I bought a focus screen similar to that. I find more and more new and interesting things while I research the xt3. Definitely going to buy this.
Do you have to set the lens zoom length everytime you change lenses?
Excellent! But ... how can I tell the camera what the aperture setting is? How do I determine a reasonable exposure?
Thanks
Great video tnx my helios works fine now
Thanks Lukas!
i'm super late on this video but i'm planning on buying a X-T3, coming from Canon... Will this work for video mode as well?
Okay difficult question here. If I'm using a 50mm with a regular adapter for I set it to 50mm or the 35mm equivalent focal length? Then, if I'm using a focal reducer (zhongyi turbo II) what do I do? What focal length do I enter then? Thirdly, I'm using a Samyang 8mm but it's a fisheye, how do I get the correction profile for this lens since it's special?
Can you share what’s the mount adapter that you are using? And I can’t wait for the video on mount adaptors. Looking for one for my Fuji Cam
They are both cheap one from Amazon. One is made by Beschoi and the other doesn’t have any branding on it
Good overview even for people using cameras other than the Fuji.
Thanks Rory! As you say, a lot of info is reasonably similar from brand to brand. Hopefully it should help a few people starting out 👍
@@Photogearnews I am using 7artisans lens with my xt-200. What I see in the viewfinder is very different from what it captures. Is there a setting to correct that. I literally see eveyrthing fine in the viewfinder/screen but when I click the photo, it turns out underexposed and sometimes even just black
Hi. Is it possible to confirm the sharpness with a sound signal or a green point as in AF-S in manual mode? Or only MF assist?
great video. are all the manual assist functions available on Fujifilm X-T2 as well?
okay the answer is yes.
Could we use burst mode when using manual lens? Im a noob and have xt20
With which camera have you shoot this video?
just looked at this instructive tutorial, but, upon trying to shoot without lens, no, it's stuck, any ideas to help me please? I have a lensbaby waiting since one year trying to use it without any sucess. I can't simply shoot :/ Thanks for an excellent video, Regards from Uruguay.
I hitted like, follow and shit even before the video was over. You can see a good video by looking at the care they put into the description
Whatt mount adapter settings do you need for a non-fuji zoom lens? Let's say 24-105mm?
Hi! I want to thank you for your video and your how-know. I have a question. I am using a FUJIFILM XT-1 with Canon FD lenses, and I have a problem with the meters scale. The scale does not work, because, if I set de focus ring in 1 meter, the focus plane is not to 1 meter of the camera, so I can not pre-focus using meters scale, for example for street photography. Is this a problem with the adapter, or with the camera? or is this normal and something with no solution?. Thank you so much.
I have a vintage Hellios 58mm lens : do I need to manually set it up on the focal menu as 58mm or do the math with the 1,5 crop factor = 87mm '(eq. FF) ? thank you!
helpfull to know
I have fringer nf-fx on my fuji xh2s but when I use Samyang 8mm fish eye, the camera displays wrong f stops. I can go down to f/1.4 even though the lens is 3.5. Is there any way to correct that?
Do all those MF assist modes work whilst recording video?
Unfortunately it seems not possible to tell the camera which Aperture I’ve chosen on my vintage lense. The display always shows „f0“ and correspondingly the focal area indicator does not work. I really would like to get this aperture information into the EXIF data.
Any idea?
Great tip to set cam to B&W and then use focus peaking - should work w/shooting raw (to keep colors and accurate manual focus via peaking), but viewing in B&W. Correct?
Yup... raw will still be raw so full colour information
Does it provide monochrome EVF like GH5?
The camera has now gone back, but from memory, no.
Photogearnews I would surmise that when cam is set to B&W the evf would also show B&W - after all, the evf and lcd are showing a jpg preview embedded image when shooting in raw. If not showing B&W in evf it would defeat the focus peaking on B&W advantage. FYI, for my Sony this technique works just fine and when importing the raw in LR the software previews in B&W (JPG) but shows color image in the Develope module.
Yes, when you shoot in B&W it shows in the EVF. There is no option to switch the view to b&w when still shooting in colour (unless I missed something).
Lightroom reads the embedded JPEG preview until another preview is created, which is why you will see the black and white image in the library/import module at first
This might be a stupid question but do bear with me, does putting an M mount lens on the xt3 via adaptor affect the accuracy of the focal scale on the lens?
I am new to Fujifilm but the XT3 will be my first Fujifilm camera I currently shoot with Canon and was wondering if you know of a reliable adapter so I could use my Canon lens. By the way subscribing and I love the video very knowledgeable straightforward and you had just made me more excited to purchase this camera. Hope to hear from you thank you.
That’s great Stan! Thank you for the kind words and support!
There are adapters available - quite a few if you do a quick Google. Some will even autofocus the lens. However, I would not expect autofocus to be anywhere near the same speed as a native lens on either system: Canon lenses won’t be as fast as when used on a Canon camera and they certainly won’t be as fast as using a Fujinon lens on an X series camera.
I’ll caveat that by saying I haven’t used a Canon - Fujifilm X adapter, but just go on experience of such adapters on Sony cameras. They will work but don’t expect the performance to be the same.
I hope that helps, sort of!
We hope to do some more with the X-T3 in the coming year so keep a look out for those videos!
Good Luck!
Cheap Chinese adapters work great and there dirt cheap. EBAY, Amazon. I have Nikon, Pentax and Nikon adapters for use with vintage great IQ cheap all manual lenses.
Hi,
When you use the « input focal length », do you put the real reference or the equivalence after doing the x1.5 ?
Real reference
Thank you.
For todays' very high resolution APSC non stabilized sensors is *safer* using minimum speed ~ 1/(3*FL) for handheld shots. Ex. 85mm S=1/250. Fullframe safer rule: S=1/(2*FL). That rule 1/FL is from film days (low res)!
What adapter did you use? ie K & F Concepts, Urth etc.
I have a Super-Takumar 1.8/ 55 lens used for my Pentax Spotmatic. Will it still med a 55 lens or will I have to translate this in some way? I use it on my X-T3.
Thanks for the video.
I shoot mainly with vintage lenses (mostly Fuji) with an X-E1.
I've been thinking about getting another more modern fuji body, as the X-E1 only has white peaking and I sometimes struggle to focus with this.
I think the yellow and red would be much better, especially the red with black and white.
The question I have is, which body to go for?
Something hardly anybody seems to talk about in the reviews of the X-T3 (and I've watched loads!) is how much better ithe EVF is when compared to the lower resolution one, when it comes to using vintage lenses?
Is it worth getting an X-T3 over previous models for the higher resolution viewfinder or not?
Thanks for any opinions on this.
That’s interesting and something actually I hadn’t considered. My assumption is that it would be easier to focus with the higher resolution, right? But given that in relative terms the area that you are looking at is roughly the same size (in terms of EVF display) I wonder if I’m real terms there is anything in it? Perhaps just a shade more finesse?
I’ve got an X-E3 here so will try and take 20 manually focussed shots on each and get back to you with where I had the highest success rate 👍
@@Photogearnews Cheers, I'd really appreciate that! Although I'd love to get the X-T3 (and all it's great features), it's a big chunk of cash. In terms of colour peaking, I suppose there are much cheaper options (possibly second hand) in the Fuji range.
I’ve selected the prism and the digital split image but they don’t seem to be appearing on the screen - is there something you need to do?
THANK YOU very much :))) (2:21)
Great video, but i don't understand... Having a vintage lense : it mean you are doing the focus with the lens. So what mf assit do ? Wasn't it better to turn off and be sure we focus on the lens ? Thanks
Does the xt30 have all the focus options?
it probably does
i don't own any mirrorless, does the fuji allow aperture priority settings while using vintage lenses?
Yep
@@Photogearnews thanks a lot.
does the xt-30 have the same options?
yes
If you using vintage lenses can you use auto shutter speed or auto expose?
You can use auto shutter-speed and/or auto ISO.
I can't get focus peaking work with my M42 lens, although it's turned on. Any ideas? :(
As @Ernest McCreight
said; try to make sure your focus setting is on manual. Focus peaking won´t work if set to single or continuous :)
hm... focus assist with prisms and peaks is not working when I'm attaching an old lens. Only the one which magnifies the image for better focusing. my firmware is 1.0.
Can I use aperture priority mode with a vintage lens so the xT2 gives me the shutter speed?
Yes
F stop will be shown in the camera as f00 as there are electronic contacts aperture is not know.
Can wrk only manually.
First... before all the ‘dust on your lens!’ comments
Yes that stressed me out the way he stood the lens up like that 😭
I need some help here.. Just bought a old lenses to my xt20. It's a Rmc tokina 28mm. I think the configuration is ok but it doesn't shoot. Can u help me? Thanks!
Problem solved!
Shoot without lens?
in mount adapter settings the display is limited to 6 focal lengths , i'm guessing i'm limited to those 6 focal lengths , also how does focusing system factor in dimensions of different mounts , or does that not matter ? i'm obviously confused how the camera can factor mount dimensions into manual focusing , thank you
You can change the focal lengths in the adapter settings to whatever you want. It saves 6 different settings.
The setting is literally just a numerical value in the X-T3. As explained in the video it simply adds that focal length to the EXIF data.
If you use the Fujifilm Leica M mount to X Mount adapter there are additional lens correction settings that can be adjusted and save for a particular focal length. For example if you added a 50mm Leica lens you can select your 50mm lens from the mount adapter settings and then all of the lens correction settings you have previously selected will be applied to JPEG images. Switch to a 35mm lens and select the 35mm option in the mount adapter settings and any lens corrections you have selected for that lens will be remembered and applied.
The dimensions of the mounts themselves doesn’t matter at all. A 35mm/full frame lens is designed to create an image that will cover that area. As the Fujifilm cameras have a smaller sensor, the image circle created by the 35mm/Full frame lenses easily covers this.
None of this has any physical effect on manual focusing or the cameras ability to manual focus.
The mount adapter setting is simply to record the lens focal length in the metadata.
@@Photogearnews Hi so if I'm understanding correctly, adapter setting won't affect the accuracy of focus peaking even if I left it at default? Thank you.
Which camera did you shoot this video on?
Sony A7 III
I'm using an old but good Canon 50 mm lens on my Fuji xt20. I noticed that I am unable to change the aperture. Although I move the aperture ring it always shows aperture at zero. I wonder what I am doing wrong? Does anybody have a suggestion.
There is no electronic communication between the lens and the camera. As a result the camera doesn’t know what aperture the lens is set to and just shows it as ‘0’. You should still be able to use aperture priority mode as all the camera is doing is just the light coming in then it will adjust the shutter speed accordingly.
@@Photogearnews thank you for your kind reply
My EVF doesn't work on XT3, I have only FD manual lens and LCD shows image but viewfinder is totally black. Please help me