I found this channel when I was watching reviews of the Fuji X-T50 before I bought it, so glad I did. I'm really happy you're making more content about this camera because I absolutely love mine so far. Keep up the great work bro!!
I also have this lens and what made it way easier for me was to have the focus zoom in automatically whenever you turn the focus tab. You can then override that by half-pressing the shutter. It makes it way faster than manually activating the focus zoom. You can either focus and then half-press to check the composition or you keep focusing while half-pressing and that lets you adjust focus while not being zoomed in anymore. Highly recommend that. Also, using the EVF is way better to see the focus assists. I have an X-S20 so we should have the same screen and EVF if I'm not mistaken.
Gotta give props to you on this. Most tend to concentrate solely on the specs and technical details of the lens, often overlooking or deliberately omitting the actual experience of using it. Cheers!
Personally I like manual focus on the X-T5. I usually use the viewfinder setting where it shows two images, one large view and one small that shows a 100% crop on the focus point with focus peaking. That way I get focus but I can also see the composition without red lines all over it. Not sure how it'd look on an X-T50 though. The ttartisan 35mm f1.4 is a really fun manual focus lens too. Super cheap, and supposedly not amazing optical quality but I've gotten wonderful results from it.
Ah, good to know! I'll see if the X-T50 has that feature. Admittedly, I don't use the EVF as much as I should 😅. I'll also have to check out the TTArtisan 35mm too.
Used to use a 35mm Voigtlander pancake lens on a Voigtlander Bessa R body (film) and it's the most fun I ever had with a camera. That had a lot to do with the quality of the lens. I couldn't miss with that thing. I'm now looking for the closest tying to that lens, paired with a digital body, like the XT50, as a way to get me back into proper photography. This could be it!
I find manual focus to be a very satisfying way to do photography, but it does take practice so that you can be faster and more accurate. I’ve tried all the focusing aids with this lens , and for me the best one is turning on Focus Check in the menu. This automatically zooms in on the focus point when you turn the focus ring. A quick half press on the shutter zooms out to your normal view. I leave the focus point in the center and relatively small to get the critical part in focus and then recompose the scene to include what I want. I think of it as quasi rangefinder style shooting. If you stop down to F8 and set a distance you’ll likely want to have in focus, it’s basically point and shoot that’s faster than any autofocus, if you want everything in the frame to be in relative focus.
I have both this same lens and the same goal as you. I pair it with my Fuji X-T5. I’d love this to be my everyday carry setup when I want to travel light. I started photography when I was growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, and my setup was fully manual back then. So in theory, I should be great at manual focus. But I’ve gotten soft and overreliant on autofocus. 😊 So I’m slower than I should be right now, but hoping to improve. I’ve landed on using focus assist, so the camera punches in as soon as you touch the focusing tab. For a while, I tried the prism focus feature, but in the end I decided that just punching in with focus assist is quickest for me. Good luck in your journey with this lens. I think if we both keep at it, it’ll get much faster for us. One thing that’s good is that for this Voigtlander lens, infinity is true infinity. So if you’re taking a photo of something off in the distance, you can preset the focus ring to infinity and you’re good to go. I’m finding I’m quickest for standard distances if I generally preset it to infinity and then dial in the focus from there. The throw of the focus ring is quite short, which has pros and cons. My feeling is once you get used to it, plus use focus assist, and do some pre focusing, you can get focus dialed in pretty fast. Just keep practicing! That’s what I’m doing!
Found this vid after reading a comment on your initial xt50 review suggesting you share your experience with the voitglander lens with this camera. Earned a sub from me, really cool to see you're listening to your viewers like that.
Thank you 🙏🏿 I try my best. Even if I don't make a dedicated video, I will still try to work in things I've read in the comments into my general videos.
Love your work man, keep it up! It's been super insightful to hear about the XT50. I'm definitely going to pull the trigger and get one. Currently using the XF10 but I've been in the market for a little hybrid camera for a bit of video as well.
Thank you! I haven't used video much on the X-T50, but from what I've seen so far the quality is outstanding. I definitely think you'd be happy coming from the XF10
Nice vid. I have both 27mm lenses. The Voigtlander is definitely better, and, of course, one stop faster. For people shots, I prefer AF lenses and thus the Fuji, though. For still subjects, the VL is great. Also, the VL produces great sunstars starting at f/3.2, which for me, perhaps weirdly, is a bonus.
Very nice that you share your experience, I love it thanks! I'm surprise to see that you don't seem to use the view finder but why not. So you have the Voiglander 27mm (and the X-T5 also) it would be great if you could tell us more about this lens 😍 What's the image quality, the bohkey, especialy that you seem to have another 27mm lens to compare with.
Really appreciate this video and giving manual focus details. Definitely think you should continue developing the manual focus skill! Have you tried any of the other voightlander lenses for fujifilm?
Thank you! I'll definitely keep at it. I haven't used any of the other Voigtlander lenses, but I do have another manual lens from a different brand that I'm testing
Thanks for the video. I'm debating on the Fuji 27mm or the Voigtlander. I shot film for years with manual everything, so manual focus doesn't put me off. I find that a lot of the time the AF doesn't focus on what I want anyway, and getting it right is slower than just a good manual focus lens. However, and this is the big one, I'm shooting with an X-T30. My concern is that the EVF isn't good enough for 100% manual focusing. Any thoughts? FYI - my plan for the lens is so I can carry my camera a lot more. Also, If I go on budget airlines with only a carry on, I want the smallest and lightest camera gear, so I'd take the body + one pancake lens. I shoot mainly street, travel and family photos.
Yeah, Voigtlander is definitely a good choice if you primarily do manual focusing. I've never used the X-T30, but even in using the X-T50's LCD I there were tricks I used to acquire focus like pressing the back wheel in to punch in on the subject for focusing. I also tried zone focusing and stopping down a little (which is great for bright days anyway).
in my experience, the main advantage of the focus tab is to enable muscle memory for certain focus distances. knowing which tab position corresponds to which distance lets you prefocus without raising the camera to your eye and makes the entire shooting process significantly faster. however, if you're shooting at wide apertures and need critical focus, you're always going to want to use an enlarged view, ideally the hybrid view where you can have both the enlarged focus area and the full frame in view simultaneously.
love downtown O'side! I have the same difficulty with manual focus on fuji. My x-e2 and x-s10 don't have enough resolution in the EVF. My x-h2 has enough resolution but it's big and the focus peaking stays on when the shutter is half-pressed. The older models don't do that
Very timely! I have been looking hard at these high quality manual focus voigtlander lenses and particularly the 27mm for the past month. Like you, I’m in need of practice with manual focusing but am really into the idea that one day it wouldn’t be an issue AF or MF, I could have the skills to the point that I am just deciding based on which look I want. I have a cheap manual focus Meike and I have started taking that out more to see if I can “justify” buying the Voigtlander. I’ll be interested in hearing and seeing what you do with it. Thanks!
Good for you! I definitely think it will be useful not having to be tied to autofocus lenses, but instead we get to use the lenses that best give us the look we're going for. I'll definitely be posting images I take with the Voigtlander to Instagram, but honestly I still think it's a bit pricey for what it is. I bought another manual focus lens (cheaper and highly rated), and I'll be talking about it in a video soon.
great video. I use a lot of vintage manual lenses on my xt-3. when shooting manual I find setting focus peaking to red (high) and using a monochrome film simulation gives me a almost 100% hit rate. if you use raw/jpeg you can always resave a color edit later. give it a try, hope it helps.
yo tbh honest, some of the missed focus shots are cool! they still have a specific vibe to them. i guess because they aren’t perfect what makes them also interesting. 😊
Haha, thank you🙏🏿 Yeah, I definitely think there can be a stylistic quality to out of focus photos when done intentionally. Unfortunately, I wasn't doing it intentionally lol 😅
Love these Voigtländer lenses, but they are a bit too expensive. I got their 35mm Nokton and love that, but it is not my every day lens. Sometimes AF is just king and there is not always good enough light to shoot at like f/8 and get easier Focus :)
Yeah, I'm not even going to deny that the Voigtlander lens cost way too much for what it is. I picked up another manual lens that I like much better and it's less than half the price of the Voigtlander. I agree and still prefer autofocus most of the time.
@@BrayGrayy which one are you using? There are some differences between the cheaper chinese MF lenses and expensive Voigtländer made in Japan glass but it depends if it is worth the money for you. I value their build quality, customer service, heritage and well, made in Japan. Voigtländer makes more sense in Leicaland because they are a cheap and good alternative to Leicaglass. Same with the new Thypoch lenses. Awesome glass, way too expensive for Fujifilm. Their lenses cost almost the same as the new f/1.4 series glass and these are top of the line.
@@venom2k2 Yeah, I agree. I got the Brightin Star 35mm f0.95. I'm working on a video for it, but it's really well built and I've been enjoying the quality I've been getting from it so far
The in focus/out of focus faces are cracking me up. Two good tips for using this lens are turn on focus assists so when you move the focus ring it punches in and change the manual focus scale to film instead of pixel so that it aligns with the focus scale on the lens. Once you get used to zone focusing youll be faster than using an AF lens.
1) If we are not talking about action / sports / wildlife / kids photography, autofocus is just lazy. 2) Focusing with aid of focus peeking is just so much easier. 3) Focusing thru EVF instead of LCD on the back of the camera is faster and much more precise, no matter the screen resolution. Just saying... 4) Check if your X-T50 has dual screen option. I can't tell, I use older Fujis. With that option, you'll have one screen for framing, and other one, which comes punched in, for focusing. Works also in combination with focus peeking. 5) It's way easier to focus with aperture wide open. I don't know how Voigtlanders work, do they keep the lens wide open for focussing or not, didn't have the chance to use them yet. 6) Having said that, the best manual focussing lenses to be adopted for mirrorless cameras are in M42mount. But ONLY the VINTAGE ones. Course those usually have either the switch or an extra aperture ring (think Helios 44-2) that holds the aperture wide open for focusing and than with the switch or the ring you set it to predetermined aperture value without messing around. 7) If everything else doesn't work for you, polish your scale focusing skills... Hope this helps, cheers...
I found this channel when I was watching reviews of the Fuji X-T50 before I bought it, so glad I did. I'm really happy you're making more content about this camera because I absolutely love mine so far. Keep up the great work bro!!
Thank you 🙏🏿! I definitely plan to do more videos with the X-T50
I'm seriously considering buying this lens. So I hope you will do a followup to this lens sometime soon. Thank you for sharing.
I also have this lens and what made it way easier for me was to have the focus zoom in automatically whenever you turn the focus tab. You can then override that by half-pressing the shutter. It makes it way faster than manually activating the focus zoom. You can either focus and then half-press to check the composition or you keep focusing while half-pressing and that lets you adjust focus while not being zoomed in anymore. Highly recommend that. Also, using the EVF is way better to see the focus assists. I have an X-S20 so we should have the same screen and EVF if I'm not mistaken.
Thanks! I'm going to give that a try 🙌🏿
Gotta give props to you on this.
Most tend to concentrate solely on the specs and technical details of the lens, often overlooking or deliberately omitting the actual experience of using it.
Cheers!
Haha, thank you 🙏🏿. Yeah, I prefer to get out and use these tools rather than focus on specs
Your hit/miss focus rating was hilarious. Nice review man.
Hahaha, thank you! 🙏🏿
Personally I like manual focus on the X-T5. I usually use the viewfinder setting where it shows two images, one large view and one small that shows a 100% crop on the focus point with focus peaking. That way I get focus but I can also see the composition without red lines all over it. Not sure how it'd look on an X-T50 though.
The ttartisan 35mm f1.4 is a really fun manual focus lens too. Super cheap, and supposedly not amazing optical quality but I've gotten wonderful results from it.
Ah, good to know! I'll see if the X-T50 has that feature. Admittedly, I don't use the EVF as much as I should 😅. I'll also have to check out the TTArtisan 35mm too.
Used to use a 35mm Voigtlander pancake lens on a Voigtlander Bessa R body (film) and it's the most fun I ever had with a camera. That had a lot to do with the quality of the lens. I couldn't miss with that thing. I'm now looking for the closest tying to that lens, paired with a digital body, like the XT50, as a way to get me back into proper photography. This could be it!
I find manual focus to be a very satisfying way to do photography, but it does take practice so that you can be faster and more accurate. I’ve tried all the focusing aids with this lens , and for me the best one is turning on Focus Check in the menu. This automatically zooms in on the focus point when you turn the focus ring. A quick half press on the shutter zooms out to your normal view. I leave the focus point in the center and relatively small to get the critical part in focus and then recompose the scene to include what I want. I think of it as quasi rangefinder style shooting. If you stop down to F8 and set a distance you’ll likely want to have in focus, it’s basically point and shoot that’s faster than any autofocus, if you want everything in the frame to be in relative focus.
I have both this same lens and the same goal as you. I pair it with my Fuji X-T5. I’d love this to be my everyday carry setup when I want to travel light. I started photography when I was growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, and my setup was fully manual back then. So in theory, I should be great at manual focus. But I’ve gotten soft and overreliant on autofocus. 😊 So I’m slower than I should be right now, but hoping to improve.
I’ve landed on using focus assist, so the camera punches in as soon as you touch the focusing tab. For a while, I tried the prism focus feature, but in the end I decided that just punching in with focus assist is quickest for me.
Good luck in your journey with this lens. I think if we both keep at it, it’ll get much faster for us. One thing that’s good is that for this Voigtlander lens, infinity is true infinity. So if you’re taking a photo of something off in the distance, you can preset the focus ring to infinity and you’re good to go. I’m finding I’m quickest for standard distances if I generally preset it to infinity and then dial in the focus from there. The throw of the focus ring is quite short, which has pros and cons. My feeling is once you get used to it, plus use focus assist, and do some pre focusing, you can get focus dialed in pretty fast.
Just keep practicing! That’s what I’m doing!
Thank you! I'm definitely going to keep practicing and leverage the focus assist features more. We'll master it for sure!
This lens shines with zone focus!!!! It’s a win for street photography
Found this vid after reading a comment on your initial xt50 review suggesting you share your experience with the voitglander lens with this camera. Earned a sub from me, really cool to see you're listening to your viewers like that.
Thank you 🙏🏿 I try my best. Even if I don't make a dedicated video, I will still try to work in things I've read in the comments into my general videos.
I have an XT-30ii but subscribed to support because you make great content!
Thank you🙏🏿 I appreciate your support!
Agree. I always enjoy his videos. Nice presenting style
Love your work man, keep it up! It's been super insightful to hear about the XT50. I'm definitely going to pull the trigger and get one. Currently using the XF10 but I've been in the market for a little hybrid camera for a bit of video as well.
Thank you! I haven't used video much on the X-T50, but from what I've seen so far the quality is outstanding. I definitely think you'd be happy coming from the XF10
Another great video. I really liked the style of this video and how you present. What a beautifully photogenic place to take photos too.
Thank you 🙏🏿. My goal is to keep improving my video skills with each video. I also get lucky because San Diego has so many beautiful spots 🙌🏿
Nice vid. I have both 27mm lenses. The Voigtlander is definitely better, and, of course, one stop faster. For people shots, I prefer AF lenses and thus the Fuji, though. For still subjects, the VL is great. Also, the VL produces great sunstars starting at f/3.2, which for me, perhaps weirdly, is a bonus.
The voigtlander 27mm is my favorite lens. It’s fun to use and keeps my camera small. Love your shots and your recipe choices!
@@short_bar Thank you! Yeah the Voigtlander 27mm is a great lens!
Very nice that you share your experience, I love it thanks! I'm surprise to see that you don't seem to use the view finder but why not.
So you have the Voiglander 27mm (and the X-T5 also) it would be great if you could tell us more about this lens 😍 What's the image quality, the bohkey, especialy that you seem to have another 27mm lens to compare with.
Really appreciate this video and giving manual focus details. Definitely think you should continue developing the manual focus skill! Have you tried any of the other voightlander lenses for fujifilm?
Thank you! I'll definitely keep at it. I haven't used any of the other Voigtlander lenses, but I do have another manual lens from a different brand that I'm testing
@@BrayGrayy You picked the best of the 3 Voigtlander for fuji to what I've heard.
Thanks for the video. I'm debating on the Fuji 27mm or the Voigtlander. I shot film for years with manual everything, so manual focus doesn't put me off. I find that a lot of the time the AF doesn't focus on what I want anyway, and getting it right is slower than just a good manual focus lens. However, and this is the big one, I'm shooting with an X-T30. My concern is that the EVF isn't good enough for 100% manual focusing. Any thoughts? FYI - my plan for the lens is so I can carry my camera a lot more. Also, If I go on budget airlines with only a carry on, I want the smallest and lightest camera gear, so I'd take the body + one pancake lens. I shoot mainly street, travel and family photos.
Yeah, Voigtlander is definitely a good choice if you primarily do manual focusing. I've never used the X-T30, but even in using the X-T50's LCD I
there were tricks I used to acquire focus like pressing the back wheel in to punch in on the subject for focusing. I also tried zone focusing and stopping down a little (which is great for bright days anyway).
in my experience, the main advantage of the focus tab is to enable muscle memory for certain focus distances. knowing which tab position corresponds to which distance lets you prefocus without raising the camera to your eye and makes the entire shooting process significantly faster. however, if you're shooting at wide apertures and need critical focus, you're always going to want to use an enlarged view, ideally the hybrid view where you can have both the enlarged focus area and the full frame in view simultaneously.
Ah, thanks for the tips! I'll have to try them out 🙌🏿
9:20, yes I was going to say, use zone focussing to get back to one handed shooting.
love downtown O'side! I have the same difficulty with manual focus on fuji. My x-e2 and x-s10 don't have enough resolution in the EVF. My x-h2 has enough resolution but it's big and the focus peaking stays on when the shutter is half-pressed. The older models don't do that
Very timely! I have been looking hard at these high quality manual focus voigtlander lenses and particularly the 27mm for the past month. Like you, I’m in need of practice with manual focusing but am really into the idea that one day it wouldn’t be an issue AF or MF, I could have the skills to the point that I am just deciding based on which look I want. I have a cheap manual focus Meike and I have started taking that out more to see if I can “justify” buying the Voigtlander. I’ll be interested in hearing and seeing what you do with it. Thanks!
Good for you! I definitely think it will be useful not having to be tied to autofocus lenses, but instead we get to use the lenses that best give us the look we're going for. I'll definitely be posting images I take with the Voigtlander to Instagram, but honestly I still think it's a bit pricey for what it is. I bought another manual focus lens (cheaper and highly rated), and I'll be talking about it in a video soon.
@@BrayGrayy Can't wait!
Great video! What did you use to record this video hands free?
Thank you! For this video I used the Insta360 Ace Pro, but I don't think I'd recommend it
great video. I use a lot of vintage manual lenses on my xt-3. when shooting manual I find setting focus peaking to red (high) and using a monochrome film simulation gives me a almost 100% hit rate. if you use raw/jpeg you can always resave a color edit later. give it a try, hope it helps.
Thank you! I'm definitely going to try setting the focus parking to red (high). I hadn't thought about the monochrome technique before 🤔
yo tbh honest, some of the missed focus shots are cool! they still have a specific vibe to them. i guess because they aren’t perfect what makes them also interesting. 😊
Haha, thank you🙏🏿 Yeah, I definitely think there can be a stylistic quality to out of focus photos when done intentionally. Unfortunately, I wasn't doing it intentionally lol 😅
Thank you. Great Video
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it 🙌🏿
Thank you for the video. Is infinity set right at the hard stop?
I believe so
Good Video, But Where can I get the receipts?
Love these Voigtländer lenses, but they are a bit too expensive. I got their 35mm Nokton and love that, but it is not my every day lens. Sometimes AF is just king and there is not always good enough light to shoot at like f/8 and get easier Focus :)
Yeah, I'm not even going to deny that the Voigtlander lens cost way too much for what it is. I picked up another manual lens that I like much better and it's less than half the price of the Voigtlander. I agree and still prefer autofocus most of the time.
@@BrayGrayy which one are you using? There are some differences between the cheaper chinese MF lenses and expensive Voigtländer made in Japan glass but it depends if it is worth the money for you. I value their build quality, customer service, heritage and well, made in Japan. Voigtländer makes more sense in Leicaland because they are a cheap and good alternative to Leicaglass. Same with the new Thypoch lenses. Awesome glass, way too expensive for Fujifilm. Their lenses cost almost the same as the new f/1.4 series glass and these are top of the line.
@@venom2k2 Yeah, I agree. I got the Brightin Star 35mm f0.95. I'm working on a video for it, but it's really well built and I've been enjoying the quality I've been getting from it so far
The in focus/out of focus faces are cracking me up. Two good tips for using this lens are turn on focus assists so when you move the focus ring it punches in and change the manual focus scale to film instead of pixel so that it aligns with the focus scale on the lens. Once you get used to zone focusing youll be faster than using an AF lens.
@@TylerAldrich Ah, good tips! 🙌🏿 I completely missed these settings. Thank you!
I find it really hard to get focus using the screen alone, even with focus peaking. One reason I'm selling my Lumix S9, no viewfinder.
Yeah, I need to get better about using the EVF. I just naturally default to the LCD
@@BrayGrayy Other way around for me, an old film guy, always use the view finder. :)
1) If we are not talking about action / sports / wildlife / kids photography, autofocus is just lazy.
2) Focusing with aid of focus peeking is just so much easier.
3) Focusing thru EVF instead of LCD on the back of the camera is faster and much more precise, no matter the screen resolution. Just saying...
4) Check if your X-T50 has dual screen option. I can't tell, I use older Fujis. With that option, you'll have one screen for framing, and other one, which comes punched in, for focusing. Works also in combination with focus peeking.
5) It's way easier to focus with aperture wide open. I don't know how Voigtlanders work, do they keep the lens wide open for focussing or not, didn't have the chance to use them yet.
6) Having said that, the best manual focussing lenses to be adopted for mirrorless cameras are in M42mount. But ONLY the VINTAGE ones. Course those usually have either the switch or an extra aperture ring (think Helios 44-2) that holds the aperture wide open for focusing and than with the switch or the ring you set it to predetermined aperture value without messing around.
7) If everything else doesn't work for you, polish your scale focusing skills...
Hope this helps, cheers...