Fujifilm X-T3 vs Canon 5D Mark IV, bokeh @ 50mm, f/1.4 (equiv.)

boogisha wrote:

DominikT wrote:

These are good examples. But unless Fuji Bring out a 35mm f0.95 Auto focus lens, we won’t have an exact equivalent, to be able to say “ FF doesn’t matte”. Because we see in your test, it does matter, when you want shallow depth of field and auto focus. You just won’t get it with a crop censor.

That's a fair point, and if you need auto-focus, there is no comparison, I agree.

But the main reason I moved to Fuji is to downsize, so accepting manual focus experience was something I was more then willing to do for the sake of it, too, keeping the output/result (image) somewhat the same being a more important goal.

Adding auto-focus into the whole design would unavoidably make the lens bigger and heavier, in which case one could/should just stick with full-frame and 50mm f/1.4 again...

For an example, just look what happened to Fuji's own 33mm f/1 attempt, later scrapped for 50mm f/1 instead to keep the bulk reasonable, and not requiring a lens foot to handle, lol (where neither 50mm f/1 is a small lens by any means).

Even though I had no previous manual focusing experience, I've adapted more than fine (finding it superior for some applications, even), having me wish Fuji would release a set of fast but small manual-focus-only primes, with electronic contacts (for EXIF, for example) - in fact exactly what Cosina Voigtlander has been doing as of lately.

I’m with you on this. I love manual focus lenses and I’ve been waiting on Fuji to make a few compact fast Mf only lenses, unfortunately I don’t see that happening. And there is now a big third party lens market anyway. When I first got into Fuji I adopted a Leica M mount voigtlander lens, then picked up two Olympus OM primes with a speedbooster to keep the original focal length of those. Also I know everyone says otherwise, but in my tests the Speedbooster does give me a slight shallower depth of field. And I loved using these two lenses for all my street and travel photography. But since selling my Canon EOS R and L lenses, I wanted to get a few AF Fuji lenses, and although they are great, there just isn’t that many fast comparable lenses in the same field of view for APSC. Unless you get the 50 f1 and then it’s bigger than a FF 85 1.4 anyway.