Robert Plotkin on the X100

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Guest Post: Robert Plotkin on the X100

Shooting with a Fuji X100 ISO 2000, ƒ/2 at 1/60th. This is portrait bokeh with a 23mm ƒ/2 lens. By Robert Plotkin When the Fuji X100 was announced at Photokina 2010, the trade show held in Germany, it was as…

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Fuji makes the H system lenses for Hasselblad, which are used by the most demanding commercial photographers in the world. The X100 is not as sharp as a Leica Summicron wide open, but stop it down to ƒ/2.8 and it crystalizes. One must remember that the lens has the field of view of a 35mm lens but the depth of field of a 23mm lens. Shot open and close, the background is pleasantly de-emphasized but not bokehlicious.