{"id":17203,"date":"2016-04-26T12:29:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T12:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=17203"},"modified":"2016-04-26T12:33:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T12:33:03","slug":"shooting-close-ups-with-the-fuji-x-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=17203","title":{"rendered":"Shooting Close-Ups with the Fuji X-System?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fuji Rumors just posted that the Fuji 120mm Macro f 2.8 is being re-thought, and may only come in a 60mm to 90mm range lens now!!!??? \u00a0First of all Fuji Rumors is not always correct in their “rumors”! \u00a0Secondly a 100mm Macro would be a 150mm equiv. and that would work well, BUT, the answer may already be here now!!!!!<\/p>\n

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When I tested the new 100-400 Fuji zoom I shot t his image, (above), of the penny “hand-held at 1\/60th of a second, set to 400mm (600mm equiv. ) \u00a0All I did was simply added the Canon 500D close-up diopter. \u00a0That is essentially 1:1 or life size! \u00a0The new real star however is the 90mm f 2! With that lens you can use the Fuji Automatic Extension tubes, add a diopter (62mm) and if you are already using the extension tubes, you can put the 1.4 converter behind that. \u00a0The results are superb!!!!<\/p>\n

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Both the 100-400 and 50-140 can be used with he Canon 500D and the Extension tubes to build a zoom Macro lens with the added benefit of determining subject size by zooming, and both give added working distance. \u00a0The image below was made with the 50-140! To use the Canon 500 D on the 50-140 you need a 72mm to 77mm step up ring, but it works very well! \u00a0The Canon fit perfectly on the 100-400!<\/p>\n

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And keep in mind the Fuji 60mm Macro f 2.4 (90mm equiv.) is no slouch, I’ve used it extensively and found it to b tack, tack sharp and 90mm is about like our old 100mm ore 105m Macro lens sizes. \u00a0The belt buckle below is with the 60mm Macro.<\/p>\n

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The bottom lines that we have some formidable tools in our Fuji X System arsenal already, so let’s keep hoping of a long, true Macro lens, but know we are still in pretty good shape with what we have right now!!!!<\/p>\n

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Blessings,<\/p>\n

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the pilgrim!<\/p>\n

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    Fuji Rumors just posted that the Fuji 120mm Macro f 2.8 is being re-thought, and may only come in a 60mm to 90mm range lens now!!!??? \u00a0First of all Fuji Rumors is not always correct in their “rumors”! \u00a0Secondly a 100mm Macro would be a 150mm equiv. and that would work well, BUT, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17203"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17217,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17203\/revisions\/17217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}