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One Saturday morning in Perth with the 14mm f2.8 lens

On a Saturday a few weeks ago, I head into the city an hour earlier than I needed to explore while most of the city was still asleep. I was keen to use my newly purchased Fujinon 14mm f2.8 lens for some architecture and street shooting. I meandered my way around Westralia Square, Wolf Lane, King Street and Railway Lane. My comfort zone is shooting around the 23mm or 25mm focal lengths (on a crop sensor). Shooting so wide was definitely out of my comfort zone, but such a fun photographic challenge. I absolutely loved the lens. As I mentioned in my previous blog post, the distortion is minimal when I took the time to line things up nicely.

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Wide Angle Lens Experience: Fujinon 14mm f2.8

This is the third and final part of my wide angle lens experience blog series. If you haven’t read my two wide angle lens write-ups, you can find them here

Today my focus is on the Fujinon 14mm f2.8. The lens that I ultimately bought and added to my Fujifilm kit. It is one of the oldest lenses on the X mount lineup, released way back in 2012! It has a similar size, weight and feel as the XF 18-55mm f2.8-4 lens. It even has the same lens hood and filter size. This means all my current ND and polarising filters will fit nicely on this lens. This is a great bonus as I’m planning to use this lens to do landscape and long exposure photography.

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Wide Angle Lens Experience: Fujinon 16mm f2.8 and 16mm f1.4

If you haven’t read my first of the three wide angle lens write-ups, you can find the first one on my experiences with the Laowa 9mm f2.8 lens here. This is the part 2 of my 3 part series on my wide angle lens experience. Today, I focus on the the two 16mm offerings from Fujifilm. The f1.4 lens was the first of the two Fujinon 16mm lens to be released to the market back in 2015.

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Wide Angle Lens Experience: Laowa 9mm f2.8

A few months ago I was fortunate enough to borrow a few Fujifilm X mount lens to experiment and play around with (thanks Camera Electronics) as I was interested in getting a wide angle lens to complement my current kit of Fujifilm camera lenses. There were a few reasons for expanding my kit to include a wide angle. I was interested in a wide angle for night sky photography, landscapes and cityscapes. Secondly I was also looking for a wide angle for doing some interior and architectural photography.

The options that I was interested to try were: Fujifilm 14mm f2.8, Fujifilm 16mm f2.8, Fujifilm 16mm f1.4 and Laowa 9mm f2.8. I’ve now gone through the hundreds of photos I have taken when I had these lenses on loan. I thought it would be a bit of fun for me to do a quick write up on my experience and thoughts using each of the lenses. Spoiler alert, I bought the Fujifilm 14mm f2.8 lens.

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Elizabeth Quay from above and at sunset

The infamous Spanda art sculpture & the glamorous Ritz-Carlton Hotel

Elizabeth Quay is one of Perth’s newest and still under-way development projects. A man-made inlet was created so that they could build a public transport ferry terminal as well as a jetty for private boats. The latest addition to the Quay is the swanky new Ritz-Carlton Hotel and residential apartments.

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