Fujifilm XF 56mm f/1.2 R WR : Specifications and Opinions

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Nico Lunes

sent on 10 Dicembre 2022

Pros: Everything, except the price.

Cons: The price.

Opinion: I have tried this lens last weekend at a local Fuji event. . The lens performs just great - fast and decisive AF, superbly comfortable to hold (with XT4 body). As for optical tests you can see test online - it is a s good as the earlier 56mm lens = very good. I actually prefer images from this new lens - the bokeh at wide open seems to look nicer and smoother. . BUT the price ... (asking EUR 1100, here) ... is one of the reasons I am selling off all my Fuji gear in 2023 and moving on to another brand, with FF sensor, brighter lenses, at 60-75% of Fuji prices. I already got a new Sigma 85 1.4 for my new kit ... at EUR 850 (sic !!!) . And so good-bye Fuji - no need for a lens that is effectively a f 1.8 lens - and costs 50% more than the other, excellent too, glass !!!

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Federico Paolino

sent on 02 Agosto 2025

Pros: IQ in all its aspects; WR

Cons: AF

Opinion: Fantastic goal. The image quality is impressive: it has no aberrations; sharp; fire-off switch soft fire, without giving the cropped effect; already excellent yield at 1.2. The only big problem: the autofocus. Evidently Fujifilm wanted to castrate it to keep a sense in the 50 f/1, I can't explain otherwise the choice not to put the LMs in this lens as well. In dynamic situations it makes you lose some shots and this should not be accepted, but the rendering of the image is such that it makes me go well. Not to mention the fact that it weighs and bulks (and costs) much less than the 50 f/1

SimoneRoma73

sent on 31 Dicembre 2023

Pros: Image plasticity, sharpness, out-of-focus detachment, build quality.

Cons: Price, size.

Opinion: I took it and used it for a while on the X-T3, it was rendered wonderful at all distances, with sharpness, even at the edges, and really remarkable out-of-focus detachment. The plasticity of the focus zone and the detachment of the subject are also guaranteed by closing the aperture. I then switched to the X-T5 and, if possible, its merits stand out even more. First portrait lens, together with the old brother 35 1.4, which I prefer over the x-e4 for reasons of weight and size. More than enough autofocus for my purposes, especially on the X-T5. It is now one of the optics that, after seeing the results, I can no longer do without.

Preben Elkjaer

sent on 10 Luglio 2023

Pros: Excellent image quality (holds up to 40 MP very well), progressive and smooth bokeh, construction, minimum MAF distance, flare resistance, no aberrations, tropicalization, 11 blades, AF

Cons: Only one: the price.

Opinion: I love the mid-telephoto focal length, especially the 85: the 56 1.2 R WR is an 85 equivalent on FF. I come from an excellent lens like the Nikon 85 1.8 Z (the best 85 ever tried on full format), but this Fuji keeps up with it abundantly and does not make you regret the larger format at all. Fuji has designed an absolute lens: the image quality is very high at TA, the blur soft and progressive. In fact, if you like canvases that make everything flat before and after the MAF plan, with that sticky figurine effect, the new 56 is not for you: I repeat, from this point of view it is a progressive and gradual perspective. If we want to find a characteristic compared to the old, which it surpasses from every point of view, it is the micro-contrast, more accentuated: when you have it, you can remove it, when you don't have it it is difficult to put it. So if you like a less contrasty and more ethereal image, just act in PP. Excellent flare resistance, absence of aberrations even in backlight, more than decent AF reactivity even in low light conditions: you can perceive the noise of the lenses, heavy, that are moved. The AF motor is quiet. If you close a little, the light points are spherical thanks to the 11 slats. What can I say? A lens that borders on perfection. The only flaw may be the price: but such quality has to be paid for. In short, if you love portraiture and you are a lover of the Fuji system, an absolute "must have". You won't regret the purchase.

Andreaplus

sent on 18 Maggio 2023

Pros: Improved in all its weak points including the minimum focusing distance (which made me switch to 90mm f2 at the time) from the construction (excellent now the aperture ring) to the elimination of outlines in bokeh balls! Brava Fuji

Cons: At the moment not found I will reserve the right to correct the "cons" eventually. The only drawback (always in my opinion) is the embarrassing plastic hood! I bought an aluminum JJC, elegant, contained in the measures and perfectly functional. Finally, it wouldn't hurt to equip it with an ND8 filter. But maybe that's asking too much :)

Opinion: A nice leap forward compared to its predecessor (APD version included) impressive IQ and improved bokeh (at least for my taste). Aperture ring finally at the height and focus a little more solid and frictioned that does not hurt when you focus manually at f1.2 I can only recommend it to those like me who love portraiture. On my X-T5, with its 40 mega pixels, it goes that it is a wonder ... P.S. the minimum focusing distance is less than the declared 50cm!!!

user63757

sent on 09 Febbraio 2023

Pros: Excellent optics as general rendering, bokeh, sharpness, rings, careful construction, minimum focus, no internal noise shifts optical group.

Cons: AF noisy.

Opinion: Arrived the 56 1.2 WR made immediately of the behavior tests. Pros: Definitely a lens very close to perfection as sharpness, colors, blurred bokeh, rings, minimum focus, constructions treated to the maximum optical level really very impressive or tried almost all Fuji optics but this really breaks. Cons: AF I would say very good speed excellent focus, with AF-c function eyes excellent behavior, but noisy and the AF in certain conditions pump back and forth looking for right AF point, although maybe not so traumatic the AF. I find compact as length but quite large as diameter filters 67mm perhaps better so little vignetting. Notes: Optics close to absolute perfection but with one AF ? perhaps physiological could not do more remains a doubt this only criticism of mine on this optics perhaps a small metal hood would not be bad as aesthetics however I find OK the hood. However, certainly an extremely advisable optics. Note: There is a very nice JJC metal hood for the 56 1.2 WR 67mm.

user213929

sent on 15 Dicembre 2022

Pros: A TA 1.2 sharp rendering and progression of the soft blur, af precise even if not lightning, exceptional minimum distance in relation to the aperture.

Cons: The price due to the period.

Opinion: Lens that does better than a 90 wr in terms of sharpness being an f 1.2, a minimum distance more than filmic, crazy engraving, 400 gr little weight compared to the one of 800 gr, remains fixed on the Xt3 with Bg, I will try to test it well on 18/12/2022 for the portrait open day that I organized, I will update as soon as possible. Well... at the end of the evening I processed only jpg in the car for some cut, I did not intervene on the color, very well the colors, the aberrations are contained, but not non-existent as I thought without having squeezed it after this day, the sharpness I confirm how close it can to the medium format, the autofocus is much improved compared to the previous version, the minimum distance I needed for the second newborn of the day, I still reserve to do other heavy sessions but shooting in Raf , the jpg as beautiful as they can give artifacts , so I will update shortly.

Persiano

sent on 29 Settembre 2022

Pros: Improved in almost all the " defects " of the previous 56

Cons: I state that I have to test it calmly, but for now nothing

Opinion: I wrote " defects " in quotation marks because, my personal opinion, I remove too much definition but when it is missing you can not add it. I did some fast and home tests and therefore I reserve the right to complete my review later with more accuracy. I was lucky enough to have both the previous 56 F 1.2 and the 50 F1, and the new 56 to take decidedly from the 50 F1 but eliminated the defect of the 50 weight and bulk, the real Achilles heel of that optics. I like the fact that it is a little more chubby than its predecessor, I feel it well in my hand, the key that blocks the aperture ring, great. Another very welcome thing is the tropicalization, it is not that I often go to photograph in the rain, but it is also useful for the usual problem of dust. Focus ring is really guduriosa, rubbed the right. What really struck me, returning to my first words is the really excellent sharpness, the AC for those few shots I made, have been improved, but this is a test that I could not complete, as indeed for the AF speech, but from what little I saw, in combination with the XH2s, there seems to be a good improvement in speed. It certainly cannot be compared to the 23 or the 33 new series with all the lenses it has to move. The evaluation whether to replace the old 56 to this I do not feel give it, considering the difference in price, I can only tell you, go and try it does not disappoint expectations (indeed) in the most absolute way. If I can see to publish some photos photos, purely for demonstration purposes of the tests I did