• Members 5 posts
    April 10, 2023, 1:11 a.m.

    First post on this site. The Mitakon is one lens that I both love and hate at the same time. I use it on weddings and portraits. Love the images, the size and weight. Managed to modify the aperture ring on mine to be a bit stiffer so it doesn't turn too easily. Also modified it further so the aperture dot and stops line up perfectly center with the DOF scale.

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  • Members 7 posts
    April 11, 2023, 2:22 a.m.

    That's a nice lens. It's not overly sharp and it's got that creamy rendering, which is perfect for portraits

  • Members 621 posts
    April 11, 2023, 2:25 a.m.

    Lovely rendering. Smooth…soft. Beautiful colour palette in your processing. Best part…not biting sharp.

  • Members 8 posts
    April 11, 2023, 12:43 p.m.

    Very interesting results. They are not the perfect creamy results that some lenses are achieving but instead have a character similar to some old lenses that I have seen results from. These are very very nice in these examples and better some of the new creamy lenses but that is my opinion. Bokeh is subjective.

    Regards Dino26323

  • Members 9 posts
    April 12, 2023, 5:22 a.m.

    beautiful lens! Im interested in this lens but like to ask hiw forgiving is the DOF "+ - buffer" @ f1.4 wide open? e.g: focusing on eyes at MFD? How often would you hit or miss handheld? Tiny movement forward or back is ok?

    I liked and used a 7artisans 35/0.95 on Sony a7s in the past but the combo was less forgiving and I had more miss than hit due to tiny body moving front & back.

  • Members 5 posts
    April 12, 2023, 6:43 a.m.

    Not very forgiving IMO. I'm used to shooting with my Mitakon 35mm 0.95 on my X-E4 and that lens is pretty easy to manual focus wide open. My copy of that lens being pretty decently sharp certainly helps a lot. The GFX and this Mitakon 65mm has a very thin DOF wide open that I honestly don't recommend shooting it at 1.4 if you want to get the eyes in focus up close. Not to mention the weight and size makes handling a bit challenging if not used to shooting heavy setups. I sure struggled a ton when I just got this combo coming from a very compact and lightweight X-E4 setup.

    Whenever I shoot close up portraits, I either us 1.4 if focus isn't critical and I just want the "feel" of moment. For detail shots, I go for f2 up (or down?). I use 1.4 for environmental portraits too whether the subject is about have the frame or really tiny. I think the 65 really shines when used for this.

  • Members 19 posts
    April 12, 2023, 2:10 p.m.

    I hope Fuji makes a 63mm f1.7 some day but so far they haven't even released their 55mm f1.7. I am no good in manual focus.

  • Members 5 posts
    April 13, 2023, 1:02 a.m.

    Manual focusing is a lot of fun even with my blurry eyes. I'm used to manual focusing since my DSLR days but every new lens/camera needs a bit of time to get comfy with. But AF sure is convenient! That's my X-E4's job nowadays. Fuji needs to make a better focusing GFX body too, preferably a less than 100MP one!