{"id":52699,"date":"2012-10-16T00:17:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T15:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fujifilmnxtc.wpenginepowered.com\/stories\/m-mount-adapter-review-by-norifumi-inagaki\/"},"modified":"2024-03-18T18:02:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T18:02:08","slug":"m-mount-adapter-review-by-norifumi-inagaki","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.fujifilm-x.com\/th-th\/stories\/m-mount-adapter-review-by-norifumi-inagaki\/","title":{"rendered":"M Mount adapter review by Norifumi Inagaki"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leaving color temperature uncorrected produces colors like those seen by the naked eye. The X\u2011Pro1\u2019s excellent high ISO sensitivity performance permits hand-held photography even under low light.<\/p>\n

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Older lenses do not handle backlighting well, but the resulting flare and ghosting\u2014seen here in the headlights\u2014are employed to good effect in this shot of cars waiting for the light to change.<\/p>\n

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This photo was taken with a streetlight just outside the frame. The area around the light source is unaffected and captured perfectly.<\/p>\n

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This piece was shot at the lens\u2019 minimum focus distance of 70 cm. I set white balance to \u201ccloudy\u201d to bring out the vivid hues of the bell peppers.<\/p>\n

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Despite having been photographed in a low-contrast alleyway, the letters on the menu board are sharp enough to be read.<\/p>\n

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A moody crop that uses warm incandescent lighting to advantage.<\/p>\n

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I choose a shutter speed of 1\/2 s to ensure that the details of the boat are visible. I used auto white balance for neutral colors.<\/p>\n

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I set white balance to \u201csunlight\u201d and got just the colors I wanted with the blue twilit sky and the tower lit by warm incandescent lights.<\/p>\n

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The M\u2011mount adapter lets users of older lenses experience the high ISO sensitivity and rich color reproduction of the X\u2011Pro1.<\/p>\n

The first generation of Leica M\u2011mount lens was produced in the 1950s. Manufactured in the golden age of black-and-white film, these lenses are noted for the richness of their image reproduction.<\/p>\n

I stopped aperture down two or three stops from maximum to get the most from the lenses. While some corner softness is visible when the photos are zoomed in to actual pixel size, this is by no means a fatal defect, and you can get quite usable results with \u201cpoint light sources at night\u201d and other motifs that deliberately seek out faults in the lens.<\/p>\n

Given that these lenses were made half a century ago and are not adapted for color photography, I was surprised by performance beyond my expectations. Depending on how you use film simulation and white balance, it\u2019s possible to achieve neutral color reproduction that you would never guess came from an older lens.<\/p>\n

The electronic viewfinder (EVF) is used for focusing. Even the most delicate focusing is made easy by the EVF\u2019s magnification feature. The dial-driven shutter speed and exposure compensation adjustments work well with M\u2011mount lenses. The roomy camera body can handle compact 35\/50 mm lenses, heavyweight 90 mm lenses, and everything in between, with no loss of balance.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t see the image reproduction characteristics of the lens when using earlier rangefinder cameras. \u201cLooking through the viewfinder\u201d may be fun but with the X\u2011Pro1 it seems a waste to stop there. The time taken to carefully adjust manual focus before releasing the shutter seems to me to be time well spent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leaving color temperature uncorrected produces colors like those seen by the naked eye. The X\u2011Pro1\u2019s excellent high ISO sensitivity performance permits hand-held photography even under low light. Older lenses do not handle backlighting well, but the resulting flare and ghosting\u2014seen here in the headlights\u2014are employed to good effect in this shot of cars waiting for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":52700,"template":"","category":[1104,2427,2084,1202,1643,1251,565],"post_tag":[],"b2b-solutions":[],"class_list":["post-52699","story","type-story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accessories","category-articles-type-stories","category-be-inspired","category-category","category-lens-accessories","category-type-stories","category-stories"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 16:13:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fujifilm-x.com\/th-th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story\/52699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fujifilm-x.com\/th-th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fujifilm-x.com\/th-th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/story"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fujifilm-x.com\/th-th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fujifilm-x.com\/th-th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fujifilm-x.com\/th-th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fujifilm-x.com\/th-th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category?post=52699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fujifilm-x.com\/th-th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_tag?post=52699"},{"taxonomy":"b2b-solutions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fujifilm-x.com\/th-th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/b2b-solutions?post=52699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}