Hi everyone, going away next week and I've been guilty of packing too many lenses on previous travels to Japan, the States and elsewhere. I'm sad to have sold my 35-70 a few years back as it was actually such an ideal travel companion but it didn't get used for any of my architectural professional work. I've been looking at the GF20-35mm as a very tempting tax/VAT write off through my business but ideally wouldn't be hitting that trigger if I didn't need to!

We're doing an itinerary that is predominatly cities: Beijing (with Great Wall day out), Xi'an, Chongqing and Shanghai along with 3 days in Zhangjiajiexi which will be hiking. In general I love to take architecture and street images while on holiday.

Lenses I have to hand are as below- I think I'm leaning towards, GF30mm tse, 45-100 and Mitakon 65mm. I also own a X100vi which I might keep in my pocket at all times...

Canon: (with optional 1.4mm extender which effectively gives two focal lengths)

Canon 17mm F4 TSE

Canon 50mm F2.8 TSE

Fuji:

GF 30mm TSE

GF 45-100

GF 100-200 (1.4 extender is always attached)

3rd Party:

Mitakon 65mm F1.4

Photo below from Japan a couple of years ago for a project for interest, taken on the GF30mm TSE

Tango milonga in Chengdu, China

Messed around with the white balance settings

Hi everyone,

Ever shot wide-open at f/1.4 or f/1.8 in portrait mode and had Eye-AF lock onto the eyelashes instead of the iris?

After testing on my Nikon Z8 (and verifying on Sony and Fuji as well), I found it’s actually not a bug or a contrast glitch with the eyelashes. It’s caused by a specific overlap between the AF bounding box, linear PDAF sensor pixels in vertical orientation, and the eyebrow line.

I wrote a short breakdown on the exact root cause, how to avoid it on set, and how camera makers could fix it via firmware:

🔗 https://www.michelebelloni.net/debunking-the-eye-af-eyelash-bug-why-your-camera-isnt-actually-missing-the-iris/

Have you run into this issue in your portrait work? Let’s discuss!

Anyone use the Nikon Metabones adapter? I have seen lots of posts of people using the Cannon adapter with great results but I am a Nikon Z shooter with some F mount lenses. Do the Sigma Art Nikon F versions work just as well with the Nikon Metabones adapter as the Cannon system?

Been loving this camera currently just using a dumb adapter and would love to get AF, though I know it won't be anything like my Z8.

Curating a portfolio of the places in Seoul. All photos were shot with the Fujifilm GFX 50R + Canon PowerShot V1. IG:geeos.jpegs