Creative Portraits with the FUJIFILM GFX + Vintage Lens

One of my favorite lens + camera set ups to have in my camera bag! If you are anything like me, you get bored of taking the same portraits session after session. I noticed I was stuck in a loop going back to the same poses and prompts I’ve done a hundred times.

BUT, I realized that my boredom wasn’t just about the images, but it was about my approach to taking the images...

It took me a long time to dial in what I love about this combo of using a vintage lens on my medium format digital camera to create images like this.

The lens that am using is a 50 mm 1.4 Minolta lens. This is a old vintage lens for a 35 mm film camera that I'm using a lens adapter to use on my Fujifilm GFX 50 S even though this lens is not meant to use on a digital medium format camera it covers most of the sensor and it just creates a little bit of vetting around the corners and that's pretty easy to get rid of using either Photoshop AI or just by brightening it a little bit and cropping in just a touch.

Gear in this video (Non-affiliate)
Fujifilm GFX 50s mk 1: https://a.co/d/0x53qft
Minolta 50mm 1.4 MD Lens: https://www.keh.com/shop/minolta-50mm...
K&F Concept Lens Adapter: https://a.co/d/6d3KFg1

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00:00 Fujifilm GFX 50s
01:30 Minolta 1.4 50mm Lens
02:12 "Dirtying the Frame"
03:20 Halation
03:36 Creative Portraits
06:30 Why Medium Format?
08:15 A Challenge for You

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