https://pho.tography.org/tags/x-mount/ Recent content in x mount on pho.tography.org Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pho.tography.org/2026/04/12/fujifilm-x-s20--helios-44-2-58mm-f/2-swirl-season/ Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pho.tography.org/2026/04/12/fujifilm-x-s20--helios-44-2-58mm-f/2-swirl-season/ The Helios 44-2 58mm f/2 is a Soviet-era lens manufactured at the KMZ optical plant in Krasnogorsk, produced in quantities so large that the secondary market is essentially inexhaustible. Clean copies sell for $30 to $80 depending on coating variant and condition. Via an M42-to-Fujifilm X adapter (approximately $15), it attaches to the X-S20 and produces images that Instagram’s lens simulation filters have been attempting to replicate, with limited success, for a decade. https://pho.tography.org/2026/04/12/fujifilm-x-t30-ii--jupiter-9-85mm-f/2-soviet-portrait/ Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pho.tography.org/2026/04/12/fujifilm-x-t30-ii--jupiter-9-85mm-f/2-soviet-portrait/ The Jupiter-9 85mm f/2 is a Soviet optical instrument derived from the pre-war Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar design, manufactured at the KMZ factory and exported in modest quantities under the Jupiter brand. Optically, it inherits the Sonnar formula’s characteristic rendering: a smooth background blur without the Helios 44-2’s swirling tendencies, strong center sharpness with a gradual rolloff toward the edges, and a color rendering — particularly in the green channel — that has a coolness contemporary photographers find refreshing after years of the warm-biased output from modern lens coatings. https://pho.tography.org/2026/04/12/fujifilm-x-t5--xf-56mm-f/1.2-wr-the-standard/ Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pho.tography.org/2026/04/12/fujifilm-x-t5--xf-56mm-f/1.2-wr-the-standard/ Fujifilm refreshed the XF 56mm in 2022 and the photography community received the update with the mild suspicion that greets any revision of a beloved original. The original 56mm f/1.2 R was a cult lens — optically flawed in the right ways, character-rich, with a rendering style that felt closer to medium format than its APS-C designation suggested. The WR version had a lot to live up to. It more than earns its successor status.