Prague

On a recent trip to Prague I had a chance to play with my new Rokinon 8mm Fisheye lens. This lens is identical to the Samyang 8mm Fisheye. Optically and mechanically a very solid lens. Great saturated colours, good contrast, almost no flare (it has a fixed tulip-shaped lens hood which seems to work well) and it is VERY sharp center till corner. Performance seems to peak around f/5.6 - f/8 so I set it to this aperture, distance around 2m and let the Fuji XTRANS sensor with its good low light capabilities do the rest. Below more Fisheye photos - at least more than you would like to see. 

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The more I use the Fujinon 35mm f/1.4 (most of the time @1.4) the more I'm impressed by this 'boring' normal lens.

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Finally some black&white photos right out of the Fuji X-E1. I'm not happy with the contrast and accutance of these files - most of them look too dull and grey for my taste. I know, I know, I can post process them to look more contrasty and hard however I wonder why it is that with colour jpegs I'm able to find settings which deliver great results (for my taste) >95% of the time and I rarely feel the need to go back to the raw file and fiddle with the adjustments in post-processing. Out-of-camera colour jpgs from the X-E1 are just superb. All pictures below are taken with the 35mm f/1.4 open wide, digital yellow and red filters applied (in camera).