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Fujifilm 60mm f2.4 Macro Review & Sample Photos

  • December 4, 2017
  • AGriffin

Fujinon 60mm f2.4 Macro Lens

The Fujinon 60mm f2.4 is a short telephoto macro lens for the Fujifilm X-Mount APS-C mirrorless camera system. 

This lens features a fast f2.4 aperture with 9 aperture blades and an equivalent field of view of 90mm, making it great for portrait photography as well as product photography . The excellent corner to corner sharpness also means landscape photographers will find great use for it as well.

I consider the Fujifilm 60mm a short telephoto jack-of-all-trades lens, because it can do just about anything with no serious negative characteristics.

 

Fujifilm 60mm f2.4 Macro Lens Stats

Focal Length: 60mm equivalent to 90mm
Aperture Blade: 9 aperture blades
Minimum Focus Distance: 10.51″
Elements: 10 elements in 8 groups – Aspherical and ED
Coatings: Super EBC coating
Focus: Auto
CPU Contacts: Yes

Pros: Consistent sharpness across the frame – fast – great build quality – good close focusing – beautiful bokeh 

Cons: Some pin cushion distortion – a lot of focus hunting – large lens hood

 

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Fujifilm 60mm f2.4 Macro Lens Review | First Impressions

 

The Fujinon 60mm f2.4 is sort of underdog lens. It’s not talked about much and it seems both the Fujifilm 56mm f1.2 and the 50mm f2 steal all the thunder. That’s not to say the 60mm f2.4 is inferior to either of those lenses. Sure it’s not as fast as the 56mm f1.2 or the 50mm f2, but it’s a lot more versatile than either of these lenses and I’ve found it to be one of my most used lenses. 

 

ISO 400, f5.6, 1/210

 

I find the lens great for all the product shots on this blog and love it for travel because of the great reach and macro capabilities.

In terms of micro contrast, sharpness and color rendering, it’s pretty good. Nothing mind-blowing but just good. There is some vignetting wide open but corner to corner sharpness all around feels good. Ultimately I would say it’s a very balanced lens in terms of overall characteristics.

 

ISO 8000, f5.6, 1/100

 

Compared to the Fujinon 56mm f1.2, this lens I has better bokeh. Now the 56mm f1.2 of course has great bokeh at f1.2 because its much faster and has 7 rounded aperture blades, but once that lens is closed down and then compared at around f2.8, the 60mm with the 9 blade aperture becomes a slightly prettier lens. It’s also a lot lighter.

 

ISO 400, f5.6, 1/140
ISO 200, f2.4, 1/9000

 

The build quality of this lens is impressive. It definitely feels better than the 56mm because of the all metal lens hood and stiff aperture ring.

With the lens hood attached, the lens becomes very long. This is because the front element protrudes when focusing close, so the hood has to compensate for the length increase of the lens. – One could say the lens just gets a little too excited when shooting macro. 🙂

 

 

Fujifilm 60mm f2.4 | Image Quality

 

For the image quality tests I’ve imported the sample images into Iridient developer so that I could remove any baked-in lens profile correction added by the Fujifilm X-Pro 2. 

Corners and edges are a little soft at f2.4 and f2.8, by f4 they’ve cleared up and are very sharp. By f8 any softness in the edges is gone. Corner to corner sharpness is very good and there is very little falloff in sharpness between the center and edges.

Sweet spot in terms of sharpness is f4 to f8. At f11 the images begin to lose detail from diffraction. 

 

@f2.4
@f5.6

 

Sharpness Charts

@f2.4
@f2.4
@f2.8
@f2.8
@f4
@f4
Sharpness at f5.6
@f5.6
@f8
@f8
@f11
@f11
@f16
@f16
@f22
@f22

 

This is a little simpler look at how the lens handles center sharpness and diffraction with a 100% center crop. I would say I was about 10 feet from the cinderblock wall.

 

Fujifilm 60mm f2.4 Diffraction & Sharpness Chart

 

There is some noticeable Vignetting at f2.4, it cleans up a little by f2.8 and by f4 it’s mostly gone. In Lightroom or when shooting JPEG you will still have some vignetting at f2.4 and f2.8 but it’s slightly more corrected.

 

Fujifilm 60mm f2.4 Vignetting Samples

 

In Iridient Developer you also get a lot more pin cushion distortion when removing the lens profile corrections.

 

ISO 200, f2.8, 1/10
ISO 320, f5.6, 1/100

 

Micro Contrast | Color Rendering

 

Color and contrast is very nice with the Fujinon 60mm f2.4. Images just drip with saturation. Contrast and micro contrast create very clear and detailed images. It’s hard to quantify these sort of metrics, but the way I do it is on overall feel, but also how much I’m having to push the image in post processing to get the subject to stand out. With this lens, I find I don’t have to give the images too much correction in terms of contrast in saturation, and the general look is usually very pleasing. 

For these samples I’m typically use Classic Chrome, otherwise I’m using VSCO’s Portra or Kodak Gold. This set below was processed with Portra.

ISO 12800, f2.4, 1/80
ISO 1000, f2.4, 1/100
ISO 1600, f2.4, 1/100
ISO 2500, f2.4, 1/100
ISO 400, f2.4, 1/125
ISO 640, f2.4, 1/100
ISO 2500, f2.4, 1/100
ISO 2000, f2.4, 1/100

 

This grungy set was processed with Fujifilm’s Classic Chrome.

 

ISO 400, f5.6, 1/320 – Classic Chrome
ISO 200, f5.6, 1/160 – Classic Chrome
ISO 400, f5.6, 1/320 – Classic Chrome

 

Chromatic Aberrations

 

The 60mm features both aspherical and ED elements to combat field curvature and chromatic aberrations. Like with all of Fujifilm lenses, the RAW and JPEG files come baked to clear up most issues that aren’t corrected in the lenses. 

When brought in to Iridient Developer with profiles removed you can see a touch of aberrations around high contrast areas. Otherwise you don’t see any.

Here is a sample with the lens profiles removed in Iridient Developer.

 

Fuji 60mm f2.4 Chromatic Aberrations

 

 

ISo 400, f5.6, 1/350 – Portra
ISO 400, f6.4, 1/280 – Classic Chrome
ISO 200, f6.4, 1/150 – Classic Chrome

 

Autofocus

 

Autofocus speed with any macro does a bit of hunting when going from extreme close to extreme far. Sometimes it will get confused and do more hunting than it needs to, but for the most part, it was capable of tracking and keeping track of my wild little two year old on my X-Pro 2.

That’s pretty good considering it does not feature Fujifilm’s latest generation of focus technology.

From these samples you can see how this lens is great for portrait photography with a 90mm equivalent field of view and beautiful bokeh.

 

ISO 200, f4.0, 1/110
ISO 200, f4.0, 1/110

 

Bokeh

Bokeh is very rich and smooth. Not too noisy and there is an very subtle swirl to it in the right conditions.

ISO 200, f2.4, 1/280

 

Macro

The macro capabilities of this lens are good but not great. You still need to keep the lens a 10.5 inches or 26.7 cm from your subject to get focus. That’s fine for most product photography, but this won’t give you the extreme macro needed for insect photography. You could use this lens with the MCEX-11 extension tube and get even closer.

Here are some samples of familiar objects shot with the maximum macro capabilities of this lens.

ISO 3200, f2.4, 1/80
ISO 2500, f2.4, 1/80
ISO 1250, f2.4, 1/80
ISO 1600, f2.4, 1/80

 

 

Fujinon 60mm f2.4 Macro Lens Review | Bottom Line

 

The Fujinon 60mm f2.4 is a fantastic little lens and shouldn’t be overlooked. I prefer this lens to the 56mm f1.2 when I’m shooting everything other than portraits and maybe street photography. There is something special about the images that come out of this lens that’s hard to put my finger on. I just find it really easy to get great looking shots that have really nice bokeh, saturation and detail. Maybe even a little better than the 56mm f1.2 in this regard. Plus, this lens is a lot lighter to carry around than the 56mm. The 56mm f1.2 does however have some drool worthy characteristics of its own and that would be my first choice for pure portrait photography.

While the lens hood is a little bit massive and distracting, it fits the lens very secure so you don’t have to worry about it popping off or rattling. 

 

Fujifilm 60mm f2.4 Macro Lens Sample Photos

 

ISO 200, f6.4, 1/110 – Portra
ISO 200, f2.4, 1/240 – Portra
ISO 200, f5.6, 1/210
ISO 400, f2.4, 1/420
ISO 200, f2.4, 1/900
ISO 200, f6.4, 1/140
ISO 4000, f2.4, 1/100
ISO 400, f8.0, 1/600
ISO 200, f5.0, 1/125
ISO 400, f5.6, 1/200
ISO 200, f4.0, 1/110
ISO 200, f2.4, 1/950
ISO 200, f2.8, 1/1500
ISO 200, f2.4, 1/1250
ISO 200, f2.4, 1/1500
ISO 200, f3.2, 1/500
ISO 400, f8.0, 1/600
AGriffin

Professional editor, blogger and photographer from Los Angeles California.

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