Blank Signage.

 

Less perfect lenses are more fun. At least on non-job shooting adventures. These two images were taken with the TTArtisan 90mm f1.25 lens for the Fuji GFX. It's a big, fat, heavy lens. It's relatively cheap to buy. It doesn't really, really cover the full 33x44mm format. I don't care. I figured out that if I set the aspect ratio of the frame to 7:6 the lens does a fine job covering that much of the frame while still leaving me nearly 40 megapixels of information. 

I went downtown to go to my bank. It's the last time I'll be at this bank location because they are moving next week. The new location will be closer to my usual route. On the other hand a trip to the bank is always an excuse to leave the car far away and walk through the urban jungle. Well....the urban manicured gardens.

The lens does a good job on the sensor territory it does cover. Even near wide open it does a good job with details. If you keep bright light behind or beside your camera the images are nice and snappy. Put a light source into the shot at your own peril. The GFX 50Sii is a fine camera with lots of dynamic range and big pixels. Just the way I like them. 51 megapixels, if you are able to use the full frame. 38 megapixels if you prefer to crop square like I do. And a few more megapixels if you crop just a bit wider than square --- which also looks very nice. 

We'll probably be the last generation to actually go into a bank. To actually see a human teller. I go there to deposit business checks. Most clients do direct deposits. And I do know how to use my phone app to make deposits. But I love seeing what's happening out in the streets and I like the exercise. The bank is just an excuse. One of my other banks is in San Antonio and while I do a fair amount of business with them over the course of a year I haven't been in their only lobby since 2017. How things have changed.