Lens maker Irix has announced the new 45mm f/1.4 Dragonfly optic for Fujifilm GFX cameras. The lens is impressive for two things, the first of which is its f/1.4 maximum aperture, making it the fastest lens ever for a GFX medium-format camera.
The second is the price, which is just €845 at the Irix online shop, or about £750/$1,020. We say ‘only’, but that’s not a bad price for any medium-format lens, let alone an f/1.4.
The 45mm focal length corresponds to roughly a 36mm prime in full-frame terms, so this is an ideal semi-wide ‘walkaround’ standard zoom – although with a length of 144mm and a weight of 1,120g, you might not want to walk very far. Like other Irix lenses, it’s manual focus only, so you’ll have to be precise with your focusing, especially at f/1.4. There’s a focus lock to fix the focus at your chosen point, though – a feature we’d like to see on a lot more lenses.