Fujifilm Fujinon GF 110mm F5.6 T/S Macro review: Tilt, shift and rotate at will

The Fujifilm Fujinon GF 110mm F5.6 T/S Macro combines the advantages of tilt and shift control with powerful 0.5x macro magnification for extreme close-ups

5 Star Rating
Fujinon GF 110mm F5.6 T/S Macro
(Image: © Matthew Richards)

Digital Camera World Verdict

I love the full control over perspective and depth of field that the Fujifilm Fujinon GF 110mm F5.6 T/S Macro gives me. Image quality is exceptional but it comes at a daunting purchase price.

Pros

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    Full range of tilt, shift and rotation

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    0.5x macro facility

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    Exceptional image quality

Cons

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    Quite weighty

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    No tripod mounting collar

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    Very expensive to buy

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Tilt-shift lenses are the darlings of professional architectural and landscape photographers, enabling perspective correction to stop tall buildings appearing to lean inwards towards the top, and for gaining control over depth of field, largely independent of aperture settings. With these photo opportunities in mind, the best tilt-shift lenses are often wide-angle optics with a large field of view. The Fujinon GF 110mm F5.6 T/S Macro is even more of a specialist lens. Designed for Fujifilm’s GFX medium format system, it has an ‘effective’ focal length of just under 90mm in full-frame terms. As such, it’s more useful for product photography, still life and, thanks to its 0.5x maximum macro magnification factor, extreme close-ups. Whichever way you look at it, this is one of the best Fujinon GF lenses , full stop.

The Shift knob gives +/-15mm of movement with a calibrate scale for easy reference. (Image credit: Matthew Richards)
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Mount optionsFujifilm GF
Lens construction11 elements in 9 groups
Angle of view27.9 degrees
Diaphragm blades9
Minimum aperturef/32
Minimum focus distance0.43m
Maximum magnification0.5x
Filter size72mm
Dimensions95x149mm
Weight1,255g
Fujinon GF 30mm F5.6 T/S

If you’re after a more wide-angle tilt-shift lens for your Fujifilm GFX system camera, look no further than the Fujinon GF 30mm F5.6 T/S, which has a 24mm ‘effective’ focal length in full-frame terms, more useful for architectural and landscape photography.

Laowa FF S 20mm F4.0 C-Dreamer

The wide-angle Laowa FF S 20mm F4.0 C-Dreamer only costs about a third of the price. It’s a lens that I’ve been very impressed with but it only offers a shift function, with no tilt option.

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Matthew Richards

Matthew Richards is a photographer and journalist who has spent years using and reviewing all manner of photo gear. He is Digital Camera World's principal lens reviewer – and has tested more primes and zooms than most people have had hot dinners! 

His expertise with equipment doesn’t end there, though. He is also an encyclopedia  when it comes to all manner of cameras, camera holsters and bags, flashguns, tripods and heads, printers, papers and inks, and just about anything imaging-related. 

In an earlier life he was a broadcast engineer at the BBC, as well as a former editor of PC Guide.