The X-series is creaming off more “highly recommended” awards! This time they go to Fuji’s latest lenses, the 56mm and the 10-24mm.
ephotozine 56mm review here: “This lens is a fine addition to the X-series lens line up. It is incredibly sharp when stopped down, and performs well wide open too. The build and handling are also of the same high standard we’ve come to expect from Fujifilm. The price of £890 seems quite reasonable when compared to alternatives produced for other camera systems too.”
photographyblog 10-24mm review here: “The Fujifilm 10-24mm lens is remarkably sharp in the image centre at f/4 throughout the entire focal range, and you only need to stop-down to f/5.6 to get acceptably sharp edges too. Vignetting is practically a non-issue, and chromatic aberrations are only noticeable by their almost complete absence. Barrel distortion is also very well controlled, even at 10mm, an amazing performance given the ultra-wide-angle focal length.”
Fuji XF 56mm: [shopcountry 21554]
Fuji XF 10-24mm: [shopcountry 20414]
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They hit the nail on the head,great lens just to expensive.
Definitely for me anyway.
My verdict to 56/1.2 (from 2 weeks of testing under various conditions): AF is NOT faster than 35/1.4 (as some reviewers claim). In fact, it’s almost as slow as 60/2.5, it just won’t hunt for focus in a macro zone. Add a focus limiter to 60mm – and it will perform (AF wise) very similarly to the new 56mm. I guess that’s why Fuji won’t add a limiter via FW update.
The lens is very sharp wide open. Bokeh is quite smooth, not “mushy” like Canon 85/1.2L… yet not as beautiful as Nikon’s 85/1.4G. When stopped down, the bokeh becomes quite busy. Hint, hint: get ND filter 🙂