Our collueges from Digicameinfo posted that image of the new final production version of the XF 18-135mm f/ 3.5-5.6 R LM OIS lens. The lens is also dust and water proof and has a 67mm filter diameter. The Price in Japan will be 108,000 yen (tax included).
Like I told you before the lens will be announced on Monday.
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That’s pricy, very.
Surprisingly it looks like a lens!
It would be interesting to see a mock-up of this lens next to the XF 18-55mm.
Why no aperture ring? I’d love to see every new Fuji lens go weather sealed + aperture ring. Not having the ring on a few of these lenses seems inconsistent. Anyone know why some have it but a few don’t?
Yes. Aperture ring on variable-aperture lens was deemed to be too confusing for the hobbyists who normally buy variable aperture lenses 🙂
Yes, another epic fail from Fujifilm. What’s the point to have an unlabled aperture ring?????
whats the point of having it labeled on a variable aperture zoom lens?
Uh, same reasons as a constant aperture lens ..
All manual focus zoom lenses from the old days have labels too you know. Usually a line connects the F3.5 – F5.6 engravings indicating that it will simply use the widest available when on F3.5 or F4.
No, people will complain nowadays and say it’s fraud. “The lens itself told me f4 but it won’t open winder than 5.6!” I mean, how many people grasp that when you close focus a macro lens your effective aperture decreases? On some message boards that question gets asked every week and people think they got a defective lens or were sold a pig in a poke.
There really isn’t a perfect solution that fits everyone… except not to sell variable aperture lenses.
Sure, and then they know. It’s understandable for a macro prime since it’s quite unusual, and i think it doesn’t indicate the variable aperture on the front either so that’s no good.
But even so, how does leaving it empty fix anything. The ‘problems’ remain, it’s just even more of a mystery.
‘People’ don’t buy a system with manual dials everywhere if they didn’t want to use it.
Well, set it on f3.5 at 135mm, it’ll be an effective f5.6, the max available aperture at that focal lenght. That’s all.
No rocket science to figure out, easy to adapt to, and we would get sweet markings.
There is an unmarked aperture ring, as you can see in the picture. The 18-55 has one as well.
Doh! Thanks for the clarification. Makes sense. Now if they’d only make this a straight f4, we could get markings on that ring! 🙂
Apparently it’s removed on variable aperture lenses, but I’m also a bit annoyed by that. I wish an f/2.8 setting on the 18-55mm would just in reality be f/4 when zoomed to 55mm, and simply display f/4 in the viewfinder.
People caring enough about the exact aperture used and running aperture priority would surely also understand such a simple concept. *shrug*
Very pricy for such a lens, even weather sealed.
I love how transparent Fuji is being with their lens roadmap ( http://www.fujifilm.com/news/n140106_08.html ), and they seem to be hitting their targets. The f2.8 twins (50-140 and 16-55) and the super telephoto will make this an incredibly complete system. I wonder what’s next. Will they shift all focus to improving bodies? Turn their attention to catching up in video? Or will the pace of innovation slow to Canon like speeds? Not likely. Or will they move into medium format, having proven that they can launch a new line, then deliver a lens roadmap to support it? I for one, would have a lot of faith in the company’s ability to focus and deliver. Sony could learn a thing or three from them.
There are more lenses needed. 90mm 1.8 OIS (135mm) for tighter portraits, 100mm 2.8 1:1 Macro OIS (150mm) for the bug photographers, just to name two.
Agreed. They’re by no means “complete.” The 135 equivalent would be very useful, and a tilt shift would be nice too. But in a very short time, they’ve delivered a pretty compelling lineup. And they’ve made great strides in autofocus speed. For many users, it may even be fast enough, but I’d love to see them get faster still and surpass even the best DSLRs for focus tracking. Then its really game over for DSLR, because IQ is already a draw and Fuji wins on style and size be a wider margin than any DSLR has in IQ.
A lot of people ask for a flash system, so I guess it could be on the roadmap. They might also think medium format, to phase out their film line-up (GF670)
If anyone has seen a sharper image of this – can anyone tell the size of the filter? I assume it’s 62?
What about the new 2.8 lenses? I assume 72mm max? The images leaked (or purposely un-released) by fuji are not too sharp to see.
67mm filters
Great lens for amateurs or soccer moms.
I bet I could use this lens to get better pictures than you do with whatever ‘pro’ lenses you own….