Image courtesy by Optyczne
Wow guys! You have to see this! The polish website Optyczne (Click here) just published the pictures of five new Fuji X lenses! These are the:
Fujinon Super EBC XF 10–24 mm f/4 R LM OIS
Fujinon Super EBC XF 23 mm f/1.4 R
Fujinon Super EBC XF 27 mm f/2.8 R
Fujinon Super EBC XF 55–200 mm f/3.5–4.8 R LM OIS
Fujinon Super EBC XF 56 mm f/1.4 R
I like that pancake a lot!
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I’m also looking forward to the 27mm pancake! In combination of course with the X-E1. I think it would be the ideal camera. Later on I want to expand it with an ultra wideangle
man, if only the 27 could have been a 2.0. if only!!
This is fantastic. Looks like they managed to keep it quite light and small in spite of the relatively wide aperture. Very very exciting 🙂 Finally a company that listens to their customers!
can’t wait for the 23 1.4 and 55-200 .. and my X-E1 🙂
The 27 is very interesting f/2.8 doesn’t bother me so long as its very sharp and contrasty at the 2.8.
The 23mm is one lens I will be buying for sure. I hope that this prototype pictured is not the final design. I hope they put the same focus clutch mechanism as they have on the 14mm on the 23mm for scale/zone focusing durring street shooting.
As we can see on the second picture, the bottom of the lens is closed. These lenses are not finished. Fuji just wanted to burn Sony showing a complete lineup for the Photokina, that is great. But these lenses are not usable for now, just protos. I guess we will have to wait for a certain time before to see them on the market.
primes should all be f/1.4
Total nonsense. For example, in Leica M mount the single best prime lens I’ve ever used is the ZM C-Biogon 35/2.8. It’s the most well-corrected and consistent optic I’ve ever used — a considerably better lens than the 35/1.4 Summilux ASPH that I owned and used for a decade.
10-24 too big,
27, 35 and 56 great
23mm is much larger than X100 lens. Must be horribly good and will be a Leica killer.
X100 lens is f/2, this XF lens is f/1.4
Does anyone know why 35/2 (23/2 in this case) lenses are some of the most compact lenses out there, while 35/1.4 lenses are invariably huge by comparison? The Canikon versions are the same way, so it’s not surprising that the Fuji is; I’ve just never been clear on why there’s such a discrepancy. 50/2 and 50/1.4 lenses rarely differ so much. (This said, I don’t believe the Leica 35’s differ much at all).
really looking forward to the 23mm…! hopefully it will be released on time 🙂
This is amazing! With these and the Zeiss lenses I couldn’t ask more (well, maybe a tele and, I’m dreaming here, a tilt/shift wide lens). I’m personally excited about the Fuji 10-24 and the Zeiss 18, I love wide lenses.
Between the Fuji and the NEX systems (too bad Samsung is unable to get more love for their also fairly complete system), I declare M43 dead… 🙂
http://i.imgur.com/fMu4z.jpg
I guess that 58mm filter size is the way to go then. At least if you don’t plan using either the fuji 10-24 or zeiss 12mm.
Already dreamin about the 23 1.4…
Nice that all but one of those prototypes have 58mm filter diameter. Nice for customers to have a single set of filters that carries across multiple lenses.
I too am excited about the 27mm. Its going to be a nice street lens….almost pocketable but not quite.
Personally, I am not that impressed. Why are we using 58mm filters? The 18 and 35mm have 52mm. Why couldn’t Fuji keep it at 52? Or release the original lenses at 58mm? And that 10-24…it looks HUGE. I mean, it has a 72mm filter. 72 feakin’ millimeters. I thought one of the advantages of removing the mirror was that you could make much smaller wide angle lenses. Look at what Panasonic did with the 7-14mm. An Sony’s 10-18mm looks much smaller too (I know it’s not the same focal range, but my god, I don’t need that 27-36mm focal range that badly). I really hope the final design is a lot smaller, because otherwise it’s Sony for me and someone can buy my Fuji gear cheap.
You still have the 14mm wide angle which takes 58mm filters. As for the 52mm primes, you can use step rings assuming you don’t own already loads of 52mm filters (if you’re a new customer and intend to go Fuji X like me for instance).
Furthermore you cannot compare APS-C lenses with MFT ones, the latest will always be smaller, if you prefer MFT lenses then go MFT. The sony comparison is much fair and indeed the sony 10-18 is smaller with 62mm diameter but less versatile. It’s always a matter of compromises… Just choose the sytem that best suits your needs.
What does the ‘R’ denote?
I think R is for short backfocus distance
ok, now build a 23mm f/2 pancake lens