A couple of weeks ago I asked the Fujirumors reader to send me their wishlist for future X mount lenses. We know the official Fuji X roadmap (see image on top) But what exactly should come after it?
I summed up your suggestions and tried to group them in a way that it makes sense. Please note that your dream lens may not be on the list, but you can always vote what’s similar to it. The poll may will give us and Fuji the idea what kind of lens is needed:
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Not on the list: Lenses with built-in leaf shutters! That’s what it would take to move me from X100S to one of Fuji’s interchangeable lens cameras.
Agree, that would be awesome!
+1
One reason I passed on the XE1, in favor of the x100s, was lack of a 35mm equivalent lens. I’d like to see a fast prime in that area. Then Fuji would sell me on the X-pro2. It really depends on what Sony is going to do with their NEX development.
might be better off bring a X100s along with Xpro for silent shutter, build-in ND filter & faster flash sync, no need to switch lenses also.
But the 23mm f/1.4 is already on the roadmap for 2013!
The 23 1.4 is roughly the same size as the 60mm, the one listed is a pancake. Cheers jon
Sorry I meant the equiv to 35mm in size. Cheers jon
really want a 16 f 1.4 as small as possible.
I also really want to be able to AF on a bride walking down an isle, so I can trade my Nikon system for a Fuji system.
More prime lenses please!
No 23mm f/1.4 on the survey? That’s the only one I want. 🙂
it’s on Fuji’s roadmap
What about an 18-200 lens with a decent f value?
Would be great to take an all-around lens for a trip when there is no time to switch lenses.
I absolutely agree with “GK”. FR really should add a full range zoom lens on the list, to see how many people would like this option – me included. Probably two versions, a fast and a normal one.
That’s an interesting choice though I’m not sure we’ll see an all around lens like that for a while. A faster 18-200 than the standard f3.5-5.6 might start getting a bit unwieldy for a camera body size of the X series cameras.
+1111 I absolutely agree. That’s the only lens which interests me and is not on your poll.
18-200 should however not weight more than 500 gr!
I was told by Fuji Canada that the 56 mm f1.4 would not be available until 2014
I would like some zoom lenses, such as 18-135mm, 18-200mm.
105mm equiv and a 180mm equiv. F2~F2.8 or so. By the time focal lengths like that are covered, the Fuji’s AF will be even better and I’ll be comfortable enough to leave Nikon for good.
how about a PC lens? that will be great if the X system will have something for architectural photogs.
How about a 23mm f/2 manual focus but with all the electronics needed to provide focus confirmation and framing in the OVF?
-jk
No portrait lens on the road map? Without one the X can’t be regarded as a pro system
Sure there is a portrait lens already in Fuji’s rodmap: The 56/1,4 – corresponds to a fast 85mm prime.
16mm F2!!!!! 2.8-F4 would even be nice if it had corner to corner sharpness.
Everything else i want is on the road map.
I would like to see a better 18mm, a 18 mk2 or something, or a 20mm (30mm equivalent, which is better for street photo) f1.8.
It is pointless to take a poll on possible future lenses when it is highly unlikely that we will see all the lenses on the roadmap by the end of the year
I don’t know if that is true. I don’t know how much attention Fujifilm pays to this site, but if they pay any attention to it, and they should because enthusiasts often go here for news, they will see what enthusiasts want in addition to what is on the roadmap. The roadmap should be completed within a year or so…what then?
For me, I’d like a 90mm f/2. I’d also love something like the 14-35mm if Fuji had the balls to make it. Keep it f/4. Keep it relatively skinny. That would be a grail lens for me.
Fuji “has the balls” to put a 10-22 f/4 on the roadmap, so speculating about a 14-35 f/4 is not so crazy. However, f/2 is just silly.
In the last years the expectations became higher than necessity. For me, the only lens that I’d really like to have is already on the map – the 56 1.4 lens. For all the others, we already have choises with more then enough quality:
– for wide: Samyang 8 mm fisheye and Voigtlander 12 mm – both for less then the Fuji 14 mm (for such wide lenses the autofocus is not necessary)
– for daily use – the Fuji 18-55
– for low-light – the Fuji 35 1.4 (or the upcomping 23 1.4)
– for portraiture – the upcoming 56 1.4 (I’m using the Zeiss Planar 50/2 ZM)
– for macro – the Fuji 60 2.4 (enough for me)
– for longer lens – any of the latest Fuji ultrazoom bridge cameras (all of them are stabilized) will be more then acceptable – any of them would be cheaper then the lens only for the X system.
Personally, I would like to see some prime lenses with some image stabilization. I’m actually quite impressed with the results I’ve been getting from the 18-55 f2.8-4.0.
All you need is a (any kind of possible) tele conversion lens for x100s!
+1
We would need ultra-wide too. The X100s is a beautiful camera, but like all fixed lens cameras, it is too limited for most. However, it would make a good second camera for traveling, with an X-pro 1s/X-E1s. Interchangeable lens cameras will always be necessary…
This should have been released with the 23 mm f1.4 on day one
very poor list. no macro lens. a lot of lenses with sweet focus for ff.
There’s a 100mm macro. If I were nitpicky, I’d say 85mm macro would be slightly better, but I’m not…
so many want a 14-35 f 2.0 …
serious?
that thing have to be a monster, just think about the Nikkor 14-24 and it is only f2.8(ok, it is FF).
what is really missing is the 23 f 2.0 and something like 85 or 90 f 1.8
i wished that the 55-200 were actually f 2.8-4 …
Agreed…no need for more zoom lenses. Fast primes are far better, though the 10-22 and 55 – 200 will be nice. A 135mm f/2 and a 100mm macro with OIS would be nice. A tilt-shift lens would be nice too. They need to introduce the 23mm f1.4 and the 56 f1.4 soon, as those lenses are in demand.
all depends of the SIZE of the lenses
I don´t wana BIG LENSES
Gime more Pancake or similar
…and it depends of the WEIGHT.
The upcoming 55-200 with 580g is way too heavy, I’d prefer any lightweighted telezoom.
Yes, but we want speed too. I would accept even heavier for f2.8
300mm 2.8 – just for fun – with leaf shutter
We need a decent telephoto lens. Zoom or not zoom, I don’t care.
Simple – bright fixed focal Fujinons with snappy and quiet internal AF that producing nice image quality 😀
MANUAL FOCUS LENSES!!! Cheaper and smaller.
If there would be a lens 28-130 ( ~in 35mm film terms ) I would buy a camara shortly. Bright lens, but light, not so heavy ( special lenses as doublesided aspherical and expensiv accepted ).
A small pancake would be very useful, especially around 23mm. Maybe a nice portrait lens, too.
My dream lens is not on the above list. It would be a pancake zoom 23-46 mm F4 (roughly similar to the Leica R 35-70mm F4).
The votes mention the 56/1,4 on second place. I hope this will push Fuji to bring that lens faster, apparently a LOT of people wait for this, me included. However to wish it with OIS is useless, as Fuji has already planned it (as all their prime lenses) without OIS. Yes I’d prefer too with, but it won’t happen…
If they can’t or wont make a 300 an 1.4x for the 55-200 would work!!!!!! There is times I just have to get out and pull in a shot! and a 1.4 would be a ton smaller and light to.