Image courtesy: Photozone
The well known lens review website Photozone reviewed two Fuji X lenses. The 60mm macro f/2.4: “The Fujinon XF 60mm f/2.4 R macro is the best of the three initial lenses for the X-mount.” And the Fuji 18mm f/2.0 (here): “It is certainly a cool little lens for the Fujifilm X-Pro mirrorless system. After all small is beautiful these days. However, performance-wise it is a bit of a mixed bag.“
And SLRgear tested the 18mm f/2.0 lens: “very good performance, even when used wide open, and excellent performance when stopped down just a little. If you’re an X-Pro 1 user, this is another lens that definitely deserves a place in your bag.“
In stock status check:
Fuji X PRO 1 body is in Stock at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here), Jessops UK (Click here) and Digitalrev (Click here).
Fuji X 18mm f/2.0 in Stock at Amazon (Click here) and Digitalrev (Click here).
Fuji X 35mm f/1.4 in Stock at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here) and Digitalrev (Click here).
Fuji X 60mm macro f/2.0 in not Stock at Amazon (3-4weeks) but is in Stock at Digitalrev (Click here).
12 Responses
Measurbation on overpriced toy = Marketing for suckers.
Looked at the SLRgear review. Center performance of the 18mm improves when stopped down a little bit but any way you look at it the edge performance is not very good. It’s unfortunate because they market the camera to pros yet fail to have a truly “pro” lineup of lenses, able to compete with Canon L, Sony G/Zeiss and Nikon gold band glass.
I so want an x-pro.
But until they bring the af up to speed, its a no from me…
@viking79: you’re comparing a zoom to a fixed focal length lens. The zoom lens is at a huge disadvantage because the same lens elements have to produce a sharp, undistorted image at the wide and and the long end of the range. Even expensive zooms therefore, have barrel distortion and lack of corner sharpness especially at the short end of the range especially wide open. Expensive fixed focal length lenses should not have anywhere near the distortion or lack of sharpness as the zoom.
well these lens tests highlight something; the system is overhyped. The m43, and NX systems have very similar, if not better performing lenses. The 34mm f1.4 is massively overhyped with its sigma-like performance.
Not saying its a bad system at all when it does offer good actual performance sensor wise. The AF on all the lenses is primitive, and down to lens design choices (why a micromotor fuji…?)
Sales generally say… marketing > product.
I find hard to undersand why people i so obsessed by fuji X-Pro 1 and why they think world needs to know their bashing opinion about the system.
Every time, in each occasion, even someone talks about leather cases there is always someone ready to say how much X-Pro 1 sucks and how great are other systems.
Images speak by their own, as always photography does.