There is still one more little announcement left for this year! Fuji will release the XF 10-24mm zoom on November 20. The next lens announcement will follow soon after: The XF 56mm is coming on January 6. Great Fuji! But where is our X-PRO2 with new sensor? 🙂
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Interesting lens, but still too big and too long for a rangefinder style mirrorless.
Maybe a DSLR styled camera is on its way.
Not a bad idea -and maybe Fuji soon will launch a line of DSLR shaped cameras-, but still some really compact, collapsible zoom lenses with good IQ, is the best solution.
Madmax, if you want a shorter lens, take the 18 mm. I’m looking forward to this new zoom, could be exactly what I’m waiting for. I’m curious whether the lens will have such a splendid optical correction as the 14mm. Or is this kind of correction not possible with a zoomlens? F4 is not great but not terrible either, as long as it is sharp at f4.
You have to realize that if you’re shooting scenic shots, to get the most from your sensor you will probably be from f/5.6 to f/8. This is perfect for an f/4 lens.
F/2.8 ultra wides tend to have more issues with flare and you normally aren’t looking for shallow depth of field in an ultra wide, and you get much shallower depth of field from close focus more than aperture in an ultra wide.
No, I don´t want a shorter lens, but a shorter zoom lens.
Trying to decide whether to stick with Olympus (but upgrade, E-620 currently) or switch to Fuji, wide angle options are paramount. The 14mm is a gorgeous lens (not interested in software corrections for WA) but for climbing/scrambling a zoom is so much more practical. Currently on the hunt for a decent 2nd hand ZUIKO 7-14mm but it’s a heavy lens… as much as I like Oly and dislike the engineering behind the X-Trans, Fuji are winning me over.
It’d be tough to leave the ZUIKO 8mm at home though!
What’s wrong with the Panasonic 7-14mm f/4? Paired with an E-M1 you can have an outstanding wide angle zoom + continue using all your 43 lenses.
Read that and wondered why indeed but… I did take a look at it a while back: corner performance for landscapes is poor — smeared, basically. I chose 43s for the crop factor (DOF) so it does show. The ZUIKO is also weather proof, that’s more than handy for me. Final piece of the puzzle is that you can pick up a 2nd hand ZUIKO for the same price or less and they are well made lenses that have probably been well looked after.
Thanks for the pointer though, always good to have options! The E-M1 is perfection for me but… I’m not a pro so will wait to see what the E-M6 brings. Cheers.
Olympus has a UWA high quality zoom on its m43 roadmap. If you are in no hurry, that could be the one.
Fantastic, hadn’t heard about that. I know that a lot of people advocate a “normal” lens and stitching images together but… it’s just not that easy to do on a knife-edge ridge! For me anyway. Cheers Paul.
That’s odd, there’s a very short travel between 10mm and 18mm on the zoom ring. Looks very uncomfortable in use.