ketsang

Sorry if I made you feel that way. I have no intention of questioning your experience as I don't know who you are. I am just saying that is my personal experience of using that lens, which could be different from yours or other photographers. I am not talking about experience in photography. We can agree that our experiences with this lens differ.

If you are trying to fill the frame with a bungalow for example, and shooting from the ground, you will get perspective distortion. It can be corrected in post processing of course. But if you want to minimize post processing and shoot jpg for example, using a 16mm and stand further away will give a more natural look. I am just speaking from personal experience of using this lens, and that is what the original post asked for .

I have the Samyang 12mm and XF 16. I used to have the XF 14mm. You mentioned architecture indoor and outdoor. I don't think 16mm is wide enough for indoor. Samyang 12mm may give you too much perspective distortion (different from lens distortion) when you try to shoot outdoor architecture. So if you want to get 1 lens only, it will have to be 14mm or 10-24mm. If you are planning to eventually get 2 wide lenses, then I recommend Samyang 12mm and XF 16mm, may be samyang 12mm first and later 16mm.

Modern cameras these days are small computers. Computer freezes when you push it to the limit. It could be software issue, hardware + software issue or accessory (ie card) issue. The fact that it happens randomly makes it hard to trace the cause of it. It is better if everyone experiencing this issue inform Fuji about the exact circumstances when it happened. Only with enough information can Fuji make proper diagnosis and hopeful fix it in future firmware update.

Great pictures taken using a camera people said not for sports! Respect. Following you on Flickr now

35/2 is probably too tight indoor, especially if you want to take group photo of people. I would choose 18 over 27 for extra stop of light in the evening. If you have the 23/1.4. That would be ideal in my opinion.

Great job in getting so close to the dragonfly and manual focus.

18-55 would be great for kid running around as not only you have to focus fast, you may want to zoom in and out quickly to reframe. If you are after primes, I use my 35/2 a lot for my 2 years old. It works well.