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Davidgarth

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  1. Hi Everyone, Thank you for the nice welcome. I'm an old retired guy who shot professionally as a side gig for almost 50 years. I live on the beautiful Central Coast of California. Over the years I've shot large format 4x5, medium format Pentax 6x7 and 645, and Nikon 35mm since 1962. My relationship with Fujifilm started with their medium format film cameras, then to digital in 2006 with the Fujifilm S2, and finally to mirrorless Fuji X starting in 2017 with the X-T20, then the X-T2, and now the X-T4 and the X-S10. I shoot only for fun now--mostly landscapes and wildlife--and I only use these Fuji X cameras which I love.
  2. Sample-to-sample variation has probably always existed in camera lenses, but, it’s much more obvious now that so many people are pixel peeping their images at 100 or 200 percent. It’s good to know the ultimate capabilities of your lenses, but sharpness is just one facet of imagine quality and image quality is just one facet of a good photograph. So, overly obsessing about sharpness distracts from the ultimate goal of creating a great image.
  3. Sometimes the Internet echo chamber drives me crazy. I’ve had this lens for about two weeks, tested it against my other Fuji lenses and I’m very happy with it. But it gets bashed by many who have never even used it or owned it. It’s relatively small and lightweight considering its 5:1 zoom range, has excellent build quality and a very versatile and useful zoom range. Very fun to shoot with It’s very sharp in the center 1/3rd at all focal lengths, corners sharp between 18 and 70mm, slightly less sharp in the corners at 16 and 80mm. I think this is excellent results for a lens of this type.
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