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f/8 is not the sweet spot for any of my Fuji lenses. Certainly not f/11.

The knob that rotates is actually a lever, pull it in the opposite direction to the lens. I had a similar confusing issue with a fotodiox adapter.

Rockwell is just trying to get you to buy something via his affiliate links. Every review will have either a favorable review vs a similar product or an upsell. Half the time he's never even touched the product.

Mine was a bit of a and b, I don't treat my 50-140 any differently to my other lenses but I've always stored longer lenses vertically.

Don't rock it, problem solved.

Buy the XC and save for the 50-140 :-)

When I looked into Sony a few months back the lenses were thin on the ground, not overwhelmingly well reviewed, mostly oddly slow (f/4 zooms and f/2.8 primes? thus defeating the object of "that full frame bokeh") and what was available was pretty expensive for what it was too. I'm sure it's a different experience in use but you're basically committing to third party lenses and adapters, which I've never really had a lot of comfort in using.

I'm pretty sure you can get much better video performance with the dedicated videocams these days.

I'd get the 16-55 f/2.8. If the background is part of the image then this would give you the maximum amount of flexibility to correctly compose the whole picture.

I was quite stunned to see how cheap you can pick up an xe-1 from the grey importers or second hand (and also how difficult I'm finding it to shift my D600). I've started to think that digital bodies are basically unsellable and I don't think I'll ever consider anything over 500 quid worth the money considering how quickly the technology is still improving, deprecating the old gear.

I like the acceleration, but if you're switching between both types you're probably stuck between two worlds. It doesn't help anyone that some lenses behave differently. I agree however that it should be an option.

Mirrorless has come so far in the last 3-4 years, I feel like we're at a tipping point, being driven by mft and fuji x (and smartphones). As someone said earlier, mft is pretty good for video, I bet the next generation of fuji will improve focus speed and be good for video (thus further endangering the flappy mirror cameras) and the generation after that will kill off all but the very specialist uses of DSLR. Just in time for smartphones to kill everything.

I like the zoom because besides maxing out the bokeh the amazing OIS gives you an alternative option to stop right down and compose with the background as well. The zoom range also helps here by allowing you to compose the perspective by zooming with your feet and reframing.

Stop it right down and shoot a white wall at various stages through the zoom range to find out.

I love everything about it except the fiddly small lens cap.

There is a smaller X lens than the 27mm... you've got to like f/8.0 though

For me the 56mm and 90mm replaced it in the 'great' category. I'm not denying it's a great macro lens, but if you already have the 27mm then you have a much cheaper option in the extenders.

There's very little point in the 60mm imo. It's not great for portraits, a number of zooms overlap it never mind the dedicated portrait lenses, and you can do decent macro with the 27mm and the 16mm extension tube.

The 27mm works very well with the mc-ex16 as well. I skipped the 60mm completely in favour of this combo, I can live with the limited foval distance.

Nissin i40?

Nothing you said there is contrary to my expectations tbh. I don't see how it doesn't apply to a 33 instead of 27 or whatever anyway. If you don't want an f/1.0, that's fine, nobody is forcing you.

I would keep the 18-55 and get another body and a 50-140 I may have missed the point somewhat

Besides, voigtlander make a wider f/0.95 than this for mft already. There is precedent.

I thought the clunk was due to the electromagnetic focusing system not being powered and thus not holding the focus system in place?

You just gave every reason why I want one there. It would be a unique low light prime. Also being mirrorless and aps-c makes the canon size comparison a bit meaningless.