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Has anyone else had a bad quality XF 90mm ? I bought mine last week and after I had brought it home and unpacked it, seeing it in good light with my glasses on, I came to the conclusion that it is not a brand new lens. There was a hint of a smear on the rear glass, some dust and the paint was rubbed off at a spot on the front edge. I figured someone must have been using it or it was a refurbished one or something like that. So I filed a complaint and I was told I would be notified when new ones arrive on stock and I can come and exchange it for another one of my choice, which a week later really happened (today). In the meantime before it got exchanged I shot a few test shots with it, most of them wide open of course, and I had the feeling they were rather soft. So I shot some more carefully from a tripod (a test chart) and I could see a big difference between sharpness wide open and stopped down, which was on the contrary to everything I had read in all the reviews. After I exchanged the lens for a new one I did similar test shots and aha, the new one was sharp from f 2.0 onwards with almost no visible improvement when stopping down to 2.8 or 4.0. So the first one was definitely not OK. I called the shop to let them know, so they don't sell it to some unsuspecting soul. They said they will check it themselves and send it back to the distributor if their tests confirm this. I haven't done a lot of shooting with the new one, but so far I like what I see and I hope I will enjoy it like everybody else has. Btw, in the shop the boxes of some of the lenses were scratched and crushed, looking ugly, and the shop only sighed that the distributor delivers them in such a bad shape rather often. I refused to take the 35mm f2 they gave me because the box looked as if it had fallen onto an edge of something. They gave me another one. I told them they ought to not accept this from the distributor and ought to demand flawless goods. Crime scene: Bratislava, Slovakia. Distributor: FUJIFILM Europe GmbH, Slovakia office. George