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10mm or 12mm f/2?

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First time posting. 

Anyone else out there waiting for Fujifilm to announce a 10mm f/2 or 12mm f/2 - essentially any ultra wide fast prime?

I have pretty much all the wide angle lenses by Fujifilm, but haven't quite found the right set up yet:

9mm f/2.8 Laowa is surprisingly decent, but manual focus obviously and doesn't have the Fujifilm quality.

8-16mm f/2.8 is an amazing lens but massive and heavy.

10-24mm f/4 is very good but a bit soft in the corners at 10-12mm.

14mm f/2.8 is razor sharp but a bit of a strange focal length and I'm planning to sell this one.

16mm f/1.4 is one of my all-time favourite lenses and ideal for many things, but it's not UWA. 

There was talk of a 10mm a while back. In fact even the poll that was done put a 10mm f/2 out on top.

Does anyone know what happened? Is there still any chance? Would it be pretty big itself?

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There's a very good Zeiss Touit 12mm for Fuji X mount. Not cheap, but well-adapted to Fuji. A 10mm f2 would be pretty big. Comparable lenses in FF are often f2.8 for that reason. Most users don't need f2 in an ultra-wide.

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