How you can tell that Fuji are Serious about their Len's

[gordonrussell76]

Was just thinking today that many mirroless systems have a powered pancake zoom in the 24-85mm range.

 

Pany and Olympus have the 14-42mm powered pancake

Sony the 16-50mm semi pancake

Samsung had something along those lines.

 

I am sure i have seen other but I am too lazy to research further than my brain.

 

Fuji has nothing.

 

This is not a complaint, I think its a masterstroke.

 

As a rule these lens are terribly soft and generally a horrid lens. And Sony uses it as the kit lens. 

 

You walk into a camera shop you pick up the A6300 with the kit lens and you go hmmm okay, you pick up the X-E2 with the 18-55mm and game over really until some sales guys starts lying to you/repeating stuff he heard on a forum.

 

I was in Parks  the other day and overheard a sales guy telling a customer that the X-T10 was for beginners because it has full AUTO mode switch and that the image quality from the X-T1 was superior. All this because it has one switch on it saying AUTO, f me.

 

Anyway I digress. The point I am trying to make is I am really glad that Fuji is not a 'me too' company, they make stuff they have a level of quality they are not prepared to drop below and they stick to it.

 

I mean even the XC lens, the IQ is not the thing sacrificed, the AF may be a bit slower and the build quality is not amazing, but the IQ is very very good. 

 

Have to say that long term I think this will serve Fuji well, it also comes across when you look at Flickr/500px etc. Most image in a Fuji group look great, you look at other manufacturers pools and there are some insanely good shots on there, don't get me wrong I am not fan-boying. Some of the landscape stuff I have seen from the A7Rii is truly amazing. But then equally you will see some truly terrible stuff on there from some of their mediocre lens. Not great advertising for the system.

 

Fuji is consistently putting out quality gear in a well balanced system that speaks to photographers needs not to fads and fashion and spec whores, and I think that more and more that is getting recognized, and hopefully rewarded with market share.

 

G

 

 

[johant]

You can make crap pictures with any camera.

 

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[yukosteel]

The answer is - yes, Fuji is very serious about their lens.

That was clear from the very beginning. The system got started with XF18mm f2, XF 35mm 1.4, XF60mm 2.5 - all primes with exceptional IQ.

I think XF 18-55mm F2.8-4 was the first Fuji X zoom lens, and again it's premium-grade zoom lens, which you can see from it's starting F2.8 at 18mm, and also exceptionally high IQ.

 

It's awesome that Fuji covered wide range of demanded zooms and primes.

 

About the m4/3 pancakes. They are still just F3.5-4.5 cheaper "kit" lens, and also just more compact next generation of previous F3.5-4.5 lens that are slightly bigger.

 

I think Fuji does not have any need to produce lower quality lens just to satisfy request for more compact zoom lens design. I wish they'll keep producing high grade lens of bigger size if needed to satisfy that IQ we Fuji shooters like so much.

[Jürgen Heger]

I am happy that I can be sure that whatever Fuji lens I buy it will give an excellent image quality. But a small zoom like the Panasonic 12-32/f3.5-5.6 would be nice. I do not know if it could be made with a decent image quality without sacrifying the size too much.

[CRAusmus]

From what I've heard about the XC lenses, is that it's the exact same glass, exact same motors and technology in their XF lenses (18-55 and 55-200); they just change the shell and the focal length changes a little.

Edited May 20, 2016 by CRAusmus

[EddieX]

From what I've heard about the XC lenses, is that it's the exact same glass, exact same motors and technology in their XF lenses (18-55 and 55-200); they just change the shell and the focal length changes a little.

 

I seriously doubt that.

 

XF 18-55mm - 10 elements in 7 groups, including 2 aspheric and 3 ED (extra low dispersion) element

XC 16-55mm - 12 elements in 10 groups including 3 aspherical elements and 1 ED element

 

XF 50-200mm - 14 elements in 10 groups including 2 ED elements and 1 Super ED element

XC 50-230mm - 13 elements in 10 groups including 1 aspherical lens and 1 ED element

 

Now they might use some groups in the same lenses, but no all the same glass or they would be the same amount and type of elements.

[CRAusmus]

I seriously doubt that.

 

XF 18-55mm - 10 elements in 7 groups, including 2 aspheric and 3 ED (extra low dispersion) element

XC 16-55mm - 12 elements in 10 groups including 3 aspherical elements and 1 ED element

 

XF 50-200mm - 14 elements in 10 groups including 2 ED elements and 1 Super ED element

XC 50-230mm - 13 elements in 10 groups including 1 aspherical lens and 1 ED element

 

Now they might use some groups in the same lenses, but no all the same glass or they would be the same amount and type of elements.

 

May have fewer elements, but the glass is the same.  Manufactured to the same standards as the XF Lenses.  Thats coming from an interview I watched a while back online.  I can try to find it, but you could do that just the same.  Very interesting interview to watch.

[Jürgen Heger]

I guess when the Fuji representative speaks about glas he means the transparent material rather than the polished lens.

[bffmike]

You can make crap pictures with any camera.

 

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Yes but with Fuji it will be beautiful looking crap.