18mm in box

[drb]

Have an 18mm still fully boxed on the shelf. It has been sitting there for 2 months and is collecting dust. Mostly using my x100t and xt1 with 35mm glued onto it and occasionally my Ricoh gr. I'm wondering if these are clear signs to sell the 18mm or is it worth keeping and using eventually? I also have the 18-55mm and bought the 18mm mainly because of its small size.

[milandro]

The 18mm has to be the lens with the worst press ever in the X system until now. It is said to be the lens with the least image quality in the system.

 

The lens is now offered , together with the 27mm in a kit with the X-Pro 1 ( In the NL the whole kit containing other goodies like leather pouches for camera and lenses costs € 899 for all of it!) , the camera is on the way out and these 2 lenses must be the least wanted lenses of the whole system.

 

So, the chances of actually selling it, unless you give it away are slim, at best.

 

In my opinion you could either use it or (better) trade it in at a shop for a more useful ( to you)  lens.

[citral]

Now that I have it I realize a point completely overseen : the 18mm can focus extremely close (18cm).

 

That means you can have easy bokeh with a wide angle and do "kind of macro" in a real small package.

 

It then renders out of focus areas in a smoother manner than the 18-55.

 

So if you are using a wide to make sharp shots of wide stuff (to "get it all in the frame") it probably doesn't matter much vs the 18-55.

 

But if you use it to exaggerate the size of something close it has a definitive edge over the zoom, try it.