XF27 - Ideal Travel Lens

[frankinfuji]

I have 2 XF zooms, 3 XF Primes (27, 35, 60) plus an X-E2 body, but when I'm travelling for business or pleasure, I usually take the X-M1 plus 27mm, because it's easy to carry, quick to set to fully auto when needed, and the lens seems to be so versatile that I rarely feel I've missed a shot because I needed a different lens. 

 

Shots below were all taken this weekend in Singapore using the 27mm + X-M1 - seemed to do a decent enough job considering the range of subjects?

 

What's your favorite travel combo?

 

Is there an even better combination from the Fuji range?

 

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[Nero]

Traveling in Budapest recently I brought my X-Pro2, 23mm f/1.4 and 35mm f/1.4 as the only lenses. I do agree that the 27mm is a phenomenal all purpose, compact lens though..... and I think my wife would agree because she has claimed my copy of the 27mm for her X-E1 and never takes it off her camera! 

 

Here are a couple shots from the 35mm and 23mm from Budapest. When I travel with these two lenses they never let me down. Sometimes I may wish I had my 16mm or 10-24mm, but those only cover very specific types of shots for me. I need to catch up on my Flickr uploads, so I can't embed these in the post right now, but here are the links to them on my Tumblr blog posts:

 

http://orendarling.com/post/151403665492/budapest-hungary-september-2016-oren-darling

http://orendarling.com/post/151358460221/budapest-hungary-september-2016-oren-darling

[frankinfuji]

Traveling in Budapest recently I brought my X-Pro2, 23mm f/1.4 and 35mm f/1.4 as the only lenses. I do agree that the 27mm is a phenomenal all purpose, compact lens though..... and I think my wife would agree because she has claimed my copy of the 27mm for her X-E1 and never takes it off her camera! 

 

Here are a couple shots from the 35mm and 23mm from Budapest. When I travel with these two lenses they never let me down. Sometimes I may wish I had my 16mm or 10-24mm, but those only cover very specific types of shots for me. I need to catch up on my Flickr uploads, so I can't embed these in the post right now, but here are the links to them on my Tumblr blog posts:

 

http://orendarling.com/post/151403665492/budapest-hungary-september-2016-oren-darling

http://orendarling.com/post/151358460221/budapest-hungary-september-2016-oren-darling

 

I really like that night/street shot in Budapest!  I keep hearing good things about the 23mm f1.4 ...... think I'll try one and see if I 'need' another prime.

[Sahib7]

For me the ultimate travel kit is a X100/s/t. I've sold my X100T to partly finance my X-Pro 2 but I dearly miss it already.

I'm going to preorder the X100F directly after announcement...

 

That said I'm currently using the X-Pro 2 with 23 f1.4 and 56f1.2 for travel.

[johant]

My wife "stole" my 18mm so clearly that is her ideal travel lens.

I am happy with the 27mm indeed.

[frankinfuji]

For me the ultimate travel kit is a X100/s/t. I've sold my X100T to partly finance my X-Pro 2 but I dearly miss it already.

I'm going to preorder the X100F directly after announcement...

 

That said I'm currently using the X-Pro 2 with 23 f1.4 and 56f1.2 for travel.

 

I've not used an X100 series camera, and I know it has a leaf shutter, but isn't an X-Pro 2 with 23mm f1.4 superior to the current X100's in most respects?

[Sluw]

It's definitely a favourite for me as well, love the 40mm FOV and the X100 package size.

 

Beaugency by Licht Sluw, on Flickr

 

Almost raining by Licht Sluw, on Flickr

 

AG centre by Licht Sluw, on Flickr