Fuji 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 or the 16-55mm f/2.8 for Travel?

[macfuji]

I have both and LOVE both but for travel, go with the 18-135. As many on this forum have said, although optically it's not what the 16-55 is, it will give you greater reach, it's lighter weight and it has image stabilization. I've taken it on several trips now and have been very pleased with the results. 

 

[oldsalt]

Read this sequence of posts and debated 16-55 v 18-135 as a travel lens on my XT-2 for a long while but since I have the 18-55 already, and am pretty happy with images once stopped down a bit and it is so much smaller and lighter, I went for the 18-135. If you can accept its relative slowness (I am using it at f8 most of the time) this is a truly fabulous travel lens. Unless you are printing greater than 15 x 24 regularly, I think the reach and versatility of this lense are incredible. For real wide I have the 16mm 1.4, now that is sharp, a brilliant w/a.

[emmgee]

The 16-55 is MUCH bigger and heavier than the 18-55.

 

Lens naming conventions are confusing...  But note that the question is about the difference between the 16-55mm and the 18-135mm, not the kit lens.