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

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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. 

 
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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.

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