Fujifilm XF50-140 mm F2.8 R LM Optical Image Stabiliser, Weather Resistant Lens

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Rice fields, villages and farm residences were captured in crisp detail even at that speed and through a window. When used on the X-mount cameras with their 1.52x crop factor, it sees the same angle of view as a 75-210mm lens sees when used on a 35mm camera.

Do I want to keep weight and expenses low, and not have a use-case for the f2.8 aperture and ability to extend to 280m via teleconverter? Get the 55-200mm f3.5-2.8. Before someone starts reading me the riot act about f/1.4 vs f/2, save the bandwidth - anyone who ever used the 85/1.4 AI-s Nikkor will know that the thing acted like it had an inbuilt soft-focus filter/combined contrast flattener wide open due to some horrendous CA and Coma, and didn't become truly usable until f/2.8, maybe f/2 at a pinch. The XF 90/2 is fully usable wide open, with only the slightest of slight loss in contrast, easily fixed in post. I deliberately left the two samples above uncorrected and straight out of Photo ninja at default to show that ever-so-slight effect. I'd be careful about making that assumption, particularly with respect to the newer versions of LR. The fairly new Enhance Details function is capable of rendering details every bit as accurately as C1 or other alternatives can. Weed Vineyard, 15 January 2015. Fuji X-E2 at ISO 200, 140mm at f/22 at 1/15 second hand-held, Athentech Perfectly Clear. Full-resolution from camera-original JPG.Here are a few of the things that really stood out to me when using this lens. Buffalo in Kruger National Park. Most of the improvements on sharpness and contrast can be fixed with small adjustments in Lightroom The optical design employs 23 elements in 16 groups with five ED elements and one Super ED element. The focal ratio is a constant f2.8 throughout the range and there’s seven rounded aperture blades. The focus system boasts triple linear motors for fast, smooth and quiet operation. The lens sports optical image stabilisation and a closest focusing distance of 1m for a maximum magnification of 0.12x. The barrel is dust and weather-sealed, measures 83mm in diameter, 176mm in length, weighs 995g and employs a 72mm filter thread.

In short, if you have the money to invest in this lens, you won’t be sorry you did. It creates stunning photos and is the absolute top quality when it comes to Fuji telephoto lenses. Chromatic aberrations, typically seen as purple or blue fringes along contrasty edges, are not a problem with the Fujifilm XF 50-140mm F2.8 R LM OIS WR lens, so much so that we couldn't find any examples in our test shots. Macro Thanks for your suggestion. I love to have a lighter lens on my camera and I love shooting primes. I move more and my composition improves as a result. I’ve spent many years shooting f/2.8 zooms on Canon and Nikon and primes on Hasselblad/ Phase One and now Fuji. The 16mm f/1.4 is amazing and my go to w/a. I’d be happy to use this at f/1.4 (that’s my default setting) and at 2 stops faster it is perfect for dark churches, interior receptions and evening parties etc. I’d have that over an f/2.8 zoom any day. I’ll be taking the f/2.8 16-55 to America on my road trip for two weeks where in the deserts and canyons it will be far better suited than my non weather sealed primes. It will be bright in the deserts too so no problems there. The great news is we have a choice and what suits me might not suit someone else. Maybe we have too much choice. Kit should not be the topic of conversation, photographs are what counts. What kit was used to take them is immaterial most of the time.

Sample images: Fujinon XF 50-140mm f/2.8

What’s more, even without stopping right down, I was able to achieve edge-to-edge sharpness with no distortion of any kind.

For manual-focus override you have to update your camera firmware and turn AF+MF ON in a menu, and even then it only works while the shutter is half-pressed. It's too slow to be useful. While you could just argue that this is more elegant than a lens that has external zoom, it just makes me stress out a bit less about the lens getting bumped and messing up the zoom mechanism. Super fast focus a) This thing is so amazingly sharp at all apertures and focal lengths that it’s not even funny. It’s as sharp at f/2.8 as my 56mm at f/2.8. This is crazy! Nothing less! Even though Fuji is famous for its fast prime lenses, you may also know that they make a series of lenses known as Red Badge zooms.

Expanded Fujifilm 50-140mm f2.8 WR OIS XF Lens Key Features:

Thanks to its triple-linear focus-motors, the Fujifilm XF 50-140mm f/2.8 is fast and silent to operate– amazing given how much glass it’s moving. Not all lenses are compatible with teleconverters, but the Fuji 50-140 is. For example, if you attach the Fuji 2x teleconverter, the lens will operate as though it’s a 100-280mm f5.6 lens.