Fujifilm Fujinon XF 18MM F2 R Prime Lens for Wedding | Street | Landscapes (Full Frame Equivalent = 27MM) with 2+1* Year Warranty, Black

Are you an enthuisast photographer with Fuji gear? Friends and family expect you to cover events and take "professional" photographs with your expensive camera? Stuck with the unwieldy 18-55 mm kit lens that you think is a dog, but unwillingly have to accept is a "excellent" lense because experts say so? Eyeing the X-100F longingly after buying the X-T3? This is your chance to add convenience to your expensive Fuji camera by spending more money, thereby making it as light and easy to use as a mobile phone camera.The 18 mm F2 works fine. As one of the reviewers said in an online review, one has to work with the lense. But the lightness, small form factor, fast aperture and wide coverage angle (~76 deg) are an advantage for both indoor (events, candid photography, pets, etc.) and outdoors (buildings, in our cramped roads). One surprising (I didn't think of checking this before buying) benefit of this lense is the very near focussing distance (~7 inches or so) that is good for taking closeups of crappy items bought off Amazon, fellow insects, poisonous flowers... if one is weary of the perspective distortion.I like it for its lightness, wide angle coverage and F2 aperture. It can share filters (and such) with the much more acomplished, slightly larger, 35 mm F1.2 lense. The lense hood looks cool, but takes away from the compactness of the whole package.But the downsides: it's slow, the focus is fly-by-wire and the aperture ring is grimy (on a brand new lense). It's also not water resistant, but this is not going to be a serious concern during our monsoons anyway. The lense hood had gouges and grind marks out of the box.

Great Lens for Street and travel photography

Es un buen lente lo utilizo en mi Fujifilm XT1 la cual se hace más pequeña y práctica. Me encanta el parasol que tiene dentro de la caja que es de mucha ayuda, es un lente 27mm en sensor 35mm lo cual es un lente con una angulacion muy peculiar ya que no es tan angular y no distorsiona, no hace viñetas y es rígido de construcción, tiene un lindo bokeh. El lente habla por si mismo. (no esperes la imagen de un lente de cine porque no lo es, es un pancake, no un lente de alta gama)

Excelente óptica para faceta social, documental, fotografía de calle, con un desenfoque suave muy agradable visualmente. En paisaje aparece algo de aberración de bigote. Como lo uso para lo primero y cumple de sobra mis expectativas...le doy cinco estrellas.

Petit, léger, monté sur un fuji x-e2s.Cela constitue un super kit de départ pour partir en,vadrouille.Il pique super bien a partir de f.3.2 jusqu'à f8/f10.Il ne faut pas hésiter à s'approcher pour des portraits ou des zooms.Un objectif parfait pour les paysages et pour le reste si on est pas,timide ;)

Ho messo da parte il 18-55 che avevo preso in kit con la X-E2 e l'ho sostituito con questo 18 fisso, leggero, luminoso, e soprattutto di dimensioni giuste!Piccolo quanto basta per rendere il tutto trasportabile anche in una tasca del giaccone.Dopo le dimensioni, la seconda cosa che si nota è che la messa a fuoco e un po più rumorosa del 18-55.La confezione è molto elegante e il paraluce è davvero bello (tranne forse il coperchietto di gomma, del paraluce stesso, che si rischia di perdere se non si sta attenti)Spedizione (arrivato il giorno prima del previsto) e imballo, secondo gli standard Amazon. Completamente soddisfatto.

I bought this lens to use on my XE1.The lens is presented in a really nice box that makes the experience of the arrival and opening of the lens a real pleasure. The lens itself does not diminish this initial pleasure either; the lens is small, light weight and yet solid - it is one of the nicest lenses I have held; it is beautifully made.I have read some reviews online about the horrible lens hood; however, I really like it - it is made of metal and locks in place tightly, I keep it on all the time and I use the supplied rubber cover, rather than the lens cap, to protect the lens when not in use.The lens has the equivalent field of view of a 27mm lens and when set to, say f16 in manual focus and using the depth of field scale in the XE1 viewfinder, turns the XE1 into a good street camera because you don't need to focus to keep the subject in your set distance sharp. The small form of the lens helps in this regard too, it is neat, unobtrusive and light weight.Some online reviews describe poor focusing speed and while the lens does not focus as snappily as my Nikon lenses on my D700, but it's not slow either; place your focus point where there is some contrast and it locks on without problems.I am very happy with the results the lens produces, the bokeh is nothing to write home about, due to the focal length of the lens and the cropped sensor in the XE1, however the lens produces sharp results.I also own the Fuji 35 1.4 and they pair up well, with the 18mm giving the wider field of view for when you can't move any further back to get the scene in.Highly recommended.