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A seriously underrated lens

Started Nov 12, 2016 | User reviews thread
uniball Veteran Member • Posts: 3,075
Re: A seriously underrated lens

One of my favorite lenses. Lovely draw, small and light, superb optics. I picked up a nice used copy as a close-up lens and ended up using it quite a bit as a general purpose short tele. Particularly nice on an xp1 as unless the camera is in macro mode, focus travel avoids a lot of the gymnastics the more modern bodies contend with.

Yes, the AF is slow. Partially because Fuji had but 3 initial lenses and they perhaps believed they needed a combined general purpose/macro lens. But if I wanted a fast focusing 60 I'd still be shooting a Nikon. The 56 is not particularly quick in good light and hunts almost as bad in poor light.

I'd love to hope the new 50 will have the 60's optical qualities. However, in a world where AF speed determines the success of a lens, I'm doubtful.

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