Your choice of Fuji's Trinity prime kit ?

Hi,

I came from APSC DSLRs.  I have a good number of the Fuji primes and they're all good.  I have trouble choosing between kits, but these days, as a landscape and  nature enthusiast, my 'trio' kit is (usually) either

• the 14mm, 23/1.4 and 60mm, or
• 16mm, 23/1.4 and 60mm.

I find the 23mm FL indispensible too.  I bought the 23/1.4 before the 23/2 became available.  Light weight and small size appeal to me, and so does sealing.  I don't use f1.4 at all.  However, I haven't been convinced to change over purely from an IQ perspective.  If  ever do buy a 23/2, the old one won't go until I've compared them side by side.  I'd be keeping the one with the best IQ.

I have both the 14mm & 16mm.  Too very fine lenses with no clear winner.  I actually prefer the 16mm for landscape because it doesn't compress the backgrounds and exaggerate the foregrounds quite as much.  And it's sealed.  OTOH, I sometimes prefer the 14mm, especially for architecture.  It's smaller and lighter.  It's better corrected,  takes in more interior space and can be used slightly more effectively for cropping to get parallel verticals.  It takes 58mm filters which more easily double on other lenses.  It's also more flare resistant.  I never actually decide to sell off either......

I find the 60mm a really useful, small, light and sharp lens.  It doubles nicely as a general short tele, portrait and close-focusing lens.  Yes it's AF is a bit slow in low light, and if it hunts,  it hunts a long way like the macro lens it is.  That and fiddly little 39mm filters aside, the more I use it, the more I like it.

I take a 55-200,  an adapted 90mm macro or an adapted 300mm as the fourth lens in my trio depending on what I'm doing.  And if I'm traveling overseas, I take the 18-55 only.

Cheers, Rod