DPReview.com is closing April 10th - Find out more

crazy question how does the 16-55 f2.8 compare to the 50mm f2?

Started Mar 25, 2017 | Discussions thread
Truman Prevatt
Truman Prevatt Forum Pro • Posts: 14,596
Re: crazy question how does the 16-55 f2.8 compare to the 50mm f2?

DrNeil wrote:

yes id not really considered weight. but i guess it replaces carrying 2-3 primes..

If we do a bean count on weight - between 16 and 50 Fuji has a few primes.  One probably would not want to carry all of them.  Why carry an 18, 23 and 27?  A 23 and 35 are quite close in reality - about a step or two. So unless you are really interesting in the lower range a 23 f2 (which I think you have) and 50 would and a step or two would do it. So the two lenses are probably together 1/2 the weight of the brick and both are one stop faster (on ASP-C 2.8 is quite slow) not to mention the bird is about 2K.

Zoom lenses are over sold - they make the camera makers lots of money.  In a weaken moment I got talked into the Nikon holy lens for my D800E, the 24-70 f2.8 which is about the same FOV range as the brick.  It to is a brick.  I made the mistake of not renting it which I usually do and sold it at a loss after the back pains of lugging it around all day.  Sure the argument goes - it replaces a lot of primes.  However, add two steps and it replaces fewer.  I sold the puppy (losing money in the process) and am quite happy using a 28 and 50 on my Nikon.  I don't miss the Nikon brick.

-- hide signature --

Truman
www.pbase.com/tprevatt

 Truman Prevatt's gear list:Truman Prevatt's gear list
Leica Q2 Monochrom Fujifilm X-H1 Fujifilm X-Pro3 Fujifilm XF 35mm F1.4 R Fujifilm XF 50-140mm F2.8 +12 more
Post (hide subjects) Posted by
(unknown member)
Keyboard shortcuts:
FForum PPrevious NNext WNext unread UUpvote SSubscribe RReply QQuote BBookmark MMy threads
Color scheme? Blue / Yellow