Which kit lens for the X-T20? XC 16-50 or XF 18-55

rlmack wrote:

maltmoose wrote:

rlmack wrote:

Jared Huntr wrote:

Unmarked aperture rings are useless. It's just a half-baked attempt at being retro with no ergonomic benefit. It is much faster to change apertures by flicking a finger wheel on the body as with any pro DSLR instead of having to use a second hand to rotate a laggy ring.

If on the other hand, the aperture settings are marked on the ring, there is a genuine benefit because Fuji's don't have display on the top deck to display the aperture without looking at the EVF or LCD.

I agree about the benefit of aperture ring markings, but disagree that an unmarked ring is useless. Or at least, not useless to everyone. The lens aperture rings were one of the big Fuji attractions for me when I started researching which camera to buy. I'm enjoying going old-school with my X-T20 and XF 18-55. As soon as I discovered the XC had no ring it was off the list.

Does the 18-55 have aperture markings? if it doesnt im swayed towards 16-50 to be honest. All my legacy lens are marked, i cant understand why any would not be?

Going further can someone tell me which fuji lenses have marked aperture rings and which dont?

The XF 18-55 is unmarked. The XC 16-50 doesn't have a ring at all. As I understand it, only the Fuji primes and constant aperture zooms have marks on the aperture rings. All the zooms with variable aperture do not have the marks.

Sorry for my ignorance as I'm new to these newest digital mirrorless cameras though not to photography (I shot with Nikon 35mm and medium format cameras for decades). I'm about to order the T-20 with either the XC 16-50 or the XF 18-55 - my personal preference is the 16-50 for the 24 mm equivalent fov. My question is: if the 16-50 doesn't even have an aperture ring and I notice there is no aperture dial on top, how do you change apertures? Can you set the rear R-dial to do this? There must be some way to do this. Again, sorry for not understanding this - I have read and read all the posts and did not find the answer. Thank you.

Ken