Prime 2/3-lens setup

blessingx wrote:

Don't necessarily follow all the Fuji 18mm naysayers, but know that among Fuji lenses it has the most.

There are a ton of 16/1.4 fans and it servers multiple uses being wide angle, fast, and close focusing. Comparatively big and heavy-ish though. For non-fly-by-wire manual focusing reasons, I've recently mostly converted over to using M-mount lenses on my XP2 (BTW, the Voigt 21f/1.8 and 21f/4 are both nice) and the 16 is one of only two Fuji lenses I've kept around.

From what I have seen, the 16mm is an absolute beast of a lens. Great performance, but I could neither stomach the price of admission nor the dimensions of the lens - especially the latter.

Wide angle is not my main focus, and so far I have not been disappointed by the 18mm. It is a good lens among a plethora of great Fuji lenses. I can see where people are coming from, but so far the 18mm has been - quite literally - good enough for me. Let's see what a rumoured 18/2.0 Mk II might have in store for us.

blessingx wrote:

For your range question, the other keeper was the 35f/2 and although I have a soft spot for a few other lenses (especially the 90f/2), basically the Fuji 16 and 35f/2 were responsible for 90% of my shots over the last couple years.

I have considered the 35/2.0 as an alternative third lens, as opposed to the 50mm. Seeing that I would have a wide standard lens in the 23/2.0 I wonder if a bit more reach would offer more versatility than the 35mm, which is closer to the 23mm. If I didn't limit myself to three lenses, the 35mm would be high on the list.