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Is the 23mm F2 a bad lens?

Started Sep 26, 2018 | Discussions thread
vegetaleb
vegetaleb Senior Member • Posts: 2,883
Re: Fuji makes no bad lenses.
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The thing is that great lens was attacked from the very 1st week it was released in this forum with the same kind of subject titles. So some users are a bit tired to see it repeating over 2 years

Some people tried to build a myth that it's a bad lens because it's soft at f2 under 50cm from subject, but if you need the 23mm FOV and take all kind of photos but close-up at F2 then this lens is a solid choice, I took great landscape photos with it.

If I want to switch to the mighty 16 it's because I am more happy with a 16mm angle than a 23 one that I am starting to feel a bit narrow for my taste, and I am the kind of one lens for multi-purpose guy, too much dust caused by pollution over here to take the risk of changing lenses on the fly, I hate to see specks on my photos

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